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unpacked robinhood posted:He must also drive like a moron because 10L/100km with a C2 is crap mileage. poo poo I thought it was the C2 Corvette, in which case that would be good mileage and I might've sent him a couple of eurobucks.
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Noyemi K posted:This got suspended in record time and it's definitely loving braindead. "Estimated delivery Jan 2016." That's a quick pregnancy.
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33 Euros is a pretty decent price- oh wait, it's for him to have sex with his girlfriend? No sale.
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jpmeyer posted:i coulda sworn someone did this and it gave us gems like "dark souls, but more like dark souls and also a roguelike". pretty sure there's been legit kickstarters that were roguelikes and also said dark souls was a big influence despite that totally missing how the souls games are designed.
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Germstore posted:33 Euros is a pretty decent price- oh wait, it's for him to have sex with his girlfriend? No sale.
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unpacked robinhood posted:He must also drive like a moron because 10L/100km with a C2 is crap mileage. Maybe his car has the brakes stuck on all the time so he has to use twice the fuel consumption 
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Also he's listing gas at 1.2€/L which looks like diesel prices so his car should be in the 4~6L/100 km range. He's probably a complete retard/liar
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Maybe his months of near constant blue balls has restricted the blood flow to his brain? Edit: there should be a simple maths test section of the Kickstarter project creation process that locks people out of they get it wrong, like a car fitted with a breathalyser. "If Freddy wants to earn $5000 on his Kickstarter and he has one reward tier for $10, and a train leaves the station traveling at 30 mph heading East ..." Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 17:06 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Maybe his months of near constant blue balls has restricted the blood flow to his brain? This is something I'm not sure about because I've never backed a Kickstarter because they're all bad (which is what I say to make myself feel better about the fact I have no money). If someone has a Kickstarter with tiers of say $10, $15, $25, $50, $100, and that's all, is it possible for someone to donate $1 to them? Or do they have to pick one of the tiers?
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Yes, the tiers are for rewards, you can back in any amount.
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Okay, cool. So someone COULD donate that $5000 all on their own, or 5000 people could donate $1 each, they just wouldn't get poo poo for it? 
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There's a good chance they won't get poo poo anyway, but yeah, that's how it works.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Okay, cool. So someone COULD donate that $5000 all on their own, or 5000 people could donate $1 each, they just wouldn't get poo poo for it? Pledging $1 will get you news updates which can be really interesting or really amusing when the project doesn't pan out.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Okay, cool. So someone COULD donate that $5000 all on their own, or 5000 people could donate $1 each, they just wouldn't get poo poo for it? You also get to comment in the comment section. By the way, don't skip the comments sections when reading bad Kickstarters, especially old ones. "Excuted to be a part of this project. Haven't heard anything in awhile. Any updates?" 6 months later..."Haven't heard anything in awhile. Any updates?" 6 more months later..."Haven't heard anything in awhile. Any updates?" 
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Noyemi K posted:This got suspended in record time and it's definitely loving braindead. Did kickstarter stop making someone approve submissions before they went live?
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They'd started making someone approve submissions before they went live?
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They were a few years ago at least, I know a few that got denied for not being kickstarter appropriate, whatever that means.
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Dogwood Fleet posted:Pledging $1 will get you news updates which can be really interesting or really amusing when the project doesn't pan out. Spending a dollar to potentially receive delicious internet drama is either a life low-point or a life high-point depending on how long you've been posting here.
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Depending on the kickstarter, it's often free, as you don't actually get your payment processed until the KS reaches its end and gets its goal.
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Anyone else think glowforge is looking super sketchy? There's a huge gap between how impressed tech journalists are and how unimpressed members of the public who have seen units are. They are ran their own crowd funding which I'm not even sure how that's distinct from just preorders. The discount for preordering is 50% which seems like they're just trying to pressure people into putting money in for something that no one who isn't a tech journalist has actually seen work correctly. A lot of people who have more expensive laser cutters has said the specs on its air filter are completely insufficient to run it safely indoors.
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Subjunctive posted:I've only seen Thunderclap used to promote kick starters so far. paging eripsa to the thread Got my super soaker all loaded up with attention marbles for the inevitable social media Web 2.0 blogosphere paradigm shift.
