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[Draco18s]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light-bulb-reinvented

First time I've seen a kickstarter actually *sell out*

And I still think the concept is stupid.

[TheBronzePickle]

It's a rich peoples' toy.

You'd think they would have made the rewards more numerous, though. They're planning on mass-production, right? They can afford to supply more people with freaking light bulbs.

[GalenEvil]

Would have funded cuz of an "OOOH SHINEY!" moment. Thankfully they were both sold out and already finished with funding as of 4 hours ago heh

[MorleyDev]

Technically if you're self-funding/pre-order funding a project, that'd make you self-employed or a business so no unemployment...

Decent contract artists and sound will cost thousands, taking someone on staff means paying a wage so also thousands go there. People gotta eat after all.

[Thief^]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light-bulb-reinvented

First time I've seen a kickstarter actually *sell out*

Pebble sold out too. Or more accurately they had to add caps before the funding closed because they were getting far too many orders. They're already delayed a few months by the shear volume of orders...

LIFX sounds good but it should use household wiring as the network, not wireless. Then you could put network-enabled dimmer switches into walls and so on quite easily!

[Blargityblarg]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light-bulb-reinvented

First time I've seen a kickstarter actually *sell out*

Pebble sold out too. Or more accurately they had to add caps before the funding closed because they were getting far too many orders. They're already delayed a few months by the shear volume of orders...

LIFX sounds good but it should use household wiring as the network, not wireless. Then you could put network-enabled dimmer switches into walls and so on quite easily!

I think that'd invalidate a lot of the 'plug and play' appeal.

[Scaraban]

Unforgotten Quest made by the guy behind urealms.com. Watch one of his series if it interests you and then hopefully you'll understand why I'm so excited for this. He's has a ton of stuff related to the kickstarter up on his site, as well as a whole board on the forum dedicated to dev questions. Video blogs about the game/development process are coming soon.

Not quite this excited

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

But excited.

[Tilla]

My two favorites right now are definitely on the absurdist  humor side of things: Barkley 2 (the sequel to Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden). If you know what that is, it needs no real introduction!

and Ryan North's (Dinosaur Comics) To Be Or Not To Be: A choose your own adventure-style gamebook based on Hamlet. Featuring art from basically every major webcomic artist you can think of (Mike Krahulik from Penny Arcade, Andrew Hussie from MSPaint Adventures, Ethan Nicolle from Axe Cop, Randall Munroe from XKCD, Kate Beaton from Hark a Vagrant, and literally dozens upon dozens more. I could just keep going). So far they've blown past all the initial stretch goals (audiobook edition, a PREQUEL to Hamlet called Poor Yorick about a broke version of the famed skull while he was still alive, an undetermined sequel NOT based on Hamlet but on some other Shakespeare work, and a GOD DAMN LIVE ACTION PLAY STREAMED ONLINE WITH LIVE POLLING TO CHOOSE THE NEXT SCENE)

[tryrar]

Anyone up for some precision-machined metal d6's?

Seriously, this guys has actually gone through the trouble of modelling dice in 3d and getting them close as possible to perfect. Plus, in a pinch, you could always use them as an improvised weapon!

[Neonivek]

I've kinda been disillusioned from the Kickstarter gone wrong topic...

To the point where I am seriously questioning if Kickstarter can ever go right not that it kinda stopped being about the funding.

Plus, in a pinch, you could always use them as an improvised weapon

It would uttarly destroy their value as the impact could unbalance them.

It is actually what kinda makes me question the dice as a while would be that almost any amount of genuinly using them would decrease their value as perfectly balanced dice.

[Skyrunner]

Anyone up for some precision-machined metal d6's?

Seriously, this guys has actually gone through the trouble of modelling dice in 3d and getting them close as possible to perfect. Plus, in a pinch, you could always use them as an improvised weapon!

I'm tempted just because it's solid metal I don't care about their perfection, they just look good!

[Neonivek]

I'd be sort of more interested in Blue Chromatic Dice.

Or green.

[Draco18s]

It is actually what kinda makes me question the dice as a while would be that almost any amount of genuinly using them would decrease their value as perfectly balanced dice.

Not really.  Any metal with a higher density than wood is going to do more damage to the table than the die itself.

http://www.weregeek.com/2011/01/19/

[Darvi]

Whoa, I think I just found an easter egg.

[Draco18s]

Whoa, I think I just found an easter egg.

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