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Rapdawg posted:Can someone explain to me why Kickjacking is bad? That's not how the Free Market is supposed to work. 
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:It looks like someone bought a dinky scooter and then got creative with the box it came in. Hey, c'mon man, it wasn't like that. It was the box their TV came in. 
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Shelf Adventure posted:They already have pillows with space for your penis, though not exactly for the same reasons. Funpillows? 
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Apr 22, 2013 07:50
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The General posted:Didn't the last Meme related game fail horribly? There was the 4chan drinking game Kickstarter which got hit with an intellectual property dispute and has been sitting in 'suspended' status ever since. I'm pretty sure the project deadline has passed, I had a feeling that Kickstarter Inc was just going to put a pillow over its face and hold it there until it stopped struggling.
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Apr 23, 2013 16:17
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JossiRossi posted:Was this made before or after "MY SONS TELL MY DAUGHTER SHE CAN'T MAKE VIDEO GAMES"? You'll note that the first keyword he put in his list was "9 year old", an obvious attempt to catch the eye of people looking for the "9 Year Old Builds Her First RPG... TRUTH & TROLLS!" project.
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Apr 23, 2013 20:05
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:I HOPE that's what he intended. What happens in Cancun stays in Cancun.
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Apr 23, 2013 20:30
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The Human Crouton posted:Stretch goals: enough money to bribe the local police to look the other way while I have sex with 9 year olds. That's more of a gape goal than a stretch goal.
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Apr 23, 2013 20:42
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He's like the wacky character in a sitcom who always has some get rich quick scheme except he lacks their charisma, originality and wit. It's like a spergier version of Kramer.
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Apr 25, 2013 20:40
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This could either turn out amazingly awful or just plain amazing but the concept behind it is inspired: Christopher Walken Rex  quote:I am going to build a roughly thirteen foot tall tyrannosaurus with Christopher Walken's head. I have experience in building and design for plays. Make sure you check out his sketches in the 'gallery' tab. 
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Apr 26, 2013 05:22
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Alan Smithee posted:I hate to be that guy but how can we hate on everyone's vanity project and praise the Walken Dinosaur? I thought goons hated monkey cheese. From a practical standpoint did they even demonstrate an ability to pull it off besides their lol concept art? It's the dumbest, most pointless, least justifiable crowdfunding project I've ever seen. And it's beautiful. 
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Apr 28, 2013 15:27
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Alan Smithee posted:Really? Same president, same chief of staff, same people cleaning the bathrooms? Those lizardpeople wouldn't wear the same disguises every term, they mix it up every year.
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May 7, 2013 15:09
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They'll need to raise enough money to pay a sound engineer to edit 20 podcast episodes so the actual goal will be a lot more than $10. If anyone else other than these guys with their diehard fanbase pulled that trick we'd accuse them of doing the KS equivalent of the Indiegogo flexible funding campaigns that we all hate and distrust but for the PA guys it's more of a cute gimmick since they're pretty much guaranteed to meet and exceed their need.
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May 8, 2013 19:40
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Carecat posted:That's an understatement. It goes from a competent if dull logo to stuff they found on GIS and MS Paint editing. The Frankenstein's Monster mugshot is from this deviantart account, the crossed guns with roses/wings is an old myspace background favourite, the incongruous skulls above the crossed guns are stolen from a tattoo design by a guy called Milosch:  Etc, etc, etc. Shameful.
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May 19, 2013 17:28
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Oh you want tragic and absurd? Try this one on for size: box shipment #2 by Jordan Wayne Long quote:box shipment #2 is a performance where I will be physically shipped from Detroit, Michigan to Portland, Oregon while locked in a Museum Crate. I am developing this crate to house an on board computer(with wireless access), Battery packs, food, water, waste disposal system and chair that I will be confined to for the duration of the trip. Once reaching the gallery a performance will take place while still inside the box. On the journey my only connection to the outside world will be through an online video game. Two writers will document my travels by blogging about them throughout the trip. One will be along for the journey of the box to the gallery and the other will write on my movements he observes in the online video game. quote:To test out whether or not I could handle the claustrophobia aspect of this performance I locked myself in a museum crate for 4 days. quote:7 Backers Not only does he have to deal with the embarrassment and rejection of his weird KS project attracting hardly any backers, he locked himself in a box for four days for nothing.