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Sorry, but this is adorable and doesn't belong with the rest of the crap. It doesn't need a Kickstarter (just self publish, people) but it's cute and the art doesn't suck. It's no Marvelous Measels, is what I'm saying.
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Germstore posted:Anyone else think glowforge is looking super sketchy? There's a huge gap between how impressed tech journalists are and how unimpressed members of the public who have seen units are. They are ran their own crowd funding which I'm not even sure how that's distinct from just preorders. The discount for preordering is 50% which seems like they're just trying to pressure people into putting money in for something that no one who isn't a tech journalist has actually seen work correctly. A lot of people who have more expensive laser cutters has said the specs on its air filter are completely insufficient to run it safely indoors. I don't know anything about it, but I just watched their promo video and going from a single piece of cardboard to this in a single frame is pretty sketchy.  It seems like the sort of thing that could be kind of fun, but probably isn't that useful and doesn't work as magically as they'd like to pretend.
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Xandu posted:I don't know anything about it, but I just watched their promo video and going from a single piece of cardboard to this in a single frame is pretty sketchy. Am I wrong in looking at this and thinking “wow, it’s a I mean I guess I could understand using it for other material like leather or something, but unless you’re running your own business this seems like a gigantic waste of money.
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Germstore posted:Anyone else think glowforge is looking super sketchy? There's a huge gap between how impressed tech journalists are and how unimpressed members of the public who have seen units are. They are ran their own crowd funding which I'm not even sure how that's distinct from just preorders. The discount for preordering is 50% which seems like they're just trying to pressure people into putting money in for something that no one who isn't a tech journalist has actually seen work correctly. A lot of people who have more expensive laser cutters has said the specs on its air filter are completely insufficient to run it safely indoors. The tech community in general loves to fetishize the whole "maker" movement as a way of showing off that they're totally not wasting their lives behind a computer all day, so I'm not surprised they're giving it sloppy blowjobs. Especially since, much like Arduino and 3d-printing, you can just download somebody else's poo poo off of the internet but still feel the sense of accomplishment because you put the cardboard in and hit the "start" button.
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They used the two key phrases "3D-Printer" and "drone" which are unfortunately pretty powerful in 2015, and so they will get many backers who heard those two words and don't care that it's an over-priced hunk of crap.
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Xandu posted:I don't know anything about it, but I just watched their promo video and going from a single piece of cardboard to this in a single frame is pretty sketchy. Stretch goal: Glowforge will be able to print Italy
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CJacobs posted:They used the two key phrases "3D-Printer" and "drone" which are unfortunately pretty powerful in 2015, and so they will get many backers who heard those two words and don't care that it's an over-priced hunk of crap. Yes, but is it made of carbon fibre, can it hold several notes and a credit card at the same time, and does it block RFID signals?
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No, but it will destroy your USB ports
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Two big kickstarter projects have crapped out. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/19/trouble-kickstarter-massive-projects-hit-rocks-coolest-zano Millions wasted
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lolasaurusrex posted:Spending a dollar to potentially receive delicious internet drama is either a life low-point or a life high-point depending on how long you've been posting here. Most of the time it's a matter of, "I'm interested in this because it seems neat but I don't want to spend any real amount of money," like the Reading Rainbow thing and the Bill Nye spacecraft. I think the Megatokyo visual novel is the only one I backed out of morbid curiosity.
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Suspicious Dish posted:the gently caress is with that cooler I'm pretty sure we saw it earlier in this thread. its a cooler that has a giant battery in it to power a blender and a bluetooth speaker, doing nothing well.
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ianmacdo posted:I'm pretty sure we saw it earlier in this thread. its a cooler that has a giant battery in it to power a blender and a bluetooth speaker, doing nothing well. they really should have made some sort of powered cooling loop so it actually cooled better than literally any other cooler. You know instead of attacking really lovely versions of things to it
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The cooler KS was loving insane, they raised over $13 million. I'm not surprised that they ran into trouble since they were probably expecting to have to ship 300 or so coolers (based on their initial $50,000 goal) but ended up with about 60,000 orders. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryangrepper/coolest-cooler-21st-century-cooler-thats-actually/description
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theflyingorc posted:Don't buy anything on Kickstarter, guys.
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