I think the funniest part of this post is everyone who knows just enough about languages to correct OP but not enough to understand the whole thing so there are comments like “What the fuck do you mean American is a romance language when it’s Germanic, please talk to a linguist” while not touching on, say, “sanscript”
I really appreciate how effectively the Break!! Kickstarter is flying in the face of conventional wisdom about small-press tabletop RPG crowdfunding. Everybody “knows” you need a complex reward structure and extravagant value-added stretch goals and fancy merchandisable add-ons that have nothing to do with the game’s core experience in order to draw people in, and then there’s Break!! with no stretch goals, no add ons, and a reward structure that’s literally just “the PDF”, “the printed book”, and “the printed book with a different, Kickstarter-exclusive cover for the folks who are into the whole patronage thing”, and it’s doing bigger numbers than fucking Exalted.
(That last bit’s not hyperbole, incidentally. Exalted 3rd Edition brought in $685 000 USD from 4400 backers over the course of a thirty-day campaign, while Break!! is currently sitting at $380 000 USD from 6000 backers after two weeks, with two more to go. Accounting for the fact that tabletop RPG Kickstarters often bring in as much as 50% of their total funding in the final 72 hours, there’s a reasonable chance this thing could blow Exalted out of the water. This is a small-press game by a two-person team.)
At the time of this posting the campaign is closing in on $450 000 USD with seven days to go. My earlier remarks were admittedly speculative, but at this rate it might actually beat Exalted 3rd Edition.
I mean, in fairness they led with “cat people with tails and possible non-human skin tones”
Tough to beat
Tough, but not impossible:
This one’s officially in the final 72 hour stretch, for those who are keen on making numbers go up.
This is the best AITA because on the actual matter at hand I’d say he’s kinda right (ish), $4900 for a week of work is really good money and they can always celebrate later. He should have obviously talked it over with her first but still. What makes him an asshole (or just like, a really really weird person) is every other detail that is tangentially mentioned.
was originally gonna go with “dog” but decided to go for a longer word with more “reasonable” mispronunciations instead, but that ended up backfiring and now like half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this. guess you could say it was a bit of a. a b. it was a
it was a bit of a self-own
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why might op have said that she wanted to choose a word with “more ‘reasonable’ mispronounciations”? what could the quotes around “reasonable” indicate? why did she say mispronunciations instead of pronounciations?
op writes that the post “backfired” and now “half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this.” what might the word “backfired” mean in this context?
what words could “self-own” sound similar to, and how could that relate to the rest of the post?