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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I grabbed a few typical comments off those rehosts if people are wondering what they're like. (Hint: Desperado Bones will definitely not want to read these.) Ha, I'm kind of glad she ended up disabling comments - the explosion of insane manbabies getting pissed off in other parts of the web is even funnier than the comment thread would have been. I'm most blown away by the fact the Amazing Atheist still makes videos after his banana loving incident.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:How to lunchman: Diabetic cooking Vol 1 - Mediterranean Those are deviled eggs. Though I do admit it looks like he just slapped the poo poo on a plate and called it a day.
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Desperado Bones posted:This is beautiful, does Amazon accept international debit cards? I just want to throw money at them. So long as it reads on their end as a valid credit card, yes it should. I use a Canadian one all the time.
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Another (potentially) non-crappy Kickstarter appears! Richard Garriott is making a new game: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0 To balance it out, here's something completely idiotic: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460594218/the-rock-string-for-iphone
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Wait wait wait... we're getting a new Planescape Torment, a new Baldurs Gate I/II/Infinity engine, a new Elite, a new Wing Commander and... and now a new Ultima? It's like all of my gaming prayers have been answered, I'm flabbergasted. For all the dreck on it I sure love what Kickstarter is doing to the games industry.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1177069668/the-comeback-angelina-pivarnick One of the cast members from MTVs "hit" tv show Jersey Shore started a Kickstarter. Its from Angelina, the one who somehow got kicked off twice. She is asking for 8000 to
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gschmidl posted:Another (potentially) non-crappy Kickstarter appears! This one belongs here because it's loving ridiculous that millionaire space tourist Richard Garriot is asking us to pay for his next game despite being loaded and easily able to contribute the entire sum himself. And even if he has spunked all his cash on castles and luxurious robes, he's still one of the most recognisable names in the industry and should have no difficulty finding a publisher or someone to stump up some real money. But then unlike us plebs those arseholes always want stupid things like a "return on their investment" while we're just happy having an artist spend two seconds putting our names on a virtual gravestone.
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For all the people saying "don't treat kickstarter as a pre order system, see it as helping people get stuff done with bonus things if they succeed!" Kickstarter is WORKING as a pre order system, along with the less tangible projects. It's raised millions through pre selling stuff like video games and comics and miniatures. Companies and pledgers alike often treat it as such, and it often works very well. Look at the miniatures companies with laughably small goals but ridiculous choice of rewards packages, you know you're pre ordering models, they know you're pre ordering models and kickstarter knows models are being pre ordered. Don't treat it as a risk-free pre order system is better advice. As with any unknown, start up or pre order not backed by a huge parent company, research the people and companies involved, sit down and think hard about whether the business plan you're looking at makes sense, look for existing alternatives on amazon or alibaba to make sure it's not just importers with a markup. If you do that, there's nothing wrong with putting down money with the expectation (though not cast iron guarantee) that something will be delivered. And, as far as I'm aware, you have as much of a right to sue the company if they don't deliver as you would have if you ordered through their own website, you just can't involve kickstarter as they treat themselves as a platform, just as you can't sue the web hosting company of the website of the people who dicked you over. Fatkraken has a new favorite as of 18:49 on Mar 8, 2013 |
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Nightmare Squad posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1177069668/the-comeback-angelina-pivarnick It's been rotated 90 degrees?
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Her teeth are covered in lipstick.
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Jedit posted:It's been rotated 90 degrees? What's with the lipstick on her teeth? I mean surely she could have had someone Photoshop that out before posting it. Edit: I am now getting an odd Weekend at Bernie's vibe from that last picture..she's really dead and someone is now doing her make up, posing her on the ground, etc. Explains the soulless eyes/smile. Autechresaint has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Mar 8, 2013 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:How to lunchman: Diabetic cooking Vol 1 - Mediterranean This is a Kickstarter to buy groceries. His video consists of him...pouring water into a bowl? And if you pledge $75, you get "excutre producer and cop of dvd," in December 2014. Sweeeeeeeeet.
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SovietSpyGuy posted:This is a Kickstarter to buy groceries. His video consists of him...pouring water into a bowl? Check his other Kickstarters http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/515481689/lunchman-foodemon-adventures-and-tasks?ref=users http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/515481689/silent-animals?ref=users
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I grabbed a few typical comments off those rehosts if people are wondering what they're like. (Hint: Desperado Bones will definitely not want to read these.) To be fair poo poo reddit says is full of terrible comments. Same with Tumblr.
