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So I didn't see this posted yet http://valleywag.gawker.com/kickstarter-project-canceled-after-dude-spends-all-the-912176282 Apparently this fellow raised a huge amount of money to make a board game but has blown through 6 figures and produced nothing.
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Always happy to see people's wide eyed crowd funding glee get dashed by reality. And now comes the inevitable wave of "ITS A DONATION GUYS  "
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vxskud posted:So I didn't see this posted yet Then you didn't read the thread. We've been talking about it for the last couple of pages.
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Man-Pack posted:There is a lot you can do with a Man-PACK! Like wear it and store things in it and...uh...
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Jul 26, 2013 14:13
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Ras Shamra posted:Man-PACK: the perfect accessory to go with your utilikilt. The great this is, this product -- designed to appeal to men who are insecure about their masculinity -- is going to fail because it's ugly as gently caress. It's clearly a bad fashion choice.
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PostNouveau posted:The great this is, this product -- designed to appeal to men who are insecure about their masculinity -- is going to fail because it's ugly as gently caress. It's clearly a bad fashion choice. Probably my biggest issue with it is the word MAN-PACK is sewn into a lower right-hand corner that takes up about 20% of the bag. That right there is reason enough no self-respecting person should ever touch the thing.
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thiswayliesmadness posted:I PM'd him when he did the Slender-doll and he's tried to contact Victor but hasn't had any luck last I heard. He just took the idea and ran with it while saying "I'll just get the ok from the creator later". Was really surprised how little he even knew about SA and just felt like a weak cash grab. One of my exes asked me if I knew about a drinking game called "Slender" last year, they run around and everyone dies to whoevers wearing his jacket. I read this and asked a couple of my friends, they're all familiar with it and think it's a Russian folk tale. It seems pretty well known but I don't know anyone who posts on any sort of forums at all, my friends are all drunk punks. Can't really blame someone for wanting to capitalise it when, due to its nature, there's not really any IP rights protecting it. e; Slenderman discussed on BBC Radio in 2012 it's long outgrown SA. Spangly A has a new favorite as of 15:37 on Jul 26, 2013 |
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MAN-PACK - we have no idea why our sales are lagging, so let's throw up a Kickstarter and awkwardly market regular satchels because men are too afraid to buy them!
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Jul 26, 2013 15:36
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Konar posted:Always happy to see people's wide eyed crowd funding glee get dashed by reality. And now comes the inevitable wave of "ITS A DONATION GUYS I feel the worst for the designers because this wasn't "donation" money for them, this was money their publisher was raising in order to sell a final, physical copy of the game they'd been working on for years. There literally was no excuse to why the game was not released seeing as all they had to do was print it and pack it. The publisher could have gotten away with so much extra cash in his pocket and a jumpstart to his career as an indie publisher had he not become so loving greedy. Maybe not 120k worth of extra cash, but at least then he wouldn't be sued for it.
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I know its not awful but I just watched Malcolm X and I think I just blacked out and threw money at Spike Lee and just bought Do the Right Thing from On Demand.
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WebDog posted:MAN-PACK - we have no idea why our sales are lagging, so let's throw up a Kickstarter and awkwardly market regular satchels because men are too afraid to buy them! That thing looks so incredibly lame, it's like something you see in the back to school clearance bin at Walmart in October. You can get a really nice bag for that price at most sporting goods stores or if you want something super manly you can get an army surplus bag for like half that price.
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Jul 26, 2013 18:05
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vxskud posted:That thing looks so incredibly lame, it's like something you see in the back to school clearance bin at Walmart in October. But none of those other bags explicitly state my gender on them! How will people know my gender and the degree to which I am that gender?
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Noni posted:But none of those other bags explicitly state my gender on them! How will people know my gender and the degree to which I am that gender? Face tattoo. Content: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/msmmotionpictures/portal-origins Kickstart this dude's Portal/Dishonored crossover fanfic. He only wants $1500 to fund traveling and accommodation for the cast and crew, rent equipment, provide wardrobe, and pay for electricity used. Maybe he already has a money pile and just needs $1500 more to top it off? 
