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Crain posted:Is it just me or is there something really...off about this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lix3d/lix-the-smallest-3d-printing-pen-in-the-world Didn't some tech blog test one of these 3D printing pens and basically found that unless you were like a fairly skilled sculptor that even the most basic shapes just collapsed into big goopy messes? I seem to remember that.
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It only makes sense since you're squeezing molten plastic out of a pen, it's going to take time to dry and you have to do everything in as few strokes as possible. There's only so much weight gooey plastic can take.
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3D printing is advancing at a fast enough pace that I'm willing to wait for reviews for this particular model, mostly because I really really really want it to be that cool.
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Crain posted:Is it just me or is there something really...off about this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lix3d/lix-the-smallest-3d-printing-pen-in-the-world It's probably the fact that nobody in the pitch video ever looks at the camera. It's weird looking.
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The best thing about Soylent is that it basically already exists. People who cannot consume food have been living on tube feedings for years. It's a nasty tan liquid full of all the important stuff you need. Hell, I'm sure some of your grandmas and grandpas probably have peg tubes and T tubes (tubes grafted into their stomach so the liquid can be delivered automatically via pumps or via bolus). If you were in the hospital and were under anesthesia for a while because of an accident or something, you were also probably given tube feed via NG tube, or nasal-gastric tube. Basically these nerds decided to cut out the whole "I had a stroke or cancer and cannot swallow anymore" middleman and are now just drinking it. That stuff gives you the worst runs imaginable, too.
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I dislocated my jaw once and had to be on an all liquid diet for 2 weeks. By the end of that second week, I was so sick of it that the thought of broth or a meal replacement shake made me queasy. Even with my jaw pain, I got this incredibly strong desire to chew something I can't imagine eating that way voluntarily and only one substance.
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Rosalind posted:Didn't some tech blog test one of these 3D printing pens and basically found that unless you were like a fairly skilled sculptor that even the most basic shapes just collapsed into big goopy messes? I seem to remember that. I have a 3doodler and it's not goopy and it won't collapse but it's definitely more of an arts and crafts toy than anything at all practical. It's a fun thing to play with, and I got it under those auspices so I'm satisfied but it's definitely not a useful thing.
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Fatkraken posted:As far as I can deduce from the article, the detector is looking for SPECIFIC molecules. This is a different kettle of fish than going in blind, for which you would probably need some heavy duty lab equipment. If instead you're looking for a yes/no to compounds x, y and z, then you just need x, y and z sensors, maybe biosensors which can be relatively inexpensive; think of the $10 pregnancy tests you can get at the chemists. There are various other technologies which can essentially "smell" specific molecules too So I can't make a kickstarter that is a marijuana tricorder that detects the amount of cannaboids and at what percent it is because, right now, its technically unfeasible? 
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Lava Lamp Goddess posted:The best thing about Soylent is that it basically already exists. People who cannot consume food have been living on tube feedings for years. It's a nasty tan liquid full of all the important stuff you need. Hell, I'm sure some of your grandmas and grandpas probably have peg tubes and T tubes (tubes grafted into their stomach so the liquid can be delivered automatically via pumps or via bolus). If you were in the hospital and were under anesthesia for a while because of an accident or something, you were also probably given tube feed via NG tube, or nasal-gastric tube. Yeah they also did this to people in gitmo who where on hunger strikes. A lot of people around the world condemned the force feeding of nutrient goo to political prisoners.
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Are they going to poo poo themselves after a while ?
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unpacked robinhood posted:Are they going to poo poo themselves after a while ? That'll be taken care of in the next kickstarter: Soylent brand adult nutrition expulsion control pants. Or, ya know, like a buttplug or something.
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Crain posted:That'll be taken care of in the next kickstarter: Soylent brand adult nutrition expulsion control pants. Make the buttplugs hook up to your iphone. You'll make $250k right there.
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Rosalind posted:Make the buttplugs hook up to your iphone. You'll make $250k right there. Actually, its a plug with a valve. You have any methane (its a greenhouse gas) hook up to a portable methane-fueled power plant that you wear on your back. A little hose hooks up to the plug. Meanwhile, a separate hose removes solid and liquid wastes into a tank. You empty that tank out once a week at a public disposal facility where its processed at a waste->energy facility. Its entirely green really. Meanwhile, the portable methane fueled power plant allows you to charge all your portable electronic devices for free. The only price you pay is the cost of having your clothes tailored to include holes for the hoses coming out of your ever-present buttplug.
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Rosalind posted:Make the buttplugs hook up to your iphone. You'll make $250k right there. Zombie steampunk buttplugs.
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Otisburg posted:Zombie steampunk buttplugs. inspired by dark souls and minecraft
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Man, Kickstarter has helped film crews get budgets they only dreamed of but I also feel like they've become a necessity. I worked on a film last spring pro-bono (it's what you have to do to survive in this job market) and now they're launching a Kickstarter to raise money to make DVDs. In fact, I can only gain a copy of the movie if I donate money. They haven't even bothered putting my name in the credits and they expect me to give them money for something I helped make. I kinda hope it fails, as well as the producer's other film he's about to launch on Kickstarter. No links since I'm technically invested in the Kickstarter (and I think that's the rules anyways) plus I don't want people purchasing a movie that features three rape scenes and a rape montage. Don't you just love slasher films? 