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Desperado Bones posted:Check his other Kickstarters Lunchman posted:Foodamon is the same as the hit TV series Pokemon. The only difference is that he is on a mission for food "gotta catch 'em all." The legendary foodamon man is on his regular quest to discover more food. As he finds more food, they keep turning sugar free. ((Sugar free is the same as Kryptonite to Superman). The hero now must go and find out why they are turning into sugar free. He must defeat his arch enemy doing all this before everything is sugar free. How did I not know this existed when it was running? I'd have pledged the entire 1,000 for Foodemon. edit: I found his first video that he wants to make the sequel to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STCq8F-8QWk It may actually be loving genius. pathetic little tramp has a new favorite as of 20:15 on Mar 8, 2013 |
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pathetic little tramp posted:How did I not know this existed when it was running? I'd have pledged the entire 1,000 for Foodemon. The good news is Japan already made that show, and it's more amazing than you could ever imagine. But without the food turning sugar-free part. And more chopping tasty monsters to death.
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Exmond posted:To be fair poo poo reddit says is full of terrible comments. Same with Tumblr. Thanks for being fair, I guess?
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# ? Mar 8, 2013 20:34 |
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Someone is kickstarting graph paper.
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SomeAsshole posted:The purpose of this project is to fund a print run of pads designed for sketching geomorphic map tiles. A lot of words for something that is basically "pad paper for drawing pretend castles". More content: "Help me make an even crappier Snorg Tee": http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1179667886/wisconsin-badgers-youre-among-drunks-shirt?ref=recently_launched "lol, I troll KS": http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1443247698/paint-skillz-by-james?ref=recently_launched Not really that awful, but very in general: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/characternity/just-the-women?ref=recently_launched "Fund our vacation...oh, and we'll make a doco about it or something": http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2018361969/the-backpackers-0?ref=recently_launched "We need your money in order to delve into an already saturated market with nothing new or interesting to say about it": http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/53037966/parallels-the-comic-book?ref=recently_launched "Here's the deal: You pay me, I draw some T&A for you": http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/595152427/brandi-bare-issue-3-0?ref=recently_launched "^^This but with videogames": http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1727847183/hero-monster-girl-quest-3d?ref=recently_launched DoctorPresident has a new favorite as of 05:42 on Mar 9, 2013 |
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Besides, who the gently caress is going to order some tiny A7 pads with weird-rear end 7mm squares from some sketchy dude on the internet if every office supply store has been carrying proper A4 pads for less since forever? On the other hand, it is a Kickstarter whose product actually exists and has a non-zero chance of getting fulfilled .
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From the makers of a $12 pocket whistle and a $15 keychain pill holder comes the Tactical Pen, a $30 pen housing that has already met its goal. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1838656053/tactical-pen It's cool, sure, but not $30 cool and it's not remotely an original product that doesn't already exist as made by 50 different companies. Who wants to bet that they've outsourced all of their projects to China and are making $29 on each pen? Or maybe I just hate companies that use Kickstarter to sell crap they're already making as if it's eBay.
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So I poke into the thread for a good laugh at people having terrible ideas and I see a KS for a new Ultima game. With this, Torment, Wasteland, and Shadowrun, suddenly I don't know if I'm actually dead and in some kind of magical heaven where fairies float around granting wishes for sequels and updates to the games and franchises I love, or if this is some hell where all the fairies are secretly monkey paws and everything I love will turn into complete poo poo.
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Elissia posted:So I poke into the thread for a good laugh at people having terrible ideas and I see a KS for a new Ultima game. With this, Torment, Wasteland, and Shadowrun, suddenly I don't know if I'm actually dead and in some kind of magical heaven where fairies float around granting wishes for sequels and updates to the games and franchises I love, or if this is some hell where all the fairies are secretly monkey paws and everything I love will turn into complete poo poo. Yeah its a new Ultima game but isn't it actually Richard Garriot doing it? I don't really know much about it but from what I've read most people don't really trust him to do something worthwhile from a Kickstarter project. Public opinion may have changed since I last read up on it though so take this with a grain of salt.
