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kickstarter, the web site where innovative entrepreneurs beg the internet for the money they couldn't get from seasoned investors who know what they're doing. where the reward for investing in the next hot startup is a t-shirt and a shout out on the company's twitter feed. where niche audiences desperate for attention will rapidly fund any and all available "my little pony" documentaries. * the Wingz Hybrid Keyboard from the android thread.   rival designs by Deuterieux and jwoven:   * is it a macbook? is it an iphone? ... it's  they basically admit on the page that it's just going to be a bluetooth keyboard and a screen connected using video-out but they also patented it and expect it to eventually be as commonplace as laptops. somehow they believe there is simultaneously a huge unmet demand for these products and that apple itself couldn't just grind their company into a fine paste with an competing product if that demand ever materialized. * if the bass from your beats by dre headphones still isn't dope enough you probably will want to carry around this thing, the Vampeo Portable Headphone Amplifier. did i mention it's totally portable?  * Emacsy: plz pay me $5000 to re-write the shittiest open sores text editor as an embeddable library that will also be open source but not based on the original code. i am currently a CS PhD student and this may or may not be a clever way for me to make money off a dumb phD thesis i'm already working on anyway.  * Project 13: plz pay me $390,000 to finish making a 15 minute ~anime music video~ (not posting screenshots cuz i don't want to be banned) * can obama energy drink/political statement. watch the video for some fat college republicans who stress that they have nothing against obama as a person, they just disagree with his politics; they then have a laugh explaining how the contents of their energy drink were specifically chosen as a set up for a very lame birther joke * ron paul liberty coin. ron paul jokes are old but i still thought this was amusing:  * saved the best for last. this guy:  mostly designs leather corsets for a living, but he thinks that with $500 he can make a steam-powered prosthetic arm for his disabled friend. his inspiration is the anime full metal alchemist. it will be made of brass and probably far too heavy for a guy with a gimpy arm to use comfortably, and in the video he admits he has no idea how to make the fingers work. but in the hallowed tradition of steampunk-based internet projects, he sure has a few promising sketches! 
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ahhh spiders posted:i have a portable headphone amp you better tell that dude someone stole his cool idea!
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May 25, 2012 21:49
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having a disability is tough when people stare and treat you like some sort of freak; all that will change once he can proudly walk down the street donning a victorian-era brass arm that regularly ejects streams of scalding hot water vapor
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May 25, 2012 22:22
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got dat wmd posted:Every portable headphone amp looks like that except you won't see beats plugged into it. personally i can't see carrying anything like that around with me anyway but for the record the kickstarter one is about twice as thick and nearly twice as heavy as the Fiio E17 according to its own specs
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May 25, 2012 23:58
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some promising new video game kickstarters! *  * this project, entitled Record audio of a car via dyno for use in racing games was actually funded successfully. near as i can tell he got paid $1600 from the internet so he can go to a garage and record his car making cool vrooom vrooom noises because somehow this will let him break into the video game industry? idk wtf but $100 pledges at least got a DVD of the sound files.. * this one is legitimately cool, someone is making a game based on my posting and i encourage you all to donate at the $100 level:   * Finally a video game project with some true autistic merit entitled, NES Characters Made out of NES Carts.  the investment pitch is brief so for your convenience i will reproduce it here, in full: quote:I want to make as many Characters from the NES that I can out of old NES Carts.. Each cart will represent one Pixel in the full Sprite.. Each cart will be painted to match each pixel then placed on a back ground made of wood which will also be painted... I want to also make one to send to nintendo to be on display...
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May 29, 2012 02:09
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CaptainMeatpants posted:wait what John de Lancie (born March 20, 1948) is an American actor. He has been active in screen and television roles since 1977, though he is best known for his recurring role as Q on the various Star Trek series and as Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1, and Discord in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
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May 29, 2012 02:28
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Resplendent Spiral posted:ms faust is going to leave that dinner reward very, very disturbed. come now, surely the only brony who would pay out $10k is some successful businessman with a quirky taste in TV shows who's rich enough toahahahahahaha it's going to be a fat sweaty otaku who secretly charged it to his mom's credit card and brought his pony sexdoll wifu along as his "guest", isn't it?