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Man, Kickstarter has helped film crews get budgets they only dreamed of but I also feel like they've become a necessity. I worked on a film last spring pro-bono (it's what you have to do to survive in this job market) and now they're launching a Kickstarter to raise money to make DVDs. In fact, I can only gain a copy of the movie if I donate money. They haven't even bothered putting my name in the credits and they expect me to give them money for something I helped make. You might as well link it, no one here is going to support the Kickstarter for a lovely slasher movie and we'd sure like to make fun of it.
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Crain posted:Is it just me or is there something really...off about this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lix3d/lix-the-smallest-3d-printing-pen-in-the-world I would say the Russian accents, sounding as coming from James Bond movie. Otisburg posted:Zombie steampunk buttplugs. Solar-powered, made from real leather, can be used as a key/ipad/jewelry stand. With built in bottle opener. Tier 1: you get also a deck of playing cards, with retro butt plugs as the covers. Extension 1: we will create an iPhone application that will enable you to control your butt plug externally, even if you're far away. Socialize! Share your butt plug photos! Give it a treat! Or just send us your ideas. I'm a bitter, bitter person 
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Wait, so it doesn't tie in to instragram? Why would I even bother?
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:a rape montage  Why would anyone ever think those two things should go together.
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I'm totally taking all of these ideas and making this buttplug. It will be the ultimate buttplug. I will be the Tony Stark of rear end sealing devices.
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Crain posted:I will be the Tony Stark of rear end sealing devices. Iron Manus
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Man, Kickstarter has helped film crews get budgets they only dreamed of but I also feel like they've become a necessity. I worked on a film last spring pro-bono (it's what you have to do to survive in this job market) and now they're launching a Kickstarter to raise money to make DVDs. In fact, I can only gain a copy of the movie if I donate money. They haven't even bothered putting my name in the credits and they expect me to give them money for something I helped make. This is why you never work for free.
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neongrey posted:
It better be set to the Montage song from Team America.
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Crain posted:I'm totally taking all of these ideas and making this buttplug. It will be the ultimate buttplug. I will be the Tony Stark of rear end sealing devices. Make it so it can measure your blood sugar and your total calories eaten and you've got a million seller. Hell, just make all that poo poo up and it'll still probably sell. Just make sure it hooks up to your iphone.
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Blast Fantasto posted:You might as well link it, no one here is going to support the Kickstarter for a lovely slasher movie and we'd sure like to make fun of it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1500620446/creeper I'm not sure if they can find out people found the project from this link so I'm going to try to not say much more. I will say that I think the guy we had working the camera was really good and he's got a bright future ahead. GenderSelectScreen has a new favorite as of 17:01 on May 1, 2014 |
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:I'm not sure if they can find out people found the project from this link so I'm going to try to not say much more. I will say that I think the guy we had working the camera was really good and he's got a bright future ahead. I tried to suggest something like anonym.to but it turns out the forums really spaz out at the way they format URLs.
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Have these guys done anything noteworthy before this? Because I swear I've been to the Heavy Cat Studios webpage before but for the life of me I can't recall why. e: vvvvvv Oh yeaaaah I remember now. I first heard about them because of their disastrous Indiegogo campaign where they didn't even manage to finish half of the work they were commissioned for and completely stonewalled their clients. dijon du jour has a new favorite as of 07:38 on May 1, 2014 |
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So there's a great bubble of people trying to work in video games and vg art, and that's shocking for some reason?
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903107259/scio-your-sixth-sense-a-pocket-molecular-sensor-fo Oh hey its yet another molecular sensor  I guess at least this one's marketed at normal joes instead of stoners.  And look, they're already funded. Pretty obvious its selling on the novelty of "its a tricorder! It'll magically be able to scan everything!" when in reality its just near-IR scanning, so at best if you point it at an apple, it'll say "that's an apple" and then it'll automatically google the average nutritional content of apples for you. You could just as easily use your eyeballs and jump right to googling.
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Athletic Footjob posted:You should make it so the URL isn't clickable then they can't see where it's referenced from. Boom, done. Thanks. I just want to cover my rear end.
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Kickstarter is for people who are irresponsible with money. You don't pay for a promise for a product!
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903107259/scio-your-sixth-sense-a-pocket-molecular-sensor-fo This is amazing. I sure hope you don't have any liquor besides vodka and water you want to test, it might show up as dirt, pepsi, or an orange.
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Larz posted:And the developer has responded. "Every time the words "heavy cat studios" show up on the web, the same group of about 8-10 accounts (under various names) show up and spam the page with the same list of complaints within hours." Is their argument that basically, the 8-10 people they worked with are complaining about how they ripped them off?
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AxeManiac posted:"Every time the words "heavy cat studios" show up on the web, the same group of about 8-10 accounts (under various names) show up and spam the page with the same list of complaints within hours." I don't see that text on the page you quoted.
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