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muscles like this? posted:Depending on where that guy lives a barcade would probably be a smarter idea. Misread that as barricade. It would probably be better for keeping unpleasant nerds out of somewhere.
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muscles like this? posted:I laughed at how he's talking to people who did set design for Game of Thrones . One of those guys lives next door to my gf and he made his kids an awesome treehouse. That's my story. Namaste.
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The AFK in Seattle is awesome. Good food, good drinks, really fun atmosphere.
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muscles like this? posted:I laughed at how he's talking to people who did set design for Game of Thrones and how they'd love to help design the shop, if he can get the money. Like no poo poo they'll do stuff if you actually pay them to. Only if it's a sufficiently interesting project. They can work on a wide variety of things that will be fun and advance their careers, they aren't going to come help you redecorate the baby's room just because you met their rate.
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The gaming bar in my town is legit ok, there are a higher amount of ponytails and trenchcoats but otherwise it's ok if you like videogaming. Their beer selection sucks a lot though
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I don't think this has been posted yet: Fontus, the self-filling water bottle! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fontus-the-self-filling-water-bottles#/ It's basically a portable dehumidifier so there's no reason it shouldn't work, right? Except that to be at all useful, it'd have to be several orders of magnitude more efficient than commercially available equipment, and they haven't done the tech development yet so it's not like they have a breakthrough that would allow that. Either they're as clueless as the backers ($300k worth), or it's just a scam. There's a good physics/engineering explanation of why it won't work on eevblog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhnoSREmWVY
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mobby_6kl posted:I don't think this has been posted yet: Fontus, the self-filling water bottle! It's hilarious how many projects there are where the designer thinks that breaking the second law of thermodynamics is just a minor technical hurdle that they'll have sorted "soon".
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Since when does kickstarter have a rule about needing working prototypes? They give all sorts of nutty/scammy poo poo a pass.
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So is Loss.jpg like the wild card or something?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Cross-post from TG: I love how ugly those "Collector's Coins", and they even have dumb phrases from the comic in them. I also enjoy the shot of the CAD box next to the Gunnerkrigg Court box, because the difference in art quality is phenomenal. I honestly can't imagine that there's much of a market for this.
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Always remember Exploding Kittens.
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BattleMaster posted:Since when does kickstarter have a rule about needing working prototypes? They give all sorts of nutty/scammy poo poo a pass. IIRC they changed the rules after the Ouya raised a ton of money on nothing but empty promises and target renders.
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SpacePig posted:I also enjoy the shot of the CAD box next to the Gunnerkrigg Court box, because the difference in art quality is phenomenal. I honestly can't imagine that there's much of a market for this. Not just Gunnerkrigg Court, but GC and Girl Genius.
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You'd think the pitch video would've had at least some mention of how the game works instead of just Buckley stroking his cock and "hilarious" robot overlord jokes. Also I'm pretty sure he left Wifemom off his list of characters.
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SpacePig posted:I love how ugly those "Collector's Coins", and they even have dumb phrases from the comic in them. Is "May the ownage be with you" really a phrase that CAD uses? Ugh.
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Zaphod42 posted:Is "May the ownage be with you" really a phrase that CAD uses? Ugh. There was an episode of the short-lived animated series that was, by the most generous definition, a Star Wars parody, and it used "The Ownage" as an analog of The Force. I think it worked its way into the comic as well, but I'm not sure whether it has anything directly to do with that wintereenmas thing or not.
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Am I missing something, or are the mechanics just "War, but with modifiers and card order manipulation?"
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Oh boy I can't wait for the Winter-een-mas card
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Always remember Exploding Kittens. my favorite part of exploding kittens is that for as dumb of a game as it is, its the only big media coverage kickstarter that actually delivered on time and on spec
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jpmeyer posted:my favorite part of exploding kittens is that for as dumb of a game as it is, its the only big media coverage kickstarter that actually delivered on time and on spec The Oatmeal guy is basically a businessman whose comics are a cold calculated product based on search engine and social media trends, marketing and delivering a product is the one thing he knows how to do.
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Otisburg posted:There's one in Milwaukee that seems pretty decent. I'd love to see one in Madison. Ping Time on State was cool (it wasn't busy, moved to Willy). Ping Time on Willy was okay (more space, harder to get to, no booze, closed) Then there was one by East Towne Mall for a while in the late nineties to mid 2000s, their machines were often out of order and it was always a disappointment. Might've been owned by Video Game Xchange? I haven't lived in Wisconsin for years now, but when I was there lots of bar owners took to the idea until they learned of the history of it; as soon as they knew what Ping Time was like on State and that it failed they'd lose their gusto.
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Guy Mann posted:The Oatmeal guy is basically a businessman whose comics are a cold calculated product based on search engine and social media trends was it buzzfeed that wrote the great article about this or am i not remembering right.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Oh boy I can't wait for the Winter-een-mas card Decemberween is a better holiday anyays.
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Groovelord Neato posted:was it buzzfeed that wrote the great article about this or am i not remembering right. The Oatmeal should write a long post about The Oatmeal.
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  The Barisieur is an automatic coffee or tea brewer that eases you into the day with the sound of bubbling water and the smell of freshly brewed coffee or loose leaf tea. It encourages a ritual in order to establish a routine before going to sleep, signalling to the body and mind that it is time to unwind and relax. Only $400 bucks.
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Monopthalmus posted:
WTF, aren't there coffee machines that do this already? You could set that on your nightstand if you're so inclined.
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The list "things I want right next to my head while I'm sleeping" doesn't include "glass and scalding hot liquids." I mean yeah you can put it on your dresser across the room but at that point just get a nice coffeemaker
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Wamdoodle posted:WTF, aren't there coffee machines that do this already? You could set that on your nightstand if you're so inclined. They've been around since the 1930s. 
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Guy Mann posted:The Oatmeal guy is basically a businessman whose comics are a cold calculated product based on search engine and social media trends, marketing and delivering a product is the one thing he knows how to do. Unironically: Good for him.
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"Help me tattoo my childhood passion" https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-me-tattoo-my-childhood-passion#/ "Having grown up in the 90's my life was influenced by art, cartoons, and, thanks to living in America, food." https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/493034895/pokemon-barbecue-pins-and-stickers?ref=nav_search "Create My Own Pokemon Parody Card Game" (in TYOOL 2016) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/927907192/create-my-own-pokemon-parody-game?ref=nav_search
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I don't think the man grew up in the 90s.
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TetsuoTW posted:I don't think the man grew up
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Guy Mann posted:They've been around since the 1930s. Yeah but do those have companion apps, cloud based solutions, iPhone docks, artisinal gluten free woods, and other trendy millennial bullshit gimmicks? Don't think so! 
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That was what I was implying, yes.
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KiteAuraan posted:Who wants a video game and comic coffee shop? A thing that doesn't exist anywhere in a far less twee fashion. I started reading his business plan and was feeling kinda bad for him cause he clearly put a lot of effort into this and is investing his life savings into it ($200k), but then I saw he estimated $124,600 in total payroll costs for year 1, split across 7 people.
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17k/year before taxes? I might show up to work wearing a shirt. Will still probably bother to put on pants, but no promises.
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Happy loss.jpg-day everyone! It's eight years old today. 
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Lodin posted:Happy loss.jpg-day everyone! It's eight years old today. It would have been 8, you mean. 
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