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Noni posted:But none of those other bags explicitly state my gender on them! How will people know my gender and the degree to which I am that gender? They need to make one that says "TOTALLY NOT GAY MAN-Pack" on it, and then they'll clean up. Eta: The one that doesn't have the giant logo says "The branding is a small stamped piece of leather in an indiscrete spot" so either it's on an amoeba or, if they spelled it wrong, on your penis. MAN-Pack! AlbieQuirky has a new favorite as of 18:36 on Jul 26, 2013 |
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Jul 26, 2013 18:33
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I want 15,000 dollars to print a bunch of postcards. For ten bucks I'll send you a postcake, which is like a postcard but with a MS-painted picture of a human-faced cake on it. This is a kickstarter for a calendar with pictures of anthropomorphic marshmallows but unlike the postcake lady the goal is realistic and the art is actually good. The little marshmallow people don't have faces, but they're still a hundred times more human than those dead-eyed cakes. I wouldn't say this project is awful, just weird, in a good way. (But there's no thread for stuff that's just weird). The biggest issue with normal clothes is that they can be worn more than once, and that you can't rip them apart with your bare hands no matter how hard you try. This new and patented idea brings you a solution to a problem you never even knew existed. As all of the reward tiers say, it's "NEW FUNNN AND SEXY"! Yes, he also intends to make rip-able clothes for children. Dear diary, I am such a socially awkward person. So awkward in fact that I think people would love to read about how awkward I am. Also, for some reason I randomly put words in bold.
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Jul 26, 2013 19:14
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Zybourne Clock posted:
That HAS to be a joke. The name and the pricing ($25 for ONE single-use shirt) are so ridiculous that he has to be taking the piss, there's probably a blog or forum somewhere where he's writing about taking the piss out of stupid kickstarters
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Jul 26, 2013 19:19
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Jesus christ. The first 1:00 of that video is pseudoporn, and the last :15 shows that they don't even loving rip right.
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Jul 26, 2013 19:21
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Zybourne Clock posted:
 Also if he doesn't make Hulkamania t-shirts he's missing a real opportunity.
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Fatkraken posted:That HAS to be a joke. The name and the pricing ($25 for ONE single-use shirt) are so ridiculous that he has to be taking the piss, there's probably a blog or forum somewhere where he's writing about taking the piss out of stupid kickstarters In defense of disposable clothes, there are such things a tyvek paper coveralls or those 3-for-$8 t-shirts that you'll wear for a couple of weeks and throw out. They have their use as work clothes for dirty environments. The rip-apart function, though... The only use for that is strip-teases and sex games, really.
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Finally, stripper clothes you can wear when you're not stripping!
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Do the people backing Man-Pack not realize that you can already buy the same thing at just about any store without having to go through the embarrassment of wearing something that says "Man-Pack" on it?Zybourne Clock posted:The biggest issue with normal clothes is that they can be worn more than once, and that you can't rip them apart with your bare hands no matter how hard you try. This new and patented idea brings you a solution to a problem you never even knew existed. As all of the reward tiers say, it's "NEW FUNNN AND SEXY"! Yes, he also intends to make rip-able clothes for children. This is just terrible. veni veni veni has a new favorite as of 19:37 on Jul 26, 2013 |
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NESguerilla posted:Do the people backing Man-Pack not realize that you can already buy the same thing at just about any store without having to go through the embarrassment of wearing something that says "Man-Pack" on it? Maybe they really like classic arcade games and are all dyslexic.
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Noni posted:Maybe they really like classic arcade games and are all dyslexic. Thank you for pointing this out to me, I totally hadn't noticed it is Pacman backwards. This KS is now 100% more hilarious.
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FrozenVent posted:In defense of disposable clothes, there are such things a tyvek paper coveralls or those 3-for-$8 t-shirts that you'll wear for a couple of weeks and throw out. They have their use as work clothes for dirty environments. Disposable underwear for travelers. Paper underwear for God knows why. Paper dresses from the 1960s. Hey, everyone, fund my Kickstarter for an innovative new idea---a carbonated beverage flavored with the kola nut! I can't decide whether to call it Koka-Kola or Peppi-Kola, so my top reward tier is that you get to pick!
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Zybourne Clock posted:The biggest issue with normal clothes is that they can be worn more than once, and that you can't rip them apart with your bare hands no matter how hard you try. This new and patented idea brings you a solution to a problem you never even knew existed. As all of the reward tiers say, it's "NEW FUNNN AND SEXY"! Yes, he also intends to make rip-able clothes for children. My favorite part is that two athletic men are having trouble ripping the shirt in half.
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AxeManiac posted:My favorite part is that two athletic men are having trouble ripping the shirt in half. But it rips, so he delivered his promise. They just rip about as much as other shirts. They probably have to be V-necks so they actually rip in the right spot, too.