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:This one belongs here because it's loving ridiculous that millionaire space tourist Richard Garriot is asking us to pay for his next game despite being loaded and easily able to contribute the entire sum himself. And even if he has spunked all his cash on castles and luxurious robes, he's still one of the most recognisable names in the industry and should have no difficulty finding a publisher or someone to stump up some real money. But then unlike us plebs those arseholes always want stupid things like a "return on their investment" while we're just happy having an artist spend two seconds putting our names on a virtual gravestone. Also it's been two decades since he made anything good.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Also it's been two decades since he made anything good. I'm guessing that quote is from the gaming KS thread? Also I'm worried that they make a new baldurs gate and its just full of terrible Poser models
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Alan Smithee posted:I'm guessing that quote is from the gaming KS thread? Also I'm worried that they make a new baldurs gate and its just full of terrible Poser models You know what they need to do. Hire the Lore guy to make them some goblins, he's so good at it!
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Alan Smithee posted:I'm guessing that quote is from the gaming KS thread? Also I'm worried that they make a new baldurs gate and its just full of terrible Poser models No, the post he quoted is from earlier on this page.
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senrath posted:No, the post he quoted is from earlier on this page. I'll be in my bed chambers whipping myself
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That new ultima game looks awful. I know Ultima games have never really looked good, but man, it is terrible. The font looks terrible, the characters look cheap. I'm not too thrilled about it, not sure it is going to get funded.
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AxeManiac posted:That new ultima game looks awful. I know Ultima games have never really looked good, but man, it is terrible. The font looks terrible, the characters look cheap. I'm not too thrilled about it, not sure it is going to get funded. It'd be a fairly atypical kickstarter for it to reach 40% within a day but not the full sum in thirty. I guess SHAKER would be the closest example to the contrary, but their total before cancelling was below 250k, and they were asking for as much as Garriott is.
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DoctorPresident posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1727847183/hero-monster-girl-quest-3d?ref=recently_launched Hey, at least they have actual screen shots! And an actual name! That's more than you can say for most video game kickstarters! Even big ones like Double Fine's and Obsidian's didn't have a name or actual screenshots!
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The guy kickstarting graph paper is the lowest of the low. What is his target audience, I'm genuinely curious? Everybody who does table top RPGs or otherwise needs graphing paper already knows about it. It's so terrible that a better angle for pitching this would have been to word-salad some design buzzwords (golden ratio of length to width, optimal number of squares for tesselation, grid lines precisely 0.345 mm thick to provide optimal gaming experience) to appeal to the snob crowd. At least it's nice to see that his D&D group and parents chipped in so a £150 project doesn't fail. I'm pretty excited about The Reward series, I saw the short when it came out and I loved it. I hope it gets funded. Bonus: The Reward was a part of Bachelor Films 2013 (third year student project at the Character Animation and Computer Grafic Art), you can see the rest of the animations from 2007 through to 2013 here. My favorites are The Backwater Gospel and The Sage of Biorn so if you like this kind of animation shorts check them out. Just a reminder: Dreamfall Chapters, sequel to The Longest Journey, has 32 hours left to go as of writing this. The project has been funded completely, but if you forgot to chip in now would be the time to do it. It would be nice to reach the 1,500,000 "Director's Cut" stretch goal which will include a lot of new content. They recently updated with a trailer showing various bits of nice looking (alpha, I guess) game footage, kickstarter video bloopers and other stuff, go take a look.
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Whatever happened to that terrible adult Kickstarter ripoff? Did it fail already?
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Whatever happened to that terrible adult Kickstarter ripoff? Did it fail already? Oh my god please tell it was called Cockstarter Edit: Dickstarter is also acceptable!
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Offbeatr. It's still around.
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Waffleman_ posted:Offbeatr. It's still around. Has it produced anything yet? poo poo, everything I saw on that site wasn't even being pledged yet because there was a system where you had to vote to get your project pledged.
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Young Freud posted:Has it produced anything yet? NOTE: OBVIOUSLY INCREDIBLY NWS: http://offbeatr.com/explore/display/status:successful-projects
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Install Gentoo posted:NOTE: OBVIOUSLY INCREDIBLY NWS:
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AxeManiac posted:That new ultima game looks awful. I know Ultima games have never really looked good, but man, it is terrible. The font looks terrible, the characters look cheap. I'm not too thrilled about it, not sure it is going to get funded. It's basically placeholder art, they just wanted something to show off for the Kickstarter/at SXSW.
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