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Chin Strap
Nov 24, 2002

I failed my TFLC Toxx, but I no longer need a double chin strap :buddy:
Pillbug
So that is what having a stroke in the language center of my brain feels like. Huh.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Jim just tell me what I need to roll to end this conversation

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

Hub Cat posted:

Kolobog project: board game, book and platform

Imagine, every day somebody on the planet Earth wakes up in the morning with wonderful idea of how to improve whatever part of our life experience, although one can't do it alone and need collaborators with necessary skills and/or resources to get idea come into life, wether this idea is local community initiative or media project or something, that only particular creator can imagine.

Here is how "magic" part of the game works
Pursuing passion for project based cooperation facilitation, the idea and prototype for multi-stakeholder dealmaking has been manifested as Creators Negotiate game and club already, which, in its turn, came into life as a result of gamification of the same name book about negotiations of my authorship. Overall chamber-like concept, warmness and atmosphere of empathy in cooperation, normally accompanying game session experience, captured below. With help of you we will improve and adopt it for Kolobog project management methodology, which is, in essence, based on traditional media production process (pre-production, production and post-production).

How it started:


How it's going:

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
That looks like a Tongo set.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Knormal posted:

How it started:


How it's going:


That's impressive, usually there's a few big donations that are obviously from family/friends

Hub Cat
Aug 3, 2011

Trunk Lover

Two great tastes that taste great together :confuoot:
HODLschoki Crypto-Chocolate

We want to create a high quality chocolate box set for HODLers and other crypto enthusiasts as a present for your crypto friends, business partners or just for yourself.

Each coin will be handmade in our small Viennese factory with the logo of different crypto currencies ON THE CHOCOLATE ITSELF. We only use the best organic chocolate (certified, of course). We want HODLschoki to be a tasty and fun product for crypto lovers!
I am HODLer myself and for a long time I've been disappointed that there is no really high value crypto product as a give-away for my crypto enthusiastic friends, business partners or even just for yourself - just bulk freight and mass products! We would like to change that!
HODLschoki is a handmade, high quality local product produced in our small family business factory. Each box will be produced separately by hand and we use only the finest raw ingredients!

______________________________________________
Innocence Or Money
An Adult Visual Novel with Sandbox Elements and a female MC

Innocence or Money is my first project, the idea of the game is to add various layers of interactivity trying to make a very interactive Visual Novel.
Synopsis: This AVN has a female protagonist called Jennifer, she is the MC of the history. She is very innocent and comes from a little town called Greensdale, she has never been to the city and has no idea what will await her when she arrives and the situations she will face. But you will help her and decide what to do in most of those situations, will she be a hardworking and honest girl? or you will lead her to a dark path and find out how deep the rabbit hole goes... her future will be in your hands!


The decisions you make will not only affect Jennifer but her environment, will you corrupt all those close to her?

Risks and challenges
I have my day to day work from 9-5 as a programmer, I'm only 1 person developing the game so the only time I have to make it is on my free time after work or during weekends. But I'm doing my best to release updates every 2/3 months, I hope one day to make a living of making adult visual novels so I can use 100% of my time on them to develop amazing games that people hopefully love :)

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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Hub Cat posted:

Two great tastes that taste great together :confuoot:
HODLschoki Crypto-Chocolate

We want to create a high quality chocolate box set for HODLers and other crypto enthusiasts as a present for your crypto friends, business partners or just for yourself.

Each coin will be handmade in our small Viennese factory with the logo of different crypto currencies ON THE CHOCOLATE ITSELF. We only use the best organic chocolate (certified, of course). We want HODLschoki to be a tasty and fun product for crypto lovers!
I am HODLer myself and for a long time I've been disappointed that there is no really high value crypto product as a give-away for my crypto enthusiastic friends, business partners or even just for yourself - just bulk freight and mass products! We would like to change that!
HODLschoki is a handmade, high quality local product produced in our small family business factory. Each box will be produced separately by hand and we use only the finest raw ingredients!



