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Nintendo Kid posted:If I remember right the OUYA kickstarter still hasn't shipped out to all of the original backers either. They did ship them out -- to retail shelves. That's where a few backer ouyas have supposedly been found and bought, at least.
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The "world`s smallest flying camera" that existed only through renders is now getting its first working prototype.  Problem? Not only does it look like just another cheap Chinese drone, it's also ugly according to backers quote:I wouldn’t want to be seen with what’s in the gallery now.. I wonder what these backers really want? A stylish dildo camera that cannot possibly fly or a working drone? Bonus marketing bullshit 
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Problem? Not only does it look like just another cheap Chinese drone, it's also ugly according to backers
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TetsuoTW posted:Cheap Chinese drones are already smaller than that and are actually purchasable, including built-in video functionality. It's like people on crowdfunding sites make bad purchasing decisions based entirely on buzz.
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TetsuoTW posted:As someone who fell for the Pebble the first time, I find it hilarious that people are still dumb enough to give them money for another watch after their first one shipped almost a year late without half of the features they showed in the pitch video. I loved the first Pebble. I got in the first group on Kickstarter, waited 18 months, got it, and put it right on ebay and nearly tripled my money.
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The Toejam and Earl Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove has not one, but two $10,000 tiers. Why do game devs think people want to pay the cost of a modest used car to have dinner with them?
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Germstore posted:The Toejam and Earl Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove has not one, but two $10,000 tiers. Why do game devs think people want to pay the cost of a modest used car to have dinner with them? Because there's already at least one gullible person who gave them $10,000 dollars and there will be more?
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Germstore posted:Why do game devs think people want to pay the cost of a modest used car to have dinner with them? Because nerds.
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Germstore posted:The Toejam and Earl Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove has not one, but two $10,000 tiers. Why do game devs think people want to pay the cost of a modest used car to have dinner with them? Precedent.
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I'm pretty sure the super-high tiers are there for established studios and developers to throw in a chunk of change. I remember that happening a few times back during the initial Kickstarter mania. So yeah, precedent.
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Germstore posted:The Toejam and Earl Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove has not one, but two $10,000 tiers. Why do game devs think people want to pay the cost of a modest used car to have dinner with them? Because there's an entire industry of computer janitors getting paid obscene salaries with no spouse or children and no meaning in their lives but consumption.
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Germstore posted:The Toejam and Earl Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove has not one, but two $10,000 tiers. Why do game devs think people want to pay the cost of a modest used car to have dinner with them? Why do you not think that? And even if it were very unlikely to be purchased (it's not), it costs nothing to add that tier to the rewards. Why wouldn't they?
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Well one of the 10,000 dollar ones has "7 left of 8" so...
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Why wouldn't you have high-level tiers? There's no risk in having them.
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Great Rumbler posted:Why wouldn't you have high-level tiers? There's no risk in having them. Yeah you never know when some random fan might have won the lottery, and you want to be in position to grab their attention. It's not like projects get hurt when you "just" get the money from lower tiers instead if no one bites.
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Even if someone bites being ridiculous is being ridiculous. Personally I'd have a $10,000 tier with 1 available and name it "Does Notch like my game?"
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John Vanderslice had a Kickstarter for his album release a while ago and he had a tier where you could go into his basement, listen to him play some songs with like ten other people, then go get drinks. That tier cost something like $150, AND you got the album.
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Drunk Tomato posted:John Vanderslice had a Kickstarter for his album release a while ago and he had a tier where you could go into his basement, listen to him play some songs with like ten other people, then go get drinks. See, that's a pretty reasonable amount of money. Like if you're poor you probably wouldn't do it, but a guy with a steady job could drop that on an artist they really like as a splurge.
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The best possible outcome would be if an actual rapper with fond memories of playing the game as a kid bought all the $10,000 slots for himself and his crew and all these white middle-aged game designers/Nickelodeon cartoon showrunners were stuck awkwardly spending the evening with their eyes lowered and desperately trying not to say anything offensive.
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Sleeveless posted:The best possible outcome would be if an actual rapper with fond memories of playing the game as a kid bought all the $10,000 slots for himself and his crew and all these white middle-aged game designers/Nickelodeon cartoon showrunners were stuck awkwardly spending the evening with their eyes lowered and desperately trying not to say anything offensive. Do it, Kanye. DO IT.
