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bongwizzard posted:Those meat claws rule and are indispensable if you own a smoker. They literally cut the time needed to shred a butt by 1/10 over using forks and produces a better result. I also keep mine roped together and wear them around my neck while showering incase I am attacked while all naked and soapy. And when you are you will drop them from your soapy fingers and shred your own junk. All joking aside I can picture someone eating with them instead of fork and knife if they're lazy enough. I mean I would but I'm too lazy to get some.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1267641441/handicape-graphic-novel?ref=card A friend linked this on Facebook. I'm finding it hard not to poo poo on someone's work, but "hacker in a wheelchair" is a pretty overdone trope and kinda condescending, telling handicap people that they're only good for non-physical efforts or they better be smart or have tech skills to not be worthless. You could have a Marine sniper or a Navy SEAL paralyzed from the waist down or have missing legs and still be an actively physical person. I've seen a guy who had lost most of his lower torso compete in the Spartan Race, which would wipe out most people. Point is, it's like the laziest way to approach a wheelchair- bound character.
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Morglon posted:And when you are you will drop them from your soapy fingers and shred your own junk. All joking aside I can picture someone eating with them instead of fork and knife if they're lazy enough. I mean I would but I'm too lazy to get some. They are not eating utensils, they are food prep items. And I do keep mine in the shower rack, mostly because it makes me chuckle whenever I notice them.
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This story keeps getting sadder and sadder. Is there even a chance that this thing gets released at this point in any capacity? Jesus.
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Since they seem to have faked having a prototype PCB I will be shocked if anything ever gets released.
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You either die a scam or you live long enough to become an Ouya.
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Waffleman_ posted:You either die a scam or you live long enough to become an Ouya. A fate worse than death.
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The one unexplained thing about Retro Chameleon VGS Thing is how do they imagine devs porting their games from various source bases (like, Unity, Game Maker etc.) into one unified (supposedly) SDK, which doesn't even exist right now and has no specifications. Whatever, this thing never had a hint of being a legit product.
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laserghost posted:The one unexplained thing about Retro Chameleon VGS Thing is how do they imagine devs porting their games from various source bases (like, Unity, Game Maker etc.) into one unified (supposedly) SDK, which doesn't even exist right now and has no specifications. Yeah, but the project has moved from having an air of "sincere guys way in over their heads with what they were promising" to "outright scammers" as things have progressed.
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Young Freud posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1267641441/handicape-graphic-novel?ref=card Sounds like wheelchair users need to stand up for themselves.
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Oracle is the only hacker in a wheelchair that comes immediately to mind. Snipers need to get into areas that don't have wheelchair ramps. Sorry, but non-physically fighting crime is the least silly way to go.
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Mar 8, 2016 21:23
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The climax of the Battleship movie from years ago was a dude with no legs wrestling with an alien, good times.
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It's very hard to do the Super-Smart Paraplegic Person cliche well because if you lean on it too heavily it showcases that you wrote the character not as a person, but as a system of weaknesses and strengths that happens to be person-shaped. While it isn't impossible to make a complex character from that trope, try and name me a Super-Smart Paraplegic Person whose backstory is more complex than "I was smart and could walk, but then tragedy struck and now I must use my brains because I lack brawn" or "I am in a wheelchair and people dumped on me for it a lot before the events of [story], but my smarts give me a tactical advantage behind the scenes".
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Curt Connors is a disabled character with a physically based superpower but the power negates the disability, so that doesn't seem any better.
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This has to be the laziest thing I've seen in a while. I need 6,000 dollars to sell an empty jar for peeling eggs. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1095155807/larsons-egg-peeler/description
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Dienes posted:This has to be the laziest thing I've seen in a while. I need 6,000 dollars to sell an empty jar for peeling eggs. I agree. However it actually loving works so that puts at least half a league ahead of other kickstaters. It's still not a very good idea. You can just buy mason jars at a grocery store, or hang onto an old jam jar.
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Haha, this pitch is like an old infomercial. quote:There's an old trick for getting an eggshell off using a jar and water, but it's inconsistent. What size jar? How much water? Yes, those are the questions that befuddle people.