Coiners have no money.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Hub Cat posted:

Innocence Or Money
An Adult Visual Novel with Sandbox Elements and a female MC

Innocence or Money is my first project, the idea of the game is to add various layers of interactivity trying to make a very interactive Visual Novel.
Synopsis: This AVN has a female protagonist called Jennifer, she is the MC of the history. She is very innocent and comes from a little town called Greensdale, she has never been to the city and has no idea what will await her when she arrives and the situations she will face. But you will help her and decide what to do in most of those situations, will she be a hardworking and honest girl? or you will lead her to a dark path and find out how deep the rabbit hole goes... her future will be in your hands!


The decisions you make will not only affect Jennifer but her environment, will you corrupt all those close to her?

Risks and challenges
I have my day to day work from 9-5 as a programmer, I'm only 1 person developing the game so the only time I have to make it is on my free time after work or during weekends. But I'm doing my best to release updates every 2/3 months, I hope one day to make a living of making adult visual novels so I can use 100% of my time on them to develop amazing games that people hopefully love :)


Hub Cat
Aug 3, 2011

Trunk Lover

Wojak Sim

Story
Have you ever wondered what life as a Wojak is like? How about that of one that is particularly underachieving and unimportant?

Wojak Sim aims to plant you in the shoes of Watson, a wojak who is shipped off to college at the behest of your father, who has given you three tasks under threat of disownment: get a lover, make honor roll, and survive the school year. Whatever that means.

However, Watson quickly realizes what is in store at Jowak University: A rambunctious cast of characters hellbent on destroying you, helping you, both, or something else entirely.

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Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.
Long-form Suicide Note, the game.

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

Dads are famous for making 'get a lover' a condition of tuition

ce gars
Dec 31, 2007

Hub Cat posted:

Each coin will be handmade in our small Viennese factory with the logo of different crypto currencies ON THE CHOCOLATE ITSELF
:eyepop: What is this amazing technology!

Shine
Feb 26, 2007

No Muscles For The Majority

Killingyouguy! posted:

Dads are famous for making 'get a lover' a condition of tuition

This just made me think of the old NES game, Wall Street Kid. You're given $500,000 and have to turn it into enough money to buy a yacht, mansion and castle, while adequately porking your hot girlfriend. Do all of this and you'll inherit ten Vash the Stampede bounties.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
yea your weird bald advisor dude will make sure you're properly gettin it wet even if profits are sky high, and frankly I respect it.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Shine posted:

This just made me think of the old NES game, Wall Street Kid. You're given $500,000 and have to turn it into enough money to buy a yacht, mansion and castle, while adequately porking your hot girlfriend. Do all of this and you'll inherit ten Vash the Stampede bounties.

I remember the Lets Play of that. It's definitely a story.

CordlessPen
Jan 8, 2004

I told you so...
Parents can get really weird about grandkids sometimes.

El Fideo
Jun 10, 2016

I trusted a rhino and deserve all that came to me


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1963071068/lego-master-new-world-throne-of-lego/description

I'm not even sure specifically what this off-brand lego purveyor is selling, but I do know that you shouldn't use Lego in your off-brand lego product name.

Hub Cat
Aug 3, 2011

Trunk Lover

:crossarms:


I guess they're trying to sell you on the liquid wood 3d printing? I don't know seems like a race to see whether it gets taken down by Microsoft, Lego, or Kickstarter first

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RagnarokZ
May 14, 2004

Emperor of the Internet

Hub Cat posted:

:crossarms:


I guess they're trying to sell you on the liquid wood 3d printing? I don't know seems like a race to see whether it gets taken down by Microsoft, Lego, or Kickstarter first

So LEGO's patents ran out a while ago, so the project itself is perfectly legal, the use of the LEGO/Minecraft name sure as gently caress isn't.

Also, 3D printing is cool and all, but it's still no match to the sheer volume of good old LEGO.

