As a teen, there was a brief period where I thought that 5 Gum actually gave you full body hallucinations.

What about the rest of y'all? Any ads capture your imagination only to disappoint you? I mean more than usual.

    • Dryad [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Tbf, back in 2012, the idea of promising to make a video game and collecting money for it and then just ... not doing it was almost completely unheard of.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        not doing it

        They're doing something but that something is deliberately not delivering a completed product because edging the bazingas keeps them hoping and paying "pledges" for overpriced spaceship jpegs.

        • Dryad [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Yup, I find it most satisfying to refer to what they're doing as just "not making the game they said they'd make." The hope is that someone will get baited into saying "what do you mean they didn't make the game, I've played it" and I can be like "then why isn't it released more than 10 years later?" :comfy-cool:

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I was too. I didn't put money into it, but still had hope for a time. :meow-hug:

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Before I learned the extent of the game's space fascism and remarkably horrid ideas of what constitute "the good guys," I just wanted a new Privateer/Freelancer myself. :sadness:

      • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I just wanted to be a space trucker, I couldn’t care less about the whole squadron 42 thing. But this earth will long be dead before the game ever releases

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          The core of the kickstarter was Squadron MemeNumber; I didn't care about it either and was only excited about the vague promise of an open world campaign as one of the stretch goals. Over a decade later and there's still one small star system where everything's named after the bazinga corporations that own everything in the space fascist setting. Gross.