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That might be the worst Kickstarter I've ever seen, in terms of actually trying to pitch something people would want. And I don't mean the content at all. Setting aside it's a product no one would ever want, she gives it the worst ever introduction possible. What does she even need the money for? 
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bowmore posted:I'm sure she means well but just doesn't understand how this kickstarter thing works. Next time I see anyone claiming that Kickstarter vets projects before putting them live, I am going to link them to that. Like you say, she looks like she means well, but someone needs to tell her, "Look this isn't the way to do it. Just start a Wordpress account and type your heart out."
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May 29, 2013 12:40
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To be honest I almost didn't post it because I felt bad but just look at it. The poor girl is going to be disappointed.
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May 29, 2013 12:53
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TheJoker138 posted:Can I ask what you think she did with that Kickstarter money? Dear Mommy, As has been said, she paid the artists only after the media poo poo storm, if this weren't Amanda "loving" Palmer, it wouldn't matter, her entire career hinges on her aesthetic, though.,; she's aware of this, and she has reams of writing about stage personas and the public eye and all that bullshit on her blog,everything she did after the Dresden Dolls had that whole post-modern "subject, not content" thing going for it,; it wasn't great music, it wasn't great writing but it had a look and an aesthetic that was unique and thoroughly punk cabaret, it was, in any case, art,. So for her to even consider not paying artists is the biggest dick move in the history of dick moves, it doesn't matter that she paid them after, the damage to her image has been done, she's not a person you can take seriously, she's got no integrity, it devalues the art, as someone who goes on and on about being a performer and all that bullshit, she should have known, at least made an effort to pay the musicians on tour, there was also some stuff about her scaling back the extent of her tour, and showing up to OWS and advertising her kickstarter/tour disguising it as an impromptu jam or something;, I could dig it up maybe, but there's two posts on her blog one before and one after the million, in the first she goes on and on about putting money into gigantic shows and the fans, in the other she's guilt tripping the reader into letting her retire... - No longer your daughter, Skylar. At times, the INTERNET is your one and only hero autism ZX spectrum has a new favorite as of 13:36 on May 29, 2013 |
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May 29, 2013 13:33
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Nubile Hillock posted:Dear Mommy, As has been said, she paid the artists only after the media poo poo storm, if this weren't Amanda "loving" Palmer, it wouldn't matter, her entire career hinges on her aesthetic, though.,; she's aware of this, and she has reams of writing about stage personas and the public eye and all that bullshit on her blog,everything she did after the Dresden Dolls had that whole post-modern "subject, not content" thing going for it,; it wasn't great music, it wasn't great writing but it had a look and an aesthetic that was unique and thoroughly punk cabaret, it was, in any case, art,. So for her to even consider not paying artists is the biggest dick move in the history of dick moves, it doesn't matter that she paid them after, the damage to her image has been done, she's not a person you can take seriously, she's got no integrity, it devalues the art, as someone who goes on and on about being a performer and all that bullshit, she should have known, at least made an effort to pay the musicians on tour, there was also some stuff about her scaling back the extent of her tour, and showing up to OWS and advertising her kickstarter/tour disguising it as an impromptu jam or something;, I could dig it up maybe, but there's two posts on her blog one before and one after the million, in the first she goes on and on about putting money into gigantic shows and the fans, in the other she's guilt tripping the reader into letting her retire... You alright, buddy?
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May 29, 2013 13:46
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Amanda Palmer is one of the few celebrities I can think of for whom no crime is as egregious as having to listen to people complain about her. She could drive a busful of orphans off of a cliff and all it would make me do is avoid Twitter for a few days. Jesus fuckin Christ people. You want a new musician to hate? This guy wants five grand to make YouTube covers of top 40s songs from the 80s because he used to be fat and had a ruptured appendix.
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May 29, 2013 14:48
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Hey! Space Telescopes and poo poo like that! Planetary Resources - Cool. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...71169ca-7381477 This is a kickstarter to buy your way into access to their first community telescope satellite. What do you want to get pictures of? Within a decade, the planet is going to be ringed with telescopes. We're going to have a system that'll map everything near us and soon, once we tap all of the nice tasty fresh water out of the American Southwest, we can start dropping in the asteroids for mining later. 