All they'd have to do, is call themselves something original, go "Like LEGO, but cooler" or something.

Hub Cat
Aug 3, 2011

Trunk Lover

Huh
City At Sea for Work, Live and Retire-Floating City


Floating City would would be more than a cruise ship, it is proposed to be a unique place to live, work, retire, vacation, or visit. The proposed voyage would continuously circle the globe, covering most of the world's coastal regions. Its large fleet of commuter aircraft and hydrofoils would ferry residents and visitors to and from shore. The airport on the ship's top deck would serve private and small commercial aircraft (up to about 40 passengers each). The proposed vessel's superstructure, rising twenty-five stories above its broad main deck, would house residential space, a library, schools, and a first-class hospital in addition to retail and wholesale shops, banks, hotels, restaurants, entertainment facilities, casinos, offices, warehouses, and light manufacturing and assembly enterprises. Finally, this concept would include a wide array of recreational and athletic facilities, worthy of a world-class resort, making Freedom Ship a veritable "City at the Seas."

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Hub Cat posted:

Huh
City At Sea for Work, Live and Retire-Floating City


Floating City would would be more than a cruise ship, it is proposed to be a unique place to live, work, retire, vacation, or visit. The proposed voyage would continuously circle the globe, covering most of the world's coastal regions. Its large fleet of commuter aircraft and hydrofoils would ferry residents and visitors to and from shore. The airport on the ship's top deck would serve private and small commercial aircraft (up to about 40 passengers each). The proposed vessel's superstructure, rising twenty-five stories above its broad main deck, would house residential space, a library, schools, and a first-class hospital in addition to retail and wholesale shops, banks, hotels, restaurants, entertainment facilities, casinos, offices, warehouses, and light manufacturing and assembly enterprises. Finally, this concept would include a wide array of recreational and athletic facilities, worthy of a world-class resort, making Freedom Ship a veritable "City at the Seas."

Lmao, they literally copy pasted it from the infamous Freedom Ship and forgot to change the name in one point.

http://freedomship.com/

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
lmfao

quote:

Floating City will be one of the largest manmade structures in existence and, subsequently, one of the most photographed as well. One can look at pictures of the ship and begin to imagine what it will look like built. It will be an architectural mesh of glass, steel, and other materials carefully sculpted into a city roughly 1394 Meter long, 230 Meter wide, and 110 Meter high where 100,000 people are present at any given moment. However, what will life be like aboard Floating City?

They would first need to build an entire new shipyard because there is nowhere in the world that you could build such a thing. This is currently the widest ship in the world, 70 meters at stern.




Building shipyards is not cheap, better make a kickstarter for that first.

nesamdoom
Apr 15, 2018

nesaM kiled Masen


Hub Cat posted:

Huh
City At Sea for Work, Live and Retire-Floating City


Floating City would would be more than a cruise ship, it is proposed to be a unique place to live, work, retire, vacation, or visit. The proposed voyage would continuously circle the globe, covering most of the world's coastal regions. Its large fleet of commuter aircraft and hydrofoils would ferry residents and visitors to and from shore. The airport on the ship's top deck would serve private and small commercial aircraft (up to about 40 passengers each). The proposed vessel's superstructure, rising twenty-five stories above its broad main deck, would house residential space, a library, schools, and a first-class hospital in addition to retail and wholesale shops, banks, hotels, restaurants, entertainment facilities, casinos, offices, warehouses, and light manufacturing and assembly enterprises. Finally, this concept would include a wide array of recreational and athletic facilities, worthy of a world-class resort, making Freedom Ship a veritable "City at the Seas."

The invented a sinkable island?
It doesn't work if it moves and people can't get to work, so it floating does nothing more than mean it can sink. They could do the same with a platform and it not be as unstable.

AceOfFlames posted:

Lmao, they literally copy pasted it from the infamous Freedom Ship and forgot to change the name in one point.

http://freedomship.com/

They should have used Replace All, but it's nice to know it wasn't even an original bad idea.

