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hobbesmaster posted:I really just don't "get" doobie or whatever the hotdog stand guy is named. someone wrote a post that got people in gbs to fund the guy's kickstarter. pretty sure this was peak classic gbs. I don't see anything else involved with it being anywhere near as funny as star citizen someone made an image with  on it and GBS being GBS thought that was the most amazing thing ever here doobie have my kids xmas money!
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Space-Pope posted:iirc it turned out that the guy was kind of an idiot. like instead of ordering stuff from a restaurant supplier he just went to walmart and bought all his ingredients so it meant that hot dogs were like $5. also i think it turned out he was racist a white man in Alabama, racist? I don't believe it
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Space-Pope posted:iirc it turned out that the guy was kind of an idiot. like instead of ordering stuff from a restaurant supplier he just went to walmart and bought all his ingredients so it meant that hot dogs were like $5. also i think it turned out he was racist I've seen a lot of sam's club stuff at local restaurants and of course he's racist, rural Alabama right?
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hobbesmaster posted:I really just don't "get" doobie or whatever the hotdog stand guy is named. someone wrote a post that got people in gbs to fund the guy's kickstarter. pretty sure this was peak classic gbs. I don't see anything else involved with it being anywhere near as funny as star citizen 2. noni writes a "y'know what, this guy has a dream and I can't get mad at him for that, I'm going to donate" post. 3. his overly dramatic wording makes other people say "hey, i should give some money!" 4. it looks like goons might actually hit his goals with a little help, so SpoonMonkey makes a thread in GBS about it 5. things get incredibly dramatic, they start talking about how businesses like this can turn around a small town (this is the dumbest part) 6. (wait no this is) SpoonMonkey starts communicating with Doobie, says he's super ready to run a business, this is largely because SM does not know what it takes to run a business. this added confidence makes more people donate 7. (FUNNIEST THING) some sonofabitch gets his (grown) kids to agree to not get presents this year so they can make hot dog man's dream come true, donates $1000 to a kickstarter that has already met its goal 8. for a long while, it looks like doobie is not going to be successful in opening his restaurant, largely due to vent hood installation costs. he also posts some dad racism to facebook (lol fried chicken type jokes. Not saying it's a good thing, but the dude's not exactly in the klan) 9. the restaurant (surprisingly) opens, the food is underwhelming and somewhat expensive for what you're getting. however, there are few options in Reform Alabama and he has almost no debt so it appears he's doing just fine. there is a noted lack of professionalism in everything doobie does, but he's a redneck named doobie running a hotdog shack, who the hell cares 10. goons seize on every non-professional thing as if it's the funniest thing they've ever seen in their entire lives, for instance did you know that his decor is not very good, and the menu changes font sizes, bolding, and italics almost at random? in other words, the restaurant looks exactly like every great BBQ restaurant i've ever been to in my entire life but the food is like B- quality 11. i write this post and realize way too much of my brain is dedicated to doobiefacts
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theflyingorc posted:1. doobie's kickstarter is posted for mockery in the awful kickstarter thread do you ever get sad
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theflyingorc posted:1. doobie's kickstarter is posted for mockery in the awful kickstarter thread please return to the hell thread
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Dren posted:do you ever get sad ayn rand hand job posted:please return to the hell thread
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welcome to the buttcoin thread where we dislike Bitcoins, time to sperg about how change addresses work and the chance of zero confirmation transaction getting double spent. or goats and ghosts and Latin.
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totally forgot this was the buttcoin thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2po40d/since_my_house_is_being_searched_right_now_small/cmyul48 purseio confirm user did in fact get raided by german police, claim their service is totally legitimate https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2psbgk/buying_bitcoin_makes_me_feel/ quote:Buying bitcoin makes me feel ... (self.Bitcoin) Atyzze
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Wealth inequality won't exist in the bitcoin future Because all of the wealth will be hoarded by a few bitcoiners and everyone else will be loving peasants begging me for pencil shavings. Equality
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indigi posted:gamergate is the only "community" that might have a more tenuous grasp on reality than bitcoin true believers yes somehow a community committed to harassing women is less crazy then bitcoiners
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I mean at least at the heart of bitcoins is a discussion of how technology fits into economics gamergaters are just straight up misogyny
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Greyhawk posted:the best part was when someone got him an sa account and he did an ama and turned out to be way less spergy than gibbis lol you mean the fake as hell sass interview? doobie has been a font of hilarity, up to and including his 50 cent in da club-backed diss track on gbs posters. the whole thing started because the guy went from "oh bless you kind goons" to "gently caress you got mine, not even gonna pretend to appease you with a relished hot dog named after you" the second he got his money. so the thread went from hugbox to anger dome q quickly, making fun of that somehow entitled hick when he forgot about things like "taxes" and "plumbing"
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Hookworm returning to the south making more sense now
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theflyingorc posted:1. doobie's kickstarter is posted for mockery in the awful kickstarter thread the dogs are good btw
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Sweevo posted:zybourne clock 2 no. don't say this, it'll make me want to investigate what it actually is. someone post a theflyingorclike summary of Star Citizen so I don't have to look it up please. on that note, theflyingorc posted:7. (FUNNIEST THING) some sonofabitch gets his (grown) kids to agree to not get presents this year so they can make hot dog man's dream come true, donates $1000 to a kickstarter that has already met its goal this is dumber than anything else in the story. those kids must be used to bullshit like that by now, though. My Linux Rig posted:yes somehow a community committed to harassing women is less crazy then bitcoiners meditate upon the meaning of "more tenuous"
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indigi posted:no. don't say this, it'll make me want to investigate what it actually is. someone post a theflyingorclike summary of Star Citizen so I don't have to look it up please. on that note, 1. do you like wing commander 2. do you like chris roberts 3. do you want to piss away your kids college funds on fantasy starships 4. do you want to play a game if you answered yes to any of the first 3 star citizen is your game
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My Linux Rig posted:I mean at least at the heart of bitcoins is a discussion of how technology fits into economics agreeing with the undead
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do you really think the heart of bitcoin is "how technology fits in with economics." do you really think that. isn't it way more likely that the heart of it is "I'm paranoid and don't want the government to tax or arrest me for breaking the law," or that "this will make me rich then I can get Biff to wash my car" is the heart of bitcoin. isn't that way more probable.
