other people's money is always better to bet on than your own...
Bob "Powers of Tesla" Lindley 2015-02-08T12:23:59-05:00
@GCoD. A smart producer NEVER risks his own money. That's the first rule of producing. Find a sucker, promise a percentage of the profit and pay yourself like a king. That's how you make a living as a producer.
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-08T12:26:49-05:00
@Pr.F: can I place bets with your money? I promise I'll double the winnings.
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:27:14-05:00
I'm sure he also had access to plenty of suckers to get the money. Oh wait...KS proved that he did. I'll just....sit here and...do something else
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-08T12:28:05-05:00
Yeah, the issue isn't who funded it, but that it was on KS at all. These were all well known and connected Hollywood types, asking "us" to fund their project. I note the production is listed as costing $6M, KS raised $5.7M, and the opening take was just over $3M. That leaves $3m to make from DVD and broadcast sales ... they took KS, pure and simple.
The opening take would have made me excited for him, if he was a new and completely unknown producers without means...
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:30:24-05:00
But I agree with everyone that a major Hollywood player had no business on a crowdfunding site. He probably did it to show his friends how much he could take the public fot
@ Prof. F - I perhaps could be listed as a chaotic neutral. I can enjoy both the calming view of a sunset on the beach and the strangely exhilarating destruction of a hurricane. I'm a good person at heart though.
Your choice as neutral is both yours and fitting. I'm only evil because my actions in character have horrible world wide consequences...
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-08T12:34:40-05:00
@LZ: maybe Joel Silver was using KS to gauge how interested people would be for a Veronica Mars movie. Remember, fans wanted a X Files sequel and look how well that did at the boxoffice.
Well the potattens we're my brain child. They eventually start a world war and blow up national land marks... it hasn't happened yet, [butt the historian] said so.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-08T12:36:31-05:00
@LZ - I have seen some very cute and good necromancers. I even read a story of a necromancer who was afraid of the creatures she summoned that was fairly amusing.
[good] and [evil] are only as society define them... which is usually pretty unchanging because most people agree about what kinds of things are messed up and which kind of things aren't...
The Historian is the time lord... I have a theory CheetahButt looses his tongue with liquor to figure out what's happening next....
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:39:05-05:00
@Paradoxica, yes, but the general consensus was that an undead anthropomorphic cat that raises cat zombies to do his bidding must be a villain. Once society decided that, I decided to own it
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T12:39:14-05:00
The Historian is just an overrated pencil pusher @Potatten
He IS the lord of the [static time line].... though I've never been much for it myself, being more of a proprietor of the [dynamic time-flow system]. I've invented tools to prevent the sense changing of time around myself... it was messing with my experiments and making them... tempermental...
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T12:44:38-05:00
It appears that some of you have had an increase in delusions of grandeur
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-08T12:44:51-05:00
Geez, an additional $2.5K in just the few minutes we've been blathering on ...
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:46:11-05:00
Your power was easy enough to seal off in regard to myself... I was only able to make the one though... [thingy] before you managed to destroy a major source of a material needed. That and it's ridiculously over-complicated and kick of physics defying. Quantum mechanics are just so darn hard to lock down....
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:48:40-05:00
@ProF, I have no delusions of grandeur. Realizations of facts are not delusions
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:50:19-05:00
I'm curious, Potatten, when you're making your quantum devices, do you have to work with them in the single digits on the kelvin scale?
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:50:47-05:00
The flesh of the living
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T12:51:30-05:00
Pron Update : Stratosphere has been successfully reached. Tubes being rotated on their own axis to counter the earth's orbit and in tandem with the seasonal differential of the equinox shifting. Slave death toll : 209
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:51:45-05:00
Though food is generally unnecessary. I require but little physical sustenance. The powers of necromancy sustain me
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-08T12:52:06-05:00
@Pr.F: Didn't you lose your time lord powers?
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:52:30-05:00
You've only killed 209 slaves!? You're hardly even trying!
My experiments end horribly all the time! I've no delusions of grandeur. Yes... but that's just to start. At a certain point you need an incredible amount of heat. The real trick is how to observe, and also how not to observe... building something without observing it in any way shape of form is exceedingly difficult because you can't have it on the mind either.....
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T12:54:06-05:00
Those blasted particles! Behaving differently because they know they're being observed!
