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You do realize that Episode 3 of that game series is currently in development, right?
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 01:01 |
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Bieeardo posted:Hate to break it to you, but there's a reason why they never finished that wretched series. Are you talking about the card one or the video game one. Cause the game one has both episodes up and the 3rd is in currently in development.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 01:02 |
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The series never got finished because the PA guys didn't have enough time to contribute by that point, and the studio was already off to making other successful projects.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 01:11 |
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Talitha and the Gnome is quite a gem. I will let it speak for itself. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...e-warg?ref=live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssX3...&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9FH...&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUBl...Xids-N2D4aBM_o=
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Blodskur posted:I've noticed that it's not the only project to do that. Not sure why that happens or who decides the visibility of projects there. This 5 year old's Mom wants her to be big stuff by using Kickstarter to fund a video for her crappy song. "Not many kids her age are able to conceptualize, write, and perform a fun catchy song like "I Came to Party" (most adults can't either)." At $125 pledged out of a $4,500 goal; I imagine only pedophiles or family members have backed this crap. I must weaponize this song because oh my word. Darth_MacGyver posted:Talitha and the Gnome is quite a gem. I will let it speak for itself. quote:We're forced to port our project over to another site. We've had absolutely NO promotional help from Kickstarter on any level. Not even when we launched did we get a mention in the new projects posts. No amount of contact or direct requests on our part (and there were many) seemed to help. They simply gave us no support - not one single, tiny little shout-out. Why this disclaimer? Well, Kickstarter insists on "transparency." So here it is. They will not allow us to delete this project, so we have to broadcast our opinion in the name of "transparency", for anyone who may see it after we've canceled the project and all funding with Kickstarter. It's totally Kickstarter's loss, man.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 05:54 |
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therobotking posted:Anyone who uses the phrase "vibrational/resonance energy" or some variation should be instantly ignored. What about chemists?
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 06:18 |
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Blodskur posted:I've noticed that it's not the only project to do that. Not sure why that happens or who decides the visibility of projects there. This 5 year old's Mom wants her to be big stuff by using Kickstarter to fund a video for her crappy song. "Not many kids her age are able to conceptualize, write, and perform a fun catchy song like "I Came to Party" (most adults can't either)." At $125 pledged out of a $4,500 goal; I imagine only pedophiles or family members have backed this crap. This is pretty goddamn painful. I especially love the part where the "composer" for the song ran out of material halfway through and just used a clip of her singing a nursery rhyme out of nowhere.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 06:27 |
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Horrendous song. I think she even sang about shaking her booty. Shaking her underage rear end, and London Bridge...all at one ear-splitting destination! My favorite though, is that crappy video game where ~nyoron~awkward grim-reaper anime girl shoots sickles at smiling cubes in a pastel world, with droning stock piano music. Christonacracker, is that bad.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 06:32 |
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I was inspired by the podcast posted earlier in the thread, and would like to propose a new game, Kickstarter Roulette. Much like Russian Roulette except nobody has to die. You find a particularly bad project that has no hope of funding, and at the last second you donate within a dollar so that they feel that much worse thinking they were that close to getting it. The Roulette is potentially being the majority shareholder of someone's drug induced student film thesis or lunch with a hipster making gigantic novelty cell phones
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Alan Smithee posted:I was inspired by the podcast posted earlier in the thread, and would like to propose a new game, Kickstarter Roulette. Much like Russian Roulette except nobody has to die. You find a particularly bad project that has no hope of funding, and at the last second you donate within a dollar so that they feel that much worse thinking they were that close to getting it. The Roulette is potentially being the majority shareholder of someone's drug induced student film thesis or lunch with a hipster making gigantic novelty cell phones or we can just remove the roulette element of it, buy a 1$ visa gift card, us it to "fully fund" the project (kickstarter doesn't check the balance before the deadline, so when the kickstarter ends, the withdraw from the visa card will fail and the project won't get a dime from you).
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 12:31 |
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wezyap posted:or we can just remove the roulette element of it, buy a 1$ visa gift card, us it to "fully fund" the project (kickstarter doesn't check the balance before the deadline, so when the kickstarter ends, the withdraw from the visa card will fail and the project won't get a dime from you). Kickstarter then proceeds to charge their 10% cut to the project owner. (This may seem absurd but Apple actually do this if an app is recalled I believe).
