Quote from: bat;584411I know that I am not the only one who has given material away FOR FREE for people to use.

Not to be rude to anyone else. But I can totally relate to this passage. I published a free gaming magazine/newsletter/what ever the fuck you want to call it. With different themes each month. (High fantasy, weird west, cyberpunk, horror, and etc.) It was full of adventures, ideas, hooks and all kinds of stuff to be mined. It was not just me either. I recruited my friends, gaming crew, and people I met through the mag. I did it for fun,my love of gaming, to shake out the nuggets of awesome and share them. I distributed it at several FLGS. To give back to the gaming community in general. I was, and am proud of the work I did. (And those who contributed) I kind of think about the OSR in the same fashion. (Although I am not what may be considered part of the OSR community.) People sharing and melding ideas. Having fun with something they all love. Playing RPG's. A community of people playing, and well that's just an awesome and good thing.

I think you will find many OSR blogs have published stuff for free, even if it's just a collection of blog entries. If someone actually tracked all of it down and used it, they'd never need to buy another supplement.

Quote from: danbuter;584418The Dragonsfoot site, as well as Grognardia and a bunch of other blogs were all going full steam well before TARGA existed. Claiming TARGA created the OSR is BS. At most, it gave the bloggers a name to use for product identity.

I'm personally glad Targa failed, as many of its members were pushing the "clone the rules as close as possible and damn anything else" idea.

As one of the founders of TARGA I agree with you. Now, I would not have at the start, because things were different. Somewhere along the line some things changed and when 'Porngate' happened everything shattered and it became a different entity. I left the OSR over that. I just write a blog now and play games, doing what TARGA began as? You can do that yourself at home with basic formatting skills, OpenOffice and a printer. I was into getting the word out there that ALL editions of the game are still alive and encouraging people to fill out fliers for their games and run with it. There were a lot of people with good intentions at first, then things got weird.

Find a few people, grab some dice and character sheets with your rules of choice and go! It is really that easy.

I'm ever so tempted to help this thread along.

Quote from: _kent_;5844064 gamers per month.

Numbers, fortunately, put the likes of James Mal., Zak S and J Rients at the top and only Rients of those is an interesting gamer IMV. Ive seen some blogs more interesting than those implode in the last few years for lack of interest. Talent is not measured by counting the votes of the Talentless Innumerable but by a slow silent accumulation of respect from intelligent and creative types. But by all means gather your statistics if it makes you feel like you are accomplishing something.

How's the "slow silent accumulation of respect from intelligent and creative types" working out for you? Christ even YDIS treat you like a play toy and everywhere else has even less time for your self aggrandising histrionics. You have nothing worthwhile to say, you stand for nothing and your blog is a series of grand plans and concepts that begin with great fanfare and then dwindle to nothing. The substance is always lacking.

By your own admission you can only attract two players to your game which is probably a small mercy as it comes across as a dreadful railroad in which you masturbate about your setting while your plays dutifully listen.

All that is well and good but then spare us your grand announcements and sly put downs. You are not speaking from a lofty mount nor even a hill of beans. At best you could be characterized as sniping from the gutter.

Quote from: Gib;584441I'm ever so tempted to help this thread along.

It would be Christmas come early, sir.

Quote from: bat;584411Whatever is happening with James of Grognardia is a strange and questionable situation, but in time it should be resolved and should not reflect on anyone not directly involved with that project.

According to the general theory of the RPGpundit, the lacking social hygiene will fire back on the OSR. In this case of JM, the moment his claim to leadership of the OSR went unopposed or at least was generally accepted...
...basically what he writes and does is seen by many, many people, the majoritiy I fear, as being THE OSR.

Quote from: Gib;584441I'm ever so tempted to help this thread along.

Please!

Quote from: I run with scissors;584180Or, and a post script, it was a freaking typo.

I see you're still lying and engaging in tu quoque fallacies, you worthless piece of shit.

