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I'd love to see you cover Crowdfunding's Worst TTRPG Scams, and TTRPG Accessories(which includes apps) as a follow-up. There are SO MANY EFFING examples of both.
Could he be holding an Amico?
@@postalpupper4884 It definitely looks like an Amico
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@@voltakid4859 Appreciate that mate, I spend a lot of time getting the music together for these. The vast majority of tracks come froma royalty free site i use called Epidemic.
I feel like there are better scam targets than a group that loves a game about noticing details in the placement of the pieces.
Sure, but chess is still huge
I had to look at the footage several times before giving up and seeing the solution. Cheers to those who can see a thin couple pixel wide flaw, when I was looking for bigger picture stuff like a slightly changed angle.
@@Patralganit’s not that huge it’s usually 21 inches by 21 inches , that’s not really that big unless you are an insect then it probably would be huge but from a human perspective it’s not that big 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Chess is about patterns, not "noticing details about placement of pieces"
Checkers 🤔
I knew this kickstarter was a scam simply because of the board, and how they claimed it worked. The board was WAY TOO THIN to contain anything that would make the pieces move like that. I have quite a bit of experience with electronics and you simply couldn't fit anything that you would need to get the board to do that in that skinny board.
That was the first thing that caught my eye, a long with the piece movements.
I dunno, if it worked the way it said it did you would just need a flat panel of loads of magnets which are activated in sequence to pass the piece between them moving across the board. But if they were serious about it they really needed a prototype proof of concept rather than a fake video.
@@trailersicI don’t think it would be so simple: Rows of magnets would probably need complicated moving parts, or maybe… really advanced magnetic pulses, or something? I can’t really imagine it coming together, but: chess software is certainly advanced… so it’s possible that someone can use that, in a nice moving set someday, maybe. Though it’s mostly just difficult to imagine lol
Obviously they were planning to take out the fancy electronics and use good old-fashioned magic.
I’m not at all an engineer… but it seems like a board like this would be easily possible.
My grandfather was the inventor of four-way chess and also invented four-way checkers, They were fun and his rules are far better than the new wave of the same idea. He had thousands of boxes of unsold examples and after many years of sitting in a warehouse, I made a tidy sum as a kid selling them door to door.
Even aside from the knight, you can see his hand's shadow just snap out of existence every time he pulls it away, since the editor made every cut too early.
The fact they gave themselves away with the animation is a bit baffling to me. They could easily have done that stop-motion without needing to use any kind of superimposing or masking vfx. By doing that, they're adding extra steps to the process just to give themselves less margin for error. I used to do stop-motion animations in my teenage years, they weren't anything special, but I have experience in the process and I cannot fathom any reason they'd need to mask in that Knight unless there was something behind it that gave them away even worse.
I thought the same thing. It’s a simple camera trick. What buffoon thought to photoshop it?
THIS. When Slope mentioned it was stop-motion I thought "oh they probably moved the piece a little on accident at some point and it jittered". I facepalmed HARD when it was revealed to be bad masking instead. Like bro this specific setup is easy and fast as HELL to animate why'd you overcomplicate it like that 💀
Someone sneezed and "we'll fix it in post".
If you put effort to it you could just have moved a magnet under the table or something too.
*he. Not multiple people.
@@oz_jones 1) Angel might not have done it himself and got someone else to animate that for him. We don't know who that person is, or their gender, or if they even are a single person, hence the use of "they".
2) Singular "they" has been a thing since the 14th century and was made official by Oxford last century.
Stay tuned for my automatic Risk table. The pieces don't move or anything. It's just that the table flips itself over so the losing player doesn't have to.
I would actually back this for sure
@@chrispham6599me too
Nice to see my boy Techmoan make a cameo appearance.
He is an incredible channel
Stop motion animation would mean a series of photographs where the pieces were physically moved between each frame. This is something more like digital animation.
Yup, Slope isn't the brightest bulb. Would also be nice if when he used Techmoan's content (the bit showing a working electric chess board) he'd give him credit
Guess Mensa Delgado has never heard of the games of shogi or even go. Otherwise, his last lie of a competing chess campaign may have worked.
I can tell just by looking at the way the pieces move, they move exactly like the way a Claymation chess peace would move in like a Gumby episode of even one of the British Claymation shows. It's way too fast and "animated" for that to be the way the pieces actually move in real life.
If it was possible it would be much slower and the speed would vary as the distance to the operating magnet changed. I think it would noticeably step.
