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Act now and you guys can get on the Doobie 2: Potato Saladoo train
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Potato salad: just placing this on the new page because wow
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Jul 4, 2014 17:11
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I like that he's not overly ambitious, other than the lowest and highest, all the pledge levels have a limited number of rewards so he doesn't get overwhelmed e-mailing 5000 pictures of him making potato salad to people. That's more foresight than most kickstarters, unless hundreds of people are willing to blow $25+ on a stupid internet joke he's pretty safe
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Jul 4, 2014 17:32
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Hell Doobie still owes a lot of bad froggers hot dogs but really how many of them are capable of collecting?
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Jul 4, 2014 17:35
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I'd also like to know what the Solar Roadway people did with all that money since even a cursory glance at the labor required would never make it a good idea. Like they didn't seriously show these hexagonal glass roads to a scientist and get a big thumbs up, it's absolutely beyond retarded.
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Jul 4, 2014 17:57
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Alan Smithee posted:Hell Doobie still owes a lot of bad froggers hot dogs but really how many of them are capable of collecting? Well they were promised combo meals and combo meals don't exist at Doobie's Dog House and there's nothing he can do about that. Dobbie does not make the dogs he just enforces them. God Bless.
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Jul 4, 2014 18:52
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That guy is going to be making so much potato salad. I'm pretty jealous.
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Jul 4, 2014 18:55
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What happened with the guy who was funded to review burritos?
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Jul 4, 2014 19:19
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steinrokkan posted:What happened with the guy who was funded to review burritos? He raised enough money to review one while skydiving. Unfortunately he missed his stretch goal to review one on a Vomit Comet.
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Jul 4, 2014 19:22
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Yond Cassius posted:He raised enough money to review one while skydiving. Rigby made a Kickstarter?
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Jul 4, 2014 19:45
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Excels posted:I'd also like to know what the Solar Roadway people did with all that money since even a cursory glance at the labor required would never make it a good idea. Like they didn't seriously show these hexagonal glass roads to a scientist and get a big thumbs up, it's absolutely beyond retarded. The way I see it, the Solar Roadways project has 4 possible conclusions: 1) The project is genuine and works perfectly. Congratulations, over the next several decades we will have solved the clean/renewable energy problem and simultaneously reduced road maintenance, traffic accidents, and helped a myriad of other issues. 2) The project is genuine, but never gets past the parking lot/driveway phase (which they have repeatedly stated will be their first step before they move on to roads and highways). This still a big step towards providing clean and renewable energy for places like shopping malls, large businesses, or anything else with huge sections of pavement. 3) The project is genuine but is a complete failure. It has still created tons of research, public awareness, and new ideas for clean/renewable energy and road safety. 4) The project is a scam. Seeing how neither the Federal Highway Administration nor any of the civil engineering labs across the country that have tested traction, durability, etc. have yet to speak up and say "These people have not worked with us like they say they have and/or are presenting falsified information on their multimillion dollar crowdfunding campaign with our endorsements all over it", I find this INCREDIBLY difficult to believe. If that somehow IS the case, they STILL have created tons of research, public awareness, and new ideas for clean/renewable energy and road safety. Yeah, I'm thinking this is gonna turn out OK.
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Jul 4, 2014 20:38
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5) They are honest working people in over their heads. After a few years of R&D, they deploy a production-ready version of the R&D panels in a few small areas like parking lots where it's really expensive but the store owner can pay for it. It turns out to actually be a net loss, as they constantly break and require expensive maintenance, and it's just not bringing in enough electricity because solar panels don't do so well when you bury them under 6 feet of durable glass that scatter the light. It becomes a silent failure, with the inventors showing up every once in a while in the tech news, and then slowly fade into obscurity. A few years later, people wonder where our "SOLAR FUCKIN' ROADWAYS" future was, and Google it to find out the sad story.
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Jul 4, 2014 20:47
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Potato salad: 166 Backers $834 pledged of $10 goal 
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I believe that pretty clearly falls under "The project is genuine but is a complete failure". While the general populace might forget, I seriously doubt the industry, government, and environmental people who spent so much time on it will.
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Jul 4, 2014 21:03
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Suspicious Dish posted:5) They are honest working people in over their heads. After a few years of R&D, they deploy a production-ready version of the R&D panels in a few small areas like parking lots where it's really expensive but the store owner can pay for it. It turns out to actually be a net loss, as they constantly break and require expensive maintenance, and it's just not bringing in enough electricity because solar panels don't do so well when you bury them under 6 feet of durable glass that scatter the light. this is it, pretty much the only way these roads work is if they're not actually driven on because they're a maintenance nightmare that barely generates enough power to keep their own LEDs on under ideal conditions (that is, not dirty, scratched, or with traffic sitting on them) they're clearly not scammers and they have some prototypes that seem to work but for the cost we should just be putting solar panels on roofs instead of shingles
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Jul 4, 2014 21:05
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You know they have specifically addressed concerns like dirt, heavy traffic, and durability in their FAQs, right? I'm not saying this is going to be a guaranteed success, but a lot of people don't seem to be giving them enough credit. Why would they have even gotten as far as they have if all these mundane problems were such death knells? Part of the reason they're asking for funding in the first place is to solve the actual problems they've found.
