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Germstore posted:The potato salad kickstarter is up to $40,000. This has gone past mildly amusing and straight into 'gently caress this stupid world' territory. There were at least two $10,000 donations, since I saw it jump from 10K to 20K, and then 20K to 30K. I'm betting both of those were with stolen credit cards.
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lorn Wayne posted:So how many copycat lol monkey cheese $10 Kickstarters have popped up to try and emulate Potato Salad guy's success?  I love that it's even being used as keyword bait.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:poo poo, it'd only take 6 of us to bump it up to $100,000 (KS have a $10K maximum on pledges) if we wanted. That'd confuse the gently caress out of the media. It's up to $65,000 now  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad/
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Jul 9, 2014 02:26
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I'm on mobile and too lazy to look. Have any of those copycats actually reached funding
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Alan Smithee posted:I'm on mobile and too lazy to look. Have any of those copycats actually reached funding Only the ones that set their goal at, like, 10 cents or something.
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SupSuper posted:All of them:
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's up to $65,000 now .... and back down to $56,000. Alan Smithee posted:I'm on mobile and too lazy to look. Have any of those copycats actually reached funding Yep: Pasta Salad = funded Potato Salad: The Video Game = funded Macaroni Salad = 2/5 funded.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:.... and back down to $56,000. Quick, someone do a porntato salad on Offbeatr.
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SupSuper posted:All of them: 30K for magnets is pretty frustrating too. But oh well, people spend money in stupid ways.
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AxeManiac posted:30K for magnets is pretty frustrating too. But oh well, people spend money in stupid ways. So when can we expect a kickstarter for Green Shots, the show where the more the salad stinks, the more you ranch you drink
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Meatwave posted:Quick, someone do a porntato salad on Offbeatr. This Isn't Potato Salad!
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Meatwave posted:Quick, someone do a porntato salad on Offbeatr. Potato tossed salad
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Suspicious Dish posted:Charge your internet for the hard-working man on the go This really isn't getting enough love, the video alone is magic, plinky plonky guitar followed by long silences, delayed animations and a bulgarian accent repeating INTARNET a lot that I can't make head nor tails of.
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 of course the people defending potato salad donators are amanda palmer defenders, lmfao
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:.... and back down to $56,000. ... and back up to $70,000! He's got nearly 5,000 backers too. Here he is in Good Morning America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjaJ7R-kkFM Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 19:38 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Suspicious Dish posted:Charge your internet for the hard-working man on the go I don't understand how I can recharge the device with internet from my home to use it anywhere else "just like a battery charger only WITH INTERNET" as stated in their FAQ. I really tried. But I'll throw them some dollars because it has something to do with satellites so it must be good?
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Japanese Phone Box posted:I don't understand how I can recharge the device with internet from my home to use it anywhere else "just like a battery charger only WITH INTERNET" as stated in their FAQ. You can't, anymore than you can stand in somebody's presence to charge up conversation with them so you can talk to them on the go.
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Jul 9, 2014 20:16
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DStecks posted:You can't, anymore than you can stand in somebody's presence to charge up conversation with them so you can talk to them on the go. Oh boy, a perfect Kickstarter idea for the Introvert Movement.
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My conversation charger will come with a feature called QuickReplies for when it's running low on stored conversations and you need those precious sentences for something else.
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Jul 9, 2014 20:24
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Friend of a friend wants to get crowdfunding for his med school tuition. http://www.gofundme.com/b3zeg4 "I once had an illness and now I want to help poor kids or whatever. Please give me $300k thx." There are plenty of people who come from harder backgrounds who didn't do online panhandling for their tuition.
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canyoneer posted:There are plenty of people who come from harder backgrounds who didn't do online panhandling for their tuition. Who are these fools? these nerds? Get with the times, gramps
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Jul 9, 2014 20:52
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what about a kickstarter for 300k to give kids illnesses I had as a child I will personally give your kid chickenpox, measles is a stretch goal for $1M I will crack open those smallpox vials they found at NIH last week and we'll see what happens
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DStecks posted:You can't, anymore than you can stand in somebody's presence to charge up conversation with them so you can talk to them on the go. Actually that's much more doable, you could make a device with basic voice recognition, a chat bot and some text to speech program. Not that it'd be very good but doable.
