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Oh god, why did this have to happen right when we're all going back to school? I need this money for grad-school! But maaaaybe I could eat nutritious dirt and pond-water for a year or two and put all that money toward eternal internet glory instead... If Hussie wanted to make REAL money he'd have said 10,000 dollars would make a ship canon. Only one though, and only the first one to get to 10,000. People would actually start kickstarters for each ship just to try and raise the money before the others. Also I know the godtiers are pie in the sky fantasy but I desperately want one of them to happen anyway because oh god they're nuts. In some much more hilarious alternate world, someone like the Koch brothers or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet gives Hussie a billion dollars. Dolash fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Sep 5, 2012 |
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Dolash posted:People would actually start kickstarters for each ship just to try and raise the money before the others. Kickstarters always last a month though, so the main Kickstarter would finish before the kickstarters for each ship could get any money.
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Dolash posted:
I can see tumblr going nuts about this  There's still time, Hussie. Make this a stretch goal.
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I'm pretty sure that if you don't buy a Snoutpak tonight they're going to be gone, barring another reward tier later Zikan fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Sep 5, 2012 |
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It looks like the $400 tier also comes with the snoutpak, so, yeah, those with cash to burn will have one last chance at them. But the $225 tier will be gone in hours.
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It's already more than halfway funded, and it hasn't even been 8 hours since it started. Where doin it man. Me and my brother chipped 20 dollars in. He provided the money, I gave moral support. After the fact. Spiritually.
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EoRaptor posted:Think of it as an investment. YggiDee posted:My justification is that if I buy one of the rare, rapidly disappearing Snoutpacks, then I am probably saving some poor highschool kid from making a terrible financial decision with their parent's credit card. Also, I'm weak. This is how I will deceive myself into sleeping well at night until I have a Scalemate to hug until I enter the cold embrace of slumber. I'm simply taking a financial bullet for some poor high school kid and his parents while investing in my future. These things'll be worth more than Beanie Babies! Dolash posted:Oh god, why did this have to happen right when we're all going back to school? I need this money for grad-school! But maaaaybe I could eat nutritious dirt and pond-water for a year or two and put all that money toward eternal internet glory instead... All this talk of a corporate Fantroll is making me hope it happens, just to see Hussie be Hussie about it. "Sorry, you only had a one-page safety clause. The evisceration took two pages, and they didn't really die until the second."
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I think I'm actually going to get a Snoutpack as well. It's a lot of money but I figure Hussie has earned a couple of hundred for all the enjoyment his comic has given me. Also those scalemates are just so loving adorable. If anyone else wants one you really need to get in now. There are 70 left out of 600.
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I imagine those plushes will become available on the store at some point. ... I hope. 
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President Ark posted:I imagine those plushes will become available on the store at some point. #highly desirable merchandise
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I checked this morning. Under 100k. Now? Nearly 400k. 
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There's a banner ad for the Kickstarter up now - thinking about it that's probably why he cleared the space to begin with. That's going to bring in a lot of money...
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That is an absolutely preposterous amount of money to be raised in such a short time. Great news and all but I think we also need to acknowledge this sublime work of art that Ryan North bought with Hussie's credit card. Just look at that.
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Man, this shits gonna be funded when I wake up tommorow. 400k now. Just yesterday I was thinking about a Homestuck game, and lo here it is practically a reality. haha just remembered this: Me from a month ago posted:I would donate to a Kickstarter which would send Hussie to a seminar on how to loving pace your story. Jesus Christmas. Not what I meant Hussie! 
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Chexoid posted:Man, this shits gonna be funded when I wake up tommorow. 400k now. Just yesterday I was thinking about a Homestuck game, and lo here it is practically a reality. I hope someone gets all number-crunchy with some of the other big phenomenon kickstarters, I'd love to know if there's some sort of quantifiable trend for these sorts of things just to have a guess at what we'll see the number reach in a month. The most important value I can see so far is the number of backers - about 4,000 at the time of this post. How many readers does Homestuck have again? It's not unreasonable to imagine as many as half of them might pony up the cash for at least the game itself in the course of a month.
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God, there's only 40 snoutpaks left. The plushie is really cute though, but wow I did not expect so many people to go after them at $255.
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Gnome de plume posted:That is an absolutely preposterous amount of money to be raised in such a short time.