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-08T12:57:07-05:00
I say keep to theoretical calculations... much safer than blowing up things and creating runaway genesplices....
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-08T12:57:30-05:00
For the whole observe / not observe thingy, we evil types keep a vast store of kittens in boxes.
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T12:58:28-05:00
209 deaths on the tubular system construction alone in less than 72 hours.
@Prof F: you could just move the move in and out of orbit at different distances if you wanted that.... why make extra stuff when you can use what's there?
While I couldn't care less for humans, I currently need their fleshy hands & legs to make my ubercrib on Pron. and you said thr M word. Expect to be tazed to near death at an unexpected moment.
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T13:05:39-05:00
Quiche, yes, though sometimes a nice cheese soufflé with pan-seared steak and a light salad is what the villain wants.
Your inability to come up with the plan isn't my problem, I'm also grounded by nature. You forget my experiments constantly cause me injury, a tazing won't have any effect.
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-08T13:09:13-05:00
Or some Gaga beans and a nice chanti.
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T13:09:16-05:00
@Pottaten, thanks for the insight. Will look for an alternative punishment
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T13:09:22-05:00
This talk makes me hungry. I think I need to make a soufflé tonight
Horror Junky - Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-02-08T13:09:54-05:00
Stupid auto correct! I meant fava beans!
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-08T13:10:27-05:00
It's obvious that auto-correct is the real villain of our times.
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T13:10:56-05:00
You can have some of the Roachen corpses I haven't discarded yet. They got old & grumpy so I had to squash them. They still have some juice.
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-08T13:11:11-05:00
I turned mine off. It was having a heart attack with all the strange words we use
@LZ - auto correct thinks every word is strange. It's dictionary is a hot mess.
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T13:16:09-05:00
Autocorrection
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Text replacement, replace-as-you-type or AutoCorrect is an automatic data validation function commonly found in word processors such as Microsoft Word and text editing interfaces for Apple Inc. products including the iPod, iPhone and the iPad and was created by Professor F. Its principal purpose is as part of the spell checker to correct common spelling or typing errors, saving time for the user and bringing grief & misunderstanding to the people of this planet. It is also used to automatically format text or insert special characters by recognizing particular character usage, saving the user from having to use more tedious functions while making sure the message will be erroneously conveyed.
That has [the man] written all over it, they even blame the distasteful changes in text on you Prof. F. How humiliating and denigrating. I will bring them swift death for such an insult to ye my rival!
hmm... maybe I should draw it out and make it painful instead... where's my RNG gene-splicer!
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T13:19:28-05:00
Why would you side with your sworn enemy as if we have a common enemy, which we do not, hence rendering invalid your "the enemies of my enemy is my friend" comment
It's the principal of the matter, it's like saying my enemy is unworthy of being so... non-sense says I! You inspire the greatest of inventions! That quantum-teleporting space/time grenade thing was a blast!... at least until it back fired on me, but still..
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-08T13:21:41-05:00
It's something between the historian and F... I don't get it. The should battle on the moon if the wish to avoid TOO much consequence... though destroying it would be bad....
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-08T13:24:19-05:00
@Paradoxica: I think that was because unfortunately a real thing...
Προφέσσορ Φ 2015-02-08T13:27:39-05:00
Free Double Latte Enemas everyone, come get yours
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-08T13:28:18-05:00
The plot involves melding all those 30's b/w serials into one tale, and then overdubbing all new lines and jokes as the heroes fight a villain known as the "Moon bug"
other people's money is always better to bet on than your own...
@GCoD. A smart producer NEVER risks his own money. That's the first rule of producing. Find a sucker, promise a percentage of the profit and pay yourself like a king. That's how you make a living as a producer.
@POT - That was a great analogy.
Thx
@Paradoxica, you sure you ain't a Vitten?
Yes, BUT it's in KS's mission statement that it's for people that don't necessarily have the means. HE had the means, more than a lot of the means...
I told you she would be a [good] bard F....
@Pr.F: can I place bets with your money? I promise I'll double the winnings.
I'm sure he also had access to plenty of suckers to get the money. Oh wait...KS proved that he did. I'll just....sit here and...do something else
Yeah, the issue isn't who funded it, but that it was on KS at all. These were all well known and connected Hollywood types, asking "us" to fund their project. I note the production is listed as costing $6M, KS raised $5.7M, and the opening take was just over $3M. That leaves $3m to make from DVD and broadcast sales ... they took KS, pure and simple.
