CAustin posted:

Just came across this one: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2053509224/new-unique-bottle-for-maw-n-paw-bbq-sauce-go-natio

At first I thought it was stupid. After watching the video it's just goddamn depressing. These people are trying to raise money to create a single product: a plastic bottle shaped like a pig's head. Actually, that's their own description, but it really gives the whole thing too much credit. You might get the idea that this bottle will look like a realistic, detailed pig's head. Strange and grotesque, sure, but probably an interesting knick knack for someone out there.

No. Instead, this is what they have planned:


BBQ sauce not included. Yep, that red thing on the right is this family's ingenious new product. And let's be clear here, just in case. It really is just a plastic bottle. It doesn't have any special features, moving parts, or really anything that makes it any different from any other plastic bottle other than, of course, the lazily rendered cartoon pig face. Hell, I'm pretty sure there are already bottles in existence somewhere out there that have reasonably similar pig faces on them. And they probably didn't need kickstarters.

Back to the video, I don't know if I've really seen anything as awkward and pathetic as this 2 minute clip. The little girl is clearly uncomfortable with having this string of inane questions yelled at her over and over, and in the end they couldn't even get her to endorse the product. They literally cut the audio and switched it out with a recording of her saying she likes it. When even a 5 year old girl who is probably (read: hopefully) related to you seems entirely unimpressed by your bullshit, you know you've got a problem.

Oh, and the funding goal for all this? $42,000

So far they only have $25, but hey, they just started.

senrath posted:

Like that's a big shock.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I grabbed a few typical comments off those rehosts if people are wondering what they're like. (Hint: Desperado Bones will definitely not want to read these.)


... and so on and so forth.

Desperado Bones posted:

Check his other Kickstarters

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/515481689/lunchman-foodemon-adventures-and-tasks?ref=users

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/515481689/silent-animals?ref=users

Lunchman posted:

Foodamon is the same as the hit TV series Pokemon. The only difference is that he is on a mission for food "gotta catch 'em all." The legendary foodamon man is on his regular quest to discover more food. As he finds more food, they keep turning sugar free. ((Sugar free is the same as Kryptonite to Superman). The hero now must go and find out why they are turning into sugar free. He must defeat his arch enemy doing all this before everything is sugar free.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

How to lunchman: Diabetic cooking Vol 1 - Mediterranean ended with only a single "gently caress you" pledge of $1.09.

lil mortimer posted:

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.

AxeManiac posted:

Somebody likes something, time to complain on the internet about it!

I think it is cool fans get to see a movie made when before all they could do is write letters and hope somebody cares, now you just send a bunch of money to people and all of the sudden they care and now maybe we can get a proper ending to the TV show Alf.

Ooner posted:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2020036992/tiklyz-bold-and-beautiful?ref=category



How could anybody think there's a market for this? They want $15,000 to produce a bunch of lovely face stickers that nobody will ever ever ever buy.

OldMemes posted:

I'm curious to see how many other cult but cancelled TV shows will jump on the band wagon, either to fund a movie, or extra episodes online or something. It sets an interesting precedent.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Sony Pictures have picked up the rights to ALF and are currently developing a CGI/live action movie. Hooray! Just like The Smurfs and The Chipmunks! Oh.

Indiegogo posted:

Imagine, if we find this man, and he's alive. Perhaps he's going to spend the next few months worrying about how he's going to pay medical bills. Or maybe he is the bread-winner for his family, and he obviously will be missing work. Maybe he's worried about how the bills will get paid. Or perhaps he's a college student, who was barely making ends meet as it is. I'm sure he's going to be devasted by his injuries. But what if he finds out, that some woman in San Diego saw his photo, and it broke her heart.

Bandit Queen posted:

At least it looks like they were both taken down.

Plague of Hats posted:

Hbomberguy posted:

For some reason one of their ads uses the same picture again, but this time with a bra drawn on in what I can only assume is MS Paint.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

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.

GoFundMe posted:

This week as workers lay buried in the rubble of a collapsed factory, Slate.com blogger Matt Yglesias' response was "meh". With more than 300 workers dead ( over 100 at the time of writing), Matt argued that it was okay for poor countries to have poorer building codes. Mind you, it's wealthy US companies that send their production to Bangladesh.We think that Matt should go to Bangladesh and work in a factory. Then, he can report on whether it's okay for poorer human beings to die on the job.
Oh, and if Matt refuses to go, we'll donate the money raised directly to workers in Bangladesh.
Who knows, maybe Matt will agree to go to Bangladesh and fund himself, so all the money raised can go directly to workers.

AxeManiac posted:

This pitch audio sounds like he was forced to do it in one take and spent zero time thinking about what he would say.

