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Grim Up North posted:Backed it too. I didn't get in on the Doobie goonrush, but this cat is just too cute. It reminds me of my late cat, actually. The Doobie rush is still going on. 
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Depressing Drawers posted:Have you ever dreamed of owning your own Hot Dog Stand? Need an accurate simulation of this exciting trade on your windows 8 device? Give $100 and you get a book of all the artwork. Even if the artwork wasn't as terrible as this picture, you'd just be getting a book full of excellent hot dog drawings.
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Not a Doctor Who Ripoff, Really How does this guy not get sued, especially with the iconic telephone box? He was funded for Season 1 and some kind of prequel, but both were for small amounts of money ($25K and $12K respectively.) Now he wants $125K.
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monster on a stick posted:Not a Doctor Who Ripoff, Really It's a joke from Community, so it's covered under satire probably. It's still not good, though.
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Sep 27, 2013 19:27
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Oh my god Robert Picardo have all my money.
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Depressing Drawers posted:Have you ever dreamed of owning your own Hot Dog Stand? Need an accurate simulation of this exciting trade on your windows 8 device? This is even a blatant ripoff of Lemonade Stand, a game which has been out for 40 years and played by most everyone who owned an Apple II. How much money does he need to take the freely available source code and do a search and replace of "lemonade" for "hot dog"? Nipponophile has a new favorite as of 21:43 on Sep 27, 2013 |
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Sep 27, 2013 21:41
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TheJoker138 posted:It's a joke from Community, so it's covered under satire probably.
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keithy george posted:Although it's stealing someone else's parody, so it becomes flat out theft of that? The folks behind Community are generally wryly amused by all the weird fan videos the show inspires, not sure if NBC/Universal approves or even cares at this point.
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Anoia posted:The folks behind Community are generally wryly amused by all the weird fan videos the show inspires, not sure if NBC/Universal approves or even cares at this point. That's part of why it's not called Inspector Spacetime and instead has that absurd long name is to poke fun that they were told not to use the name. Also, it's in a strange spot as a fan show because the in show clips of Inspector Spacetime starred the same guy.
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Anoia posted:The folks behind Community are generally wryly amused by all the weird fan videos the show inspires, not sure if NBC/Universal approves or even cares at this point. They actually disowned the guy because he tried to capitalize off of it behind their back. That's why he isn't in season 3 of Community at all, despite having an entire episode based around a Dr. Spacetime convention. A while back he originally tried to crowdsourse an Inspector Spacetime webseries and he got C&D'd, that's why he doesn't use the name anymore.
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I discovered one of the free glitch art generators on the internet and I need $550. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234953675/memories-corrupt-a-glitch-photography-art-exhibit?ref=recommended
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:I discovered one of the free glitch art generators on the internet and I need $550. I love that it ends with the monkey. Poor Yorick, I knew him well. Also I spent a few minutes playing with that glitch 'art' maker and felt like someone needed to give me 600 bucks.
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Atlas Shrugged Part III got a significant bump. Not idea where the backers came from.
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BiggerJ posted:Atlas Shrugged Part III got a significant bump. Not idea where the backers came from. I imagine they already had investors to begin with, hell that's how part 1 and 2 came about. They were probably like "hey let's sucker some more people into it while we can" Granted the other movies were in the millions budget wise but that just makes a 100k here and there even easier. I mean sure maybe there's some objectivist millionaire surfing Kickstarter somewhere out there but I figure the other situation is more plausible
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ThaShaneTrain posted:"Our Story: I didn't even know that there was anything underneath that big black thing. EDIT: Okay, I thought this shite stock layout looked familiar. This is some wix theme. When you mouseover the social media links, it says wix. Noyemi K has a new favorite as of 14:18 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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BiggerJ posted:Atlas Shrugged Part III got a significant bump. Not idea where the backers came from. Not surprised. Its niche is FYGM rich jerks.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:I discovered one of the free glitch art generators on the internet and I need $550.
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BiggerJ posted:Atlas Shrugged Part III got a significant bump. Not idea where the backers came from.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:To be fair, they're not all rich. Sorry, FYGM rich jerks and non-rich captains of the industry held back by the evil gubmint
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a medical mystery posted:Sorry, FYGM rich jerks and non-rich captains of the industry held back by the evil gubmint Captains of industry who inherited nearly 1000 acres of southern Minnesota farmland (given to their ancestors for free) and even with this multi-million $ gift, have difficulty competing with Cargill, et. al. and receive major government crop subsidies and other incentives to set acreage aside (to avoid oversupply). Clearly every problem they have is because of those damned Mexicans who work at the chicken factory and have the nerve to send their kids to school. IF ONLY we lived in an objectivist utopia, then their already ridiculously cushy lives would somehow be even better. I suppose a new truck every TWO years instead of dealing with it for THREE (because of Obama) and an 80" TV instead of the 72" one they have to currently endure. I can't wait for my Christmas present from dear brother-in-law: Atlas Shrugged II (to match pt. 1) and I suppose a KS certificate for delivery of pt. 3....
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JDM3 posted:I can't wait for my Christmas present from dear brother-in-law: Atlas Shrugged II (to match pt. 1) and I suppose a KS certificate for delivery of pt. 3.... Getting Atlas Shrugged as a gift? Something ironic about that.