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

nesamdoom posted:

They should have used Replace All, but it's nice to know it wasn't even an original bad idea.

It's been kicking around for quite a while. It's one of the flagship (heh) projects of the "seasteading" movement AKA "let's move to the middle of the ocean so we can create a libertarian utopia where we don't pay taxes".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufrz07vVghc

Behind the Bastards also did a great two parter on seasteading, covering everything from the Freedom Ship to the recent (and stupid as gently caress) saga of the MS Satoshi.

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Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
Why not skip the unnecessary part and just tie thousands of rescue rafts together to live in?

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Nenonen posted:

Why not skip the unnecessary part and just tie thousands of rescue rafts together to live in?

someone already made that seasteading plan in thailand

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Yeah the idea has been around so long it was made fun of in the early 00s Grant Morrison comic The Filth.

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Nenonen posted:

Why not skip the unnecessary part and just tie thousands of rescue rafts together to live in?

There's a Burning Man like festival that does exactly that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemerisle

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

What did you say the strategy was?
Why doesn't it use cryptocurrency, it seems like it should

Thomamelas
Mar 11, 2009

Nenonen posted:

Why not skip the unnecessary part and just tie thousands of rescue rafts together to live in?

Because then everyone has a life raft. And if everyone has a life raft, how am I supposed to gouge people looking for one in case of emergency? You're loving with the free market man....

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

ilmucche posted:

Why doesn't it use cryptocurrency, it seems like it should

When I read the kickstarter page I was sure there was going to be something about the tyranny of taxes and age of consent laws, but it honestly seems like it's a few deluded guys who just really want to make a big cruise ship.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Thomamelas posted:

Because then everyone has a life raft. And if everyone has a life raft, how am I supposed to gouge people looking for one in case of emergency? You're loving with the free market man....

Oh, maybe the invisible hand of market could wield an invisible BB gun to create scarcity then...

Qwertycoatl
Dec 31, 2008

Nenonen posted:

They would first need to build an entire new shipyard because there is nowhere in the world that you could build such a thing. This is currently the widest ship in the world, 70 meters at stern.

Building shipyards is not cheap, better make a kickstarter for that first.

They address this in their FAQ:

quote:

It is true that there is no shipyard in the world has got a dry dock which is capable of building this ship also considering the length of this ship using a slipway was not considered the best of ideas hence our designers had hit upon an idea of using multiple floating docks which are specially built to cater to this requirement and then join the hull sections together. So in short the floating docks would be the fist things being built rather than the ship itself. It is not actually possible to accurately mention how we plan to achieve this as it is a very complex procedure but it would suffice to mention that it took us about 5 years of planning to finally arrive at the correct procedures. We are also not planning to rest on our laurels here as we are trying to correct ourselves where ever we can in consultation with other experts on the subject. In short we will be actually taking modular construction to the next level when we start building this ship.

They're going to build multiple floating docks which each produce part of the ship, then they'll join the parts together. Foolproof!

Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.
Awful Kickstarters:

quote:

It is not actually possible to accurately mention how we plan to achieve this

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

ilmucche posted:

Why doesn't it use cryptocurrency, it seems like it should

Oh, you want Cryptoland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiHopGox5cU

And before you ask:

https://twitter.com/widesauce/status/1478816782966136832?s=20

They took down that tweet, but the Wayback Machine sees all https://web.archive.org/web/20220105195133/twitter.com/cryptoland/status/1478815174232621059

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Nenonen posted:

lmfao

They would first need to build an entire new shipyard because there is nowhere in the world that you could build such a thing. This is currently the widest ship in the world, 70 meters at stern.




Building shipyards is not cheap, better make a kickstarter for that first.

I love chonk boat

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

ilmucche posted:

Why doesn't it use cryptocurrency, it seems like it should

Because the negative environmental impact of actually moving this boat combined with that of cryptocurrency would probably be like a bullet to the brain for our planet.