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Jul 4, 2014 21:18
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Frocobo posted:You know they have specifically addressed concerns like dirt, heavy traffic, and durability in their FAQs, right? I'm not saying this is going to be a guaranteed success, but a lot of people don't seem to be giving them enough credit. Why would they have even gotten as far as they have if all these mundane problems were such death knells? Part of the reason they're asking for funding in the first place is to solve the actual problems they've found. is it your kickstarter
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Jul 4, 2014 21:21
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Solar roadways is total bullshit. Jesus. "It's durable, look we can run a bulldozer with giant loving tires on it at 10 mph." Price competitive with almost infinitely recyclable asphalt? No but the paltry power generation will make up for it somehow.
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Frocobo posted:I believe that pretty clearly falls under "The project is genuine but is a complete failure". While the general populace might forget, I seriously doubt the industry, government, and environmental people who spent so much time on it will. But you stipulated that the research that went into it would be useful. It's more likely that the avenues they are exploring are mostly non starters and wastes of time, leading to dead ends and wasting the time and money of otherwise smart and dedicated people. And that any public awareness will do more harm than good when the whole thing inevitably crashes and burns and everyone writes off solar in general rather than just solar deployed in stupid ways. Also, their FAQ just brushes off or fails to even mention some massive issues. They are loving obsessed with making this poo poo work in Northern states even though solar only really makes sense in more equatorial climates with more direct sunlight and fewer overcast days. Dirt isn't an issue apparently because "roads keep themselves clean" and they can just "send street sweepers" around, with no thought given to the energy or materials used by these sweepers. There's literally no mention of loving abrasion, which would be a HUGE issue with thousands of cars running over a dusty, gritty road day in day out. Ever seen a piece of sea glass? That's what abrasion does to glass, it loses clarity in just a few months and would massively impact light transmission. The ENTIRE ROAD WILL BE HEATED to protect from frost heave; keeping a road tens of degrees hotter than it's surroundings will apparently be easy and use less power than the solar panels actually produce. If a section of heater breaks then they'll just.....what? close the road while they fix it? leave it and let the frost do as it pleases? Their answer to earthquakes is "well, regular roads get hosed up too!", without considering that a minor quake would likely gently caress up brittle tempered glass much more than more flexible asphalt, could interfere with power transmission and would be massively more expensive to fix. the largest single section of their FAQ is dedicated to the effect of an EMP, something only caused by a loving nuclear explosion or a non existent magical sci-fi superweapon. This is the kind of people we are dealing with here, they have given more thought to EMPs than to the abrasive effect of millions of vehicles driving over glass. here are some words absent from the FAQ: Glare, reflection, abrasion, vandalism, lifecycle analysis (this is like step 1, since if it's an environmental project you need to know whether you're using more energy than you'll produce (hint:yes)) Fatkraken has a new favorite as of 22:03 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Jul 4, 2014 21:38
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Fatkraken posted:But you stipulated that the research that went into it would be useful. It's more likely that the avenues they are exploring are mostly non starters and wastes of time, leading to dead ends and wasting the time and money of otherwise smart and dedicated people. And that any public awareness will do more harm than good when the whole thing inevitably crashes and burns and everyone writes off solar in general rather than just solar deployed in stupid ways. Even if it does turn out that the techniques they're using don't work, isn't that useful information by itself?
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Jul 4, 2014 21:55
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Crashbee posted:Even if it does turn out that the techniques they're using don't work, isn't that useful information by itself? Not if it's common bloody sense. "Putting solar panels places where cars won't keep running over them is better" isn't something that requires millions of dollars to prove. They're not developing new technologies from scratch, there's no grass roots research here, they will be buying off the shelf parts or ordering custom parts made using standard techniques. The new knowledge is "is there a way we can put this already existent stuff together in a way that makes solar roadways make sense, and that is better than rooftop solar". The answer is very simple: no. Fatkraken has a new favorite as of 22:07 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Jul 4, 2014 22:04
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381502542/robotech-academy Would this count as awful since Harmony Gold is widely hated for their lawsuits/partially being the reason for Macross being unlicensed here?