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 12:41 |
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Darth_MacGyver posted:Talitha and the Gnome is quite a gem. I will let it speak for itself. Kickstarter meltdowns are always hilarious especially when the creators fail to see why the project didn't attract interest or even get close to their unrealistic 100k goal.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 12:53 |
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I went to see how it was doing on indiegogo and I can't find it at all.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 13:04 |
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It seems like Indie Go Go is more worthy of our hate. At least Kickstarter prevents partial funding where people can take the money and run under the excuse "I didn't get enough to get this thing started, and I can't just take a loan or anything, lol!" Although Kickstarter's over-funding aspect is also risky.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 13:41 |
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etalian posted:Kickstarter meltdowns are always hilarious especially when the creators fail to see why the project didn't attract interest or even get close to their unrealistic 100k goal. Kenny Tree Test has some great voice acting. I wonder who the unnamed famous voice actor who signed on to their project ended up being...
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Unless there were two threads about it, the OP was definitely making fun of the game and its doughy ideator. Still too bad it was closed. Last week he was doing a Livestream talking about the game and whatever else was brought up. It was mostly just talk of guild banks and guys why don't we add guild banks to the game?
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lil mortimer posted:Kenny Tree Test has some great voice acting. I wonder who the unnamed famous voice actor who signed on to their project ended up being... I bet it was Nolan North, that dude is in everything.
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TVarmy posted:It seems like Indie Go Go is more worthy of our hate. IndieGoGo had to offer flex funding as the only option for a while because Paypal didn't have support for fixed funding, but they do now. It's also basically the only option for people in Not-Americans since RocketHub takes a much larger cut.
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causticBeet posted:What about chemists? I already covered that. I was just quickly venting about the amount of bullshit new-age assholes spout. I know that most of their buzz words are stolen scientific terms. So calm down goons, it wasn't meant to be taken literally.
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Devil Wears Wings posted:A couple of Carnegie Mellon art students somehow get $5,000 in funding to take a tour of the United States. And make an exciting film about... sitting on street corners. Also my boss just discovered Kickstarter and apparently has the idea that it can be a fundraising tool for the high risk start-up that I'm working for. His ideas for rewards were kind of dumb. I also don't think he really gets the 'finite project' part of Kickstarter's requirements. Ugh...
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 18:34 |
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...es?ref=category People gave this guy 19k so he could make a metal water bottle with a rubber dial on the bottom to count how many times you use it. 
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^^^^^^Ha, I thought the dial was to help you remember how many times you're allowed to use it before you have to chuck it because the metal they use is some cheap Chinese crap that's soaked in lead and slowly poisoning you. Tuxedo t-shirt not classy enough for you? Help this fellow get 1200 dollars to put a ribcage on a t-shirt! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...f=home_location It's not even green And I'm pretty sure "Little Deuce" ice cream is a joke: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...f=home_location Little Deuce Scoop posted:... the name is very slowly working its way into everyone's mouth, I need to expand in order to spread the deliciousness to more people. He looks like he knows what he's doing in most every aspect except for the "Ask anyone if your name sounds stupid" category. pathetic little tramp fucked around with this message at Apr 30, 2012 around 18:53 |
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Konar posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...es?ref=category It takes $99,999 to start making bottles??
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 18:40 |
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Polo-Rican posted:It takes $99,999 to start making bottles?? Don't forget about the accompanying iPhone app! Because it costs about 100,000 dollars to make an app that counts from 1 to 999.
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Polo-Rican posted:It takes $99,999 to start making bottles?? Setting up a production line is hella expensive, especially if you're working with stainless steel. Then you have to set up your supply chain... I don't know exactly how much it costs, but they're probably not too far off. 99 bottles on the wall, 99 bottles...
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Polo-Rican posted:It takes $99,999 to start making bottles?? It's funny because it's the 999 Bottles so it's all 9s except it's not funny because you are asking people for an exorbitant amount of money.
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Polo-Rican posted:It takes $99,999 to start making bottles?? Well when you consider they need to support their NINE PERSON TEAM  Truly, such a think-tank was necessary to craft the perfection that is 999bottles Edit: gently caress, EIGHT PERSON TEAM.
