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Paladinus posted:At least with Scottish you can bastardise Scots and make it easily recognisable. I have no idea how to properly transfer a Russian accent into written text without resorting to fake СУЯIГГIК SСЯIРТ. Badly. The answer is badly. Also Burland being Scotland also included a change that the guy you go to see in the village jail isn't insane, he's a a drunk. I can't imagine someone on the translation team didn't think "hey wouldn't a drunken Scotsman be a bit much of a stereotype?" Paladinus posted:Is Garfield a Felix the Cat rip-off? If he is it's not as bad as Heathcliffe.
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stillvisions posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/588524252/electric-motor-surfing-board-waterblade/  From the thumbnail I assumed it was like, you stood on it facing with your leg propped up like the Captain Morgan logo and that moved you. Until I saw how you ACTUALLY move with it I was totally on board with it because that sounds hilarious/stupid instead of just stupid/stupid.
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Paul Zuvella posted:I don't know why but I feel like this is the most hilarious thing I've seen on kickstarter yet. Clearly a lot of engineering and effort went into this product but it's both completely useless and in no way has a place in any market what so ever. If you consider walking in ankle deep mud a workout, which I guess it is, but also immensely unpleasant
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stillvisions posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/588524252/electric-motor-surfing-board-waterblade/ 
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Hmmm if only there were some way to work out in water. Maybe a way that gives both your arms and legs a workout and is, more-or-less, free.
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Paul Zuvella posted:I don't know why but I feel like this is the most hilarious thing I've seen on kickstarter yet. Clearly a lot of engineering and effort went into this product but it's both completely useless and in no way has a place in any market what so ever. Honestly that does look like it'd beat the hell out of your calves and quads in a good way, but... so would literally swimming, which is cheaper and also probably has less potential for looking like a moron (not me though i swim like a housecat). Efb
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Paul Zuvella posted:I don't know why but I feel like this is the most hilarious thing I've seen on kickstarter yet. Clearly a lot of engineering and effort went into this product but it's both completely useless and in no way has a place in any market what so ever. I picture their design evolution as follows: 1) "Let's make a device that's lightweight you can stand on and travel across water, like a motorized surfboard!" 2) "Standing sideways is way too unstable at slow speeds, let's make you face forward!" 3) "You can't steer in any appreciable way without falling off sideways, let's make it a raised and sloped design to steer!" 4) "Standing forward adds way too much drag from the water so it's slow as gently caress and really tiring, let's call it a workout device!" I would love to see early prototype videos of people flying backwards off models with a more powerful motor, however.
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Noyemi K posted:I'm surprised this hasn't seen a single dime but maybe even bronies can determine a poo poo idea twice a day. https://www.bronymate.com/
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The bronimation is a technique where you turn a fictional character into a sad and creepy parody with a taste of pedophilia eg: "The whole season was bronimated in 2 weeks"
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stillvisions posted:I picture their design evolution as follows: 5) Oh, lord, we'll have to sell these for $1600 to turn a profit. 6) Suicide.
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I was convinced that the Captain Morgan approach was correct -- nay, the only sensible path! -- until I watched the video. I have no words.
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Paladinus posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bikeballs/bike-balls-bike-light If they're going this route they really should offer the Lance Armstrong model as a special bonus.
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Paladinus posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bikeballs/bike-balls-bike-light
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stillvisions posted:If they're going this route they really should offer the Lance Armstrong model as a special bonus. That's not how you spell Karl Lagerfield.
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Paladinus posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bikeballs/bike-balls-bike-light It needs a dick-shaped white light to go with it, to put on the front of the bicycle.
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Stick Insect posted:It needs a dick-shaped white light to go with it, to put on the front of the bicycle. No, the dick would be on the seat.
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Collateral Damage posted:It's truck nuts for hipsters. Now we can identify two types of horrible people by the same vehicle accessory.
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stillvisions posted:I picture their design evolution as follows: Something lightweight that you can stand in and travel across water. Very interesting idea, I wonder why nobody has tried it before. 
