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The cube popularized the idea of fidget gadgets. By then the patent for spinners lapsed, they're cheaper to make to boot.
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I think fidget spinners were an existing but unknown doodad someone patented for use on autists, then the patent ran out and they couldn't/didn't renew the thing and blam. (I don't know how patents work) e:beaten
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Guy Mann posted:Normally I would be loath to link to an Imgur gallery but it's a whole lot of crazy to sort through. That was definitely worth the time to read. That lady is all types of shity person.  e: Also the Facebook page just went back up again, so she may not be done? 
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RandomPauI posted:The cube popularized the idea of fidget gadgets. By then the patent for spinners lapsed, they're cheaper to make to boot. The person with the "fidget spinner patent" had actually patented something else which wouldn't have prevented people making the common fidget spinner designs. They were basically much larger toys, none of the arm thing going on, though it did rely on the ball bearings things to help keep the things spinning longer than a plain plastic toy the same shape. Anyway, she'd invented it quite long ago, so her patent had actually expired in 2005, while the fidget spinner fad only started going at all in like, late 2015 and then started to go really big in late 2016. So it's not like people had been just waiting for that patent to go off, it'd been dead for years.
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Patent application: a small wheel, for autistics
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Make it bigger and use a lot of them to achieve autism powered flight. Kickstarting right now.
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From the creators of House.
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Morglon posted:Make it bigger and use a lot of them to achieve autism powered flight. Kickstarting right now. There's already a huge fidget spinner, and it's about as unwieldy as you might imagine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX28JBvcy9k
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An automated polisher for your phone. Because wiping it off by hand is too hard and time consuming. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661063041/carwash-automatic-phone-cleaner?ref=category_newest (Oh, yeah, by the way, this is our second time putting this up. Not because it's a dumb idea, but because we didn't explain the product well enough first time around)
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A small, unobtrusive, barely noticeable device that you wear on your chest to remind yourself not to touch your face. It will retail for only $85! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/835545834/handsdowntm-wearable-device-easily-breaks-bad-habi?ref=category_newest Skip forward to :50 in the video to meet our creator, who got the idea from a Matt Damon movie that came out 6 years ago.
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Someone get some free karma and post this to /r/thathappened for a ton of free karma.
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And that Nintendo member was... my uncle
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mainecannabiskid/rick-and-morty-pickle-rick-condoms quote:Smoked a lot of weed, got high, then saw ONE picture of the Pickle Rick condoms! I thought to myself, I WANT ONE! Then.... I realized they aren't for sale anywhere... so why not make them myself? Homemade condoms, what could go wrong?
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Considering that Dan Harmon has been publicly melting down about McDonalds capitalizing on him using their IP as a meme I feel like fleecing him out of his own IP is victimless at worst and karmic retribution at best.
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Zaphod42 posted:Homemade condoms, what could go wrong? Someone is going to born into this world because of Pickle Rick. Alternatively, the chemicals used will damage you bodily systems so it will be too sick to make babies!
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You're assuming that someone who would use a Pickle Rick condom would have sex.
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Finally, someone discovered a birth control device with 100% efficacy
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Waffleman_ posted:You're assuming that someone who would use a Pickle Rick condom would have sex. We thought this about Tolkien and video game nerds once, now there's at least a Galadriel and a Sephiroth in a kindergarten somewhere.
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Duke Igthorn posted:HOLOBOX Pretty sure I saw one of these at PAX last month at an exhibitor's booth, but I can't remember which one. I recall the projection screen being pretty low-res, and it had a noticeable screen door effect. Googling around found similar displays, including one from an auto show in 2014, so these guys weren't the first (the KS page says they founded the company in 2015). Others seem to have the same sort of built-in animations. They even call it a Holobox, but the KS company's branding isn't present. As you might expect, there are a lot of different ones available on Alibaba. But, they're quite expensive; the Kickstarter pricing is actually very competitive.
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Waffleman_ posted:You're assuming that someone who would use a Pickle Rick condom would have sex. Think about all the dumb fucks who have kids. And R&M is very popular.
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TFW you and derpette are about to have le sexytimes and you pull out Pickle Rick
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Guy Mann posted:TFW you and derpette are about to have le sexytimes and you pull out Pickle Rick
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1401357387/bubble-cage-hat I want this to succeed because I would actually start watching football if the players had to wear 20 pounds of ridiculous extra gear. Bonus points if NFL games have to superimpose "Patented" and the creators yahoo email address over all the games.
