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TetsuoTW posted:The tears will be amazing once these idiots realize Shenmue wasn't very good and they don't actually want a third one. Every backer gets a free pair of rose-tinted glasses.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:That might not be why people buy phones, but people absolutely support kickstarters based on "fake made up techno bullshit." It's basically the only growth sector the US still has. Now that the FTC is getting involved, would they go after these sorts of "obviously lovely science" Kickstarters? Does the FDA regulate any of the food-based (or medicine based) Kickstarters?
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GrandpaPants posted:Now that the FTC is getting involved, would they go after these sorts of "obviously lovely science" Kickstarters? Does the FDA regulate any of the food-based (or medicine based) Kickstarters? The FDA is pretty constrained as far as the actions it can take on food or "natural medicines." For natural medicines, supplements, "holistic treatments," etc. I believe they are fine as long as they don't claim that whatever snake oil they're selling is curative or call it a "drug." They usually skirt around the rule by calling it a "dietary supplement." Food is likewise usually fine as long as they aren't doing something obviously illegal. Using raw milk would be a big no-no that comes to mind as something some idiot on Kickstarter would try to do. The FDA actually conducts raw milk stings to catch dairy farmers.
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GrandpaPants posted:Now that the FTC is getting involved, would they go after these sorts of "obviously lovely science" Kickstarters? Does the FDA regulate any of the food-based (or medicine based) Kickstarters? I think it's safe to assume the FTC is just going to go after cases of outright fraud, or a failure to deliver on promises. Might get harder with "solar roadway" style woo, where's the line between "we spent our funds on impossible research" and "we spend our funds on knowingly impossible research"?
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kensei posted:I don't know that I would contribute to a Smart Phone on a crowdsourced site, but this almost seems like it has some cool features even if it is expensive as hell: This reads/looks like a parody but it isn't..........................
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This project to publish old public domain books in waterproof format is pretty ok: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasperjansen/finally-enjoy-classic-literature-and-poetry-in-the/?ref=kicktraq But it's also kinda useless for any of the larger reward tiers, since you can also safely read a cheap Kindle in the bath if you just slap it in a sealed Ziploc bag.
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Nintendo Kid posted:This project to publish old public domain books in waterproof format is pretty ok: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasperjansen/finally-enjoy-classic-literature-and-poetry-in-the/?ref=kicktraq normal books are incredibly durable this is just appealing to the traditionalists on kickstarter for an ez buck i still have people who tell me they enjoy reading real books because they like the "feel" of a book in their hands. it's a rectangle with sheets, lol
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Madcosby posted:it's a rectangle with sheets, lol
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Jun 17, 2015 02:57
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Cheez posted:If its shape and contents are all that matter to you, you're probably a broken human being. whaaa its a book its paper
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Jun 17, 2015 02:58
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I think the real issue is that I feel like a lot of these books aren't bath tub books. Like when I'm in the tub I want to read trashy entertaining fiction, YA junk, etc. Not the friggin' Art of War.
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That's how you know you ain't bath hard. When I bath, I keep a retinue of Swiss guards outside my door, ready to repel both assassins AND ghosts. Should that fail, I have hidden an array of weapons around the unlit spartan room where I bath. You have one precious, fragile life, and if you are not on CONSTANT GUARD against the galaxy of threats twinkling madly just beyond your sight, then you're already as good as double-murdered by assassin ghosts.
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Jun 17, 2015 05:04
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For generations to come, one of the great family heirlooms will be a lovely keyboard in wood for some reason
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Jun 17, 2015 05:07
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Spaced God posted:For generations to come, one of the great family heirlooms will be a lovely keyboard in wood for some reason  Of course the guy who made this hipster "I refuse to type like a normal human just because" poo poo looks like this
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Jun 17, 2015 05:11
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Spaced God posted:For generations to come, one of the great family heirlooms will be a lovely keyboard in wood for some reason Why'd they take the F# keys off the keyboard and only allow them to be used if you hold down a function button? That's almost counter-intuitive to modern keyboard design. 
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Jun 17, 2015 05:14
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It has an any key.
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Young Freud posted:Why'd they take the F# keys off the keyboard and only allow them to be used if you hold down a function button? That's almost counter-intuitive to modern keyboard design. Don't worry, for $10,000 they'll custom make you a keyboard so you can put the F# keys back on!
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Nemo2342 posted:Don't worry, for $10,000 they'll custom make you a keyboard so you can put the F# keys back on! Just thinking about it, this is something someone can make on Etsy for like $50? And they're charging $300? The more I think about this the more it sucks
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Jun 17, 2015 05:23
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It's a cool idea, but why wood. It ruins the entire look.
