@MachSpeed: Unless it was a gigantic pie big enough to feed a small nation.
Wait, how would that even work? Would there just be a horde of people running around on a pie the size of Los Angeles? How would you bake it?
And wouldn't the frosting be, like, feet thick? And everyone would have to eat through it to get to the good stuff? That's just nasty. And would we have people in shoes or barefoot on this pie?
King's Quest is one of my favorite childhood games, and I am so pumped about a new one happening when it would never have happened otherwise, but that should come out of people caring about King's Quest; not theivery.
I mean, this way, there will quite likely never BE another King's Quest game after the (deserved) backlash this one is going to get.
I do tell you, though, if it had gone the other way around, there might not be as big a backash (of course, What Pumpkin would have sent the money back, because Hussie and Co. aren't scumbags). Not that that changes anything.
You paid for a game, and a game got made (it sounds like maybe two or three got made). You get what you get and you don't throw a fit. It's like, you got a banana cream pie and you're complaining because you paid for Key Lime, and I'm just like, "It's a pie! Be happy that you got pie!".
What the hell.
I'd say "go read that post again a little more closely", but apparently What Pumpkin asked the OP to take it down. (And it was under a readmore, so none of the reblogs have anything under the cut except the basic summary of the situation.)
So I'll just go with "what the hell". And also, that's a terrible analogy. The situation is more like, you paid for a banana cream pie, and the money from your purchase was given to someone who went out and purchased the ingredients for a key lime pie and started making it for someone else entirely. Now the diner's starting to close and you still have no pie, of any flavor.
That doesn't really cover the scale of the situation, or the sheer assholishness, but it's a start.
Somebody preserved the post on Pastebin, for reference
You know, I figured someone would.
I do wonder if that whole document is out there, if anyone can get at it by inquiring with kickstarter or if it was just that this guy had done work on the comic and was therefore in a position to know.
Hussie's tweet on the matter is terse (like, more so than by the nature of being a tweet):
post wasn't official in any capacity. asked the user to delete it. i have no comment on matters between WP and TOG.
For what it's worth, Toby Fox reblogged that post, and if anyone is likely to be close enough to Hussie to know the truth without actually being gagged, I feel like it's him.
If everything in the original post is accurate, then the poster may have screwed over Hussie and What Pumpkin by going public with it. Because non-disclosure was apparently part of the alleged out-of-court settlement, TOG could say that What Pumpkin failed to uphold their end of the settlement, so they're no longer entitled to the money back.
According to that post the condition wasn't total nondisclosure, but disclosure only through Kickstarter (presumably they acted as some sort of arbitrator?), which is how ipgd got that information in the first place. ipgd clearly wasn't bound by the terms of the settlement, and Hussie probably just asked her to stop because he can't comment and having that info out in the open puts him in an awkward position where people are gonna be asking him about it and he can't say anything. (Especially if any part of it is inaccurate, because then he'd have to resist the urge to clarify.)
Either way, Neil Gaiman weighed in on it, which I think is amazing (even if his response is basically "no comment" too).
Anyway, enough of this foolishness and onto other foolishness entirely. It's time to lay odds on how many panels the character who was just promised nothing but happiness survives.
Granted, that's irrelevant now that John rebooted the timeline, but Fishka doesn't know that.
Fishka's continued existence is evidence that retcons (even John's retcons, the most powerful force we've seen in the comic yet) just don't work the same in the Furthest Ring. So anything Fishka did out there most likely hasn't been erased.
On tumblr I noted that, because of his ancestor, he always had the potential to gather an army. Slapping Vriska would have been another move in that direction, since the Summoner killed Mindfang.
But somehow literally bowing to Meenah and surrendering command of his army to her is so much more Tavros.
From Hussie's old formspring, but still very much applicable:
If you look up Expendable Character in the dictionary you would see a picture of Nepeta batting around a ball of yarn while looking as adorable as possible.
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(Sorry if I didn't make that clear.)
(Sorry, Calica. Looking on it again, it was in quite poor taste to anyone who donated to the Hiveswap Kickstarter).
Wait, how would that even work? Would there just be a horde of people running around on a pie the size of Los Angeles? How would you bake it?
And wouldn't the frosting be, like, feet thick? And everyone would have to eat through it to get to the good stuff? That's just nasty. And would we have people in shoes or barefoot on this pie?
and i feel bad for Andrew and What Pumpkin, too
King's Quest is one of my favorite childhood games, and I am so pumped about a new one happening when it would never have happened otherwise, but that should come out of people caring about King's Quest; not theivery.
I mean, this way, there will quite likely never BE another King's Quest game after the (deserved) backlash this one is going to get.
maybe he'd have been able to negotiate things peacefully
and if he couldn't, they would be slightly less horribly outmatched
^^ Nah, that character will survive quite a while.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
But somehow literally bowing to Meenah and surrendering command of his army to her is so much more Tavros.
i have absolutely no idea what to make of this
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
he doesn't know his stories
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
(the vriska (vriska) stuff was not)