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WickedHate posted:Getting Atlas Shrugged as a gift? Something ironic about that. Oh, I definitely pay, I pay BIG TIME.
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"Please fund my Science Fiction book because traditional publishers don't want new talent!"passage posted:The Eternal Empire, ruled over by Emperor Grallax, leader of House Obsidian, and the second oldest dragon in the galaxy, stands ready to face their ancient foe [...] Somehow you need a graphics tablet to make pixel art? When did that happen? Also, he uses the 'word' "uniquity". Noyemi K has a new favorite as of 05:26 on Sep 30, 2013 |
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Clearly science fiction is not ready for the innovation of SPACE DRAGONS 
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Noyemi K posted:"Please fund my Science Fiction book because traditional publishers don't want new talent!" Is Taygon trying to get published again? I thought he moved on to chakats now.
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I wish I knew what project led to this update to Kickstarter's guidelines:quote:-Projects cannot offer genetically modified organisms as a reward. (Updated 7/31/2013)
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Great Rumbler posted:I wish I knew what project led to this update to Kickstarter's guidelines: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plants-natural-lighting-with-no-electricit No idea how it panned out though.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Is Taygon trying to get published again? I thought he moved on to chakats now. Goddamn, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that when "immortal space dragon emperor sci-fi novel" got mentioned.
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The General posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plants-natural-lighting-with-no-electricit This has to be one those too good to be true things. I only saw people comment about the t-shirts, has anyone followed this?
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Noyemi K posted:"Please fund my Science Fiction book because traditional publishers don't want new talent!" I'm enjoying all the typos. quote:Once the initial print run of copies are printed and ready to be shipped, the scheduling of the Book Release Party is the biggest hurtle.
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Maera Sior posted:Hurtle "move or cause to move at a great speed, typically in a wildly uncontrolled manner." Sounds about right.
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The General posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plants-natural-lighting-with-no-electricit I was pretty annoyed when I heard this. I know there's legal reasons but there's already so much anti-GMO hysteria and regulation that this just removed another avenue for research.
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Noyemi K posted:"Please fund my Science Fiction book because traditional publishers don't want new talent!" I guess I don't get why he needs 5k dollars. If the book is 90% finished, can't he just finish it put it up on Amazon? Maybe even release an abridged version for free?
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Count Chocula posted:I was pretty annoyed when I heard this. I know there's legal reasons but there's already so much anti-GMO hysteria and regulation that this just removed another avenue for research. I'm all for GMO research (I've used basic GM techniques in my own work, though just as an intermediate step and nothing that was intended to produce a new variety of organism that would exist beyond the scope of the work), but I actually support kickstarter's desire to distance themselves from it. Not because GM research in general is wrong, not at all, but because I'm not sure biological research is appropriate for the platform. I'd love to see a research-oriented crowdfunding site where scientists who have been having trouble getting grants ask for money to get difficult projects off the ground, but offering the products of that research as a reward kinda strikes me as inappropriate. Also I think GM research belongs in a controlled environment with proper checks, balances and protocols, and a kickstarted project probably can't be vetted to make sure is has everything in place before it goes live. Honestly it would have been wiser for Kickstarter to distance themselves further and ban all live biological matter from being rewards, with the exception of plant seeds from existing varieties (including heirloom). Even conventional plant breeding is far from an exact science, and promising that you will create a new variety and give it as a reward is not something you can be sure you'll fulfill even without it being a GMO. Plus I seem to recall a few projects that proposed live animal rewards (I can't remember specifics so I might be wrong on this), and that one that involved a toy where the recipient would be mutilating cockroaches (something that an actual researcher would have to go through a fair bit of ethics red tape to be allowed to do) to make it work. Fatkraken has a new favorite as of 16:03 on Sep 30, 2013 |
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Alan Smithee posted:This has to be one those too good to be true things. I only saw people comment about the t-shirts, has anyone followed this? I backed that one and it seems legit. The shirts are going out now I guess, but the glow-in-the-dark plant seeds have a delivery date of June 2014. They've been posting exciting updates like a DNA unboxing video. A couple days ago they uploaded a video of their gene gun in action (nearly as exciting as the unboxing) so I guess they're making progress.
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GreenMetalSun posted:I guess I don't get why he needs 5k dollars. If the book is 90% finished, can't he just finish it put it up on Amazon? Maybe even release an abridged version for free? No, you see, putting it up on Amazon is self-publishing, which means you're not a real writer. The 5k is clearly so he can pay the distribution costs to a production house that is definitely not a vanity press. It even says on their site that they're not! At least, that's my guess, and why a friend of a friend's wife did an IGG campaign to "publish a book."
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GreenMetalSun posted:I guess I don't get why he needs 5k dollars. If the book is 90% finished, can't he just finish it put it up on Amazon? Maybe even release an abridged version for free? Sometimes people want to hire an editor and a cover designer.
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Protip: If you're trying to make a Mass Effect knockoff don't advertise having one of Bioware's most reviled ex-writers as a stretch goal. They cleaned up the comments but after they announced Jennifer "Gigglesquee" Hepler was joining their team they were buried in people withdrawing their funding explicitly because of how much ill-will she has among the very audience they were targeting.
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Oh man it's true.quote:About Jennifer Brandes Hepler I thought she quit videogames to become a novelist.
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