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Freakbox posted:Out of curiosity, is there a place on SA to post kickstarters we LIKE? There's PYF Kickstarter project in PYF, as well as threads for video games kickstarters and traditional games kickstarters
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There's a really awesome one or two out there that I think some of the Goons I know would like.
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SoundMonkey posted:The off-the-shelf audio amp screwed to plywood is pretty great too. I'm not saying it's terrible idea (although it is), it just doesn't look like something I need to pay a guy for since he just told me how to rig one up in about ten minutes. I'm thinking car battery + amp + plywood means it will also start fires for those times when you're caught in an avalanche (brilliant idea to use a "Bonfire" backpack, btw). Obviously your tunes will suffer, but... As far as doing it yourself, obviously you're paying him for the thing so you don't have to make it. Clearly he knows his target market (young men into outdoor activities) and understands that these types of people don't try to figure things out for themselves or anything. These lazy types tend to be observers who like having things done for them, which is why they are into skiing, mountain climbing, kayaking, and all those other outdoorsy type things. (Don't forget taking showers)
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ChocNitty posted:For all your quality, professional quidditch brooms, hoops, and team merch, check out https://www.petersonsbrooms.com These people are allowed to vote for president.
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The competitive Starcraft 2 themed visual novel just reached its $7k goal with an average pledge of ~$46. Finally, the crossover market of "eSports" shutins and weeaboo shutins has the product they've been clamoring for.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:The competitive Starcraft 2 themed visual novel just reached its $7k goal with an average pledge of ~$46. Finally, the crossover market of "eSports" shutins and weeaboo shutins has the product they've been clamoring for. Isn't that a goon-run project that exists primarily to make fun of visual novels etc?
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Kickstarter just announced that Australian projects can be launched from Nov 13. We'll soon have a whole slew of awful KS projects with an Aussie twist!  (And maybe one or two decent projects, who knows.)
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DancingPenguin posted:Isn't that a goon-run project that exists primarily to make fun of visual novels etc? It's definitely goon-run, but it seems to focus more on the competitive SC scene- in all other respects, it seems like your usual visual novel.
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DancingPenguin posted:Isn't that a goon-run project that exists primarily to make fun of visual novels etc?
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Talkie Toaster posted:Well, this is their artist's deviantart page. That doesn't fill me with faith that they're taking the piss. Whether or not it still is, it did at least start as a parody.
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theflyingorc posted:These people are allowed to vote for president. One thing I noticed: it's full contact and co-ed. While the game itself is pretty goofy, there's something to be said about not having teams segregated by sex.
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thylacine posted:One thing I noticed: it's full contact and co-ed. While the game itself is pretty goofy, there's something to be said about not having teams segregated by sex. How much contact could there literally be in a game of broomstick dodgeball with a minigame of hide and go seek? I wasn't aware gender mixing validates a "sport"
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OrganizedInsanity posted:How much contact could there literally be in a game of broomstick dodgeball with a minigame of hide and go seek? I wasn't aware gender mixing validates a "sport" These people are trying really hard to sell quidditch as a tough sport. "Looks there's tackling! And Blood!" The thing is, I've seen Murderball, and a game literally designed to be played by quadriplegics is rougher than this poo poo.
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Yea I guess you can say I'm pretty hardcore, I play full contact fake quidditch, none of that pussy flag poo poo here.
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quote:Alex Benepe, Comissioner, International Quidditch Association Why is this a thing? At least I can get some closure on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory now, Willie Wonka went Mark Cuban and bought himself all of Quidditch
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Shanghaied posted:These people are trying really hard to sell quidditch as a tough sport. "Looks there's tackling! And Blood!" I don't know. The only way I'd ever play Quidditch would be to get completely hammered before and bring brass knuckles. I'd play the ball that hits people in the face of course.
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Morglon posted:I don't know. The only way I'd ever play Quidditch would be to get completely hammered before and bring brass knuckles. I'd play the ball that hits people in the face of course. I actually really never understood why its legal to hit bowling balls at people but instead of just flying instead of just beating them with a bat.
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OrganizedInsanity posted:How much contact could there literally be in a game of broomstick dodgeball with a minigame of hide and go seek? I wasn't aware gender mixing validates a "sport" The parent in me got a little concerned when there was tussling for the ball and it looked like the end of the broomstick was getting close to people's faces. If it was a real sport people would use the sticks offensively like that, necessitating face masks, etc. The fact that the players don't doesn't show how friendly they are about this big community of nerds, it shows that this isn't really a sport. The world Quidditch commissioner got that title by claiming it, in the same way that I am now claiming the title of inter-galactic Quidditch commissioner. Dibs.
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JDM3 posted:The parent in me got a little concerned when there was tussling for the ball and it looked like the end of the broomstick was getting close to people's faces. If it was a real sport people would use the sticks offensively like that, necessitating face masks, etc. The fact that the players don't doesn't show how friendly they are about this big community of nerds, it shows that this isn't really a sport. The world Quidditch commissioner got that title by claiming it, in the same way that I am now claiming the title of inter-galactic Quidditch commissioner. Dibs. Clearly I should start a kickstarter for "safety brooms" - a limp styrofoam stick you pin between your legs. I just can't help but feel that this is some level of cargo-culting going on. Take the sport of polo for example, there are variants of the sport like cycle polo, canoe polo, elephant polo, camel polo, but fundamentally the idea is the same - as well as ball-handling, the sports also requires skills in handling the means of conveyance, whether it's a horse, a bike or a canoe. Take away the element of conveyance then it's no longer polo - if you are just going to be running around on foot with a hobby horse between your legs, you might as well be playing field hockey at that point. Without the flying brooms quidditch or muggle quidditch or whatever they like to call it is basically just handball. You know, except handball is actually a full-contact sport played by people who are actually athletic. Shanghaied has a new favorite as of 16:50 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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So what you're saying is it's not real Quidditch unless it involves ultralights. I could get behind that.
