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You know, of all the anime tropes people go with, why do they always go back to schoolgirls and tentacles? Where's my mecha-based projects, weeaboos? The closest I can think of (KS-wise) have been the Mekton Zeta KS and Warmachine (which is more towards fantasy). You'd think that with Pacific Rim fresh in everyone's minds (if it's not in yours, get to it  ) someone would jump on the bandwagon. No joke, if I had an ounce of talent, I'd try something out, but as things stand now I'm just another Ideas Man™. I just want my giant, bigass robots.
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CommissarMega posted:You know, of all the anime tropes people go with, why do they always go back to schoolgirls and tentacles? Where's my mecha-based projects, weeaboos? The closest I can think of (KS-wise) have been the Mekton Zeta KS and Warmachine (which is more towards fantasy). You'd think that with Pacific Rim fresh in everyone's minds (if it's not in yours, get to it Wait, there was a Mekton Zeta Kickstarter and I missed it? Oh, man, I think I need to go lay down now.
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Jul 15, 2013 08:03
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CommissarMega posted:Where's my mecha-based projects, weeaboos? There's a few on there but the searches are pretty underpopulated compared to all the projects featuring zombies. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=mech http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=mecha There's even a few kaiju projects: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=kaiju Note that the project called Kaiju Combat has now reappeared with a new name after disappearing due to a DMCA takedown from Wizards of the Coast who thought it was a bit too similar to their Kaijudo trademark. Part of the agreement was that they change their brand name from "Kaiju Combat" to "Colossal Kaiju Combat" but Kickstarter decided to change the name of their project to "The Fall of Nemesis: Clash of the Kaijujin" without consulting them. senrath posted:Wait, there was a Mekton Zeta Kickstarter and I missed it? Oh, man, I think I need to go lay down now. Yup, Mike Pondsmith retooled Mekton Zeta and turned it into the RPG he always wanted it to be: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1888572386/mekton-zero Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 08:13 on Jul 15, 2013 |
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Jul 15, 2013 08:07
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yup, Mike Pondsmith retooled Mekton Zeta and turned it into the RPG he always wanted it to be: Welp, guess I'm going to just have to wait for the game to come out and get it then. Definitely would've backed that had I known it was happening.
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Jul 15, 2013 08:30
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Red Minjo posted:No man, don't worry. This isn't tentacle rape, it's tentacle consensual sex! In fact, I'd even say it's progressive because the women can choose what tentacles they- I dont understand the draw of this. If its your fetish there is plenty of actual porn out there. Why "un-sex" it?
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Jul 15, 2013 09:05
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Fauxtool posted:I dont understand the draw of this. If its your fetish there is plenty of actual porn out there. Why "un-sex" it? I guess its so you can make tentacle rape jokes whilst playing but not feel quite as skeevy as you would if you were actually just looking at porn with your friends. A more acceptable level of skeevy.
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Jul 15, 2013 09:20
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Fauxtool posted:I dont understand the draw of this. If its your fetish there is plenty of actual porn out there. Why "un-sex" it? Anime girls that like tentacles isn't exactly a new concept, you do realize.
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Jul 15, 2013 09:24
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Fauxtool posted:I dont understand the draw of this. If its your fetish there is plenty of actual porn out there. Why "un-sex" it? I assume it's just a joke, you go in expecting unpleasentness but actually it's just girls and squids making cakes and being study buddies. Basically, "My expectations were confounded and from thence the humour arose"
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Jul 15, 2013 09:27
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CommissarMega posted:You know, of all the anime tropes people go with, why do they always go back to schoolgirls and tentacles? Where's my mecha-based projects, weeaboos? Tentacles are far easier to draw compared to giant robots.
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Jul 15, 2013 10:31
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Lose weight with plates that don't fit your dishwasher properly! Drop pounds while most of your coffee ends up on your shirt!  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/539996604/halved-dinnerware-that-makes-you-eat-less
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Jul 15, 2013 11:18
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ReelBigLizard posted:Lose weight with plates that don't fit your dishwasher properly!  .
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Jul 15, 2013 11:55
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You'll lose wieght, because you won't have money to buy food after getting this poo poo.
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Jul 15, 2013 12:00
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Shouldn't you pay half as much for half a plate?
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Jul 15, 2013 12:02
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Not on Kickstarter they aren't, that's far too sensible to succeed.
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Jul 15, 2013 12:23
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quantum_squirrel posted:So, do you want to want to take your love for cephalopods to the gaming table? It's more like they read Ghastly's Ghastly Comic: Tentacle Monsters And The Women Who Love Them and thought "Hey, Ghastly retired, we can steal his tag line."