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

From their Questions section (read bottom-first):

:lol:

Nenonen posted:

lmfao

They would first need to build an entire new shipyard because there is nowhere in the world that you could build such a thing. This is currently the widest ship in the world, 70 meters at stern.




Building shipyards is not cheap, better make a kickstarter for that first.
Oh no the front fell off a bigger ship

nesamdoom
Apr 15, 2018

nesaM kiled Masen


AceOfFlames posted:

It's been kicking around for quite a while. It's one of the flagship (heh) projects of the "seasteading" movement AKA "let's move to the middle of the ocean so we can create a libertarian utopia where we don't pay taxes".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufrz07vVghc

Behind the Bastards also did a great two parter on seasteading, covering everything from the Freedom Ship to the recent (and stupid as gently caress) saga of the MS Satoshi.

Libertarian would destroy it when they eventually devolve into a class war. The idea of a small group working in a properly functioning communistic society would be cool, like everyone gets the same amount of everything and the same housing and everyone just works(I like gilligans island for a good example of how communism could work although I know the different character traits conflict with it a bit although overall they all just kinda live and do stuff to help when they can).
Lol af at getting on a ship with crypto being a selling point... I like stability and not random massive drops.
Reading the article right now and just got to his(friedman) quote “Let’s think of government as an industry, where countries are firms and citizens are customers!” which sounds insanely tryannical. It's making me think that the 'citizens' are to be forced to only deal with the 'government' whish goes back to my class war either breaking out into a hosed up onboard ship battle or the most useful workers loving off back to land to let the elites decide who has to do the manual labour and then trying to be lovely to them leading to a second round until it's like 20 ppl that can't really do poo poo trying to survive on the most expensive waste of resources possible...
An interesting counterpoint is that there are floating cities that work without all the bullshit these people are trying to sell about freedom and they are reasonably chill fishing communities where people have homes and raise kids and rarely ever set foot on land.

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Bugsy
Jul 15, 2004

I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.


Slippery Tilde

Heresa a big rear end twitter thread going over the presentation and not even going over the lovely animated video, its really buck wild. https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1478500436873293828 or https://blog.mollywhite.net/cryptoland-thread/ if you want a non twitter link.

quote:

they tout their 60 parcels of 1 acre each, with careful wording that visionary investors will "acquire land" (despite later portions of the video, which show a guy turning up to a fully-built mansion on what appears to be much more than an acre)

they don't mention the starting price, so i looked it up for you. 319 ETH a pop, or about $1.2 million.

quote:

now we meet max olivier and helena lopez, the cofounders. googling them turns up little, except for this article (in spanish) about "the man all spanish youtubers hate".

it describes how both olivier and lopez were involved in a magazine that published papparazzi photographs of a youtuber named elrubius, and his girlfriend, who he had previously tried to keep private. the magazine shut down shortly after.

after publishing the paparazzi photos, olivier tried to cover up his ties to the magazine, then apparently falsely claimed that he was not active in the magazine's day-to-day operations. shady

Now the thing is they don't even have an island yet.
https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1478557404082188294

And of course if they get the island its going to be a total poo poo show.

quote:

i am, sadly, reading their whitepaper now. so far they plan to power the island through diesel generators and uproot some pesky mangroves that are in their way. eco-friendly!
"electric buggies will deliver people and goods around the island over the buggy roads"

now hang on, what happened to the lambos??

"Masterplan.pdf" includes plans for staff lockers, break room, etc. but there are no staff accommodations. This presumably means that staff will not stay on the island, which I'm sure will go just fine when one of those Fiji storms blows through and they can't get to work.

"It is anticipated that part of the Islands facilities such as the Laundry, Offices, Marina, Garbage storage rooms, etc. will be based on the Mainland."

what could go wrong
there is no visible indication that they've made plans for things like fire or medical emergency services

Raising any of these concerns are FUD and the marks arent happy about it.
https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1478780526232285189

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