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DStecks posted:At that point, wouldn't it make more sense to simply make an iPhone case that you can strap to your wrist? There's already numerous versions of that out on the market, too.
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If they kickstarted a new one, it'd make the big bucks.
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Is that WSJ article about the Oculus Kickstarter user-submitted or something? There's like a dozen typos in it and it's driving me nuts.
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Mar 26, 2014 18:30
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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 least I can respect them for using fixed funding.
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Mar 26, 2014 19:24
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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" It's like Google Glass, but even sillier. Why would you need an accelerometer or gyroscope on your wrist anyway?
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Mar 27, 2014 03:47
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OldMemes posted:It's like Google Glass, but even sillier. Why would you need an accelerometer or gyroscope on your wrist anyway? jerkin' it leaderboards
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Mar 27, 2014 04:09
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OldMemes posted:It's like Google Glass, but even sillier. Why would you need an accelerometer or gyroscope on your wrist anyway? Both of those things are built into the cheapest cell phone chipsets, which is what that thing uses.
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Mar 27, 2014 04:11
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Fauxtool posted:jerkin' it leaderboards You laugh but I could totally see this being an actual thing. If 4chan and Reddit have taught me anything, it's that dudes certainly like to brag about masturbation a whole lot.
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Mar 27, 2014 04:18
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I don't know what the hell this is but it sure is something... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/965424352/whipped-re-inventing-foreplay (mildly  )
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Man I can't believe someone is ripping off Blizzard, a company known for its completely original works.
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Fauxtool posted:jerkin' it leaderboards best cheevo
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Mar 27, 2014 23:49
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I could have sworn the cat thing was over, but I guess I was wrong.
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Mar 28, 2014 17:43
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Noyemi K posted:I could have sworn the cat thing was over, but I guess I was wrong. Someone paid 750 bucks to have their cat be drawn on the cover 
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Noyemi K posted:I could have sworn the cat thing was over, but I guess I was wrong. Am I missing something because this looks awesome and not awful
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Noyemi K posted:I could have sworn the cat thing was over, but I guess I was wrong. Thanks for posting an awesome kickstarter that ended months ago. Also cats are never over. Cats are amazing.
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If nothing else pans out, at least Goat Simulator has an awesome launch trailer that takes the piss out of that "emotional" Dead Island trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWGLcdI8o8
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I just read about a failed Christian Kickstarter making a game and now they're convinced Satan is fighting the release of their Abraham RPG. I figured if there was anywhere I could find a blow by blow about this it would be here, has it already come up? Links?
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TheSpiritFox posted:I just read about a failed Christian Kickstarter making a game and now they're convinced Satan is fighting the release of their Abraham RPG. I figured if there was anywhere I could find a blow by blow about this it would be here, has it already come up? Links? Call of Abraham? Nothing much, lovely game that raised about 20% before it was cancelled. No big flameout until now, I guess.
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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'm a huge loving nerd and I actually put some research into it. The Toblerone shape isn't half bad an idea, and the FLAC files do provide much better audio quality. So thus far it's almost exactly like the dozens of other Shenzhen-made portable FLAC players. Except it's actually cheaper than most available decent-quality players, because apparently being a huge enough audio nerd to want lossless music on the go means you're also willing to pay $300 - $700 for something your phone can already do if you're fine with having just five hours of music in your pocket. This is unfortunately not surprising, because audiophiles* are notorious for this poo poo. At least it isn't Denon AKDL1. So it's still very expensive, but for the people who want that poo poo, it's also cheaper than the competitors. * "Audiophile" means someone who can't get off unless he knows his audio setup cost more than the neighbor's car.
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Hey guys remember those muscle pads that you strap around your fat, slovenly gut, that do your workout for you? Remember how you could instantly tell they were bullshit? Well gently caress you we made em smaller and now you can strap em to your chest too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVCS58XX39Y It's raised $76,000. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smartmio-the-world-s-first-connected-wearable-sports-muscle-stimulator
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can i attach this to my dick?
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:can i attach this to my dick? if you find something on god's green earth that you can't attach to your dick, you're not trying
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What, you don't trust Dr. Vladimir and his son Alex? In America, you use exercise equipment. In Soviet Russia exercise equipment uses you!
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Larz posted:What, you don't trust Dr. Vladimir and his son Alex? In America, you use exercise equipment. In Soviet Russia exercise equipment uses you! The one non-russian: 
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:can i attach this to my dick? you can the question is do you really want to?
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Meatwave posted:The one non-russian: I loved his humor site back in the late 90's with the Superfriends comics and poo poo.
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Greyhawk posted:the question is do you really want to? yes definitely
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I'm gonna be a total stick in the mud and say that my first thought on the use of this was to help the disabled or those with limited mobility maintain muscle tone. But I kinda doubt it would work well enough for those purposes.