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Germstore posted:The Toejam and Earl Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove has not one, but two $10,000 tiers. Why do game devs think people want to pay the cost of a modest used car to have dinner with them? because people will actually pay for it
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Sleeveless posted:The best possible outcome would be if an actual rapper with fond memories of playing the game as a kid bought all the $10,000 slots for himself and his crew and all these white middle-aged game designers/Nickelodeon cartoon showrunners were stuck awkwardly spending the evening with their eyes lowered and desperately trying not to say anything offensive. Gambino definitely namechecks toejam and earl in a song, let's make this happen
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ddddddffdfddddfddf posted:Gambino definitely namechecks toejam and earl in a song, let's make this happen What we need is some Young Money up in. I want to see them try and hang out with Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and, like, Tyga for the night.
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It's going to be awkward because rappers never say stupid offensive poo poo because they can get away with it my friend of the family
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KiddieGrinder posted:for anyone else who doesn't want to trawl through the poo poo Trawling through crowdfunded poo poo is what this thread is all about. 
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I brought up the pricing and even selling his garbage albums with him directly and he basically dodged the question after making like a million excuses. He's so convinced his plonking is actually worth a purchase 
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Phone posting so I don't know if this is the same one as last year, but there's another food scanner up for flexible funding on indie gogo. Only $100, too!
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what the, the only thing an optical spectrometer will tell you is what colour it is unless you like superheat the food into plasma first and wtf is a gyroscope doing in that thing
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guys shut the gently caress up this is obviously legit  edit: they were way pumped about that orange gif, so they put it first and left the first drafts below it: 
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e: I am angry and weird about food marketing and agriculture
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Mercury Hat posted:Phone posting so I don't know if this is the same one as last year, but there's another food scanner up for flexible funding on indie gogo. Only $100, too! I looked at this and the highly successful SCiO thing (and I think there were others too but I forgot) and it seems their gimmick isn't somehow scanning the food like on Star Trek, but rather looking at a very tiny piece of it (on the outside mind you), looking up a database of known foods, and trying to find a match. While that probably does sort of work, and might be an interesting idea, I've done enough food/calorie logging to know that stuff I buy is rarely on any sort of database, and if it is it's too difficult or annoying to find the correct match (like a million different types of bread, a hundred types of banana, etc.). So yeah for an orange, great, it can scan the skin of an orange, look up the database, and match it with an orange, as well as calculate the nutritional value from the weight. Try it with that home made cake like in the pitch, and there's no way it'll know what the gently caress that thing is. And that's assuming the dumb thing even works like they're suggesting it does. Reading the comments on the SCiO thing is great, a lot of people complaining about lack of communication, where's the next update, etc. edit: basically what these are trying to do is done better and cheaper by a barcode scanner. KiddieGrinder has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Noyemi K posted:The part that pisses me off more than the hilariously false mass spectrometer claim is this bit: You sound just as stupid as they do.
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edit: could be the start of a loving stupid derail, let's not go there. Instead: i would like to start a career of adding my perspectives and game play to the YouTube gaming community. risks and challenges posted:The biggest challenge facing me right now is the ability to have a stable place to live. If necessary, I will have to adjust the funds to temporary housing in order to carry out my desires. There is also the possibility of not being able to purchase the necessary equipment due to availability, but I will do whatever necessary to carry out my desire to provide the best gaming videos I can. This is the ILLUMINATI BOARD GAME. I'm disappointed that the risks and challenges doesn't include "might be erased by the actual illuminati".  The letters I pick would be rear end. Noyemi K has a new favorite as of 22:05 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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That one is sort of cute in a way, something my dad would probably come up with as an idea. The only real problem I see is there's not much room for good maze design in each letter. It'd be more interesting and fun to make the maze bit the outside of the letters rather than the inside. But that'd actually be work, rather than just putting some fonts through a cnc machine. For extra lazy points (but honesty points I guess?) they pointed out that the font they used already existed, it's not even something they came up with.
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Noyemi K posted:For anyone who thought I didn't come through for you guys. I don't even know where to start with this dude, but let's just say he didn't stop there. His problem is clearly that he doesn't have enough VSTs. 20 different permutations of a subtractive synth will surely make him a better musician.
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