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nesamdoom
Apr 15, 2018
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For when you want to stand around playing with string with an amazed look on your face.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872993822/zipstring?ref=discovery_category_newest


This might actually be useful for some people, but to me it looks like a way to have your poop make a big splash.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3toiletseats/3-tiered-elevated-toilet-seat-riser-by-thomson-therapeutics?ref=discovery_category_newest

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nesamdoom
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Hub Cat posted:

Huh
City At Sea for Work, Live and Retire-Floating City


Floating City would would be more than a cruise ship, it is proposed to be a unique place to live, work, retire, vacation, or visit. The proposed voyage would continuously circle the globe, covering most of the world's coastal regions. Its large fleet of commuter aircraft and hydrofoils would ferry residents and visitors to and from shore. The airport on the ship's top deck would serve private and small commercial aircraft (up to about 40 passengers each). The proposed vessel's superstructure, rising twenty-five stories above its broad main deck, would house residential space, a library, schools, and a first-class hospital in addition to retail and wholesale shops, banks, hotels, restaurants, entertainment facilities, casinos, offices, warehouses, and light manufacturing and assembly enterprises. Finally, this concept would include a wide array of recreational and athletic facilities, worthy of a world-class resort, making Freedom Ship a veritable "City at the Seas."

The invented a sinkable island?
It doesn't work if it moves and people can't get to work, so it floating does nothing more than mean it can sink. They could do the same with a platform and it not be as unstable.

AceOfFlames posted:

Lmao, they literally copy pasted it from the infamous Freedom Ship and forgot to change the name in one point.

http://freedomship.com/

They should have used Replace All, but it's nice to know it wasn't even an original bad idea.

nesamdoom
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AceOfFlames posted:

It's been kicking around for quite a while. It's one of the flagship (heh) projects of the "seasteading" movement AKA "let's move to the middle of the ocean so we can create a libertarian utopia where we don't pay taxes".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufrz07vVghc

Behind the Bastards also did a great two parter on seasteading, covering everything from the Freedom Ship to the recent (and stupid as gently caress) saga of the MS Satoshi.

Libertarian would destroy it when they eventually devolve into a class war. The idea of a small group working in a properly functioning communistic society would be cool, like everyone gets the same amount of everything and the same housing and everyone just works(I like gilligans island for a good example of how communism could work although I know the different character traits conflict with it a bit although overall they all just kinda live and do stuff to help when they can).
Lol af at getting on a ship with crypto being a selling point... I like stability and not random massive drops.
Reading the article right now and just got to his(friedman) quote “Let’s think of government as an industry, where countries are firms and citizens are customers!” which sounds insanely tryannical. It's making me think that the 'citizens' are to be forced to only deal with the 'government' whish goes back to my class war either breaking out into a hosed up onboard ship battle or the most useful workers loving off back to land to let the elites decide who has to do the manual labour and then trying to be lovely to them leading to a second round until it's like 20 ppl that can't really do poo poo trying to survive on the most expensive waste of resources possible...
An interesting counterpoint is that there are floating cities that work without all the bullshit these people are trying to sell about freedom and they are reasonably chill fishing communities where people have homes and raise kids and rarely ever set foot on land.

nesamdoom
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IShallRiseAgain posted:

Tired of the tedious grind of playing Dungeons and Dragons with your friends in order to level up your character? Well then this is the service for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCCRTq8yygs

So, the business is to pretend they played D&D with other people's characters? Pretty sure I'd rather just give myself levels/items and save money/time.
Although, I am quite an idiot so this likely would get massively funded.

nesamdoom
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Captain Hygiene posted:

Skip the leveling up part, and dumb user-submitted characters of the week might be fun for a stream/podcast. But you'd pretty much have to be a group with pretty well established comedy skills and a sizable fanbase for it to have much hope of taking off.

Yea, with a following(and comedy), I could see it being a successful Patreon bit.

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nesamdoom
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They have a XXX version for sexy stuff, a Drink version for playing with friends... But, what if I want to get drunk and sexy with my friends?

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