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TetsuoTW posted:didn't the prank basically work anyway? Whole lot of bronies pissed that someone would use their own horsefucking desires against them, to the point that they went all out on an investigation into it. It kind of did. If I were MDE I'd be claiming some puppet mastery here even if this hadn't been the original plan. As it is it's pretty good in making both sides look silly. 
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This isn't entirely bad as much as it is unrealistic, Maybe they could gain traction by the claim that the news is well-researched and that they will continue to cover existing issues, but site hits are pretty drat important for keeping afloat and I suspect they'll have a hard time keeping it up with just donations. The goal's also a bit high and I doubt they'll make it, but they do have to hire a few writers and other journalists I guess? The question is how will they keep their readership without a big name, no heroin content goals, and without loads of ads plastered everywhere. Edit: Oh, they have a paywall. I'm not sure if it'll work when consumers are not likely to visit more than a few times (because of the unfortunate reality that the reason the big names make money off sensationalism is because it works extremely well) Edit 2: Okay, another cord holder. This is starting to get tiring. Noyemi K has a new favorite as of 14:30 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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I watched the video and he's selling a box ? Kinda jealous of his cnc machine
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Mar 25, 2014 15:55
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unpacked robinhood posted:I watched the video and he's selling a box ? Kinda jealous of his cnc machine It's a box that looks like a tiny wooden Mac Mini. Therefore it's destined to be a success.
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Paladinus posted:It's a box that looks like a tiny wooden Mac Mini. Therefore it's destined to be a success. It really is. It's gotten more pledges in the time between me posting it and now 
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TetsuoTW posted:didn't the prank basically work anyway? Whole lot of bronies pissed that someone would use their own horsefucking desires against them, to the point that they went all out on an investigation into it. Sam Hyde claimed on his facebook that he was trying to get rent money out of it.
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Well that's the second saddest reason to run a brony dating kickstarter. MDE makes me legitimately depressed. That dude needs someone to ruffle his hair and tell him it's all going to be okay.
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cord holder kickstarter posted:They can suspend a granite tile in the air but won't mar the surface of your desk when removing I know this is a stupid thing to complain about but that's not a granite tile he's showing in the picture. Unless it's dyed which I doubt. I suspect that dude has next to none of the competence required to see that project through.
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Their pledge amount keeps climbing and climbing. They're gonna make it. 
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The dude's using loving Amazonian rain forest wood for his cord holder.
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Mar 26, 2014 01:29
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quote:Those almost 10,000 early investors on Kickstarter participated in one of history’s most lucrative funding rounds from the perspective of the people receiving the funding: a $2.4 million early-stage investment in what would become a $2 billion business in a year and a half, in return for 0.0% equity. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/25/aug-1-2012-when-oculus-asked-for-donations/
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Why are people mad? "Help me make something great" And they made something great, and became billionaires doing it.
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The General posted:Why are pople mad? "Help me make something great" And they made something great, and became billionaires doing it. It's also assuming that valuation is at all accurate. It's pretty clear there's another tech bubble going on right now. You've got some of these mobile companies with a track record of success measured in months and a few million in assets being evaluated at billions. I wonder when we're going to see another "AOL buys Time Warner" situation where a massively overvalued company trades up. Oculus has potential for sure, but the only way I would believe that kind of valuation is if someone like Valve actually shelled out that amount of money to buy the company.
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Does this count?quote:
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$45,000 to make the next Terraria/Starbound/Edge of Space! Risks and Challenges posted:I am currently working on a project demo to gather the perfect skills and people to make this dream a reality. I am a solo developer with a family of six I love my family and I LOVE to code. The biggest challenge will be getting the right look for the game and the time it will take to create it. I do feel confident enough though that I can accomplish this goal by December be sure to know that I will inform you if that does not become a fact. Please help support my dream and allow me the proper tools to make this wish a reality. What's Hearthstone? Give us money for setting up an initial digital version of our card game with an eventual physical version. 
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The General posted:Why are people mad? "Help me make something great" And they made something great, and became billionaires doing it. I truly do not get it either, it seems like everyone from Notch to the developers of Starbound are crying "RIP in peace Oculus Rift!  " and just sort of assuming that the "why" is completely self-evident. The only explanation I've been able to suss out so far from some people is "Facebook only makes games for filthy casuals -> The Oculus Rift will only come out with games for filthy casuals."