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Jul 4, 2014 22:17
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Zeether posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381502542/robotech-academy Don't forget the part where they did some poo poo with BattleTech licensing and are at least partially responsible for MechWarrior 5 getting turned into MWO.
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Jul 4, 2014 22:37
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Harmony Gold occasionally comes in handy. It's a rare occasion, this day and age, though.
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Crashbee posted:Even if it does turn out that the techniques they're using don't work, isn't that useful information by itself? We already know it doesn't, based on simple statistics and material properties. It's like running an experiment to find out if water is wet. They can't have the roads put out enough energy in years to cover the power usage of the LED lights running constantly and the heating elements in winter, just for example. Plus the whole assembly needs to be yanked out and replaced every 5 to 10 years on average to cover materials degradation and heating elements and lights burning out and unless the value of electricity rises like 100x over the near future they can't come close to paying for themselves before new ones have to go in. Nintendo Kid has a new favorite as of 00:29 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Jul 5, 2014 00:25
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The best part of the Robotech Kickstarter is the line where they go "Carl Macek totally predicted Kickstarter!"
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Jul 5, 2014 00:45
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Morglon posted:Don't forget the part where they did some poo poo with BattleTech licensing and are at least partially responsible for MechWarrior 5 getting turned into MWO. And then Hasbro came up with the new Jetfire toy that's just enough different from a VF-1 to still look vaguely like one and has the G1 head as a bonus/middle finger to HG.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/853633882/i-got-a-noise-complaint?ref=home_location "I got a noise complaint for watching the Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate on a Sunday. Now I have to pay a ticket. That's what happened, and I'm trying to get it paid off." Thanks to Kickstarter I'm starting to hate Chicago
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Jul 5, 2014 03:59
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Potato salad: Over $1000 now with 4 weeks to go. 
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Jul 5, 2014 05:17
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Over $1000 now with 4 weeks to go. I wonder how many of these people who have no qualms throwing  at a guy because he wrote a moderately amusing pitch that entertained them for like two minutes tops also bitch and moan about movies and videogames being too expensive and have AdBlock running because a banner ad is just too much of a sacrifice to support actual writers and artists they like.
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It's closing in on $1200 and has an update linking to a news article about the kickstarter. [s]If[s/]When this stupid thing ends up on a site like Gawker it's probably going to end up at several thousand dollars.
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Jul 5, 2014 07:05
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Didn't Zorak try to set up a Kickstarter for a sandwich or something?
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Jul 5, 2014 08:11
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It's like a crowdfunded version of selling your soul on ebay only it's actually working, dude's living the dream.
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Jul 5, 2014 09:38
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A Steampunk Gent posted:It's like a crowdfunded version of selling your soul on ebay only it's actually working, dude's living the dream. And you don't even have to trade it for Alf pogs
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Over $1000 now with 4 weeks to go. And of course he begins the slow process of beating it to a pulp by creating "merch" for it (see: any animal-centric Youtube video with more than 1,000,000 views) quote:We're making a lot of great progress. I think it's time for us to think about getting hats made. I added a new donor level for people who want hats. For those who are interested the hats could look like this: http://www.zazzle.com/i_love_potato_salad_mesh_hat-148005376484063142
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Jul 5, 2014 16:52
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bvoid posted:And of course he begins the slow process of beating it to a pulp by creating "merch" for it (see: any animal-centric Youtube video with more than 1,000,000 views) Over $1500 now. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that the hat plan is a ruse to squeeze more money out of dumb rubes but the fame has probably gotten to him and he thinks he's onto something with the potato salad malarkey. Do people still even words like 'rube' and 'malarkey' these days? Dang I'm old.
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Jul 5, 2014 17:12
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wifiex#home Don't you wish you could charge a device full of internet before you left the house, meaning you could your home internet anywhere you want for free? Well now you also something about satellites in broken English, but charge of internet!
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Jul 7, 2014 14:25
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The basic concept is kind of interesting, but it could probably be handled with a simple app rather than some huge, expensive device. What I'm talking about is software that you input your favorite websites into and which are automatically updated and stored whenever you hit a Wifi hotspot, so that you can view those sites even when you're somewhere without the internet. But this device is confusing and nonsensical and obviously a scam, though.
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ClownSyndrome posted:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wifiex#home I can't parse this. Is it just a USB modem that can cache your youtube videos? They promise to include a SIM card of their own design with it, so I'm completely lost.
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bvoid posted:And of course he begins the slow process of beating it to a pulp by creating "merch" for it (see: any animal-centric Youtube video with more than 1,000,000 views) the hat was a reward from the get go. Though I think he should make newspaper hats like in that southpark episode with the free hat. also, it's over eight thousand dollars now. Fatkraken has a new favorite as of 14:48 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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