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And then the designers came and realized this was a bad idea.

From their comments section, one of the devs speaks up:

Hi guys,

Some answers to comments!

Rules will be posted in a few days for you to review

It's a 2+ player game, as the game has gone through some iteration in the final stages

The art print is currently in progress, it is a hero mashup with all our aliens and allstars, its pretty rad,

This and more content will be revealed in updates as we get going!

We seriously just want to wake up tomorrow, see that things have been fully backed, and we can get down to the awful business of making our stretch goals public, and real!!

Thank you everyone!

Alpharius wrote:I fail to see how Kickstarter is 'bad' at all.

You basically support/pre-order the game, Company X has an actual fund to work from, and you most likely get some cool bonus stuff for doing so.

If you don't support them via Kickstarter, you buy the game/thing later, when it hits the shelves.

Right?

Possible problems with Kickstarter are:

1. You can't evaluate the product before you decide to buy it.
2. Potential for outright scams.
3. If anything does go wrong after the project has activated and your money has been debited, you have no legal recourse, even if the project was completely honest and just went wrong somehow.

These factors haven't deterred me from backing a number of projects on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding ventures, but I have to say that H.B.M.C. does have a point.

On the plus side, a lot of things are going to get made which probably wouldn't have been made otherwise.

This is a family friendly forum. How is this thread allowed to remain open? I'm taken aback.

I'm a pervert and I don't even want this.

ph34r wrote:This is a family friendly forum. How is this thread allowed to remain open? I'm taken aback.

Well, it is just tentacles and girls so it is completely harmless.

The only way you would take this in the wrong way was if you have seen enough hentai.

In regards to Kickstarter, we might just be able to see how 6th edition turns out and then kickstart an IP scrubbed version of the Heretic Rules.

d-usa wrote:

ph34r wrote:This is a family friendly forum. How is this thread allowed to remain open? I'm taken aback.

Well, it is just tentacles and girls so it is completely harmless.

The only way you would take this in the wrong way was if you have seen enough hentai.

In fact this doesnt even look like outright hentai

More like Ecchi combined with innuendo

I've spent way too much time on the internet, fml


I'll put it in the same category as "Maid RPG" (yes, such a thing exists, quite fun I hear)

ph34r wrote:This is a family friendly forum. How is this thread allowed to remain open? I'm taken aback.

Oh please. This is tame. Ridiculously so.

kenshin620 wrote:

I'll put it in the same category as "Maid RPG" (yes, such a thing exists, quite fun I hear)

Or Tanto Cuore the Maid card game.

LOL, I'm in.

This is hilarious! And my girlfriend loves it too (well as long as there will be an Yaoi Expansion).

I just hope they keep both underage characters and violence out of it, that would spoil the fun for us. Gonna buy this just for the chance of a bishi expansion!

Some extra art slots have opened up:

NEW ART PLEDGES OPENED!

We have had a lot of requests for new slots to have more custom promo artwork added to the set. So, if you missed the first opportunity to get yourself, wife, or girlfriend drawn and depicted as a Takoashi student for your games of Tentacle Bento, then now is your chance!

And, as promised... some new art!



Thanks to everyone, we are almost 90% funded, and we are only 2 days in!

Eh, this is getting in to the hipster realm of parodies that are too close to the real thing become the real thing.

If you always dress like you have terrible fashion sense in order to mock people, you're still wearing ugly clothes.

Kinda feel like this is no longer parody, and just pandering. I was looking at getting in to SDE because it seemed clever and well made, but don't feel great about supporting a "lowest common denominator" company, which is what this is feeling like

Just a heads up the first page with pics gives my antivirus a hit each time the page loads. " TrojanDownloader.Twetti.mio@282806965" Comodo antivirus alert.

Just thought you should know.....

According to legoburner:

Just remotely hosted images from a server that also has hosted viruses in the past, nothing to worry about except for the false alarm people will see.

Thanks ~Manchu

spiralingcadaver wrote:Eh, this is getting in to the hipster realm of parodies that are too close to the real thing become the real thing.

