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DStecks posted:"It's Everquest, but you can do, like, just loving everything in it you guys". So the design doc for Everquest Next, then?
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DStecks posted:I had always wondered what happened to HATE TROLL TIM; apparently he's been permabanned for some SA-Mart shenanigans. This reminds me of shortly after high school when these two guys I knew kept thinking they were making the best game idea ever and refused to show anybody else because they were certain people would steal it. This guy is how old, though?
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Aug 9, 2013 00:26
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DStecks posted:"This game will be coming out on Facebook, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Wii U, PC, Mac, Linux, and all App Stores. All of these systems will transfer all information.” I don't particularly like Penny Arcade much anymore, but they nailed it with their first Kickstarter strip. This is a classic John Videogames there.
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I think it's time to check the 'recently launched' section  Blood Child. Okay, another lovely vampire romance. I guess if Twilight can do it... eugh. Love the promotional selfie there, though. Totally professional. A War of Kings. More playing cards, with a fantasy theme this time. They look kinda neat, I suppose. I'm pretty sure it's been done before, but the guy has at least some sort of plan and ambition for it. Enspira Online. A 'non-violent, kid-safe MMO adventure game for all ages'. They want to make an MMO for 18 grand? He apparently has some experience, but the hardware and bandwidth costs for servers will probably eat that cash quick. How to make a video game Oh boy, let's encourage people to make crap games for mobile and OUYA! (right) bubicorn! I... what the gently caress?
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quote:"This game will be coming out on Facebook, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Wii U, PC, Mac, Linux, and all App Stores. All of these systems will transfer all information.” John Videogames posted:I don't particularly like Penny Arcade much anymore, but they nailed it with their first Kickstarter strip. This is a classic John Videogames there. Oh wait... Ah yes, the hugely scoped hand-painted action-rpg game with a team of 9 and a budget of $242k, coming soon to PC, Mac, Linux, Ouya, Android, iOS, Linux, PS3, Wii U, and 360.
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Aug 9, 2013 01:01
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Orzo posted:Haha, yeah, that's ridiculous. Luckily nobody would ever actually give money to an indie project that promised so many platforms. Next to Realms of Creation, that game looks like... something really, really legit. 
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Aug 9, 2013 01:23
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Elissia posted:bubicorn! It's pretty self-explanatory, man. Boobs. Unicorn. Bubicorn. I would be absolutely shocked if Bubicorn's invention didn't involve drugs. Quick. Someone put floppy dicks on a pegasus and try to compete for the same donor dollars. Isn't Burning Man going on right now? If so, thank god. Then it'll be another 11 months before kickstarter gets loaded down with that crap again. It's not that I hate art. I just hate art that's obviously by people who have been forever surrounded by friends and relatives blatantly lying to their faces about how great of artists they are. I'm sorry. I'm bitter. I'm sad that there's not a big festival for science nerds in the middle of the desert. We wouldn't even give a poo poo about the heat, because everyone would be wearing home-made cooling suits made from copper tubing and lego mindstorms. Instead of a burning man, there would be a giant neon Carl Sagan pointing to the stars and people would ceremonially walk up to Carl every night and charge their electronics devices.
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Aug 9, 2013 01:32
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Noni posted:I'm sorry. I'm bitter. I'm sad that there's not a big festival for science nerds in the middle of the desert. We wouldn't even give a poo poo about the heat, because everyone would be wearing home-made cooling suits made from copper tubing and lego mindstorms. Instead of a burning man, there would be a giant neon Carl Sagan pointing to the stars and people would ceremonially walk up to Carl every night and charge their electronics devices. Please be our prophet and lead us into the desert.
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Aug 9, 2013 01:44
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Noni posted:I'm sorry. I'm bitter. I'm sad that there's not a big festival for science nerds in the middle of the desert. We wouldn't even give a poo poo about the heat, because everyone would be wearing home-made cooling suits made from copper tubing and lego mindstorms. Instead of a burning man, there would be a giant neon Carl Sagan pointing to the stars and people would ceremonially walk up to Carl every night and charge their electronics devices. You have your vision. Now start your kickstarter.
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Mmmm yes a festival for people obsessed with technology in a place that has none of it and few ways to use it.
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theflyingexecutive posted:Mmmm yes a festival for people obsessed with technology in a place that has none of it and few ways to use it. Giant neon Carl Sagan would approve.
