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OrganizedInsanity posted:Haha chill man did a bronie kill your family or something? Considering how modern culture stereotypes so often, to the average person any guy is a brony and anyone who mentions anime is a closet pedo. There's decent amount of people that just watch it because its still an alright TV show in the end for what it is. While this test is pretty biased and weird, I used to own one of these. If people want a phone that is that indestructible, why buy an iPhone? Honestly, just buy one of the old Nokias if you are some kind of construction worker or whatever.
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Sono posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/backyardbrains/the-roboroach-control-a-living-insect-from-your-sm My friend is a professor and while she was getting her masters, she used early kits from the Backyard Brains folks to make a bunch of experiments. They are REALLY COOL and easy to use. For her supply, she has closets full of bugs in boxes and cages that she breeds for research. This is not an awful kickstarter its awesome 
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Not an Anthem posted:My friend is a professor and while she was getting her masters, she used early kits from the Backyard Brains folks to make a bunch of experiments. How many people donating to the kickstarter are gonna use these for scientific purposes? Now, how many people donating are going to use them to mutilate animals for entertainment? Think it over. Take your time.
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TetsuoTW posted:You seem to be investing an awful lot of energy into defending making a cartoon for little girls a core part of your identity. They're both far too insecure. Isn't there another thread on the forums for this kind of bullshit? Dex posted:Yeah, I'm real insecure about other people who won't shut up about their cartoons. Yeah, you're so secure you spend multiple posts berating people for it when given the opportunity. Get dunked. StevenM has a new favorite as of 21:00 on Jun 25, 2013 |
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StevenM posted:They're both far too insecure. Isn't there another thread on the forums for this kind of bullshit? No. Because discussion of the show is banned. Because people are loving morons and can't handle keeping it out of unrelated threads. Funny how that works out, huh? (and it's "brony" you jackwads, you don't say "ponie").
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OrganizedInsanity posted:Anyways, I can't tell if this is a good or bad idea http://www.mnml.com/21277/605809/our-work/lunatik-taktik-iphone-case This one, a former kickstarter, is infinitely better, both from a users perspective as well as being thoughtfully designed.
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Lady Naga posted:How many people donating to the kickstarter are gonna use these for scientific purposes? Considering the specialized knowledge necessary to actually set this, or the other Backyard Brains kits up, 100% (are going to use this as intended). Not a single person is going to go all "Roach Josef Mengele" by spending a poo poo ton of money for a tool that uses existing medical technology open used on humans, for roaches. They have an ethics section on their website you're free to peruse: http://ethics.backyardbrains.com although I somehow imagine you'll blow that out of proportion too. What is wrong with you, why are you so oddly combative in the thread? If they were selling a box that crushes kittens when you put a kitten in it, yes, I would have a problem. Here: meet them, and see how they are not crazy animal abusers: https://backyardbrains.com/about/ Not an Anthem has a new favorite as of 17:10 on Jun 25, 2013 |
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StevenM posted:They're both far too insecure. Isn't there another thread on the forums for this kind of bullshit? Yeah, I'm real insecure about other people who won't shut up about their cartoons. Moving on, this just happened in the OUYA thread: Migishu posted:Guys For anybody who hasn't been reading it, Dreamzle is a guy who quit his day job and took out a bank loan to develop this game as an exclusive OUYA launch title. He registered two accounts to defend this decision, and argue with the handful of goons who tried it and explained that it was a boring piece of poo poo.
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Lady Naga posted:How many people donating to the kickstarter are gonna use these for scientific purposes? You can't really learn unless you're willing to get your hands dirty every now and then!
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OrganizedInsanity posted:anyone who mentions anime is a closet pedo. Unironically this.
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PostNouveau posted:Unironically this. ??? Is that a shot at me or something? I don't watch MLP and stopped watching anime when I graduated high school but I guess people take it seriously, I'll drop it. How well do you think the cockroach remote will work? I can't imagine it being anything more than just telling the cockroach to bank left/right etc. Like you'll never be able to make the cockroach move to your whim like a remote control car, it'll just be more or less you telling a scurring cockroach to turn left, which it may not do after you stop pressing the button.
