Not quite sure where the venom is coming from
crawlkill (unless it's from some perceived eco-lunacy or bad childhood memory)
have you read many Kickstarter postmortums? because every one I've ever read has said "we will never offer physical rewards again, because they always end up costing us more in terms of time and money than they're worth." seriously, this is a constant thread.
the venom comes from people fetishizing something that lasts for a couple seconds, and then tokenizing the meaningless objects that come with it, and saying that -if you download the game then it is meaningless.- I mean, did you read this thread? "enjoy your shit download" were words uttered. so apparently--the game--the thing--that will take up many hours of my life when I first play it--and then many more when I continue to replay it, if it's any good, now and then for the rest of my life--apparently that thing is shit...because I downloaded it? my downloading it was shit?
o no tho the thing that I ripped open was the real core of the assperience and and the tiny toys that cummed with it
the venom comes from the sick conflation of trivia--of cargo cult enticements--with the actual value of the product, which is -entirely unrelated- to those things. the implication is that it wasn't Wasteland that was valuable, it was the PARAGRAPH BOOK that came with it! man if you just read that paragraph book as a pdf enjoy ur shitty danlad
that's where the venom comes from, buddy. -what is important is the game. it is not the box. it is not the delivery mode. it is not the shitty decoder ring. the game will outlast all of those hilarious obsessive peripherals by decades.- and if you care about owning the bullshit collector's peripherals even a thousandth of a thousandth as much as you do about owning the experience you were funding, -you are an ill human.-
"shit, I can't look at the Mona Lisa in a frame like this"
"man, watching Pulp Fiction without the DVD insert fluttering out just doesn't even feel right"
"god, I can't believe anyone would listen to Radiohead without the album jewelcase stretched across their face"
"enjoy your shitty ebook, the pulp book I bought had a WAY higher carbon footprint, nerd, and its typos are GENUINE"
I continue to maintain that the only meaningful physically sold information products are those that you want to masturbate with. if you're planning to masturbate with your Wasteland peripherals or otherwise interface with them corporeally beyond "i puts dem on a shelves ware i could has they," then by all means, bitches. on the assumption you're not, -the compulsive desire to own that which is useless to you is sick.-