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theflyingexecutive posted:Mmmm yes a festival for people obsessed with technology in a place that has none of it and few ways to use it. But that's pretty much Burning Man already, with the drones and the 3D printers and the genome laser show and the solar-powered blenders and all the light-up doohickeys and geodesic what-nots. It's where hippies and techies find their common ground of tripping balls and getting naked. AlbieQuirky has a new favorite as of 05:26 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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Aug 9, 2013 05:18
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DStecks posted:I had always wondered what happened to HATE TROLL TIM; apparently he's been permabanned for some SA-Mart shenanigans. Goddamn it Tim.  Edit: http://timb.us Well if that isn't just the gooniest looking motherfucker.... Elissia posted:bubicorn! 
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Noni posted:I'm sorry. I'm bitter. I'm sad that there's not a big festival for science nerds in the middle of the desert. We wouldn't even give a poo poo about the heat, because everyone would be wearing home-made cooling suits made from copper tubing and lego mindstorms. Instead of a burning man, there would be a giant neon Carl Sagan pointing to the stars and people would ceremonially walk up to Carl every night and charge their electronics devices. I am going to print this out and hang it next to my picture of Tommy Chong in my smoking corner. This is so beautiful it hurts. JossiRossi posted:Please be our prophet and lead us into the desert. And we sayeth, Amen. Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:You have your vision. Now start your kickstarter. And we sayeth, Amen. Guavanaut posted:Giant neon Carl Sagan would approve. We ask this in Sagans' name, Amen.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Goddamn it Tim. He also went full-on obsessed with Lore and eventually came off like a stalking creep. No shocker there.
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Beeswax posted:He also went full-on obsessed with Lore and eventually came off like a stalking creep. No shocker there. I admit, I too put a little too much effort in confronting the Lore guy about how irrational he was being, but he may have put quite a bit more time into his efforts.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Harry "fat neckbearded ginger babyman compared Blade 2 to cunnilingus how is this man still relevant" Knowles wants $100,000 to make an internet movie review series. Ugh, he's probably gonna get his funding too. Now now Alan Smithee you have to stop hating on Kickstarters that seemingly ask for more money than is required for base overhead, some of that money is going to good use such as merchandise and other such fan outreach like-  gently caress everything 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Naw, he mentioned in the Lore comments that he'd been a top level student before he got an acquired brain injury. The comment section on the KS page had thousands of comments and he replied to a bunch of them. He even changed a few elements of the pitch in response and created an in-game character called Hate Troll Tim in response to a goon's repeated comments. An admin then changed that goon's SA username changed to HATE TROLL TIM. Geez, that's kinda sad. I haven't felt this bad about laughing at something on the internet since Merrill Howard Kalin's cooking show. Noni posted:It's pretty self-explanatory, man. Boobs. Unicorn. Bubicorn. I would be absolutely shocked if Bubicorn's invention didn't involve drugs. Quick. Someone put floppy dicks on a pegasus and try to compete for the same donor dollars.
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opaopa13 posted:For $50,000, everyone has to work for free on their own time. On an MMORPG. But for $60,000, everyone can work full-time on the game! In a comment, he mentions at least four employees. Assuming two years of development, that means everyone's bringing home a fat $1,000/year salary.  I want to know what suckers this guy roped in. I made like 35k doing my internship. INTERN. I can't imagine being there for the company meeting where my neckbeard boss is saying, "Okay, everybody! We've got $50,000 in crowdfunded venture capital! That's all the money. Not a penny of it will be used for payroll. You guys can still get student loans, right?"
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You see it more often than you should (especially since Kickstarter should probably be vetting their submissions for unreasonable/exploitative poo poo like this- though I guess the argument generally is either "many Kickstarter pitches seek to gain only a portion of the necessary funding for the completion of a project because they have other investment sources/if they tried to get everything they'd risk not making goal so we're assuming there's more somewhere" or "maybe he just found some collaborators who are really passionate about the project"). It's the intersection of "idea people" not having a drat clue about what they're doing and a general undervaluing of the arts/creative work that exists in society. Talk to any designer/artist/photographer/creative professional and they'll have at least a few stories of lovely clients who seemed to think that there was no problem with trying to pay a pittance for something because "it's just drawings/music/etc.- you're basically just doing your hobby. Never mind that you sank 36 hours of labor into it." The sad thing is that the recent economic issues have made it acceptable for established firms that should know better to do it too- even now that the economy's been improving. I live in Boston and have several art grad friends in the area, and it's really depressing to see them shoulder their student loans and try to get a footing in an industry that has decided that 60-hour work weeks with 1-3 year turnovers for "unpaid internship" are now fair game.
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Alan Smithee posted:Ugh, he's probably gonna get his funding too. "Well treated PA" is a phrase that reads to me like "we don't physically hit you, and we only start yelling if you don't do what we want within two seconds of us asking"
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Just so nobody else gets their hopes up for the project based on that image: there's no mention of Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosting the whole show via crystal ball. Not even as a stretch goal.
