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kjetting posted:Can someone more up to date on videogames summarize the whole Star Citizen controversy? e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc7ywfd1qe8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9iH4Gp11W4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNlWQ3s5Xc8 Scrotum Modem has a new favorite as of 01:47 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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kjetting posted:Can someone more up to date on videogames summarize the whole Star Citizen controversy? Gary Oldman... Is... The Star Citizen. 
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CJacobs posted:They got almost a hundred million dollars in funding with the promise of being the most expansive space exploration space-sim-mmo-type game ever made. They WERE on course to do that, until they started expanding in the wrong direction and hosed everything up- instead of focusing on actually making a video game, they focused on marketing, paying their employees for work that was not done yet, and creating more incentives to buy and play the game than there was game to play. Basically they tried to build a house before building the framework and what people now speculate is because it was such a spectacular failure, they're basically just bumming away whatever money is left until they can poo poo out the most basic thing that fulfills the requirements they promised and be done with it.
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wit posted:This is why I find Kickstarter loving fascinating. Its the hype and bad idea zone, but couldn't exist if it were just letting outright made-up bullshit happen. To get their cut they have to vet business ventures and decide if they're infeasible or blatantly abusing the model. A failed dipshit business that never got off the ground because you gave some deviant art guy a tonne of money but he has no idea how to conduct business is one thing. A wanker pretending to go through the motions of failure in a carefully contrived "The Producers" failure model like is another. There were 22,252 successful KS projects in 2014. They don't say how many were launched in total but according to their historical data only about 35% of projects have ever been successful so we'd expect there were roughly 64,000 projects launched in 2014, or an average of 175 new projects every day. If each KS campaign lasted for a month there'd be an average of 5,250 live campaigns on any given day, most of which will be active in some way (only 4% of all KS projects received no pledges) and thus a potential risk of  drama requiring staff moderation. Imagine having to moderate over 5,000 active projects every day, especially when most of them are being run by people who have very little experience in running a business, let alone an online business with set deadlines. And those are just the 2014 stats so the 2015 stats are probably a fair amount higher. According to their stats page there are currently 5,998 live projects. Of course those stats don't take into account the number of projects which are created and then rejected because they don't meet KS's criteria. There's no way of knowing how many of those come up every day but I'm betting there'd be a significant amount. Last year backers pledged $529 million to KS projects which is an average of $1.4m per day or more than $1,000 per minute. https://www.kickstarter.com/year/2014/data https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There were 22,252 successful KS projects in 2014. They don't say how many were launched in total but according to their historical data only about 35% of projects have ever been successful so we'd expect there were roughly 64,000 projects launched in 2014, or an average of 175 new projects every day. If each KS campaign lasted for a month there'd be an average of 5,250 live campaigns on any given day, most of which will be active in some way (only 4% of all KS projects received no pledges) and thus a potential risk of How much of a cut does KS and amazon get out of that 500,000,000?
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Autechresaint posted:How much of a cut does KS and amazon get out of that 500,000,000? Kickstarter takes 5% and their "payments processor" takes an additional 3 to 5%. Note that they only take a cut of the successful projects, I think the $529m was total pledges and not successful pledges. Edit: KS are pretty cagey about certain info on their stats page and they don't say how much the took in successful pledges but historically about 86% of the pledges made during the life of the site (in dollar amounts) were for successful projects. We can't know if their intake in 2014 was better or worse than 86% but if we assume it was at least in the ballpark then the total they took would have been $529m x 86% = $455m. KS's cut of that would be $22.7m and Amazon's cut would be somewhere between $13.6m and $22.7m. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 11:23 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Since there was talking about Ouyah! I guess this project is not such masterpiece in its awfulness, but it's really hitting my "Preposterously pretentious"-buttons.   Solu - A new breed of computing Which is basically a square cloud-computer where you keep paying, if you want to use it, because SaaS is the poo poo and all.
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simplyhorribul posted:Since there was talking about Ouyah! "Solu is a powerful pocket computer, made from wood..." 
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Oct 16, 2015 10:52
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Bite my splintery wooden rear end.
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Dogwood Fleet posted:"Solu is a powerful pocket computer, made from kindling..."
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Dogwood Fleet posted:"Solu is a powerful pocket computer, made from wood..." Brings a whole new meaning to "debugging."
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Dogwood Fleet posted:"Solu is a powerful pocket computer, made from wood..." Warm to the touch? Yes, that's clearly a feature, not faulty thermal dissipation design.