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Jun 8, 2013 16:24
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lorn Wayne posted:Yeah but for a £1 donation to his project, you GET to design the logo for him! I think a variant of this would be a lovely design to plaster over his entire business:  "Take this opportunity with both hands" indeed!
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Jun 9, 2013 18:52
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quantum_squirrel posted:Something relevant to the thread appeared yesterday on YOuTube: That's hilarious. I also just checked Indiegogo for the inevitable coattail crowdfunding attempts to cash in on this and didn't find a single one, I don't know what went wrong there. Edit: I hung around IG looking for lovely projects, here's a few winners. Goatlings.com - kawaii virtual goat petsite! It's My Little Pony ever so slightly reimagined in goatform.  Touring magician needs $15k so he can buy a robot and teach nettiquette to kindergarteners. "Mentally disabled" guy is now on medication, needs funds so he can invest in the stockmarket. He's not offering any rewards at all but if he's doing well by 2015 he's promised to donate the amount that his project raised back to charity. The Dinosaur Expedition A guy wants to raise $659,730 to build a theme park where people go on 'expeditions' to track down dinosaurs in a huge forest. The project is flexible funding and if it ends up being underfunded then only the highest tiers will get to go on an 'expedition' and everyone else misses out. The expeditions will apparently go for 12 hours and be quite strenuous. quote:Expedition participants are responsible for their own travel expenses unless otherwise arranged. If someone merits inclusion we will provide extra help if we have the resources. Those going on 12 hour expeditions are responsible for their own camping equipment, keep it light and lean. We provide the food, you are responsible for making us aware of any allergies. We will make every reasonable effort to modify expeditions to accommodate our supporters, but at the end of the day I have to say the 12 hour expeditions are rough. It sounds like it's going to be something similar to the Zombie themepark that was discussed in the previous Kickstarter thread except with people in rubber dinosaur costumes instead of zombies. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 10:26 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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ok Amazing posted:http://www.pozible.com/project/7139 Jedit posted:There have been suspected thylacine sightings as recently as last year. Searching for an animal that disappeared so recently that there are still people living who have seen one is a far cry from a hunt for Bigfoot or Nessie. Oh those campaigns also exist: 2012 Bigfoot Sequoia Park Kings Canyon Expedition The Falcon Project (Bigfoot seeking blimp) Squatching U.S.A. (A thinly veiled "Fund my trip to a Bigfoot convention!" project) There was also the Documentary Expedition to Congo Kickstarter where a bunch of suspiciously young and under-qualified guys raised nearly $30k so they could spend three months searching for dinosaurs and other undiscovered species in the Congo basin. Apparently they actually did travel over to Africa but reportedly only lasted three days before everything went wrong. Apparently four of the six team members dropped out and the remaining two stopped posting updates since the 4th guy was in control of their social media platforms and when he left he took their accounts with him. They posted this in the comments section of their KS project months later:  Translation: "Thanks for the all expenses paid African holiday, suckers!!  "
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I found another article that gives an explanation of what happened to the Congo expedition:quote:Of course, others have been almost comically overambitious. Last spring, Stephen McCullah, 22, a biologist from Beaumont, Texas, raised nearly $29,000 to film a three-month expedition in the Congo in search of unknown animal species and a supposed living dinosaur. The expedition website has been down since August, and some of his backers have complained on McCullah’s Kickstarter page that they haven’t received the “genuine pygmy-made string and bone bracelet” McCullah promised. In an email, McCullah said that he’d traveled to the Congo but had been unable to obtain the necessary paperwork to leave Kinshasa, the capital, and his gear had been stolen. “After realizing that it was going to take much more money than we had previously anticipated to fulfill the streakier promises and to complete the expedition,” he wrote, “we decided to come home and raise additional funds. I’ve given a full explanation to our backers.” The Kicktraq page for the project shows that one the first day of the campaign someone pledged $10,000 to have a new species named after themselves which I'm hoping was seed money from a family member, otherwise someone got screwed over bigtime.