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Paul Zuvella posted:I don't know why but I feel like this is the most hilarious thing I've seen on kickstarter yet. Clearly a lot of engineering and effort went into this product but it's both completely useless and in no way has a place in any market what so ever. There's a whole cottage industry of these terrible sports/exercise products by these solo designers. And they're all terrible. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1274024898/aqua-elliptica-the-new-generation-of-water-fun-spo https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/405631068/steertuberevolutionary-new-watersport http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboard (this looks kind of fun actually, but wildly impractical) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/897978738/rocott-cutboarding?ref=nav_search https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/405387784/the-wake-wingtm?ref=nav_search https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1969040824/paddle-cross-new-game-on-the-lake?ref=discovery That's just water sports, there's also tons of rollerblading/skateboarding "innovations"
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Yaos posted:Something lightweight that you can stand in and travel across water. Very interesting idea, I wonder why nobody has tried it before. Ugh, I left my old white guy outside during a storm, and now I think he's sprung a leak. 
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if you can't be handsome, be handy
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Xandu posted:There's a whole cottage industry of these terrible sports/exercise products by these solo designers. And they're all terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEXTkQA5YGI
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Xandu posted:There's a whole cottage industry of these terrible sports/exercise products by these solo designers. And they're all terrible.  this looks like fun dad can we get one edit: I don't know if gemelos is part of the thing or one of the muscles i'm supposed to be working
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Xandu posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1969040824/paddle-cross-new-game-on-the-lake?ref=discovery Lol this one is hilariously sad. They got 20 dollars and then the maker cancelled the project the day before it would've ended just so he could stop it before it changed to "unsuccessful".  let'S go thos is going to work. edit: Haha if you look at his project history, he actually tried the exact same project but with 20,000 more dollars required for funding a month prior. This one has great backing tiers. quote:Donation for the humanitarian side of the project. Kid's say thank you and a big Yeahhh, Yeahhh. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 22:59 on May 27, 2015 |
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quote:The WAKE WING™ will introduce board sport fans around the world to the next progressive step in getting riders up and out of the water by actually flying above the waves using 'ground effect' technology. Isn't water, especially water churned by a tow boat, particularly lovely for ground effect? And it's not a "technology", dammit. It's a phenomenon that increases lift and decreases the stall velocity of a fixed wing.
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I thought ground effects is when you install purple leds under a early 2000s Honda Civic
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flosofl posted:Isn't water, especially water churned by a tow boat, particularly lovely for ground effect? And it's not a "technology", dammit. It's a phenomenon that increases lift and decreases the stall velocity of a fixed wing. Why would you think that? Water is so much denser than air that it's essentially a solid boundary and ground effect isn't really sensitive to the smoothness of the surface. Hence ekranoplans. That said, I'm all for making fun of this idea. It looks incredibly dangerous and inherently unstable. Also, the winglets are redundant if it's actually functioning as a ground-effect vehicle! I suspect virtually no actual analysis has gone into that awful thing.
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this isn't a lovely kickstarter, but it reinforces my theory that kickstarter is most useful for making rich people pay too much money for mass market products https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1591542039/trilobite-plushie-a-new-paleozoic-pal?ref=home_popular they got one person to pay $500 for two stuffed creatures and a ticket to something
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How to meet god. Step one. Spend 179 dollars on a helmet that isn't a helmet. Your space brain is 30,000 times more powerful than your biological brain. Buy my crystals and you too can become really smart like me. "Basically, this project is catering to the pornographic market, to create a more realistic tentacle for use in adult films. "
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Zybourne Clock posted:"Basically, this project is catering to the pornographic market, to create a more realistic tentacle for use in adult films. " quote:A contribution note will be added to each video or picture posted, recapping who has donated.
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Even if that water wing flies, it's going to be very, very hard to control plus those fins look painful when you crash at 40 knots. I want that to pass, so I can look at youtube videos of people getting hurt riding this. e: and laugh dimwit has a new favorite as of 14:48 on May 28, 2015 |
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Zybourne Clock posted:"Basically, this project is catering to the pornographic market, to create a more realistic tentacle for use in adult films. "
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Zybourne Clock posted:How to meet god. Step one. Spend 179 dollars on a helmet that isn't a helmet. This can work, sort of. It just requires the use of ungainly largish helmet attached to machines the size of a large filing cabinet. And sometimes all it does is cause you to clench your teeth so forcefully you need to use mouth guards during the rest of the clinical trial.
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