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Zybourne Clock posted:These guys want 40,000 big ones to develop a 'Dragon Grip'. Read: a plastic stick with buttons which can be pressed to play 70's Kung-Fu movies sound effects. Not only are they convinced there's a demand for this product, they think it's such a good idea that they decided to patent it. It must have been a very fun day at the patent office when these clowns showed up. The guy on the right pronounces dragon really weird. It kinda sounded like he was saying "dragna" a couple of times. All that I could think of the whole time was the guy from Birdemic who couldn't pronounce solar panals. Another thing that was great was their 70's style fighting sounds that sounded more like the sounds the Transformers made when they converted. Time to re-mortgage my house and fund these geniuses myself!
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This one's not Kickstarter, but a similar site. This fellow wanted people to finance his vacation across America by train. The money would pay for things like his rent while he's away from home, his food, accommodations and travel expenses. If you donate $1000 he'll totally visit your town, provided it's on the route of his vacation. Thankfully he missed his goal by a lot. http://www.indiegogo.com/Trans-inci...ailway-Journeys Whatever happened to people paying for things themselves or doing projects in their spare time? I'm glad Kickstarter wasn't around in the days when Quake was popular, otherwise it'd be nothing but 'We need $10,000 to make a U.S. military style total conversion for Quake'
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Farbtoner posted:I don't know about that, but I do know of Thera: a computer game of the bullet hell genre Oh my. If you look at the female character on the title screen, doesn't she look embarassed to be there?
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Borden posted:This one's not Kickstarter, but a similar site. This fellow wanted people to finance his vacation across America by train. The money would pay for things like his rent while he's away from home, his food, accommodations and travel expenses. If you donate $1000 he'll totally visit your town, provided it's on the route of his vacation. Thankfully he missed his goal by a lot. Jesus christ, people are donating for this? What is wrong with the world? quote:1. Traveling is simply the utilitarian process of getting from point A to point B and is not regarded significantly as an event in itself. I hope to flip this assumption by showing the benefits of choosing a transportation method that encourages a greater interconnectedness with fellow passengers and the environment. So he's going to hitch hike. quote:2. We accept that in the United States we have freedom of movement. As a developed country this implies access to a well organized, affordable and user-friendly transportation infrastructure. I intend to explore the infrastructure and see how it affects the lives of travelers. In particular I will be travelling frugally and in a minimalist nature, taking only 2 carry on bags and riding coach. OK, so he's not hitch hiking. He's riding coach. And he say that American travel infrastructure is good in any way? I'd like to put forth this guy has never ridden in a train before if he thinks it's any of those things AND frugal. quote:3. American cultural identity is forever in flux and can only be defined by its point of observation in time through sharing personal stories. Shut up forever Saint Darwin fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 16:45 |
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Borden posted:
This. Kickstarter, the site, is crazy popular right now. But it's still young, and most of the highly successful funded projects are new so no final product has come out. After a year, or by the end of the year, we should start seeing the true results of kickstarter money... my bet is that at least 50% of all products funded via kickstarter will either be total poo poo, non-existant, or not at all worthy of their donations. When those results start trickling in, kickstarter, the site, will lose popularity. I imagine it'll vanish off the face of the earth by next year. Right now though, if you're an indy developer about to release your game on Steam, pretend you need money and make a kickstarter. Take an extra $20,000 then release your game, as intended. Working code, art assets, music, all done? Free money, everyone! Madcosby fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 16:43 |
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There was a goon who wanted to use kickstarter to pay off their house because they were unemployed. Tragically I don't remember their name.
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Some people started a kickstarter to fund the opening of an arcade/bar here in St. Louis. Basically, in exchange for giving them the money to fund the bar, you get... the ability to go to the bar (and give them even more money!) No, that's not quite fair, I guess. If you donate, you get crappy jewelry that one of the founders makes, and some free drinks on occasion. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...louiss-geek-bar Couple this wonderful plan with a video of the people talking about it, and it's pretty clear that they really have no business being in business. In this city, almost any bar makes money. The fact that they have to basically ask for donation in order to start this should have been a clue to them that they're doing it wrong.