The joke is they could have just made an attractive chess set.
Good point. There is always demand for a great-looking chess set!
I know right, I loved those pieces, they looked cool as hell.
Yes only that would involve actually doing something, like running a whole business.
for some reason this made me remember a thing my 3DS had with a pokedex for the gen 5 games that could read QR codes to display 3D models of pokemon in the real world. so make a combo of that and a chess board. have a screen displaying the pieces as symbols for those who dont have the device, and glasses that pair with it reading the QR codes in the symbols turning them into the pieces for their vision.
Honestly self advertising as "Mensa member" is a huge red flag. It only means two things. That you were able to score high on an IQ test (you can actually "study" for those and score significantly better, also retry infinite times if you have the time and money to flush down the toilet). But worse than that, it means you think IQ tests are important in real life.
From *all* of the gullible groups of people out there you could steal from... Taking that one where people have way too much free time, are usually incredibly smart *and* love to look at every even so small detail, was probably the worst pick.
My little brother donated to a similar project for a automatic playing chessboard. Years later, he finally got his board, and it broke within the first 30 seconds of playing.
I think it’s funny sometimes looking at kick scammer of board games is more fun then some actual board games ^^ btw I love your videos ❤️
The stuffed slopes doll is holding an Amico remote.
Im sold!
What's a chess masters favourite country?
Czech Republic.
I cant work out why they needed to cut around that knight anyway? Surely with stop motion you just move the pieces. Nothing needs cutting out.
Digital animation.
He wasn't clever enough to use stop-motion.
I remember seeing Techmoan’s review for the SquareOff a few years ago and thought this was the same thing when I first began watching. But seeing the review in your footage I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is a different one. I appreciate the work you do, I always learn stuff from your videos!
Same
Always love when scammers get caught.
4 player chess is actually a really fun variant to play with friends
Its like getting free gum and selling it for $20 dollars for stick
as a owner of a square off neo (Basicly same idea as this) It works fairly well, but is /much/ thicker, and much slower, The concept can be done but it ovbiously requires care (Also for what it's worth mine is much more quiet than the techmoan example)
Perhaps you have a newer version or techmoan boosted the volume
Yeah it's a bit newer of a version, To be honest the main issue is the speed, 2 seconds ish per move doesn't seem bad, but it adds up over a 90 move game@@slopesgameroom
It makes no sense to me that this channel doesn't have 1 million subscribers. All Slopes videos are so good, I have been watching for years. Come on algorithm, get your sheet together.
Massive thanks for the support mate
I will only buy this when they find a way to fling the knight into the air so it can jump properly.
Once again, Slope, you killed it with this video. Made me laugh several times! Hahaha can't wait for the next one! 🤘
Already well underway mate
I feel like anyone advertising being a member of Mensa should probably be kicked out of Mensa.
Saturday night, I’m already half cut, might as well sneak in a Slopes.
Going to the website to get notified of the plush! The Sega blu ray came in like 2 days so I'm stoked to watch it!
Ahhhh that's awesome thanks. Be sure to check inside the slipcase of the blu ray
You can see the first person who "reviewed" the product (cause we all know every 20 something hot girl is really into chess lol) is constantly looking off to the side...I assume to read cue cards lol
She was very vague with her words, which is what made it obvious to me it was a scam. It was a generic "endorsement" that she can use to appeal to a variety of companies that want to use it. I don't fault her, she's just getting her money as a paid actor, but it's just something to notice when looking for any genuine reviews.
I personally think it's pre recorded and just slapped into this video. She could be talking about anything
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley The other big red flag is that if the chessboard actually worked, "Angel" could have found some chess grandmasters to demo it to and then get one of them to do the endorsement. That would have legitimized the project and given it serious cachet.
The face on the plush is adorable. That's the face of someone exposing a scammer lol.
Being in MENSA doesn't mean you're super smart - it just means you like being in some weird fratty boys club where they share Rick & Morty memes and bully women who try and join
Being an accomplished engineer would make me trust you as an engineer. Not being part of a social club based around how smart you think you are
Funnily enough the word "mensa" in my country is actually a spanish slang which means: "Dumb" in female, in an example:
"Mira a esa mujer mensa".
Which means:
"Look at that dumb woman".
My favourite thing about MENSA is that the original founders got upset when loads of poor people qualified and joined.
@@petoperceptumthis.