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TJS: Destined To Be The Next Harry Potter! Spoiler: it's not going to be the next Harry Potter. This guy reckons he's figured out the secret formula to writing the next big hit fantasy series and he's very carefully combined what he thinks are the necessary elements into his novels. For some reason it's really really important that his protagonists have as many  kung fu moves as possible so his pitch includes a painstaking list of about 70 moves which will appear in the novels with individual links to descriptions & videos of all the moves.He also goes on and on about how originality is absolutely key to the project's success but his characters and plotlines are all completely derivative. His pitch video is over 10 minutes long and is as boring as hell. Although he's only just launched this project he's already raised $40 of his $60k project, which coincidentally is exactly how much he got the last time he pitched this project. * * * * * Oprah Winfrey The Movie - UnOfficial Title quote:The main question on everyone’s mind is: Who’s going to play Oprah? Once the project is successfully funded we plan on going about the task of casting members for the film, we have reached out to a couple known actresses that are willing to audition for the part. However, we are looking for the best-of-the-best actor to play this role. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 10:57 on Jun 18, 2013 |
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Noni posted:I hope the kickstarter goes through and this jackass gets his money. It just ended, over 800% successful.
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Jun 19, 2013 17:04
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Looks like they just posted this: Welp, I was wrong: Snowglobe of Doom posted:I bet that KS will just hunker down and ride it out. I guess when CNN starts reporting that you made it possible for a rape guide to get published it's a little hard to shrug it off. It sucks that the funding went through but I'm glad they decided to publicly admit that project was hosed up.
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Jun 21, 2013 16:52
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DStecks posted:What the gently caress does it matter what he cares? He may have won the battle for PUA, but he cost them the war. Ultimately, he is just one instance of a greater problem, one that is being brought to light by people publicizing this incident. So gently caress it, give him the 25k! His kickstarter has helped to publicize how skeevy the PUA community is in the mainstream, by showing everybody just how close it is to being straight-up rape. Another positive outcome is that PUA techniques only have a chance of working (apparently they work occasionally) if the women being targeted aren't familiar with them. Thanks to the mass media reporting on this Kickstarter project there's been possibly hundreds of thousands of woman who have been alerted to PUA techniques for the first time and now know to shut these guys down immediately when they spot them. We've even had a few goons over in the other thread go "Huh, so that explains that one time that a guy said these really weird things to me."
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Jun 22, 2013 02:52
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DStecks posted:Which other thread? For curiosity's sake. The GBS Kickstarter fund a sexual assault manual! thread.
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Jun 22, 2013 03:08
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Cyril Sneer posted:The thing I mostly don't get about this roach thing is how many people could realistically use it? You're pretty much restricted to places where those bigass roaches live, and on top of that, how does the attachment procedure work? I'm assuming you'd need tiny tweezers, scalpels and a magnifying glass or something. I don't see how this kit is practical outside of a laboratory. The people behind the Kickstarter also sell cockroaches via mail order. Guavanaut posted:I'm not sure if this kit is supposed to encourage independent neuroscience discovery or if it's just the modern version of: They say this in their KS FAQ: quote:Criticism: The name "The RoboRoach: Control a Living Insect from Your Smartphone" emphasizes this is not a scientific instrument but simply a toy. Eh, it still sounds like a toy to me, albeit an educational toy.
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Jun 24, 2013 09:39
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I know I'm pretty late on this, but I can report this thing for pornographic material being provided as rewards and expect not to see kickstarter lift a finger, right? Actually this is one of the few instances where you can report a project for its content:  Prohibited content list: quote:No offensive material (hate speech, etc.); pornographic material; or projects endorsing or opposing a political candidate. Of course, whether they'll act on your report or just ignore it is another matter altogether. Their boilerplate response to people disagreeing with anything in any project has usually been "If you don't like a project, don't back it. No need to be a jerk." I guess they think the free market will sort it out??? Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 12:24 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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I went back and looked up what was actually posted on the project page: Yeah I can't see Kickstarter getting worried about that.
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Jun 24, 2013 12:39
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Install Gentoo posted:I get the feeling that the deal with the roboroach thing is its going to turn out that the kits they send out don't work, but nobody is willing to actually implant the stuff on an actual cockroach to test it. So that essentially the project owners' bluff never gets called. I'm willing to bet that there's at least someone out there who's just itching to try out the arthropod version of cat bowling.
