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Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Aaronicon posted:

Holy poo poo they actually managed to find something to add to make it worse :catstare:

I saw the catgirls at first and thought it wasn't that bad, but then I scrolled down to the muscular green weretiger with tits and lost it. I can't believe stuff like that still exists outside of 2003 :lol:.

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Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Syrg Sapphire posted:

Yo who wants a super-racist manga clone?


Meet Shaniqua No Ho.



Quoting this because the project's creators have taken their ball and gone home. Too bad, Shaniqua no Ho, you were 1/20 of the way there!

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Hopefully when that well dries up, any future employer will google his name and find it associated with this.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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They're really common outside of the US where you have to carry $1 or £1 coins, they'll have a zippered compartment for them. In practice, they just make your wallet exceptionally heavy and bulky.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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PostNouveau posted:

I sure have seen a lot of "visual novel" anime games on crowdfunding sites.

Is there, like, a dearth of anime or something? Are anime fans so deprived that they're forced to throw their money at terrible bullshit or is it just that a "visual novel" game is the easiest thing for a no-talent hack to poo poo out in a month?

There's also a free, open-source program called Ren'Py that not only makes it easy to make your game, but it requires no licensing fee or anything to sell your final product. It's a zero-cost start-up if you're doing the assets yourself, sort of like why there were so many sprite webcomics back in the day. Write a bunch of dialogue, paste a character into the scene, add some music and cherry blossoms, then you have the next big hit.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Zybourne Clock posted:

It's a portable coffee filter that connects with a mason jar. I think I have one of those around here somewhere, except it's plastic, works with any bottle I want, and it cost me 99 cents or something close to that. It's not an ~authentic, artisan~ filter though, so I will have to live in shame with the knowledge my poor knockoff can't be used to make coffee as tasty as the 27 dollar real-deal.

I'll wager yours also fits over a container that won't get scalding hot once you pour in the coffee. Sorry if you missed out on ordering the mason jar koozie, enjoy burning the poo poo out of your hands once your coffee's brewed.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Toffile posted:

It's the $10 reward.



I saw those, but they're a limited run of 10.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Isn't that a known scam on indie gogo? Take a legit kickstarter, copy it over and put it on flexible funding. The idea is to use a small scale project that looks like it will succeed on kickstarter and hope you make your money and split before the real project runner becomes aware of it. I've heard of it happening to comics or indie games people.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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They'll probably do a breakdown post on this when the numbers are in, but the kickstarter blog did a post on the potato salad stats a few months ago. Here.

The main take away is nearly 3/4 of the backers had already backed other projects.

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Most of the project's backers were not new to Kickstarter: 72% were repeat backers. In fact, even when you include the newcomers, potato salad backers have backed an average of 15 projects on Kickstarter! So while this was a global joke on the Internet, backing the project became an inside joke among core Kickstarter fans.

It's a similar story with people who backed the coolest cooler, that wasn't the only thing people backed.

So basically people who back the larger campaigns have backed and will back other projects.

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Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Phone posting so I don't know if this is the same one as last year, but there's another food scanner up for flexible funding on indie gogo. Only $100, too!

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Unsurprisingly that link 404s so a dmca must've gotten through. What idiots.

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May 28, 2006

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Auto-playing video.

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Watch This Homeowner Shoot Down a Drone Flying over His Property

Larry Breaux of Valencia, California, is the homeowner who shot down the drone. He told INSIDE EDITION he believes the drone was sent over his house in a deliberate act of harassment.

He told INSIDE EDITION, "I get an anonymous phone call on my answering machine, 'Hey, get rid of your eyesore sign or you won't have any privacy.'"

The sign is at the entrance of his property and it advertises a Kickstarter campaign to save money for an organic lemon business he wants to start.


INSIDE EDITION's Jim Moret asked Breaux, "Do you believe that your neighbors are upset because you have that sign out there?"

He responded, "I believe one of them is."

