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New Scam(OTON X) Automatically Generates Comedy

sounds like a sorting UI that chooses an existing game for you based on the criteria you entered, which is pretty stupid consider you still need the actual games (made by actual studios).
 
Takao said:
It's funny because Splorgenborg came from a post about Resident Evil Light Gun Game being ported from Wii to PS3, and people laughing at that. Resident Evil Light Gun Game was ported to PS3 ... many years later.

Anywhos my fave platform is from IREM
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Irem dead now though
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It would probably take control of all your electronics and kill you.
 
Automatically generated games, of course! Why didn't MS, Sony or Nintendo think of that, huh?!

The joke will be on GAF when this comes out and actually works. Believe.

OTON X Developer Special $579

Console and two controllers. Get early SDK access and direct help from the OTON development team! The OTON X Developer comes with a front motion/voice camera and the laser rear projection camera. Plus, get the free OTON OS. This package comes with 6 months of free OTON upgraded game physic and artificial intelligence assets. Earn 100% revenue from your custom games! (We have to ask you to add $20 for shipping outside the U.S.) Please add $30 if you want an additional controller.
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This thing does everything. Pre-ordered!
 
I lost it at laser rear projection camera.


Is this a joke?

I mean its a scam surely they would make a better pitch video and just try Kickstarter it with a small reachable goal and make a easy 50 grand?


Edit. Oh they are trying to raise money and its not going very well. Well thats not surprising.
 
A million dollars in a month? I'm gonna guess satire, because I doubt noone would think a scam like this would work.
 
I want to believe this is a joke. One backer? There are a lot of stupid people in the world, and some of them have money to waste. But just one? Hard to believe...
 
The credit card part of the FAQ is like the kind of verbiage you see on porn sites.
 
opticalmace said:
Seems legit. Click for bigger.
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I like how they misspelled enemy in the code.


But I am reminded of Adventure Construction Set on the C-64. It was sort of an RPG maker style thing, you could use it to make games like the author had previously released (which were pretty good, one based on Greek Myths and another on 1001 Arabian Nights). But you could also have it procedurally generate adventures. Pick settings and have it come up with one.

Of course, the results were completely random and gibberish, but they were technically adventures. One of the names it would use for a dungeon was "Tesseract Terrace"
 
G-Fex said:
Any chances of them getting arrested over this?
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Would also like to know this and also if any of them could be maimed by a wild animal, would really like to see the lives of everyone involved destroyed beyond recognition if not most of their families, thanks guys, subscribing to thread
 
There are now 4 backers lol...And even though it has been 2 days (or more?) since the site went up it still says 1 month left.
 
You guys like a good laugh, right? I thought I'd share this since it's relevant:

I'm a moderator over on the Giant Bomb foums, and we have a similar thread to this one, criticizing the Oton as a scam. A brand new user account "Gamergirl197811" was created and posted this in the thread:

You guys are fools!!!! This is going to be an amazing console! You really should check your facts before you just start talking about something you don't know anything about and from a lot of your comments you don't. I checked their FQA questions on their website and it answered a lot of my questions maybe you should do the same! People are so closed minded that they don't know something is great when it's right in their face! I want something new! I'm going to give these guys a chance! They have my support 100%! Love the design! Go Oton!!!!!
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I naturally found this rather suspicious and did a little digging. I posted my findings on that thread:

The IP address from this account is from Oxford, Alabama. And does anyone want to venture a guess where Derrick Samuels, CEO of the company behind Oton is from? Alabama, according to his twitter account. Oh, and his LinkedIn account specifies even more detail - the Anniston, Alabama area. And you know what a Google Map of Anniston, Alabama shows? Oxford is right next to it!!! Literally, less than a mile away.

Now, I wouldn't be one to post accusations or anything, but one could certainly come to some conclusions based on this information. Stay classy, Derrick Samuels!!!
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I imagine there would be a similar post in this thread, if it wasn't for GAF's approval process for new users.
 
MattyFTM said:
You guys like a good laugh, right? I thought I'd share this since it's relevant:

I'm a moderator over on the Giant Bomb foums, and we have a similar thread to this one, criticizing the Oton as a scam. A brand new user account "Gamergirl197811" was created and posted this in the thread:



I naturally found this rather suspicious and did a little digging. I posted my findings on that thread:



I imagine there would be a similar post in this thread, if it wasn't for GAF's approval process for new users.
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In 6 to 8 months there will be :D
 
MattyFTM said:
You guys like a good laugh, right? I thought I'd share this since it's relevant:

I'm a moderator over on the Giant Bomb foums, and we have a similar thread to this one, criticizing the Oton as a scam. A brand new user account "Gamergirl197811" was created and posted this in the thread:



I naturally found this rather suspicious and did a little digging. I posted my findings on that thread:



I imagine there would be a similar post in this thread, if it wasn't for GAF's approval process for new users.
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Wow. He even had to use "gamergirl" as his name. I think this is more sad than funny at this point.
 
MattyFTM said:
You guys like a good laugh, right? I thought I'd share this since it's relevant:

I'm a moderator over on the Giant Bomb foums, and we have a similar thread to this one, criticizing the Oton as a scam. A brand new user account "Gamergirl197811" was created and posted this in the thread:



I naturally found this rather suspicious and did a little digging. I posted my findings on that thread:



I imagine there would be a similar post in this thread, if it wasn't for GAF's approval process for new users.
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That's amazing. He's been quite obviously pulling this stuff on his youtube page, all the positive comments have some generic name with a few numbers and the same horrible grammar mistakes.
 
Built-in laser projector and Kinect to create a holodeck experience, where the player can feel like they are in historical times interacting with famous people...and the entire experience created automatically by the game console. This is gonna be the best damn thing ever, where can I buy stock???

Edit: Check it out, you can buy 10 of the $479 units for $2,390. Who needs stock when I can make that much profit by selling the devices themselves!
 
MattyFTM said:
You guys like a good laugh, right? I thought I'd share this since it's relevant:

I'm a moderator over on the Giant Bomb foums, and we have a similar thread to this one, criticizing the Oton as a scam. A brand new user account "Gamergirl197811" was created and posted this in the thread:



I naturally found this rather suspicious and did a little digging. I posted my findings on that thread:



I imagine there would be a similar post in this thread, if it wasn't for GAF's approval process for new users.
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and that's why we love our approval process!

anyhow i could even actually believe that this thing generates games in a procedural way... i just expect them to be pretty much all identical gameplay-wise (based on the genre you choose) and resembling those awful game collections from the NES era
 
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