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flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

agg stop posting
College Slice
*chokes on bubble tea*

excuse me it's portable network graphics you pleb

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Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

i think u pronounce it with a soft g? like pinj

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

png drinking

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

lowtax make the World of SAcraft

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3523788

YOSPOS island :allears:

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
please make that happen i need an augmented reality posting experience

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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College Slice
so this is a thing on kickstarter now


backing projects then spamming your project on their comment section

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1499900830/sir-you-are-being-hunted/comments

not only that, people are "cross-promoting" their kickstarters
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412864360/you-are-the-hero/posts/365424

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

flyboi posted:

so this is a thing on kickstarter now


backing projects then spamming your project on their comment section

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1499900830/sir-you-are-being-hunted/comments

not only that, people are "cross-promoting" their kickstarters
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412864360/you-are-the-hero/posts/365424

lmao

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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College Slice
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explodingrabbit/super-retro-squad/posts

In this video, I talk a bit about what's been going on. Here's a summary:

Things have been going alright
We’ve been fixing up stuff at the house and are pretty much done
I’ll start posting some video clips of what we’ve been doing for backers
Progress has been slow on the game, but I hope to change that shortly
Mike is our IT guy now and is helping with the website
I’ll be posting a new Let’s Play video soon
I’d like to finish posting my short films so that I can be completely done with them
Super Mario Crossover should have a small update in mid-December
Some of us might work on some short films after finishing Super Retro Squad


thanks for the money kickstarter our house really appreciates it oh yeah that game thing i promised... yeah....

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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College Slice

flyboi posted:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explodingrabbit/super-retro-squad/posts

In this video, I talk a bit about what's been going on. Here's a summary:

Things have been going alright
We’ve been fixing up stuff at the house and are pretty much done
I’ll start posting some video clips of what we’ve been doing for backers
Progress has been slow on the game, but I hope to change that shortly
Mike is our IT guy now and is helping with the website
I’ll be posting a new Let’s Play video soon
I’d like to finish posting my short films so that I can be completely done with them
Super Mario Crossover should have a small update in mid-December
Some of us might work on some short films after finishing Super Retro Squad


thanks for the money kickstarter our house really appreciates it oh yeah that game thing i promised... yeah....

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
flyboi make a kickstarter

sleepy gary
Jan 11, 2006

kickstarter.com is such a piece of poo poo website

I want to see kickstarters in my city, so it shows me 3 current ones (out of 60+) and 3 successful ones, and no obvious way to just show me all of them

gently caress you kickstarter

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763206385/astronaut-moon-mars-and-beyond-the-nasa-mmo-online-0/posts

this guy under the guise that nasa is behind the mmo (they just approved their name could be slapped on it at best, no real announcement from nasa) took 50k from people, then turned around and was bought out by another company, who in turn turned around and got funding from the government for 1 million to develop this nasa mmo which has had no real concept or beta published since the funding ended 1 year ago


basically some dude just made like 400k just by sitting on his rear end and spitting bull poo poo for a year

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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see this is what's hilarious and what people don't get about how they just got horsefucked by this guy

latest post from him:

quote:

Fair question. We plan to release a demo around December 14th, and in July 2012, we took the 50K and added 250K to invest from August to February 2013, and we need to spend about 500K from February 2013 to September 2013. It is however possible that an early beta will come out with the crafting tools and server, and I will give you an update as soon as possible. Incidentally we plan to release a "G-Ball" level in about March 1, 2013. As promised, the Apollo historical adventure is finished, and donors will get a copy within 2 weeks or so.

"250K to invest"

that means 300k has gone towards the actual game


where's that other 700k + the merger bonus this guy took by selling the game to another company

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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dude's an entrepreneur and ceo who has been on ted

yup, he's figured out kickstarter is breeding grounds for free VC & ceo bonuses

see this right here is the problem with kickstarter


it has nothing to do with these laff-tastic failures of campaigns that end miserably, there's no real medium in-between


someone gets to realize their dream come true then realize nobody wants their lovely product, so it goes nowhere


the smart people with money realize they can use it as a free means to have a business plan to present to real funders to make mad loving bank and poo poo all over the process in the meantime

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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College Slice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite_(video_game)

this game has been in development by this "company" since 2009


who knows how much money nasa blindly threw at them before kickstarter

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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College Slice
http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/

nothing about the mmo on there at all and oh wait i wanna make a nasa mmo too!!!!


what do i need so i too can make a nasa mmo? glad you asked!

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/opportunities/index.html

-- Commercial licensing of our products can be done on a case by case basis. Please contact the technical office for more information on individual product licensing, or visit NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program site.

so all i need to do is pitch my idea and they'll let me do something? sweet!!

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

flyboi posted:

basically some dude just made like 400k just by sitting on his rear end and spitting bull poo poo for a year

much like a talk radio host or a your typical board member of a fortune 500 company

Nomnom Cookie
Aug 30, 2009



flyboi posted:

dude's an entrepreneur and ceo who has been on ted

yup, he's figured out kickstarter is breeding grounds for free VC & ceo bonuses

see this right here is the problem with kickstarter


it has nothing to do with these laff-tastic failures of campaigns that end miserably, there's no real medium in-between


someone gets to realize their dream come true then realize nobody wants their lovely product, so it goes nowhere


the smart people with money realize they can use it as a free means to have a business plan to present to real funders to make mad loving bank and poo poo all over the process in the meantime
People are poo poo and ruin everything? You don't say

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Install Gentoo posted:

much like a talk radio host or a your typical board member of a fortune 500 company

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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College Slice

One and the Same posted:

This. Really Lowtax, you ought to know better than anybody how easy it is to convince goons to part with their money. I'm broke, but I'll put my kickstarter donation on my credit card. Hell, I'll get yet another avatar too. It's okay. It's not real money. v:shobon:v

This sounds like it could be a whole lot of fun- Maybe next time my dude loses the election I can sort of make good on my promise to expatriate by symbolically moving to the socialist utopia of D&D. :allears:

Also, literally make ADTRW an anime death tentacle rape whorehouse. The unique resource can be an endless fountain of astroglide.