Slope's! 0:01 I am so excited for another video! I'm only disappointed it isn't a longer one, but that is 100% your fault, sir. I can't get enough of you... (sorry I started singing, "I can't get enough of you baby") You are such a great channel to watch and fun! I don't know what else to tell ya, but I am hooked. Thank you for being you and your time! Have a wonderful day! 🍻🌎♥️🎶🕺
Ahhhhh that was awesome to read! Thanks so much x
@@slopesgameroom just keep doing what you do and there'll be plenty more to come! 🍻🎶🕺🏻
As an engineer the idea is do able execpt the hurdles of moving pieces over each other. I guess if you use really small pieces or really large boards, you could path find. It could almost be silent if you make the movements slow, and you could save hardware by tieing a phone app to be mother braod
Did... you not watch the functional versions of this scam in play? That's a solved problem.
I knew it was stop motion because the moving chess pieces looked off to me, but I don’t know what exactly I am supposed to see with the knight piece.
Maybe I'm making a false correlation, but I have been noticing a connection between Mensa members (who I have to imagine are pretty high on their own intelligence most of the time) and scammers / con artists. I mean, if you are convinced that you are smarter, and therefore better than, the vast majority of the population, I imagine you must also be convinced that you deserve to have their money and they do not deserve to have it. You can do so much better, smarter things with it than they would, can't you? Even if you just spend it all on luxury for yourself, you deserve that luxury, and they surely do not, because they are just mediocre peasants. You are a Special! It's only right. Right?
Props to a fellow Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle opening theme fan.
Ahhhh mate, I adore it
You only need one chess game and that's Battle Chess on a single 3.5'' floppy PC disk! 😀
i love the addition of the music from marvel vs capcom 2.......only true OGs know what im saying
its effortless to just watch your vids and keep watcyhing ever vid you eer did, hell of a job
4:38 Sorry, are you sure lichess was involved in the sponsoring? I'm not aware of lichess having had any sponsor. Or did I missunderstand what you were saying?
Man, that Praise You intro was too good
I was *literally* in the process of typing a comment saying how a bunch of the people shown at 7:38 looked to be straight off of ThisPersonDoesNotExist when that bombshell got dropped 😂
my only gripe with this video is at the end, when you say "checkmate", you should have shown a checkmate
Barely started the video and I'm like "Eh! Eh! Eh! I've seen the Techmoan videos, so while my chess knowledge is rudimentary at best, this shit is scam-a-rific popcorn worthy."
Butch Hartman of Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom fame kickstarter Scam. Have you ever heard about that? It's wild.
Already done the video mate
i have many found memories of 4 player chess in my 8th grade homeroom. dont talk trash on it. it was fun af.
That "chess lover" could be talking about anything. I wonder if sheneven knows that she was used to avdertise a chessboard scam on Kickstarter.
It could be done in such a way that the shadow of the hand can stay on the board. just use layers...
Also there are linear electric motors, so in theory it should be possible to make such automated chess board, but it would require control over at least ~320 individual electromagnets. Not a cheap thing to build...
4:37 sounds like he's pronouncing Leicester as an American would. 😄
Awesome video. Good coverage. Subb’ed
Good stuff man.
This kind of idea is simply impossible, not without very small pieces relative to the board or a mechanical arm. This is because the knight jumps over other pieces. Just imagine if the board’s first move was to move the knight. How is this feasible? It’s completely walled off.
There are such mechanical boards where the pieces move automatically and the knights simply slide in between the other pieces. There's just enough room to do so.
9:35 I think if i was the website responding to the allegations. I would take down the true statements. and start a kickstarter to pay the lawyer fees for defamation. If i reach my goal, i would put up the true statements, else don't put up the true statements.
Looks more like cgi than stop motion, if it was stop motion you wouldn’t need to cut out things
how am i misses these
Didn't se any issue with the four player chess thing, I'm sure it's probably complete mega-chaos while than in-depth strategy, but I think chaotic games that exist for fun have their place.
Would play it myself if I had the time or friends that gave a shit about chess.
Right, it's definitely something that people could make it work, if they really wanted to. 3 or 4 player chess. People could at least have fun forcing such a game lol. (It's a separate issue, whether or not they could make money with it... but it's probably a better idea, than a lot of trash ideas, that actually have made money. Like how the Amico, is a nonexistent idea that scammed millions apparently.)
4-player chess exists, and it’s just as chaotic as you think it is
Didn't expect to see the GOAT Techmoan used as a video source here.
Love this guy 🙏🙏
What I don't understand is the endgame here - if the kickstarter had been funded, what next? Kickstarter isn't completely without protections, and they would have been forced to refund without a viable product.