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Dienes posted:This has to be the laziest thing I've seen in a while. I need 6,000 dollars to sell an empty jar for peeling eggs. quote:Yo! I'm creating a kick-rear end custom kitchen tool for peeling eggs in just seconds.
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peel all night~
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Young Freud posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1267641441/handicape-graphic-novel?ref=card Plus they're calling the series, and probably by extension the character, Handicape. Nothing says 'rounded developed character' like being named after the first thing people see when they look at you. Reminds me of 'Biclops' from the simpsons. Or any kid named 'Wheels' from 90s diversity kids teams.
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SpacePig posted:This story keeps getting sadder and sadder. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/247145-coleco-chameleon-hardware-speculations/page-253#entry3462108 quote:I just discovered that the user Janus, who had been trolling in this thread (including repeatedly calling people here "haters") until I finally kicked "her" out, is actually Mark Kaminski, who works for RETRO Magazine.
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:peel all night~ Egg in jar = peel all night
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It's like they didn't realize that the superhero name Handiman was supposed to illicit laughs.
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Elfface posted:Plus they're calling the series, and probably by extension the character, Handicape. Nothing says 'rounded developed character' like being named after the first thing people see when they look at you. I thought of this recurring skit from In Living Color, with the hero being named "Handi Man".
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bongwizzard posted:Those meat claws rule and are indispensable if you own a smoker. They literally cut the time needed to shred a butt by 1/10 over using forks and produces a better result. I also keep mine roped together and wear them around my neck while showering incase I am attacked while all naked and soapy. Meat rending claws: approved by chefs and ninjas everywhere. Powerful Two-Hander posted:Sounds like wheelchair users need to stand up for themselves.  She's a vet who lost her legs in Iraq
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But how can you protect your butt from the weefee signals?
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That's not the kinda wee I'm worried about vis a vis my undies.
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Germstore posted:Oracle is the only hacker in a wheelchair that comes immediately to mind. Snipers need to get into areas that don't have wheelchair ramps. Sorry, but non-physically fighting crime is the least silly way to go. The super-sniper in "Shooter" was in a wheelchair, but he used his skills to justify starting a massacre in Africa I think? That's pretty evil, but good for him for not giving up, still plying his trade while people like Captain Dan just drinks and wish for death.
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Fatal Fury fan film. It actually succeeded in getting it's $10,000 goal too. However, I really want to bring your attention to its trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnRLhEcRq50 (I think they sent a KoF-style Engrish script to this ad service)
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The MSJ posted:Fatal Fury fan film. It actually succeeded in getting it's $10,000 goal too. However, I really want to bring your attention to its trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnRLhEcRq50 (I think they sent a KoF-style Engrish script to this ad service) If nothing else, you've got to applaud their professionalism. Not one single slip in reading that incomprehensible mess.
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Great Rumbler posted:If nothing else, you've got to applaud their professionalism. Not one single slip in reading that incomprehensible mess. It's a crazy nexus of professionalism and not giving a poo poo. Because with copy like that you almost have to give revision notes, but for 20 bucks or whatever they ended up doing it for, who gives a poo poo, just read the word salad in one take and be done with it.
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Kennel posted:http://atariage.com/forums/topic/247145-coleco-chameleon-hardware-speculations/page-253#entry3462108 Is there some context for putting the word "her" in scare quotes or does that person just not know that Janus is a male name
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CJacobs posted:It's very hard to do the Super-Smart Paraplegic Person cliche well because if you lean on it too heavily it showcases that you wrote the character not as a person, but as a system of weaknesses and strengths that happens to be person-shaped. While it isn't impossible to make a complex character from that trope, try and name me a Super-Smart Paraplegic Person whose backstory is more complex than "I was smart and could walk, but then tragedy struck and now I must use my brains because I lack brawn" or "I am in a wheelchair and people dumped on me for it a lot before the events of [story], but my smarts give me a tactical advantage behind the scenes". Well the first paraplegic character I think of is Professor X and he doesn't fit those? Smart person that did brain things who lost the use of his legs and kept doing exactly the same things from a chair. No compensation going on, and lots of complicated motivations unrelated to physical ability.
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