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So a friend of mine just linked me this Craigslist ad, and I guess this thread helped me develop a second sense about these things because I immediately went, "This is probably a terrible Kickstarter." And it is!. Besides the fact that everything looks like below average Deviantart art with a whole lot of "What's wrong with your faaaaace", it "only" made $2000. I am not sure what kind of game you could get for $2000, so I looked back at the ad to see what they would be paying their voice actors. quote:We are looking for some voice actors to record the battlecries, catchphrases, and some plot-critical and romantic dialogue of the main characters of the game. In return, we will be offering credits and provide meals, snacks and refreshments during the recording sessions and paying each voice actor royalties. That is, we'll be giving out a percentage of the profits after the material costs of producing the game, calculated and paid quarterly. Those royalties will surely be substantial, especially for a game that has been in development for about 2 years, seeing as how the Kickstarter ended in 2011. Oh, yeah, the game seems to be focused on having romantic relationships with teenagers.
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JossiRossi posted:He's playing fast and loose with the source material isn't he? Also the visual aesthetic looks garbage on the one he did but has yet to release. Just look at the shot of guy and girl about to kiss (you remember that part in the Tell Tale Heart right?) I bet he turns Fall of the House of Usher into a zombie flic. Didn't you know that the beating of the heart in the Tell Tale Heart was a sign that he should really be with his beloved instead of at his 9-5 white collar job? The call of true love is a haunting thing. Halfway through that I realized that he's Twilightifying Poe. This can go places.
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Apr 11, 2013 22:49
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So I'm not sure how licensing works, but I would have thought that it would cost more than $5000 to acquire the license to The Princess Bride.
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May 17, 2013 21:29
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deathsuxdontdie posted:How is "intellectual property issues" not against the rules? Because they totally talked* to the people behind those properties! *permission not guaranteed.
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Sep 4, 2013 23:31
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OldMemes posted:Where do you put the stick when you aren't making yourself look silly in public? Does it fold up? Uh, why would you go out unless you were documenting each part of your journey? It's almost 2014, man, get with the times.
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Dec 27, 2013 19:44
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ayn rand hand job posted:Held in San Diego at the same time as the SDCC. It's raised 60k on flexible funding already. Why.
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Mar 12, 2014 01:51
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Carecat posted:The funny thing is my friend was saying how they were missing the opportunity to open Magic up to players online years before Hearthstone. They had so much time to get their rear end in gear but could only make the semi decent but limited Duels and the too hardcore, ugly and expensive Online. But are the Duels games that much more limited than Heartstone? The card pool in Hearthstone isn't that large, last I saw, and, y'know, collecting. But the sad part is that Wizards they just made the yearly iterations of DotP cumulative (ie, if you bought 2013 you can use the cards in 2014), they would do much better. The point is that anyone thinking they can do a real life blind booster game that isn't based off a cartoon or is named Magic the Gathering is acting on several delusions.
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Mar 26, 2014 16:00
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AlmightyBob posted:Lovecraft = scary monsters. "Lovecraft" I think is nerd shorthand for "not slasher horror," with the occasional bulbous mass of flesh and maybe some sort of sanity system. Any themes present in his work are not at all important.
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May 17, 2014 01:47
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MrAptronym posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1253722565/disney-days I'd like to point out that the Palos Verdes Peninsula, where the creator is from, is one of the most affluent places in Southern California. I'm not saying everyone there is Mr. Moneybags, because my family certainly was not, but chances are they can afford $500 for an iPhone or whatever. I mean, a yearly pass to Disney parks already costs $500+. But have some census stats of the four cities comprising the Palos Verdes Peninsula. quote:According to the 2010 United States Census, Palos Verdes Estates had a median household income of $152,068, with 2.8% of the population living below the federal poverty line
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Jul 18, 2014 19:59
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I have an irrational hatred of stupid unnecessary tech bullshit, so I haven't really done my due diligence about the likelihood of this being a scam, but here is Sense, which is...an alarm clock? Correction, a "smart" alarm clock. It's like the Pebble or Nest but somehow less necessary. Also, quote:Particulate Sensor can spot the tiniest of things floating around in the air, so tiny you can't even see most of them. But they are there, and they are potential sleep interruptors for many; more than 50 million people suffer from nasal allergies. If the pollen count is high in your neighborhood and Sense detects a rising level of microscopic particles in your bedroom, you should know. A thermostat and a photosensor, sure, but how accurate could this possibly be in a $100 egg shaped thing?
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Jul 24, 2014 07:26
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fondue posted:I have two things about this project that I find difficult to comprehend; Mason jars are to hipsters as zombies are to gamers.
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Sep 26, 2014 16:26
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Every time someone says anonabox I read it as Anachronox and keep hoping that a sequel is being Kickstarted  I wonder how much of a fuckup your project has to be to be suspended/cancelled by Kickstarter, though. It's not like they assume any responsibility, do they?
