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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. " A kickstarter where the creator tries to find a market for suckers
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signalnoise posted:A kickstarter where the creator tries to find a market for suckers I'm pretty sure it's a "fund my personal fetish" project, $2000 is just enough for him to make some fucktoys for himself but nowhere near enough for him to bring any product to any market.  In any case I'm sure that the Japanese pornographers really don't need any help from an unemployed IT kid from Hartselle, Alabama to push their fake rapetentacle tech to the next level.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'm pretty sure it's a "fund my personal fetish" project, $2000 is just enough for him to make some fucktoys for himself but nowhere near enough for him to bring any product to any market. It was a pun 
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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:I'm just a simple computer software debugger with lots of free time and a drive to create new items and ideas. It's never too late to change, Ashley.
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DoctorTristan posted:It was a pun I know 
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The fall of the empire. Somebody is unironically selling inanimate metal cubes and 509 people paid $81,985 to make it happen. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/152108000/cubit-perfect-cubes-of-tungsten-titanium-and-more. They promise it will be made in the USA; this means the metal will come from slave mines, manufactured in China, shipped to a US middleman, shipped to the Cubit person, and then shipped to you. It's going to be very interesting to see how they gently caress this up. Maybe the cubes will come out as rectangles. Maybe the cubes will be full of radioactive material. Maybe the cubes will never make it to production. Edit: Oh poo poo, these guys are making inanimate metal cubes too. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1014603694/forge-solid-denser-than-solid-uranium/description The inanimate metal cube industry is really taking off, I think it will be worth $100 billion by 2020, get in on the craze now! Yaos has a new favorite as of 18:28 on May 31, 2015 |
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Yaos posted:The fall of the empire. Somebody is unironically selling inanimate metal cubes and 509 people paid $81,985 to make it happen. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/152108000/cubit-perfect-cubes-of-tungsten-titanium-and-more. They promise it will be made in the USA; this means the metal will come from slave mines, manufactured in China, shipped to a US middleman, shipped to the Cubit person, and then shipped to you. It's going to be very interesting to see how they gently caress this up. Maybe the cubes will come out as rectangles. Maybe the cubes will be full of radioactive material. Maybe the cubes will never make it to production. Wtf, why are there two nearly-identical kickstarters for tiny solid cubes of tungsten  Why do these both receive thousands of dollars in pledges 
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HJE-Cobra posted:Why do these both receive thousands of dollars in pledges Because they're minimalist, you plebe. When you take a girl to your apartment and she sees your tungsten cubes, it's on.
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Has anyone made a tungsten companion cube yet? No? Hold on a second, BRB.
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May 31, 2015 19:35
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What about a tungsten iphone holder, with accompanying app?
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KiddieGrinder posted:What about a tungsten iphone holder, with accompanying app? What about a tungsten wallet. Give it a catchy name, write a long spiel about how sustainable tungsten is, bingo. Wolframoney™: the wallet that matters.
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May 31, 2015 20:12
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Tungsten bitcoin wallet: bittung.
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I do worry about dropping my iphone in molten steel by accident. At least this way I'd get the case back.
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Therion posted:What about a tungsten wallet. Give it a catchy name, write a long spiel about how sustainable tungsten is, bingo. Wolframoney™: the wallet that matters. A different metal but eh.
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If you want a hunk of tungsten, just buy a loving hunk of tungsten. Then you won't have to wait to have your money stolen by a sham kickstarter, or pay a $20 for a cube that's worth $2. I know you can buy cubes of it pretty easily because it's what boy scouts use for pinewood derby cars.
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theflyingorc posted:The creator of this one is quite the looker This may shock you, but it looks like they're wearing a MLP t-shirt in their kickstarter profile pic too.
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Awful Kickstarters Vol II: I need tungsten to live
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I get that narcissism has existed way before the internet, but I feel like social media has either turned more people into narcissists, or at least lets the existing ones be even more obnoxious. The Joe, as he calls himself, has created a Kickstarter asking for $500. The Joe explains that he has previously committed many random acts of kindness, such as inviting people to his birthday party and giving Milk Bones to dogs. Now he needs you to give him money so he can tip a waitress $1000 and buy a car for someone. Watch the video to understand why I initially hated this guy, but the worst is yet to come. Noticing that he linked his personal Facebook page in the Kickstarter, I decided to check it out. He also has a fan page for himself as an "entertainer." He treats #TheJoe as a brand he's promoting, only most companies only care about their products as a mean of making money. "The Joe" thinks he's the second coming of Mr. Rogers, and he won't let you forget it. He uses both pages to brag about his accomplishments and "random acts of kindness" and sell shirts with his name on them. I'm not Facebook friends with this guy so everything is public.    
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That really is one of the worst kinds of people. People who are kind to others only because it will make them popular, and not because being kind to people is how a human being acts toward fellow human beings which does not intrinsically deserve reward.