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Not an Anthem posted:Considering the specialized knowledge necessary to actually set this, or the other Backyard Brains kits up, 100% (are going to use this as intended). Not a single person is going to go all "Roach Josef Mengele" by spending a poo poo ton of money for a tool that uses existing medical technology open used on humans, for roaches. They have an ethics section on their website you're free to peruse: http://ethics.backyardbrains.com although I somehow imagine you'll blow that out of proportion too. Which is why they're checking that everyone they're sending the kits to has that specialised knowledge, right? Come on, they acknowledge themselves that some people will have ethical problems with their work on principle, it's not a weird position to take.
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Crashbee posted:Which is why they're checking that everyone they're sending the kits to has that specialised knowledge, right? Come on, they acknowledge themselves that some people will have ethical problems with their work on principle, it's not a weird position to take. People complained about the scene in Starship Troopers where the children in the propaganda video were stomping on cockroaches. None of them were actually harmed (the already crushed ones were props) and that was still enough to put people on edge. Which is weird because no one seems to think twice about killing them if they find them in their own home.
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BattleMaster posted:People complained about the scene in Starship Troopers where the children in the propaganda video were stomping on cockroaches. None of them were actually harmed (the already crushed ones were props) and that was still enough to put people on edge. It's a difference in mentality between killing a living thing for entertainment vs killing a pest in your home. Edit: VVV Buddy chill out I was talking about the Starship Troopers thing. Distant Chicken has a new favorite as of 21:15 on Jun 25, 2013 |
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OatmealRaisin posted:It's a difference in mentality between killing a living thing for entertainment vs killing a pest in your home. They're cockroaches. They'll probably be alive long after we've gone extinct. I doubt a few people loving with some to try and learn about nueral pathway structuring (or just loving around with them for fun which doesn't matter because they're more willing to tear their own leg off to escape something than save it) will cause them any real trouble. If someone is such a tree hugging gently caress-off that they think there's some reason to be upset by this, then they need to re-evaluate their life to an extreme degree. I reiterate, you gotta be willing to get dirty to learn something. We've torn open bodies of MANY things en masse to even get as far as we have. what's a few bugs in comparison? Diabetes Forecast has a new favorite as of 21:16 on Jun 25, 2013 |
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Not an Anthem posted:Considering the specialized knowledge necessary to actually set this, or the other Backyard Brains kits up, 100% (are going to use this as intended). Not a single person is going to go all "Roach Josef Mengele" by spending a poo poo ton of money for a tool that uses existing medical technology open used on humans, for roaches. They have an ethics section on their website you're free to peruse: http://ethics.backyardbrains.com although I somehow imagine you'll blow that out of proportion too. If they require specialized knowledge to set up, the kickstarter is probably going to fail, eh? I think people are buying it assuming you don't need specialized knowledge, the kickstarter seemed to suggest it was like a science kit. The ethics page you linked has everything in the context of education. That's fine. But if only teachers buy the kickstarter, it'll fail. The only way it succeeds is if johnny homeboy says "hey that'd be pretty neato" and backs it too; and he's very unlikely to do the necessary due diligence, and instead this'll just inspire him to stick some electrodes on a cockroach, get bored, and then squish it after. Its not the worst thing ever; tons of people shoot squirrels for fun. But its not the best thing ever either. Colon Semicolon posted:They're cockroaches. They'll probably be alive long after we've gone extinct. I doubt a few people loving with some to try and learn about nueral pathway structuring (or just loving around with them for fun which doesn't matter because they're more willing to tear their own leg off to escape something than save it) will cause them any real trouble. If someone is such a tree hugging gently caress-off that they think there's some reason to be upset by this, then they need to re-evaluate their life to an extreme degree. Are you seriously that loving simple minded? So, like, if your children will live on, is it okay if I kill you? I mean, the