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May 29, 2013 18:45
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osirisisdead posted:Hey! Space Telescopes and poo poo like that! That's pretty loving cool. I also love how there are three backers for 10k or more.  But this is for awful kickstarters only! 
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May 29, 2013 19:10
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redreader posted:Do people really talk about 'man cards' in real life? I've never heard the expression before. I've read it once or twice but that's it. Is "your man card is revoked" the new "that's so gay"? Just about the only place people actually hear talk about "man cards" is in crappy sitcoms. Then after that we get people who start repeating these jokes in real life because they thought it was that funny.
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May 29, 2013 22:53
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Don't forget beer commercials "Knitting? That poo poo's for fags son! Man card revoked! Here have a phallic object containing something that tastes like another man's urine!"
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May 29, 2013 22:55
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bowmore posted:I'm sure she means well but just doesn't understand how this kickstarter thing works. The gently caress, she looks like she's 13 at most. quote:Pledge $10 or more I'm fearful. Predditors are going to jump on paying $10 for personal pictures of a kid.  Cerony posted:Just about the only place people actually hear talk about "man cards" is in crappy sitcoms. Then after that we get people who start repeating these jokes in real life because they thought it was that funny. I can't even remember hearing someone mention the "Man Card" on The Man Show but maybe when Jimmy Kimmel left and unfunny stand-in Seth Rogen took over he started saying it.
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May 29, 2013 23:04
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Alan Smithee posted:Don't forget beer commercials HEY, drinking piss isn't sexual at all. Don't even get me started.
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May 29, 2013 23:11
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Evil Fluffy posted:The gently caress, she looks like she's 13 at most. Joe Rogan.
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May 29, 2013 23:12
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You guys are forgetting the best one: It's an ad for Bushmaster, the company that manufactures the semiautomatic rifle that was used to massacre a bunch of actual elementary school students in Newtown. 
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May 29, 2013 23:58
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...of SCIENCE! posted:You guys are forgetting the best one: Not the same Bushmaster I was thinking of. I mean, that would just be overkill. I'm a bad person. 
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May 30, 2013 12:27
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Evil Fluffy posted:The gently caress, she looks like she's 13 at most. Thankfully nobody has pledged for that (or for anything) so far. But yeah, I'm with you. It doesn't help that she connected her Facebook. The first thing you see when you click on that is a picture of her in a bikini with family members telling her not to show off that much online. 
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May 30, 2013 16:03
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Yo Eleven posted:Thankfully nobody has pledged for that (or for anything) so far. But yeah, I'm with you. It doesn't help that she connected her Facebook. The first thing you see when you click on that is a picture of her in a bikini with family members telling her not to show off that much online. Whoaaaaaa. I clicked on her facebook and immediately felt like I was peeping through some girl's window. Thank gently caress there was no social networking when I was her age.
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May 30, 2013 17:42
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Yo Eleven posted:Thankfully nobody has pledged for that (or for anything) so far. But yeah, I'm with you. It doesn't help that she connected her Facebook. The first thing you see when you click on that is a picture of her in a bikini with family members telling her not to show off that much online. I just clicked the link for her kickstarter and someone donated 10.01.
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May 30, 2013 18:02
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Manifest posted:Whoaaaaaa. Yeah. What the gently caress? And is it normal to have 1000+ friends?
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May 30, 2013 20:55
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Yeah. What the gently caress? And is it normal to have 1000+ friends? Not unless you're famous for something.
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May 30, 2013 21:11
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Young Freud posted:Not unless you're famous for something. I dunno, I know lots of people with close to 1000, and the only reason I'm under 500 is because I choose to keep it pruned to that size. Hell, one of my musician friends who does horror punk and self publishes all his albums has almost 3k friends, and I'd hardly call an indie horror punk solo act "famous".
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May 30, 2013 21:24
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Hot girls usually do. But then again I live in LA so it's not necessarily mutually exclusive
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May 30, 2013 21:28
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Alan Smithee posted:Hot girls usually do. But then again I live in LA so it's not necessarily mutually exclusive Did you just call a 12 year old girl "hot"? Also, just how out of touch are you guys with kids who have grown up with Facebook? The average active user has 250 friends. The average teenager has over 500. I'd bet that a third of high school girls have more than 1000 friends.