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May 29, 2012 03:19
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pram posted:yeah. its going to be you um no i don't have a pony sexdoll wifu (not ready to settle down yet)
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May 29, 2012 03:32
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Drone_Fragger posted:You joke about steampunk arms being totally useless but DARPA actually funded and built a steampunk arm powered using highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide and a catalyst to produce stupidly high temperature and pressure steam fairly easily, which could then be used to actuate a bunch of pistons. i bet they spent more than $500 on that (typical govt waste)
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May 30, 2012 15:12
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if you type "steampunk" into the kickstarter search box you are pretty much guaranteed to find something hilarious 2013 Steampunk Body Painting Calendar, aka "nude chicks with gear pasties and crudely-painted corsets"   
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Jun 21, 2012 04:49
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ahmeni posted:has anyone posted the saddest kickstarter yet: um.......... thats not even the saddest former star trek actor's kickstarter
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Aug 12, 2012 16:57
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Sweevo posted:yeah, like 15 years ago. i guess the sad part is that an actor can dedicate 10 years to perfecting the part of "spartan with a prosthetic forehead" and still struggle to land a leading role in a romantic comedy
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Aug 12, 2012 21:52
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we got the whole star trek cast up in this poo poo i guess http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/880837561/skycube-the-first-satellite-launched-by-you
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Aug 15, 2012 02:50
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CraigK posted:the best thing about twitter is seeing who's following that @TNG_S8 account and finding out that every main cast member from tng is following it that twitter feed owns
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Aug 30, 2012 16:25
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Ian McLean posted:I will fix that unlear typo. Welcome to the thread good sir! I watched your video and read your kickstarter info and I'm still not really sure what statpedia is supposed to be used for. Can you give an example of what someone would be able to do with this project once it's up and running? You might want to address this in your next video in order to improve your chances of funding. Other ways to improve your chances of funding on kickstarter: have your project have something to do with My Little Pony and/or Android video gaming. Maybe statpedai can provide stats related to these things?
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Sep 9, 2012 04:28
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Ian McLean posted:Thanks. You could probably get more people to pay you if you have, like, "sponsored stats" that you could buy as an investor reward. Like maybe I pay you $10 and you put up a stat saying Dixie Cretin Seaman was ranked #1 world's greatest lover and then I just tweet the link to that stat and wait for the bitchez to come knocking down my door all hungry to ride my dilz.
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Sep 9, 2012 06:15
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julian assflange posted:The basic idea is ok actually but you won't make money off it. you mean aside from the nearly 1 million USD "development costs" he begged for from kickstarter?
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Sep 9, 2012 12:27
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hey statpedia guy you have really sweet hair but you should take a better photo without so much glare from the flash. i think if you do that you'll probably get the $10 million kickstarter for the dream you dared to dream that is statpedai
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Sep 10, 2012 06:16
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sorry but statpedia sounds like a bad idea that will never be useful to anyone
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Sep 11, 2012 05:35
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JawnV6 posted:btw, this is the single best idea that's been posted and you just sailed right past it nah the best was dual cumming
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Sep 11, 2012 17:15
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welp, that steampunk arm was funded over three months ago so im sure the $200 backer got his steam-powered arm last month as promised, but somehow i can't find any pictures of the finished product or acknowledgement of project completion or new steampunk arms available for sale on the inventor's etsy. in fact there have been no new references to the project whatsoever in the last three months according to google. it's as if that $540 in donations just disappeared into a black hole?
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Sep 15, 2012 01:12
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Ian McLean posted:
good job taking a respectable photo for your profile you need sound in the video and you still don't explain what your site will actually do or why anyone should care statpedia's animated favicon is distracting and looks too much like the webpage loading animation so out of the corner of my eye i always think statpedia hasn't finished loading. this might be a good thing tho, since it makes me stay longer thinking maybe something useful or interesting is eventually going to load
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Sep 15, 2012 22:44
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here's a plot for you: $ raised vs # of statpedia kickstarters 0 _______________________________
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Sep 18, 2012 17:19
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oval office AND PASTE posted:Windows Update started throwing 0x8000FFFF a day ago, and now my machine is out of compliance with NAP, so my network access is limited. Luckily, I'd just sent the FY11 reports off to Mr. Henderson, so I was off the hook for the rest of the afternoon. I picked up the phone and called down the hall. 