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endlessmonotony posted:* "Audiophile" means someone who can't get off unless he knows his audio setup cost more than the neighbor's car. Pretty much this. It's the search for the biggest number, nothing more. The biggest irony is that in many cases, 96/192KHz content actually sounds significantly worse than 48/44.1KHz content, because they can carry ultrasonic content. Not only can you not hear ultrasonics natively, but the vast majority of headphones/earbuds will distort when they try to reproduce it, which means you get intermodulation. Congratulations -- by giving too much of a poo poo about stuff you can't hear, you've added resonance noise to the stuff you can hear! And it gets even worse if you run it through an amp! Using high sample resolutions for mastered music is silly as well, but at least it doesn't sound worse than 16 bits. It simply wastes space. (There are reasons to use > 16bits when doing mixing/mastering, as it makes it easier to safely level and combine tracks without clipping. However, a lot of modern mixing hardware just circumvent the problem entirely by using floating point samples.) Of course, audiophiles would probably consider intermodulation products to be "added richness" or "room presence" or whatever the current synonym for being suckered is.
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I'm not sure if this is going to be good or going to be horribly bad, but Richard Elfman is getting his family together and producing Forbidden Zone 2. They're holding an IndieGoGo campaign to help fund the pre-production of the film.
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Young Freud posted:I'm not sure if this is going to be good or going to be horribly bad, but Richard Elfman is getting his family together and producing The original Forbidden Zone owns but that was almost 35 years ago and the video on their page isn't inspiring any confidence.
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ullerrm posted:Pretty much this. It's the search for the biggest number, nothing more. 44K sounds like a worn vinyl track being played through a radio station in a tunnel, what on earth are you talking about?
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Young Freud posted:I'm not sure if this is going to be good or going to be horribly bad, but Richard Elfman is getting his family together and producing That is like the one thing Richard Elfman ever did with his life and he's been harping it + riding the coattails of his brother's musical genius ever since. Though if he gets the Kipper Kids to come out of retirement for one big show, I'm all for it.
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pathetic little tramp posted:That is like the one thing Richard Elfman ever did with his life and he's been harping it + riding the coattails of his brother's musical genius ever since. if it means more Oingo Boingo/Satan Danny Elfman and less "needly needly bum bum lalalalala" Tim Burton soundtrack autopilot Danny Elfman then I can't hate it too much
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Pomp posted:44K sounds like a worn vinyl track being played through a radio station in a tunnel, what on earth are you talking about? Speaking as someone who recently just got into pure audio blu rays (bohemian rhapsody in 5.1 is loving boss) - I'm going to read this again and hope it will make sense to me a second time (I wasn't putting a lot of effort in though). but Xiph aren't exactly known by me for talking poop.
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Otisburg posted:I loved his humor site back in the late 90's with the Superfriends comics and poo poo. also fatchicksinpartyhats.com
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44 kHz is more than sufficient to reproduce any sound someone who hasn't been exposed to gamma rays and mutated a bat's auditory system can hear. The goofiest thing is that there's just about a 0% chance that an old timer like Neil Young can hear much about 12 kHz anyway--high frequency hearing drops off rapidly with age, and 20 kHz (what little we could ever hear of it) is gone to most of us by adulthood.
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Tetraptous posted:44 kHz is more than sufficient to reproduce any sound someone who hasn't been exposed to gamma rays and mutated a bat's auditory system can hear. The goofiest thing is that there's just about a 0% chance that an old timer like Neil Young can hear much about 12 kHz anyway--high frequency hearing drops off rapidly with age, and 20 kHz (what little we could ever hear of it) is gone to most of us by adulthood. I agree with the overall point you're making here, but your reasoning is wrong. You're comparing two different things here. 44 kHz sampling can only reproduce sound frequencies up to 22 kHz because you need to capture both the peak and the valley of the wave in order to represent it digitally. So in order to reproduce your example of a 20 kHz tone you would need a minimum sampling rate of 40 kHz. Digital audio sampling rate is not the same thing as the frequency of a tone despite both being measured in Hertz. Also, the reason a lot of mastering gets done at 24-bit/96kHz is the same reason people like to have more pixels to work with when editing in Photoshop. When you start running filters on things you will get a nicer result if you have more data to work with. I don't think the Pono is a fantastic idea or anything, but I think some people might be taking their anti-audiophile stuff a bit too far. ErIog has a new favorite as of 05:34 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Tetraptous posted:44 kHz is more than sufficient to reproduce any sound someone who hasn't been exposed to gamma rays and mutated a bat's auditory system can hear. The goofiest thing is that there's just about a 0% chance that an old timer like Neil Young can hear much about 12 kHz anyway--high frequency hearing drops off rapidly with age, and 20 kHz (what little we could ever hear of it) is gone to most of us by adulthood. I was somehow reading KHz as kbps, ignore me I have no loving knowledge about frequencies, but this still makes more sense than someone saying there's no point in storing your music at a bitrate higher than 44kpbs.
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ErIog posted:I agree with the overall point you're making here, but your reasoning is wrong. You're comparing two different things here. 44 kHz sampling can only reproduce sound frequencies up to 22 kHz because you need to capture both the peak and the valley of the wave in order to represent it digitally. So in order to reproduce your example of a 20 kHz tone you would need a minimum sampling rate of 40 kHz. Yes, I'm aware of Nyquist--but 192 kHz is still way way above that!
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