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indigi posted:no. don't say this, it'll make me want to investigate what it actually is. someone post a theflyingorclike summary of Star Citizen so I don't have to look it up please. on that note, so far what i've got is it's a crowd funded space MMO for the PC and that it was originally notable for getting a shitload of money based entirely upon the strength of some concept art
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ayn rand hand job posted:1. do you like wing commander  $66 million that idiots have funneled into this thing
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Sham bam bamina! posted:this is a great post but it neglects the there's a goon who bought ships early and went on to sell them on the grey market. made enough money through paypal he just bought a car with the proceeds. the 66mil is what idiots have paid to the deveoplers. gullible redditors have paid *way more* than that. i mean for real it's bitcoin spaceships
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indigi posted:do you really think the heart of bitcoin is "how technology fits in with economics." do you really think that. isn't it way more likely that the heart of it is "I'm paranoid and don't want the government to tax or arrest me for breaking the law," or that "this will make me rich then I can get Biff to wash my car" is the heart of bitcoin. isn't that way more probable. bitcoin does a great job of showing how technological solutions are not adequate to deal with human problems. chargebacks are necessary because you can't write a piece of software to handle every real world situation, you need puny hu-mans
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Iridium posted:i mean for real it's bitcoin spaceships except the value of their spaceships won't go UP UP UP, quite the opposite, and RSI has been hilariously up-front about that.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:this is a great post but it neglects the I couldn't find the spreadsheet that listed out which goons spent what on this
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i do not like kickstarter because i legit suspect that people get the same positive feedback from it as they do giving to charity and then dont give to charity and at the end of the day we get spaceship games that dont exist
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indigi posted:do you really think the heart of bitcoin is "how technology fits in with economics." do you really think that. isn't it way more likely that the heart of it is "I'm paranoid and don't want the government to tax or arrest me for breaking the law," or that "this will make me rich then I can get Biff to wash my car" is the heart of bitcoin. isn't that way more probable. no, that is whats at the centre of bitcoin, the only problem is that everyone involved in the discussion is an ignorant fool
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did everyone see this http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2pt25f/announcing_reddit_notes/
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Will I be able to redeem my Reddit Notes for LivingWithStyle Points?
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[–]ryancarnated 205 points 3 hours ago reddit recently raised a round of $50 million where the new investors agreed to give back 10% of the shares they bought to the community in the form of a "cryptocurrency" that was to be "backed" by reddit shares. For legal reasons, it is unlikely we will make the cryptocurrency exchangeable for actual shares, since we are not a public company, and therefore it would be illegal to give shares to millions of people. Howevever, we are working on a legal strategy and I'm sure the cryptocurrency will be exchangeable for something of value. Also, we used the word "cryptocurrency" originally, but a better term is "digital asset", since in many ways notes will not be like a currency at all. For instance, we are not planning on letting users buy gold with the cryptocurrency (although we haven't eliminated that possibility). The asset will be based on blockchain technology. As I have said in many previous reddit comments, we are not committing to any particular protocol at this time, but our preference is either for colored coins or sidechains depending on the winds of the bitcoin world in the coming months (the bitcoin world changes very, very fast, and we want to be certain we pick the best technology). We are being intentionally vague right now because 1) we haven't solved every problem, 2) we don't want to make any promises we can't follow through on. This post is just to update everyone on our progress, and to invite people to follow along with the project at our new subreddit: /r/redditnotes
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im the dude committing to distribute a non-retroconvertible-back-to-stock asset through sidechains or colored coins, which while they are on the wiki...
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quote:We are being intentionally vague right now because 1) we haven't solved every problem, 2) we don't want to make any promises we can't follow through on. already more upfront and honest than bitcoin
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