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miguelito posted:Oh boy, Civitas update time! I think that was a Mac. But yeah, zero content and only a short, awkward unprepared statement. And people are upping their pledges because of it. It's scary to think what this guy will actually do with a quarter million dollars.
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mineral posted:I think that was a Mac. But yeah, zero content and only a short, awkward unprepared statement. And people are upping their pledges because of it. It's scary to think what this guy will actually do with a quarter million dollars. What's so scary about a quarter million dollars worth of hookers and blow?
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There seems to be enough interest; maybe a better poster than I could try making a separate thread for the Sarkesian videos?
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DoctorTristan posted:There seems to be enough interest; maybe a better poster than I could try making a separate thread for the Sarkesian videos? I thought one was linked a page or two back and it was already closed. I really don't think it will go over well. Hell, even I have a hard time not spouting stupid bullshit against detractors to the idea and I'm typically very uninterested in debates online.
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DoctorTristan posted:There seems to be enough interest; maybe a better poster than I could try making a separate thread for the Sarkesian videos? I really totally agree. There's an old one that's been gassed, but that was from before they were out. Backseat modding maybe, but personally I'd like to discuss lovely Kickstarters instead of video games as a reflective medium for current social issues... On-topic, I'm actually half hoping Civitas will get funded right now. I think a more obvious and threadbare KS scam hasn't been tried yet on that scale (at least by people who may even be genuinely convincing themselves they're not scammers), and the inevitable meltdown by delusional backers will be a real hoot to watch.
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Fatkraken posted:A suit that makes it impossible to determine someone's gender is not a problem in and of itself, I personally find suits that have a "normal" male shape and a "special" female shape more of a problem because it makes masculinity into the default and femininity a deviation from that default. You mistake her for a man because gender neutral = man in most peoples minds, and THIS is the problem. Errr, it's not a "special" shape. The shape with broader shoulders and no visible breasts isn't "default", it's the shape of a man. People assume Samus is a man because the suit has a masculine shape, not a gender neutral shape.  Massive shoulders, no neck, broad chest... Samus' power suit doesn't look androgynous, it looks masculine.
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I think the fact that none of the Civitas guys have been tarred and feathered to nearly the same scale is telling, not to continue this debate. To be fair the same crowd backing it isn't the same people who trolled and yet the trolls are silent on this one. Maybe ill change my mind when the punching flash game of these so called devs rears its head
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man thats gross posted:Errr, it's not a "special" shape. The shape with broader shoulders and no visible breasts isn't "default", it's the shape of a man. People assume Samus is a man because the suit has a masculine shape, not a gender neutral shape. It looks completely inhuman is how it looks. In real life, with poo poo like army combat armour, it's often quite difficult to tell who is wearing it, even when it's tailored for womens' physiques. You lose "visible breasts" and narrow shoulders pretty drat quick when you're layering up clothing and armour, this goes triple for pressure suits like space suits and deep sea diving gear (the nearest comparison we have to the kind of power armour you see in a lot of games). Almost all sci-fi/fantasy female armour is designed to deliberately accentuate aspects of a female shape that real world armour would make substantially less noticeable simply by virtue of it's bulk, in a way that male/default armour is not.  A lot of the things that we interpret as "male" like large size, broadness, lack of a neck etc. are also unavoidable side effects of substantial armour or pressure gear being functional. Things we see as feminine like pronounced curves, breasts, delicacy, and fine features are similarly lost for very practical reasons when armour or pressure gear is worn. So you could say that adding armour gives women a more masculine appearance, because in a way it does. But to me it's still better to have sexless bulky armour all round than "normal" and "girly" versions, because the girly versions are clearly impractical and inconsistent with being functional armour like 90% of the time, and are just there for fan service or to signify deviation from the default
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Could someone point me in the direction of the awful kickstarter thread? I can't seem to find it.
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illiniguy01 posted:Could someone point me in the direction of the awful kickstarter thread? I can't seem to find it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3536652
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illiniguy01 posted:Could someone point me in the direction of the awful kickstarter thread? I can't seem to find it. So spending a month methodically harassing a mentally retarded man for trying to create a bad game was acceptable, but talking about the fruits of one of the higher-profile Kickstarter successes is off-topic? Holy yoloswag 
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Annnnd another thread gets infested with sperglords endlessly debating misogyny in video games. Either go and have a proper feminism discussion in D&D, or a proper games discussion in Games, or STFU. Or try and continue it here, and lose your account. tia.