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QwertyAsher posted:"Well treated PA" is a phrase that reads to me like "we don't physically hit you, and we only start yelling if you don't do what we want within two seconds of us asking" Wait, wait, wait. They want people to pay 200$ to fly their asses out to wherever the hell they film, secure lodging, and do labor for them? What the loving christ.
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mks5000 posted:Wait, wait, wait. They want people to pay 200$ to fly their asses out to wherever the hell they film, secure lodging, and do labor for them? It's most likely the reward of someone who has no experience, and thinks PAs are overall useless.
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Waffleman_ posted:So the design doc for Everquest Next, then? Nah, he's still more grounded in reality than EQ Next. Or at least the EQ Next the MMOHMO thread has hyped themselves up to expect.
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The PA thing sounds more like "you can come hang out on set and eat with us and we'll give you a phony credit on IMDB" than "you have to come here and work."
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1118525365/fund-giant-snowman-in-nyc-versus-global-warming?ref=live (slightly  )$3000 to build a snowman in New York in August. How has this guy gone 40 days into a 50 day campaign without receiving a single penny in support?
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Jedit posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1118525365/fund-giant-snowman-in-nyc-versus-global-warming?ref=live (slightly It doesn't help that his video does a poo poo job of explaining what he does, who he is, or what his experience is. I mean, if my work had been on Anderson Cooper like his description says then that's like one of the first things I'd talk about. TheJoker138 posted:The PA thing sounds more like "you can come hang out on set and eat with us and we'll give you a phony credit on IMDB" than "you have to come here and work." Yeah, it's funny how so many media Kickstarter projects seem to feature "be a PA" as one of the reward tiers. It's undoubtedly inspired by similar sweepstakes that TV shows/record labels/athletic teams used to do more often (most recently I remember seeing one to "be Psy's 'assistant' for a weekend" where you got to ride around in a limo and go for a shopping spree or something like that). The thing is, those are contests with money behind them, and they're really all-expense-paid trips and backstage passes/celebrity meet-n-greets dressed up as "be our employee *wink* for a week." Nobody's actually doing any labor beyond maybe getting to wear a headset and stand behind a camera for a photo. Why anybody would want to pay extra for "come crash on a mattress in my apartment/suburban house (or not- gonna have to find your own lodgings and transport) and watch us cobble together our struggling indie project" is beyond me. trilobite terror has a new favorite as of 18:35 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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Jedit posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1118525365/fund-giant-snowman-in-nyc-versus-global-warming?ref=live (slightly quote:This fund will help me get to NYC and build a 15 foot Snowman in Times Square New York City which will be garbed in a giant native headdress, peace pipe and native American. So he's going to make a snowman of a Native American stereotype wearing a Native American?  quote:This is Celebrity Snowman! It's everyone's favorite celebrity: Native American!  quote:A real native American, my Sister, will be dressed in a Pocahontas bikini and will play authentic native American songs on her wooden flute. Jesus Christ this project is so e: You know what? I'm gonna go there. This is racist. dijon du jour has a new favorite as of 19:52 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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dijon du jour posted:So he's going to make a snowman Whoa whoa WHOA you can't just go throwing around the 's' word without this guy's permission. He's got a patent on snowmen. Well, he patented his wacky new snowman making technology at least. The patent itself has some hilarious technical illustrations: 
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At least his snowmen are on par with professional sandsculpteurs from around the globe! Such attention to detail in his snowmen.. I should go back him..
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Shill posted:At least his snowmen are on par with professional sandsculpteurs from around the globe! Such attention to detail in his snowmen.. I should go back him.. Just in case anyone couldn't be bothered checking and was wondering what his snowmen actually looked like: 
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dijon du jour posted:Jesus Christ this project is so Watch the pitch video and add sexist too - not to mention totally loving creepy, seeing as how he's putting his own goddamn sister in a bikini to attract attention to it.
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Jedit posted:Watch the pitch video and add sexist too - not to mention totally loving creepy, seeing as how he's putting his own goddamn sister in a bikini to attract attention to it. Hey, My sister is a beautiful and wonderful human being. And she looks uber-hot in a "Femi-Tonto" bikini. It's "Ironic" sexy racism. No kink-shaming here.
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Red Minjo posted:Is he allowed to use, without even crediting it, about half of Sweet Child of Mine in his pitch video? I'm guessing that the answer is "No." Traditional Native American songs.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Whoa whoa WHOA you can't just go throwing around the 's' word without this guy's permission. He's got a patent on snowmen. I like how for the "electro static" snowman, instead of making some kind of simple lightning or electricity graphics, he just had the snowman hold the logo for the San Diego Chargers.
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