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I've heard of David Wolfe. He's a nutjob that pushes alternative medicine and espouses the benefits of raw chocolate as a superfood that will cure what ails you. One of his more notable claims is that the reason the oceans are salty is because if they weren't the water would float away from Earth.
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wit posted:I asked for a fraction of the money I really need so that I could totally pocket that. Then I didn't make the game because I didn't have the other 3/4s of it because I never asked anyone for it. But hey, if you're going to be a whiny bitch about it and feel cheated, take a number and a seat, I'll refund you....never. Hows never for you? He would be about $80k richer right now if the project had failed to fund, ironically enough. Oh, and this isn't the first thing that went wrong with this project. Back in July of last year they announced that they couldn't make the game as they'd pitched it so they were changing the mechanics (no more hero switching, but you can jump now!), the story (from treasure seeker to a kid chasing a devil who stole their bike), and the title (from The Hero Trap to drat! Devil Stole My Bike!). So really, even before it was canceled no one who backed the project was getting the game they had pledged for.
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Command Ant posted:Ha ha ha, I'll bet that new title went over real well with people. Oh, sorry, misremembered. That was one of the possible names. The other possibilities were:
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John Denver Hoxha posted:I think if they can make it work (and I mean it would basically be the same concept as a miniaturized printer head so it's not like a totally insane premise) that RGB pen would be a neat toy, a bit expensive, but really cool How printer heads do their thing would not work at all in a pen form, though.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Monte Cook actually knows his poo poo when it comes to pen and paper games so it's not surprising he can get a kickstarter for something like this to fund easily. There are a lot of ways I could describe Monte Cook, but "knowing his poo poo when it comes to pen and paper games" is not one of them (assuming you're talking about the mechanical side of things).
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Yeah, Captain Disillusion is a pretty neat guy, although some of his stuff is a bit cringe-worthy. And he better be thorough, given that he's getting just over $4k a month from Patreon to make videos,
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Veotax posted:loving christ, here have some bad Kickstarters.
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Tears In A Vial posted:It's an ultralite raincoat! ... and also a stunt kite for some reason KyteMe Team posted:Hi Jonathon, So they're 100% ready to produce this, except that they don't actually know what they're making it out of. This is despite the fact that the kickstarter page readily talks about features that are full dependent on already knowing what the stupid things will be made of.
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Aesop Poprock posted:It made $150,000?? It's like an inch by an inch wide and it can only play games from the early 80s, who the gently caress could possibly be interested in it to buy it let alone fund it People with more money than sense.
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veni veni veni posted:I can't help but wonder why you guys even know any of this. Everything I know is from the LP of this trainwreck of a game.
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Guy Mann posted:That's not what ASMR is, though I guess you can't really complain about a term losing its meaning when there was never any real evidence or research that it was real in the first place. There's more evidence and research that it's real than there is that it isn't. I mean, the name is absolutely stupid and was made up to give it an air of legitimacy because they apparently felt calling it "head tingles" sounded stupid, but there does seem to be some kind of underlying mechanism that probably should be studied further.
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Jerry Seinfeld posted:There's a term for the tingles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson ASMR people insist that it and Frission are different, of course.
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Almost certainly, because otherwise the average pledge is $889.
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monster on a stick posted:We only need 105M players Okay, the entire rest of the thing is stupid, but that's not what that's saying. It's saying that there are an estimated 105,118,708 – 174,721,212 people in their target market, not that they expect everyone in their target market to buy in.
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WoW peaked at, what, 12M?
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maswastaken posted:That "What the experts are saying" section is seriously desperate. The Daily Mail quote might as well read "This exists and so does its component materials." I mean, the Wired quote is just "It's trying to be a shoe."
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The Lone Badger posted:10.5 minutes? Talk to this guy.
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Veib posted:Maybe somebody should kickstart an app that teaches you basic household life skills, it'll make millions. You'd get exp and achievements and whatnot for making your bed and doing the dishes and poo poo. I think the second part of that already exists.
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I mean, there are free places if you want to be spammed about lovely kickstarters. No need to pay for that.
