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Amazon is pretty clever, and they know the dates that the payment is valid from and until -- if your card expired before the from date, I imagine it would probably be flagged.

Probably not. In fact, I have 3 cards there (all the 40-day ones) and they always pick the oldest and most expired one by default for some reason.

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Yeah, same here... but have you ever tried to pay with one?

oh, sorry, I think i misread your previous post.

Yeah, they send you an e-mail if it fails. I think I was removed as a backer from some thing when it failed and I was too lazy to create a new card.

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I'm working at ten-thirty p.m., and it's nice having a stream of happy, celebrating people in the background. Hooray for them :tup:

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Whoa. Tim Schafer mentioned Idle Thumbs (as a kickstarter project he is going to back)

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It's such a joyous thing! Pity about the poorly behaving audience in the live stream, but that's easy to ignore.

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It's such a joyous thing! Pity about the poorly behaving audience in the live stream, but that's easy to ignore.

What audience?

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Ha, this is hilarious!

And yeah, resizing the window to hide the chat audience helps. :)

Haha, Tim is yoyo-ing.

[edit] Tim: "Hey, don't step on Lilly Bean" awwwwwwwww <33333

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Yes, resizing the audience out: :tup:

Their stream had crashed which is why they're all looking puzzled in this, but I got the closest moment I could to them hitting 3.3 million:

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This is such a lovely moment compared to the closed door pitching and crass parties in some other bits of the industry. Some bits that made me laugh from Tim's improvised closing speech:

"There are still going to be publishers making some games, a couple of games"

[if you've ever been told you're a niche market, and you can organise, you can make things happen, you're a super-niche.]

"Super-niche isn't a very glamourous sounding name".

"Here's the hot dog suit, put it on or you're fired".

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Best ending:

"Say bye, Lilly Bean"

"byyyyyyyye"

HEART MELTED.

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Awesome! It's going to be 10% better than Grim Fandango.

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Grim Fandango was quite well known for exploding over budget due to the engine and stuff though, right? :tup:

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There's inflation (which makes Grim's budget around $4m), and also the fact that game assets need to be higher-fidelity than they did in 1998 so budgets aren't directly comparable, and also about $335k of this will go to Kickstarter and Amazon, and some amount will go to the documentary people, etc. It's a super incredible amount and clearly their plans will get to be a lot bigger than they originally intended, but don't infer that raising this much money in 2012 means they're working with a budget comparable to Grim Fandango's in 1998.

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It might also be that they're willing to pump in some of their OWN money if they need to.

Although, given their initial goal, I really doubt they need to, unless they magnificently increase the scope of the project.

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Put it all on black!

No, red!

No, start a poll on the backers board!

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I really enjoyed Tim's impromptu speech about not letting companies decide what we watch, listen to, play -- I really hope this is the game-changer people are suggesting it might be.

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damn.. you people are wealthy...

I should talk to my boss to give me more moneys

I feel buyer's remorse already, but I know this is going to be worth it.

(I also didn't tell my girlfriend I put in so much.)

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$3,746,371
Where'd you get that number? In the DF-Action-News it says:

"Raised on Kickstarter: $3,335,355

Premium Backers: $110,000

Total raised for Double Fine’s Kickstarter Adventure: $3,445,355!!!!!!!"

The more the better, I'm just curious where the additional $300.000 come from.

Btw, I wonder whether there will be a clean end result published (the number on the kickstarter-page minus bounced cards, etc). I'd be interested.

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The Kickstarter fund has risen at least a few times since it ended yesterday. How's that happening? :erm:

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