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miguelito posted:Presenting "Civitas", a game that totally has curved roads: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-develop-and-manage-the-city-of-your-d?ref=category Here's a quote I thought was pretty telling that they have no clue what they are doing.. quote:You ask how we plan to beat the features of a AAA game with only a 250k budget. Simple, we don't plan to beat ALL of their features. We are not cloning their game. We are leaving out a lot of the things that we don't see as being necessary, such as the DRM and reliance on internet only play. When you strip all of that unnecessary stuff away, you will be amazed at what even a small determined dev team can accomplish. Will we be making a game in the same genre, but of our design with major input from you guys. Yes, if you just take out all that DRM and always on internet stuff, that shrinks the budget waaaaaay down. I mean like, I am sure Sim City 2013 would have only cost EA 250k had they done that. I can't find solid numbers, but I doubt even the original SimCity was that cheap to make.
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Jedit posted:It's been rotated 90 degrees? What's with the lipstick on her teeth? I mean surely she could have had someone Photoshop that out before posting it. Edit: I am now getting an odd Weekend at Bernie's vibe from that last picture..she's really dead and someone is now doing her make up, posing her on the ground, etc. Explains the soulless eyes/smile. Autechresaint has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Mar 8, 2013 |
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Rime posted:Can Kickstarter itself qualify for awfulness at this point? Man that is so disappointing. When Kickstarter and Etsy first started, I thought they were fantastic ideas for people who had big ideas but little capital, but Kickstarter, like Etsy long before it, has started to focus more on the money they get out of bad or down right misleading projects rather than the standards they set out at the beginning.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Full disclosure: I know some of the people running this campaign. In case you missed it, this is the 'Awful Kickstarters' thread..so perhaps the wrong thread to post this in.
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Pyros posted:It got canceled about an hour ago Anyone know what happened? Was he lying about it being 'officially licensed'?
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Babe Magnet posted:The fallout from this is going to be beautiful. I wonder how they will explain how these algorithms detected a scam, when all you really needed was common sense. Maybe it's so they can try avoiding being sued, on account of maths.
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Apr 10, 2013 23:21
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Install Gentoo posted:The other possibility is that she's being scammed by an "alternative medicine" doctor into undergoing unnecessary surgery. I am reminded of Gary Cobain who was half of the electronica group Future Sound of London. He was ill for years, so much so that he had to put the band in hiatus. He under went many eastern medical procedures that ultimately did nothing and cost him a lot of money only to find out that one of his fillings was an older filling that contained mercury and was leaking into his body. So it can happen, just not the way she/he claims it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Sound_Of_London#New_millennium.2C_new_sound
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Apr 11, 2013 17:03
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Carbon Thief posted:Even if she had the surgery done in the US as opposed to overseas, it's closer to $18-25,000 for vaginoplasty from most surgeons. Her $29,000 would have been enough if IndieGogo hadn't cancelled the fundraiser. If she had pitched it as "help me raise money for my transition" she wouldn't have gotten nearly enough; there's too much transphobia and other people have tried and failed to make their fundraising goals on IG. ..so the obvious solution is to lie about it and dupe people into funding something under the illusion that they were in a time crunch to save some poor girl's life who only had months to live?
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Bobo the Red posted:I can't even imagine how desperate I might get if I was in that situation. It's not cool, but it's pretty understandable. How is it understandable? Why should anyone feel entitled to get other people to pay for their reassignment surgery through deception? If you feel strongly about wanting to get this surgery done, either raise the money yourself through honest means by saving up or talk to trangender advocacy group to see if there are options to raise money. There are a lot of people in the video game/entertainment industry who have gone through gender reassignment, surely she could have struck up a conversation with one of them.
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BoutrosBoutros posted:Do you know what "understandable" means? It means you can understand the motivation, not that you agree with it. The physical state of her body could be a very real health problem for her, one that could have a drastic negative effect on her day to day life. Are you telling me you literally can't even understand why someone in that position might do anything they could, including things that are unethical, to finally fix that omnipresent negative effect on his or her life? I can 'understand' it, but others like carbon thief were hanging their understanding why based on how 'anti-transgender the internet is' as justification for her actions. Yes, her actions are understandable, but they are not justifiable.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Jesus, I never heard of this happening. So this chick asking money to not die is "suspicious activity" for IndieGoGo? Because you don't have to pay upfront to get life saving emergency surgery. If she had the surgery and was asking for donations to help pay the bills her case would be more plausible, and even still if you can't pay the hospitals are usually willing to work with you on it. Worst it will do is affect your credit score. But she's playing up to everyone's ignorance of the american health care system.
