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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/umbrellas-killquote:A short film about a man's fight to ban oversized umbrellas in New York. We'll hear from victims, an umbrella historian, emergency workers, politicians, etc. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/air-powered-umbrella-concept quote:he Air-umbrella seems like something from a syfy movie but with enough backing from people like you and time, it something that could be very possible. At the heart the concept seem pretty easy just shot some air out of one end and bye-bye rain. Of course it isn’t that easy, there a whole bunch of engineering and math https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/umbrella-of-damocles quote:Umbrella of Damocles is a surreal dark comedy about an accidental (yet fatal) umbrella wound to the head and a friends dying wish. umbrellas - how do they work?
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Perhaps we could combine this much improved tinder app with the umbrella app to join together singles under an umbrella https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2139739664/hook-up-app-with-rating-and-locals-finder
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You really kind of have to step back and wonder what you've done with your life if you consider yourself an "umbrella historian".
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Japanese Phone Box posted:This umbrella thing can't be serious. It seems that the hordes of Kickstarter spenders are most apt to bite when the item is both ironic and functional in some unique, look-at-me sort of way. That way the project gets lots of interest for being ridiculous, but a set percentage of those people will say "It's ridiculous... but I want it." Then they can own the dumb umbrella from the dumb kickstarter and feel good about owning a dumb thing that they can tell people they bought from kickstarter. They supported a dumb thing for the hell of it, because it was funny and interesting, because modern people love to talk about liking things before they were cool, and because buying worthless things because they are uniquely dumb makes the buyer a special kind of snowflake. You're not buying an umbrella. You're buying the ability to tell people about your dumb umbrella and how you supported it on kickstarter. If the person you're trying to impress says it's cool, you can feel cool about yourself for buying something cool before it was cool. If they say it's retarded, you can say that you bought it ironically because it was so dumb that you just had to own it to show people how dumb it is. Buying this umbrella is impervious to criticism.
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quote:I remember the first time I played Caesar III. This is a wonderful amazingly smart game that makes me feel that the city lives its own life even after I finish playing. This feeling stays with me all these years. You can spend hours observing the city without interfering in its life: the plebs and the patricians, the merchants and the students – all in balance. This game gives me much pleasure during many days. When you govern this Roman city, when you construct new buildings and take care about its citizen’s health, when you bargain with neighbors and wait for the barbarians besieges, you can feel yourself the governor known even in Rome. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/caesaria-divide-et-empera "Please pay me $10,0000 to steal the art assets from Caesar III and remake the game engine, copying the design exactly." Would be a really cool fan project if it required you to own Caesar III and they weren't asking for money. The names and the broken English translation makes it seem like they're all from Russia so they probably just don't give a poo poo. It does at least sound like the plan is to eventually replace the artwork, but advertising it using Caesar III assets is bullshit, and if they do replace them of course they're just going to copy it directly and scale up the resolution a bit.
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/caesaria-divide-et-empera CaesarIA is an open-source remake of the game engine requiring you to own Caesar III, and the crowdfunding campaign is just to support development as well as fund new legal assets that would make it standalone. It's not unheard of. I doubt they'll raise $10k though, as open-source communities are very averse to money.
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No loving way. I thought that would be a shoo-in for breaking some content guidelines or even just an arbitrary company veto. I'm really looking forward to the wordy, in depth reviews praising the game's deep and nuanced story and well rounded(!) characters.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:No loving way. I thought that would be a shoo-in for breaking some content guidelines or even just an arbitrary company veto. I'm really looking forward to the wordy, in depth reviews praising the game's deep and nuanced story and well rounded(!) characters. 
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Paladinus posted:I can't tell if this game is a SJW exercise in gender fluidity or just anime... There's nothing 'SJW' about it, it's a dorky game for gender transformation fetishists. The top review is actually someone complaining there it badly misrepresents transgenderism, apparently oblivious it's really nakedly fapbait.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:No loving way. I thought that would be a shoo-in for breaking some content guidelines or even just an arbitrary company veto.
