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Doggles posted:"R&D means Research & Done right? What else could the D possibly stand for?" said the people who squandered $9 million. I feel a little worse for the customers here because they were selling that card as a "pre-order" on their website. So it wasn't even under the kickstarter guise of "it's a donation reward". It was extra deceiving. It's still stupid as hell to pre-order a product from a startup company with no track record. Honestly if you have to give money up-front for a pre-order, that should be your first red flag. Haven't we been through enough years of these scams/disasters that people would start to learn?
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Star Citizen is worth every penny of those millions. In how many funny things it produced, of course, the game itself is still a poo poo alpha somehow.
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gschmidl posted:Four of these exact projects failed previously, so obviously THIS one wouldn't. Plastc posted:Flip Your Coin For A $50 Discount. Coin has been acquired and is now defunct. Or in other words, they sold you out. Don't worry, Plastc's got your back. 
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Infinitum posted:When you're talking chips, you're talking tap-to-pay like tech yeah? The US doesn't have metric yet
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Someone made something out of Black Mirror There's this thing you wear on your back  And it gives you a nice feedback when you're slouched like a poo poo  I had pretty bad back pain when I started working in an office but fixed it with 5 minutes a week of lumbar exercises; but maybe this doorbell thing is better.
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Rapulum_Dei posted:Anyway; because sock suspenders weren't weird enough what about shirt suspenders; https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nv-s-holder-will-keep-your-shirt-perfectly-tucked#/ Is it me or do their pictures all make the end result look like poo poo? Like they all have a onesie under their pants instead of a shirt. If at least it looked good, it'd be easier to forget that it costs as much as tailoring / altering 4 shirts...
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unpacked robinhood posted:Someone made something out of Black Mirror My sister's a physio and I bet some of her patients could use that.
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unpacked robinhood posted:Someone made something out of Black Mirror There's already a whole bunch of products that do this, including lovely apps (one's called Posture Man Pat  ) and gadgets all the way to actual orthopedic devices for correcting bad posture that have been around for decades.
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Doggles posted:"R&D means Research & Done right? What else could the D possibly stand for?" said the people who squandered $9 million. Star Citizen is like a pyramid scheme but somehow dumber
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Paladinus posted:Star Citizen is worth every penny of those millions. In how many funny things it produced, of course, the game itself is still a poo poo alpha somehow. It's an actual game now? I thought it was some elaborate scam like Amway or Cutco.
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It's a 'game' in the way that there are 'playable' sections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1oFvxUoeI But really it's one big scam and may or may not ever come out, but it'll probably never live up to the hype
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fondue posted:It's an actual game now? I thought it was some elaborate scam like Amway or Cutco. They've delivered on like 5% of what's been promised. There's a series of disconnected demos that each themselves are just trying to give an impression of what the gigantic coke-dream of Star Citizen is supposed to become (and never, EVER will) They can't even crank out models of ships fast enough to keep up with how many they're pre-selling and making up, much less actual playable game components.
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Hey guys I'd be careful, Derek Smark is gonna doxx all ya'll if you keep talking that dreck.
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CordlessPen posted:Is it me or do their pictures all make the end result look like poo poo? Like they all have a onesie under their pants instead of a shirt. If at least it looked good, it'd be easier to forget that it costs as much as tailoring / altering 4 shirts... Tailored men's onesies? Hang on I'll be right back.
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Leal posted:Hey guys I'd be careful, Derek Smark is gonna doxx all ya'll if you keep talking that dreck. Seems unlikely, given how much he hates Star Citizen.
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Zaphod42 posted:They've delivered on like 5% of what's been promised. Try 0.5%. They've delivered something like 1 system out of freelancer. They promised far bigger systems though, and they promised 100 on launch. Out of basic mechanics only combat uh.. "works". Sometimes. Trading, piracy, etc. doesn't exist in this space truck simulator.  But what's the best thing about Star Citizen, for me, is that Elite Dangerous slowly keeps delivering everything SC keeps promising. They're not very fast at delivering complex things (but then, they also only got crowdfunded for 2m), and their game is boring for a lot of people and definitely isn't for everyone. But Star Citizens keep making GBS threads on it all the time because they find it boring. Yet, it's exactly what the croberts keeps promising he'll deliver at some point in the future. It's perfect.
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Rapulum_Dei posted:Tailored men's onesies? Hang on I'll be right back. To late, already exists.
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Manuel Calavera posted:To late, already exists. Just make them steampunk or add someone else's intellectual property.
