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Guavanaut posted:Bank of Scotland completely stopped doing them years ago, but RBS still issue them and they sometimes float around. It's a shame really, because I prefer the idea of a nice foldable note to a fat bulky coin that has a 3% chance of being made of lead and tin. I'd think that paper bills are way easier to fake if anything. Were these polymer or is US currency not worth enough to merit metal counterfeits?
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Dogdoo 8 posted:I'd think that paper bills are way easier to fake if anything. Were these polymer or is US currency not worth enough to merit metal counterfeits? Most UK bills have multiple anti-counterfeiting measures, such as watermarks, metal strips, UV markings, microprinting, etc. Overall about 0.0047% of banknotes are assumed to be fakes, as opposed to 3% of pound coins, so that's quite a difference. Also when the print technology exists to implement anti-counterfeiting, the cost of applying it to a new bill is low, whereas if a counterfeiter manages to work around that, chances are they'll go for the higher (but not too high) value ones, so the £20 makes up most of that 0.0047%. In comparison the technology needed to fake comparatively high value coins like the one pound or one euro is not anywhere close. It doesn't help that the Swazi lilangeni coin is minted from the exact same planchets as the British pound coin, so it has the same metal, diameter, and mass at a fraction of the cost.
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Dogdoo 8 posted:I'd think that paper bills are way easier to fake if anything. Were these polymer or is US currency not worth enough to merit metal counterfeits? It's actually rather difficult to get the cloth you need to make real feeling US "paper" money, and there's no point in investing in that cloth paper and a proper printing machine for bills under $20 or $50. Since the largest value coin most people use is a quarter, I can't imagine that stamping out and mass distributing counterfeit coins is a viable long term thing. It used to be more popular when vending machines and other automated coin acceptors just triggered on weight and size, you could easily make metal slugs that would register properly. But now most of them also detect magnetic/electric signal passthrough in them which makes it much harder to just plop out working slugs.
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Here's one of my horrible, godawful locals: Elodia, which is totally not a generic RPG. I love the hastily scribbled character concept art. Note the the erased feet. Obviously they weren't up to the standards of the rest of the drawing. Donate lots and become a tree level club member and get all their future games for free. With a pedigree of titles such as Journey of Special Average Balloon, the possibilities are endless! click.boom.win a bullet hell where "lasers fly past from all angles", but really just 90 degree ones. The programmer seems pretty terrible in the gameplay videos since he seems to be absorbing a lot of shots. Victor Surge has a new favorite as of 08:22 on Aug 31, 2013 |
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Elodia posted:Yet, Steam users seems to hate our game for their reasons and it will be hard to recover this greenlight campaign. To overcome this challenge we are finding different markets to place our game on Well, at least they're honest. Might I recommend the Ouya Free the Games promotion?
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Install Windows posted:It's actually rather difficult to get the cloth you need to make real feeling US "paper" money, and there's no point in investing in that cloth paper and a proper printing machine for bills under $20 or $50. True, but what people have been doing for at least six years now is washing 5s and 10s and printing much larger bills onto them. It's not common, but it isn't uncommon. Mix it with minimal social engineering, you just got a $100 meal for $25. (And of course you tip well so they don't suspect anything next time)
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Kaizoku posted:True, but what people have been doing for at least six years now is washing 5s and 10s and printing much larger bills onto them. It's not common, but it isn't uncommon. Mix it with minimal social engineering, you just got a $100 meal for $25. (And of course you tip well so they don't suspect anything next time) That's why it's important to hold large bills up to a strong light and check the magnetic strip. It has the worth of the bill printed on it.
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I bought one of those gimmicky magic wallets (where the bills get folded into elastic bands) because it had a Springsteen album cover on it. It could barely hold coins and broke after a month. But Kickstarter just announced its expanding into Australia and NZ, so expect microwallets for the plastic bill and gold coin market.
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Can I buy a pair of assless chaps and use its picture as a concept for my new "wallet?"
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Alan Smithee posted:Can I buy a pair of assless chaps and use its picture as a concept for my new "wallet?" Contains a concealed storage compartment for storing your USB stick of bitcoins.
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Aug 31, 2013 12:42
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Guavanaut posted:Just use a picture of an rear end. But how am I supposed to sell something if people cut out the middleman?
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Alan Smithee posted:But how am I supposed to sell something if people cut out the middleman? The invisible middle finger of the free market.
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This is how I imagine you're supposed to browse YOSPOS. I find it amusing that this idea was apparently so revolutionary, there's a second KickStarter for the exact same thing. Give me a dollar, and I'll write you a word. Tolstoy's War and Peace has a word count of approximately 600,000 and spans about 1500 pages. This guy wants a hundred thousand dollars in total, so he's either going to spend twenty years trying to place all of his submitted words in a vaguely coherent order, write a book that dwarfs even the longest novels in word count, or the resulting word mash will simply suck and not really be readable in any kind of way.
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Zybourne Clock posted:Give me a dollar, and I'll write you a word. Tolstoy's War and Peace has a word count of approximately 600,000 and spans about 1500 pages. This guy wants a hundred thousand dollars in total, so he's either going to spend twenty years trying to place all of his submitted words in a vaguely coherent order, write a book that dwarfs even the longest novels in word count, or the resulting word mash will simply suck and not really be readable in any kind of way. The trolling opportunities for this are literally limitless.