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TetsuoTW posted:Haha, you think Steam has standards. Well no matter if it's believing in Steam or humanity or whatever I just died a little inside.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:There's nothing 'SJW' about it, it's a dorky game for gender transformation fetishists. The top review is actually someone complaining there it badly misrepresents transgenderism, apparently oblivious it's really nakedly fapbait. Fair enough. Is the game with disabled girls on Steam by the way?
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Paladinus posted:Fair enough. Is the game with disabled girls on Steam by the way? The what e: ugh that is a thing i feel dirty now ranbo das has a new favorite as of 17:03 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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ranbo das posted:The what http://www.katawa-shoujo.com/about.php It's not on Steam, no.
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My favourite review for DNA Bender Twister Extreme Gender is the jihad poem some dude wrote. A lot of people didn't see the humour though...
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kirbysuperstar posted:http://www.katawa-shoujo.com/about.php Welp that's enough internet for today. 
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This one actually succeeded... it's just a stylus for tablets. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thenotouchpen/the-no-touch-pen-the-original-germ-defense-pen
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Stick Insect posted:This one actually succeeded... it's just a stylus for tablets. So it's like a stick? or any regular old piece of plastic? And they sell them for 20 bucks. Nice.
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Wow they won by a hair didn't they? I wonder how much of that money was by a generous benefactor in the last minute
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ranbo das posted:The what Old poo poo is old. Also, blame 4chan
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Alan Smithee posted:Wow they won by a hair didn't they? I wonder how much of that money was by a generous benefactor in the last minute According to Kicktraq, it looks like a third of the money was contributed by a few backers making much larger donations than everyone else in the last few days of funding.
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So I'm guessing that's a kind of scam when the founders chuck enough money in at the last minute to tip it over the total so they get all the money, then but a bunch of cheap $2 styluses and keep the rest?
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Who's to say it's not a take the money and run situation. As long as the fees they pay on the money used to boost themselves is less than the amount they get from suckers, it's a profitable scam. Sad thing is I'm willing to bet a lot of those "legit" backers are friends and family
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Morglon posted:So it's like a stick? or any regular old piece of plastic? And they sell them for 20 bucks. Nice. No, those are a legitimate thing. The tip is soft plastic so it won't scratch. They also cost about 15 cents; companies often give them away as advertising, so you can acquire them by the score at industry trade shows.
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Don't they need to be made out of a different material than normal plastic to work on capacitive touch screens? It's probably not very expensive to make them, of course.
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Zereth posted:Don't they need to be made out of a different material than normal plastic to work on capacitive touch screens? They do, but it's just a small rubber tip. As said above, it's common to get branded advertising ones for free. I have some BAE ones kicking around from a sponsored event somewhere.
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Zereth posted:Don't they need to be made out of a different material than normal plastic to work on capacitive touch screens? I honestly couldn't say. I have one here that was given away with a $3 screen protector, though, so they can't be dear.
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Morglon posted:So it's like a stick? or any regular old piece of plastic? And they sell them for 20 bucks. Nice. Just more evidence that Kickstarter is more of a marketing tool than a innovators tool. On Kickstarter you can take products that already exist, brand them for an alternative purpose, and just see if they can convert at the new price point you've given them. To be honest i find these products so much more offensive than Kickstarters that are just plain bad. At least those are trying, just poorly, these ones are borne out of, and reward, a very cynical worldview that contributes nothing special or new. Edit: that's not to say innovative products don't succeed, they do and make serious bank, its just annoying seeing all this mediocre rebranding poo poo of existing products turn a profit. Maluco Marinero has a new favorite as of 11:28 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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You can buy those styluses at the Dollar Tree. 
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...of SCIENCE! posted:You can buy those styluses at the Dollar Tree. To be fair, if you want a good one — i.e. one with a slightly thinner and more rigid tip, and a good grip — for extensive pen-like usage of a tablet, you probably have to look around for a bit. It's still something you can go out and get for next to nothing in less than an hour of searching.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:You can buy those styluses at the Dollar Tree. In a pack of three for $5 dollars. It's not even $3 per stylus.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/388011235/instant-artist-drawing-tool-z-stand?ref=popular have you ever considered becoming a different kind of lovely artist? well here's your chance.
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