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I suspect they would gleefully fire at both if it served their own purpose. It can be dangerous to assume these guys follows normal "logic"

Heh, the following discussion wasn't bad either.

I'm not sure that I would classify Italy as a developing, nearly or not, country. It has twice the GDP of Australia and is the worlds 11th largest economy (and that's without a disproportionately large mining sector).

I was sitting outside on my upper floor balcony (I live in a two plan house), about an hour and a half ago, reading my new Warhammer Empire army book, enjoying the last sunshine of the day. Then suddenly the screeching of tires started, seemingly going on for a long time and you know something bad is going to happen. Fortunately there is a small house on the corner property blocking the view to the crossing. When the sound of screeching tires gets replaced by the sound of metal getting twisted for a very long time, you know something bad has happened. When the screaming starts, you know somebody's day just got ruined very badly. Sort of proud that I didn't run down and stare, as I'm normally curious to a fault, but somewhere I probably knew enough about what happened and didn't need the visuals. Lots of police, ambulances, rescue vehicles with heavy equipment and eventually the "cleaners".

Bought a bit of stuff on the current promotional sales... got myself Crusader Kings II Collection (base game + bunch of DLC's) and Mount & Blade Collection (Base game, Warbands and something with fire).

Still playing a Trine every now and then. Cursing and swearing over the lack of a save game function. Wouldn't be so bad if you could at least pick up from your last checkpoint when returning to the game, but starting way back from the start of a level every time???

Vanguard is ridiculously easy. Has anybody ever played Soldier or Engineer? Edit: Damn, game is already 30% off. I could have saved some money there.

I once drove through Germany from north to south, ending up in Idar-Oberstein. Quite the experience.

Aussie band 'Spooky Mens Chorale' performing 'Dancing Queen' (a Swedish folksong) http://youtu.be/UNrAgbzMXOI

If you haven't bought Botanicula yet, check out the new Humble Bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/ It's a bit cheaper than Gog. Ah what the heck. I already had a couple of the other games from previous Humble Bundles, but it looks like a fun game. Crossing fingers and hoping that Trine 2 appears in one of these bundles too some day.

The people who like crpgs not created for the masses?

Interesting thought. Never really thought of it that way before, but it is rather spot on. We are after all talking about "unessential" stuff, like entertainment and not a new malaria vaccine. Patronage was, back then, a single wealthy individual/family giving money to an artist so they could get stuff (and probably political/superiority points vis a vis other nobles or wealthy bourgeoisie). In fact, the big publisher model is a lot closer to it than kickstarter is. I usually lump publishers together with banks, insurance companies and pension funds. They have money that they need to invest and want as much money as possible back in return. Some of them specializes and invests real estate, shares or dubious schemes like credit default swaps. Some invest in projects, like land development, ship building, movie making or video games. Usually run by suits who sometimes engages "experts", who works in advisory roles on what is currently most likely to give a return in their market segment. People may have different motives for supporting at least some kickstarter projects. I definitely don't expect to get my money back, much less with interest. If I'm lucky, I might get something close to moneys worth of entertainment back, but I'm not expecting it.

Interesting thought. Never really thought of it that way before, but it is rather spot on. We are after all talking about "unessential" stuff, like entertainment and not a new malaria vaccine.

Removing the original soundtrack alone made that trailer worth watching

Are you saying only Kickstarter contributer are getting the game? No post-launch purchase option? That's even more stupid than I thought. No you grumpypuss I mean if nobody dared take a risk, development would never have started in the first place. If it turns out good, everybody, including the risk takers and those who watch from the sideline might benefit from it. If it's a disaster, well tough luck, no harm done.

Witcher 2 still caught me by surprise Still, who doesn't dare doesn't win. It's not like anybody is twisting peoples arms to make a contribution

I didn't even know you could import old games. Maybe in some distant grimdark future I might reinstall the game.

Pretty much this. Ideas don't sell, a proven track record of being able to deliver does.

Not in the plans at the moment, but I'll keep it in mind. It's supposed to be very nice there in early August

Same here. Just checked my email Having also bought flight tickets to Europe and a week in a nice hotel in Hong Kong, I probably shouldn't spend anymore this month

Time's up... Edit: It's still adding funds and backers though, it might be processing a small backlog

$2,898,255 + $102,102 Thats $3,000,357 2 hours to go

Oops, sorry Majek. Thought people weren't looking

$2,871,488 + $99,197 With 4 hours to go (thats $2,970,685)... Edit to update numbers.

Not quite, but it's close none the less. Not sure about the Paypal figures, but somewhere around $2.85m total with 11 hours to go?