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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1700886053/genesis-a-child-custody-visitation-and-support-man?ref=category Why in the pluperfect hell does this guy need $81,150 to write an iPhone app to tell you when to pick up your lovely little kids from their lovely little mother's house? Exactly $81,150... That's oddly specific.
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pathetic little tramp posted:And he seriously thinks it's a selling point that he says he'll have retarded people assemble his ice mitts. It's not a joke project, holy poo poo. Considering that most KickStarter projects outsource their manufacturing to Chinese sweatshops this actually is a pretty decent selling point.
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KittyLitter posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1700886053/genesis-a-child-custody-visitation-and-support-man?ref=category I assume once you take the Kickstarter percentage and the Amazon Payments percentage out of it it becomes a nice round number
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Considering that most KickStarter projects outsource their manufacturing to Chinese sweatshops this actually is a pretty decent selling point. Yeah, it's actually really nice to use the Arc or other institutions like that. It's less nice to not acknowledge that the Arc changed its name in 1992 to reflect that using the "retarded" is super loving awkward.
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KittyLitter posted:Why in the pluperfect hell does this guy need $81,150 to write an iPhone app to tell you when to pick up your lovely little kids from their lovely little mother's house? He's probably trying sell the app on Kickstarter, as it seems he's already made it based on the screenshots
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sparatuvs posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/918469157/coming-out-atheist?ref=card Wonder if they've posted on /r/atheism yet. Those kindred spirits would understand his plight I'm sure.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Wonder if they've posted on /r/atheism yet. Those kindred spirits would understand his plight I'm sure. Not anymore...  /r/atheism has become a barren wasteland of boring, sterile, repetitive nonsense ever since the denizens of /r/christianity got all butthurt about how they were being mocked. The mods decided to put some inanely draconian rules into place because of it.
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DoctorPresident posted:There's no quote:New job! Tags: CUTCO Are you making GBS threads me?
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KittyLitter posted:Not anymore... He was being sarcastic. Reddit and especially the Atheism subreddit are a cesspool.
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tuyop posted:Tags: CUTCO You didn't quote the followup post! quote:Wiped…
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KittyLitter posted:Not anymore...
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Me in Reverse posted:He was being sarcastic. Reddit and especially the Atheism subreddit are a cesspool. You know what... you're absolutely right. I pretty much only subscribe to /r/whatisthisthing and /r/videos now.
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tuyop posted:Tags: CUTCO So if you get the 2000 dollar prize you get to sit through his CUTCO presentation over dinner. You get too see him cut a piece of drywall, slice a tomato and make a corkscrew out of a penny.
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vxskud posted:So if you get the 2000 dollar prize you get to sit through his CUTCO presentation over dinner. Nah, don't worry. A day later he posted about how terribly difficult the job was and his earnings don't represent his work. And then a couple weeks later he posted about not liking it when someone says they know more than him, because obviously he knows more than anyone considering themselves an authority.
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It's a testament to how crappy and overpriced Cutco knives are when a creepy dude brandishing knives door to door can't manage to squeak out a few racketeering dollars.
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Mammal Sauce posted:Tell me about the glory days of /r/atheism please. Thanks. The mods enacted a rule so people couldn't post threads that were nothing but image links and people went absolutely apeshit. Apparently pictures of Dawkins with dumb poo poo written in Impact font are the lifeblood of atheism.
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Cicadalek posted:The mods enacted a rule so people couldn't post threads that were nothing but image links and people went absolutely apeshit. Apparently pictures of Dawkins with dumb poo poo written in Impact font are the lifeblood of atheism. Internet atheism is a complicated and fickle beast.
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Guys, how can we worry about cesspool atheist forums when we could be getting justice for her, this woman's daughter... the movie(?)! With a mere $39,805, this clearly heartfelt and well-written story can be a reality. Why, for the low price of ten dollars, your support of this endeavor will be tweeted, facebooked, and google+'d like you've never been before! But if winning the envy of your peers isn't enough, a mere $300 will get you a DVD! And don't think this project is leaving the big spenders out in the cold! For our $1000-$2000 dollar tiers, your name will be forever tied to this project on the Internet...Movie...Database. Clearly, no higher honor has ever been offered in the history of Kickstarter. Don't delay! There's only three more days to put your money into a movie that the project creator is calling "big...a film that will make people think for weeks, and hopefully for months...a world-class independent film that will leave audiences wanting..."
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Ahahaaa I love that it's full of grammar errors and the picture at the top is a stock photo with the watermark and ID number still on it. It's so totally 
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I'm not sure what to think of this one: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galrozov/foldimate-the-robotic-laundry-folding-machine?ref=live It's an automatic laundry folding machine designed to be used in laundromats and ultimately homes (though at around $5000 to preorder one, that's probably a long way off). Does anyone really spend enough time with laundry folding that this would be a worthwhile labor saving invention?
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In the video it looks like it only folds one thing at a time and takes like 30 seconds to do it. It doesn't look convenient at all.