:stare:

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

Care getting to dangerous levels itt

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

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College Slice
this is what happens when i'm alone for xmas eve/day and have nothing to do

sleepy gary
Jan 11, 2006

flyboi posted:

this is what happens when i'm alone for xmas eve/day and have nothing to do

where is your boyfriend (if you say partner I'll kill you)

also you have gizmo so eat poo poo I ain't even got no cats up in here

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer

hmmmm someone who voted romney is apparently a retard with terrible ideas, i am shocked at this turn of events

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Trig Discipline posted:

hmmmm someone who voted romney is apparently a retard with terrible ideas, i am shocked at this turn of events

on top of that they pay money to post on a website that isn't exactly a bastion of republican, err, uh, i was gonna say morals, or thinking or... none of my words fit here but it isn't very right-wingy a lot of the time

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer
i believe "socialist druggie homos" was the phrase you were looking for

Nomnom Cookie
Aug 30, 2009



I'm a literal socialist but I don't do drugs or sex men. 1/3 that's an f good thing you're in fish studies and not sociology

Blackula69
Apr 1, 2007

DEHUMANIZE  YOURSELF  &  FACE  TO  BLACULA
Most republicans are old white people who can't use the Internet

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

        PEEP THIS...
           BITCH!

Blackula69 posted:

Most republicans are old white people who can't use the Internet

what are you a republican or a republicant?

pointers
Sep 4, 2008

DNova posted:

also you have gizmo so eat poo poo I ain't even got no cats up in here
flyboi nip the gizmo

SYN/ACK are on the nap part of the nip/nap cycle they've had today

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered

quote:

Michael has been involved with Elevator research since the 2001 NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts study. Michael manages a talented and diverse team from academia, government, commercial and military communities. Michael was instrumental in the creation of the NASA Centennial Challenges related to this idea, and years later, it was his former team-members who won the competition. Laine’s business acumen and management, coupled with his media, marketing and outreach skills have transformed this project from an obscure NIAC paper study to a real world program with tangible results.

cool a former nasa guy wanting to restart his space elevator company. only NIAC was just a small-potatoes NASA granting agency that was a huge flop and folded in 2007, and the guy wasn't in NAIC, he was just a real estate speculator who went to a conference set up by another NAIC-funded guy.

dont worry, im sure this guy is super smart and is exactly the sort of person i want building my scifi utopian project

his own loving facebook posted:

His high school GPA was 1.17

but at leats he has lots of media and marketing skills, including: italics, boldface, italic boldface, needless quotation marks, writing his initials then writing his full name, and five period elipses.

his business skills include making poo poo up

kickstarter posted:

At our height we had about 60 university research partners, and somewhere between 800-1000 volunteers working on different aspects of the project.

his own loving facebook again posted:

At its height, LiftPort’s team was only 13 people.

36 funding levels. give the guy $10k and get 3 sexual favors of your choosing

quote:

THREE WISHES: We’re going to have a long conversation. In person. Probably several. When you feel you’ve heard enough, you may ask me for three wishes… and like a genie, if it is within my power to grant, I’ll do it. Is this a gamble? Yes, I’m gambling a lot! Is this a gamble for you? Not hardly. I know I’ve got lots and lots of stuff worth this price. But this is a value for value exchange; I’m not giving you control of the project, or all of our intellectual property or something else that is way out of proportion. It’s a trade; I’ll give you something worthy of the price you are paying. Why am I doing this? I have realized something as I’ve been looking at some of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns – that I wanted something that wasn’t on the menu… Well, here’s your chance. This space intentionally left blank.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Trig Discipline posted:

i believe "socialist druggie homos" was the phrase you were looking for

red diaper doper babies

0xB16B00B5
Aug 24, 2006

by Y Kant Ozma Post
Ian have you looked at https://www.statwing.com/

There is obviously a market and need for services like yours. Keep persevering!

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

krowdfunded space program

prahanormal
Mar 8, 2011

heya /

maniacdevnull posted:

krowdfunded space program

It's brilliant it you think about it.

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

that Lore game guy has gone full on mental now. he's threatening to have the backers charged with hate crimes for posting info he put on his own facebook page

BobHoward
Feb 13, 2012

The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1953425088/mprinter-an-analog-printer-for-a-digital-world?ref=search

an analog printer for a digital world

apparently the digital world needed an iphone printer which prints dynamic snippets of information named mPrints

never mind that airprint stuff it supports node.js guys

spongeh
Mar 22, 2009

BREADAGRAM OF PROTECTION

Sweevo posted:

that Lore game guy has gone full on mental now. he's threatening to have the backers charged with hate crimes for posting info he put on his own facebook page

link to this i have to see this

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
you know those really bad etsies where someone glued some gears to a hat and calls it steampunk and tries to sell it for 200 bucks? well those people >>>>>>>>>>>>> 99.99% of kickstarters because at least those guys did something even if it was just ruining a perfectly good hat

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Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

BobHoward posted:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1953425088/mprinter-an-analog-printer-for-a-digital-world?ref=search

an analog printer for a digital world

apparently the digital world needed an iphone printer which prints dynamic snippets of information named mPrints

never mind that airprint stuff it supports node.js guys

By utilizing Javascript, the programming language of the web, we are able to breath new life into printing useful information. Nearly anything you can do in a web browser, you can do in an mPrint. Possibilities include pulling data from a database, using remote APIs such as Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr, and parsing data in realtime.

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