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Mar 26, 2014 06:43
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dijon du jour posted:I truly do not get it either, it seems like everyone from Notch to the developers of Starbound are crying "RIP in peace Oculus Rift! I don't know. The bulk of the donations, more than half in fact, where supposedly for the $300 level where you get a developer kit, with prototype headset and software. Now that Facebook owns them, are they still liable to honor those promises?
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Young Freud posted:I don't know. The bulk of the donations, more than half in fact, where supposedly for the $300 level where you get a developer kit, with prototype headset and software. Now that Facebook owns them, are they still liable to honor those promises? Uh, yes? Contracts and obligations responsibility moving along with the purchase of a company are an explicit feature of business law.
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Neil Young's Pono has already collected five million with 20 days to go - will it surpass OUYA (8.6 million) as the most expensive proof that crowdfunding sucks?
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What am I supposed to be seeing in the overlay? Other than using the same (odd) colors for stats they look absolutely nothing alike.
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how me a frog posted:What am I supposed to be seeing in the overlay? Other than using the same (odd) colors for stats they look absolutely nothing alike. Identical game mechanics and terminology. It would have been more obvious had the poster overlaid the lovely ripoff card on one of the Hearthstone cards that deals damage to a minion as it cones into play.
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steinrokkan posted:Neil Young's Pono has already collected five million with 20 days to go - will it surpass OUYA (8.6 million) as the most expensive proof that crowdfunding sucks? I watched the Sound City documentary recently and Neil Young just seems like a confused old man these days. I'm sure he's had some great TED Talks or whatever about his revolutionary new sound experience. If it's like every single other TED Talk I've watched he probably made a painfully forced comparison between himself and Apple, which might also explain why people are throwing money at it.
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I have a really hard time believing that Occulus Rift can sell enough units to be profitable at a 2 billion dollar acquisition cost. It's an extremely niche product
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vxskud posted:I have a really hard time believing that Occulus Rift can sell enough units to be profitable at a 2 billion dollar acquisition cost. If your imagination doesn't expand past 'video game peripheral', sure.
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Mar 26, 2014 12:42
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Dissapointed Owl posted:If your imagination doesn't expand past 'video game peripheral', sure. My imagination does but my expectations certainly don't
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Jedit posted:Identical game mechanics and terminology. It would have been more obvious had the poster overlaid the lovely ripoff card on one of the Hearthstone cards that deals damage to a minion as it cones into play. Funny you'd say that:     Basing solely on that gif (and the Hearthstone card should really be this: http://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Keeper_of_the_Grove) I'd not shout plagiarism yet.
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I don't think "wants to play cool video games" is particularly niche. Loads of people like to simulate the experience of being a WWII soldier or whatever. Something that brings them closer to the actual experience (without all the genuinely nasty bits) ought to have fairly widespread appeal I imagine.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I don't think "wants to play cool video games" is particularly niche. Loads of people like to simulate the experience of being a WWII soldier or whatever. Something that brings them closer to the actual experience (without all the genuinely nasty bits) ought to have fairly widespread appeal I imagine. I think it's partly the fact that Oculus is a box you strap to your face that makes it niche [at least for the time being].
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eithedog posted:Funny you'd say that: So you don't consider it suspicious that this other digital CCG uses the same colours for resource cost, attack value and HP as Hearthstone or that it calls creatures "minions"? Some things are generic and you can copy them; others you cannot.
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Great Rumbler posted:I think it's partly the fact that Oculus is a box you strap to your face that makes it niche [at least for the time being]. Transhumanism baby Bring on the singularity 
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It's really hard to copywrite game mechanics, even iconic ones. Hasbro could only get away with "land as a resource" and "turning a card sideways ("tapping") to indicate a card action", if memory serves
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Also if WotC had done an at-all competent job at developing an online version of Magic, I doubt Blizzard would have been as willing to create a card game that is so similar. But because WotC seems incapable or unwilling to develop an online presence that doesn't feel like it was made by a 14 year old in 1997, Blizzard saw a poorly met market and came up with something to fill it.
