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Subjunctive posted:It’s a bad idea because it can’t possibly hold enough spices for many kitchens. Not to mention that thing is huge and takes up a lot of counter space compared to a spice rack
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# ? May 22, 2018 08:11 |
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veni veni veni posted: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?" veni veni veni posted: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?" Lol you expect this thing to GRIND spices? That needs a $250 upgrade. No the Spicero is all pre-ground spice.
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# ? May 22, 2018 08:40 |
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I for one can't wait to have bluetooth connectivity issues with my spice rack.
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# ? May 22, 2018 08:41 |
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Subjunctive posted:It’s a bad idea because it can’t possibly hold enough spices for many kitchens. That doesn't make it a bad idea that makes it bad in execution. Away all Goats posted:Not to mention that thing is huge and takes up a lot of counter space compared to a spice rack That's again a problem with dumb execution. I like the idea of some sorta thing that makes spice mixes without me having to remember what the poo poo went into berbere mix or whatever. This thing is dumb though but if it was in the form factor of a spicerack, held more spices, didn't take up so much space, didn't have DRM spicepods, was chea... So yeah the basic idea is OK but everything else is dumb. General Emergency has a new favorite as of 09:14 on May 22, 2018 |
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General Emergency posted:That doesn't make it a bad idea that makes it bad in execution. So if it was a completely different thing, it would be good. Gotcha.
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# ? May 22, 2018 12:16 |
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General Emergency posted:That doesn't make it a bad idea that makes it bad in execution. Their idea is to build that specific thing, and the idea is bad.
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# ? May 22, 2018 12:27 |
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Jerry Seinfeld posted:So if it was a completely different thing, it would be good. Gotcha. Pretty much, yeah.
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# ? May 22, 2018 13:20 |
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I agree that the idea of spices is good.
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# ? May 22, 2018 13:53 |
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veni veni veni posted: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?" That's really not a big deal. You should be grinding whole spices anyway, since already-powdered ones age too fast and lose flavor, and it's not like you use a different grinder for each spice. Getting a little bit of cumin residue in with your coriander isn't anything earth-shattering. But this thing isn't even grinding anything, it's the already-powdered spices you buy at the grocery store except in even smaller and more overpriced quantities. There's no level on which this thing isn't dumb.
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# ? May 22, 2018 15:45 |
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It’s a scam. It’s really dumb and basically identical to something that already publicly failed completely. The point is to attract the dumbest possible idiots so the scammers won’t have to waste time with people who aren’t going to give them money.
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# ? May 23, 2018 19:56 |
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Crowdfunded Game Update! We Happy Few has been refused classification by Australia's ratings board, effectively banning the sale of the game in the country. This is awkward because....well, there are Australian people who backed the game! However, they're actually handling it well, even though they're kinda unsure of where to go next. They put out a blog post saying that they would try to work with the board and if they held their stance, they would work to give Australian backers a refund. http://compulsiongames.com/en/news/177/statement-regarding-the-australian-classification-board-decision
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# ? May 24, 2018 02:30 |
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The hell is Australia's problem?
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# ? May 24, 2018 03:08 |
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The General posted:The hell is Australia's problem? It's a white supremacist Settler nation
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# ? May 24, 2018 03:11 |
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I'd think that the main problem is that We Happy Few is about drugs, which is a touchy subject with the ACB.
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The General posted:The hell is Australia's problem? Believe me man, we're right there with you. It took us a super long to get an R18+ rating category on games, and then they still refuse to classify games for really weird and arbitrary poo poo. The ACB is just an all around dumb as a sack of hammers organisation full of double standards, but consider themselves Orwellian style Thought Police. By the same justification they're using for We Happy Few, promotion of drug use, games like GTAV should be refused classification. Back in the day Left 4 Dead 2 got Refused Classifaction, so we got a super censored version... except that Left 4 Dead 1 was perfectly A-OK with them and literally the exact same loving thing. Aussies are massive consumers of media, and if we can't get our hands on them via reasonable means we just pirate the poo poo out of everything. Streaming/gaming services have slowly been getting better here, but we're not quite there yet. It's frustrating, but what are you going to do. ()
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# ? May 24, 2018 03:40 |
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Waffleman_ posted:I'd think that the main problem is that We Happy Few is about drugs, which is a touchy subject with the ACB. That makes sense, they also had to do a special censored version of Saint's Row 4 because one mission had Shaundi using drugs.
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# ? May 24, 2018 03:45 |
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They should call it Pee Crappy Poo because folks it's a real bad game.
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# ? May 24, 2018 03:56 |
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It's a really weird game because it has a good style and the scripted opening is neat but then the actual game starts and it loses just about everything that made it interesting.
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:01 |
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First Steam game I refunded. It was sold as something like "Bioshock but roguelike! A narrative heavy game with replayability." but then it turned out it was actually a bad early access survival game. Who knows what it is now though... There was some stink when they raised the price to $60 after they got a publisher and supposedly the game has been completely remade by now...
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# ? May 24, 2018 09:15 |
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I totally get that there was/is an open world survival meter babysitting fad but I honestly have no clue why We Happy Few went in that direction. It had a really strong intro sequence that would have been great in a more narrative-focused game.
