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senrath posted:They're very, very hit-or-miss about removing porn stuff, even when it's reported. It took them until it was already over to remove a PUA manual that was basically a book on how to date rape. The guy got all the money without having to actually produce anything.
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AlmightyBob posted:The guy got all the money without having to actually produce anything. In fairness that was probably the lesser of two evils in that case.
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Mildly Amusing posted:Wasn't there some other Kickstarter project that scammed MRAs? Something that was supposed to respond to Anita Sarkeesian's videos? That was the Tropes Vs Men In Videogames Indiegogo project. THERE'S MISANDRY IN THEM THAR VIDYA GAMES!!!!  These were their pledge reward tiers:  Here's their initial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw-sjAICwKg Somehow some people missed the fact that it's all an obvious pisstake and gave them money anyway and they apparently pulled in a little more than their $3,300 goal. If you click on the link you'll notice it's now dead which is probably because someone eventually looked into it and found that after they got their money they didn't make any videos or donate it to charities like they'd promised and the whole thing was a scam. Well, they did post one video which is pretty much the sound of someone laughing. Note the special message at the end indicating when they intend to release their next video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-pt0Qgw6Bk I'm not 100% certain of their intentions going into this project but the end result was that they scammed a bunch of MRAs out of a bunch of money so that was actually pretty awesome. :iamafag: Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 09:42 on May 20, 2014 |
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Do you like tits? I mean really like them? Do you want to relive the glory days of that wonderful show V.I.P, but yearn for a feature-length experience? Then you'll want to donate to BLONDE SQUAD If women with back problems aren't your thing, perhaps you'd prefer to stick it to that lovely SimCity game and play a immensely more realistic game
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Captain Capacitor posted:If women with back problems aren't your thing, perhaps you'd prefer to stick it to that lovely SimCity game and play a immensely more realistic game Made by a literally robot by the sounds of it. EDIT: Don't worry, the project manager guy in that video has been certified in computers since 2003, obviously my money will be safe with him. Rudager has a new favorite as of 08:19 on May 20, 2014 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That was the Tropes Vs Men In Videogames Indiegogo project (although the url actually says 'misandryinvideogames'), but you'll notice that the link is now dead since Indiegogo eventually decided they didn't want to deal with this poo poo after all. Someone actually looked into it and found the Tropes Vs Men guys apparently got their money but didn't make any videos or donate it to charities like they'd promised. I thought they've produced some evidence that they'd donated the money to charities, but people didn't believe them or something. Anyway, the  of it all is that while people tend to criticise Sarkeesian for kickstarting a project that she could readily do on her own, there are literally thousands of youtube videos that either humorously or somewhat seriously try to analise 'misandry' in video games. So those guys didn't need money either.
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Paladinus posted:I thought they've produced some evidence that they'd donated the money to charities, but people didn't believe them or something. Gameranx.com contacted the charities and they had no record of any such donations.
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Captain Capacitor posted:Do you like tits? I mean really like them? Do you want to relive the glory days of that wonderful show V.I.P, but yearn for a feature-length experience? Actually, I'm getting more of an Andy Sidaris feeling from the Blonde Squad more than anything.
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Captain Capacitor posted:If women with back problems aren't your thing, perhaps you'd prefer to stick it to that lovely SimCity game and play a immensely more realistic game  
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 e:watch their video, the guy has no shoulders unpacked robinhood has a new favorite as of 10:49 on May 20, 2014 |
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Captain Capacitor posted:Do you like tits? I mean really like them? Do you want to relive the glory days of that wonderful show V.I.P, but yearn for a feature-length experience?  BLONDE SQUAD posted:Elizabeth is a porn actress, producer and director. She maintained her presence in the industry with shoots for "Score", "Gent", "D-Cup" and "Oui". Starr has her own adult movie production company, Hustler Productions, under which she directed her own movies. No poo poo
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Arsenio "This is some good-rear end cheese" Hall started a 'joke' IndieGoGo campaign to buy the Clippers. Which of course has Flexible Funding. So people are permanently giving their money to an established talk show host / guy from Coming to America for no real reason.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Which of course has Flexible Funding. So people are permanently giving their money to an established talk show host / guy from Coming to America for no real reason. It does say on the page that whatever money raised will go to charity, so unless that's a straight up lie and he runs with the cash there isn't really an issue here. Although to be perfectly honest I wouldn't even really care if he did run off with the cash. Flexible funding campaigns are just the modern way to separate fools from their money. If you donate to any flexible funding campaign for any reason then you're a complete idiot and I don't care if your money gets stolen.
