PleasureKevin posted:

this game is almost 2 years overdo

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1841885340/tangiers-surrealist-stealth/updates


Ian I like the app. but if it's a stat-"pedia", like an encyclopedia, shouldn't the data be updatable? as it is, is just seems like a graph making tool. i can't even seem to update my own stats.

also, material design is bad.

anyway keep up the good work

anthonypants posted:

kc green has a kickstarter out for a stuffed animal https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kcgreen/this-is-fine-plush-dog

hackbunny posted:

ᴛʜɪs ɪs ꜰɪɴᴇ

really. nice ks, straight to the point, doesn't shoot for the moon. gj kc green

surebet posted:

i wouldn't call it common but it does exist in commercial products:
https://www.skully.com/

quote:

Skully Inc. was supposed to revolutionize the motorcycle industry, raising millions of dollars to manufacture futuristic augmented-reality helmets.

Instead, the founders of the Bay Area start-up are accused of spending company money on vacations, sports cars, their San Francisco rents, weekly apartment cleanings, meals out and a visit to a strip club.

According to a lawsuit filed by a former employee, the company was a “sham” and the founders, brothers Marcus and Mitchell Weller, expensed their lavish lifestyles. When the money ran out last week, the company shut down.

“The Wellers used Skully corporate accounts as their personal piggy banks,” according to the complaint filed in state court in San Francisco last month, “and demanded that plaintiff conceal the true nature of the expenses by entering them in Skully's books to make it appear that the expenses were incurred for legitimate business expenses, which in fact they were clearly not.”

Skully did not respond to requests for comment.

The San Francisco company left scores of angry customers who have yet to receive the high-tech helmets they paid for, including fans who poured $2.4 million into Skully's Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in 2014.

Those early backers, many of whom pre-ordered helmets for $1,400, are unlikely to see a refund — which highlights the risks of the crowdfunding industry. Once a campaign ends, Indiegogo has no obligation to refund contributions or intervene in disputes between backers and companies, according to the platform's terms of service.

The lawsuit was filed by Isabelle Faithhauer, the Wellers' former assistant who says she was responsible for the company's bookkeeping and wrote fraudulent entries for expenses paid for with Skully money, including two Dodge Vipers, an Audi R8, limo rides in Florida and a $2,000 charge at a strip club.

Last year, the Wellers booked a trip to Bermuda, but “Marcus Weller was not pleased with Bermuda,” so he booked a first-class flight to Hawaii on 24 hours’ notice at Skully's expense, Faithhauer's lawyer wrote. After receiving a traffic violation in his Audi, Marcus Weller made Faithhauer attend driving school on his behalf and charged the related $450 attorney expense to the company, the complaint said.

Faithhauer is suing for employment violations, alleging that the Wellers failed to pay her overtime and give her meal breaks, and that they fired her when she complained about their accounting practices.

Skully shut down Friday, citing “unforeseen challenges and circumstances beyond our control” that made it impossible for the company to raise more money.

The Weller brothers, both avid bikers, founded Skully in 2013 with the idea of transforming motorcycle helmets into smart devices that the fictional Tony Stark would be proud to wear with his Iron Man suit. The Skully AR-1 helmet was touted as including a transparent screen in the visor that displays GPS directions, speed and other information before the rider's eyes; a rearview camera; Bluetooth; and voice control.

The idea took off, with almost 2,000 backers contributing money to what became one of Indiegogo's most successful technology projects. Skully raised an additional $11 million last year from investors including Intel Capital and Walden Riverwood Ventures, but the company soon began missing its targeted shipping dates.

Last month, Skully brought in a new chief executive to fix the problem, hiring former HTC North America Vice President Martin Fichter into a role originally held by co-founder Marcus Weller. In a July 18 blog post, Fichter promised customers that they would get their helmets.

“We are shifting gears as a company to deliver on a promise we made to you,” he wrote. “As a team, we've taken the necessary steps to accomplish this mission, including a change in leadership and top-to-bottom review of our manufacturing and communication processes.”

Fichter promised Skully would deliver 400 helmets to customers by the end of July, with the remaining pre-orders shipping throughout the summer.

Less than a month later, Skully called it quits, announced the company plans to file for bankruptcy and apologized to customers, employees and partners

Grim Up North posted:

Oh, hey that's pretty coo ...

surebet posted:

jfc that's a pretty impressive gently caress up

JawnV6 posted:

so here we are in another once-every-4-years chance where people get really invested in numeric quantification of the world around us. it's honestly astounding how folks who generally don't care about data-driven decisions or metrics can come together to focus on hundredths of a percent differences

JawnV6 posted:

so here we are in another once-every-4-years chance where people get really invested in numeric quantification of the world around us. it's honestly astounding how folks who generally don't care about data-driven decisions or metrics can come together to focus on hundredths of a percent differences

obviously, i'm talking about the olympics. there's so much commentary chatter about PR/OR/WR, weird little moments like the first 100m of a swimming relay eligible to set OR/WR's, and a depth of information about each swimmer, each runner, their entire race history down to lap timings

i like visualizations, and there are some great ones for specific things like "men's 100m sprint" that even have callouts & graphic differences to account for wind speed during the race. but these are obviously curated and the underlying statistical information isn't provided in an accessible format.

anyone know any startups trying to target this space? i mean there has to be commercial efforts mechanizing the search through the data, otherwise "never had a 400m winner from Lane 8" wouldn't get repeated across multiple commentators, but I'd kinda like something I could chart things like "how many times was a WR within 5% of their previous PR" or just "100m finishing time by year," like what's the average lag time from Men hitting some round time and Women attaining the same?

FrozenVent posted:

sounds like a job for... statpedia

FrozenVent posted:

sounds like a job for... statpeenia

Verdafolio posted:

are you ready for socks, but with colorful designs?????

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brytsocks/bryt-socks-20-the-ultimate-colorful-socks%5C




so many unique designs

computer molester posted:

i automatically assume anyone wearing socks like that is a rapist

yoloer420 posted:

Don't happy socks already stock those exact designs?

exploding mummy posted:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sa-mississippi-poll#/

doctorfrog posted:

my invention is a new number system, in which the first letter of each number is the number itself.

1ne
2wo
3hree
4our

anthonypants posted:

australia, but for dildos

doctorfrog posted:

my invention is a new number system, in which the first letter of each number is the number itself.

1ne
2wo
3hree
4our

quote:

JAMES!!!

How have you been man?

Just wanted to let you know that we have made an updated version that is super simple to use for posting and updating charts: http://statpedia.com/

I would encourage you to check it out! If you do, please let me know what you think and where you believe we should be improving things.

We'd love to see you publish interesting stats. Please... nothing vulgar, I beg you.

Warm Regards,

Ian

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Beast of Bourbon posted:

why don't they have canada on there?

prefect posted:

maybe canada was just part of the british empire back then?