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skull wall posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metalweavedesigns/the-baby-bestiary?ref=category_location The pitch explicitly says the intent is to use them as an alternative to just slaughtering everything in your path. And given how often I've had players who wanted to raise various baby monsters, if I had money I'd definitely be interested in this book.
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AxeManiac posted:It would be handy if kickstarter had "Verified" accounts, to make sure the people are who they say they are. Do they do that? You're suggesting kickstarter do something both responsible and that could get them less traffic/money.
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senrath posted:The pitch explicitly says the intent is to use them as an alternative to just slaughtering everything in your path. And given how often I've had players who wanted to raise various baby monsters, if I had money I'd definitely be interested in this book. Yeah, a player in a Pathfinder campaign I'm in just found a dinosaur egg and is planning to raise the thing so a book like this would be very helpful for him (and our GM).
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Evil Fluffy posted:You're suggesting kickstarter do something both responsible and that could get them less traffic/money. If I were them, I wouldn't want to be on the hook for guaranteeing someone's identity, let alone through a corporate veil.
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senrath posted:The pitch explicitly says the intent is to use them as an alternative to just slaughtering everything in your path. And given how often I've had players who wanted to raise various baby monsters, if I had money I'd definitely be interested in this book. That incomplete pencil of the baby owlbears (BABY OWLBEARS!) certainly has my attention.
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Sep 3, 2014 15:13
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Sometimes gaming media mentions women, this will not stand. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lawyers-against-gaming-corruption loving LOL.
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Sandweed posted:Sometimes gaming media mentions women, this will not stand. It's hilarious that this is what's getting so much attention, but most people don't care one bit about the deals going on between the gaming media and billion-dollar publishers.
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Sep 3, 2014 19:00
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Sandweed posted:Sometimes gaming media mentions women, this will not stand. Of all the dumb things in the "gaming industry" or "gaming journalism" you could tilt against (literal payola, selling unfinished games, "crunch time" working conditions and layoffs, whatever), this is their hill to die on. Someone who published a free video game about sadbrains had sex with people. She may have cheated on her boyfriend! This cannot stand. Gamers, everyone.
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Sep 3, 2014 19:21
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Sandweed posted:Sometimes gaming media mentions women, this will not stand. "Gamer Gate", holy poo poo talk about hyperbole. The Zoe Quinn, heh, "Gamer Gate" is the perfect "scandal" for observers because both sides are lovely and you can laugh at everyone involved without feeling bad. It's the story of a serial cheater and drama queen with pale blue hair versus raging misogynists who see women as a mortal threat to gaming. It's just idiots all around. And of course the Indiegogo campaign is using flexible funding. Of course.
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Chomp8645 posted:"Gamer Gate", holy poo poo talk about hyperbole. Yeah it's pretty great, I've been laughing all week.
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rn-estudio-humans-vs-orcs-fantasy-football-teams Fantasy monsters playing American football. Honestly no one with a soul can get mad at "ripping off" industry super-villain Games Workshop's Bloodbowl. Pretty sure they're not even the first. However someone on their facebook page points out the fact that it looks very much like they blatantly plagiarized a Privateer Press Hordes Trollblood model and added some extra bits:  Their response to being called out on this is to claim it was not plagerism because they were putting it on a different sized base, and beside you could just order a pledge level without the offending model, right?! https://www.facebook.com/196900433730687/photos/a.268589333228463.66085.196900433730687/714463188641073/?type=1&theater quote:
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I love bloodbowl and I'd be cool with somebody competing with them for sure. But when you look at the kickstarter, there's just no way half those characters aren't directly based on warhammer FB Orkz and Empire soldiers. The other half that aren't games workshop figures appear to be knockoffs of other companies' figures. Games Workshop has a tendency to sick the lawyers on anybody who even comes close, which is ridiculous, and they deserve to have some competition. But this isn't competition, its theft. Stealing IP is a Kickstarter tradition. Plus, "Humans vs Orcs Fantasy Football" ? They didn't even try to come up with a name. Somebody out there really wants to make a miniatures game but has literally zero creative capability whatsoever. 
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:They link to a site that comprehensively debunks the whole thing, just in case anyone was thinking of giving them more cash: http://drop-kicker.com/2014/08/ritot-projection-watch/ "Now that also depends on the reflectance of the 'screen' material.  Someone with very dark skin may find it especially difficult to see. It’s no wonder they chose primarily white and asian stock photos to show off the renderings of their product." They designed a watch that literally only tells time for white people.
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Sandweed posted:Sometimes gaming media mentions women, this will not stand. quote:This is Being Cancelled
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Yeah GW doesn't make BloodBowl models anymore but its a pretty heavily played game so there is a huge industry of companies making 3rd party BB miniatures. Almost all of them are pretty copyright infringement heavy but GW doesn't really care since the community basically writes all the rules and does all the legwork for the and all it does is build popularity to sell more videogames. Also those dudes are in Spain, which has a very loose definition of copyright law and an extremely short period for public domain works (IIRC HeroQuest is in the public domain there). Although in America as long as you used no copyrighted names or imagery you could in theory reprint an entire board game with no issues. It goes back to a number of cases but the big one was a lawsuit over a game called The Farming Game being a ripoff of Monopoly, where the judge ruled that you cant copyright board game rules or mechanics.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Yeah GW doesn't make BloodBowl models anymore but its a pretty heavily played game so there is a huge industry of companies making 3rd party BB miniatures. Almost all of them are pretty copyright infringement heavy but GW doesn't really care since the community basically writes all the rules and does all the legwork for the and all it does is build popularity to sell more videogames. GW kills of all the games that are relatively cheap and fun. I miss Battlefleet Gothic.