Breaux showed us how he was sitting next to a shotgun he uses to scare off coyotes when he saw the drone hovering outside his window.

Breaux told INSIDE EDITION, "I throw my cell phone to my friend, 'Hey, videotape me.'"

He said he couldn't get a shot off at first because the shotgun was on safety, but when he turned the corner, he managed to bring down the drone with a single shot.

Somehow Larry's shot missed the computer chip that was recording video.

Breaux believes the person controlling the drone was standing on top of the hill which is on Larry's property, and when he shot the drone out of the sky, he heard that person start to yell.

He showed us what could be a figure in the distance, but it's impossible to tell for sure.

Breaux says he never found the owner of the drone and hasn't reported the incident to the police.

The video is dramatic for sure, maybe almost too dramatic, and now we wonder if it was a set up for his Kickstarter campaign, which is soliciting donations online for his organic lemon business.

So, we had to ask, "What do you want to say to those folks who think you did this for publicity?"

He responded, "All I can say is its a true story and I've got the raw video on my phone but not on the drone, and it's just a freak thing that the chips survived."

Breaux has a Kickstarter page, showing he has raised a little over 400 dollars of the 60,000 he needs to start his organic lemon business.

His Kickstarter campaign utilizes drone video that looks awfully familiar to the video in question.


Looks like this fellow's got a case of sour lemons :smug: .

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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MrAptronym posted:

Why are all the english VNs so much worse drawn? I don't mean to be praising glorious nippon's thriving porn game industry, but literally every aspect of this drawing is bad, the guy doesn't even attempt feet, and he gets five grand in his first week? Or is it that they only advertise the higher end creepy japanese porn games and these exist everywhere?

Visual Novels are such a niche market in English, that I imagine you've basically got a captive audience if you appeal to VN fans with a specific fetish. It's why back in the day even badly drawn furry art could rake in money if it appealed to the dick-nipple cat-centaur fans.

Transformation fetish fans especially have deep pockets and some pretty terrible standards, judging by the average art quality of this kind of thing.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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While I do think Kickstarter should be responsible for obvious scams/impossible projects like that laser razor, you really do need to do your own research and critical thinking.

Are you backing a product that already exists in some form, just needs funds to get to you like a book, comic, music album? Does the creator have previous successfully fulfilled projects or can stick to and finish a project? If worse comes to worse, can you afford the 20/50/1200 bucks you're giving away?

I've only had one dud pledge in the time I've been using it, I mostly just back comics that are collecting funds for a print run. If you want a magic color changing shirt or an awkward e-ink typewriter go ahead, but don't be surprised if it doesn't pan out.

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Munchables posted:

Aren't there already chopsticks made for kids that are connected by plastic animals at the top?

I've even seen people make kid-friendly ones out of the disposible kind with a rubberband and wadded up napkin or cardboard.

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queserasera posted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_(law)

I stopped selling pins on Etsy because I couldn't compete with people infringing on copyrights, reselling Alibaba merch, or both.

I really hope these crowdfunded folks outsource to China and then get scooped.


Yeah, while the production process is approachable to any artist who knows Illustrator that's what makes it very easy to vector trace a simple cartoon screencap and send it off.

I like buying ones from artists who produce their own designs, though :shobon: .

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There's no way this is going to look as amazing as this mock-up.

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It's definitely aimed at the people who are way deep into the bullet journal lifestyle which uses similar symbols to mark tasks done and separates them into today/soon/later style categories.

Some people are really into the aesthetic of fancy notebooks and paper and stuff. I mean, I am too, but I'm too cheap to buy any of this stuff these days.

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RPATDO_LAMD posted:

This isn't a kickstarter for handkerchiefs. They show in the video that they already kickstarted those (and made $800,000).
This kickstater is for a box to put the handkerchiefs in.

I use handkerchiefs but I'll be goddamned if I'm folding them individually into a box.

I just keep them in a drawer.

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