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Sep 19, 2012 02:34
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Ian McLean posted:Because I can do anything. except get funding for statpedia  Ian McLean posted:I actually sent Jeff Dean an email once, and here is what he said: this is adorable, he probably thought you were very well-spoken for a 12 year old boy sending letters to his ~programming idol~
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Sep 26, 2012 13:30
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clockwork sundial posted:http://yourkickstartersucks.tumblr.com/post/32333909956/a-shirt-for-dudes-who-think-women-are-vending oh dear god
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Sep 27, 2012 01:22
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hey statpedia dude how does it feel knowing that your project earned far less kickstarter funds than furry fuel
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Sep 27, 2012 13:18
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clockwork sundial posted:http://yourkickstartersucks.tumblr.com/post/32399606437/boys-will-be-boy-is-a-racy-art-feature-film hmm the text says that the nba player impregnates the thug but the banners on the kickstarter page say the reverse?
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Sep 27, 2012 23:03
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Ian McLean posted:I am attending school full time. Perhaps someone might want something to do outside work or something. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898
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its a bunch of lovely startups that got millions of dollars in funding from angel investors, which makes them much less mockable than kickstarters. but basically they seem to all be "[annoying trendy poo poo], but with [different user base]!" art.sy "spotify for the art world" kaggle "crowdsourcing predictive modelling" aka duckduckgo "google but for even bigger spergs"
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Sep 30, 2012 04:12
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JawnV6 posted:he's using the same kind of fearmongering and bullshit that people were flinging around when the first mainstream dual cores came out which was the same fearmongering bullshit that came out with the first batch of multicore systems ever but you're not making adequate progress. you really should consider crowdsourcing the wisdom of the slashdot hordes
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Oct 2, 2012 04:18
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Proteus4994 posted:ian should focus on cs grad school and forget any of this kickstarter poo poo until he understands something i was gunna tell him that but then i thought it was funnier not to
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Oct 6, 2012 03:27
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Ian McLean posted:
kickstart a quantum computer
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Oct 6, 2012 04:22
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Ian McLean posted:Not that Statpedia isn't interesting enough on its own to probably get me in Stanford; i guess you better hope the stanford admissions committee has lower standards than the kickstarter users who passed on statpedia in favor of zombie law
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Oct 8, 2012 09:26
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Sagebrush posted:can this thread still be about worthless kickstarters or is this just the ian mclean depreciation station? lol the same day this was posted ian made a barebones profile there to beg for statpedia money with nothing but a one-line project description with the tag "Irvine"
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Oct 8, 2012 23:01
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oh sorry ian that was rude of me. i thought you were gone and we could gossip about you behind your back 
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Ian McLean posted:So... do you guys actually think I might have a shot if I ramp up this profile and seriously put some effort into it? https://angel.co/statpedia 100% serious: in order to get interest on angel.co you would need to put substantially more into your pitch than you did for kickstarter. you would need to address the question i asked earlier, "what is the point of statpedia?" ie why does the average user care about it? if you're asking rich ppl to give you millions of dollars they will also want to know how you plan to eventually make money off your idea, bc they are betting on long-shots, not on ideas with 0% chance of ever making them money off their investment. you might also want to explain how you can possibly compete with larger, more established players like google or wolfram, bc if a "statpedia" type service became profitable, you can bet other people would be trying to copy your idea, and a lot of them will have enough experience and resources to do it far better than you, and in far less time than you. if you don't have some patent or special secret algorithm or some other specialized capability that protects your business model, you will be steamrolled by someone larger as soon as your site takes off. finally, you would need to demonstrate some track record of success, bc having a good idea is not the same as being able to execute it. having taken courses at UC Irvine is, sadly, not enough to demonstrate that you can successfully build and run a business, not even a bullshit web 2.0 business. to be 100% honest i don't think you can do any of the things i listed above. at best you might find some experienced dude on that site willing to give you some pointers to improve your game, but judging by your response to criticism in this thread, that would be a waste of time as well.
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Ian McLean posted:This guy is an interesting fellow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29oXQHh-U4 i have to believe this is a troll but if not, please share this important crank video with your physics professors ASAP so they know exactly how retarded you are and don't feel bad when they inevitably fail you
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Ian McLean posted:When people start throwing machines at statpedia snycing ip numbers from all over the wolrd, perhaps by then the quantum algorithms will be able to detect those silly patterns. Quantum Algorithms actually sounds really cool, could you elaborate on this? Are you planning on running Statpedia off a quantum computer server bank or something?
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