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Here, let's fund some nerdcore in Ohio, they want to release an album called Hey Fartface, with such hits as "We love Sailor Moon is that wrong?" http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...rtface?ref=live Oh, of course it's already met its goal. edit: Oh here's something much more reasonable, 30,000 dollars for a rap(?) album called StatusFaction: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...o-album-by-st-0 And he donated a kidney once! GIVE HIM SOME CANDY! pathetic little tramp fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 17:12 |
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Nunez posted:Hey maybe some of us goons should make a Kickstarter project about making a documentary about awful Kickstarters, and travel around the country interviewing these people. And if that Kickstarter fails, we could make another Kickstarter about making a documentary about how our previous Kickstarter failed, as well as other Kickstarters that seemed to have good ideas, but failed anyways. You`re too late.Also,it`s failing http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...=small_projects Some lovely "retro" game http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...=small_projects Some lovely afro comic http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...=small_projects quote:My goal is to raise funds to publish my action/ adventure/ sci-fi comic book starring Afro and Afrodite. The money will be used for publishing and distribution of this story that I so desperately want to tell. Also if you donate 50 dollars you dont get a signed copy,you`ll get a "signed" copy. A spiritual tour http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...g-book-and-tour Oh god,just look at the illustrations. Help a girl to make a bad painting! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...=small_projects  An amazing project: Game reviews!But he is drunk! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...=small_projects
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AstroWhale posted:An amazing project: If he were above 60 and heavily bearded / looked homeless, I would donate the gently caress out of it. vvvvv Indeed, they suck but they at least seem to know they suck. Here's another fun one: Bare Back Chairs! It's not gay porn as you'd imagine, but instead a design for a chair! Without a back! Or Arms! So, you know... a stool: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...f=home_location Oh and it rocks back and forth subtly as you try to sit in it, truly a chair sitting experience for the whole family. pathetic little tramp fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 17:22 |
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pathetic little tramp posted:Here, let's fund some nerdcore in Ohio, they want to release an album called Hey Fartface, with such hits as "We love Sailor Moon is that wrong?" To be honest while the music is terrible at the very least they put a sensible goal, don't seem to be trying to gently caress people over and are just having fun with their dumb hobby. AstroWhale posted:An amazing project: Why would he need money to do this? Can't the lazy arse even buy himself a few bottles of vodka and a game. He didn't even bother posting a review as an example  edit - Hey guys, we need 60k for our gaming wiki. What will we do with the money? Well, they don't really explain. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...f=home_location NoneSuch fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 17:22 |
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Farbtoner posted:I don't know about that, but I do know of Thera: a computer game of the bullet hell genre
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Rohaq posted:This looks like a game developed in a Clickteam product. And done so badly. EVERYTHING about this makes me upset/depressed that someone could consider this worthy of... anything.
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So, for that Echoes of Eternia kickstarter, I noticed one of the "new" rewards.  Yep, pay for something that comes with the 15$ digital download, just  more! RPGMaker music assets are usually stored uncompressed, even with the "lock-down-my-game" creation mode. The only way that they could get around this is to use the third party lock tool that prohibits use in a for-profit game. 
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A little late, but looking at one of the first kickstarters here, I stumbled upon. From this link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-bronies-of-nycBrony Documentary posted:PLEDGE $250 OR MORE $250 for a My Little Pony fanfic? Really? 
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NoneSuch posted:
I think the explanation is under Kickstarter, where they explain it's to pay someone to write articles as a full time job for a year.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:EVERYTHING about this makes me upset/depressed that someone could consider this worthy of... anything. It reminds me of a game you'd find on one of those shareware discs by the checkout of a Staples way back in the day.
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Saint Darwin posted:Are they really making the case that geeks don't see enough women in skimpy outfits at cons? That last woman they say is in the calendar, Satine Phoenix, is an actual hard-core porn star...mostly for Kink.com which does stuff like dildo machines, electric torture, woman-on-woman domination, that sort of thing.
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I'm sure there are much worse than this, but this person I know wrote a one-man show. Now he want's to turn it into a movie because he feels like it's "important to everyone". The "character" is a recovering alcoholic, former drag queen, with a terrible scar on his stomach who's idol is Meryl Streep, and is an aspiring actor...just like him. He had a Kickstarter here, where he asked for $20,000 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-debutante-ball The video is cheesy and clearly describes his intentions It failed, so he moved to here, to indiegogo, where he gets to keep the money, and is now asking for $35,000. http://www.indiegogo.com/wtdb This video has scenes that he's already filmed, but instead of the actual audio, he's replaced the dialogue with captions and techno music.
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Stop the presses! Quick everybody! This guy  Needs exactly $540 To put this  On youtube! And there's only 3 hours left! Hurry!! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ref=ending_soon
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Silly Newbie posted:I think the explanation is under Kickstarter, where they explain it's to pay someone to write articles as a full time job for a year. Yea, that's not really an explanation for a wiki site. Isn't it supposed to be a community thing? edit - And to be honest I don't see how someone could write daily articles on the subject of fixing games. NoneSuch fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 17:54 |
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Saint Darwin posted:Also, his code is horrendous. Tell me more about what you've learned about his code by running it through a decompiler. Then tell me how an act that destroys local variable names, parameter names, gives all variables/functions arbitrary names determined through crowdsourcing (which are often inaccurate), generates "best guess" source through analysis of the compiled bytecode, and produces output that needs to be patched into working form can even remotely be used to pass judgment on the actual, real source code. Because I'd sure love to hear the sort of logical gyrations you need to go through to do so.
