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Piquai Souban posted:A local knockoff of the NoPhone (and predecessors) - this time, it's wood! I wonder if anyone in the 15th century told people that they were relying too much on movable type, or maybe people in the 19th century saying no, we shouldn't put up telegraph lines, we should just put up decorative wooden poles to remind us of the dangers of technology
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quote:Q: Is it gag gift? Oh man I want this guy to just walk into traffic. Also I want to write "fauxn" on a brick and throw it at his face. I wonder how long the self-congratulation sesh was when he came up with that?
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Otisburg posted:I wonder how long the self-congratulation sesh was when he came up with that? This is what I picture when I read fauxn:  http://i.imgur.com/EcTFimB.jpg
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Piquai Souban posted:A local knockoff of the NoPhone (and predecessors) - this time, it's wood! This is one of the worst things I've ever read
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Otisburg posted:I wonder how long the self-congratulation sesh was when he came up with that?
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BattleMaster posted:I wonder if anyone in the 15th century told people that they were relying too much on movable type http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2010/02/dont_touch_that_dial.html
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:This is what I picture when I read fauxn: I picture those fairy creatures too, but one that lived in the 1990s and skateboarded everyday to the rave club where he worked as a DJ.
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Guavanaut posted:Yes. 'Technology is ruining everything' and 'kids today are assholes' are two of the staple sentiments of humanity. jesus christ
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BattleMaster posted:jesus christ You don't think kids are assholes and technology ruins everything? On this internet forum?
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I do think that as a society we are becoming way too focused on our devices/screens and not experiences/people but this guy is just a pretentious prick who has a found an extremely obnoxious and overcomplicated way to get his point across. Instead of authoring some interesting perspective on the topic he is going for a cash grab on something that's only use is to pull out and feel superior to other people. I'd have a hard time not punching someone who pulled that thing out while we were out together to mock my use of technology in their presence.
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TraderStav posted:I do think that as a society we are becoming way too focused on our devices/screens and not experiences/people but this guy is just a pretentious prick who has a found an extremely obnoxious and overcomplicated way to get his point across. Instead of authoring some interesting perspective on the topic he is going for a cash grab on something that's only use is to pull out and feel superior to other people. I'd have a hard time not punching someone who pulled that thing out while we were out together to mock my use of technology in their presence. agreed i also think we are way too focused on electricity, fire and wheels too.
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You ask me shits been going downhill since agriculture.
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I remember there was a philosophical paper some dude wrote about how the typewriter was going to ruin society because people wouldn't actually take enjoyment from writing anymore. If I remember correctly the guy who wrote it didn't like writing and dictated all his papers to his wife 
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Otisburg posted:You ask me shits been going downhill since agriculture. Young people today have no respect for their elders and scrawl pictures of animals on tthe cave walls.
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Jedit posted:Young people today have no respect for their elders and scrawl pictures of animals on tthe cave walls. This multicellular thing is just a fad.
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Kids these days and their "tools" and "specific places for making GBS threads."
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TraderStav posted:I do think that as a society we are becoming way too focused on our devices/screens and not experiences/people Pardon me while I use my 24/7 connection to all the knowledge of humanity to immediately find well-sourced research on why you're wrong.
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chitoryu12 posted:Pardon me while I use my 24/7 connection to all the knowledge of humanity to immediately find well-sourced research on why you're wrong. I love your avatar.
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  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/axent-wear-cat-ear-headphones $3 million raised
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3 million and they couldn't splurge for rgb leds instead of a separate set for every led color?
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Recieve a pair of headphones of your color choice, plus a one of a kind digital painting of you or your character wearing Axent headphones! Customly painted to your taste by the Axent Wear designer and artist, Yuumei (Wenqing Yan). You can look just like one of the artworks in the original Axent Wear posters! TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A DIGITAL PAINTING. Germstore posted:3 million and they couldn't splurge for rgb leds instead of a separate set for every led color? Oh they did, they're just charging $10k.
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Kickstarter should do a kickstarter to raise money for a less crappy app. This new update looks like some freaking Windows phone app. And scrolling horizontally on a primarily portrait based device? Such bullshit.
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Vapid linkbait site The Oatmeal, creator of such perennial favorites as Sriracha For The Mothershitting Win and Nikolai Tesla: The Most Epic Athiest Bacon Fedora To Ever Exist, kickstarted a card game and it made a million dollars in less than a day.
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TetsuoTW posted:Kids these days and their "tools" and "specific places for making GBS threads." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADU&t=53s
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Sleeveless posted:Vapid linkbait site The Oatmeal, creator of such perennial favorites as Sriracha For The Mothershitting Win and Nikolai Tesla: The Most Epic Athiest Bacon Fedora To Ever Exist, kickstarted a card game and it made a million dollars in less than a day. 100% funded in 20 minutes, 1000% funded in less than a hour, now rapidly heading towards $2 million and it still the first day!