human race will probably be here long after your body has withered away. That doesn't make any goddamned loving sense. Or do you think a single cockroach will outlive humanity? Either way you don't make any sense with that statement. Also, you don't think people loving around with neural pathway structuring is going to hurt them?! I'm pretty sure they're going to die necessarily, like if you yank the legs off them to test the leg motor functions. Poking around in their brains, especially when you're just some kid, isn't going to be perfect. That's a backyard lobotomy. As I said in the very beginning, its no different than something that happens in nature, see the Emerald Cockroach Wasp. But its the difference between hunting an animal and leaving its corpse to rot versus hunting an animal and using its meat. Its the difference between using mice for lab testing to save lives, and using rabbits for cosmetics testing. When its not necessary, but purely for fun, it becomes a dick move. Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 23:06 on Jun 25, 2013 |
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Colon Semicolon posted:They're cockroaches. They'll probably be alive long after we've gone extinct. I doubt a few people loving with some to try and learn about nueral pathway structuring (or just loving around with them for fun which doesn't matter because they're more willing to tear their own leg off to escape something than save it) will cause them any real trouble. If someone is such a tree hugging gently caress-off that they think there's some reason to be upset by this, then they need to re-evaluate their life to an extreme degree. It's less about the cockroach, more about the person messing about with the cockroaches brain for fun. Kinda like how it's disturbing to see a child pulling the wings off flies even if you yourself swat flies all day long.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:$15 an hour is a good starting wage for some artists getting into the industry in some places though too. If it's their own project (and using a premade text game maker) then it's not that high a wage. The little animations are done by a completely different artist she's paying too. Then you factor in the fact that she's reusing the same 5 drawings for character portraits, just with different eyebrows drawn on...well... I work at a VFX studio and can confirm that 15$/hr is on the low end from what I've seen in our office (Canadian, medium sized company), even for new hires. The lowest I've personally seen here is $22-25/hr and the highest being $60/hr. I will also additionally confirm that artists are subhuman animals.
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Zaphod42 posted:If they require specialized knowledge to set up, the kickstarter is probably going to fail, eh? I think people are buying it assuming you don't need specialized knowledge, the kickstarter seemed to suggest it was like a science kit. It's a loving cockroach
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Dash O Pepper posted:I work at a VFX studio and can confirm that 15$/hr is on the low end from what I've seen in our office (Canadian, medium sized company), even for new hires. The lowest I've personally seen here is $22-25/hr and the highest being $60/hr. Sweet, I'm right outside Toronto and yeah a lot of places I've seen start at $15-20/hour for someone with little to no experience in the industry. I was talking more about 2d artists, especially if the artist of that kickstarter doesn't know animation - there's not much work for someone in a game studio who can just draw cutesy things and not even animate it themselves. I know a few guys in Matte painting and VFX and they definitely make a lot more starting off just because of the skills they need to learn (definitely starts at $20-25/hour for them). And yes, us artists are subhuman animals. It comes with the job description.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Sweet, I'm right outside Toronto and yeah a lot of places I've seen start at $15-20/hour for someone with little to no experience in the industry. I was talking more about 2d artists, especially if the artist of that kickstarter doesn't know animation - there's not much work for someone in a game studio who can just draw cutesy things and not even animate it themselves. I know a few guys in Matte painting and VFX and they definitely make a lot more starting off just because of the skills they need to learn (definitely starts at $20-25/hour for them). Yeah, I can see how artist wages would vary wildly depending on the company and the nature of the work. I know for a fact that the artists working at EA and Sony here in Vancouver make less on average across the board than ours (exception: some of the Sony animators make mad bank from what I've been told).
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Call Now posted:It's a loving cockroach Seriously, they're indestructible robots made out of chitin and goo.
