RicardoNeftali
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This is a Kickstarter I can get behind. No pun intended.
Quick someone tweet Ellen and Perez Hilton, I think we've got a hit.
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Millionaire tries to get $829 via kickstarter to send daughter to RPG maker camp?
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This is a Kickstarter I can get behind. No pun intended.
Quick someone tweet Ellen and Perez Hilton, I think we've got a hit.
MWS Natural
Member
Why does she dress her daughter like she's 9 going on 19?
baphomet
Member
Enough for a few 8 balls of coke and some malt liquor hopefully.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
$5
My gratitude! I'll read your name out on an audio recording and post it for the world to see!
$10
As a generous contributor me and the prostitute are willing to speak to you on justin.tv before the sex takes place!
$50 [1 available]
Super backer! In exchange for your kindness I will personally mail you the condom I used for the vaginal penetration section of the sex!
Aquamarine
Member
What's your $10000 pledge level?
Yea that's pretty sickening to be honest.
moka
Member
The prostitute has to sleep with a $10,000 backer, surely?
Aquamarine
Member
Surely he'd use it to sleep with many more prostitutes and continue learning! Naturally, it will lead to more cumshot documentaries.
RicardoNeftali
Member
Prostitute has too say your name during the video shoot.
Fire away. Just don't put 'fund my University education' in the headline.
Put something like 'Experimental Java Project By Down-on-Luck Trier' as the headline. Talk about your challenging history to date and how you want to prove that you too can make awesome Java products despite what everyone around you says. Then mention somewhere in your wall-of-text that you'll be going to college to realise this dream.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
You're on the team.
SolidSnakex
Member
So she couldn't make them appear on camera for that video, but she's going to be able to make them do this
moka
Member
Excellent! All I'd need is £9000 x 3 + living expenses for 3 years.
RicardoNeftali
Member
I'll take an Executive Producer credit.
What kind of creepy perv pays $10,000 to get an apology from little boys?
I don't want the answer to that question actually ...
"I heard you two were very naughty!"
Oh dear god. WHY!!!!!??????????
moka
Member
Yeah, it honestly just seems like they wanted another option to get more money from people but ran out of ideas for things to offer in return.
This whole thing is just horrifying, not forgetting to mention how she's selling her kids down the river.
Earthpainting
Member
It must be so amazing to make your first game at RPG Maker Camp and probably already best your favourite PS3 game.
The whole 'it's not paying for tuition' idea pretty much falls apart at:
It's a pretty open and shut case. In writing it up she didn't even herself try to obscure it behind some standalone project. She straight up said, in fairness to her, that it was to pay for a course.
If this were a standalone product project as some of the comments spin it, it's missing the required functional prototype anyway.
Was a mistake on Kickstarter's part to let it through. I guess they don't necessarily read full descriptions all the time.
It's a pretty open and shut case. In writing it up she didn't even herself try to obscure it behind some standalone project. She straight up said, in fairness to her, that it was to pay for a course.
If this were a standalone product project as some of the comments spin it, it's missing the required functional prototype anyway.
Was a mistake on Kickstarter's part to let it through. I guess they don't necessarily read full descriptions all the time.
moka
Member
Yeah, at the end of the day, the kid is innocent, it's the mum who's at fault.
When I say 'she' - as in the person writing it - I mean the mother. Since obviously the mother wrote this up
But even in fairness to her, she was honest about what it was for. KS just didn't catch it.As for the child - and children - I feel sorry that their mother put them out there like this so unnecessarily. Whatever happens here, the kid will still get to go that camp and have whatever she needs to follow her dreams anyway.
moka
Member
When I say 'she' - as in the person writing it - I mean the mother. Since obviously the mother wrote this up
As for the child - and children - I feel sorry that their mother put them out there like this so unnecessarily. Whatever happens here, the kid will still get to go that camp and have whatever she needs to follow her dreams anyway.
Oh, sorry, seem to have misunderstood. But yeah, at least she didn't try and lie about the whole thing on the KS page.
And yeah, her daughter is almost deffinately going to that camp but this KS needs to be taken down.
The mum is the classic person who only thinks about making money, she tries to cheat the rules and she uses her own kids to reach her goal. She pretends to be her daughter ffs, no self awareness of how scummy she is, she just doesn't care, give her the money, how she obtains it is irrelevant to her.
A lot of people already backed this because most people don't inform themselves, they look at the page and think "Oh look at this little cute kid, I'm gonna help her, 5 bucks are not gonna make me poor and more women making videogame is great!"
A lot of people already backed this because most people don't inform themselves, they look at the page and think "Oh look at this little cute kid, I'm gonna help her, 5 bucks are not gonna make me poor and more women making videogame is great!"
Jeff Albertson
Member
Yeah the mum really comes across as a pretty despicable person
Fuck actual parenting just get random people to throw money at you to shame your kids, that'll work
Then again it doesn't matter if her kids are abject failures in life as they'll have money so can do whatever they want
Fuck actual parenting just get random people to throw money at you to shame your kids, that'll work
Then again it doesn't matter if her kids are abject failures in life as they'll have money so can do whatever they want
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Kickstarter probably wont do shit, and this is why Kickstarter will ultimately explode with one super bad disaster that sours everyone.
