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We have a thread about the murder sub in SA but I'd advise staying away from it for a bit. There was another derail where people staked the claim that torturing a bad person is a normal instinct and/or a good thing. The derail happens every few weeks. Sometimes the pro-torture folk get a bit graphic with the descriptions. Sometimes they include pictures.
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Infinitum posted:Would a crowdfunded submarine that ends up with reporters being murdered, then chopped up, be considered an awful kickstarter? Wasn't this guy a goon?
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Apr 27, 2018 22:12
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A goon helped him build the sub
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Apr 27, 2018 22:23
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RandomPauI posted:We have a thread about the murder sub in SA but I'd advise staying away from it for a bit. There was another derail where people staked the claim that torturing a bad person is a normal instinct and/or a good thing. Similar derail just happened in the Sec gently caress thread, about how torture for information was a grey area of morality. SA really is just one big thread, isn’t it?
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This looks so much more stylish and comfortable than a regular facemask! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/805383153/air-filtration-wearable-project?ref=discovery A Vegan dating site - because unbearably smug people deserve each other: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1636467623/vegamory?ref=category_newest&ref=discovery Hey, look! Bubble Hat Cage Helmet guy is back! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1401357387/it-works-football-head-protect?ref=category_newest&ref=discovery
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May 14, 2018 14:12
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CollegeCop posted:This looks so much more stylish and comfortable than a regular facemask! The happy music playing while things like "90% of the world's population suffers from air pollution" makes this one so good.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beanbandit/kenichi-sonodas-bean-bandit-new-anime-project?ref=user_menuWaffleman_ posted:Fund that beautiful Bean footage
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Guy Goodbody posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beanbandit/kenichi-sonodas-bean-bandit-new-anime-project?ref=user_menu This is definitely not an awful Kickstarter, other than that they might only be able make a five minute short [hopefully they'll get enough to make it 20 minutes].
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May 19, 2018 04:31
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yeah it's gonna own, but there's no "PYF good Kickstarters" thread
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May 19, 2018 23:26
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Thank you for enjoying my joke.
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May 19, 2018 23:39
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Oh jeez is that woman supposed to be Rally? I'm not on board with that.
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You may remember the Ossic X, a pair of '3d audio' headphones with 4 drivers per ear. Over 10,000 backers pledged $2.7 million in 2016. The headphones started at $200 earlybird, and most people paid $250, with an "MSRP" of $400. You also know what's coming next. They announced they're folding, only produced 250 pairs in a production test run, no one else will get any, and there apparently won't be any refunds. They'd need another $2m to "complete" production. One of the comments said he even demanded a refund back in 2016 (he said the video was misleading and assumed they were basically ready for production), and they ignored him.
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May 20, 2018 04:21
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SpacePig posted:Oh jeez is that woman supposed to be Rally? I'm not on board with that. I think the Rally from Riding Bean isn't exactly the Rally from Gunsmith Cats.
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May 20, 2018 04:29
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Guy Goodbody posted:I think the Rally from Riding Bean isn't exactly the Rally from Gunsmith Cats. Oh, well, drat. I had only ever read Gunsmith Cats and didn't realize Riding Bean came before it and not after. My bad.
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Pyroclastic posted:You may remember the Ossic X, a pair of '3d audio' headphones with 4 drivers per ear. Over 10,000 backers pledged $2.7 million in 2016. The headphones started at $200 earlybird, and most people paid $250, with an "MSRP" of $400. lol
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Remember the screen shoes, Shiftwear? I assumed they would simply delay the delivery forever and run with the money like a good kickstarter scam. Their last update from april seemed to go in that direction (lol @ "we stopped working on the shoes but we are developping a blockchain app"): https://shiftwear.com/blog/2018/04/15/shiftwear-update-april-15-2018/ But then this was posted on their facebook and I think it's hilarious if true  
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 That's beautiful. Most would just fade away and hope people forget about them, these guys go the extra mile to rub the scam in their backers' faces.
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May 20, 2018 09:18
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You want shoe? TOO BAD! HERE SCAM!
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May 20, 2018 09:43
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Isn't that what lots of scammers do, particularly from China do. They ship literally anything in a box, just random poo poo. Something to do with paypal refunds not being easy if you actually received a shipment or something.
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Aramoro posted:Isn't that what lots of scammers do, particularly from China do. They ship literally anything in a box, just random poo poo. Something to do with paypal refunds not being easy if you actually received a shipment or something. Yeah but these people put their real name and pictures on their sites, and they rent a real office in New York. They even have a working prototype. Either some other scammers used their name either they went full "gently caress this poo poo". Their online store is down. Anyway it's hilarious
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Yeah but these people put their real name and pictures on their sites, and they rent a real office in New York. They even have a working prototype. Either some other scammers used their name either they went full "gently caress this poo poo". How do you know it's really them? Many scammers just hire actors for their promotional videos and/or use random photos on their websites.
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May 20, 2018 10:33
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Paladinus posted:How do you know it's really them? Many scammers just hire actors for their promotional videos and/or use random photos on their websites. He has a lot of other online presence like a LinkedIn, and a former employee explained how he wasn't getting paid despite working for him. Maybe it was supposed to be a scam from the start but it doesn't feel like it, especially with their working prototype
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Aramoro posted:Isn't that what lots of scammers do, particularly from China do. They ship literally anything in a box, just random poo poo. Something to do with paypal refunds not being easy if you actually received a shipment or something. Yeah, so long as you can prove you shipped PayPal do not care what was in the shipment. Someone once ordered a laptop and received a blank sheet of paper in a manila envelope, sent recorded delivery. PayPal refused the refund because the seller could prove he shipped.
