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Monday, February 29, 2016

Would You Back a Project Titled "Live Project Novel Vomit"?

Sometimes being known as someone with their fingers on the pulse of various Kickstarter projects is more bane than boon.

The Prefundia page is in pretty poor English, so if this is a sample of a future translation...

The Kickstarter itself is in German. No, I didn't bother to let Google translate it.

As an aside, I guess it would make a good title for a LotFP adventure...

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ForgottenDMFebruary 29, 2016 at 7:55 PM
A project so bad they don't want to spend their own money on it. Wonder if the video people are the same ones that Ken Whitman talked to.
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Peter DFebruary 29, 2016 at 8:12 PM
I hit "Mark As Spam" so fast on that one I missed the amusing content.
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Gothridge ManorFebruary 29, 2016 at 8:52 PM
I bought I ticket once for a band called Vomit Launch. That's kinda close.
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Andrew GaleFebruary 29, 2016 at 9:30 PM
The Kickstarter page was titled 'Roman Vomit' so I thought it might have something to do with exploring dungeons blow the ruins of a Vomitorium. I checked out Prefundia and discovered its just another site like Kickstarter, only Vomit has already funded there. Digging a little further, I found the kindle version on amazon.de:

http://www.amazon.de/Vomit-Anja-Kribernegg-ebook/dp/B00I4UOVDA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425422139&sr=8-1&keywords=vomit+cyberpublishing

Where interestingly, its listed for 15.45 Euros.
Seeing how the book is already written, I'm in for a bargain with a 1 Euro pledge ;-D
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Alea iactanda estMarch 1, 2016 at 4:41 AM
It's a novel about bulimia, written by a young author, dedicated to her sister who committed suicide.
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Greyhawk GrognardMarch 2, 2016 at 10:35 PM
You obviously don't recognize or appreciate True Art.
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Would You Back a Project Titled "Live Project Novel Vomit"?

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