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Does anyone who's not trying to sucker people into those super scammy work from home schemes ever really discuss income in terms of per day?
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Jul 23, 2014 07:57
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senrath posted:Does anyone who's not trying to sucker people into those super scammy work from home schemes ever really discuss income in terms of per day? Freelancers/contractors often get paid on a per-day basis.
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Jul 23, 2014 08:04
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floofyscorp posted:Freelancers/contractors often get paid on a per-day basis. Hourly is more usual, though.
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Jul 23, 2014 08:05
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People who get really mad about their Internet connection being down will often use language like that to try to impress how crucial it is to the poor person on the other end of the line.
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Jul 23, 2014 08:08
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I had a friend that did Internet tech support and told me all sorts of stories of people getting pissed off. "Fix my internet! I'm a business!" "A business? Well then let me set you up with our corporation subscription plan!" (Which was like 10x the price)" "Uh, hold on there." "According to our terms, you're not allowed to run a business using residential plans." "Uh, well, I don't do business here." "So you're a businessman?" "Uh, Yeah" "So is everyone else, sir. Just wait for us to fix things on our end, we'll get to you eventually."
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Jul 23, 2014 09:35
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Mirificus posted:Now, getting back to scummy gaming Kickstarters. Maksym Pashanin of Confederate Express and Knuckle Club fame is apparently a squatter. Not a cyber-squatter but a literal squatter. Good thing my new truckload of popcorn was just delivered. 
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Jul 23, 2014 14:40
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Yeah the last few developments regarding Confederate Express have been... weird. I guess the fact that all the pixel art was contracted out means the money he raised dried up pretty quick.
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Jul 23, 2014 14:53
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Dissapointed Owl posted:"and my income while working averages $1000-$7000 per day," He's not lying, Confederate Express raised 1k - 7k a day 
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Jul 23, 2014 15:06
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drat, this Confederate Express stuff just gets more entertaining by the day! What a total scumbag.
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Jul 23, 2014 15:41
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Between Confederate Express and the Untold Story of Japanese Game Developers or whatever it was, there has been some real hilarity in games kickstarters recently.
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Jul 23, 2014 15:51
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AnonSpore posted:Between Confederate Express and the Untold Story of Japanese Game Developers or whatever it was, there has been some real hilarity in games kickstarters recently. Now I want a kickstarter to create a book ABOUT Untold Story of Japanese Game Developers, Confederate Express, Super Retro Squad, and Rainfall: The Sojourn. Something in the style of Game Over and The Untold History of Video games. Stretch goals can be to make Star Citizen its own Trilogy. So I need a pick me up, was any one able to play Hyper Plains Drifter at E3? BexGu fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jul 23, 2014 16:09
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Crowdfunding Gamification Gone Wrong: AReal Story from Real People
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Jul 23, 2014 16:12
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Darksaber posted:IEdit: Also, can someone who's ran kickstarters speak about the whole 'no contact' thing? I know that KS won't comment to anyone else about the suspension, but will they really not tell the project creator anything either? EDIT: VV Yeah, that one's... yeah. I have no idea why it hasn't been shut down. I'm kind of expecting them to let it run until the end, THEN kill it. As in, "ok let the joke run but no you don't get that money." Shalinor fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jul 23, 2014 16:27
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Shalinor posted:They ARE kind of dicks about how immediately they act, but they kind of have to, since every second they fail to act is another second you're earning money despite <something that goes against their rules>. Unless your kickstarter is "funny", apparently.
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Jul 23, 2014 16:33
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Cicero posted:OR, maybe they're a startup with a sound business model who make a product that a lot of people apparently find compelling? Scratch-O posted:Nope, [person/group on internet] [did/said] [thing I don't like], therefore hipster Uh guess you guys never saw the "who we are" page. We made fun of it awhile back: https://www.kickstarter.com/team?ref=footer Also they make a website that skims money off some charity projects and some scams. That's a 'product' a lot of people find compelling? We find the individual products compelling, not kickstarter the service. In fact we constantly criticize Kickstarter the service's actions and (lack of) rules. If they didn't exist everybody would just use indiegogo or another of the dozen identical services and websites. Time and again they've proven they'll even ignore what few rules they have if it means they make lots of money. And they've barely done gently caress-all since launching the site, except collect that sweet sweet potato salad cash. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jul 23, 2014 16:40
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Kyrosiris posted:Unless your kickstarter is "funny", apparently. Unless your kickstarter is highly profitable and getting mostly positive press. Kickstarter rather obviously makes their suspension decisions on the basis of a CYA risk analysis to themselves. A major recurring criticism is that they should take protecting backers into account, but presently Kickstarter doesn't stand to benefit financially from such a policy. They have no reason to care.
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Jul 23, 2014 16:45
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Zaphod42 posted:Uh guess you guys never saw the "who we are" page. We made fun of it awhile back:  Apparently my dad is a hipster now? They look like normal people to me.
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Jul 23, 2014 16:47
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Zaphod42 posted:In fact we constantly criticize Kickstarter the service's actions and (lack of) rules. If they didn't exist everybody would just use indiegogo or another of the dozen identical services and websites. We aren't Kickstarter's customers. The people who post projects are.
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Jul 23, 2014 16:49
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Zurai posted:We aren't Kickstarter's customers. The people who post projects are.
