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Shimrra Jamaane posted:This is some grad student's social experiment. It has to be. Worse. Comedians. They didn't change their names so if you look them up they all have IMDB pages.
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JossiRossi posted:Worse. Comedians. Yeah that gif about nailing your interview was a dead give away.
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I like how it mentions that the card game is on two different crowdfunding platforms rift in the description. So how does he justify that? Well you see I had HALF my goal in each thing. Since I got my goal on one I still don't have enough to actually make this happen thanks for your donation, no refunds.
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May 18, 2016 14:30
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Not gonna lie, at 18 I would have wanted those stupid pants. But on the other hand I would have just bought some cheap pairs at Goodwill and made them myself.
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May 18, 2016 14:34
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Paladinus posted:Yeah that gif about nailing your interview was a dead give away. I had to keep refreshing the page to see it because on Chrome the gif wasn't looping. 
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Aside from Harvey Dent cosplay, that half pant thing makes no sense. It's like in films from the 80s and 90s, where they had scenes in the future and tried to guess what people would be wearing. Of course, those were tongue in cheek, this is a thing people want real money for. If you only buy one trouser leg, is it half the price of buying two?
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May 19, 2016 00:00
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Haha, I found out about it from an Achewood FB group, in fact.
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May 19, 2016 00:15
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trancemetals/trance-sphere-oligodynamic-copper Half a million goddamned dollars for copper balls. God drat people.
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May 19, 2016 00:33
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1000% markup on the market price of .999 copper. Sign me up.
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May 19, 2016 00:38
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Someone's trying to get me to watch a YouTube video about why Fig is apparently a scam. I've had enough angry YouTube videos about "this person gamers hate is actually a bad person," can anyone tell me if Fig is or is not legit?
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CommunistPancake posted:Someone's trying to get me to watch a YouTube video about why Fig is apparently a scam. I've had enough angry YouTube videos about "this person gamers hate is actually a bad person," can anyone tell me if Fig is or is not legit? Fig is as legit as a crowdfunding site can be. Their projects are just usually kinda lame.
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May 19, 2016 00:48
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fishmech posted:Fig is as legit as a crowdfunding site can be. Their projects are just usually kinda lame. I thought the scam part was in the "investing" bit. IIRC the return is so bad and the conditions so restrictive that you're basically just making a regular crowdfunding donation.
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:I thought the scam part was in the "investing" bit. IIRC the return is so bad and the conditions so restrictive that you're basically just making a regular crowdfunding donation. That's not a scam, that's literally the standard expected return from small time investing. You generally won't make much of a percentage unless the thing takes off like a rocket.
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trancemetals/trance-sphere-oligodynamic-copper i wish i could come up with one of these but i'd always stop myself thinking nah nobody would be dumb enough to kickstart this but here we are, a thousand of those later
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:I thought the scam part was in the "investing" bit. IIRC the return is so bad and the conditions so restrictive that you're basically just making a regular crowdfunding donation. Since all the terms of the investment are clearly listed on their website and in the preliminary offering circular, including several disclaimers that it's a high risk investment and you should be prepared to lose it all, I don't think that's scammy.
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CommunistPancake posted:Someone's trying to get me to watch a YouTube video about why Fig is apparently a scam. I've had enough angry YouTube videos about "this person gamers hate is actually a bad person," can anyone tell me if Fig is or is not legit? It's a scam in the sense that Video Games are a really loving stupid thing to invest real money in.
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CommunistPancake posted:Since all the terms of the investment are clearly listed on their website and in the preliminary offering circular, including several disclaimers that it's a high risk investment and you should be prepared to lose it all, I don't think that's scammy. Yeah it would be a scam if they said "oh yeah you'll totally get a huge return" and it would be straight up illegal without the restrictions.
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I saw people unironically posting on Facebook about how much they want this. Cat owners just keep getting weirder. Saint Isaias Boner posted:unless you're wandering through a desert how is this in any way preferable to carrying around water purification tablets or a charcoal filter or whatever. and on a bicycle couldn't you do the traditional thing and just carry the amount of water you might need for your trip? Can I buy a bottle of iodine tablets, which fits in your pocket and can purify hundreds of gallons of (non-horrific) water, at vastly inflated prices via kickstarter and possibly not receive it? Or get it, use it, and suffer debilitating dehydration if I relied solely on that gimmick bottle? No? Well then good day sir! 
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I want to combine the magic water generating bottle with the magic water breathing gills thing, and breath magically generated oxygen and look like Bane.
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CommunistPancake posted:Since all the terms of the investment are clearly listed on their website and in the preliminary offering circular, including several disclaimers that it's a high risk investment and you should be prepared to lose it all, I don't think that's scammy. yeah I'm sure it's all above board but it's really just a hook to get people to give a game company money. You're never going to get a return that compensates you for the risk of backing a video game, which is pretty huge. Mainly i just remember watching a twenty minute youtube of some guy in a fedora getting real worked up about it so on the balance maybe it's good ? 