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Is there a collective word for awful internet bullshit, like "grognard" is to gamers? I mean stuff like libertarian bitcoin-having fedora-wearing athiest MRAs on reddit. Either way, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/569272765/the-ron-paul-bust-project?ref=search  England, we need to have a talk.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Is there a collective word for awful internet bullshit, like "grognard" is to gamers? I mean stuff like libertarian bitcoin-having fedora-wearing athiest MRAs on reddit. Either way, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/569272765/the-ron-paul-bust-project?ref=search Ron Paul for UK President, maybe? RE[VUL]UTION
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Is there a collective word for awful internet bullshit, like "grognard" is to gamers? I mean stuff like libertarian bitcoin-having fedora-wearing athiest MRAs on reddit. Either way, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/569272765/the-ron-paul-bust-project?ref=search
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DoctorPresident posted:"Pay for our drinks, you guys!" $15,000 to combine severely inebriated people and a tank of liquid nitrogen? I'm in.
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Orzo posted:I don't follow libertarian politics and know very little about bitcoins but what on earth does being an atheist have to do with associating with awful MRAs or having no fashion sense? Because reddit. 
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Orzo posted:I don't follow libertarian politics and know very little about bitcoins but what on earth does being an atheist have to do with associating with awful MRAs or having no fashion sense? There's a "faction" of sorts of atheists called New Atheists online, who try to act like they're just not hiding that they're atheists, but are pretty much stereotypical "I'm an atheist because gently caress YOU MOM YOU CAN'T MAKE ME GO TO CHURCH!" atheists who use their atheism as an excuse to be bigots against anyone who's not an upper-middle class or higher white male. Most normal atheists\humanists\agnostics\etc hate them, but they're so obnoxious and loud they've become one of the major voices of atheism. They're basically the atheist equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church.
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kelikar posted:Isn't that the fundamental success of feminism? Gender being completely irrelevant because men and woman are equal? The fact that she is a female and it doesn't matter in the slightest, I would argue, makes her a very strong female character. Oh god this guy is awesome. Enjoy his ditty entitled "Arose to the Occasion": Ricky posted:Aromatic and Fresh I also checked out his ditty-blog about Las Vegas, and found even more gold: Ricky posted:Las Vegas, often referred to as Sin City
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gnarlyhotep posted:Oh god this guy is awesome. Enjoy his ditty entitled "Arose to the Occasion": He must be half Vogan.
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gnarlyhotep posted:Beautiful That guy is a national treasure. I wish I could spend my whole life finding hack artists on KickStarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/861836864/steven-zins-palo-alto-art-show?ref=recently_launched "Paganism for young ones" 'cause it's never too early to start imposing your views on others: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/561343674/paganism-for-young-ones
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Is there a collective word for awful internet bullshit, like "grognard" is to gamers? I mean stuff like libertarian bitcoin-having fedora-wearing athiest MRAs on reddit. Either way, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/569272765/the-ron-paul-bust-project?ref=search Orzo posted:I don't follow libertarian politics and know very little about bitcoins but what on earth does being an atheist have to do with associating with awful MRAs or having no fashion sense? quote:The creepy thought that the reason a lot of outspoken, committed, passionate atheists are choosing this as their arena is because they’re too selfish, too entitled, or too sheltered, to allow any other issues to really matter to them. That they choose this ONE civil rights issue to dedicate themselves to, because it’s the ONLY legitimate civil rights issue that actually affects them, secure in their absence of ovaries, melanin, exogenous hormones, medical devices/supports, welfare checks, track scars and rainbow flags. edit: vvvvvv I skim-read that as "other than they don't wash or go to church anymore". That fits some of the awful youtube atheists. Guavanaut has a new favorite as of 01:17 on Mar 13, 2013 |
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A lot of those terrible ones are like, fundamentalist Chrisitians who have change nothing about themselves other than they don't wasn't to go to church anymore. That's not a comparison, it's literally what they are.
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Guavanaut posted:There's a major reddity FYGM misogynist vibe in a lot of Atheist communities. As Natalie Reed put it:
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Orzo posted:That's a really dumb stereotype, you might as well say all religious people are homophobic because some of them hate gay people. It's hardly relevant how some atheists on youtube or some corner of reddit act, atheism isn't sort of group or social movement or anything. Anyway the stereotype is about as stupid as this derail, sorry I even brought it up. He said from athiest communities. People who honestly don't give a poo poo about religion don't join communities of other like minded people to discuss how much they don't give a poo poo about religion.
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DoctorPresident posted:"Paganism for young ones" 'cause it's never too early to start imposing your views on others: For only $25, you can receive a self-published ebook done through a vanity publisher with three "this is a scam" warnings on the first page of Google results for their company name. I wonder if the ability to use capital letters in your book is one of their "premium" services.
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Sono posted:For only $25, you can receive a self-published ebook done through a vanity publisher with three "this is a scam" warnings on the first page of Google results for their company name. I wonder if the ability to use capital letters in your book is one of their "premium" services. And hey spellcheck ain't cheap. You would think if you had this awful a reputation you would at least create a new company name to hide behind before launching your Kickstarter. And the guy has all of 22 friends on Facebook. Even my grandma has more than 22 friends.