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Morglon posted:GW kills of all the games that are relatively cheap and fun. I miss Battlefleet Gothic. I'd say were a short time away from someone at GW or FFG realizing how profitable X-Wing and Attack Wing have been and then ebaying BFG prices. Sure the last time they did this was an epic failure, but GW has the memory, solipsism and object permanence of a six month old crack baby.
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Otisburg posted:They designed a watch that literally only tells time for white people. they designed a watch that tells time for no one. It uses racist light that doesn't bounce off dark surfaces ugh
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I'd say were a short time away from someone at GW or FFG realizing how profitable X-Wing and Attack Wing have been and then ebaying BFG prices. See there you're making the mistake of assuming GW has a marketing department that looks at these sorts of things, when in reality they proudly trumpet the fact that they have no marketing department and do no market research at all.
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unpacked robinhood posted:they designed a watch that tells time for no one. It uses racist light that doesn't bounce off dark surfaces ugh well yes the dark surfaces thing is a subset of the problem that it won't work at all, i just thought it was funny
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Falling (September 11th, 2001) quote:Still I struggled to convince financial backers to get behind my vision but I refused to quit on the story. That brings us back to the proof of concept short featured in this project. While there are plenty of errors that remain unacceptable in a finished film, I feel after finishing that short I was able to gain a lifetime of experience.   WHY...WHY IS THA DOOR SO SAWLID?? Trollipop has a new favorite as of 20:31 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Holy gently caress it's terrible. Maybe it's passable, maybe it's an okay idea... and then BAM the Brooklyn accents from a couple of Manitobans, sweet mother Jesus.
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I was dying with laughter. If he keeps the same production quality in future videos he could definitely do comedy - the kind that's funny because the creators pour their heart and soul into it and it's absolutely awful in the best way possible
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poo poo, that was really awful. Sound design is maybe the worst I've ever seen, and boy do those Garageband rock loops get my pulse racing! His problems weren't just budgetary, even things like editing and basic set design were completely inept. He should start by casting someone besides himself because I couldn't stop thinking of Vince Offer whenever he opened his mouth. Also, dear lord, didn't he have ONE female friend he could get as the voice of the wife? If this guy wants to make anything remotely serious, he needs to make more lovely little films as practice because he has a LONG way to go.
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Guy looks like Matthew Gray Gubler. Matthew Grey Gublar can actually act and direct though. I'd like to see him do a kickstarter, honestly. He couldn't even get another guy to play the TV person? It's clearly him putting on a deep voice. The editing  And his female voice sounds like something John Waters would come up with. Who is other person he's talking to? Is his co-worker invisible? World Trade Centre might have been a film of somewhat questionable taste and intentions, but at least Oliver Stone knew how to make a movie. This is the third kickstarter he's made for it too - maybe people don't want to pay for someone's rather tasteless homemade 9/11 tribute? OldMemes has a new favorite as of 23:45 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Finally someone is disrupting umbrellas https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1369020620/umbrella-here-light-up-your-umbrella-for-sharing
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... Why is one of the prizes playing a game of League of Legends with them?
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DoctorPresident posted:Finally someone is disrupting umbrellas Yes because when it's pouring out I really just want to share my umbrella with some jerk.
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Sep 8, 2014 19:15
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Rosalind posted:Yes because when it's pouring out I really just want to share my umbrella with some jerk. That jerk can then go to the app and find your name and facebook ID just by inputting the time and place they met you. The app also tracks users' current locations and records their past routes which is just the information you want stored on a crowdfunded program created by four teenaged students who don't seem overly concerned about online security. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That jerk can then go to the app and find your name and facebook ID just by inputting the time and place they met you. The app also tracks users' current locations and records their past routes which is just the information you want stored on a crowdfunded program created by four teenaged students who don't seem overly concerned about online security. Is there a deluxe version where it blinks out my social security number in Morse code?
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This is a case of taking the "The customer doesn't know what it needs" Steve Jobs' School to the extreme. Seriously, it's okay to be innovative and all that but do some marketing research before launching your niche product. DoctorPresident has a new favorite as of 21:53 on Sep 8, 2014 |
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DoctorPresident posted:Finally someone is disrupting umbrellas Is this parody or real? I can't tell anymore.
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The really dumb thing is that I could see some niche usage for a detachable umbrella light. You know, it can get really dark when it rains, if you're walking the extra light could be okay to have. But a creepy tracking umbrella? Yeesh no, no.
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DoctorPresident posted:Seriously, it's okay to be innovative and all that but do some marketing research before launching your niche product. I think this is their market research.
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Can I specify exactly who I'm willing to share my umbrella with using this umbrella grindr app? Like what if I don't want to share it with a Chinese?
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Subjunctive posted:I think this is their market research. "Now you can be the consumer and investor!"
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DoctorPresident posted:"Now you can be the consumer and investor!" Kickstarter backers aren't investors. You can do better than that. (Though it's pretty common for actual investors to invest in products or services that they themselves find useful.)
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DoctorPresident posted:Finally someone is disrupting umbrellas But can their umbrella double as a fuckin weapon to fend off attackers? 
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Trollipop posted:But can their umbrella double as a fuckin weapon to fend off attackers? Might as well just go all the way, with a flimsy blade concealed in your umbrella http://www.swordsdirect.com/swords-rapier-umbrella.html
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