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Jedit posted:So you don't consider it suspicious that this other digital CCG uses the same colours for resource cost, attack value and HP as Hearthstone or that it calls creatures "minions"? Some things are generic and you can copy them; others you cannot. I'd say that those things are not really important - generally health will be red (duh), mana (= souls) will be blue (thanks Diablo), there will be creatures with attack/defense. You could argue as such that any game where you draw a card during every turn is "drawing similarities". Or that cards should differ in size and placement of attributes. Reading through the game rules I can't find many similarities to Hearthstone (or MtG for that matter) - casting minions costs you souls, which you get 3 each turn (not that important as well); you've got something called Infernus Lord, but the ruling about it is unclear to me (but if it dies, you loose), you've got resource zones, there's difference between number of total creatures on the battlefield ("2 minions at the resource zone at a given time and 5 minions on the battlefield"), you can move minions around the battlefield (hi Scrolls) and get additional souls for occupying given resource zone. Currently as well the setting is demons / hell / something scary, don't know. Still, it doesn't sound too exciting and is confusing, at least in the terms of what you do to win. Also, I'd think there's enough of market saturation for people not to play another TCG. Rosalind posted:Also if WotC had done an at-all competent job at developing an online version of Magic, I doubt Blizzard would have been as willing to create a card game that is so similar. But because WotC seems incapable or unwilling to develop an online presence that doesn't feel like it was made by a 14 year old in 1997, Blizzard saw a poorly met market and came up with something to fill it. I'd say that this, pretty much. I hate it that I cannot officially play MtG, and instead have to hack my way with Magic Workstation. canis minor has a new favorite as of 16:13 on Mar 26, 2014 |
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Great Rumbler posted:I think it's partly the fact that Oculus is a box you strap to your face that makes it niche [at least for the time being]. Please don't toolshame.
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Great Rumbler posted:I think it's partly the fact that Oculus is a box you strap to your face that makes it niche [at least for the time being]. If I haven't strapped box to my face by noon I consider the day a bust.
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Rosalind posted:Also if WotC had done an at-all competent job at developing an online version of Magic, I doubt Blizzard would have been as willing to create a card game that is so similar. But because WotC seems incapable or unwilling to develop an online presence that doesn't feel like it was made by a 14 year old in 1997, Blizzard saw a poorly met market and came up with something to fill it. The funny thing is my friend was saying how they were missing the opportunity to open Magic up to players online years before Hearthstone. They had so much time to get their rear end in gear but could only make the semi decent but limited Duels and the too hardcore, ugly and expensive Online.
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Carecat posted:The funny thing is my friend was saying how they were missing the opportunity to open Magic up to players online years before Hearthstone. They had so much time to get their rear end in gear but could only make the semi decent but limited Duels and the too hardcore, ugly and expensive Online. But are the Duels games that much more limited than Heartstone? The card pool in Hearthstone isn't that large, last I saw, and, y'know, collecting. But the sad part is that Wizards they just made the yearly iterations of DotP cumulative (ie, if you bought 2013 you can use the cards in 2014), they would do much better. The point is that anyone thinking they can do a real life blind booster game that isn't based off a cartoon or is named Magic the Gathering is acting on several delusions.
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The Pebble smart watch wasn't cool. You know what's cool? The same exact thing only 6x the size and straight out of Star Trek/Fallout! Check out this hilarious "wrist communicator" http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-rufus-cuff-more-than-a-smartwatch-a-wrist-communicator 
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Frozen-Solid posted:The Pebble smart watch wasn't cool. You know what's cool? The same exact thing only 6x the size and straight out of Star Trek/Fallout! Check out this hilarious "wrist communicator" At that point, wouldn't it make more sense to simply make an iPhone case that you can strap to your wrist?
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Jedit posted:Identical game mechanics and terminology. It would have been more obvious had the poster overlaid the lovely ripoff card on one of the Hearthstone cards that deals damage to a minion as it cones into play. Magic had cards that deal damage to creatures or players as they come into play literally decades ago. I'm not aware of a single TCG where you don't have creatures with attack and defense values, as well as a cost of some sort. I mean if the second game is a lovely ripoff then hearthstone is without question a lovely ripoff to begin with anyway so who gives a drat? Literally the only thing I will concede was copied is the colors for stuff, namely because the choices are extremely strange. Yellow for attack? Everyone knows yellow is for xp. That's not really a valid plagiarism complaint because your choices in these things are limited to expectations your client base already has. It's a "if a barrel will explode when shot it must be red" kind of deal.
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