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So, in the UK just after those cheeky fuckers trying to get people to pay for improvements to there farm, and a fantasy mmo with nice concept art and that's it with a grand total of Ł3.06 funded, we have deux chevaux which is... quote:Deux Chevaux is the attempt of two horses to pull a two horse power car Citroen 2CV through the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea Is it art? Is he a pretentious posh twat? Will the good people of the ‘Albertopolis’ and the metropolitan police force appreciate being told where to drive by "traffic marshals" or two, barely under control on a country road, shire horses freaking the gently caress out as he repeatedly nearly runs them over causing a 4 hour traffic jam? One rather suspects not. learnincurve has a new favorite as of 19:58 on May 20, 2014 |
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Chomp8645 posted:Although to be perfectly honest I wouldn't even really care if he did run off with the cash. Flexible funding campaigns are just the modern way to separate fools from their money. If you donate to any flexible funding campaign for any reason then you're a complete idiot and I don't care if your money gets stolen. Any reason? I dunno, I'm pretty happy with having given to a restoration fund for an historic telescope, and for having given to help out a musician I enjoy's medical bills. Like, there are legit reasons to flex fund, but they're all things like, you know, charity, or 'we're going to do this anyway but every extra dollar will make it better'.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Arsenio "This is some good-rear end cheese" Hall started a 'joke' IndieGoGo campaign to buy the Clippers. quote:Before you just click off this page without giving me any money—remember this…NOTHING WOULD MAKE DONALD STERLING MORE ANGRY THAN IF I OWNED THE TEAM! That right there is worth you pledging a little money. Ah, copying the OUYA business model of getting people to pay not for products they want, but to somehow "screw over the man" If only he'd said something about renaming The Clippers into something steampunk.
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Chaos Motor posted:Clipper Ships are pretty steampunk already. Nah clippers were sailing ships, you're thinking of packet-steamers. Edit: Ahahaha what the gently caress: quote:Reach Goal Rewards are Posted!
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Managing reach goals is complicated, Kickstarter doesn't let people select multiple reward tiers even if the person pledges enough to cover it, so if you have a $50 pledge and want the $20 and $30 tiers, you can't actually select both of them. Some people were just switching their pledge to the reach goal, which doesn't actually get you any closer to the reach goal.
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What's that? Free email service? For KIDS?!!?!? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/buggmail/buggmail-free-and-safe-email-for-kids-free-games-a?ref=category No... He didn't just straight up jack the logo from the Cricut Company for his campaign. Why do you ask? Edit : Awful KS twofer! Tired of your Shop-Vac® Brand Shop-Vac filter getting clogged? Well hold onto your dicks because now there's a filter... for your filter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537690986/filterpal?ref=category "But wait," you say, "My Shop-Vac® brand Shop-Vac already came with a machine washable foam filter cover designed to protect the paper filter from large particulates. Why do I need to buy this if the vac CAME WITH ONE ALREADY?" Well is yours made of what looks like a cut up Gildan 5000 series 100% cotton Ash t-shirt? No? You need the Filter Pal! KittyLitter has a new favorite as of 02:08 on May 21, 2014 |
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KittyLitter posted:What,s that? Free email service? For KIDS?!!?!? All the kids are emailing these days!
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Elysiume posted:The website is eye-searing yellow and comic sans MS. This person should not be allowed to design websites or anything ever. Not only that, but all language options are poorly localised. And it's not even google translate because copy is slightly different for each language for some reason.
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Elysiume posted:The website is eye-searing yellow and comic sans MS. This person should not be allowed to design websites or anything ever. Jesus gently caress. Is there a Not Eye Safe a thing yet because if not this should be the prime example.
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After goons had so much success funding Doobie and his hotdogs do we not owe it to the world to also fund Doobsie? A kickstarter for a blackboard shaped like a laptop with a pitch written by someone who is either brain-damaged or high because it makes no goddamned sense. Also, let's make our own game store with hookers! And blackjack! Down with big gaming!
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Holding cups that are shaped in a cone for the express purpose of making them easier to grip is too hard, how about a 3D-printed solution that only works with dollar-store party cups?  Yeah.While you're knocking back a cold one with your flimsy piece-of-3D-printed-poo poo handle, why don't you take some time out of your day to read some nerd's self-published memoirs about being a loser in college? A Better Person posted:This is not a romantic book, not a love story. This is a book about flailing around and self-hatred; this is a story about finding and losing friend after friend, relationship after relationship, home after home. I'd like to imagine that "A Better Person" is roughly what would happen if you took Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," got rid of all the naiveté and the wide-eyed sense of discovery and replaced it with depression and an always-increasing sense of loneliness, and moved the focus from high school to college. Cheery, right? poo poo, you spilled your beer all over yourself. That's cool, though. While you clean up, you remember that IndieGogo project for Beast's Fury? Fighting game with animalpeople, got $21,000? Apparently that's not enough to make a fully fleshed-out fighting game, so they're back on Kickstarter, asking for $45,000 to keep their project going by hiring more animators. Also, this funding is just to finish the demo with the two characters; the stretch goals are for more characters. In the realm of Actually Good Kickstarters, though, there is the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared series, didn't know it was going until I was looking through whatever recently launched. 
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tlarn posted:poo poo, you spilled your beer all over yourself. That's cool, though. While you clean up, you remember that IndieGogo project for Beast's Fury? Fighting game with animalpeople, got $21,000? Apparently that's not enough to make a fully fleshed-out fighting game, so they're back on Kickstarter, asking for $45,000 to keep their project going by hiring more animators. Also, this funding is just to finish the demo with the two characters; the stretch goals are for more characters. Haha, of course the anthropomorphic female kangaroo(?) with a low-cut shirt is the top stretch goal at $105,000. Gotta try to get all the money you can outta those furries!