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Zybourne Clock posted:Dear diary, I am such a socially awkward person. So awkward in fact that I think people would love to read about how awkward I am. Also, for some reason I randomly put words in bold. Man, this is horrible. A look into the mind of a socially anxious person could actually be a fairly interesting read for various reasons that have to do with an interest in the psychological. I don't want a look into the mind of a man who draws crap like this (from the KS page):  I wish people would stop confusing social anxiety for generally having repulsive ideas and annoying everyone else away.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:Man, this is horrible. A look into the mind of a socially anxious person could actually be a fairly interesting read for various reasons that have to do with an interest in the psychological. They look like a goon that posts in CC quite a bit. I won't go digging but I'm pretty sure I've seen a few of those (especially the game of thrones one) in the daily drawing threads. I wish people making these art projects about their mental illnesses could use some more tact and skill rather than defaulting to the same old tired "women won't touch my penis because X". John William Keedy does a beautiful job of inspiring anxiety in the viewer with his current project, and it's something I would kickstart to see a book of the first day it went up: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/06/john-keedy-anxiety/ This KS though? More middle class white guy whining about how nobody will touch his dick, he can't get a job and over reliance on text rather than letting his illustrations speak.
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There isn't anything really wrong with honestly writing about your mental state and your perception as to why people you are attracted to ignore you, but the "I only date shitheads" trope is so loving old. Feel free to be paranoid and gross and sad (Joe Matt does this especially well in his graphic novel "Spent") but be interesting.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:I don't want a look into the mind of a man who draws crap like this (from the KS page): She prefers blackheads to him? Man, that's savage.
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Jedit posted:She prefers blackheads to him? Man, that's savage. No, it's redheads. She loves the gingers.
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Young Freud posted:No, it's redheads. She loves the gingers. Or she only dates hardcore Grateful Dead fans
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Young Freud posted:No, it's redheads. She loves the gingers. I think she's got a tinge of the ginge on her minge.
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Zybourne Clock posted:I want 15,000 dollars to print a bunch of postcards. For ten bucks I'll send you a postcake, which is like a postcard but with a MS-painted picture of a human-faced cake on it. "I am 38 years old, and I finally have an idea." You'd think that if it took you 38 years to come up with an idea, it would be better than printing out pictures of crudely drawn cupcakes and mailing them to people.
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Sono posted:"I am 38 years old, and I finally have an idea."
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Zybourne Clock posted:This is a kickstarter for a calendar with pictures of anthropomorphic marshmallows but unlike the postcake lady the goal is realistic and the art is actually good. The little marshmallow people don't have faces, but they're still a hundred times more human than those dead-eyed cakes. I wouldn't say this project is awful, just weird, in a good way. (But there's no thread for stuff that's just weird). Honestly this is kind of adorable. I love coming across these tiny, certainly intended to be mostly local projects. neongrey has a new favorite as of 01:25 on Jul 27, 2013 |
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I don't think this has been posted yet: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2117525416/supertoy-worlds-first-natural-talking-teddy-bear This is the fakest poo poo I've ever seen.First of all, my area of study in college was Artificial Intelligence, so I can tell you there's no way this is loving possible right now. Even IBM's Watson (A supercomputer with internet access which takes up an entire floor of a major building) can't respond NEARLY that well. We haven't solved natural language processing yet, and yet this loving teddy bear claims that it can provide detailed, syntactic, and situational conversation using nothing more than an iPhone?  SCAM ALERT. Then since my Spidey senses were tingling I looked more closely at the video. OH HEY look, there's an edit cut after EVERY question: She asks a question when you can hear an airplane going by. He answers clearly, no airplane. She asks a question, her sleeves are rolled down (see the blue?) He answers, her sleeves are magically rolled up over her shoulders. HMM.  And its not like they just forgot to mention it wasn't done yet and this was a mockup, she explicitly asks "Can you see me?" and he responds "Not right now" which implies everything else happening right now is real, but it absolutely is not.  These guys know what they're doing. They got a little girl to do the pitch video to try to obfuscate it; hoping people would be too busy going "awww" to notice how BS this is.  quote:For parents worried that their child may be exposed to unsuitable visual material on the internet, Supertoy is the safe and child-friendly way to access the educational potential the internet has to offer. Supertoy has been designed with an ethical stance and generous emotions in mind. And he can learn, grow, change and add functionality, which means if you want Supertoy Teddy to be your wise guy badass pal its your choice! Our toy won't only get on with young children but with adults too.  So this AI is smart enough to hold a conversation and can dictate the internet to you, while filtering out inappropriate content for children? And it can tell the difference between kids and adults, and can not only fool kids, but can pass the loving Turing Test with adults? No way in hell.This is a loving Furby. And its masquerading as C3PO. Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 01:53 on Jul 27, 2013 |
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Civilized Fishbot posted:I love the idea that these two guys invented a simulation of human linguistics that's miles ahead of anything else today, but can only profit off of it through making a teddy bear and selling it on Kickstarter. I know, right? As though Google and Apple weren't even loving trying. 
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