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Renesert posted:Tell me more about what you've learned about his code by running it through a decompiler. Then tell me how an act that destroys local variable names, parameter names, gives all variables/functions arbitrary names determined through crowdsourcing (which are often inaccurate), generates "best guess" source through analysis of the compiled bytecode, and produces output that needs to be patched into working form can even remotely be used to pass judgment on the actual, real source code. Because I'd sure love to hear the sort of logical gyrations you need to go through to do so. You do know he does "live streams" of him coding, right? No, I don't think you knew that
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Borden posted:Stop the presses! Quick everybody! Hey well if you donate $500, they'll fly you out to Orlando and pay for entrance to Disney World. Any families abroad interested?
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Borden posted:Stop the presses! Quick everybody! 500 bucks for a flight to disneyworld and tickets? What the hell?
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Wagoneer posted:Hey well if you donate $500, they'll fly you out to Orlando and pay for entrance to Disney World. Any families abroad interested? Not that I have the money to spare, but it would be a cheap trip to America, I could just ditch him when I got there, but it says "American residence only" so I'm out of luck. I wonder what $540 covers for him, not going to a dead-end job for a [s]week month[\s] however long it takes to earn $540? Not having to wear that horrendous shirt in any public appearance any more?
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NoneSuch posted:Yea, that's not really an explanation for a wiki site. Isn't it supposed to be a community thing? Shouldn't be that hard. Get a big list o games, start at the top, do half an hour of internet research to find reported issues and solutions, condense into an article, move on. Not to say it's a good idea, but that's their premise.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Here's another fun one: Bare Back Chairs! It's not gay porn as you'd imagine, but instead a design for a chair! Without a back! Or Arms! So, you know... a stool: PLEDGE $350 OR MORE posted:This is for one of our beautiful and functional BACKED BARE BACK CHAIRS our Birch backed model, with grey webbing.
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Elysiume posted:That's...just a chair. Why are you calling it a backless chair with a back. Now offering a free tomatoless BLT to anyone who donates $500 dollars to my sandwich shop. For $600 dollars you'll get my exclusive tomatoed tomatoless BLT which also has tomato.
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Wagoneer posted:Hey well if you donate $500, they'll fly you out to Orlando and pay for entrance to Disney World. Any families abroad interested? Since its American Residents only, I wonder if anyone in Alaska or Hawaii would be interested in going...
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Saint Darwin posted:You do know he does "live streams" of him coding, right? Oh, so then you're just one of those people who has no practical experience doing engineering on games, but likes to spout off like he's god's gift to coding. Thanks for the info, champ! I'm sure you could do so much better than Notch. No, really! 
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natetimm posted:500 bucks for a flight to disneyworld and tickets? What the hell? Notice it says nothing about being a round trip flight.
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Renesert posted:Oh, so then you're just one of those shitheads who has no practical experience doing engineering on games, but likes to spout off like he's god's gift to coding. Thanks for the info, champ!  SOMEONE WAS MEAN TO NOTCH Hope the kickstarter for your indie steampunk nonlinear action-rts-rpg goes well!
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Saint Darwin posted:
PEOPLE DON'T CODE TO MY EXACTING PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS Actually, I make more than enough money working on middleware outside of the game industry, it's much less stressful than dealing with retards like you who have nothing better to do than to armchair-engineer video games.  Edit: But hey, since you apparently care so much about holding indie developers to your exacting standards, I can't wait to play your piece of poo poo Renesert fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 18:51 |
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valinhorn posted:Since its American Residents only, I wonder if anyone in Alaska or Hawaii would be interested in going... Ah, missed that - drat. They would want to schedule it in December if that's the case.
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Renesert posted:
Please tell us about dickless vigilante fantasies.
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| # ? Apr 26, 2012 18:51 |
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Joe Don Baker posted:Please tell us about dickless vigilante fantasies. They're pretty cool. Tell me about starring in Goldeneye.
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maybe you should own a FIVE STAR RESTAURANT before you say my food is poo poo. prick
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SNARF SNARF SNARF posted:maybe you should own a FIVE STAR RESTAURANT before you say my food is poo poo. prick Oh look, a guy with a 0 post count
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Renesert posted:
So, just how big is the statue of you rimming Notch, and do you have any plans to build it for real, or will you just keep it in Minecraft?
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