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Jul 15, 2013 12:45
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StevenM posted:Tentacles are far easier to draw compared to giant robots. Yeah, but nowhere near as sexy ReelBigLizard posted:Lose weight with plates that don't fit your dishwasher properly! Wasn't there a study or something once, where you can deceive the brain into feeling full if you put a mirror on half a plate? I suppose some of that thinking might have gone into this.
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Jul 15, 2013 13:09
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There were several studies: one study found that you'll eat less if your food is served on a smaller plate and another used secretly refilling soup plates and people ate almost tow full portions of soup before they realized something was wrong. Our brains are loving dumb and a plate of food is a plate of food to them. No matter how big those plates are or how much food you actually piled up on them. Another dumb thing is that the feeling of being full has a pretty huge time delay. Our brains needs 20 minutes or so to realize this poo poo. Lucy Heartfilia has a new favorite as of 13:17 on Jul 15, 2013 |
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Jul 15, 2013 13:13
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Yeah, a smaller plate helps people with portion control, but you don't need to spend thirty quid, you can just buy small plates. Yeah I know this is basically a gag gift, but it's a bloody expensive gag gift
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Jul 15, 2013 14:12
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Considering how high the sides on that plate are, i bet you could put as much food on it, as you could on a normal plate
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Jul 15, 2013 14:13
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pathetic little tramp posted:If they were just making it a place where they seal it off from the river and make it a floating pool, that might work, but they're honestly expecting that thing to constantly be filtering the Hudson. I mean at least they didn't decide to filter East River, but goddamn do they have any idea how much water moves through the Hudson per second? You'd need like a sewage treatment plant bevy of filtration to accomplish that and all I see are some loving vacuum cleaner filters from dad's Dyson that they're thinking they can just slap on the border. At least they are being honest in their photos, as the shot showing all of the graphs has one titled "FECAL". Pretty appropriate. e: VVVVVVVVVVVVV Note to self: buy a new mug. Want to cut back on calories with tea and coffee? Instead of a useless mug, why not just stop putting so much drat cream and sugar in? booshi has a new favorite as of 14:54 on Jul 15, 2013 |
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Jul 15, 2013 14:41
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Just what I've always wanted, a mug that I can't use with my right hand.
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Jul 15, 2013 14:47
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wa27 posted:Just what I've always wanted, a mug that I can't use with my right hand. Weirdly, in other pictures they show right handed mugs. So either they've made two different ones (which would require different molds etc), or ALL of them are left handed and they just flipped over any pictures that didn't have text in them. Either way, there's no way to specify which one you want on the kickstarter rewards tiers.
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Jul 15, 2013 15:00
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Of all the things to help you lose weight why would you want an extra small mug anyway? Tea and coffee have like 10 calories.
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Jul 15, 2013 15:10
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Perhaps they think people are putting Mtn Dew in their coffee cups.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah, this. Chuck an honest explanation in the FAQ section ("We were too keen and jumped the gun with an unfinished pitch!") and you'll be good to go. Yep, exactly the plan.
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Jul 15, 2013 15:16
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Hey look guys another BBQ thermometer! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelraymond/bbiqtm-a-brain-for-your-barbecue Actually this isn't too bad if the app works well. Not sure you can wander all that far from your grill if this depends on Bluetooth however.
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Jul 15, 2013 15:22
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ReelBigLizard posted:Lose weight with plates that don't fit your dishwasher properly! They could quite easily get pre orders for this from virtually any designer gift shop in London then use it to raise a loan and get a load made and sell them at that price no problem. Even without billing it as a diet thing. Besides this is the only fat reducing plate you need: 
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Jul 15, 2013 20:59
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Alan Smithee posted:So the Life On Bitcoin KS hit their funding goal in June I BET YOU this is a well executed scam. 6 investors gave $10k each? No way. If they all bounced after funding then the creators still get $10k that was donated and just have to produce a lovely documentary.
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Jul 15, 2013 23:42
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ToG posted:I BET YOU this is a well executed scam. 6 investors gave $10k each? No way. If they all bounced after funding then the creators still get $10k that was donated and just have to produce a lovely documentary. MEDICAL EMERGENCY: Our film crew will be carrying cash in the case of a life threatening or serious medical emergency. We will make concerted attempts to purchase health insurance and auto insurance with bitcoin and to pay medical providers with bitcoin, should that need arise. However, we will not go uninsured if this proves impossible.