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Mishpuha, a DocuComedy!Mishpuha posted:Mishpuha lends itself to becoming the poster child of ULTRA Micro-Budget Independent Film Making.  This is a Kickstarter campaign recently created by some old friends of the family. For some background, these literal lunatics spend their lives attempting to get rich quick through various schemes and inventions, including: - A home for disabled veterans that will keep them entertained by forcing them to paint tires. The painted tires will then be sold for thousands of dollars to collectors. - A wristband that has a slot for interchangeable message cards, such as "ilu", "BFF", "URA*" (You are a star!), "LHS" (Let's have sex), and more! The idea is that kids will wear these bands and, rather than go through the cumbersome process of talking with their mouths, they will instead swap in a wristband message and flash it in their friends' faces. They called them "wrstRaps", the "ultimate flirtation device". - And now, Mishpuha, a screenplay for a movie about Jewish senior citizens and prune juice? I have no loving idea, probably because I made the mistake of trying to read through their Kickstarter campaign, leading to more confusion. The pitch video is a cringe-inducing descent into the mind of a madman, but the most bizarre portion is the fake "magazine covers" scattered throughout the pitch. If the mere prospect of funding this gem of a project isn't enough for you, for just $50, you will receive an autographed version of one of these covers. $100 for all four!  You want it RIGHT NOW! Mishpuha posted:The Screenplay has already been read and judged by numerous Professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Everybody loved it, recalling their favorite scenes in detail. It was they that suggested I take my pitch here, to KICKSTARTER. Among the critique that I humbly accepted regarding my Screenplay..."Very Funny"..."Inventive"..."Great Dialog"..."Hysterical Characters"...and my personal favorite..."Mishpuha raises and lowers the bar for comedy at the same time"...and how! Mishpuha posted:I have so much belief in this project that I also shared the Screenplay with Clergy of different faiths for their critique and comments. They all agreed on one thing...that I should dress real light for my eventual encounter with eternity.  Mishpuha posted:Beyond that, other than the earth getting sucked into the sun, I really can't think of anything major that can prevent Mishpuha, A DocuComedy from becoming a classic in it's own time. Get your pledges in now, as for just $1,000, you can become an unpaid extra in this movie, and for $5,000, you can star in a minor "speaking role"! There are no limits to these tiers of rewards, so if every goon pitches in a frivolous $1,000, Mishpuha will apparently be forced to star nearly 180,000 Awful Posters as voiceless extras milling around the background of every scene, as Jewish grandmas argue about coffee and meatballs.
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Decrepus posted:If the ponies are from Equestria shouldn't this person's game featuring humans be from someplace called Homopia, or something? That is an entirely different kind of dating sim.
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Time Traveler posted:Get your pledges in now, as for just $1,000, you can become an unpaid extra in this movie, and for $5,000, you can star in a minor "speaking role"! There are no limits to these tiers of rewards, so if every goon pitches in a frivolous $1,000, Mishpuha will apparently be forced to star nearly 180,000 Awful Posters as voiceless extras milling around the background of every scene, as Jewish grandmas argue about coffee and meatballs. As much as the idea of a real-life version of the movie Zoidberg made in Futurama appeals to me I think it'd be even better if everyone pledged then cancelled their pledges 2 days before the end of the kickstarter just so these scammers have to spend a month wondering how the gently caress they're going to incorporate 180,000 extras into their movie only to have the whole thing pulled out from under them at the eleventh hour.
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cyberia posted:As much as the idea of a real-life version of the movie Zoidberg made in Futurama appeals to me I think it'd be even better if everyone pledged then cancelled their pledges 2 days before the end of the kickstarter just so these scammers have to spend a month wondering how the gently caress they're going to incorporate 180,000 extras into their movie only to have the whole thing pulled out from under them at the eleventh hour. First, it's not in every scene. It guarantees a non-talking role in the movie, not a non-talking role in each scene. Second, I think their thought process wouldn't be "How do we fit all these people in?", but more "How much of this money do we need to spend on vanishing with the rest?"