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OrganizedInsanity posted:Don't cockroaches have a life span of 1 week? Naw, they live between several months to several years depending on the species. Edit: I found the KS project creators' website and their FAQ page on the cockroaches they sell says: quote:Non-Pest Insects (these are exotic South American roaches that do not thrive without proper husbandry--no worries about escapees taking over your home or school) Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 15:34 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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A fun update about a not-awful Kickstarter project, Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics fame) had a Kickstarter project for a Choose-your-own-adventure version of Hamlet called To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure which originally had a $20,000 goal and he offered to sign every physical copy sold. People ended up pledging over half a million bucks and the poor son of a bitch just spent several days signing over 13,000 books. Look at all these fuckin' books.  He wore a wrist guard and had a system where he'd sign a box of 14 books at a time, take a quick break, sign another boxful etc etc so he didn't gently caress up his hand. He also had a guy from the shipping company who'd unpack and repack the boxes for him and together they'd go through 30 boxes of books every hour. Apparently the Guinness World Record for Most Books Signed In A Single Session is 1951 books and Ryan signed 4340 on one day alone. The lesson is: cutesy pledge rewards can seem like a fun idea at the start of a project but holy gently caress can they come back and bite you on the rear end. His $500,000 stretch reward was that he would literally explode and he ended up having a model of his head created on a 3D printer and blowing that up.  I'm still waiting for him to complete the $450,000 stretch reward and eat a pizza shaped like Hamlet.
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Song For The Deaf posted:This thread has trained me to expect shittiness from people who run Kickstarters, so I'm pleasantly surprised that he didn't try to find a loophole ("Well, I said my name in sign language at all of the boxes of books, so....") As part of the stretch rewards he'll also be sending a couple hundred free copies of the book to schools and libraries as well as about 2,500 plush Yorick skulls to his donors. They could've made those Yorick skulls teeny tiny but it looks like they're at least the size of a regular skull. Oh and the book is under a Creative Commons license and they had a live reading of the book for the internet where the audience picked the path etc etc etc.. As Kickstarter projects go it must be pretty much close to exactly how the KS people were hoping the projects would turn out when they created the site.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:It sounds lazy at first, but reusing the same art while keeping the writing fresh and funny has to become a challenge after the first few dozen, let alone the two and half thousand he's done over the past decade. When you put it that way it sounds more like OCD than an art career. 
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Hey, remember the KS project from 2011 to build a Robocop statue for Detroit??? Here's the final fabrication that they sent to the metalworks to get molded and cast in bronze: He's gonna be a big fucker. That photo was taken in May, there hasn't been any further news but they'll probably be installing the final piece sometime soon.
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Re: Robocop statueTwenty Drunk Apes posted:Of course the moment it gets up it'll probably just become covered in awful spray paint graffiti and chewed gum. It's okay, some kids spraypainted him in one of the films so it'll still be canon. Edit: KIK ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7vHUz69_QE Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 07:12 on Jun 29, 2013 |
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I love how he ran out of footage for the video about 2/3 through so he just threw in a clip show of random images. Michael Jackson! Las Vegas! The WTC!SolDivide posted:His pledge levels will also only get him to $26,000, a far cry from the $250,000 he's looking for.
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Xelkelvos posted:The shitstorm was quite a thrill ride while it lasted. Sadly, not much has been seen of RealPlayersGrind since (unless someone's been looking) I actually looked up his youtube channel just last week but he hadn't posted anything new since he last came up in the thread. ...of SCIENCE! posted:He did. IIRC that was why the mockery died off, he's a legit mentally ill/disabled person. Yeah, he's apparently got some sort of acquired brain injury.
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CommissarMega posted:Does Kickstarter allow project creators to take down and repost stuff? If so, then I suggest you do so, and take a little extra time to polish your proposal before coming back. KS won't let them take it down once it goes live (especially since it's already received a few pledges) so at this point their options are to ride it out or cancel it. It's wayyyyyy too early to predict exactly how the project will end but Kicktraq currently has them trending to only 20% of their goal.
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CommissarMega posted:Isn't that the same thing? It's what I meant, certainly- can't they just cancel the KS, spruce things up a bit and come back? Yeah but then they'd have a cancelled KS project on their permanent record, which is never a good look. There'd be a link on their next project right back to the cancelled one so all their potential backers would have easy access to it.
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etalian posted:On the other hand it's appropriate for a anime t-shirt project to have stretch goals.
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