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pathetic little tramp posted:If these people actually gave a poo poo about the environment, this would be a kickstarter for 20$ and the result would be a PDF showing you the tools you need and supplies to convert a tin can into a grill. The environmental impact of shipping old rusted tin cans to a bunch of hipster assholes that are going to cook rust-flavoured chicken breasts on literal garbage is going to be about 30x greater than the impact of just pitching the cans in the dump. Your first mistake is assuming they cared about the environment to begin with 
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Also if you're seriously pressed to cook on a tin can you can just cut the bottom off and punch some airholes near the top, and voila, you're done. This is a sub-optimal solution to an already solved problem. edit edit- which is basically kickstarter's thing, now that I think about it.
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This strikes me as the type of thing you and some friends scribble with fabric markers on some dollar store t-shirts to laugh about while drinking, not as something you actually get professionally made. It's kind of amazing that they think one really awful slogan is something to base an entire Kickstarter and webstore around.
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A group of friends were sitting around a table, drinking their seasonal IPA craft beers, musing over what their amazing kickstarter should be about. So far, no ideas had sounded like they'd make much money. "We need something, you guys. Frank, what about you?" "I got nothing." "..." "THAT'S IT!!!"
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uh excuse me, they got nothing(TM)
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FrozenVent posted:uh excuse me, they got nothing(TM) Please keep an eye out for my upcoming kickstarter, I Don't Have Anything™
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You can literally make like a Zazzle store for free and make that design in like MS Paint. As a graphic designer, this irks me.
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To be honest, I have no idea what this kickstarter is for. I think it's for another kickstarter or maybe for Illustrator tutorials, which are the rewards https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/951664871/the-nightshade-chronicles?ref=discovery   Oh wait, I think it's about a cat • Animation Study and Capture: We intend to use your support to purchase cameras for our animation study. Those of you who own cats will agree that these lovely animals are full of life, have swift reflexes and are funny acrobats. We intend to capture these unique animations and incorporate them into the game. To do this, we will hire a studio where we can let NightShade literally 'run wild', whilst we capture her animations. • Computer systems: At the moment, we only posses 1 computer system (I know this is very shocking) for development, and in order to make The NightShade Chronicles achieve a high level of quality, we need competent computer systems for development.
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http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-want-my-nerd-hq-2014 We need $1m to put on this FREE convention. If only there was a more obvious way to make money, like charging people for tickets...
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Xandu posted:http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-want-my-nerd-hq-2014 Held in San Diego at the same time as the SDCC. This is going to be a smashing success.
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ayn rand hand job posted:Held in San Diego at the same time as the SDCC. It's raised 60k on flexible funding already. Why.
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GrandpaPants posted:It's raised 60k on flexible funding already. Every time I clicked it had gotten several thousand more. loving. Hell. Morglon has a new favorite as of 02:12 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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GrandpaPants posted:It's raised 60k on flexible funding already.  If you slap Tom Hiddleston's face on something, fat girls will wet their pants and throw money at it.
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Nerd HQ has been going on in SD at the same time as SDCC for a while now. It's run by Zachary Levi and all the proceeds from hollylolly has a new favorite as of 17:03 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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In the scheme of things it doesn't seem like a terrible crowdfunding campaign in that the people doing it actually have done something like it before and it isn't obviously a scam. The Flexible Funding thing is a mystery to me. It seems like they have a dedicated fan base. I wonder why they didn't just set the goal at 50K or 100K so that it seems more legitimate.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music Wowie, the Pono kickstarted kicked some major rear end.
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lil mortimer posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music I can't find a good explanation as to why I should ditch my iPhone's music library for a Pono.
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Wow people are willing to drop a lot of money for the sake of pretending to hear a difference between 320kbps and FLAC and reaping the smugness that follows.
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Mineaiki posted:Wow people are willing to drop a lot of money for the sake of pretending to hear a difference between 320kbps and FLAC and reaping the smugness that follows. Does this surprise you?
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Does Pono also come with a $1,000-value USB cable to protect my Arcade Fire discog from loss caused by rotational velocidensity during transfer or do I need to buy that myself and just eat ramen next month? Seriously though you haven't heard In The Aeroplane Over The Sea until you've heard it at 9216 kbps in a soundproofed room through a $2,000 rig.
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I once had to spend an hour adjusting the bitrate of a movie soundtrack way down because I first saw the movie on VHS and the cd was making me sad.
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People are spending $400 on it?  You could just go for an android phone and google tells me there are apps for iphones that can play it.
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The Lenny Kravitz Special Edition isn't selling too well... 