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In Cubiio news, Kickstarter is making them remove all mentions of the basic version that comes without a safety shield, so you have to get it with a shield now! But then they explicitly say you can disable the interlock system and use it without a shield, which entirely defeats the purpose of having it. Edit: I should note that I don't mean you can disable the shield check with some hardware tweaks. I mean it's an option in the app to disable it. senrath has a new favorite as of 07:17 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Joking Hazard is a Cyanide and Happiness card game thing where you make comics, or something like that. Anyway, in other Awful Kickstarter news, have you ever wanted to just swipe right on everyone in Tinder, ever? Well, have the folks at Tinda Finger got the item for you! For only £7 plus shipping, you can get your own fake finger that can swipe right on Tinder (or similar apps) at 6000+ swipes per hour! And if you don't like using Kickstarter, they also have an IndieGoGo campaign.
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Evil Fluffy posted:You get to drink the grinds too. Yum! Sadly they actually thought of that and have filters for it. It still looks stupid. And if you want one they're only $85 plus shipping now.
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sleepy.eyes posted:What the hell kind of place has an owl cafe? I mean, they're neat birds, but I don't know that I want an entire room of them watching me eat a muffin or whatever. Japan
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CollegeCop posted:What. The. gently caress. Very poor machine translation from a project based in Hong Kong.
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Guy Mann posted:Crowdfunding is kind of weird about adult stuff because its technically against the rules on all the big sites but at the same time almost all of the biggest Patreons are for porn, so basically they're happy to take peoples' money but won't actually own up to it and are happy to throw people under the bus the bus the second any negative attention or controversy pops up. It's because the vast majority of online payment processors are really drat squeamish when it comes to adult content, for some stupid reason. And if you're not big enough to tell them to go gently caress themselves (like Amazon is) then it's easier to just "not allow" the stuff, but only take action when it's explicitly pointed out to you.
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fishmech posted:Ain't really stupid, the payment processor could be liable for Investigation and poo poo in a lot of backwards jurisdictions. And even though they'd near certainly win in court, that's a lot of unnecessary costs if you can get away just saying "no porn" instead. Fair enough.
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Rapulum_Dei posted:Are you sure about that? I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that porn websites were among the first to develop secure credit card payments and subscriptions. Yup. Most payment processors classify adult products as "high risk" and will refuse to work with people who deal in them. From what I understand this also means that the terms you can get with the ones that will allow adult business are a lot shittier than "normal" accounts.
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C.M. Kruger posted:I like how the "antenna" apparently isn't actually attached to anything because everything bluetooth just uses a trace on the circuit board. I thought that was the start/stop switch, the idea being that turning it off by sticking your hand out was easier than having to pick it up again.
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Phanatic posted:And then easily yank it right off of the wood screws because the body is ABS plastic. And at that point you can get a sturdier box for cheaper.
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And the campaign page is unavailable because of an IP dispute.
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Anyone want to buy some sliced ketchup?
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I assume they meant Howlite, since they were listing materials the egg things are made of.
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The Iron Rose posted:I mean if it's under like, $75 I'd be tempted for the novelty value alone. Or as a conversation piece. It wouldn't look quite as nice, but you could pretty easily make something like this yourself for well under $75. Just need a cheap magnetic stir play and a carafe.
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SpacePig posted:There are maybe 3 people that I still make to to watch Numberphile videos of, and he is number one on that list. His enthusiasm is infectious. Same. I can only hope to find something one day that I'm as enthusiastic about as he is about Klein Bottles.
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So, is that an adult version of those kid toothbrushes that play parts of a song through your jaw while you brush?
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Volcott posted:Do they still make aibos? Afaik yea, but only a $2900 version with a cloud subscription.
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Like everything else about how they choose to enforce their rules I'm fairly sure that how much money a campaign has attracted plays a role in whether or not they remove them.
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HJE-Cobra posted:But this page does a much better job of describing how this game would play: Someone in the other thread said they asked and were told the vague answer of "a game from Nepal", so even when answering they won't outright admit it's Bagh-Chal for some reason.
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