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cool biRd pics posted:I think i'm still going to need a rundown on this one though The update for this one is o_O..it's one huge wall of text. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/245908185/extraordinary-album-ancient-secrets-sharako-528hz/posts edit: not a wrist band, but an actual band.
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Closet Cyborg posted:Hmm. Reading that indiestone thread now. The youtube comments she posted are awful. Like, even by youtube standards. I'm still not sure why people seem to just be taking it as fact that she was scamming for SRS. If that was what she wanted, I would probably throw money at that. It seems pretty plausible that she was taken in by some quack who fed her a lovely diagnosis. The whole situation is baffling. If it was a life or death operation there is no way that she would need the money up front to get the surgery, but she kept towing the line that she needed the money to pay for the surgery. I can understand being afraid of paying a hospital bill AFTER you get a surgical procedure, but that is something you worry about afterwards, when you are out of danger. Emergency rooms can not deny you treatment in a life/death situation.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Wait, so do we know she killed herself, or did she just threaten to and then the stream was shut down? We don't know at this point. She threatened this before and didn't go through with it, let's hope it's just another cry for help.
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Jefferoo posted:Apparently games journalists had talked to Sagal and she told them it was for gender reassignment surgery, but they kept quiet as she said she'd kill herself. Destructoid's Feature Editor has been a total dickweed about on Twitter this morning. If she had just come out and said it was for gender reassignment, she would have gotten more interest out of both the gaming and LGBT community, but she went with this metal poisoning schtick that drew much more negative attention to the whole thing. I mean she basically blamed us (the internet) for her suicide for daring to question whether she was being completely honest, when she was flat out lying the entire time.
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KimT posted:I guess since it didn't look like it was going to get funded, that Shadow of the Eternals game has a Kickstarter now...and the crowdfunding thing on their own site is still going. This is pretty gross. So why are they asking for $125k LESS on the kickstarter than they are asking for on their own site? Kickstarter takes a cut, shouldn't they be asking for a little more? It's like they are just grasping at anything right now and hoping something sticks. How long before they start an Indiegogo page as well? fake edit: I just answered my own question, they are probably going to keep the money they raised on their own site, hence the $125k difference..how scumbaggy...
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Yes but when they say a certain reward is 'limited' and yet add an addition 1500 on another donation site, it comes off trite. Also, they were being completely dishonest to the original people who donated on their site, and now no one really knows how much they ACTUALLY need to meet their goal..if they make 1.5 million on one site, but fail on the other, what's stopping them from keeping the money since they did make their goal. Does the game cost 1.5 million to make or 2.85?
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Me in Reverse posted:Sounds like any other socially inept 15 year old kid. He was trying to sell junky t-shirts for $100..I don't feel that bad for him.
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sparatuvs posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/918469157/coming-out-atheist?ref=card I love that the sole backer backed with $666.
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Haven't seen this posted yet. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/todd-meister-ex-assistant-kickstarter-approach-raise-821-000-pay-back-article-1.1407192#ixzz2ZxbLj6Y5 So this girl stole nearly a million dollars from someone, is facing jail time, and instead of repaying it back or serving jail time, she is pleading to the general populace to try to get them to pay it for her. She complains about having a 'medical condition' (fainting spells) that will making going to jail hell on her. She's raised $275 so far.. http://www.gofundme.com/Restitution-for-Renata
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Alan Smithee posted:Ugh, he's probably gonna get his funding too. Well, at any rate, at least 50 people could potentially discover the thick stench that hangs around Knowles that the rest of us who have been to an Alamo Drafthouse premiere have been able to experience. I've sat several rows behind the dude over the course of several occasions, and it wafts and lingers.. it is positively nauseating. Note this was ~6 years ago, so who knows if things have changed with him being married, but still it sticks in my head.
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judge reinhold posted:From the description on his site about "Manna from Heaven": They can't even get their bible right, the whole point of the manna collection thing is that God commanded them to only collect what they needed, no more or else it would spoil.
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Manifest posted:Yeah, this isn't awful, it's loving awesome. Love that the video apes The Tree of Life. Definitely not an awful kickstarter..had he been a nobody without a long standing internet presence, yes.