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Successful $1.5m 3D printer KS project fails to deliver 60% of pledge rewardsquote:The Pirate3D Buccaneer raised a blockbuster $1.438M on June 29, 2013 — a record amount at the time. The first printers were supposed to ship to backers in February 2014. That didn’t happen. As of September 2014, only 200 products had shipped. And a year later, despite selling the product through retail channels, 60% of backers are still waiting. quote:The founders said in a note to Kickstarter backers that the company is sourcing new rounds of investment and found that investors want the new cash to only be used as working capital and not to fulfill previous obligations. 
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Oct 16, 2015 13:28
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Cola-bawra-teev anything!
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Oct 16, 2015 13:29
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jayme39/mighty-mug-barware-stop-spilling-your-drink
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Thanks Obama!
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ayn rand hand job posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jayme39/mighty-mug-barware-stop-spilling-your-drink a $15 plastic cup. Or you could learn not to tip your booze directly onto your laptop like some sort of ham-handed idiot child. E: with no reduction in price no matter how many you buy. place an order for 504 of the things and they're still $15 each. bargain.
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Oct 16, 2015 13:43
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So it's just a plastic glass with a weighted foot?
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Collateral Damage posted:So it's just a plastic glass with a weighted foot? There's also some fancy suction cup.
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Collateral Damage posted:So it's just a plastic glass with a weighted foot? Nah, the bottom has some special suction cup or something that resists non-vertical movement. I got one of their mugs as a gift, and it much works well. OJ MIST 2 THE DICK has a new favorite as of 13:54 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Oct 16, 2015 13:51
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They can also be found at any Bed Bath & Beyond in the world.
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Dogwood Fleet posted:"Solu is a powerful pocket computer, made from wood..." I hope it's designed to withstand heavy weights and liquids, because that is a coaster. Look at it.
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The BBC also looked at Solu.BBC posted:one of the apps, a kind of stripped-down accounting program, appeared so desperately unintuitive that the company's chief operating officer, on stage to demonstrate how simple it was, ended up asking Lawson how to use it
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But you can always knock on wood.
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Sagacity posted:"we carved part of the device from real wood that's warm to the touch." It's a hand-warming feature. It gets cold in Finland. 
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How to sell your sister for fun and profit
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quote:Step 1: Make an attractive listing. 
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ayn rand hand job posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jayme39/mighty-mug-barware-stop-spilling-your-drink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-V-f0DYjw
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ayn rand hand job posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jayme39/mighty-mug-barware-stop-spilling-your-drink I know that this gif is meant to show that the mug is unbreakable or whatever, but it still looks pretty scuffed up and ruined after it's run over by the car:  what's the point of this kind of demonstration, it's dumb
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Gilganixon posted:I know that this gif is meant to show that the mug is unbreakable or whatever, but it still looks pretty scuffed up and ruined after it's run over by the car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLnx5MovKxA
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Oct 18, 2015 01:44
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Kathy Lee ain't having none of it.
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Young Freud posted:Kathy Lee ain't having none of it. lol
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Came here to post this.
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Gilganixon posted:I know that this gif is meant to show that the mug is unbreakable or whatever, but it still looks pretty scuffed up and ruined after it's run over by the car: Run over your mug with your car, again? There's got to be a better way! Now you can!
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Prop Wash posted:Run over your mug with your car, again? There's got to be a better way! Now you can! personally whenever i'm run over i immediately reach for my pint glass, only to find it broken. Thank goodness that's a thing of the past, now I can pick up my jacked up plastic cup and get the bartender to fill er up.
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Noted Libertarian/FYGMer Eric S. Raymond has launched a gofundme to "cover personal costs like rent, food, and medical insurance" so that he can continue the work he "feels called to do" to "make sure your world keeps working." He asking for 20K to make sure the Internet keeps working and the world economy doesn't collapse. https://www.gofundme.com/tz6pm8gd "Though I'm a techie, I'm in a situation similar to a fine artist because the market has not figured out how to value and reward the work I feel called to do. Unlike most artists, it wouldn't be difficult for me to get a well-paid job - but then I'd have to work on what an employer wants, rather than what the world actually needs." Something, something, free market...
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To be fair, a lot of services that The Internet relies on are horribly broken. The authors of OpenSSL tried and failed to get sponsors for multiple years until finally someone found an exploit and all hell broke loose. OTOH Raymond is a bit of a dick so I'm not sure what to do.
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Sagacity posted:To be fair, a lot of services that The Internet relies on are horribly broken. The authors of OpenSSL tried and failed to get sponsors for multiple years until finally someone found an exploit and all hell broke loose. It's more that he's a dyed in the wool libertarian and he doesn't appreciate the irony of having to ask for other peoples money to good public good as the market is failing to deal with these issues itself
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Oh right, I forgot about that. Well, let's see if he manages to scrape together more than the $170 he has gotten in pledges so far.
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