Let's take a moment to review your pertinent posts again:

Quote from: I run with scissors;583231It was only because people started bitching around 8/10 did anything come out.

Quote from: I run with scissors;583452Richard Barton on August 20

What? How can this be? I am a lying "sack of shit" according to you. I have no idea who this backer is, but here is the first backer who expressed something other than sunshine and lollipops.

Do you have any explanation yet for your belief that August 20th happens before August 10th, you lying sack of shit?

And can you explain why you're claiming that these dates are "typos" given that both of these dates are, in fact, completely accurate?

Quote3. Have you not hit your promise release date?

Allow me to repeat myself: You appear to be insinuating that I've missed a promised release date. Is that what you're trying to say, you lying sack of shit?

If you refuse to answer the question this time, I won't bother even marginally engaging with your tu quoque fallacy in the future.

QuoteNow, knowing your usual tactics you are going to do the following:

1. Call me a lying sack shit.

You're right. You're going to keep getting called a lying sack of shit until you stop posting your lies.

Are you planning to stop posting your lies any time soon?

Quote from: Melan;584256Coincidentally, Kickstarter is starting to feel the heat from unrealised and delayed projects.

The new guidelines for Hardware found at that link don't make a lot of sense to me. Hypothetical renderings of a proposed product have been part of pitch meetings for decades. I don't understand the logic behind banishing them from Kickstarter.

I for one am indeed confused as to the actual dates. Upthread IRWS posted dates in the wrong order and that messes with my head.

NB:What is the matter with Americans and numbers?
Liquid ounzes?
3/30 as a date?
Cubic feet?
Addition and subtraction called "math"?
True story, recently an American scientist[!] asked me how to calculate the volume 100 000 tons of water have...
when I started to explain that a  1x1x1m cube is a ton = 1000kg = 1000l of water of water, he replied "that can't be true, my pickup is a 3.5 ton truck and the freight area is much longer" ...etc. etc.
So he ignores  and denies any merit of the metric system because of his mental image of his pickup truck. I shit you not.

But a Q for J. Alexander no matter how much IRWS is a bag of untruth, from the outside it does indeed looks like Tavis and JM reacted way more after online ruckus was caused.

Quote from: Settembrini;584460recently an American scientist[!] asked me how to calculate the volume 100 000 tons of water have...

Metric tons, long tons, or another kind?

The tonne (also "metric ton") is a non-SI British unit, equivalent to 1000 kg (2204 lbs). The U.S. ton is 2000 lbs. The British ton (also "long ton") is 2,240 lbs.

That a scientist should be so ignorant of a commonly confused term is... dispiriting, to say the least. I'll admit, I had to look the above values up, but at least I was aware that there were several different tons, all measuring different amounts. Why wasn't he?

(More, as regards the tonne, the thorny issue of comparing measurements of mass to measurements of weight. The two are not the same.)

Sorry, metric ton, ofc.
A qualifier not used in metric system countries... except when dealing with shipping freight, Americans or bomb loads.

True fact: For almost sixty years nearly all European books on the  WWII air-war had the bombs-dropped figures wrong...because of long tonne short tonne and British/American pound differences getting all mixed up...

Fiasco, again I have to point out that you are having a one sided conversation in your own head because I don't know who you are, have no interest in finding out and am going to ignore your buzzing on my peripherals from now on. Feel free to continue your close reading of my blog though.

Quote from: Settembrini;584460True story, recently an American scientist[!] asked me how to calculate the volume 100 000 tons of water have...
when I started to explain that a  1x1x1m cube is a ton = 1000kg = 1000l of water of water, he replied "that can't be true, my pickup is a 3.5 ton truck and the freight area is much longer" ...etc. etc.
So he ignores  and denies any merit of the metric system because of his mental image of his pickup truck. I shit you not.

I am half tempted to ask what sort of "scientist" your "American" friend is. Partly out of curiosity and partly out of a desire to further derail this clusterfuck of a thread.