People always forget that Double Fine kickstarted a Documentary about game development. The main pitch was to see everything behind the scenes about game dev that you never hear about otherwise. They didn't even have an idea for what the game was really going to be when they started, just that it would be an old school adventure. They explicitly said it may fail horribly or be a shitty game, but at least you'll be able to see how it happened.

So sure, "$400k" might have been enough to fund the documentary and some game, but when they piled on all that extra money of course they were going to find ways to use it.

Once that went gangbusters and everyone realized that you could kickstart the actual GAME instead of this crazy hedging-on-a-documentary pitch DF had to start with, it opened the floodgates for all the games being kickstarted now.

Double Fine is doing exactly what they promised.

Rather than typical Trivial Pursuit games, I would recommend the Bet You Know It version http://www.amazon.com/Trivial-... It has a betting mechanic that has you betting whether the person answering the question will get it right or not. With enough chips you can buy pie pieces for categories you aren't good at. This helps even things out with your typical gamer group, where you may have a few people really good at trivia, and a few who are awful at it. Otherwise it's no fun if you are just going to get stomped, or crush everyone with no challenge.

I would love occasional access to a 3D printer, but I don't need my own yet. There are a bunch of GoPro mounts I could be printing which would be very handy for me.. but am I going to spend a thousand dollars to print 5 or 6 things? No, but I would pay a bit of money to just get the custom stuff I want printed. Luckily, my local library just set up a 3D printer we can use. So.. looks like libraries are cool again.

Not if you are trying to estimate the TCO of a car. For example, it matters if you are trying to answer the question "Is it cheaper in the long run to buy this more expensive, more fuel efficient car, compared to this cheaper less efficient one?"