Quality video mate, is it a teddy bear a doll a Cuddly Toy a potential mascot for Blockbusters 😂😂 nevertheless he looks pretty cool, has he got a spring in his head and will it nod when I'm driving 😂, checkmate
His head is quite big tbh... Just like mine :P
Idk who that first lady is but she 100% does not play or care for chess.
Interesting video. Hadn't heard of this before and went down my own rabbit hole looking at some of the forums. Just a note though: I think the backdrop image for 11:22 is kind of in bad taste haha. Homeless people asking for money and scammers asking for money are very different
I played 4 player chess 1 time. With 2 other people. I won, it was over 15 years ago and until I watched this video that was the only time I had ever seen a 4 player chess board.
I didn’t know that was a thing before reading your comment…!
@@JamesChessman it was called chess four.
@@nobodyimportant8859 Cool, I'm glad I saw your comment, to learn that people have made it happen: chess with 3 or 4 people, on one board. Was it a huge board? (Bigger than a standard board, I expect, right?) I actually had imagined it, but I figured that it would never really happen. Like how 3D chess is a great concept that basically has never really happened lol.
@@JamesChessman google search chess four..it is similar to to one you see in this video. Each side has an extra 2 rows for the pieces
Dude, you should do one on the Jumanji Rip off. I warned people a bunch of times, but they got ripped off.
Shout out to the Mechanical Turk.
I do stop motion as part fo my job and the second I saw that first video I could tell what it was.
could I get to a link to the video making run of it?
*fun
Mythic Games = Ransom pledges = SCAM
Lichess fell for a chess lie, because Angel Delgado was a demon del fraudo.
One dude looks like a discount tim curry
So this scammer never heard of time lap photography with central lighting .
glad to see more of these
Outstanding move
An automatic chessboard you say? Weird, cause i usually just pull up a game and can play against an automatics opponent for free.
do a video on fake Tvs in countries like Bangladesh and India. its a massive story in these country people get scammed all the time with fake tvs
I'm Ray Lopez and I approve of this expose chess video.
Nice to see Techmoan here
Wow this guy is like my age but dressing like he thinks he's still fifteen.
3:30 Mensa doesn't mean your super smart, just good at taking tests
I got family that are Members that are in Mensa, and believe the world's flat and Trump is somehow president of the US still as he never transferred power
I dont see the appeal of an automatic chess board in modern day, we have Echess and so many good chessbots
7:00 this is what happens when you pay people on fivr to help your scam.
Those exist btw... It's a nuts world
@@slopesgameroom I know I was being partially sincere 😂
I remember a super mario RPG remake on Kickstarter that was gonna be made by fiver Devs lol
@@slopesgameroom truely we are living in the saddest of all the timelines 😂☹️.
Scammer editor: Knight to H3.
ive always wanted to play 4 player chess.
2:32. EN PASSANT!!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
proves that chess players are not very smart
Stopped at 1.36 to mention that a magnetic "e-moving" Knight is pointless as the Knight sometimes "jumps" other pieces so via magnet some of its movement will not be possible right?
...sorry, I just love chess. I even slowed the video to make sure the board was set correctly at the start 😅😅
Edit: the board being used by Slopes at 2:10 actually is set up incorrectly 😊 I told you I was bad 😅
There are other self-moving boards and they manage it okay by having the knight moving along the boundaries of each square, I think? Or maybe detecting where all the other pieces are and pathfinding around them.
Ol techmoan what an awesome channel.
Man bothered to use a copyrighted song for the intro
Checkmate
Yay Techmoan 👍
couldn't he have just said 'oh it's probably a bit of motion blur with the chess piece? or just something to do with the uploading of the video? Wouldn't that have been simpler? :)
A friendly reminder that being in MENSA just means you're rich. Personally I think being in mensa means you're STUPID. Most people can just be smart on their own without paying to let everyone know how smart they are. Apparently it's actually not that hard to pass the mensa qualification test. But you have to pay to be a member.
Who the hell is kickstartering chess boards?
A side note: four-player chess is not at all a stupid idea - it's just nowhere near an original one, as you pointed out ;)
Where's the theme tune?!
Oh there it is!! 😅😅😅
Resignium
I don't get this product. How lazy are you that you can't move the pieces for the computer?
I think it's moreso a talking piece and not a board people would actually play on, at least not competitively. More a novelty and a step for telepresence games than anything imo
You can say the same thing about power windows in cars.