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Jul 23, 2014 16:54
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Jul 23, 2014 16:55
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Dude drinking from a bendy straw for a silly team photo: SOUND THE HIPSTER ALARM WHOOP WHOOP
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Orzo posted:No, because part of the money goes to Kickstarter. It's the same as shopping at a store that doesn't manufacture their own goods; I doubt you'd deny being a Target customer because you bought some Charmin toilet paper there. That's like saying that we're the government's customer because every store collects sales tax. We don't pay Kickstarter; Kickstarter acts as an escrow of sorts, holding our money until the project funds and the funding period is over and taking a percentage of the gross as their fee. Their actual customers, the people who they do actual business with, are the project creators. We're no more Kickstarter's customers than we're Google's customers when we use Google's search engine. Zurai fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jul 23, 2014 17:10
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Suspicious Dish posted:Dude drinking from a bendy straw for a silly team photo: SOUND THE HIPSTER ALARM WHOOP WHOOP
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Jul 23, 2014 17:11
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Hipster is basically just a term like SJW where it literally can apply to anyone you don't like for any reason at all.
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Jul 23, 2014 17:27
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Shalinor posted:Yeah, these guys aren't hipsters, they're techies. That is how most of the west coast looks. Especially that flannel. If there were a little fatter and had bigger beards they'd be a perfect fit for Philly.
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Jul 23, 2014 17:40
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I can only imagine most goons have never left the house when 'wearing a shirt with a pretty normal pattern on it and having facial hair' qualifies as a hipster. OH NO I'M A HIPSTER TOO OH SHIIIIT In KS-related notes, I picked up Mercenary Kings, which was an older kickstarter, the other day and I really enjoyed it, although it is somewhat of a flawed game. It's got that sort of monster-huntery loop that I enjoy, so really dug it. Kind of wish I had backed it back in the day.
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Jul 23, 2014 18:51
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Falcon2001 posted:I can only imagine most goons have never left the house
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Jul 23, 2014 18:51
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Just as a heads up Unrest, the story-driven RPG set in a fantasy world ancient India is out. I played the demo some time ago and I liked it and my buddy on Steam gifted it to me so I'll see how it ends up.
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Jul 23, 2014 18:54
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Falcon2001 posted:I can only imagine most goons have never left the house when 'wearing a shirt with a pretty normal pattern on it and having facial hair' qualifies as a hipster. OH NO I'M A HIPSTER TOO OH SHIIIIT For some reason, Super Retro Squad's story really gets to me. The guy screws his team by buying a house instead of paying them, complains when they don't work for free, and then makes a video crying about how, despite being the Lead Programmer, he still has no idea how to make floor hitboxes work after an entire goddamn year. I feel a little bad for the backers he screwed, but mostly I feel bad for his crew, and even then I feel bad professionally associating them with him like that. Suspicious Dish posted:Dude drinking from a bendy straw for a silly team photo: SOUND THE HIPSTER ALARM WHOOP WHOOP
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My favorite part of the Super Retro Squad story was when the leader finally got around to having a discussion with his hired programmer after an entire year of not producing a single line of code. e: or maybe everything about it is my favorite. waiting for Unity 4.5 to come out before starting any real work and then expecting to magically understand how Unity works without any prior experience was a highlight too
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The White Dragon posted:Well, some things can indicate it since hipsters are a subculture built solely around being a particular type of consumer. Clothes not so much unless they're wearing something really obnoxiously obvious like a stovepipe hat or a yarmulke, but the biggest tells are when they start measuring the breadth of your experience in the number of microbrews you've tried, except only the ones they've never heard of count, and can only see the world relative to their favorite episode of Portlandia. Just fyi there is both a melodica AND a silly straw. And either way since their bios don't consist of anything of those things ( and I agree there are real hipsters, I live in Seattle, we certainly have them especially beer snobs), it's pretty silly to call them 'a bunch of hipsters that came upon money'.
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I live in what is probably one of the hipster capitols of the world (West Los Angeles) and I still hear way more complaining about hipsters than ever actually see someone who could be described as one. Those are tech guys who don't dress like slobs or wear polos, hipsters!  More on topic, man I hope Frontiers is able to release. Their ambitions were really big and I love to see someone going for a Daggerfall like game, but with the delays their budget must already be close to breaking. I think tackling even limited multiplayer might be the feature that kills them. FuzzySlippers fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jul 23, 2014 20:09
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Yodzilla posted:My favorite part of the Super Retro Squad story was when the leader finally got around to having a discussion with his hired programmer after an entire year of not producing a single line of code. My favorite part was when he quoted me in his writeup as an example of the hostile community he was facing, after I suggested at least I could view my lost money as a ticket to an entertaining shitshow of self-destruction.
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The White Dragon posted:that's a melodica ugh watch more ifc you uncultured neanderthal Look slightly to the left of the dude on the right It took me a second to see it too because the other thing also looks like a silly straw and is much more obvious.
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Jul 23, 2014 21:37
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Shalinor posted:They will shut you down without notice, but also typically tell you why / you can send a message to them through their system and they'll respond. It's very likely they told him exactly why he was shut down, but he didn't like the answer, so he's playing it this way. They ARE kind of dicks about how immediately they act, but they kind of have to, since every second they fail to act is another second you're earning money despite <something that goes against their rules>. Then that makes this exchange even more amusing. I'm also surprised it hasn't been deleted yet, because yesterday they were in full-on crackdown mode on their FB. Edit: Also 'Kindergarten' is not nearly as amusing as 'What an embarrassing witch-hunt.' so they should really step up their game. 
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Jul 23, 2014 21:56
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Suspicious Dish posted:Dude drinking from a bendy straw for a silly team photo: SOUND THE HIPSTER ALARM WHOOP WHOOP The word is thrown around a lot but those two are hipsters.
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Jul 23, 2014 21:57
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It's a true, Mario!
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Lets! Get! Weird! posted:The word is thrown around a lot but those two are hipsters. Seriously guys, move on, please. Find a Kickstarter. Let's talk about a Kickstarter. Unless someone is Kickstarting a bendy-straw whiskey drinking club, move on.
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I'm not but I went to a school full of them and have several close friends who are. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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