If you always dress like you have terrible fashion sense in order to mock people, you're still wearing ugly clothes.

Kinda feel like this is no longer parody, and just pandering. I was looking at getting in to SDE because it seemed clever and well made, but don't feel great about supporting a "lowest common denominator" company, which is what this is feeling like

I feel similarly. If it is impossible for you to explain to someone that doesn't play games that "oh, no it's just ironic, it's a deconstruction, I'm not actually in it for the XYZ", then you have gone too far in my opinion.

spiralingcadaver wrote:Eh, this is getting in to the hipster realm of parodies that are too close to the real thing become the real thing.

... what makes you think this is a parody?


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ph34r wrote:If it is impossible for you to explain to someone that doesn't play games that "oh, no it's just ironic, it's a deconstruction, I'm not actually in it for the XYZ", then you have gone too far in my opinion.

To whom are you having to justify yourself and why?

Also, can you explain to me the thing that is being ironically deconstructed by wargaming?

And this sort of game is why people think gamers are creepy.

blackclaw1 wrote:And this sort of game is why people think gamers are creepy.

Sure, that's the only reason...

This one may not help, I'll admit it, but I bet this one more than meets their funding goal.

I'm a little nervous about what 'stretch' goals they'll come up with though!

Alpharius wrote:

blackclaw1 wrote:And this sort of game is why people think gamers are creepy.

Sure, that's the only reason...

This one may not help, I'll admit it, but I bet this one more than meets their funding goal.

I'm a little nervous about what 'stretch' goals they'll come up with though!

I'd put money down that a mascot 'body pillow' is one of them.

Manchu wrote:

spiralingcadaver wrote:Eh, this is getting in to the hipster realm of parodies that are too close to the real thing become the real thing.

... what makes you think this is a parody?

Hope? Otherwise, it's just smut, and I'd rather it be something that didn't know when to stop than something that base.

heh...

believe it or not, Hentai and Ecchis is a lot more mainstream than some folks think. Certainly more mainstream than wargaming.

and if given the chance between playing this and say, MTG, i can see more of my female friends playing this.

:3

Smut? Wow.

Obscene or sexual? Not the most offensively so, but I wouldn't call it less than that if not parodic.

It seems like you are conflating "sexual" with "obscene." I'll certainly grant that the art is overtly sexual. I don't think its sexuality is in any way a parody -- and given Soda Pop's emphasis on finding the right artists, I'd say it's a homage if anything. Also, I do understand that graphic portrayal of tentacle rape is obscene. But given that this game merely playfully references that, I don't think it can be said to be obscene itself. I suppose you might say that the sexualization of highschool-age girls is obscene but that strikes me as a rather Amish attitude.

If this is smut then Toonami was showing every 90's kid smut as they were in elementary school.

Sure, this game is laughable, but it definitely isn't smut. Large-breasted anime girls dancing around in schoolgirl uniforms is fanservice and pandering but it doesn't cross the line to pornography.

Eh, I always thought that smut was closer to a step below pornography, rather than on par with it.

edit: Looked it up, and it seems like it can actually mean anything from suggestive to explicitly pornographic.

lol I don't know where to congrats Soda Pop or facepalm at humanity lol. I love the pictures and the concept sounds fun... but 12 thousand dollars in 2 days... lmao. All of the $500 tiers of making a picture of wife/self/girlfriend sold out so fast it would make the Kami Hut to classy lol.

d-usa wrote:Well, it is just tentacles and girls so it is completely harmless.

The only way you would take this in the wrong way was if you have seen enough hentai.

The title of the thread is "calling all perverts."

First thoughts on this thread "What the feth is this?"
Opens thread "OH DEAR GOD!"
*turns off computer*
*turns it back on*

Okay this is just eh. Eh. omg. This is just so wrong. But its art.... >.> so I really can't complain.
And they definitely nailed what they were going for.

Yeah, we probably should change the title - it is a little charged...