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[chaoticag]

Isn't every star in the galaxy a shining star?

Not true, some shimmer.

But yeah, this sounds like some cognitive dissonance. Basically, with very little experience in writing, you think you are a great writer, because you're not good enough to see what mistakes you make. This applies to everything, and so we get Sturgeon's Law, even on kickstarter.

I'm half tempted to say give me a week, and I can write something more engaging, but I worry I'd come off worse.

[forsaken1111]

Isn't every star in the galaxy a shining star?

Brown Dwarf stars shine.

[Knight of Fools]

Depending on what they're made of, too, they kind of smell bad.

In space, no one can smell your stench.

[MrWiggles]

I beg to differ.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[MaximumZero]

Now that I actually read that...

*HURK*

[PTTG??]

I hope that guy doesn't go all serial killer on me...

[mattie2009]

Warning: High-level dreamcrushing ahead

[lordcooper]

Warning: High-level dreamcrushing ahead

Ouch

[Askot Bokbondeler]

Warning: High-level dreamcrushing ahead

you call that dream crushing? i call that a very constructive, very mild criticism, seasoned with abundant encouragement , served on a plate of false hope.

[PTTG??]

I probably should have double-spell-checked that. "Your current level $100 reward, "early access to chapters" has is particularly flawed."

That "has" kind of moved in uninvited...

[Zangi]

Warning: High-level dreamcrushing ahead

you call that dream crushing? i call that a very constructive, very mild criticism, seasoned with abundant encouragement , served on a plate of false hope.

Gonna have to agree.  Dream crushing tends to not err on the side of encouragement, has more criticism and possibly thinly veiled attacks on the person in question too.  That last one is optional though.

[Tilla]

I definitely like inXile's idea, Kicking it Forward, wherein they'll take 5 percent of the profit from the final product (Wasteland 2, of course) and use it to fund other people's kickstarter projects.

[Zangi]

I rather hope they got a good vetting process.  At least kicking it forward to kickstarters who have something to show they can do it.

Maybe they could even have their donators recommend/nominate a few... then by process of polling elimination?  At least then, you'd have some sort of quality control... maybe.

[lordcooper]

If someone can be trusted to make a decent game with your money, they can probably be trusted to be capable of telling who else can make a decent game.

[MrWiggles]

PTTG, I thought your comment was fairly well balanced. Though I disagree with encouraging him. If you notice the dates on the publicly available chapters, he's been working on this story since at least 2007. I mean in five years, if he hasn't shown any real improvement, he's either to arrogantly blind to realize he needs improvement or he might very well be incapable.

The thing that bugs me with that kick starter, isn't the badly figured out award tiers that undermine his own goal, or the grievous and frequent grammar/spelling errors, it's his arrogance, and ignorance.

Seriously, the guy is so well assured that his novel is stupefying, that'll be the next Harry Potter, and no matter your opinion on Harry Potter, I think we can all agree that Harry Potter is going to be a novel series that is going to be sticking around for a while.

And from what's publicly available, he doesn't really have anything special at all, and overall a poor command of language.
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Also OP can you move this thread to general discussion? This thread seem to have move beyond just bad video games, but about kickstarter blacksheep in general.