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Jul 9, 2014 22:04
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1049407802/devoto-music-in-hellvolume-1-in-print?ref=nav_search here's a pickstarter dickstarter for all ur gay elf dong needs!!!
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Jul 9, 2014 22:26
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Pah, that doesn't satisfy even a quarter of my needs.
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So can you add pledges after making a kickstarter? Potato salad guy now has to make 88 potato-salad books, 478 potato shirts, 247 potato hats and shitloads of other potato related things. That sounds expensive.
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Selklubber posted:So can you add pledges after making a kickstarter? Potato salad guy now has to make 88 potato-salad books, 478 potato shirts, 247 potato hats and shitloads of other potato related things. That sounds expensive. He already has a deal with a t-shirt place so I'm guessing the other stuff won't be too hard.
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Selklubber posted:So can you add pledges after making a kickstarter? Potato salad guy now has to make 88 potato-salad books, 478 potato shirts, 247 potato hats and shitloads of other potato related things. That sounds expensive. It's probably a decent amount of money, but $70k can buy a lot of potato-related goods.
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Selklubber posted:So can you add pledges after making a kickstarter? Potato salad guy now has to make 88 potato-salad books, 478 potato shirts, 247 potato hats and shitloads of other potato related things. That sounds expensive. If there's anything capitalism loves, it's making a quick buck off a passing fad.
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If he's got a compayne making t-shirts that's not so bad. I was more worried about making all the potato haikus and hundreds of other poo poo he has to send out. That's gonna take some time. At least he won't be hungry while working with it.
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Selklubber posted:If he's got a compayne making t-shirts that's not so bad. I was more worried about making all the potato haikus and hundreds of other poo poo he has to send out. That's gonna take some time. At least he won't be hungry while working with it. If all that money comes through he can not work for a year or so, and take care of the haikus at a leisurely pace. Edit: Actually I'm not sure I'd want to explain a resume hole with, "yeah, I took a couple years to write thousands of potato salad haikus."
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He limited the haiku option to 4 people so he might already have them all written on a Post-It note somewhere.
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So the bullshit WifiEX project has been deleted from indiegogo, I'm actually kind of loving amazed they did anything. However, I don't think that it should be deleted like it never existed, it's basically evidence of attempted fraud. I think just all funding should be removed. It also removes all the comedy too  here's the [url:http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wifiex]google cache[/url]) while it lasts. posty has a new favorite as of 01:40 on Jul 10, 2014 |
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Is this wrong place to say that potato salad is disgusting? Because it is and it's become clear that people need to told this.
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Japanese Phone Box posted:I don't understand how I can recharge the device with internet from my home to use it anywhere else "just like a battery charger only WITH INTERNET" as stated in their FAQ. I really tried. But I'll throw them some dollars because it has something to do with satellites so it must be good? Aaand it's gone. I have a feeling that this was just an "ideas guy" thing from a guy who doesn't understand anything about how the internet works. I think he literally just thought "What if you could charge your internet like you charge your battery!" and put up an Indiegogo. If I recall, there was even an "R&D" on his pie chart. See also: 
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Is this wrong place to say that potato salad is disgusting? Because it is and it's become clear that people need to told this. There's a whole world of potato salad out there.
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Kazy posted:Aaand it's gone. I have a feeling that this was just an "ideas guy" thing from a guy who doesn't understand anything about how the internet works. I think he literally just thought "What if you could charge your internet like you charge your battery!" and put up an Indiegogo. If I recall, there was even an "R&D" on his pie chart. It's a flex funding campaign from Belarus. I don't know how to make that any clearer.
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Suspicious Dish posted:It's a flex funding campaign from Belarus. I don't know how to make that any clearer. I know its hard for a typical american but Bulgaria and Belarus are separate countries even though both names start with letter B
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