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tlarn posted:poo poo, you spilled your beer all over yourself. That's cool, though. While you clean up, you remember that IndieGogo project for Beast's Fury? Fighting game with animalpeople, got $21,000? Apparently that's not enough to make a fully fleshed-out fighting game, so they're back on Kickstarter, asking for $45,000 to keep their project going by hiring more animators. Also, this funding is just to finish the demo with the two characters; the stretch goals are for more characters. That shark is pretty bitchin
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Pomp posted:Why the hell does the first dude have a completely different notation style? Restructuring the notation is another stretch goal.
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tlarn posted:While you're knocking back a cold one with your flimsy piece-of-3D-printed-poo poo handle, why don't you take some time out of your day to read some nerd's self-published memoirs about being a loser in college? Are these people who make kickstarters for novels not aware of Amazon self-publishing, or is it really just a shameless money grab?
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Well, looking at things in my city... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/75367514/buffalo-juggalos?ref=discovery quote:BUFFALO JUGGALOS Wat? quote:Wouldn't it be great if I made an experimental film with Juggalos?" passed through my head as I enjoyed a rather opaque film at the New York Film Festival. Wat? quote:I quit my job at the Criterion Collection and moved back to Buffalo in July of 2013. I started living on my father's boat and cold-contacting Juggalos via facebook. I failed miserably. I met only two people in over a month. Things went nowhere. I was in total despair and ready to leave. The project had failed . Luckily for me, one of the two Juggalos I met, Jeremy/Polmar, hosts a radio show and facebook page. He posted a link to the film and it got a few "likes." In a last-ditch attempt, I contacted those people. You quit your job to follow juggalos and the person who kept you from becoming a failure was a grown man other than Method Man who calls himself Jonny Blaze with a straight face?  quote:I wanted the film to be like an artifact from a lost civilization - like finding a VHS tape on the side of the road intercut with a slasher movie, porn, Paul McCarthy's Heidi, and backyard wrestling. Everyone in the film is a Juggalo unless noted. All non-Juggalos are Juggalo-affiliated. I would say with much confidence that it is the first film like this that has been made with Juggalos. Well gee what will the funds be used for quote:3. Paying a few outstanding location fees before I get my legs broken waah has a new favorite as of 06:16 on May 21, 2014 |
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DStecks posted:Are these people who make kickstarters for novels not aware of Amazon self-publishing, or is it really just a shameless money grab? If you want a first-hand account of "successful" Kickstarter-funded self-publishing DukeRustfield's thread about his novel Hard Luck Hank: Screw The Galaxy is some delicious schadenfreude. The tl;dr is that he wasted a ton of money (like blowing $1,000 on an actual oil painting to use as the cover when everybody was telling him to just have it done digitally, and ending up having to commission a digital painting anyways since the oil painting was unusable) and even though he had a successful Kickstarter and got good sales by self-publishing standards he spent so much money on artists and copy editors and Kickstarter-related expenses like T-shirts and animators that he barely broke even. DukeRustfield posted:I thought it might be of some help to starving and not-starving artists if I gave a bit of my experiences over my three-year quest to get my novel, Hard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy, written and published. Along the way I hired, and sorta fired, a number of creative folks to help me realize my project.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:If you want a first-hand account of "successful" Kickstarter-funded self-publishing DukeRustfield's thread about his novel Hard Luck Hank: Screw The Galaxy is some delicious schadenfreude. The tl;dr is that he wasted a ton of money (like blowing $1,000 on an actual oil painting to use as the cover when everybody was telling him to just have it done digitally, and ending up having to commission a digital painting anyways since the oil painting was unusable) and even though he had a successful Kickstarter and got good sales by self-publishing standards he spent so much money on artists and copy editors and Kickstarter-related expenses like T-shirts and animators that he barely broke even. Here's his Kickstarter page. It looks like he struggled to get any successful marketing or promotion going for it so if you're wondering how he managed to meet his $2,500 goal Kicktraq indicates that he got two $1000 pledges, two $250 pledges and a handful of people threw in $20/$25 for a copy of the book. I'm guessing those four main backers were family and friends so perhaps he could have just asked them directly rather than going to all that trouble. Of course he pretty much wasted that money on non-essential items so he could have just skipped all that altogether. From reading the thread it sounds like he thought that creating the Kickstarter campaign and having a 5 minute youtube animation were types of marketing in themselves (or he though that Kickstarter LLC would promote his project for him, I'm not sure), although he did try a bunch of other things as well. HOWEVER, after all that wasted effort and wasted money it turns out that he actually turned a profit in the end so I have to give him props for that. Edit: he spent $2,500+ and months and months of effort in finding an animator and reviewing and meeting and hiring voice talent in order to create a youtube video which has barely been viewed 1000 times. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 10:30 on May 21, 2014 |
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Chaos Motor posted:Clipper Ships are pretty steampunk already. Way to promote your own dumbass kickstarter, dude.
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Don't be sore cuz I tricked you for the lulz.
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