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Grrl Anachronism posted:The second one is from Junji Ito's story Gyo, but I don't recognize the others. I think the best/worst part is that he's asking $150 for the book. That's the lowest reward tier in which you get the coffee table book of lovely cat/dog drawings made by an adult man.
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Zybourne Clock posted:Maverick Hunter X isn't necessarily a bad KickStarter, but I'm including it here solely because of how hard the guy must be kicking himself right now in light of recent developments. Why would the explosions be tied to your character's facing direction? There are several times where he killed something, turned around and a couple of frames of the explosion follow him.
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Verdugo posted:Wow. Grant Imahara from Mythbusters is Mr. Sulu. Mythbusters must not be paying the bills. I thought you were joking at first, but wow. Yeah I find that sort of sad too. I mean the set looks like it was pretty well done, but it's still just a fan fiction thing.
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4 hours left to get in on this Smarty Ring that has no video, no actual prototypes and the four updates are very sparse..and yet it has nearly a QUARTER OF A MILLION dollars in backing when they were asking for 40k. Wtf.. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smarty-ring
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TetsuoTW posted:Everyone who backed that deserves exactly what they'll get from it. I have to believe that they got some rich relative to back it for a large sum in hopes of getting others to trust the project because 'heck if it has 200k then it must be legit.' Its flexible funding so the rich backer gets his money back regardless.
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100Dachshunds posted:Though I doubt it will get installed on the OK capital, I'm hoping it may get installed elsewhere, because goddamnit I want my picture taken sitting on his lap. At the very least, considering how activistic the Temple of Satan is, it should manage to take some major steps towards having the 10 commandments removed, and keeping the state building a religion free zone, as it should be. Considering that robocop statue cost 60k to build, I will bet this never gets made. 20k is far too low for a seven foot statue, with materials and labor. What a waste.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Jesus Christ people, have none of you seen a poisoned well before? This is (for lack of a better word) trolling on a, level that you rarely see in the real world. The point of this statue is to be the vice that forces assholes to face the fact that either they can live in a Christian nation, or a free one. They raised over 20k. The point is lost if they don't build the statue and actually try to get it erected. If its all a joke, then its no better than the slacktivism over kony2012.
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Espy posted:And Kony 2012 was a giant misdirection to donate money to an unaccountable charity through easy pressure tactics... That's what I mean, this feels like an easy way to drum up support for thousands of dollars from internet atheists that will end up no where on account of ' sticking it to those christians'. I'll be impressed only when they actually go through with building this statue, rather than threatening to, because right now it rings hollow and empty.
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Manuel Calavera posted:What the gently caress does any of this mean? $500 for a copy of the game? FREE copy of the game.
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moerketid posted:I can only imagine this is a joke, and yet... Just think for a moment, someone at kickstarter actually watched the video, saw the mspaint drawings and then went ahead and approved it. Is there no serious vetting going on over there?
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Otisburg posted:Lol it's not even that, it's a treat dispenser that costs 100 bucks and you plug your iPhone (not included) into it so you can teleconference with your dog (meaning you literally have a smart phone just for your dog and one with you, I guess), and then you can dispense treats. 115 backers $11,723 pledged of $20,000 goal 27 days to go 27 days to go and they have well over half what they are asking for. Are Apple uses really this stupid?
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Noyemi K posted:If you search "manga" on KS, you will truly regret it. From his profile: "I love to live in a fantasy world. I graduated from Portland State University with a BA in Art. My life evolves around my art." Yup, you truely do live in your own fantasy world if you think this passes as good art.
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Blast Fantasto posted:The guy who wrote the Super Action Squad postmortem ( http://www.explodingrabbit.com/news/super-action-squad-is-being-put-on-hold) removed everyone's names from the post after people pointed out how unprofessional it was to throw your entire team under the bus. This was posted a few days ago..showing what two years of progress on this game looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pjyjExPMas
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Gamesguy posted:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sigmo-talk-and-understand-in-more-than-25-languages This has to be a money laundering thing, right? I mean they didn't even demo the product.. how does it get $250k?
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Something pronounced 'my dicks' is not reputable?
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Hat Thoughts posted:A musician married to Neil Gaiman with a long history of making statements similar to ones the art students at your college did. My opinion of Gaiman plummeted once he aligned himself with her. I mean of all people..she seems so hot-topic cliche.
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