How is COVID-19 affecting The Bazaar? (And. Can there be a flavor text on a card to show respect?)

Hey all. Hope you are all safe during these unique times.

It's day 16 of self isolation for myself and family. And I guess enough time has passed where my mind trails off and has decided to start thinking of how excited I am about The Bazaar. Where it started to get me thinking about how the current stages of the game are being affected with the current COVID-19 pandemic.

My question to Reynad (besides hoping you are safe too, which isnt a question but I digress.) himself is:

"Have these current circumstances had any impact in the construction of the game?"

I'll elaborate and say I'm completely aware that times are tough and I do not mean to sound insincere. I am just curious if due to the fact more people are home (like the design team or writters as an example). Has this been a big bump in the road for you and the dev team? Or are things still according to agenda? Or perhaps even progressing slightly faster than one would expect? I am just curious to know.

Lastly, that question then gave me an idea about the flavor text of 1 card in particular. I dont know what the card can entail. But, would it be possible to show respects of this pandemic through a card? I know the Bazaar is not political game. And this isn't a political stunt. This would be just a way to pay respects to many who are affected. Let's be honest, the world is not the same as it used to be a couple weeks ago. I feel like a card that could remind us of how we spent these past weeks in isolation would tailor to many players. And every time we would stumble across it we wouldn't think of just loss, we would think that no matter what we got through this via unity through a community.

Let me know what any of you think. There's lots that can be considered. Again stay safe all you peeps that are excited for this game.

I'm about to go to bed and hope day 17 is another good one.

Cheers!

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BAZAAR UPDATE:

Beta in October 2024.

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Word

you dont have to post literal 1 word replies in every thread to feign interest

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This guy is like 4 years late and stole his main character from Portal

Game looks like it has some interesting aspects but it will be dead on arrival

Checked on reddit and confirmed my suspicions.

This game died the same death of many others of its era: Crowdfunding paralysis

Basically when you collect your money at the start of the process of building something instead of at the end, you have no incentive to actually ship anything and can spend 6 years in development endlessly iterating and reworking everything from the ground up and never producing anything of value

Add to that Reynad was never actually smart and just found funding because he had a small fanbase from getting in at the right time on one of the lowest-brow digital card games out there

Reddit shows fans mostly are frustrated or straight up forgot/moved on with their lives - after giving him their money in crowdfunding. Meanwhile, the game went from being a Dominion-like (actually a good idea that people would play) to some garbage low-tier autobattler and Reynad is online ranting about some blockchain nonsense and looks like a schizophrenic homeless person. Straight up - the guy used to look like this:

And now looks like if Kaptenrobert spent a decade doing meth and re-reading Industrial Society and its Future

To be clear I think the original Reynad looked like a cunt so in my book this is an improvement. But he still sounds like a cunt so let's call it a work in progress.

On god this guy aged way too much in the past few years. I googled "reynad drugs" and again went to reddit to confirm this - in between his broken rants on game development and project timelines he apparently talks about doing shrooms weekly and various other braindead nonsense

Honestly this guy is doing so much more interesting things than failing to release The Bazaar. He's gone completely off the rails. In a way this feels like karmic justice. Maybe it's bad juju but I just always felt he was a cunt, talked like a cunt, looked like a cunt, and other people didn't see it, so it's nice to be validated like this.

Bro this game is never getting released.

This transformation has prompted me to check all the old streamers to see how they have changed

Unfortunately I am lazy so I am not going to check if they have clips ranting about lucifer. Just if they look like they aged 20 years doing shrooms

Wonder what the mechanism is that makes people look old when they do too much psychedelics

Savjz

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Looks pretty different but still seems to be having fun playing HS, good for him

Kripp

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Looks exactly the same, maybe a little fatter and less happy. Still streaming HS so understandable that he's not happy

TrumpHS

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Little fatter and I heard he streams stocks and gambling stuff to make money

Forsen

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Looks the same and still doing his lets play thing. Honestly it was hard to find older pictures of him because he rode his HS popularity into other things and stayed popular longer than these other guys

Kibler

Honestly what the fuck hahahaha. How did all the guys I thought were douches go from clean shaven wonderkid to 40 year old who lives in a van down by the river and tries to seduce high schoolers by sitting around a campfire playing an acoustic guitar in the span of like 4 years? I also heard he's divorced (probably the seducing high schoolers thing)

Amaz

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Honestly aged pretty bad for an Asian but he never looked good so no surprises there. This guy looks like he works at Facebook on their SF campus. His whole job is just to reject your PR with some arcane reference to documentation in a project you've never heard of

Hafu

I was most excited for this one because I used to think she was cute and expected her to look exactly the same. Unfortunately she does not. I won't say anything further out of respect but let's just say she and Reynad could've shared the same time machine. Seeing this has completely cured me of my Asian GF fixation (not a fetish and it's gone now so either way what difference does it make)

Funny side note - this was another person where it was hard to find old pics because her popular stuff was actually years after HS (she seems to have been really popular making AmongUs vids). I was going to find and snip in a photo of a random different asian woman to see if anybody noticed but instead found this:

3 old photos in which she looks like a completely different person. Seems like she used to edit her face a lot in her thumbnails lol none of these look like her. But I can't differentiate/recognize different asian women so I may be completely wrong on this

LifeCoach

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The King. Saving the best for last

The guy looks great and always did. What can I say - I would go gay for him.

I will say that in the finding of this pic of him I heard 15 seconds of a vod and couldn't understand a single word he said. I will link it here - maybe somebody can decipher.

Tomorrow I will do Dota 2 streamers (or someone else can do), didnt have time today

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Bro? Bahahahaha

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https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1798042685129035975?t=H3ED7GFtxZJWPM9Rpnz1SQ&s=19

This is jones

AI alignment is a fake issue

People who talk/write about AI like this are generally idiots

https://twitter.com/leopoldasch/status/1798068281414414350/photo/1

This guy doesnt understand AI or technology in general

Or basics of math/statistics/logic

It's the same as when youve got the guy marketing NFTs or whatever and he's got this long talk about saving the world

Guy who charts btc historical price as a straight line going up and then adds "2027 assumptions" as a straight line continuing to go up to 1 billion

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that dwarkesh guy got hawked by tyler cowen so I know he's a ■■■.

You don't understand AI.

You dont understand AI.

You don't even understand linear algebra.

That's right - I don't understand linear algrebra. What are you going to do, cry about it?

I don't need to understand linear algebra. Superintelligent AGI is coming in 3 years to explain linear algebra to me.

You're going to be really behind everyone else -- it's a red queen race.

It took you about 5 minutes to type that 1 sentence