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[Cthulhu]

I don't think they're ironic anymore.  The first one maybe but now it's just shamelessly trying to cash in on dumb shit.

That's really how I see kickstarter as a whole.  Like, if you try to kickstart a minimalist wallet you can't possibly be coming out of anything except the baldest cynicism.

[MarcAFK]

Ok I'm starting up a kickstarter, this is a serious artistic project requiring significant funding for completion, achieving this project will cause great joy to community and improve many lives.
Reward tier 1 costs a nugget and you will have my thanks on this page.
Tier 2 is an ingot and you will be mentioned in a sign located at the base of the structure.
Tier 3 costs 8 ingots and you will be mentioned on your own sign attached to a key part of the structure.
Tier 4 costs a diamond and an entire floor will be named after you.
Tier 5 is 8 diamonds and you get a floor and a name tagged villager butler to serve visitors.
Tier 6 is 1,000 diamond blocks and you get a coffee mug Cauldron.

Stretch goals are:
500d I'll build a rail station between the structure and the nearest town.
1000d I'll build another structure exactly the same as the first at that town.
2000d I'll make the structure from bedrock to skylevel.
5000d I'll build a working computer in minecraft that can load the whole server and then build the structure in that.
50,000d at this stretch goal i'll involve nanoscale quantum tunneling superstring vacuum processing.....

[anzki4]

I suggest changing the last reward tier to the priviledge of visiting your house and having lunch with you. I'm sure tons of people want to visit some random basement dweller non-celebrity and have lunch with them. Escpecially if you present yourself as creepily as possible in the video.

[FearfulJesuit]

Go green and help this guy invent a desktop app that replaces your old adding machine! I wonder why nobody's ever thought of this before.

[Karlito]

Go green and help this guy invent a desktop app that replaces your old adding machine! I wonder why nobody's ever thought of this before.

What's more

There are no foreseen risks or challenges to completing this project. With the application functionality finished, the major effort going forward is describing that functionality in a User Guide and then incorporating the guide into the program's help structure. No new technology is needed.

There isn't actually anything to kickstart! The project is already completed. Also, a software key costs $75.

EDIT:Hell, you can buy it right now on his website.

[Draco18s]

EDIT:Hell, you can buy it right now on his website.

You forgot the bit where an activation key is only $10 on said website.

[nenjin]

This thread was more fun when 90% of all Kickstarters here weren't ironic bullshit. It's not fun when the project creator already knows their idea is stupid.

[Graknorke]

It's nowhere near 90%.

[penguinofhonor]

pretty sure this one is ironic but it's still hilarious

[BlitzDungeoneer]

What's so ironic? Other than the fact that they probably can't do this? Can they, actually?

[penguinofhonor]

There is no way that guy is serious. It's obviously a copyright violation, and pretty much every section is a joke.

[Cthulhu]

I think you're underestimating how stupid people on kickstarter are.  It reads legit to me.  Stupid, but not a joke.  Too much work for a joke.

Once the company that owes Pokemon gives you a warning we will have to shut it down immediately. If this ever happens (Hopefully not) we will try our best to continue production no matter what.

[MarcAFK]

That sushi snorlax is cutelicious, but I'm not sure about the digwienies.

[Rez]

It's hilarious either way:

Edgertronic Slow Motion Camera
£3,200 + Shipping From America 

This has just been recorded to be the cheapest High-Speed (Slo-Mo) camera on the market. It still seems pricey but this will be the cheapest High-Speed camera you will find for atleast another few years. We would need this camera to film slow motion shots (Obviously) for example: I have a scene where Ash gets attacked by ...... then an explosion happens behind him which sends him flying. We decided that this would look best in High-Speed. Of course that would not be the only scene with High-Speed we have planned about 4-5 other short scenes with High-Speed.

EXPLOSIONS?! We got ourselves a summer blockbuster producer here.

When I heard the news I thought that one day a High-Quality Live Action Film will be released, I never thought it would be me trying to produce a Live-Action Pokemon Flick.

wwwwwww

This is actually sad, on a couple of levels:

Believe me or not but for over 2 & A Half Years I have been working on a script for a Pokemon movie & been studying success for an Kickstarter project. So if I do not get funded properly that will be over 2 Years of my life I will never be able to get back.

That doesn't stop me from grinning though.

[MrWiggles]

Wow. God damn. That is one hella of a kickstarter. They placed a time and energy into the kickstarter itself. The cameras they want, and the various programs they want, are, to my understanding, all legit prices. But then the body of the kickstarter has lots of typos. It felt like it wasn't proof read. I think this dude is a 110 percent serious.

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As far as he legality goes. Its totally up to Game Freaks and Nintendo. Japanese culture, is far more lenient with fan projects of their works then in the west. Pokemon is no exception. Tonnes of for profit unofficial magna exist for pokemon, and not just porn. Same for web based games too.

But yea, this thing is defiantly an unambiguous theft of IP for their project. And that line about not wanting to get a C&D demonstrate quite clearly that they are aware of it. So they're already asking for couple hundred thousand dollars, why not also get a license for the Pokemon while you're at it.