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pathetic little tramp posted:If these people actually gave a poo poo about the environment, this would be a kickstarter for 20$ and the result would be a PDF showing you the tools you need and supplies to convert a tin can into a grill. The environmental impact of shipping old rusted tin cans to a bunch of hipster assholes that are going to cook rust-flavoured chicken breasts on literal garbage is going to be about 30x greater than the impact of just pitching the cans in the dump. You can buy a small charcoal grill for like 5 dollars at the store.
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lil mortimer posted:The Lenny Kravitz Special Edition isn't selling too well... $400 for a Foo Fighters Special Edition. 
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hollylolly posted:Nerd HQ has been going on in SD at the same time as SDCC for a while now. It's run by Zachary Levi and all the proceeds from I like their panels and its a good cause, my point is just that doing a kickstarter instead of charging for tickets seems really silly to me. But I guess it allows them to still claim that 100% of proceeds go to charity.
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I...I don't get it. The mp3 player market died because everyone carries a perfectly good Mp3 player in their pocket...their phone. All the talk of "grassroots", "soul", "getting back to the roots" are giving me a hardcore Ouya-for-audiophiles-vibe. It doesn't even look comfortable to carry in your pocket. And yet its been funded. 
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Snuffman posted:I...I don't get it. It's even worse because one of the defining parts of being an audiophile is that you spend crazy money on poo poo no one will ever need just so that you can say you can hear the notes resonating in Dave Grohl's rear end hairs when you run your FLACs through a $4,000 rig. Ultimately Ouya was at least about being cheap and bringing the vidya to the people, perhaps counteracting the Generation 7 movement towards more expensive games with less and less actual game content, and companies monetizing what once was considered part of the job of being a developer. This product is for self-proclaimed "patricians" who are willing to drop $400 on something that will benefit them in no way at all, short- or long-term. That is not a large market, despite what some people think. It's one thing to buy a nice pair of headphones to massage your audiophile ego. It's another thing entirely for your audiophile ego to survive being subjected to yet another $400 price tag. Eventually you break down and admit that being able to claim you hear a difference is just not worth the money.
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I can sort of understand the demand of a general store for lossless quality music (I'm really into electronic music, and pretty much all of the specialist electronic music digital distributors such as Beatport and JunoDownload will be happy to sell you .wavs), but I don't really see the need to reinvent the iPod, especially considering pretty much every smartphone worth its salt these days can handle FLACs with the help of an app.
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Delusibeta posted:I can sort of understand the demand of a general store for lossless quality music (I'm really into electronic music, and pretty much all of the specialist electronic music digital distributors such as Beatport and JunoDownload will be happy to sell you .wavs), but I don't really see the need to reinvent the iPod, especially considering pretty much every smartphone worth its salt these days can handle FLACs with the help of an app. Does your phone have internal components designed by a company which makes tonewood blocks for speakers? PONO DOES. http://www.ayre.com/acc_blocks.htm I can't wait to pay 17.99 to get albums I already own.
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Give me $3,500 for my mobile-targeted Ghosts 'n Goblins infinite runner. Graveyard Runner is a fast paced, fun, witty, retro game where the point is to stay alive as long as possible and run as far as you can.  Target Platforms:
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tlarn posted:HTML 5 This is a "platform"? Really? When you already have PC listed?
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Tha Chodesweller posted:This is a "platform"? Really? When you already have PC listed? Probably just targeting everything that Gamemaker outputs to. A standalone application and a web-based one.
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lil mortimer posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music This might explain why the Pono suddenly exploded. Musician Neil Young promoted the Pono at South By Southwest, so all the indie audiophile hipsters gathered there and elsewhere are going to throw money at this thing. National Public Radio posted:Neil Young wants to start a revolution against the MP3, against the CD, poorly made vinyl and poor audio quality in general. He wants people to hear the music the way it was made.
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Here's a device: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/healbe-gobe-the-only-way-to-automatically-measure-calorie-intake  How much of this is utter bullshit? How does a wrist monitor figure out calorie intake?
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Meatwave posted:Here's a device:
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Even assuming it does work (and that's being generous), unless you have an extremely volatile diabetic condition or something similar it just seems a completely unnecessary device, I mean - 'stress levels' 'sleep status'?! If you need to know those things from an expensive gadget you've got bigger problems than that can fix.
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Snuffman posted:I...I don't get it. A separate MP3 player is nice when you listen to a lot of music on the go and your phone happens to have a lovely battery, like in my case. I can imagine a few other reasons. But even then, you're only supposed to spend like, $50 at most. It'd probably be really hard to make out the "soul" in those 192kHz flac files with all the street noise in the background.
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