Tanny posted:

Mila Kunis, Mila honey - do you like songs that are funny?
Watching Star Trek, Play Atari
But you have to share my house with my old mommy.

Alan Smithee posted:

I want to troll that so hard. Just Trump everything. Trump Toupees, Trumpmobiles, Trumpphones, Trump Energy Drinks

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?

Guy on PZ Forums posted:

I didn't see the stream, but I know for a fact that authorities were notified.

I don't want this thread to become a bed of speculation, so I'm locking it now. If Chloe would like it reopened she can PM an admin/moderator.

Machai posted:

Is a photo not the ultimate likeness?

Yeah, using a dead man to sell your product without permission is just wrong.


A reinvented fanny-pack, because a black sash goes with every outfit. They have said they will come out with more colors, but even then do sashes go with every outfit?

Bobo the Red posted:

I like that they want to use the Arc, but are unaware that its name is no longer an acronym. The non-acronym name is so offensive I thought it was a fake group at first.

Song For The Deaf posted:

Are you wondering what the dumbest way to violate copyright 52 times is? Why, making a "Go Fish" deck featuring stolen Mario art!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/53163752/super-mario-go-fish?ref=home_location

redditor posted:

The times that I have been blown out due to physical escalation (most of the time I get rejected long before I get to say a word, so my experience is limited) was when I just started touching their hand or shoulder while trying to emphasize a point, and they freak out as they don't want someone who looks like me touching them. I honestly don't think that was over the line. Those experiences were really the only times that I have been called ugly by strangers. (My friends have also said the same thing, so that's why I believe that I am.)

Bert of the Forest posted:

Just came across this wonderful train wreck of a man, and I just knew I had to share it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/82653245/druggies-and-bullies-beware-bullyproof?ref=recently_launched

In short - It's a man who is using his talents in making animal noises to make an educational game about bullying and drugs. It is just as great as it sounds.

etalian posted:

This is a so bad it's good concept given the gross nature of the hudson river and the permit process.

What about things such as the on-going costs to replace the filters or how pools require insurance in case of injury?

It's such a dumb concept when the city has bigger problems such as lack of green spaces for the poorer parts of the city.

Donna D'Errico posted:

You may remember me as "Donna Marco" from the television show, Baywatch. What you may not know is that while I was running on the beach alongside David Hasselhoff, which to many would have been a dream job, I was actually dreaming about something completely different: searching for Noah’s Ark. Yes, the Noah’s Ark from the Bible.

In December 2010, I was hospitalized with a near-fatal MRSA infection. Once I was home, I realized that I had nearly died without having accomplished what I always said I would do before I died. So I decided the time had come to really do it.

miguelito posted:

So in what's probably one of the most awful of awful Kickstarters, at least in my opinion, Truth and Trolls - more commonly known as that Susan Wilson thing - has its release date on July 31st. Are you all excited?

The game is coming along splendidly, with a ton of great art presented in a pretty fascinnnnnaaah, I can't do it. Basically, Susan decided to switch engines from RPG Maker to - wait for it - Unity of all things, and put out this splendid Official Intro Video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsl3ZdQzzZM (Don't click this, it's a single photograph with a bunch of Movie Maker subtitles superimposed.)

I think we're in for a pretty good gaming time in two weeks, aren't we?

FOIA Machine posted:

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OrganizedInsanity posted:

What is it with shoddy art and webcomics that leads to high asking fees on Kickstarter?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944066903/role-playin-gamer-webcomic-and-print-and-role-play

Evil Fluffy posted:

Square Enix never shut down 8-bit theater(unfortunately) and it was an unfunny webcomic that just used their assets ripped directly from games.

BanjoFish posted:

They engaged in a drawn out, multi-decade legal battle with the creator of a game called "Anti-Monopoly,"

PostNouveau posted:

The great this is, this product -- designed to appeal to men who are insecure about their masculinity -- is going to fail because it's ugly as gently caress. It's clearly a bad fashion choice.

Young Freud posted:

No, it's redheads. She loves the gingers.

Zybourne Clock posted:

Pay me 50,000 dollars to put QR codes on T-shirts. The most amazing thing about this project is that at least one other person on planet earth thinks this idea is worth 25 dollars.

Iron Sheik posted:

“HELLO TO ALL MY INTELLIGENT FANS!



We start to make a movie, documentary, about my life. How I bodyguard of Shah, how I was gold medal wrestling champion, how I was #1 WWE champion, how I was the real shooter and not like that rice krispie dick Chris Brown. But now we need the help of the fans. So if you have the heart, if you have the balls, please help support my documentary on the indiegogogo and to make the REAL film for the REAL fans about the REAL legend.

God bless!"

HEGEL CURES THESES posted:

I'd buy one of those shirts for my dad, and I think he'd like it. Negro League teams ruled.