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Noni posted:Did you just call a 12 year old girl "hot"? Someone asked who has 1000+ friends I answered, don't put words in my mouth
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I dunno, I know lots of people with close to 1000, and the only reason I'm under 500 is because I choose to keep it pruned to that size. Hell, one of my musician friends who does horror punk and self publishes all his albums has almost 3k friends, and I'd hardly call an indie horror punk solo act "famous". I probably shouldn't have used "famous" but, like your musician friend, they probably do something to get those likes. They're active off-line and on-line.
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May 30, 2013 22:01
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Noni posted:Did you just call a 12 year old girl "hot"? Wow, did you honestly think that's what he was saying, or are you just picking fights?
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Yeah. What the gently caress? And is it normal to have 1000+ friends? Since being facebook friends doesn't really mean much, a lot of people will just add everyone they ever speak to or play a game with and so on.
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Install Gentoo posted:Since being facebook friends doesn't really mean much, a lot of people will just add everyone they ever speak to or play a game with and so on. Facebook in my opinion has dramatically lowered the bar for being labelled a friend. Also, those debating about numbers of friends may Be interested in the concept of dunbars number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
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It's exactly as stupid as it sounds. Saw this on YKS actually, but it's so blitheringly stupid and bandwagony, so internet, I couldn't possibly resist the opportunity to share this shite with you all. Chucklefuck posted:Hello
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I hate gimmick zombie merchandise, but there's only so much I can hate a product that gets nerds to bathe more. Hahaha I love how he is intimidated by all the FEEEEEMMALLLEEES at Lush.
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Pastrymancy posted:I hate gimmick zombie merchandise, but there's only so much I can hate a product that gets nerds to bathe more. He is also apparently intimidated by punctuation. Emphasis mine: quote:A risk could be that this product dose not peal to anyone but we have asked around and people are really exited about this product[no period] e: after watching the video and the credits, I'm pretty sure Noah is a girl. Machai has a new favorite as of 03:34 on May 31, 2013 |
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Pastrymancy posted:I hate gimmick zombie merchandise, but there's only so much I can hate a product that gets nerds to bathe more. If they take the soap out of the packaging it won't be NIB anymore! 
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Noyemi K posted:It's exactly as stupid as it sounds. So... does the creator fear punctuation marks as much as he/she fears zombies? Because drat, that was a confusing read.
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Noyemi K posted:It's exactly as stupid as it sounds. "Risks and challenges A risk could be that this product dose not peal to anyone but we have asked around and people are really exited about this product" Well I'm all in for this high quality project. 
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May 31, 2013 03:44
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Isn't that the sort of risk that kickstarter is supposed to eliminate anyways?
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I'm half-wondering how long it'll take before Kickstarter puts a minimum age on the people that submit the projects. Between that book by the girl above, I keep running into things like: funny & random!???! (I was going to put a screenshot of the Risks and Challenges here but I figured it'd ruin the surprise.) and holy hell i wish i had half of this kid's ego. Besides those, I've also found some other less than wonderful things: As a Transformational Spiritual Life Coach and Dr.of Metaphysical Science, I have been teaching and helping people to awaken for several years. 1% vs 99%! The Occupy Chess Video Game This one is adorable:  Cook Like a Grandma Cookbook
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May 31, 2013 13:25
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cool biRd pics posted:funny & random!???! Terry Pratchett did a better book on the subject. And I don't think that's something I want on a mug.
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I thought the Occupy chess game was okay until I scrolled down and saw the concept art for the 99% pawn:   Check out these sweet rewards: quote:Pledge $1 or more quote:Pledge $5 or more But wait! For the low price of  , you get your name in bold!quote:Pledge $10 or more What happened to you, Occupy? Kaiju Cage Match has a new favorite as of 13:56 on May 31, 2013 |
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Chucklehead posted:I am friends with a lot of known Xbox gamers that have a lot of subscribers on YouTube.
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Sounds like any other socially inept 15 year old kid.quote:Hi im Marc and im 15 years old! I've been a gamer for a long time, and have started several websites and business's so far in my lifetime. I like starting business's that deal with gaming. I used custom paint xbox controllers but it made my Asthma worse so i had to stop. I enjoy making custom designed tshirt but the heatpress kept making my electricity go out. My new business TrickshotApparel will use a garnet printer to customize the tshirts. Many gamers myself included have a hard time finding clothing that feels comfortable my favorite tshirt is made out of bamboo. I kinda feel bad for him.
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