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KiddieGrinder posted:I want to combine the magic water generating bottle with the magic water breathing gills thing, and breath magically generated oxygen and look like Bane. If you include some 99%+ copper balls to kill off all the germs in the water/oxygen I think we'll have a Kickstarter triple word score
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Ahh, here's this week's 'device that can't possibly deliver on it's claims but is already almost 1000% funded because credulous idiot tech reporters' https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/knocki/knocki-make-any-surface-smart A wifi disc that can somehow detect 10 different gestures through any object you put it on (apparently regardless of material) via vibration.
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May 19, 2016 09:55
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trancemetals/trance-sphere-oligodynamic-copper No brass balls option 0/10
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havax posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archetypestudios/midair  It got funded yesterday with a couple of days to spare.
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Wamdoodle posted:Stretch goal I doubt that anyone involved is in serious danger of stretching a codpiece.
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Serak posted:Ahh, here's this week's 'device that can't possibly deliver on it's claims but is already almost 1000% funded because credulous idiot tech reporters' Pretty much seems like it'd work, in a very controlled manner. Probably uses a piezo sensor to detect taps and a Pi reads the taps and sends out appropriate signals for the app to decide what to do with. The only scummy thing I can see is they claim it'll work with a load of things, but unless those things can already take advantage of being controlled via smartphone (coffee maker, lights, TV, etc.) then this stupid gadget will do gently caress all with them. It also seems aimed at hipster douchebags, but they love their apps and their smartphones, and this is sort of taking the place of the phone? Which seems like it wouldn't be very desirable, but here we are at $300k so who knows.
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Yeah, it reeks of internet of things automaton guff, which, if you're into that, whatevs, but a miracle it's not.
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The only way I can imagine it working is on a dense medium like glass or maybe hardwood unless it's sitting an inch away from where you 'gesture'. Also, the gestures will have to literally be morse code because no way can it detect anything other than a sharp tap I can also imagine it easily being set off by a sound system with a subwoofer/ placing something on a table etc.
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Yeah I can see it working but not being overly convenient like having a poo poo range, being too sensitive or not enough and constantly being set off by things like trucks driving by. Even if it works right I can't see it being much of an improvement over the poo poo you already have installed like light switches.
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After The War posted:
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: Hey, did you ever wonder why they're called "pants"? What if you only had, like... one pant?
We'll make millions! 
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wit posted:Aren't these zippicamiknicks from Brave New World? Also, I don't care if two out of the five people in it are black: I like how people are continuing to respond to this kickstarter like its a real thing. It's literally run by comedians.
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Paul Zuvella posted:I like how people are continuing to respond to this kickstarter like its a real thing.
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Paul Zuvella posted:I like how people are continuing to respond to this kickstarter like its a real thing. Yeah, I watched the video and had that inkling. Of course, the problem with satirising kickstarters is the line between the two is drawn in water with a blunt pencil.
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fishmech posted:Yeah it would be a scam if they said "oh yeah you'll totally get a huge return" and it would be straight up illegal without the restrictions. The part where it's arguably a scam is where they do use a lot of highly questionable numbers to imply you'll get a much larger return than you will. If you're not looking it as an investment, it's fine, but how they advertised it as an investment has some real problems. Zaphod42 posted:Half a million goddamned dollars for copper balls. "Takes on its own unique hue over time and can be “reset” to brilliancy with baking soda and water (or salt and vinegar)." Did... did somebody just... market tarnishing as a feature?
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Alien Rope Burn posted:The part where it's arguably a scam is where they do use a lot of highly questionable numbers to imply you'll get a much larger return than you will. If you're not looking it as an investment, it's fine, but how they advertised it as an investment has some real problems. People actually do like patinas.
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I dunno, I kinda like it. A nice perfectly spherical copper ball would be quite a tactile thing to have around on your desk Why aren't they selling stands for them.
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Nettle Soup posted:I dunno, I kinda like it. A nice perfectly spherical copper ball would be quite a tactile thing to have around on your desk The thing is: You can buy these already (with stands, yes) and folks generally won't charge you $80 for them.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i wish i could come up with one of these but i'd always stop myself thinking nah nobody would be dumb enough to kickstart this but here we are, a thousand of those later Same, but I'd feel guilty about promising a bunch of snake-oil health benefits to what I know is pretty much bunk. I guess you either have to be a true believer yourself or have low morals in order to be a Captain of Industry.  Alien Rope Burn posted:"Takes on its own unique hue over time and can be “reset” to brilliancy with baking soda and water (or salt and vinegar)." Hahaha yes. Its like those new-age magnet bracelets all over again. Except the manufacturing takes even less work. Alien Rope Burn posted:The thing is: Yeah that's what some goon posted right off, its like a 1000% markup on what is a pretty easy product to get a hold of / manufacture.
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