/r/shittykickstarters
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[Cell Guard] Underwear to protect your balls from 5G
Just saw this and I thought it was a joke for a moment lol
Testosterone levels are down, but is it because of pollution, microplastics, gas fumes, pesticides or shitty diets? No! It's the radio waves affecting your balls!
01:31 UTC
It is here (Arpeggio)
After all the years of dumbing all these guys, I got this in the post about 15 minutes ago
10:14 UTC
Cardition: Vehicle Current Stabilizer
Magic battery thingie:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cardition-vehicle-current-stabilizer
15:30 UTC
[META] Terrible cat projects on kickstarter - a door flap that doesn't make any sense, cat cafes and AI garbage
13:10 UTC
Twelvetooo mini 3D hologram projector (kinda sus)
So this KS is kind of interesting. They throw the words '3D' and 'holographic' around a lot in here, but other than some quite conventional looking video and some clearly fabbed-up illustrations, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of detail about what or how. I poked around in the comments, and they don't seem to be too forthcoming there either.
16:42 UTC
[BALL!] A gaming project asking for 50K with no gameplay or even conceptual content - just stolen footage and low-quality jpegs in the video.
13:05 UTC
[The Spider Combat Arena] Lucas has finally posted a substantial update on the project: Not enough money for a full game and a video full of deflecting blame about shortcomings, including finances.
16:03 UTC
[arpeggio][update 10/16/2024]
So I thought I share this shock I got a alert as I popped on to the Kickstarter page, these guys actually want my address as if to say hey we ready to send this.
link to the page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tangibleinstruments/arpeggio-the-portable-arpeggiator-sequencer-and-sy
16:03 UTC
[Star Citizen] Backer Overspend & Regrets - a compilation
11:16 UTC
[Sonic Stretto] The thuning fork knife people are back... with another tuning fork knife.
12:27 UTC
[META] Copyright/Trademark infringement Kickstarter
11:38 UTC
[Wizards of the Wealth World] A ridiculously long, AI-generated project with stretch goals that reach 2.5 million pounds with absolutely none of the game made yet (or ever)
11:17 UTC
Another Kickstarter that looks very scammy : Chawke - 65W Ultrasonic Cutter Makes Work Easier
After getting scammed with the supcutter project, I have learnt to be more suspicious.
This one that popped up in my KS suggestions does triggers many flags. It is very vague and high level info, expensive but not too much. And I was actually not surprised to see the superbaker Jon Lamkin again that is here to defend the project!
Very very similar to the supcutter scam, see by yourself: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1154298676/supcutter-the-powerful-and-safe-board-cutting-tool/comments
Cutting tools seems to be a good scam zone for that team...
08:44 UTC
Photographer with 3 years experience wants 110K (Euros) to travel the world and take pictures of the stars.
Pledges are 150 / 250 / 406
I admire the hobby itself as someone who just started - but woof....this is asking a lot for someone who, seemingly, has never even used astrophotography equipment.
15:25 UTC