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Topic: Kickstarter - The Thread. (Read 413069 times)
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A perfect name for a kickstarter project (thatsthejoke.jpg)
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Signe
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My brother in law is having a kickstarter starting TODAY!! The last issue of his magazine was popular and there were lots of stories they had to edit out even though they were really good. They're trying for $1500 to make a supplementary issue or whatever to include these stories. It's about clowns. My sister did the cover art. It'll be fun to watch and I hope they get it. I think it's mostly the authors who want their stories published who are funding it. It's very very mildly exciting but only if you are an author of a clown story or really easily excited.
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MahrinSkel
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High precision erector set that can be used to make a CNC mill and/or a 3D printer for <$1K. They had the good fortune to be featured on TechCrunch, and the bad fortune for the story to run on April 1st. --Dave
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Ginaz
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Some KS news that everyone here will be entertained by. Shit director extraordinaire Uwe Boll failed with his latest KS to make a Rampage 3 based movie, which followed his failed attempt to raise money for a Postal 2 movie. Mr. Boll is not happy about this. At all. He lost his shit in a couple of videos on YouTube over it. Some amusing quotes from the article: "So, basically, my message is f*** yourselves." "I wanted to do Rampage 3 because it is an important movie, but it looks like you are easier [sic] giving $600k to make a movie about some r******d wizard in the forest or some Marvel Avengers bulls*** dirt." "So goodbye and goodbye Hollywood." Please be true and do let the door hit you on the way out.Another amusing quote relates to Boll's desire to direct the Warcraft movie. Blizzard's response: "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you."  http://ca.ign.com/articles/2015/06/08/uwe-boll-has-meltdown-following-failed-kickstarterNSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1J65KHX8E |
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« Last Edit: June 08, 2015, 06:44:43 PM by Ginaz »
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Paelos
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He can crawl back to whatever hole he came out of honestly.
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Signe
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Retaaahted.
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HaemishM
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I see Uwe Boll has gone all Randy Quaid on the Internet.
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Paelos
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I see Uwe Boll has gone all Randy Quaid on the Internet.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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I've heard of Uwe Boll, but I just looked him up on IMDB and not only have I never seen a single movie that he's directed, I've never even heard of any of them. I know the games that some of them are named after but I had zero idea that any of those films existed at all.
So... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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HaemishM
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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I think there's more to your story with this guy my good Sir.  |
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HaemishM
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Unfortunately, he wouldn't agree to beating the shit out of me in the ring many years ago. Lowtax apparently was a better target.
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sickrubik
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beer geek.
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Kail
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Great for EDC (Everyday Carry) tactical matte black. Yes, you can carry it around in your pursIMEAN TACTICAL EQUIPMENT DEPLOYMENT SATCHEL |
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MahrinSkel
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Paelos
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Lip Balm and small dogs. Sweet lord.
The Chinese are just waiting until we go full candy-ass and then it's invasion time.
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HaemishM
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Put this dudestick to your lips!
Just... no.
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« Last Edit: August 22, 2015, 03:07:55 PM by Samprimary »
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Paelos
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FAIL POST
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HaemishM
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2020 will be the year I gave up all hope.
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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jth
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Solu - A new breed of computinghttp://www.solu.co/They are not lacking ambition, they mentioned in a (Finnish) interview that their long term goal is no less than taking over the market from MS and Apple, and have everyone using Solu. I wish them luck, but they'll need to pry my mouse from my cold, dead hands.
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« Last Edit: October 16, 2015, 04:27:23 AM by satael »
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Merusk
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According to the tech industry and some people here those without an always on wifi are troglodytes not worth considering.
Never underestimate the lack of understanding of the world outside their little thought cloud some folks have. The CEO looks exactly like the sort of smug douche who wouldn't think rural places worth considering. Nor would he understand the lack of desire for this sort of approach outside his industry or the infeasability of having an always-on wide-open connection handled by a third party when on a secure site.
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HaemishM
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BWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Oh wait, these guys are serious? BWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA |
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KallDrexx
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LOL the part of not ever having to pay for an app ever again got me.
So, you want zero third party developers to ever develop for your platform. Good luck.
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jth
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Part of the monthly fee (which they estimated to be around $20 USD) will be distributed to developers, based on app usage time. Which means that for a long time developers will get pretty much nothing, but in the pipe dream scenario where someday millions of people are using these, a popular app could make decent money.
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Merusk
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Gullible people doing kickstarters with no research. PT Barnum's new favorite folks. I paid $75 for a drone of similar size from a reputable drone company that did 640x480 photos. It "flies" in the same manner as all small drones, erratically and in fits and jerks for a max of 10 mins. A lot of that is just the nature of wind gusts, the size & weight of the drone and the size of the propellers. You can't get a gyro on a machine that small and light. There's no way a startup was going to innovate automated flight, battery life and cameras on their own for that little money on any realistic timeframe. |
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Goreschach
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Gullible people doing kickstarters with no research. PT Barnum's new favorite folks. I paid $75 for a drone of similar size from a reputable drone company that did 640x480 photos. It "flies" in the same manner as all small drones, erratically and in fits and jerks for a max of 10 mins. A lot of that is just the nature of wind gusts, the size & weight of the drone and the size of the propellers. You can't get a gyro on a machine that small and light. There's no way a startup was going to innovate automated flight, battery life and cameras on their own for that little money on any realistic timeframe. Seems to me like it would be easier to just put the camera on a little gimbal and only try to stabilize that. |
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penfold
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The only good thing about crowdfunding is I've bought some games in the Steam sale that were originally crowdfunded.
Cant ever see myself pre-ordering on the basis of a pitch tho, especially not paying more than the product price. I've seen crowdfunded restaurants offer little more than a meal for 8 for £1000 too, the equivalent return on some of the service industry style projects is atrocious.
On the plus side, I do enjoy reading about the big fails, especially the ones where at a glance I could see it wasnt feasible or just people begging for cash and offering fuck all.
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HaemishM
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Wait... restaurants were being funded on Kickstarter? ... THE... FUCK? I mean, what in the actual fuck?
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