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Interlude posted:Hey look guys another BBQ thermometer! I asked what the range was and they answered: quote:The BBiQ™ uses bluetooth to communicate with an Android or iOS device, so operating range is usually between 30 and 50 feet. If the app is logged into the BBiQ website you can also monitor your food and hear alarms from any web browser. As long as your phone or tablet is in range, you don't have to be. I'd love a smart thermometer, and there certainly is a market for it given how guys on meat smoking forums seem to buy every thermometer that hits the market, but range is a serious issue. Range is such a sticking point that these new "long range" thermometers have been selling like hot cakes for the past year: http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Wire...bbq+thermometer That's because the remote thermometers that claim 100-foot ranges have barely worked. The price on this BBiQ actually isn't bad by comparison, but you're spot on about bluetooth being an annoyance.
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Jul 16, 2013 02:40
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Oh, hey, the tentacle game was suspended by Kickstarter, surprise surprise. The comments section isn't as funny as it could have been, but I guess it got moved to Indiegogo.
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Jul 16, 2013 02:46
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Ahaha, this is the most obvious bullshit excuse ever:quote:Orange started this project back in 2012 after noticing that many people in America were not familiar with the origin and symbolism of tentacles in Japanese art.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yup, Mike Pondsmith retooled Mekton Zeta and turned it into the RPG he always wanted it to be: Come on Megas XLR RPG Kickstarter! It's funny how they suspended the tentacle kickstarter (both of them) quickly but let the PUA manual run its full course before recanting it. Verdugo has a new favorite as of 04:22 on Jul 16, 2013 |
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Verdugo posted:It's funny how they suspended the tentacle kickstarter (both of them) quickly but let the PUA manual run its full course before recanting it. I have no idea why these creeps don't just use the offbeatr website specifically made for their poo poo. Kickstarter's audience may be bigger, but I'd bet that most of the people really interested in funding that crap check the other sites often. Also, both the tentacle rape fetishist projects had little to no chance of succeeding, but the rape manual had plenty of sweet, sweet MRA/Libertarian cash to make Kickstarter rich.
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Jul 16, 2013 11:33
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Ripoff posted:Also, both the tentacle rape fetishist projects had little to no chance of succeeding Tentacle Bento raised over twice its goal and Schoolgirls Love Tentacles was on its way to tripling its goal. 
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Jul 16, 2013 11:55
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Red Minjo posted:Oh, hey, the tentacle game was suspended by Kickstarter, surprise surprise. The comments section isn't as funny as it could have been, but I guess it got moved to Indiegogo. I don't know, I liked Dagda's little rant about how censoring schoolgirl tentacle rape hentai is something you'd expect from Communists, not here in the good old USA.
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Ripoff posted:I have no idea why these creeps don't just use the offbeatr website specifically made for their poo poo. Kickstarter's audience may be bigger, but I'd bet that most of the people really interested in funding that crap check the other sites often. To be fair, Offbeatr is for explicitly, well- explicit content, while Tentacle Bento and this schoolgirl thing seem work-safe, if innuendo-laden. That said, the mecha genre is a much better bet, is totally family-friendly, and would earn much more money. True facts EDIT: I mean, it's not like there isn't a market for anime-related geek stuff (I pledged at the $30 level  ).
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Jul 16, 2013 13:03
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Verdugo posted:Come on Megas XLR RPG Kickstarter!
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SupSuper posted:Well it's a repeat offender. The real question is how these get approved in the first place. I'd wager that one person does the approvals "process", and another is in charge of dealing with already active Kickstarters. So the first guy doesn't see a problem with the project, but the second guy does. CommissarMega posted:To be fair, Offbeatr is for explicitly, well- explicit content, while Tentacle Bento and this schoolgirl thing seem work-safe, if innuendo-laden. Oh, hey, another RPG Kickstarter I'm sad I missed. I like OVA.
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senrath posted:I'd wager that one person does the approvals "process", and another is in charge of dealing with already active Kickstarters. So the first guy doesn't see a problem with the project, but the second guy does. I get the impression that their approval process is a quick once over to make sure the project doesn't break any of the rules* and won't get them sued and their secondary process for vetting projects is 1) wait for a social media shitstorm and then 2) decide whether the project in question makes KS Inc look bad. If they get enough complaints of a certain nature they'll cancel a project otherwise they just don't care. One the other hand they might knock back approval for 50 tentacle rape games every week and the two we saw just happened to sneak through, they're notoriously uncommunicative in regards to how they run the site so we can only guess at stuff like this. * The "No 'fund my life' projects" rule seems to be pretty flexible as long as something is produced/created at the end of the project.
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