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Bloodnose posted:In the video it looks like it only folds one thing at a time and takes like 30 seconds to do it. It doesn't look convenient at all. In the video, the lady had enough time to make a phone call which appears to have involved listening to someone tell funny jokes. That's got to be a 3 minute conversation at least. I'm disappointed. I was expecting a machine the size of a washer where you dump your clothes into a big hopper. Then, who cares if it takes three minutes per item. Edit: 
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Cockmaster posted:I'm not sure what to think of this one: Hospitals, hotels, linen rental services, etc. already do, which is why industrial folding machines exist.
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Are you wondering what the dumbest way to violate copyright 52 times is? Why, making a "Go Fish" deck featuring stolen Mario art! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/53163752/super-mario-go-fish?ref=home_location
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Song For The Deaf posted:Are you wondering what the dumbest way to violate copyright 52 times is? Why, making a "Go Fish" deck featuring stolen Mario art! It took this guy 20 years to beat the original Super Mario Bros, he's not about to be the type of savant who understands "basic copyright law" Also it's not like he's even redoing the art in an homage, they're just loving screenshots. pathetic little tramp has a new favorite as of 19:05 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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pathetic little tramp posted:Also it's not like he's even redoing the art in an homage, they're just loving screenshots. Did you watch the video? All the images were LOVINGLY CREATED PIXEL BY PIXEL FROM THE GROUND UP by the artist, that's how copyright works: 
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Song For The Deaf posted:Are you wondering what the dumbest way to violate copyright 52 times is? Why, making a "Go Fish" deck featuring stolen Mario art! So he spent like 10 minutes in photoshop cropping screen caps and scanning a 3ds AR card. What a go getter!
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vxskud posted:So he spent like 10 minutes in photoshop cropping screen caps and scanning a 3ds AR card. Hey, hey, hey. Give him some credit. He also went all the way to The Spriters' Resource and clicked on the "Mario" category! And do you think he can afford to take the easy way out with Photoshop? He Paint-ed that poo poo! The hard way!
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I can't imagine a world in which $10,000 is at all reasonable. I just successfully funded a much larger project for a fourth of that.
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dijon du jour posted:Hey, hey, hey. Give him some credit. He also went all the way to The Spriters' Resource and clicked on the "Mario" category! I just noticed his stretch goal of $15000 is that he will print them on "Bee Paper" which I'm assuming is referring to Bee Playing Cardstock. Which makes it sound like he intends to print them on regular paper if he doesn't get 15 grand. Edit I stand corrected he plans in using Bicycle Paper. How he plans to get one of the largest playing card companies on earth to go along with this scheme is still beyond me. Cool Web Paige has a new favorite as of 22:42 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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I vaguely remember having seen some physical game of Mario themed go fish in the early to mid 90s. That makes him only 15 or 20 years late with this on top of all the other issues.
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Song For The Deaf posted:Are you wondering what the dumbest way to violate copyright 52 times is? Why, making a "Go Fish" deck featuring stolen Mario art! I find this especially funny because Nintendo was originally founded as a playing card company. And according to Wikipedia, they still continue to manufacture playing cards in Japan (I didn't know that until I just looked it up). EDIT: More from the Nintendo Wiki article, emphasis mine; "In 1956, Hiroshi Yamauchi, grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi, visited the U.S. to talk with the United States Playing Card Company, the dominant playing card manufacturer there. He found that the world's biggest company in his business was only using a small office. This was a turning point when Yamauchi realized the limitations of the playing card business. He then gained access to Disney's characters and put them on the playing cards to drive sales." homewrecker has a new favorite as of 23:29 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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AlbieQuirky posted:Hospitals, hotels, linen rental services, etc. already do, which is why industrial folding machines exist. There's a world of difference between buying a machine to fold thousands of garments every day and paying for the privilege of having a machine slowly fold your personal laundry.
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KittyLitter posted:EDIT : Boss told me not to post it here yet. Well shitballs. Seems like a wise move since this is the awful kickstarter thread.
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Song For The Deaf posted:Are you wondering what the dumbest way to violate copyright 52 times is? Why, making a "Go Fish" deck featuring stolen Mario art! If Nintendo actually sold card decks like this I'd totally buy some. Poker with suits based off of Mario, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Star Fox(?) would be awesome. DoctorPresident posted:Did you watch the video? All the images were LOVINGLY CREATED PIXEL BY PIXEL FROM THE GROUND UP by the artist, that's how copyright works: I'm getting a sense of deja vu with that screenshot message.
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AxeManiac posted:Seems like a wise move since this is the awful kickstarter thread. Oh no... I understand quite well where I was posting... I hate every single aspect of the project, and I think it is an utterly awful kickstarter. To clarify - I told him I was posting the video to SA... I didn't tell him -where- on SA.
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Okay, now I'm interested.
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Bad Munki posted:Okay, now I'm interested. To be fair, it's a noble cause, and it's definitely something we will be able to deliver on, it's just not what I want to be spending my time working on. When I went into business with him it was with the explicit goal of making money. This is not a money maker. It's a feel-gooder.
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Evil Fluffy posted:If Nintendo actually sold card decks like this I'd totally buy some. Poker with suits based off of Mario, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Star Fox(?) would be awesome. They actually do have a Mario deck, you can buy it on Amazon.
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