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Clochette posted:The Joe
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Cheez posted:But doesn't giving him stuff so he can give other people stuff mean that he's not actually giving anyone anything? We are the ones committing acts of "kindness" to these people for him. I'm pretty sure he'd just take the credit for any random acts of kindness he used the money for. Maybe your name would appear in the credits of the eventual self-fellating video where he gives a waitress $1000 as inspirational rock music plays. I say "maybe" because there's nothing about you getting any credit in the Kickstarter reward tiers, but you can get lanyards, air fresheners, and underwear with The Joe's name on them!
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No, you see, you do all the work and he gets all the credit. I don't see what your problem is with this. Such a kind man, doing nice things and selling merchandise about it. I mean, he's working 3.5 jobs AND a full student schedule and got on the dean's list in two semesters, even though that's chronologically impossible.
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Yaos posted:The fall of the empire. Somebody is unironically selling inanimate metal cubes and 509 people paid $81,985 to make it happen. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/152108000/cubit-perfect-cubes-of-tungsten-titanium-and-more. They promise it will be made in the USA; this means the metal will come from slave mines, manufactured in China, shipped to a US middleman, shipped to the Cubit person, and then shipped to you. It's going to be very interesting to see how they gently caress this up. Maybe the cubes will come out as rectangles. Maybe the cubes will be full of radioactive material. Maybe the cubes will never make it to production. Holy poo poo I know this person. He also did this one: Shotgun Shots You too can now drink out of a shotgun shell while fondling your cubes.
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Gotta admire this person, he knows his target audience. As long as it's wood, leather or polished metal then people will buy it.
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800 dollars for a metal sphere. 2 people bought one. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2025825791/spheres-of-influence?ref=nav_search
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Xandu posted:800 dollars for a metal sphere. 2 people bought one. i can only assume both will end up in rectums
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Or in Russia.
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What's with this fake wallets that can't actually hold anything? Even in the videos you can obviously see they have a tight grip so it doesn't fall apart.
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Yaos posted:What's with this fake wallets that can't actually hold anything? Even in the videos you can obviously see they have a tight grip so it doesn't fall apart. It's pretty  because the whole point of minimalism is to be functional.
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I like the one that's a flat piece of metal with a velcro band around it. Why not just skip the metal?
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Xandu posted:I like the one that's a flat piece of metal with a velcro band around it. Why not just skip the metal? They wouldn't like it to look cheap, God forbid.
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"Rubber Band Wallets" were really huge last year, that fad market has been exhausted by shills for Big Rubber IN THIS VERY THREAD. I know because I was paid to spew rubberfriendly heresies in this very thread, paid handsomely in rich bars of rubber bullion. I realize the errors of my ways, Kickstarter thread. Minimalist band wallets are good.
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Who the hell keeps buying minimalist wallets why do people need so many wallets why
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They need to back a new one after the old one crashed and burned.
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Mildly Amusing posted:Who the hell keeps buying minimalist wallets As somebody who upgraded from a traditional wallet to one of these it is really nice to not have to deal with a wallet that takes up so much space in your pocket, especially since most people don't really use cash anymore or carry it on their person and that seems to be the main point of old wallets. But the zillion interchangeable minimalist wallets are all really puzzling.
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I'm inclined to like The Joe because I think it's hilarious that goons are so jaded that they can demonize someone for giving away food to cancer patients. Maybe he's deserving of being demonized, but in a thread filled with overpriced schlock and scams, the kneejerk reaction of "gently caress this guy in particular" is funny. Meatwave has a new favorite as of 09:39 on Jun 1, 2015 |
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Meatwave posted:I'm inclined to like The Joe because I think it's hilarious that goons are so jaded that they can demonize someone for giving away food to cancer patients. This is magical. I personally did a complete 180 on this Kickstarter. A few hours ago, I absolutely tore into his The Joe airfreshener pictures and then I gradually became entranced, curious, filled with nostalgia and warm fuzzy feelings for this Texan Kindness Man's humble project. I think what we've all discovered is that it's representative of something much greater. He's not a goon. Nobody here knows the airfreshener guy. Heck, I don't even know if he has yet heard the name "Somethingawful." I suppose that is part of the beauty of this. We haven't talked too much about the city where this Kickstarter is from, but I think that's part of the story: Denton, Texas. Named apparently after a pioneer/Texas militia captain. Population: 113,383. Three universities. 21.2% Latino/Hispanic. It has an annual State Fair And Rodeo, an Arts And Jazz festival and a music festival. Everyone affectionately calls it Little D. It's like a place we all picture in our minds when we think of proverbial college town America. Heck, if you walk down main street there are Starbucks and Apple stores down the entire stretch of the road. But this place has lost a fifth of its topless bars in 10 years. Hunting season, already unpopular, has dropped to 25% of its former attendance in the last decade. Exactly a year ago, a liberal election wrecked the place. It decimated the titty bar (now a Whole Foods) that is right next to where The Joe will be handing out airfresheners. I tell you all of this just to make a round-about point: A humble kindness airfreshener, of all the things in the world, could help this city. It could affect real change. Personalized airfreshners are unpretentious. They're also universal, a sort of basic politeness currency. And they're scented time machines. They bring us back to child-like states of glee and energy. If you smell a free airfreshner, you get to travel back to an age when you thought that anything was possible, you could do anything, you could become anyone. Denton, Texas could probably use a few airfreshner-shaped time machines.
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