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Not sure where I should put this but I know I learned about things like meatpunk here so...
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I wonder if I should tell @Jaimas
 
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Tactical Wizard said:
From the publisher that brought you Thirsty Sword Lesbians.
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-and decided mental illness wasnt appropriate for lovecraftian horror
-admitting they personally hate lovecraft and are just using his work for brand recognition
-pressured a online store to take down mildly pro-gg card games
-performative woke shit on twitter
-supported the accusations of white wolfs having fascist sympathies despite being total bullshit.
-and my personal favourate, paying their staff fuck all.
 
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Emperor Julian said:
-and decided mental illness wasnt appropriate for lovecraftian horror
-admitting they personally hate lovecraft and are just using his work for brand recognition
-pressured a online store to take down mildly pro-gg card games
-performative woke shit on twitter
-supported the accusations of white wolfs having fascist sympathies despite being total bullshit.
-and my personal favourate, paying their staff fuck all.
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Just to play technical...

This is being BACKED by evil hat, not made by them.

Not that it improves it much.

Was visiting the site to see if they had made any comments or even promotion of meatpunk. None at the moment. But I did find...
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Flexo said:
Not sure where I should put this but I know I learned about things like meatpunk here so...
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EMF RPG is a pen-and-paper port of Heather Flowers' terrible PC Game, which I reviewed. The RPG was later reviewed by our noble @Randall Fragg, who has established that it is one of, if not the worst RPGs he's ever covered for the site, right up there with animoo FATAL port Black Tokyo:


Its incompetence is staggering. It's basically Apocalypse except with no worldbuilding whatsoever, and it flat-out informs you not to flesh out the antagonists. From the fucking rulebook, presented in all its fucking glory:

EMF Rulebook said:
Principles
* Give everyone a name and a short history, except the fash because fuck the fash
* beat them down so they can rise up
* ask questions about their characters and feelings
* make things feel tense and volatile
* make the strangeness beautiful, make the queerness beautiful
* imagine what might be coming
* give them room to breathe
* embrace the angst

Give everyone a name and a short history, except the fash because fuck the fash

Whenever we see someone on screen who's engaging wtih the players, give them a name. Any name. Doesn't matter. Really, it doesn't. I know, you freeze up here, you go check baby name websites on the internet, you panic. Really it doesn't matter. Name someone Todd, or Anna, or Truck, or Purple. It builds to the strangeness of the world and honestly, it's not as big a deal as you think it is.

Consider who this character is in one to two short sentences. You don't need to spell this out, just keep it in mind (but if this character keeps showing up, definitely start to hint at it!) you can even circle back around and think a bit more about their name at this point: they got a last name? Is this a nickname or a given name.

The exception to this is the fash, because fuck those guys. They don't get a name. They're just Tall Fash, Short Fash, Medium-size Fash, and so on. Look, it's always a good idea to flesh out characters, including antagonists, but some people are just garbage. We don't need to hear "both sides" of the argument here.
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The above section is one of many reasons one of the Dice Scum team referred to it as the worst RPG since Changing Breeds.

"But if this rulebook exists, why was it Kickstarted?" You ask.

"Becase they want more money and to put in quickstart and custom mech rules." Is your answer.

That's literally it, and speds like Fred Hicks threw 19,000 dolllerydoos at it.
 
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Jaimas said:
EMF RPG is a pen-and-paper port of Heather Flowers' terrible PC Game, which I reviewed. The RPG was later reviewed by our noble @Randall Fragg, who has established that it is one of, if not the worst RPGs he's ever covered for the site, right up there with animoo FATAL port Black Tokyo:


Its incompetence is staggering. It's basically Apocalypse except with no worldbuilding whatsoever, and it flat-out informs you not to flesh out the antagonists. From the fucking rulebook, presented in all its fucking glory:



The above section is one of many reasons one of the Dice Scum team referred to it as the worst RPG since Changing Breeds.

"But if this rulebook exists, why was it Kickstarted?" You ask.

"Becase they want more money and to put in quickstart and custom mech rules." Is your answer.

That's literally it, and speds like Fred Hicks threw 19,000 dolllerydoos at it.
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Yeah, I read a few pages of your review and the screenshots elicited the deepest sympathies from me. Seeing that news of the RPG pop up in my feed made me wish I could mail some beer to you.

EDIT: Worse, it's up to 28k now.
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EDIT 2: Oh quick start rules!

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Kill me...
 
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When the dev lists stunningly unique points like "Meatpunk games are about survival in hard circumstances" as part of their manifesto, and thinks "make mechs out of meat" can sub in for a visual style, you know you're in for a good time.

Then you take a look at the art, and it's the SJW Art thread meets the old @humansofflat twitter account and you realize you won't even be getting body horror or gore exploitation out of it. Congrats, developer, this is the most boring thing I have ever seen in my life. At least FATAL had some glue-huffing edge to it
 
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Anyone else remember when gaming was rolling up a dwarven cleric or a Japanese netrunner or a private detective in in 1930s San Francisco, and just... doing fun shit? Hacking skeletons and hacking the planet and getting hacked into pieces by cultists, and things?

That's the type of shit that got me into gaming. I don't even recognize this shit.
 
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MembersSchoolPizza said:
Anyone else remember when gaming was rolling up a dwarven cleric or a Japanese netrunner or a private detective in in 1930s San Francisco, and just... doing fun shit? Hacking skeletons and hacking the planet and getting hacked into pieces by cultists, and things?

That's the type of shit that got me into gaming. I don't even recognize this shit.
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Remember when the clown used to do tricks and balloons and jokes?

Then something weird happened, and he started blathering about progressive stack and racism?

Now, he just stands there, blood dripping down from his weird eyes, looking like he has 2 pair of lips, and mumbles about patriarchy?

Almost like someone's wearing a suit made out of him.

Weird, huh?
 
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AnOminous said:
Skinheads fighting other skinheads over fascism is pretty punk rock whatever side they're on but these fat fucks aren't those people.
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The only way these people would get in a fist fight with a fascist is if they got mad and punched a mirror, all cliche-like.

Also the only way most of them would win a fist fight, period.
 
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