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[miauw62]

Moon dust is highly toxic D:

_{cave johnson out}

[mattie2009]

Godspeed, Cave. Godspeed.

[Zangi]

I did some research and found that. So, apparently, the kickstarting went as expected until Internet Hate Machine hit Sarkeesian hard, including death and rape threats. The obscene amount of money being pledged is the result of people wanting to show their support to the author. Still not sure if I agree this particular project deserves as much money, but I can sympathize. At least, it is bound to encourage people not to be dicks.

Seeing the comments and stuff on youtube made me want to donate 'just cause, now stfu' too...  but... well, I can just throw in a dollar, seeing how well its doing already cause of that.

You can't be serious, this woman is expecting money for YOUTUBE VIDEOS!!! I don't agree with death and rape threats, but people can't seriously support the trash this woman spews.

Apparently I procrastinated too long to throw a dollar her way.

[Sergius]

YouTube videos? Shut up and take my money!

[MrWiggles]

I dont understand the bitch about the video series being on youtube.

[Sergius]

I dont understand the bitch about the video series being on youtube.

YouTube is the big satan, it's stealing Hollywood's profits (derking our jerbs). If it's not on theatres or DVD, it's a scam and can't be a professional video. Or something.

Also YouTube is for cats videos.

[jester]

I dont understand the bitch about the video series being on youtube.

Believe the issue is that youtube vids have already been made on almost any topic for free with no hassles, then someone made a porn version and it got posted on youporn, also without alot of outside cash being dumped in.  Then this chick turns up and asks for money to make a youtube vid.......

[MrWiggles]

I dont understand the bitch about the video series being on youtube.

Believe the issue is that youtube vids have already been made on almost any topic for free with no hassles, then someone made a porn version and it got posted on youporn, also without alot of outside cash being dumped in.  Then this chick turns up and asks for money to make a youtube vid.......

So, youtube videos aren't allowed to have a budget?

[nenjin]

"Absolutely not. I filmed my cat taking a dump with my phone and got 1 million views, and I did that for free! WHERE'S MY MONEY INTERNET!"

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I actually like the idea of funding a series of YouTube videos with something like Kickstarter. If you really look at the price of making a good quality video and realize what goes into it then it stops being so ridiculous. Of all the things you need besides whatever it takes to record what you plan to record you need a good microphone which I have priced it and the lowest good one that are worth it are about $80 and for actual professional stuff its more, a program to edit you videos and if you want to do anything good you need one of the good programs, Lots of storage space though now Gigs of storage is cheaper then ever you may need terabytes of storage (FyreUK recently did a video wherein they commented that the footage from their mage city timelapse took up 4 terabytes), and that is just the things I can think of off the top of my head because I have had to deal with them and I am not even doing anywhere near professional videos.

[penguinofhonor]

Not to mention the cost of researching the subject you're talking on, maybe compensating expert guests for talking, who knows? There could be a lot of costs to making a video, and just because you're going to host it on youtube afterwards doesn't make that illegitimate.

[Karlito]

So, I suppose most of you have heard of Penny Arcade's kickstarter thing. This kind of thing sort of seems against the spirit of kickstarter (and possibly the rules). Thoughts?

Oh and

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[kaijyuu]

I actually like it. I've been thinking a lot about funding systems for free products, and this is one of the exact things I've considered as a possibility.

Understand that Toady does a similar thing here. It's not ads he's willing to sell away, but fast updates. The game would still be developed without him getting donations, but it'd go much slower as he'd have a day job. The end users (us) don't have to pay a dime, but the charity of a few benefits all.



I really think that "give us money and we'll release a bunch of free stuff" Kickstarters (and things similar to Kickstarter) are the Future.

[MrWiggles]

I don't understand how its against the rules.

[penguinofhonor]

It's not kickstarting anything. There's no new projects from it, there's no little guy being enabled to do something beyond their means. It's just a different avenue for them to ask for donations.