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It's funny to me how many people try to turn the iphone into a huge monstrosity of bolts and rubber. Isn't part of the appeal the fact that it isn't the size of a phone from 10 years ago and it fits into your pocket comfortably ? They aren't even that fragile. I have owned most versions of the iPhone ,have never used a case and every one looked nearly brand new once I decided to sell it.
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NESguerilla posted:It's funny to me how many people try to turn the iphone into a huge monstrosity of bolts and rubber. Isn't part of the appeal the fact that it isn't the size of a phone from 10 years ago and it fits into your pocket comfortably ? They aren't even that fragile. I have owned most versions of the iPhone ,have never used a case and every one looked nearly brand new once I decided to sell it. One of the guys I work with really, really needs to get a heavy duty case for his iPhones. He semi-regularly ends up dropping his, which invariably leads to a badly cracked screen, despite having a standard phone case on it.
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I have known a few people myself who always have shattered iPhone screens and could probably benefit from from having a case that is essentially that high school science project where you drop an egg off the bleachers in a box full of cotton balls, but i think most of them would be better off just getting one of those cell phones full of candy.
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NESguerilla posted:It's funny to me how many people try to turn the iphone into a huge monstrosity of bolts and rubber. Isn't part of the appeal the fact that it isn't the size of a phone from 10 years ago and it fits into your pocket comfortably ? They aren't even that fragile. I have owned most versions of the iPhone ,have never used a case and every one looked nearly brand new once I decided to sell it. I keep mine in my top pocket, because otherwise I don't hear it when I'm wondering around the factory. And when I invariably end up climbing/jumping over things, under things, up things, it always falls out and smashes on the ground.
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Waffleman_ posted:That is an entirely different kind of dating sim. 
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Time Traveler posted:Get your pledges in now, as for just $1,000, you can become an unpaid extra in this movie, and for $5,000, you can star in a minor "speaking role"! There are no limits to these tiers of rewards, so if every goon pitches in a frivolous $1,000, Mishpuha will apparently be forced to star nearly 180,000 Awful Posters as voiceless extras milling around the background of every scene, as Jewish grandmas argue about coffee and meatballs. Well, there's worse ways to get a SAG card.
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Time Traveler posted:Get your pledges in now, as for just $1,000, you can become an unpaid extra in this movie, and for $5,000, you can star in a minor "speaking role"! There are no limits to these tiers of rewards, so if every goon pitches in a frivolous $1,000, Mishpuha will apparently be forced to star nearly 180,000 Awful Posters as voiceless extras milling around the background of every scene, as Jewish grandmas argue about coffee and meatballs. I just woke up, so maybe I'm just tired, but I can't even seem to find a backer-level that receives the actual movie?
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Elissia posted:Well, there's worse ways to get a SAG card. No...no Paying for a SAG role is quite frankly the worst way to get a SAG card. Paying to be a background extra on a poo poo film like this is tantamount to paying for a punch in the dick. Alan Smithee has a new favorite as of 11:26 on Jun 26, 2013 |
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NESguerilla posted:It's funny to me how many people try to turn the iphone into a huge monstrosity of bolts and rubber. Isn't part of the appeal the fact that it isn't the size of a phone from 10 years ago and it fits into your pocket comfortably ? They aren't even that fragile. I have owned most versions of the iPhone ,have never used a case and every one looked nearly brand new once I decided to sell it. According to his biography, Steve Jobs was ridiculously pissed off at the fact that after spending all this time obsessing over the design of the iPhone people were just slapping clunky, garish cases onto it and ruining it.
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NESguerilla posted:It's funny to me how many people try to turn the iphone into a huge monstrosity of bolts and rubber. Isn't part of the appeal the fact that it isn't the size of a phone from 10 years ago and it fits into your pocket comfortably ? They aren't even that fragile. I have owned most versions of the iPhone ,have never used a case and every one looked nearly brand new once I decided to sell it. My brother is a contractor who kickstarted some indestructible iphone case because he was sick of them getting smashed on job sites. There's definitely a market.
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