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wa27 posted:The Atari VCS indidgogo has gone live: I really just do not understand the appeal of this at all. Especially not at the price they're setting this at [$200 on the low end].
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"We are building a distinctly 'Atari' user experience" is the best preemptive self own in Kickstarter history.
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May 31, 2018 01:53
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T-man posted:"We are building a distinctly 'Atari' user experience" Says a company that's only connection is that they bought the name.
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May 31, 2018 02:01
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muscles like this! posted:Says a company that's only connection is that they bought the name. I mean it's been over 20 years they've had the name at this point. And before they got the name, "Atari" had been split up between multiple sometimes-working-together-sometimes-not companies for a good 10 years as a result of some decision from Warner Bros. The whole Hasbro/Infogrames/Whatever group has kept the name in one place for longer than anyone else managed.
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May 31, 2018 02:09
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jfc it's at 2 million dollars
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StrangersInTheNight posted:jfc it's at 2 million dollars love to spend hundreds of dollars on yet another big plastic dust collector that i'll probably need to move another console out of the way for
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May 31, 2018 20:41
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The kids of the Atari 2600 generation are right at that age where they have audiophile-level money and interest, but aren't old enough to be unable to play videogames. It's pure nostalgia targeting a group that can afford it. Not a bad kickstarter in itself, from a business sense, but will probably end up being abandoned a year after launch as people remember "oh wait these games sucked I was just some dipshit kid who didn't have anything better to do."
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May 31, 2018 20:49
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But.. you can easily get an atari 2600 and games for less than that. All mine still work. They never break.
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That Atari kickstarter is already almost at 2.2 million. 
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Kharmakazy posted:But.. you can easily get an atari 2600 and games for less than that. All mine still work. They never break. Or you could spend about $40 on one of those Atari Flashback systems [of which there are many] that comes with dozens of games and easily connects to modern TVs.
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I wonder if there is a strong market for making an emulator and stuffing it into an old game systems case.
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200 bux for a well made product that should last 30+ years isn't bad. But I am willing to bet it'll be cheaply made garbage.
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atari kickstarter posted:It’s from Atari, so of course there are classic arcade games, plus the latest modern and Indie PC titles from a wide variety of independent developers. So it's a steam box with a built in Atari emulator and an Atari case.
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Jun 1, 2018 02:26
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Sounds like a raspberry pi to me. 
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As a dipshit kid who played and enjoyed both E.T. AND the Pac-Man port this is hilarious and makes me feel better about backing the gaming dice Kickstarter that hit about a million.
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It's an Ouya.
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Have you even seen the advancements they made with this thing: That silhouette is refined as gently caress!
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muscles like this! posted:Says a company that's only connection is that they bought the name. In fairness that is a very Atari user experience.
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tuyop posted:Sounds like a raspberry pi to me. It does, but its really depends on the person whether you find it worthwhile to DIY that particular thing. I happily bought an Armiga, an ARM-based Amiga emulator even though I probably could've made a Pi-based one myself. I would've hated every minute of making one as I can't stand coding, so I'll gladly outsource that hell to someone. The people behind this thing could absolutely disappear overnight, but so far they've updated the firmware and added AGA support. Plus, the case is wonderful: 
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:As a dipshit kid who played and enjoyed both E.T. AND the Pac-Man port this is hilarious and makes me feel better about backing the gaming dice Kickstarter that hit about a million. Kraken Dice make excellent products though.
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Shai-Hulud posted:Have you even seen the advancements they made with this thing: Don't forget that sweet holistic ecosystem.
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So this $100 smart fingerprint padlock; https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tapp-the-world-s-first-smart-fingerprint-padlock#/ Can apparently be easily broken into by anyone who has a Phillips screwdriver; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxM55DNS9CE edit: You can skip to about 3:30 to see the process of opening it with a screwdriver but I think it's interesting enough to watch the first part of it anyway As he mentions, if the back was welded on and/or they used proprietary screws then this wouldn't really be a problem but hey that would be expecting too much from a $100 padlock right? homewrecker has a new favorite as of 00:46 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Proprietary screws don't do that much - all it does is raise the bar from "anyone with a regular screwdriver" to "anyone willing to carve a screwdriver into a new and exciting shape", which is still hilariously vulnerable. The usual solution is to make the screw that holds everything together only accessible when the lock is open.
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Padlocks are mostly a visual deterrent anyway. You could just break the lock with boltcutters if you wanted.
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homewrecker posted:So this $100 smart fingerprint padlock; $100 for something that's actually built worse than a Masterlock.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKMsvx8vvo
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Did anyone have that channel that's just a guy dunking on terrible kickstarters. Not retsupurae.
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Jun 2, 2018 09:53
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your kickstarter sucks is the most important podcast of the 21st century
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I don't care if this is not an awful Kickstarter, I just want to tell people about it. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Action Figure. Presumably it comes with several hundred points of articulation, mostly against the latest dipshit repressive Republican policy.
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Jedit posted:I don't care if this is not an awful Kickstarter, I just want to tell people about it. Well you got one referral point from me. I'm not going to bother posting my link but I have a friend who this would make the perfect birthday present for. Hope they'll be done/ship out by October.
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Can't get the link to post properly on my phone. But Facebook just suggested I back the *sensorwake*. An alarm clock that works on...smell. Unsurprisingly you have to buy special scent capsules to keep it working. Also Google apparently says it's going to "Change the world", something that's getting slated in the comments since they haven't provided any proof Google actually said that.
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Jedit posted:I don't care if this is not an awful Kickstarter, I just want to tell people about it. Eh, makes for a cool gag gift. Local toystore has a Sigmund Freud and Jesus action figures, a couple others too I think like Einstein? They make good gifts.
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C.M. Kruger posted:$100 for something that's actually built worse than a Masterlock. It was worth watching the build-up to 
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Roblo posted:Can't get the link to post properly on my phone. But Facebook just suggested I back the *sensorwake*. An alarm clock that works on...smell. Unsurprisingly you have to buy special scent capsules to keep it working. stupidest loving timeline
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super sweet best pal posted:It was worth watching the build-up to It does make me wonder what's so hard about carrying an additional key.
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Roblo posted:Can't get the link to post properly on my phone. But Facebook just suggested I back the *sensorwake*. An alarm clock that works on...smell. Unsurprisingly you have to buy special scent capsules to keep it working. 
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Roblo posted:Can't get the link to post properly on my phone. But Facebook just suggested I back the *sensorwake*. An alarm clock that works on...smell.
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I know that games being kickstarted and the final games being disappointments is nothing unusual but the incompetence of horror game Agony is kind of noteworthy in that they ran a campaign largely based on a grotesque Hell setting only to find out after the fact that they wouldn't actually be able to release it on consoles because it would get an AO rating. Whoops! Then they promised backers that they would get away with it by releasing a patch on PC to restore the censored content only to find out that while a lot of developers did do that on the sly in the past to get around Steam's content restrictions by actually openly and officially stating the intent they weren't allowed to do it. Double whoops!quote:Firstly, we have managed to include a lot of things that we originally wanted to provide in the patch in the final game. It has been accepted by PEGI and other rating companies. The censorship now affects only several seconds from two endings (out of seven) and some scenes that may be unlocked only after the end of the game. We will be able to show them to you in a video that we are planning to release soon. Then when they published the video of the 'censored' content they did so by putting it on YouTube, where it was subsequently taken down for content violations. Whoops again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c2XUY256VY Also some of the quotes they selected from the campaign are funny in how completely non-committal they are or how they left quotes from non-English sources untranslated on their English-language pitch.  
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