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Re: The Cost of Being the Boss: What Business Owners Spend in Their First Year

subQuark — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:38:52 -0000

Great post and the findings seem pretty good. We started ours for less but we also started with Kickstarter. We're also a very small shop and we make our products ourselves.

Thanks for the great post!

Re: US consolidated

subQuark — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:12:56 -0000

Looks like Portsmouth may be up at 5:15PM. Streaming TV services are working at the moment.

Re: US consolidated

subQuark — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:40:20 -0000

Portsmouth is still down at 3;40PM

Re: US consolidated

subQuark — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:53:10 -0000

Portsmouth fiber is down since a few hours ago

Re: Reflections on a first Kickstarter campaign

subQuark — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:23:55 -0000

I think reading Jamey Stegmaier's articles helped us with ours.

Good luck with the relaunch—I'm sure you'll do great! =)

Re: The Ultimate Guide to Crowdfunding — Ecommerce Blog by Shopify

subQuark — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:47:22 -0000

To share my thoughts with a question in the comments about Facebook. I believe you need to be well connected and very active on at least Twitter or Facebook. My first two Kickstarters were only supported via Twitter and the third one will include Facebook. You have to promote yourself well and be very active, imo, on your campaign page - I acknowledged every person's comments on both campaigns and would stay on top of that several times a day. Good luck!

https://www.kickstarter.com...

Re: How to Run a Successful Board Gaming Event - Part 02 - Game Day is Upon You

subQuark — Wed, 11 May 2016 09:22:03 -0000

Phenomenal article! Signage is so much harder than most people ever imagine and requires good planning.

If you ever want a mini tourney, let me know. The STGCON ran a 16 person Mint Tin Mini Apocalypse tournament and we ran a 30 person, 2 day one here at my work. Games are very fast to play and here we did best 2 out of 3 but you could do a Swiss tournament or anything else (there is some good free online software for laying out and running tournaments). Using the game's internal point system also helps make it feel very fair. Looking forward to your next one.

Re: How to Run a Successful Board Gaming Event

subQuark — Fri, 06 May 2016 08:29:48 -0000

Hmm, did you send me an email? I don't remember but certainly would send games for next year - great post and wonderful insight - thanks!

Re: Mint Tin Aliens | Preview

subQuark — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:57:03 -0000

ha ha, must be the teacher in you but you are the first to mention FART! I guess I taught middle school too long! =D

Thank you Tiffany!

And if you want to do a US giveaway, I'll send a Kickstarter pair to the winner. =)

Re: Mint Tin Pirates: The Multiplayer Experience

subQuark — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:11:58 -0000

Wow, brilliant and highly approved! The shuffling of the decks together is genius (and must be quite the slippery pile!)

Re: Jaipur — Bottom Shelf Board Games

subQuark — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:05:39 -0000

It's crazy isn't it? It seems like it should be so easy but several takes later . . . I once was doing a 15 second voice over for a keynote video and an incredibly loud bird kept chirping at the worst times . . . if I'd had a BB gun that day!

Yours is fantastic and your tone enhances the video - don't change a thing! =)

Re: Jaipur — Bottom Shelf Board Games

subQuark — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:39:17 -0000

Nicely done - your camera movements, lighting, editing, and voice-over are all outstanding (I do a loot of video for eLearning in my day job). =)

Plus the game looks fun!

Re: Pay on Publication Needs to Die: A Rant

subQuark — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:58:18 -0000

I fully agree with you. As someone who can't draw at all, it's a bummer to hire someone to do my current children's books BUT if I don't believe enough in my work to pay a creative to make my images, then why should they believe in it too?

An ethical person will pay up front.

Now if it was me and a buddy and we came up with some idea like "let's make a game" and he could draw and i had something I could contribute, then maybe that's okay.

But a professional endeavor needs to do the right thing - pay your talent!

hmm, with the "pay on publication" approach, I wonder if I could get free food for a few years and once I win the Olympics and get TV endorsements, then I'll pay for all that food . . .

Re: What Are Sketch Notes?

subQuark — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:35:16 -0000

excellent post - my only difference is that i use an 8.5" by 17" sketch pad (no lines) and also a pencil without an eraser

an eraser slows you down and lets you get bogged down in minutia rather than the larger concept at hand

i do a lot of graphic design and for note taking, i don't need perfect lines, that comes later =)

thanks!

Re: Unmetered Regions for $40 / Month. (Much Less for Bigger Worlds!)

subQuark — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:51:00 -0000

Great explanation! Thank you Ilan, I suspected that you had efficiencies similar to that of Second Life (in that you have dedicated servers for various services).

As a side-by-side comparison, it is inevitable that your architecture is superior in performance to a one server deployment - is that a fair assumption to make?

As a customer, my desire would be to both have a better and more economical solution. It sounds like that is definitely the case in this discussion.

The blunt question being: will Kitely serve up the same virtual world better than a single Q9400, 8 GB RAM server with 5,000 GB bandwidth?

PS - You also probably realise that Ener will take your comment about architecture and turn it into a blog post! :)

Re: Use Kitely Without Facebook

subQuark — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:18:33 -0000

Thanks for the explanation - i will send you an email to see about linking a twitter account to my Facebook account.

Re: Unmetered Regions for $40 / Month. (Much Less for Bigger Worlds!)

subQuark — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:56:40 -0000

This seems like a strong offering. Am I to understand that "powerful multi-core, 7.5 GB servers" means a 16 region grid would have access to 7.5 GB of RAM?

Are you able to specify how many cores are at a 16 region's disposal?

This inquiry is so that I may compare my current configuration with yours.

We run 30,000 prims with 500 scripts (scripts are predominantly sit and rotation scripts with a handful of particle scripts for smoke and snow) and this takes about 3.6 GB of RAM (total RAM including Windows Server 2008 R2 which is almost 1 GB of that total) and 10% of our Q9400's 4 cores with 10 people online.

Of course, our server must also do inventory and accounts.

I assume accounts are on a separate server as is inventory?

If so, your offering is very strong. I look forward to your answers and also want to thank you for the code you contribute to OpenSimulator.

Edit: Do these worlds also allow access lists, such as you have had before with Twitter groups?