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Is it even self awareness or a lack of editing? Like okay, yours is a game that doesn’t get a lot of traction, but you know what else doesn’t? Board games in ge

Is it even self awareness or a lack of editing? Like okay, yours is a game that doesn’t get a lot of traction, but you know what else doesn’t? Board games in general. No one said you have to be entirely selfless, and one’s conviction would appear just as fraudulent if it came in the guise of piety. Here’s what you could have done: Find five other great board games that everyone else overlooks and explain why they are dope. Put a small blurb about why your game falls in this class, and why you are proud to be in that group. It checks off all the boxes - misunderstood, ahead of it’s time, probably genius conceptual ideas.

brundolf 6y ago
(I want to clarify, in case it's unclear, that I am not the OP)
- runawaybottle 6y ago
  Oh I know, I can’t write for shit, so did something rhetorically lazy.
WA 6y ago
The funny thing is that most creators experience this, if they put their work out there: What they think is their greatest piece often isn't really perceived as such and some random thing of theirs might struck a nerve in others. This applies to a lot of things: blog posts, Tweets, videos, music, paintings, and obviously games.
- TRcontrarian 6y ago
  I've heard that Stephen King considers the Dark Tower series his greatest work[1][2], but almost none of his fans do[3][4]. The intent of a work can be far divorced from the public reception of it. [1] https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_Series https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_Series [2] https://stephenking.com/darktower/ https://stephenking.com/darktower/ [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/02/14/best-presidents-day-sales-deals-2021/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/02...? [4] https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/which-king-book-sold-the-best.18839/ https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/which-king-book...
  - dash2 6y ago
    Reminds me of Archy on Shakespeare [1]: here i am ben says bill nothing but a lousy playwright and with anything like luck in the breaks i might have been a fairly decent sonnet writer i might have been a poet if i had kept away from the theatre ... well says i pete bill s plays are highly esteemed to this day is that so says pete poor mutt little he would care what poor bill wanted was to be a poet [1] http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis/ http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis...
  - tincholio 6y ago
    Well, the first 4 books are some of his best writing, I think... The final 3 suck terribly, and were a great disappointment (to me, of course, maybe some people actually liked them)
    - agentwiggles 6y ago
      Overall I agree, but I actually quite like the ending of the series. I've read lots of folks online who absolutely hated what ultimately happens to Roland - I thought it was a cool ending which was very much in keeping with the sort of "cosmic cycles" theme of the books. That said, there is a _lot_ of junk in those final three books, and the seventh one in particular drops the ball in several disappointing ways before it ends.
      - arkh 6y ago
        It was the best ending possible. The first line of the first book was what hooked me on this universe, so I loved reading the last line years later.
- pram 6y ago
  This is painfully true. I put my art on Twitter/IG and the most popular things overall are nowhere close to my favorite. I genuinely can’t even comprehend why they are. I’m not sure I could even attempt to “pander” by making more of the same subject matter, because I’m not convinced I’d replicate the correct thing lol
  - WA 6y ago
    Maybe ask people, but not sure if it's the same thing. Or put more stuff out there at random.
- EamonnMR 6y ago
  Apex Twin (the electronic music producer) put hours and hours of unreleased work[1] out for free a few years ago. One striking thing about the release is the number of true gems in there that outshine published work. 1: https://archive.org/details/AphexTwinAllUser18081971SoundcloudTracks https://archive.org/details/AphexTwinAllUser18081971Soundclo...
breck 6y ago
> lack of editing? Lack of editing I think has it's place. When you know roughly where to go and want to make money and go to market, build a team and have the team edit each other's work. When you want to figure something out in a totally new domain, don't waste time on editing just throw shit out there and run.

brundolf 6y ago

(I want to clarify, in case it's unclear, that I am not the OP)

runawaybottle 6y ago
Oh I know, I can’t write for shit, so did something rhetorically lazy.

WA 6y ago

The funny thing is that most creators experience this, if they put their work out there: What they think is their greatest piece often isn't really perceived as such and some random thing of theirs might struck a nerve in others. This applies to a lot of things: blog posts, Tweets, videos, music, paintings, and obviously games.

TRcontrarian 6y ago
I've heard that Stephen King considers the Dark Tower series his greatest work[1][2], but almost none of his fans do[3][4]. The intent of a work can be far divorced from the public reception of it. [1] https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_Series https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_Series [2] https://stephenking.com/darktower/ https://stephenking.com/darktower/ [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/02/14/best-presidents-day-sales-deals-2021/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/02...? [4] https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/which-king-book-sold-the-best.18839/ https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/which-king-book...
- dash2 6y ago
  Reminds me of Archy on Shakespeare [1]: here i am ben says bill nothing but a lousy playwright and with anything like luck in the breaks i might have been a fairly decent sonnet writer i might have been a poet if i had kept away from the theatre ... well says i pete bill s plays are highly esteemed to this day is that so says pete poor mutt little he would care what poor bill wanted was to be a poet [1] http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis/ http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis...
- tincholio 6y ago
  Well, the first 4 books are some of his best writing, I think... The final 3 suck terribly, and were a great disappointment (to me, of course, maybe some people actually liked them)
  - agentwiggles 6y ago
    Overall I agree, but I actually quite like the ending of the series. I've read lots of folks online who absolutely hated what ultimately happens to Roland - I thought it was a cool ending which was very much in keeping with the sort of "cosmic cycles" theme of the books. That said, there is a _lot_ of junk in those final three books, and the seventh one in particular drops the ball in several disappointing ways before it ends.
    - arkh 6y ago
      It was the best ending possible. The first line of the first book was what hooked me on this universe, so I loved reading the last line years later.
pram 6y ago
This is painfully true. I put my art on Twitter/IG and the most popular things overall are nowhere close to my favorite. I genuinely can’t even comprehend why they are. I’m not sure I could even attempt to “pander” by making more of the same subject matter, because I’m not convinced I’d replicate the correct thing lol
- WA 6y ago
  Maybe ask people, but not sure if it's the same thing. Or put more stuff out there at random.
EamonnMR 6y ago
Apex Twin (the electronic music producer) put hours and hours of unreleased work[1] out for free a few years ago. One striking thing about the release is the number of true gems in there that outshine published work. 1: https://archive.org/details/AphexTwinAllUser18081971SoundcloudTracks https://archive.org/details/AphexTwinAllUser18081971Soundclo...

breck 6y ago

> lack of editing? Lack of editing I think has it's place. When you know roughly where to go and want to make money and go to market, build a team and have the team edit each other's work. When you want to figure something out in a totally new domain, don't waste time on editing just throw shit out there and run.