Policing what you do and don't accept is what makes this crowdfunding concept viable, but greed has got in the way and they'll accept anything and everything if it earns them money even if it clearly goes against their own manifesto (eg: Penny Arcade kickstarter)
Policing what you do and don't accept is what makes this crowdfunding concept viable, but greed has got in the way and they'll accept anything and everything if it earns them money even if it clearly goes against their own manifesto (eg: Penny Arcade kickstarter)
I was really hoping you guys didn't find this because I didn't want to have to explain the bigger issue going on here. I still don't want to because it's a long speech that's pretty much unrelated to the KS project.
I'll try to keep it as short as possible. There has been a certain demographic, of very wealthy people, whose job is to scam non wealthy people and it's been going on for decades now. It's just gotten much easier because of technology. These people are pretty much untouchable by the law. They have cooperate ties, political ties (local and federal) and usually have secret society memberships (Eastern Star, Freemasons etc.).
These are privileged families; almost exclusively Caucasian; and they are allowed to make their money in ways that if a normal Joe tried, they would end up in a federal penitentiary. Basically they are protected; just like many other wealthy elites, as long as they kick up a percentage to certain parties and show loyalty.
These people are very smart and without soul or conscience. My *EDIT* has met several of these types in their line of work, and I think they take several showers whenever they have to shake their hands. If you guys achieve pulling her KS, it will be nothing short of a miracle. But understand that the KS is peanuts compared to the amount of money she has most likely scammed from the non-privileged and underprivileged.
Just don't let this persons actions negatively affect your opinion of the struggle a lot of women go through. This is virtually unrelated because people like this don't even classify as a human being.
I'll try to keep it as short as possible. There has been a certain demographic, of very wealthy people, whose job is to scam non wealthy people and it's been going on for decades now. It's just gotten much easier because of technology. These people are pretty much untouchable by the law. They have cooperate ties, political ties (local and federal) and usually have secret society memberships (Eastern Star, Freemasons etc.).
These are privileged families; almost exclusively Caucasian; and they are allowed to make their money in ways that if a normal Joe tried, they would end up in a federal penitentiary. Basically they are protected; just like many other wealthy elites, as long as they kick up a percentage to certain parties and show loyalty.
These people are very smart and without soul or conscience. My *EDIT* has met several of these types in their line of work, and I think they take several showers whenever they have to shake their hands. If you guys achieve pulling her KS, it will be nothing short of a miracle. But understand that the KS is peanuts compared to the amount of money she has most likely scammed from the non-privileged and underprivileged.
Just don't let this persons actions negatively affect your opinion of the struggle a lot of women go through. This is virtually unrelated because people like this don't even classify as a human being.
GraveRobberX
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I literally was saying this in my head reading those parts
"It's all a C O N... spiracy!"
peanutbutterlatte
Member
If people are stupid enough to donate money to this hack cause, but I would say to those people, for god's sake donate to a cancer/homeless charity instead.
moka
Member
GraveRobberX
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What's more important? Helping to find a cure for a disease that affects millions around the world or feed some broke ass person for a day, hell a meal and let them know someone cares, or give it to a 9 year old girl who will create a RPG [after learning how to do so from camp] and teach her brother a lessons that girls > boys, Borderlands 2 and Dragon Age II have taught her about female empowerment!, also something STEM!
The choice is so fucking simple dude!
9 year old 1000%, "Keep^ Up"
Druz
Member
It's called being wealthy. There, saved you an entire blob of text.
So many things about this bother me, but one of them is that the kid doesn't get to say a word. I mean - it's clear everything is written by the mom. If the video included just a little bit of her talking so I could tell if she actually has any enthusiasm for RPGs or if this is just her mom telling us all these sweet lies that hit just the right notes. The status of women in gaming business has been a hot topic for a while now, so I'm being cynical here and saying she may be taking advantage of that.
edit: just read some of the updates and comments. They just don't seem like they're written by a nine year old.
Something just isn't right.
edit: just read some of the updates and comments. They just don't seem like they're written by a nine year old.
Something just isn't right.
travisbickle
Member
Basic rich person error!!
Rich people should just fund their child's education quietly and without fanfare. Then we can pretend we still live in an equal system where success isn't dependent on access to money.
Rich people should just fund their child's education quietly and without fanfare. Then we can pretend we still live in an equal system where success isn't dependent on access to money.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Also what kind of fucking parent are you to let a 9 year old play Borderlands 2 and Dragon Age II
WTF?
WTF?
I come from a secret society family so I find it interesting whenever people don't believe it's an issue. I don't even know if she is. I'm just saying the ones I have met, were. In fact that's how we got to meet.
You have the right to not believe and mock, but everything I said is 100% true. Just because you're ignorant of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I wasn't trying to imply that only Caucasian people would do something like this so I definitely retract that. My comment wasn't a "whitey always keeping folks down" intention because the majority of the people they rip off are Caucasian. I apologize if that's what you took from it.
You have the right to not believe and mock, but everything I said is 100% true. Just because you're ignorant of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I wasn't trying to imply that only Caucasian people would do something like this so I definitely retract that. My comment wasn't a "whitey always keeping folks down" intention because the majority of the people they rip off are Caucasian. I apologize if that's what you took from it.
TheLucifer
Member
Reported.
Should have just written 'Dark Souls' to make GAF blind and let the scam go unnoticed.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
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