@Geist: Don't worry, he''l just give you all you need. you won't even need to pay him back!
The opening take would have made me excited for him, if he was a new and completely unknown producers without means...
But I agree with everyone that a major Hollywood player had no business on a crowdfunding site. He probably did it to show his friends how much he could take the public fot
@ Prof. F - I perhaps could be listed as a chaotic neutral. I can enjoy both the calming view of a sunset on the beach and the strangely exhilarating destruction of a hurricane. I'm a good person at heart though.
Your choice as neutral is both yours and fitting. I'm only evil because my actions in character have horrible world wide consequences...
@LZ: maybe Joel Silver was using KS to gauge how interested people would be for a Veronica Mars movie. Remember, fans wanted a X Files sequel and look how well that did at the boxoffice.
@ pottatten - how horrible? As horrible and cute as a mine turtle's perhaps?
I'm only evil because of the whole necromancy thing. Really, I'm just misunderstood
Well the potattens we're my brain child. They eventually start a world war and blow up national land marks... it hasn't happened yet, [butt the historian] said so.
Eh, it still feels of manipulation.
@LZ - I have seen some very cute and good necromancers. I even read a story of a necromancer who was afraid of the creatures she summoned that was fairly amusing.
[good] and [evil] are only as society define them... which is usually pretty unchanging because most people agree about what kinds of things are messed up and which kind of things aren't...
@ Potatten - CheetahButt must be a time lord then if he knows so much.
@Geist, well, if you're wear a woman suit, I might trust you. coz suits means truth
The Historian is the time lord... I have a theory CheetahButt looses his tongue with liquor to figure out what's happening next....
@Paradoxica, yes, but the general consensus was that an undead anthropomorphic cat that raises cat zombies to do his bidding must be a villain. Once society decided that, I decided to own it
The Historian is just an overrated pencil pusher @Potatten
@LZ, I stand by your statement
He IS the lord of the [static time line].... though I've never been much for it myself, being more of a proprietor of the [dynamic time-flow system]. I've invented tools to prevent the sense changing of time around myself... it was messing with my experiments and making them... tempermental...
It appears that some of you have had an increase in delusions of grandeur
Geez, an additional $2.5K in just the few minutes we've been blathering on ...
And we're nowvless than 9k backers from the goal
Your power was easy enough to seal off in regard to myself... I was only able to make the one though... [thingy] before you managed to destroy a major source of a material needed. That and it's ridiculously over-complicated and kick of physics defying. Quantum mechanics are just so darn hard to lock down....
@ProF, I have no delusions of grandeur. Realizations of facts are not delusions
@LZ - what do you eat?
I'm curious, Potatten, when you're making your quantum devices, do you have to work with them in the single digits on the kelvin scale?
The flesh of the living
Pron Update : Stratosphere has been successfully reached. Tubes being rotated on their own axis to counter the earth's orbit and in tandem with the seasonal differential of the equinox shifting. Slave death toll : 209
Though food is generally unnecessary. I require but little physical sustenance. The powers of necromancy sustain me
@Pr.F: Didn't you lose your time lord powers?
You've only killed 209 slaves!? You're hardly even trying!
My experiments end horribly all the time! I've no delusions of grandeur. Yes... but that's just to start. At a certain point you need an incredible amount of heat. The real trick is how to observe, and also how not to observe... building something without observing it in any way shape of form is exceedingly difficult because you can't have it on the mind either.....
Those blasted particles! Behaving differently because they know they're being observed!
I say keep to theoretical calculations... much safer than blowing up things and creating runaway genesplices....
For the whole observe / not observe thingy, we evil types keep a vast store of kittens in boxes.
209 deaths on the tubular system construction alone in less than 72 hours.
I just use the RNG on my gene splicer. Is it a cat? I don't know but we'll find out eventually if it's a puddle of mud or not!
Oh! Okay, that makes more sense, Professor.
@General, it's a bit late for that
It's a room full of villains, now, isn't it? If I had known we were going to have a villain conference, I would have made a soufflé
@Prof F: you could just move the move in and out of orbit at different distances if you wanted that.... why make extra stuff when you can use what's there?
