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Terry
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 Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:00 am Post subject: The center of indie-RPG gaming |
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You know, this has been bothering me for a while now. Beside the site's logo, there's the description "The center of indie-RPG gaming". We're quite a small community, so it's not really accurate, to say the least.
I think we should change it. Any ideas what to?
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BadMrBox
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Is there any indie-RPG site that is bigger? Besides, RPGDX was the center and will be again. * Manic laughter *
Or we could just change it to 'the center of a dying artform'...
Edit: Thought this place has been more active the past weeks than it has been for a long time now and that is quite nice.
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Terry
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:12 am Post subject: |
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I vote for that picture to be our new community motto.
Yeah, it is nice to see the community pick up again, isn't it? :)
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BadMrBox
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Yeah, it is nice to see the community pick up again, isn't it? :) |
I agree to that :)
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Bjorn
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: |
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It's a self-fulfilling statement. But it only works when you believe in it. ;-)
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Terry
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RedSlash
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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I don't see any problem with "The center of indie-RPG gaming" as not being accurate. Afterall, Vista is so secure you'd want to run life support systems with it.
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IkimashoZ
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| BadMrBox wrote: | | Or we could just change it to 'the center of a dying artform'... |
If I may be allowed my soapbox for a moment...
I feel that large chunk of the reason that indie gaming is a declining artform is because of the political and social atmosphere in the US, and in more of a general sense, the world, throughout the last 8 years or so.
What we have seen is the stripping away of industrial and manufacturing jobs in the US into a society completely obsessed with the movements of dollar signs from one party to another. As a result of 6 years of a reactionary government enforcing monetary policies that destroy small businesses at the expense of trusts (in the 1920's sense of the word -- a corporation that's become overgrown), giving tax cuts to the richest 1% of society, ignoring the rapid disintegration of the middle class, and pouring billions of dollars into a misguided, immoral and poorly executed attack and occupation of a sovereign country that has never harmed the US, the core of any stable democracy, those individuals with talent, imagination and the ability to fuse the two together, have begun to disappear.
Most of us here are probably between the ages of 20 and 30, the generation that was a product of the early to late 90's, a time when the evil and viscious conservative right had not yet achieved thier iron grip on the US government and society, though they were gaining strength. Most of us are a product of a time when it was still possible to be a kid of two parents with respectable jobs and a modest income, children with plenty of free time and no social ladders to climb.
Nowadays you've pretty much two kinds of kids in school -- kids of rich parents who will dedicate all thier time outside of school to being prepped for society by thier affluent parents and kids who are too poor to have access to the resources that would allow them to appropriately apply any talents that they might have.
You can see this reflected in the current gaming market. What sells in the US? Sports games and shooters. That's it. No one plays RPGs anymore because the base of gamers with imagination, intelligence AND freetime has disappeared.
Until we get a drastic change in American society, and another group of talent is allowed to blossom, all of us here are doomed to be part of the one, brief generation of gamers, now burdened by a society and an economy spiraling into the toliet, that were once allowed to dream of more.
End rant.
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BDZ
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:30 am Post subject: |
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I've been watching these forums after signing up awhile ago and didn't see a good chance to make my first post until now.
Leave the "center of indie-RPG gaming." I've looked around since I found this site and haven't really found a better one. When my RPG is finished (hopefully this year) it will go here.
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Terry
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Huh. So no one else thinks that something a little humbler would suit us better?
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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i do.
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BadMrBox
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Echo wrote: | | Huh. So no one else thinks that something a little humbler would suit us better? |
Nope, humble isn't our thing.
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