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# ? May 24, 2018 09:29 |
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A lovely survival game is cheap to make. A narrative-focused game with tons of custom animations, voice acting, and writing is expensive to make.
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# ? May 24, 2018 10:00 |
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muscles like this! posted:It's a really weird game because it has a good style and the scripted opening is neat but then the actual game starts and it loses just about everything that made it interesting. Its not really all that weird or even unusual. Its exactly what happens when devs (especially indies) think "hey lets use procgen rather than having to build content by hand!" Procgen is cool but procgen done well is MORE work than hand built levels, not less.
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# ? May 24, 2018 19:56 |
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I don't think spooky masks and ironic slow haunting versions of nursery rhymes are interesting or unique enough to really be worth saving in the first place, especially when it's getting in the way of the actually interesting 60s Mod aesthetic parts.
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# ? May 24, 2018 21:24 |
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Infinitum posted:The ACB is just an all around dumb as a sack of hammers organisation full of double standards, but consider themselves Orwellian style Thought Police. The lamest was Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, where a moral panic towards encouraging graffiti got that game banned.
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# ? May 25, 2018 01:17 |
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WebDog posted:Fallout 3 got into issues because of the use of morphine that got renamed to Med-X.
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# ? May 25, 2018 01:37 |
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But was the game made by a team comprised of various cultures and religions?
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# ? May 25, 2018 04:18 |
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WebDog posted:Fallout 3 got into issues because of the use of morphine that got renamed to Med-X. That's fine though cuz that game fuckin' sucked
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:07 |
I’m still pissed about the PS4 version of Shadow Warrior 2 not even being submitted for classification.
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:34 |
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ACB don't like Drugs with Names but are 100% perfectly ok with Item Name: 'Generic Drug'/They're 'Vitamins' Not Drugs . All of the Max Payne games got through without a second look. Then you get stuff like Syndicate (The 2012 one with cool powers but lovely story FPS one) getting banned over... violence? But The Darkness 2 is cool I guess sure whatever. But it's still mostly really weird and arbitrary poo poo.
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# ? May 25, 2018 08:08 |
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Australia's government and public boards have a really weird puritan streak that the Australian public really couldn't give the slightest poo poo about.
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# ? May 25, 2018 15:15 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Australia's government and public boards have a really weird puritan streak that the Australian public really couldn't give the slightest poo poo about. Last I checked Australians are literally required to vote, and they take that oppurtunity to re-elect all those guys. Clearly a majority is keeping those in power instead of dumping them as an embarrassmemt the way a lot of other countries have.
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# ? May 25, 2018 16:08 |
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fishmech posted:Last I checked Australians are literally required to vote, and they take that oppurtunity to re-elect all those guys. Clearly a majority is keeping those in power instead of dumping them as an embarrassmemt the way a lot of other countries have. Most of the people behind censorship boards and whatever aren't elected in the slightest. In the few cases they are and attention is drawn to them, they don't last long.
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# ? May 25, 2018 16:29 |
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BattleMaster posted:I totally get that there was/is an open world survival meter babysitting fad but I honestly have no clue why We Happy Few went in that direction. It had a really strong intro sequence that would have been great in a more narrative-focused game. e: Another game that looked interesting but kind of failed in execution was American McGee's Alice. The story and cinematics are excellent, but the gameplay is pretty bland.
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# ? May 25, 2018 17:21 |
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Australia thinks that it is offensive for a woman to have visible labia minora. It’s hosed up. fishmech posted:Last I checked Australians are literally required to vote, and they take that oppurtunity to re-elect all those guys. Clearly a majority is keeping those in power instead of dumping them as an embarrassmemt the way a lot of other countries have. There is a slap-on-the-wrist fine for abstaining. That’s all.
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# ? May 26, 2018 12:46 |
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The Atari VCS indidgogo has gone live: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atari-vcs-game-stream-connect-like-never-before-computers-pc#/ It's getting backers at a surprising pace. I think it still qualifies as an awful kickstarter though.
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# ? May 30, 2018 14:58 |
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Dunno why anyone bothers kickstarting videogames when they already gave us the OUYA what ever happened to that anyhow
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# ? May 30, 2018 17:49 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Dunno why anyone bothers kickstarting videogames when they already gave us the OUYA It took the gaming world by storm and as a result Sony and Microsoft announced they were cancelling the PS4 and Xbox One because they couldn't compete with the amazing Ouya. It definitely didn't crash and burn pretty much as expected because nothing worked as designed despite how there were diehard fanboys for it to the very end.
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# ? May 30, 2018 18:36 |
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/966842631/little-elfcutting-wrapping-paper-made-easy-and-fun/ A patent pending device that is already available as a 3d printable model... https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2895732 Edit: Can you guess if it’s been sucessfully funded? Rapulum_Dei has a new favorite as of 20:44 on May 30, 2018 |
# ? May 30, 2018 18:43 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Dunno why anyone bothers kickstarting videogames when they already gave us the OUYA In 2015 Razer bought out the company and discontinued the hardware, while keeping the store around. It was still getting new titles til att least December last year, mostly ports.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104354043/the-artisan-tortilla-maker/comments can't see the updates but it doesn't look like the DRM tortilla maker has shipped yet.
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