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The picture for point 3 is fantastic. Skateboarding while wearing a headset that presumably only lets you see through a 2d video taken from an inch to the left of your left eye. What's the worst that could happen.
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Great Rumbler posted:The trolling opportunities for this are literally limitless. Perhaps, but all he has to do is write a word and you still pay him.
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Give me a dollar, and I'll write you a word. Tolstoy's War and Peace has a word count of approximately 600,000 and spans about 1500 pages. This guy wants a hundred thousand dollars in total, so he's either going to spend twenty years trying to place all of his submitted words in a vaguely coherent order, write a book that dwarfs even the longest novels in word count, or the resulting word mash will simply suck and not really be readable in any kind of way. [/quote] A quality, well edited book in just over a year?
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Zybourne Clock posted:This is how I imagine you're supposed to browse YOSPOS. I find it amusing that this idea was apparently so revolutionary, there's a second KickStarter for the exact same thing. Here's an experiment you can try at home. Hold your smartphone screen really close to your face - like an inch away - while it is showing a movie (or even to read this post). Nobody who attempts this will invest.
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Zybourne Clock posted:This is how I imagine you're supposed to browse YOSPOS. I find it amusing that this idea was apparently so revolutionary, there's a second KickStarter for the exact same thing. And it's been going for less than 24 hours and they've already got £7k with a month and a half to go. This piece of poo poo is actually going to get funded. edit: and the pitch even reads like something written by a high-schooler  quote:The principle is very simple and super-powerful; compared to other methods, vrAse creates the 3D image, by sending each eye its own information. quote:The Smartphone is a machine built for communications, so you can also stream the contents and games from various devices, such as the PC, MAC and TV. Pretty good has a new favorite as of 15:05 on Aug 31, 2013 |
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JDM3 posted:Here's an experiment you can try at home. Hold your smartphone screen really close to your face - like an inch away - while it is showing a movie (or even to read this post). Those things have lenses. Similar to the Oculus Rift but cheaper I think.
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The vrase just beat out G Glass for toolest gadget
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Zybourne Clock posted:This is how I imagine you're supposed to browse YOSPOS. I find it amusing that this idea was apparently so revolutionary, there's a second KickStarter for the exact same thing.  Uhh
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What are his headphones attached to in #2 if his phone is attached to his face?
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How do you use the phone at all if there's no way for your fingers to reach the touchscreen?
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Well Manicured Man posted:How do you use the phone at all if there's no way for your fingers to reach the touchscreen?
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SUBLIME! posted:
Image looks like they censored his eyes because [they look like nipples] [he is embarrassed and wants anonymity] [is really basilisk whose eyes turn you to stone] [other reason].
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Can't wait until the first fatal crash when someone using one of those things as a gopro has their battery die/their screen go dead
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Well Manicured Man posted:How do you use the phone at all if there's no way for your fingers to reach the touchscreen? I asked them and this is their response vrAse: The Smartphone Virtual Reality Case posted:Thanks for your interest! Cerevisiae has a new favorite as of 16:22 on Aug 31, 2013 |
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Kaizoku posted:True, but what people have been doing for at least six years now is washing 5s and 10s and printing much larger bills onto them. It's not common, but it isn't uncommon. Mix it with minimal social engineering, you just got a $100 meal for $25. (And of course you tip well so they don't suspect anything next time) Of course, but that's why you're washing your $5s to make $20s and your $10s to make $50s, instead of washing $1s to make $5s. 
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Yeah, as a British national I can't not read it as vArse. Just slide your phone into vArse and attach vArse to your face. Go skateboarding with your buddy and smash your face into a wall when your missus calls to ask you what you want for dinner tonight.
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Zybourne Clock posted:This is how I imagine you're supposed to browse YOSPOS. I find it amusing that this idea was apparently so revolutionary, there's a second KickStarter for the exact same thing. My dreams of becoming the ultimate gamer are near 
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WickedHate posted:I keep reading it as "Arse". You aren't the only one.
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Zybourne Clock posted:This is how I imagine you're supposed to browse YOSPOS. I find it amusing that this idea was apparently so revolutionary, there's a second KickStarter for the exact same thing. both your links vArse go to the same spot so I'm not sure if you're an idiot and linked the same thing twice or you're an idiot and thought the same link was two different kickstarters. In more important news, I can't stop reading that product as the vArse rather then the vrAse. It rolls off the tongue much better
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Sigma-X posted:both your links vArse go to the same spot so I'm not sure if you're an idiot and linked the same thing twice or you're an idiot and thought the same link was two different kickstarters. I pasted the same link twice. The other product is called '360specs', and this is their KickStarter. 
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This looks like a screenshot from a 1990s movie. It has both "extreme" and "cyber" in it, two hallmarks of 1990s direct-to-video cinema.
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WickedHate posted:I keep reading it as "Arse".  Seriously how can this not be a joke.-
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Laphroaig posted:
"I just don't understand why creeps keep asking me if I'm into fisting or coming up to me and yelling 'FALCON PUNCH!'." "Your shirt depicts a fist moving at the speed of light." "Oh."
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