Kickstarter Jumps Shark, Potato Salad Project is a Go - Update2

[Brian Tams]

As someone who is a connoisseur of Potato Salad, that without a doubt looks like the most boring potato salad on the planet..

 

[RoBi3.0]

Man, now I want to make kickstarter really jump the shark by Kickstarting a recreation of the Shark Jumping stunt from Happy Days. Sigh, oh the Fonz. I wonder how much I would have to raise to get Henry Winkler involved.

 

[FPLOON]

As someone who's not really a fan of potato salad in general... That's still pretty damn awesome in and of itself!

So if Kickstarter has jumped the shark... it's game over? Kickstarter will never recover from this?

Given how it has already sprouted as many spin-offs as The Real Housewives as this point, I expect some kind of Kickstarter "reboot" the same way Live! with Regis and Kelly became Live! with Kelly and Michael...

Then again, maybe Kickstarter would fund this new "reboot" when the time comes...

 

[SweetShark]

That salad doesn't even look tasty.

By now you should have know this is not the final product. It is the early concept of the potato Salad. Without your money, he can't create a proper Potato Salad.

 

[Aerosteam]

I love how this is under "Science & Tech". XD

I'm not complaining though, I love news like this and I guess it had to be under one of the sections of the site.

 

[Colt47]

The comedy of the situation is so great that all I can do is stare at the computer screen with my mouth agape. The little emergency engineer in my brain has probably just hit every drainage valve on my thoughts to keep my brain from overloading.

 

[The Hungry Samurai]

The most frustrating part of all of this, is that I didn't think of it first.

 

[Sight Unseen]

What is the problem here? I have backed 20-30 kickstarters and none of them has returned a product to me yet.

What... seriously?

I've backed 8 projects and 2 of them have returned completely finished products (VGHS S2, and Video Games Live Level 3), one of them has released half of its product (Double Fine Adventure) and one has released an alpha but has since gone dark (Yogventures)

The other four are still in progress but are showing every sign of being completable and are making good progress.

Maybe you just need to be more careful with who you back?

 

[Zakarath]

It's past $3000 now. WHY

 

[Quazimofo]

Unbef****lievable. Not in a bad way mind you. It was a funny joke, for sure, but still; almost 4 goddamn grand raised for this guy on a joke so simplistically idiotic I want to punch myself for not thinking of it first. It's so hilariously stupid I'd swear it was something put together by 4chan or Something Awful (or one of those forum communities) if I didn't know better.

Just... bravo my good man. Bravo. And good on you too internet for your ability to latch on to something small and make it truly fantastic.

Speaking of 4chan: does this remind anyone else of the mountain dew flavor naming contest?

Spoiler

Edit: well it seems the image isn't working, so here's a page it can be found on.
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/6-hilarious-cases-online-voting-contests-gone-awry/
(bottom entry)

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I really wish the guy lived closer to me because I want to go to the hall he rented for the potato salad. I want to meet the kind of people that back kickstarters for potato salad and then show up to eat said potato salad.

 

[Frezzato]

I like how this is no longer under his control, it belongs to the internet now. But there's something almost sinister or belligerent about this. I can't quite put my finger on it.

 

[BeerTent]

>.>

Well then...

I think, It's time to tell the internet about a taco party I'm having... TO KICKSTARTER! FREEEEE MONEY!

 

[Kuala BangoDango]

Potato Salad Project...the new Star Citizen of the Escapist website.

I can understand releasing the first news post as an interesting tidbit but seriously Escapist...are you REALLY gonna update us every few days each time this project hits a stretch goal?

 

[Karloff]

Potato Salad Project...the new Star Citizen of the Escapist website.

I can understand releasing the first news post as an interesting tidbit but seriously Escapist...are you REALLY gonna update us every few days each time this project hits a stretch goal?

Good God no. Frankly, were it not the weekend you might not have had this many updates. However I'm as curious as anyone to see what happens with this, so there may well be an update much later when it concludes.

 

[soren7550]

Unbef****lievable. Not in a bad way mind you. It was a funny joke, for sure, but still; almost 4 goddamn grand raised for this guy on a joke so simplistically idiotic I want to punch myself for not thinking of it first. It's so hilariously stupid I'd swear it was something put together by 4chan or Something Awful (or one of those forum communities) if I didn't know better.

Just... bravo my good man. Bravo. And good on you too internet for your ability to latch on to something small and make it truly fantastic.

Speaking of 4chan: does this remind anyone else of the mountain dew flavor naming contest?

Spoiler

Your image s borked.

OT: This is brilliant in the stupidest way possible. And now it's over $4,000 USD, with 26 days to go.

 

[Sight Unseen]

What is the problem here? I have backed 20-30 kickstarters and none of them has returned a product to me yet.

What... seriously?

I've backed 8 projects and 2 of them have returned completely finished products (VGHS S2, and Video Games Live Level 3), one of them has released half of its product (Double Fine Adventure) and one has released an alpha but has since gone dark (Yogventures)

The other four are still in progress but are showing every sign of being completable and are making good progress.

Maybe you just need to be more careful with who you back?

Yeah, most are actually Wii U games. I think that they will come out but they are all beyond their projected dates. I mean, I don't care, the money comes back to me if it fails, well, most likely not. But that is also why I only throw enough at these to get the game and nothing else, which is usually like 20 bucks.

If the project fails you most likely will not get your money back. you can request a refund but they may choose not to grant it or be unable to grant it since they ran out of money.