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CollegeCop posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1401357387/bubble-cage-hat Holy poo poo, it's back again. This is the fifth time he's put this project on Kickstarter, the first time was back in 2015. The first attempt raised $54, the second raised $29, his last two attempts didn't get a single pledge between them. But maybe this time it'll work!!!! Edit: the only difference in the project I can see is that the 3rd time he posted it he was trying to raise $5,000, the last time he posted it he was trying to raise $10,000, and this time he's trying to raise $100,000. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 19:03 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Foam on the inside. Foam on the inside of here.
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I like how risks and challenges includes getting an actual investor. "Hey guys, give me money so I can fart around with this absurd idea until someone with real money decides to give me some."
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What if we made this the next Doobie's Dog House?
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What if we didn't? The whole Doobie thing loving sucked and it was nothing but taking advantage of a guy who didn't know any better. Remember the safari rules. Look, don't touch.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Holy poo poo, it's back again. This is the fifth time he's put this project on Kickstarter, the first time was back in 2015. The first attempt raised $54, the second raised $29, his last two attempts didn't get a single pledge between them.
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CollegeCop posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1401357387/bubble-cage-hat DK mode activated.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Holy poo poo, it's back again. This is the fifth time he's put this project on Kickstarter, the first time was back in 2015. The first attempt raised $54, the second raised $29, his last two attempts didn't get a single pledge between them. Yeah, if you want to see some of the other ones he did Retsupurae did a video about this a goddamn year ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd7DSewwWpQ
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Come on we all know the future of sports is more exciting and far more dangerous https://youtu.be/8DgAfs4FutI
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Back in early 2015 some people from the Star Citizen community, having nothing better to do because that game doesn't exist, got a license from Interplay to make a new Descent game and ran a successful kickstarter raising just under $602k to make the game, initially (IIRC) they were going to just make a multiplayer game but decided to add a single-player campaign because of overwhelming demand. IIRC there was a rumor from the devs really early on that it was also going to be MOBA too for some reason. Fast forwards a little to February 2016. Some of the old hands from Volition/Parlax, including founders Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog, launch a kickstarter for Overload, a spiritual successor to Descent that they had been working on since 2014. The kickstarter is also successful, raising $306k. The game was originally going to be single-player but they announced they'd add multiplayer after finishing the game. Since then both games have continued development, Overload has turned out to basically be the Descent sequel everybody wanted, while Descent Underground has not made much progress beyond being a generic 6DOF deathmatch game from what I've seen of it. Of course hey, the Overload team has way more experience and started first so I guess we can give the Underground developers some leeway on that. On the other hand they got twice as much money and could have just hired more programmers to fill in the gaps. But most recently, at the end of September, Descent Underground was delisted from Steam and GOG because they wanted to "focus on the game" and similar marketing buzzwords about how they will now only be communicating through some site called BrightLocker which is "the future of interaction between gamers, developers, and the amazing games that bring them together." However in a stream shortly before it was delisted they basically blame Steam for "forcing" them to delist the game because they weren't releasing enough updates (never mind all the other unfinished early access games that are still for sale?) and because the Overlord developers were apparently involved in a conspiracy to leave them negative reviews. I also found some guy in the comments for a review saying he'd been IP banned from even visiting the game's website after criticizing it. They also temporarily deleted all the posts on the Steam forum between August and October but they appear to be back now. https://www.reddit.com/r/descent/comments/601elw/descendent_studios_banned_me_for_criticism/  https://steamcommunity.com/games/360950/announcements/detail/1492238800024274472 quote:Well, at least I actually did get the D:U shirt I paid for. I wear it occasionally as a reminder to never back another EA/Kickstarter game. https://steamcommunity.com/app/360950/discussions/0/1519260397787672709/ quote:So, based on your video here(4:33) it sounds more to me like you were forced off of Steam due to a lack of updates then by choice. Vocally blaming Steam for your own slow progress, and citing 'neg-spaming' as somehow a cause for it? How does another games progress or popularity hurt your development process? The moment someone says something bad, the entire team has to go on stress leave and recover? The negative feedback is due to your seemingly nonexistent progress and a lack of communication to your customers. Leaving Steam won't make that go away, showing real progress updates instead of live multiplayer matches will.
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