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Sleeveless posted:Vapid linkbait site The Oatmeal, creator of such perennial favorites as Sriracha For The Mothershitting Win and Nikolai Tesla: The Most Epic Athiest Bacon Fedora To Ever Exist, kickstarted a card game and it made a million dollars in less than a day. After so many kickstarters that were about brazenly stealing poo poo from the internet and putting them on cards, it's actually odd to see one with all original art.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:100% funded in 20 minutes, 1000% funded in less than a hour, now rapidly heading towards $2 million and it still the first day! Memes: The Card Game 
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Sleeveless posted:Vapid linkbait site The Oatmeal, creator of such perennial favorites as Sriracha For The Mothershitting Win and Nikolai Tesla: The Most Epic Athiest Bacon Fedora To Ever Exist, kickstarted a card game and it made a million dollars in less than a day. Whatever happened with the "Tesla" Museum? Last I hear they were scrambling just to buy the land and hadn't even done anything yet. EDIT: Just looked at the Exploding Kittens KS. People aren't this dumb, are they? There's no gameplay there. Turn over card, get "kitten card", loose game. But wait, you can draw a card to skip your turn! Or a card to "diffuse" a kitten card so you don't loose. Or a card to do "something" that's completely unexplained and likely, at this point, completely not thought out or planned! Sounds like something you'd place once or twice and then never again. Snuffman has a new favorite as of 15:06 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Snuffman posted:Whatever happened with the "Tesla" Museum? Last I hear they were scrambling just to buy the land and hadn't even done anything yet. He wrote a ~*totally unprompted*~ fawning review of the Tesla model S, then two days later Elon Musk coincidentally gave them a load of money. I don't think they've done anything since.
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Snuffman posted:People aren't this dumb, are they? There's no gameplay there. What makes you think they buy this for gameplay? It's just fans of the oatmeal and there are plenty of them. I'm not a fan of his works but honestly there's no reason to be jealous about his success. e: judging by the figures almost everyone bought the 35$ "NSFW" deck. I guess it says it all. People don't buy this for the game but for the lol random edgy factor. Probably 14 years olds or geeks. SpaceGoatFarts has a new favorite as of 16:50 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Snuffman posted:Whatever happened with the "Tesla" Museum? Last I hear they were scrambling just to buy the land and hadn't even done anything yet. I had to read the whole thing twice just to make sure, but that's it. You just flip cards in turns. It has almost zero strategy to it. I bet they could have easily sign a deal for a proper board/card game with someone who actually knows how to make one. Or make another official Munchkin reskin. Instead they just came up with the stupidest game mechanic ever. gently caress.
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Snuffman posted:Whatever happened with the "Tesla" Museum? Last I hear they were scrambling just to buy the land and hadn't even done anything yet. but but but cats and memes and epic bacon Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison hated cats and narwhals!
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From a few pages back, but "ORIGINAL GAME IDEA DO NOT STEAL" and general paranoia about that sort of thing is extremely common among the very lowest grade indie devs, of which there are maaany.
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Also sometimes goats because Goat Simulator is totally lulzy, amirite?
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Snuffman posted:EDIT: Just looked at the Exploding Kittens KS. Paladinus posted:I had to read the whole thing twice just to make sure, but that's it. You just flip cards in turns. It has almost zero strategy to it. Its UNO, you silly goons. Have you never played UNO? Its a reskinned UNO with funnier cards than just numbers and "skip a turn". It has pretty much zero strategy. You get to pick what cards to play, but its just picking from the cards in your hand, and they're not that different. But that's just like Monopoly or most other games that mainstream people play, not super nerd games like Settlers of Catan. (I like nerdy board games, but you've gotta admit most people play poo poo like chutes and ladders. Or Yahtzee. Pure dice rolls. Lack of strategy isn't really a thing mainstream people give a poo poo about. They suck at strategy.) Noyemi K posted:From a few pages back, but "ORIGINAL GAME IDEA DO NOT STEAL" and general paranoia about that sort of thing is extremely common among the very lowest grade indie devs, of which there are maaany. It comes from the stupid American "If you come up with a genius idea, you can retire and rake in millions without being technical or doing any hard work" which is total bullshit. A genius idea can make you tons of money, but unless you get insanely lucky you've also gotta work hard to market it and develop a product using it, or otherwise get some kind of patent you can license. quote:I guess it depends on how novel your idea is 
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:I'm not a fan of his works but honestly there's no reason to be jealous about his success. Oh, I'm not jealous. I respect the guy. I don't like his articles, but I certainly don't hate him. He's a goddamn marketing genius. Everything he does is cool and calculated to maximize clickbait and profit. He's the master of Web2.0. It didn't surprise me at all that he worked in SEO before starting The Oatmeal. ...The card game IS dumb, but also calculated as well. EDIT: The Tesla Museum is kinda sketchy but not nowhere near full blown "Sohmer take the money and run and then start more kickstarters level" yet. Snuffman has a new favorite as of 17:41 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Zaphod42 posted:It comes from the stupid American "If you come up with a genius idea, you can retire and rake in millions without being technical or doing any hard work" which is total bullshit. Physicists get so many unsolicited emails from weirdoes claiming that they've cracked the next big paradigm shift in Physics but they just need someone to "run the equations" for them that they've actually devised a point scoring 'Crackpot Index' for rating such emails. quote:30 points for suggesting that Einstein, in his later years, was groping his way towards the ideas you now advocate.
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