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35 snoutpaks left. oh my, I almost missed catching one.
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The donations have to slow down eventually. They have to.
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Chexoid posted:The donations have to slow down eventually. It just went up 2K in the last minute. EDIT: 14 Snoutpacks left. There's still the 405 dollar megapack that also includes it, so I'm guessing we'll see donation amounts ramp up for a bit shortly.
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Well, I caught a Snoutpak. I figure, A) Kickass dragon toy. B) Probably kickass video game. C) Kickass comic that's been completely free and given me countless joy for the past four years. It's all pretty much worth it. Hussie earned my money when he made Cascade in six loving weeks. I just hope he'll have a production role in the game. I know his style won't transfer perfectly to such a big project with so many more people, but. Well, I have high hopes regardless. Anybody wanna trade in case I get Lemonsnout?
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Not to worry, if the snoutpaks sell out, you can always buy the Snoutpak+. Only a 800 or so combined left, starting from only $405.  edit: Snoutpak solo just went from 10 to 5 in the time I typed this out.
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One of the first things I think upon hearing this game, is how will they deal with real companies and likenesses such as Betty Crocker and Nic Cage? I guess they would have to remove that stuff right? I couldn't see Guy Fieiri signing off on something like this.
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Guy Fieri I could see doing it, actually.
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Snoutpacks are gone. I wonder how quickly the 405 dollar pack will start selling now.
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One snoutpak left. And iiiiiiiit's outta here!
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I am entirely too dumbfounded but simultaneously not surprised by what has happened today.
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People paid Andrew Hussie $153,000 for homestuck plush toys
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There's one snoutpack open again, someone dropped their slot.
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And they are gone again! If people manage to sell out the next highest tier in their quest for plushies Hussie will make $313,470. That's nearly half of the initial goal of the Kickstarter
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The real mystery is why there are so many Bropacks left. I mean, come ON, a GameBRO T-Shirt? Who on earth wouldn't want that?
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:One of the first things I think upon hearing this game, is how will they deal with real companies and likenesses such as Betty Crocker and Nic Cage? I guess they would have to remove that stuff right? I couldn't see Guy Fieiri signing off on something like this. It's a game set in the Homestuck universe, not an adaptation of Homestuck itself. So yeah, I'm guessing gone completely.
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Constable Lemon posted:The real mystery is why there are so many Bropacks left. I mean, come ON, a GameBRO T-Shirt? Who on earth wouldn't want that? People who preferred to read Nintendbro Power?
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Constable Lemon posted:The real mystery is why there are so many Bropacks left. I mean, come ON, a GameBRO T-Shirt? Who on earth wouldn't want that? Those aren't limited in quantity, so there's no real urgency.
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Constable Lemon posted:The real mystery is why there are so many Bropacks left. I mean, come ON, a GameBRO T-Shirt? Who on earth wouldn't want that? The Gamebro shirt was actually on sale for a looong time before now, separately, as a thing. Walliard posted:It's a game set in the Homestuck universe, not an adaptation of Homestuck itself. So yeah, I'm guessing gone completely. Here's hoping for MS Paint Adventures Gaiden: Pisstuck.
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Constable Lemon posted:The real mystery is why there are so many Bropacks left. I mean, come ON, a GameBRO T-Shirt? Who on earth wouldn't want that? I got the GAMEPAK 2 instead, because I'm a sucker for physical copies of games. Getting a shirt I will never wear in public and some other stuff doesn't seem like a better choice than an actual copy of the game to me, but YMMV I guess. Edit: Oh god, I just realized something. If this is an actual game, people will be able to write guides for it. We will have people on gamefaqs explaining how to play the game making fun of gamefaqs.
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Zorak posted:The Gamebro shirt was actually on sale for a looong time before now, separately, as a thing. Really? I can't find it on the What Pumpkin store or the TopatoCo store. And it does say on the Kickstarter page that the Gamebro pack is in limited supply (915 out of 1000 available), it's just that not many people have gotten it.
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I hope they make those beetle token available on the store in bulk. I wanna use them for RPG stuff.
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Constable Lemon posted:Really? I can't find it on the What Pumpkin store or the TopatoCo store. It was on the Topatco store for a long time in the earlier-ish acts, as I recall. It got bunped off since probably not enough people were buying it.
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