Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES
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So. Something has changed on the Kickstarter page. No official update or anything but this is curious:
Note the circled item. That wasn't there previously. Quite unusual for Kickstarter to suddenly "love" a project that was funded three years ago and has been fairly inactive since (compared to other similar projects).
He's desperately trying to polish a turd. Dunno who he gave handjobs to to get this done, but this is piece of shit he's desperate to shove out the door because he knows he can't put it off anymore.
My guess is that he trying to give the illusion of activity so he doesn't look like a scammer while frantically trying to get his POS playable enough to release.
https://steamdb.info/app/350200/subs/
Still no updates though.
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If Wu has influence at Kickstarter and the only thing it can do is give her page a gold star sticker then lol
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So. Something has changed on the Kickstarter page. No official update or anything but this is curious:
Note the circled item. That wasn't there previously. Quite unusual for Kickstarter to suddenly "love" a project that was funded three years ago and has been fairly inactive since (compared to other similar projects).
Backers that start complaining apparently lit a small fire under Wu's horrible bony ass and she went crying to Kickstarter, asking if there is anything they can do to make it look like shit's happening because LIGHTING MATTERS AND I NEED ONE MORE WEEK DAGNABBIT VERY SOON STOP ASKING, so they checked like a tickbox in the backend and called it a day lol.
6 days until the most recent "this week" deadline runs out.
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More likely "whose ass poor Frank had to kiss (again) to get this done"
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Who uses Youtube to find a solution to a coding problem? Oh wait, Wu doesn't code...
It's probably just be just a peak in interest that triggered the automated tag:
Backers and other people hit the project site, after Wu promised a release last week and looked if the turd had been released or if there was at least some sort of update. Then then Kickstarter website thinks "This must be important, a lot of clicks coming in!" and slaps the "Projects we love" tag on it. If Wu had been responsible for this, she would've already started gushing about it, with her nose high in the sky.
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It isn't an automatic thing. Per the Kickstarter website, they hand-select new ones each week, and the badge is added automatically to the ones they love. This replaces "Staff picks."
So there's a lot of ass kissing, or a lazy employee selecting them based on traffic stats.
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"Staff picks" is usually business-speak for: "We've got an intern, who clicks boxes in the list of 'the most clicked things last week', right after he bought everyone coffee in the morning."
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It is a completely meaningless tag for a project that has long since ended its funding period so, yeah, I can buy that Brianna threw a fit to get it not realizing that it doesn't really mean shit and she doesn't get any additional benefit from it.
As for why she wouldn't publicly acknowledge this distinction on her project, it's because Brianna wants to remain as distant from the Kickstarter page as she can in order to plead ignorance to the comments and lack of project updates (after all, those are the responsibilities of the totally-not-a-fake-employee Natalie). I'm guessing the reason Wu thinks she needs it now is close to what @Luminous Being suggested - it's something that she hopes will keep the backers from complaining.
As for why she wouldn't publicly acknowledge this distinction on her project, it's because Brianna wants to remain as distant from the Kickstarter page as she can in order to plead ignorance to the comments and lack of project updates (after all, those are the responsibilities of the totally-not-a-fake-employee Natalie). I'm guessing the reason Wu thinks she needs it now is close to what @Luminous Being suggested - it's something that she hopes will keep the backers from complaining.
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It doesn't make the project show up anywhere on the website where it isn't already. So it's pretty much pointless all around.
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If the project was still in the funding period, it could have gotten it on the main page or at least listed above other projects in the same category. Pretty useful if you're still looking for backers, pretty useless if your project was funded three years ago.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/introducing-projects-we-love-badges
It looks like "projects we love" was an evolution of "staff picks". So maybe nothing really changed, and Rev60 was a "staff pick" all along, and the UI just updated.
Using the archive.org link, "projects we love" was added between dec 27 2015 and jan 19 2016.
edit: here is why they got renamed it
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/...r-of-official-badges-to-avoid-confusion/#gref
It looks like "projects we love" was an evolution of "staff picks". So maybe nothing really changed, and Rev60 was a "staff pick" all along, and the UI just updated.
Using the archive.org link, "projects we love" was added between dec 27 2015 and jan 19 2016.
edit: here is why they got renamed it
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/...r-of-official-badges-to-avoid-confusion/#gref
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I think it's partly this, but also for a dormant project that is technically still alive, and with the buzz of
Crowd-based events are a chain reaction. You get just a few red-pilled people waking up and asking for refunds publicly, and soon the whole thing is a fucking mess.
Betting that KS initiated this actually, and went back channel and not the Wu-entity, and asked (in some polite yet legally-binding terms) "WTF?". Wu-entity, as is its second nature, said "Any day now". And, like fools, the KS-drone bought it.
So now, KS can put an aura around this dungheap, and shush those few people starting to make noise with some artificial endorsement. A little hope and a few prayers and voila, KS keeps their money. Notice that KS could also stand for Keyser Soze, the tale-spinning charlatan?
Of course, the thing is, Wu-entity actually has to make good and deliver a game. If it's scrounging around on YouTube for help, well ...
Couple other things:
* That one of the "world's best at the Unreal Engine" is crawling through YouTube videos for help says more about the Oz-like self-promoting, talent-less hack that is the Wu-entity than a dozen 1,000 page threads could. There's no programmer that the Wu-entity can go directly to for help because they all loathe it. Pick a reason why for the hatred, any one will do.
* The "positive mansplaing" comment is laughable, not because men like to brag about how smart they are (just look at how much boasting the Wu-entity does); women enjoy teaching as well. It's simply because there are very few women experts in this field. Men are visually driven and rich game engines that produce beautiful renderings are things that men seek out to make and build in. Women are story driven, and design aspects emphasizing the visual are secondary or tertiary to story and relationships within the game. This translates to fewer women "experts". Of course, the Wu-entity will use this that " 'We need more women in tech becoz...' ". Nope. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Likewise, you can offer women tech scholarships, but they will still gravitate to soft sciences, where there are stories to be told.
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I can't seem to find anything indicating that it was a Staff Pick during the campaign. No note on the Kickstarter page and nothing from either of Wu's Twitter accounts (though that could be me being shit at searching Twitter).
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Wu is pure salt; wherever she is spread, nothing will grow back.
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I can't find anything that says it was ever a "staff pick" either.
So either
a) it was a "staff pick" in a way we can't see, and got upgraded to "project we love"
b) when they did the change, someone used that as a chance to flip the bit on this project
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