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pathetic little tramp posted:^^^^^^Ha, I thought the dial was to help you remember how many times you're allowed to use it before you have to chuck it because the metal they use is some cheap Chinese crap that's soaked in lead and slowly poisoning you.
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Polo-Rican posted:It takes $99,999 to start making bottles?? The project creator photo sums it up  
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lil mortimer posted:Little Deuce Scoop/Little Deuce Coupe. Ha, I didn't think of that, but I've never been big on the Beach Boys. Still, asking people if they want a little deuce in their mouth and scooping out a bit of chocolate... just not appetising.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 18:55 |
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Actually, it's $99,999 plus shipping:bottle jerk's FAQ posted:Is shipping included in the pledge amount?
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Konar posted:Well when you consider they need to support their NINE PERSON TEAM Don't worry dude, it looks like it'll be nine in a couple months.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 19:09 |
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So, what if someone put a sports counter on a keychain attached to a $8 metal bottle? I think that puts the price at $10 total with sales tax. Plus this one automatically carries numbers and stuff. I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm just mystified that a bad idea is also executed so poorly with 8 people working at it.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2012 19:14 |
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Quick, someone figure out how much oil I save by not having a spinning rubber thingy on the bottom of my water bottle!
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TVarmy posted:So, what if someone put a sports counter on a keychain attached to a $8 metal bottle? I think that puts the price at $10 total with sales tax. Plus this one automatically carries numbers and stuff. Because a keychain on a bottle isn't so obvious. With the counter on the bottle it shows just how much you care!  "What's that?" "Oh, it's my water bottle. That number shows how many wasteful plastic bottles I haven't used. Look at low large that number is. I'm saving the environment."
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Yeah, sure I mean I guess 99,999$ is too much with a completed product design, but the product is designed nice and looks like it's pretty much ready for market. I'm not terribly familiar with product distribution and marketing but I imagine instead of kickstarter most companies would just roll the dice and take out a loan to release the product they've already created, designed, and made promotional material for, and not, you know, essentially beg for money. It's a little sketchy but the product isn't terrible and it's certainly well designed I also have no idea if this is terrible or fantastic. Probably terrible http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...f=home_location
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Elephantgun posted:
It's supposed to appeal to the South, but the main duo is a black man with a white woman. Destined for failure.
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So, does the 999Bottles app include the giant rear end footprint of creating a stainless steel bottle, shipping it from I can only assume China, and then to your door? Oh, and rubber too. pathetic little tramp posted:^^^^^^Ha, I thought the dial was to help you remember how many times you're allowed to use it before you have to chuck it because the metal they use is some cheap Chinese crap that's soaked in lead and slowly poisoning you. I thought for a minute ice cream guy was being hilarious, until I saw the retro 50's 60's theme he was going for. Its like plastic dog mess! only its ice cream, and delicious! edit: Actually he seems to know what he's doing, and if I was local, I'd be pretty drat tempted to do the life time pass thing. Also: that's not a T-shirt! Its WEARABLE ART! 
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P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT
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Guesticles posted:So, does the 999Bottles app include the giant rear end footprint of creating a stainless steel bottle, shipping it from I can only assume China, and then to your door? So when a ceramic cup/metal bottle says "replaces 50,000 syrofoam cups," that can actually mean "costs the same amount of resources and energy to produce as 50,000 syrofoam cups"?
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Saint Darwin posted:So when a ceramic cup/metal bottle says "replaces 50,000 syrofoam cups," that can actually mean "costs the same amount of resources and energy to produce as 50,000 syrofoam cups"? And remember, when you forget your ceramic cup, you will have to get a styrofoam one anyway. And god help you if you break it. Fake edit: but doesn't count the ecological costs of disposal of those 50,000 cups. So I guess they're hoping that evens it out. For Content: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ef=discover_pop 30K for a steampunk butchering of Sherlock Holmes. Also, Mycroft is now a woman, and seems to shaping up to a STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER. For just $5000, you can become a character! Edit: Its a book. An e-book. But if you buy now, you can get the whole series! Or buy a yearly subscription! Double Edit: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ne?ref=category I don't know if this is awful or not. Guesticles fucked around with this message at Apr 30, 2012 around 20:57 |
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