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:So what you're saying is it's not real Quidditch unless it involves ultralights. I could get behind that. Holy poo poo, you are actually on to something! Quickly, patent that poo poo before I do!
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It could involve riding on pocket bikes. Maybe that would work. They wouldn't fly of course, but it'd be better than useless broomsticks.
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I like how "doing the impossible" went from landing on the moon to making a gimmick game based on Harry Potter, according to that documentary. Boy, have our standards fallen.
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ranbo das posted:I like how "doing the impossible" went from landing on the moon to making a gimmick game based on Harry Potter, according to that documentary. Boy, have our standards fallen. Look he said "doing the impossible", not "doing the worthwhile".
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JDM3 posted:The parent in me got a little concerned when there was tussling for the ball and it looked like the end of the broomstick was getting close to people's faces. If it was a real sport people would use the sticks offensively like that, necessitating face masks, etc. The fact that the players don't doesn't show how friendly they are about this big community of nerds, it shows that this isn't really a sport. The world Quidditch commissioner got that title by claiming it, in the same way that I am now claiming the title of inter-galactic Quidditch commissioner. Dibs. This is fascinating. Are there different "versions" of broomstick? If I buy the special edition Firebolt (C) do I get to force the other players to play extra slow to simulate the speed and performance it provides?
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:So what you're saying is it's not real Quidditch unless it involves ultralights. I could get behind that. This is the first time I've been even remotely interested in any part of Harry Potter.
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Only play Quidditch in freefall. All players, balls and goalposts are thrown from a plane and the game is played until you hit the appropriate parachute deployment altitude. Matches last around two and a half minutes.
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MrYenko posted:This is the first time I've been even remotely interested in any part of Harry Potter. The blodger is a Redeye missile OFC
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Fatkraken posted:Only play Quidditch in freefall. All players, balls and goalposts are thrown from a plane and the game is played until you hit the appropriate parachute deployment altitude. Matches last around two and a half minutes. Use long thin tubes of pressurized gas (essentially stretched out fire extinguishers) for brooms. Now except for the actual game aspect, this is starting to shape up into something kind of cool.
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Fatkraken posted:Only play Quidditch in freefall. All players, balls and goalposts are thrown from a plane and the game is played until you hit the appropriate parachute deployment altitude. Matches last around two and a half minutes. This could be the only sport that improves when matches go to extra time.
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Fatkraken posted:Only play Quidditch in freefall. All players, balls and goalposts are thrown from a plane and the game is played until you hit the appropriate parachute deployment altitude. Matches last around two and a half minutes. The prize for the winning team is to have their parachutes deploy. You know, I actually hope Quidditch gets massively popular, because I see the end point of the phenomenon being the construction of the stadium equivalent of a giant air-hockey table.
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Jedit posted:This could be the only sport that improves when matches go to extra time. Overtime could, quite literally, be sudden death mode.
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So, that CENTERPIECE board game that was talked about a few pages back, didn't get funded, as we all expected. To be honest, between the hilarious pitch video and the first update posted by the creator, I'm really curious to know just how bizarre the game is. I looked at the updates and it seems like he was trying to sell it on Ebay but I couldn't find it myself. The last update is for backers only, is there anyone here who backed it and can share with us what he said? Link to the Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/844250995/centerpiece-small-box-holds-a-full-sized-board-gam
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Shanghaied posted:Clearly I should start a kickstarter for "safety brooms" - a limp styrofoam stick you pin between your legs. The only worthwhile Harry Potter broom merchandize was a kids' vibrating magical broom. The real shocker was when little girls seemed to REALLY enjoy 'riding' them for extended periods.
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Nenonen posted:The only worthwhile Harry Potter broom merchandize was a kids' vibrating magical broom. The real shocker was when little girls seemed to REALLY enjoy 'riding' them for extended periods. Well any broom would be worthwhile in that after you're done embarrassing yourself you can sweep up before you slink away in shame.
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Honestly kind of surprised that nobody has tried playing quiddich with those autonomous quadcopter rotors that sound like nothing so much as the End of Days itself. You could even put lego dudes on the top, and if they get knocked off then that copter is sent to the penalty box. The smackybludgers (i don't remember their actual name) could be a pair of those tennis ball launchers mounted on tank treads.
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Young Freud posted:Animation is traditionally very expensive to produce. Most routine television cartoon animation costs about $1500 to produce one minute of animation, while feature films are about $80,000 to 1 million dollars depending on the quality of the work. Bee and Puppycat is asking $16k a minute. Little Witch Academia was asking $10k a minute on Kickstarter, GITS Stand Alone Complex was allegedly one of the more expensive animes and cost $12k a minute. We'll have to see how good it looks.
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Carecat posted:GITS Stand Alone Complex was allegedly one of the more expensive animes and cost $12k a minute. (You also need to realise that the Japanese animators get paid way below minimum wage, $300 or $400 a month for a full time job)
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Remember also that these Kickstarter projects have to factor in Amazon/KS Inc's share plus the cost to produce and mail out out the pledge rewards which could easily gobble up 25% of the funds raised. There's been a few 'successful' projects which ended up bankrupting the creators when they didn't realise that the pledge reward costs can get crazy expensive if the project really takes off.
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For  I will send you the foolproof guide to making a killing on a marginally successful Kickstarter project. All you need to supply is an idea that sounds good enough to get funding, but which cannot ever actually work.
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JDM3 posted:For Are perpetual machines accepted?
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