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Pyroclastic posted:You may remember the Ossic X, a pair of '3d audio' headphones with 4 drivers per ear. Over 10,000 backers pledged $2.7 million in 2016. The headphones started at $200 earlybird, and most people paid $250, with an "MSRP" of $400. My favorite part is this SUPERBACKER who is just now realizing that Kickstarter is a scam: 
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 I spent hundreds of dollars on a piece of luxury audio equipment years ago and now I'm not actually getting it, my finances are in shambles! My death is on your conscience, Ossic! Jerry Seinfeld posted:My favorite part is this SUPERBACKER who is just now realizing that Kickstarter is a scam: There's something about the kind of person who has enough disposable income and gullibility to support gadget kickstarters like this where their brains completely break when they don't get what they want and there's no manager to complain to or company left to get someone fired over it from. The best they can manage is to just impotently flail their torches and pitchforks at linkedin pages and howl about class action lawsuits until their temper tantrum runs down and they get distracted by something else.
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Erotic Wakes posted:
Spoiled Trust Fund Kids, probably never unable to get something they want, dealing with unavoidable failure for what may be the first time. Also @ poor college student, that's 100% the kind that drives his own BMW but whines about paying rent in his luxury apartment.
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May 20, 2018 18:00
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Ossic probably should've delivered something, audiophiles are the biggest cash cow.
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super sweet best pal posted:Ossic probably should've delivered something, audiophiles are the biggest cash cow. Yeah, it's not very hard to scam those folks. That entire loving industry is built on the backs of old white idiots with too much money.
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Pyroclastic posted:You may remember the Ossic X, a pair of '3d audio' headphones with 4 drivers per ear. Over 10,000 backers pledged $2.7 million in 2016. The headphones started at $200 earlybird, and most people paid $250, with an "MSRP" of $400. Did I miss this being brought up? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bluesmart-series-2-smart-luggage-system#/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/01/bluesmart-smart-luggage-shutting-down/ and http://fortune.com/2016/03/29/smart-luggage/ https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/17/17364922/raden-smart-luggage-airline-ban-bluesmart Both shut down. No refunds, no warranty support. You can still use your smart luggage as plain old suitcases that you spent too much money on, but it's kind of hard to have a working product when your batteries are banned from planes. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 21:13 on May 21, 2018 |
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Aw yeah folks, another day another ludicrously over-engineered food preparation system with proprietary DRM cartridges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00t50uHS68k https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tastetro-spice-system-vegan#/ quote:Can I load my own spices in the pods?
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Erotic Wakes posted:Aw yeah folks, another day another ludicrously over-engineered food preparation system with proprietary DRM cartridges. This is hilarious. Like, it basically does nothing. This saves you the MASSIVE effort of spicing with like, salt and THEN spicing with basil, now you can mix them and save yourself .4 seconds. Wow. Totally worth... $300? THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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God that thing is awful. Even without the whole "proprietary pods" thing, isn't part of the Joy of Cooking the part where you taste what you're cooking and say "hmm, this should be spicier" and then putting a pinch of cayenne or whatever in? So with this thing you have to stick a clean dish in, scroll through the 20 different spices in their digital menu, and presumably select the amount you want. Then you have to wipe out the dish you just dirtied. As opposed to just popping the cap and throwing a dash in. I love their explanation for their spice DRM: quote:Can I load my own spices in the pods? Requiring people to use expensive, hard to get pods for spices is ENCOURAGING people to use old spices. Nobody is going to order a new pod to replace their spices that are only half used after five years. But they MIGHT spend $3 at the grocery store to refresh it. And it's flex funding? gently caress off.
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wa27 posted:Requiring people to use expensive, hard to get pods for spices is ENCOURAGING people to use old spices. Nobody is going to order a new pod to replace their spices that are only half used after five years. But they MIGHT spend $3 at the grocery store to refresh it. Well, if you make their spice pods stop working when they hit a certain age then they will need to. Otherwise they will be wasting their 300 dollar joyless spice-bot.
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It's not a bad idea, but the DRM pods that you can't refill yourself completely ruin it.
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The General posted:It's not a bad idea, but the DRM pods that you can't refill yourself completely ruin it. It’s a bad idea because it can’t possibly hold enough spices for many kitchens.
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Subjunctive posted:It’s a bad idea because it can’t possibly hold enough spices for many kitchens. The spice must flow.
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Pyroclastic posted:You may remember the Ossic X, a pair of '3d audio' headphones with 4 drivers per ear. Over 10,000 backers pledged $2.7 million in 2016. The headphones started at $200 earlybird, and most people paid $250, with an "MSRP" of $400. But that's already been an existing product for years now  loving god drat Kickstarter
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I make my spices fresh, salt is super easy since it only takes two easy ingredients!
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Barring how dumb that thing is in general if you have hands, I'd imagine poo poo that you don't want would get in there, assuming it's all shooting out of the same hole and being ground by the same grinder. "lemme just get a nice pinch of cinnamon...and dill? and curry wtf?"
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I don’t follow much of Kickstarter and Indiegogo outside of enjoying this thread, so I’m not sure if this is normal anyway. I was wondering how Juicero 2.0 had $20k backing already and see like half of ‘Our Team’ have made contributions on the backers page.Indiegogo FAQ posted:Are campaign owners or team members allowed to contribute to their own campaign?
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