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[MarcAFK]

Dude everyone knows the ark is in a warehouse inside the pentagon, that whole thing with the plane in 9/11 was actually just an accident where someone dropped the crate holding it releasing energy which tore through the 20 levels above it decimating the top chevron and blasting an energy beam through the atmosphere into deep space. If we're very lucky, they didn't notice it.

[Rez]

Don't you guys even know why it's a pentagon?

[jester]

Don't you guys even know why it's a pentagon?

American education system isnt exactly top shelf on geometry?

[MrWiggles]

Don't you guys even know why it's a pentagon?

American education system isnt exactly top shelf on geometry?

Because there are five armed force branches?

[mainiac]

Don't you guys even know why it's a pentagon?

American education system isnt exactly top shelf on geometry?

Thread is won.

[Draco18s]

Don't you guys even know why it's a pentagon?

American education system isnt exactly top shelf on geometry?

Thread is won.

Or is it lost?

[miauw62]

Well, i'm sure that its derailed.

[Draco18s]

Well, i'm sure that its derailed.

"When Kickstarter Goes Wrong" goes wrong.

[nenjin]

Spend less time being clever and moar time trolling Kickstarter for brown gold!

/re-railed

[Draco18s]

Spend less time being clever and moar time trolling Kickstarter for brown gold!

/re-railed

Would you like to fund my expedition to capture a live skyfish?

[Leafsnail]

Ok then, fresh from the recently launched page!  I give you: Pyroclasp by Pyroclasp.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pyroclasp/pyroclasp

It initially caught my attention due to a spelling error in the description ("The awakening of ultra human abilities in three young men on there journey to become saviors of the earth"), the two notable things about it are

Spoiler: 1. The amazing vagueness of the project page (click to show/hide)

All I can work out is that it's a comic which involves men with supernatural powers.  Beyond that... nothing.  I don't know the target market, I don't know if it'll be dark or silly, I don't know the nature of the plot or characters, I don't have any idea what the supernatural powers will be.  I'm not even entirely sure if this is a webcomic or ultimately a printed one.  Luckily Mr Pyroclasp has a link to his website from his profile, so we can take a look at that later.

Spoiler: 2. The rewards (click to show/hide)

your likeness in the crowds!! And you name in the dedication page!!

This project is for $5000.  If they're expecting to make, say, half of their money from the lowest tier reward then both their crowd scenes and dedication pages will be pretty ridiculous.

Pyroclasp te shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay.

A 5 page side arch were you are the main character!!

This does sound like a kindof amazing reward.  Again, imagine if several of these were bought... I guess they feel confident their storyline can survive the disruption of having irrelevant self insert "arches"?

A hardback copy of the first 50 pages of the comic signed by the bunch of us!!!!

So you are planning to print it?  Why do I have to pay $1000 for the printed version?

As for the actual comic, here is the first page (I should note their archives are broken and there's no "first" button, so I had to click previous 11 times to get here).  I've read it all and still don't really have any idea what the comic intends to be (other than a black and white comic that involves hair colour changing and descriptions of audio based jokes).  I haven't really turned much of a critical eye to the comic itself, but it's a really badly done Kickstarter considering the ridiculously vague nature of the page and the weird reward scheme.

[Draco18s]

T-shirt.  As in, it looks like the letter T.

[Servant Corps]

The ZionEyez kickstarter (basically, they are futuristic video-recording glasses that raised over $300,000 and haven't sent out a single glassess yet) has became so infamous that it finally got covered by the Syndey Monday Hearld, but perhaps what may be more important is that ZionEyez sent a backer this email:

We appreciate your support and belief in our product.
We must regretfully inform you that due to continued delays, Zeyez will be postponing the anticipated shipment date of our highly anticipated product Eyez. As a result, we are offering all of our Pre-Order customers full refunds to those customers who would rather wait to purchase Eyez when they become available. If you would like a refund, please send us your mailing address so we can send you a refund promptly.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Best Regards,
-The Zeyez Team

If ZionEyez are finally promising refunds, I think this will defuse the steady stream of angry comments on their Kickstarter page.

[Leafsnail]

"Promising refunds" is quite a way off "delivering refunds", though.  It's certainly a worrying turn.

[Karlito]

Some fellows from Something Awful put together this tumblr. Some of the projects on here do seem like decent ideas, though.