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Leal posted:Hey guys I'd be careful, Derek Smark is gonna doxx all ya'll if you keep talking that dreck. DSmart hates Star Citizen, he doesn't defend it. You got it backwards. Truga posted:Try 0.5%. They've delivered something like 1 system out of freelancer. They promised far bigger systems though, and they promised 100 on launch. Out of basic mechanics only combat uh.. "works". Sometimes. Trading, piracy, etc. doesn't exist in this space truck simulator. Yeah I love Elite Dangerous. And that's the way you actually build a massively ambitious game like that, the E:D way. You set small goals and you meet those milestones before you go bothering to design more complex systems upon those. Star Citizen is the worst example of feature creep in the entire software industry. And like a terrible pyramid scheme, they have to constantly borrow more money to continue to build the things that they didn't have that they already sold other people to make the money to build the things they sold to even other people still...
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Truga posted:Try 0.5%. They've delivered something like 1 system out of freelancer. They promised far bigger systems though, and they promised 100 on launch. Out of basic mechanics only combat uh.. "works". Sometimes. Trading, piracy, etc. doesn't exist in this space truck simulator.  Excuse me but you'll find that Star Citizen is going to combine the best of EVE Online, Titanfall, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, X3, Sim City, Euro Truck Simulator, Minecraft, Breath of the Wild, and River City Ransom all in one ultimate sci-fi sim.  Zaphod42 posted:Star Citizen is the worst example of feature creep in the entire software industry. The best part is that anyone who knows anything about Chris Roberts knew this when SC was announced. The guy did the same poo poo with Freelancer until Microsoft stepped in and made him finish the game in some capacity. Sure, Roberts wanted to do more stuff like
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They gave you guys an entire forum so that nobody else has to read this poo poo, you know.
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I used to skim the last few pages of the SC thread from time to time but goddamn they're tedious
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CAROL posted:no one but goons care about sc And, I guess, thousands of people who donated millions to it. They probably care.
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Harveygod posted:Just make them steampunk or add someone else's intellectual property. I got this iOnesies
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Want to cover your laptop's webcam but duct tape just isn't stylish enough? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2126936003/the-spyslide-the-most-elegant-webcam-cover
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gschmidl posted:Want to cover your laptop's webcam but duct tape just isn't stylish enough? Is anyone selling artisanal tinfoil hats yet?
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tuyop posted:Is anyone selling artisanal tinfoil hats yet? Yes, yes they are.
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someone fund my artisinal silly putty that totally blocks sound when you cram it into the mic opening on your laptop. Stretch goals are new colors, glitter, a special toothpick to remove the poo poo, special scissors to cut the wires to the mic for extra safety, and a cell phone edition.
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I used to be a living creature! This is made by the more than aptly named Passive Aggressive Vegan. quote:There are 3 kinds of Vegans in the world. What I'm noticing is that under risks and challenges vandalizing businesses isn't mentioned, nor is any kind of disclaimer, so I sure as hell hope they reach funding and get the cleaning bills.
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wit posted:I used to be a living creature! 4 stickers for £3?? You can buy blank sticker paper at any stationary supplier and print them off on your home printer, the cost should be less than 10c per sticker if you bought in bulk. What a loving scam.
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wit posted:This is made by the more than aptly named Passive Aggressive Vegan. "Playful" vegans sound like a laugh riot. Also the idea that meat is disguised is pretty fuckin' naive. Like, do they think that a rump steak isn't obviously animal butt? It's right there in the name guys.
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That campaign also seems to be unintentionally reinforcing the stereotype that vegans have no energy or drive. This amuses me. Probably far more than it should really.
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tuyop posted:Is anyone selling artisanal tinfoil hats yet? This was posted in this thread a year or so ago: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shieldapparel/shield-the-world-s-first-signal-proof-headwear
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Rapulum_Dei posted:2024% funded! Aww, now I'm sad thinking of all those young men without grandpas to tell them how to keep their shirts tucked in.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:4 stickers for £3?? You can buy blank sticker paper at any stationary supplier and print them off on your home printer, the cost should be less than 10c per sticker if you bought in bulk. What a loving scam. Think of it as poetic justice for the backers. ...especially if the creator isn't actually a Vegan. Rapulum_Dei posted:Aaah, it's the EXPERIENCE that costs so much http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39664483 Gotta pay a premium for that "garters, but upside down" experience of being a sucker.
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Didn't actually click the link I see. quote:A US start-up that sells a wi-fi connected juicing machine for $399 (£310), has offered refunds after the gadget was mocked on social media.
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Rapulum_Dei posted:Didn't actually click the link I see. If you're stupid enough to pay for this product you deserve to be scammed. People have had fresh pressed juice for hundreds of years before Juicero, and it comes in practical containers that keeps it fresh until you peel and squeeze, you can combine different flavors, the containers fit many different juicer machines and will still be for sale years from now. How is that product in any way supposed to be an improvement over real fruit?
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