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Oct 17, 2014 20:27
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Zaphod42 posted:I mean OBVIOUSLY there's reasons why we're not using gundams in warfare right now. Is it because we haven't discovered gundamium yet?
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Nov 3, 2014 18:37
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TetsuoTW posted:Where are my smaller blocks representing the gold, frankincense, and myrrh? Gotta leave something for stretch goals.
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Dec 11, 2014 07:05
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Rosalind posted:Ahahahaha it's an alphasmart! We used to use those in the 90s in elementary school to write papers. Somehow worse than outdated 90s tech since I can actually see more on the alphasmart.
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Dec 11, 2014 17:54
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Evil Fluffy posted:So were goons all pissed off like this when Penny Arcade or Order of the Stick did their kickstarters? Penny Arcade was a definite yes, but I don't even remember if they had a product for that one, so maybe The Oatmeal has one up on them. I think one of the higher tiers was for an unpaid internship at Penny Arcade.
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Jan 31, 2015 00:34
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Genetic Toaster posted:As a bonus, the creator is currently having a meltdown on twitter. He's even appealing to the sharks on Shark Tank. Please, Shark Tank, have this man on your show.
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May 3, 2015 08:27
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Those metal cubes/spheres/whatever just remind me of pet rocks. Is that back now? Can I make a Kickstarter for it?
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Jun 1, 2015 15:35
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:That might not be why people buy phones, but people absolutely support kickstarters based on "fake made up techno bullshit." It's basically the only growth sector the US still has. Now that the FTC is getting involved, would they go after these sorts of "obviously lovely science" Kickstarters? Does the FDA regulate any of the food-based (or medicine based) Kickstarters?
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Jun 16, 2015 20:03
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Edward_Tohr posted:... Oh, and got the thing funded by a proper publisher before the kickstarter even ended. Stay classy, Inafune. "Proper publisher" is a bit of a stretch: http://www.fuzegame.tv/e/index.php http://www.fuzegame.tv/e/product.php
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Jul 30, 2015 19:27
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Hearing that twerp say "Here we go" would be annoying except the game will probably be bad and so I probably won't play it. Also dashing into everything after shooting at it seems like it will get super annoying and is generally unnecessary. I'm honestly not sure what it adds? It also does the cardinal sin of reminding people of something better, that being Megaman X's opening stage, which was awesome.
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Jul 31, 2015 07:07
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KiddieGrinder posted:Is such trite poo poo quote:Former BioWare devs Checks out.
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Aug 6, 2015 15:02
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Gilganixon posted:They were funded over a million on lamps of all things In defense of lamps (how many times will I get to say this in my life?), the Lumio is pretty sweet. And is out there in the wild! It was even on Shark Tank! The Lampster looks like a piece of poo poo though.
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Jan 23, 2016 12:19
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Sleeveless posted:Imagine reading drat Interesting only every few seconds a really obnoxious comedian tells a joke and then laughs at his own joke right in your ear and you have the full Dollop experience. "Joke" should be in quotes. The history is interesting (drat interesting, you might say), but the sort of overreactions to things reminds me of YouTube superstars screaming at like Amnesia or something. Like distractingly fake and bad.
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Mar 3, 2016 07:03
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TetsuoTW posted:Kids these days should just be grateful to have libraries. Back in my day the whole school had one book, and it was written on parchment and stored in the dungeon. Yeah, but that book had like spells or some other badass poo poo written on it.
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Jun 1, 2016 07:58
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It's too bad Doublefine burnt through a whole lot of goodwill from Psychonauts with Broken Age and DF9 that it's hard to even start to care. How could producing a blu-ray take this much goddamn time? Don Hertzfeldt shipped out his blus in like, months after his Kickstarter ended.
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Jul 30, 2016 00:44
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An eBook reader dedicated to only one series: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196861017/fist-of-the-north-star-innovative-ebook
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Sep 19, 2017 10:31
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Fastball LIVE in concert posted:Just make them into one. Viagrogaine, the topical rub for bald, impotent men. It'll make a killing at NRA conventions.
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Nov 9, 2017 00:20
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This reminds me, what happened to that laser razor? They look like they're still posting to their indiegogo, but I can't tell if they're just stringing people along before quietly fading away or what.
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Nov 28, 2017 19:14
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Dunno-Lars posted:I think the point of them is that you use from them. So that fancy toilet paper flower in the bathroom? You take those flowers and wipe your rear end with them. And then I assume the host will run out and restock the flower right away? Or just have a flower that is missing pieces? Uh you're adding fertilizer man, they're obviously going to grow into more toilet paper flowers. This is like, basic toilet paper botany dude.
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Nov 28, 2017 23:06
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klafbang posted:It's a functional solution to a real problem: hipsters with too much money. But taxation had solved this problem?
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Apr 27, 2018 09:14
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SFers wouldn't be caught dead patronizing the superior Los Angeles. They'd go to Tahoe or reconnect with their fellow whites in Portland.
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Nov 11, 2018 09:41
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yeah there's a real lack of Vore in mainstream games. Kirby games exist though?
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