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Jun 17, 2015 05:37
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Spaced God posted:For generations to come, one of the great family heirlooms will be a lovely keyboard in wood for some reason And instead of a spacebar, you now only can use your right thumb, on one normal-sized button instead of a nice big keyboard. I'm not sure what the big rage about mechanical switches is about, but that goes beyond even just this kickstarter. And moving all the non-alphanumeric keys is absolutely loving insane. Seriously, look at this dumbass layout: 
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Jun 17, 2015 05:51
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quote:There's an old keyboard-nerd joke that goes something like this: "If alien archeologists landed on Earth a million years from now and tried to figure out what we looked like based on our keyboards, they'd probably figure that we had 10 tentacles coming out of our chests." The traditional staggered QWERTY layout was not designed for humans.
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Jun 17, 2015 05:53
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Smart phone touch screens work like poo poo though
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Jun 17, 2015 06:05
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Therion posted:It's a cool idea, but why wood. It ruins the entire look. loving maple as well
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Jun 17, 2015 11:48
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Therion posted:It's a cool idea, but why wood. It ruins the entire look.
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Jun 17, 2015 11:55
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It looks like he makes wooden cases for existing keyboards, which is, to be fair, one step above repackaging and putting your sticker on cheap Chinese drones.
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Jun 17, 2015 12:17
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If you go to the keyboard thread you can find plenty of goons paying hundreds for mechanical keyboards, some very similar to this one. I can at least respect people paying more for an ergonomic design because there are legit medical benefits. The snobbery surrounding mechanical keys these days is ridiculous, though.
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Jun 17, 2015 14:40
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wa27 posted:If you go to the keyboard thread you can find plenty of goons paying hundreds for mechanical keyboards, some very similar to this one. I can at least respect people paying more for an ergonomic design because there are legit medical benefits. The snobbery surrounding mechanical keys these days is ridiculous, though. Mechanical keyboards are great if you want to piss off everyone in your office with the loud clacking from your desk, but otherwise I can't see the benefits and this is coming from someone who grew up on mechanical keyboards.
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Jun 17, 2015 16:09
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stillvisions posted:Mechanical keyboards are great if you want to piss off everyone in your office with the loud clacking from your desk, but otherwise I can't see the benefits and this is coming from someone who grew up on mechanical keyboards. I play games online with some nerds who love mechanical keyboards and its hella annoying because all I can ever hear is CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK And it's not like these guys are typists or do anything with their keyboards besides use the WASD keys.
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Jun 17, 2015 16:57
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Mechanical keyboards are hella sweet what are you even talking about
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CJacobs posted:
no words. jesus.
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 Thinkup. Founder. Lifehacker. Lifehacker. LIFEHACKER SHE LITERALLY WANTED TO USE THE WORD LIFEHACKER TO DESCRIBE HERSELF I HAVE NO WORDS
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Paul Zuvella posted:
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It looks like she's the CTO of Thinkup and the founder of Lifehacker? Those both seem to be true.
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I thought it was 'CTO, THINKUP, FOUNDER, LIFEHACKER' for a moment.
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Drunk Tomato posted:I play games online with some nerds who love mechanical keyboards and its hella annoying because all I can ever hear is CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK I think that's the main draw - to let everyone in earshot know how much you paid for something. Next up: glasspack mufflers for CPU cooling.
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I have an ancient DAS ultimate silent and I'm super satisfied with it. I kept changing lovely $30 keyboards every year or so when some poo poo key stopped responding properly, but I've had this for I think 5 years now and it still types like it did on day one. N-key rollover with ps/2 is also nice to have for splitscreen liero shenanigans every now and then. It doesn't wake up everyone in my neighbourhood when I'm typing because I got the silent one, but I consider that more of a feature than a bug tbh.
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This guy bought two domain names, "uberquestion.com" and "uberquestion.net", which he intends to sell for a lot of money. Because he's such a nice person he'll let you in on the action. Just send him your money and you'll give you back triple in two months time.
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Drunk Tomato posted:I play games online with some nerds who love mechanical keyboards and its hella annoying because all I can ever hear is CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK tell them to not actuate the key all the way down otherwise youre missing half the reason to get a mech keyboard or tell them they bought the wrong one (make sure to ask them what switches they have and tell them the color they dont have is better)
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Zybourne Clock posted:This guy bought two domain names, "uberquestion.com" and "uberquestion.net", which he intends to sell for a lot of money. Because he's such a nice person he'll let you in on the action. Just send him your money and you'll give you back triple in two months time. He's only got one reward tier [$500] and it's limited to 5 backers. His goal is $7,400. Also, I'm pretty sure that a project like this violates virtually ever rule that Kickstarter has.
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What does he need money for? He already bought the domain names (that he won't be able to sell and even if they wanted them, they'd sic trademark lawyers on you).
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Content: Here's a dumb thing. Smartphone-controlled sunglasses. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skuggaeyewear/skugga-sunglasses-with-variable-electronic-tint-co
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