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Sono posted:For only $25, you can receive a self-published ebook done through a vanity publisher with three "this is a scam" warnings on the first page of Google results for their company name. I wonder if the ability to use capital letters in your book is one of their "premium" services.
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AxeManiac posted:That new ultima game looks awful. I know Ultima games have never really looked good, but man, it is terrible. The font looks terrible, the characters look cheap. I'm not too thrilled about it, not sure it is going to get funded. They way I see it is that they can't possibly make an Ultima game worse than Ultima IX. (Or could they?) Being such a fan of Ultima in my younger days, I blindly bought the collectors edition of Ultima IX when it game out. The game ran like poo poo on my Nvidia card, so I ended up buying a Voodoo2 card so I could play the game at a decent framerate. Between all the constant crashes and how bad the game was, I never played more than a few hours. It wasn't until recently that I saw the Spoony Experiment retrospective on the Ultima series and found out how much of an abomination Ultima IX actually was. Hopefully without any interference from EA this time, they can pull something decent off.
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Powershift posted:He said from athiest communities. People who honestly don't give a poo poo about religion don't join communities of other like minded people to discuss how much they don't give a poo poo about religion.
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I didn't even realize there was a new Kickstarter thread, so I had to catch up last night. What is the deal with that lunchman guy? My feeling is that he doesn't actually have any real mental disability and is just incredibly stupid. Although I'm absolutely astounded by just how stupid. Here's another video of his I found. It only has five views so we're getting in on the ground floor here.
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DeepDickPizza posted:I didn't even realize there was a new Kickstarter thread, so I had to catch up last night. What is the deal with that lunchman guy? My feeling is that he doesn't actually have any real mental disability and is just incredibly stupid. Although I'm absolutely astounded by just how stupid. Here's another video of his I found. It only has five views so we're getting in on the ground floor here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InglJyt7xJ8 There's something going on here. They're even making these great videos when their projects aren't funded. I have to admire that.
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This really isn't an awful crowdfunding campaign, but I don't know where else to put it. Lowell Observatory is trying to scrape together just over $250,000 to restore their historic 24-inch Clark Telescope. The telescope was commissioned in 1895, and since it was completed in 1896, it has seen almost constant use. The project uses indiegogo for the flex funding, which I'm assuming will be used to make whatever repairs they can to the telescope with the money they get.
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Venusian Weasel posted:This really isn't an awful crowdfunding campaign, but I don't know where else to put it. This is the awful Kickstarter thread, not the "Tearfully Sad Comment on the State of Public Funding for Scientific History, Education, and Research" thread. Jesus, that's depressing. It's even more depressing when you realize that they probably chose Indiegogo instead of Kickstarter specifically because they think it's going to fail and would rather just have the flexible funding (nonprofits are fine on Kickstarter as long as they're not after general funds but money for a project). This is like seeing a former professor of yours panhandling in the streets. You pass him and only just barely recognize his bearded face behind the filth. "I'll... I'll suck your dick for ten bucks." He says. You tell him your name. You tell him that you were once a student of his and he was once your favorite teacher, who inspired you and thousands of others to do and learn great things. You wait for some sort of explanation, but he only barely mumbles something about losing Pluto and then replies, "Okay. Then I'll suck your dick for five dollars." The loving Lowell observatory, a national landmark, shouldn't have to whore itself out for money among the filth at Indiegogo.
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Venusian Weasel posted:This really isn't an awful crowdfunding campaign, but I don't know where else to put it. If Gender Bender extreme has taught me anything, they need to appeal to someones fetish to make this money up. Maybe for a thousand bucks they'll point it at your apartment for the exhibitionists.
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Venusian Weasel posted:This really isn't an awful crowdfunding campaign, but I don't know where else to put it. Man I've never gone there, I'm never going there, but that is such a kick in the gut, I can't not give them some money.
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Featured projects: Sonic Vibrator Board Game that requires the use of multiple smart phones Not a featured project: Restoring the Clark Telescope Indie GoGo everyone.
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lil mortimer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InglJyt7xJ8 I'm telling you, this guy is going to be on Letterman in 5 years or less. He's always smiling. Just can't put a dude down who's that into life.
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Venusian Weasel posted:This really isn't an awful crowdfunding campaign, but I don't know where else to put it. While looking at how indiegogo handles non-profits, I found something interesting. Their article is here: http://support.indiegogo.com/entries/20557666-How-to-Raise-Funds-for-a-501-c-3-Nonprofit Indiegogo campaigns for a non-profit are automatically setup as flexible funding. The article doesn't mention whether or not you can just go back to fixed. At any rate, I agree that Lowell Observatory could use whatever money people donate anyway.... however, some of the rewards (like the $500 and up) are contingent on the campaign being (more or less) successful. EDIT: I mean, sure, they can just put up some more paint and hold a grand re-opening but that's probably not the vision they had in mind.
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