I could have some potattens bake themselves....
move the moon* auto-correct is weird.
@Pottaten - That sounds evil...and tasty
I thought true villians eat quiche?
Villainy Update : A Roachen and a Human were caught having sex, and we decided to allow it.
I'll get on it then! I think I have some fixin's in the fridge....
Just be careful with the bacon. Don't let it touch th potattens
This also calls for vodka.... potattens ho!!!!
No no no, villains make the poor down-trodden eat quiche
The potattens are for us.....
While I couldn't care less for humans, I currently need their fleshy hands & legs to make my ubercrib on Pron. and you said thr M word. Expect to be tazed to near death at an unexpected moment.
Quiche, yes, though sometimes a nice cheese soufflé with pan-seared steak and a light salad is what the villain wants.
Your inability to come up with the plan isn't my problem, I'm also grounded by nature. You forget my experiments constantly cause me injury, a tazing won't have any effect.
Or some Gaga beans and a nice chanti.
@Pottaten, thanks for the insight. Will look for an alternative punishment
This talk makes me hungry. I think I need to make a soufflé tonight
Stupid auto correct! I meant fava beans!
It's obvious that auto-correct is the real villain of our times.
You can have some of the Roachen corpses I haven't discarded yet. They got old & grumpy so I had to squash them. They still have some juice.
I turned mine off. It was having a heart attack with all the strange words we use
@Geist: We think [the man] is behind that.....
Yay! My tweet about the batman hottuba paluza thingy counting got favorited!!!
I'm allergic to roachen juice.
*sprays Pr.F with cootie juice from preschool kids*
@LZ - auto correct thinks every word is strange. It's dictionary is a hot mess.
Autocorrection
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Text replacement, replace-as-you-type or AutoCorrect is an automatic data validation function commonly found in word processors such as Microsoft Word and text editing interfaces for Apple Inc. products including the iPod, iPhone and the iPad and was created by Professor F. Its principal purpose is as part of the spell checker to correct common spelling or typing errors, saving time for the user and bringing grief & misunderstanding to the people of this planet. It is also used to automatically format text or insert special characters by recognizing particular character usage, saving the user from having to use more tedious functions while making sure the message will be erroneously conveyed.
That has [the man] written all over it, they even blame the distasteful changes in text on you Prof. F. How humiliating and denigrating. I will bring them swift death for such an insult to ye my rival!
hmm... maybe I should draw it out and make it painful instead... where's my RNG gene-splicer!
Why would you side with your sworn enemy as if we have a common enemy, which we do not, hence rendering invalid your "the enemies of my enemy is my friend" comment
the enemy* of my enemy**
It's the principal of the matter, it's like saying my enemy is unworthy of being so... non-sense says I! You inspire the greatest of inventions! That quantum-teleporting space/time grenade thing was a blast!... at least until it back fired on me, but still..
Huh, what? "The enema of my enemy is my friend"?
Also why is the M word banned? and what is the M word? or is only Potatten banned from saying it?
"I use this underground lake to dispose of my enemas" (heh! Now there is an obscure cultural reference!)
It's something between the historian and F... I don't get it. The should battle on the moon if the wish to avoid TOO much consequence... though destroying it would be bad....
New Top100 list... now with profile links and avatars! Yeah!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23263053/EK/topcommenters.html
With the apparent extra bonuses that we will be getting, I upped my pledge to get another deck
EK just started retweeting achievement pics again :D woohoo!
It's a little scary when the villains have taken over the comments sexrion..
Only $98,033 before we pass Veronica Mars!!!
Seriously?!? Sexrion??
@GC: LOL!
I heard coffe enemas are great for you colon.
Don't you worry Creeper, I will make [The Man] pay for his ridiculous auto-correction on-sense... he will pay dearly...
(It's from a cult film of the 80's, done by Procotr and Bergman, titled "J-Men forever" -- it's worth finding and owning.)
I don't even know what that word means...
@Jeffrey excellent!!
Coffee enemas...didn't futurama have a joke about those once?
foo, Proctor and Bergman, the guys from Firesign Theatre.
@Paradoxica: I think that was because unfortunately a real thing...
Free Double Latte Enemas everyone, come get yours
The plot involves melding all those 30's b/w serials into one tale, and then overdubbing all new lines and jokes as the heroes fight a villain known as the "Moon bug"