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Millionaire tries to get $829 via kickstarter to send daughter to RPG maker camp?
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moka
Member
Oh Jesus. You got me.
batteryLeakage
Neo Member
Just quoting this for a new page. Its a good summary thus far.
WeaponJohnnyX
Member
I personally have no problems with her being wealthy and asking for money. She could be teaching her "child" a life lesson on how to achieve goals or something like that. I don't think its the "right" thing to do though.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
This reeks of red flags. I really hope they don't see a dime of this and also catch some heat if they indeed are rich.
for point 2, also Dragon Age II, that is like the opposite of 'empowering girl gamer'. I guess it does have the 'lesser controls' she wants though.
WeaponJohnnyX
Member
I definitely agree, not appropriate for Kickstarter.
Black Door
Banned
This is why you only support Kick starters that have viable, working proofs of concept, and not funding some guy's "cool idea" he thought about the night before, or helping sun worshippers spread the gospel faster
Also, this has gone viral because "Aww look at how young the girl is, and she wants to make a game. Cute!" sentiments. It's today's feelgood-story for gaming sites and tech blogs. Oh and the cute girl gets heckled by her big "mean brothers" who like to wear sexist shirts as you can see on the KS page. That's why we can't have female developers. Please give money.
WeaponJohnnyX
Member
Its a joke, Parents need to actually parent for a start and tell their kids they can't wear sexist shirts etc (Oh wait, they most likely bought the shirt to make them look worse)
I also love the fact they're playing the whole no female developers approach, the reason we have no female developers is either
1. A male with higher qualifications and experience has applied for the same place
2. They're simply not applying (9 times out of 10)
If anything it harms females wanting to get into games, they see stuff like this and assume its the case
Here's the course BTW http://www.internaldrive.com/course...amps/role-playing-game-design-with-rpg-maker/
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Period. If this is what it is, I am not backing anything else. I don't back hardly anything anyways but this kind of stuff seems too exploitative.
indigo-cyclops
Member
That's quite good. What exactly is a 'secret society family'?
Anyway this is despicable and if KS let's this stay I may start questioning their policies. I'm going to report it later tonight as well.
WeaponJohnnyX
Member
I guess the kid is having a birthday before this?
Oh snap lol.
moka
Member
Excellent arrow drawing.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
If idiots want to waste their money on this shit, I don't see the problem. Wish I had thought of it.
I'm gonna start a KS promising videos of me walking up to celebrities and farting on them. Money in the bank.
I'm gonna start a KS promising videos of me walking up to celebrities and farting on them. Money in the bank.
WeaponJohnnyX
Member
Thank you, I've been practicing.
Its not funded yet. Hopefully enough people report it to kickstarter and it gets taken down as the charity/give me free money plug that it really is.
A scam is a scam.
Unless this KS project is canceled before the cash out.
Age is nothing $20k and secret society contacts can't change.
But seriously, this mother seems to have a problem reading the fine print, in general. Perhaps we can launch a kickstarter to fund her through a course for that?
RPG Maker school? WHAT?
How about teaching the kid to use Google and finding sites for tutorials. About nine gazzilion three hundred and seventy four and a half kids around the world worked out how to use RPG Maker on their lonesome (well with a bit of help from Don's Adventure). It really isn't that hard.
And VX, nah son. That's ugly and blocky. Use XP instead (or be even cooler with 2k/3)
Oh wait it's a massive con.
How about teaching the kid to use Google and finding sites for tutorials. About nine gazzilion three hundred and seventy four and a half kids around the world worked out how to use RPG Maker on their lonesome (well with a bit of help from Don's Adventure). It really isn't that hard.
And VX, nah son. That's ugly and blocky. Use XP instead (or be even cooler with 2k/3)
Oh wait it's a massive con.
is the lesson: You can never have enough money and it's good to take money from naive people on the internet?
This makes sense. A modest ask at first, to see if you can double it... triple it... quadruple it...
Then if it proves successful, let the real manipulation begin.
I actually don't have a problem with her doing this. People are being fools because of identity politics and want to be apart of a movement. Sometimes, after a few bad experiences people will not be so gullible when it comes to joining a movement. My problem is that this clearly violates the TOS and I don't believe the woman at all when it comes to this story. I think this women is just going to pocket the money. The store isn't believable.
There are two possible routes this will take.
1. The proposal will get funded on Kickstarter at around 50k. Backers will feel they contributed to a great scause everyone else will bitch.
2. Kickstarter cancels this, social media will bitch and the proposal will be funded at around 50k+ at another panhandler site. Backers will feel they contributed to a great scause everyone else will bitch.
I, personally, find it appalling to make your kid go public to pursue her dreams, especially if you have the means of support.
1. The proposal will get funded on Kickstarter at around 50k. Backers will feel they contributed to a great scause everyone else will bitch.
2. Kickstarter cancels this, social media will bitch and the proposal will be funded at around 50k+ at another panhandler site. Backers will feel they contributed to a great scause everyone else will bitch.
I, personally, find it appalling to make your kid go public to pursue her dreams, especially if you have the means of support.
Quadruple? The hopes are already higher...
"My goal is to raise $829 to cover the cost of RPG Camp. But my Mom just told me about the Veronica Mars campaign so now I'm secretly hoping to raise more"
The VM Kickstarter is almost at $ 4Million. Mom wants that money.
This just seems all kinds of wrong. Now if it was the 9 year old doing it herself and promoting her game and ideas I wouldn't see a problem with it even if her mom is rich. Nothing wrong with her pursuing something on her own independently regardless of income but her mom is clearly exploiting this and the idea of her daughter making a game is just an afterthought.
Ah yes, childhood summer memories are Minecraft camp.
Edit: This is pretty disgusting on the part of the mother. How has Kickstarter not shut this down??
HolyBaikal
Banned
Considering that this project is an attempt to exploit and scam feminists.
And "anonymous"(4chan) is loaded with tons of people who hate feminists.
She just might be their hero.
Karsticles
Member
The reactions in this thread are why those people are millionaires, and we aren't.
I totally see the second route. We already lost. People will only see the little kid "dream", not the scam behind it, and she can easily pulls the sexism card.
BattleMonkey
Member
Kickstarter is becoming a joke with what they are allowing. But why would they care, they just are reaping tons in fees from allowing pretty much anything on their site.
Come on, not all people with money are bad. There are many on GAF that have large amounts of wealth and see the wrong with this.
Vicetrailia
Member
Great job. Completely agree.
Muku
Member
Reading that just made me cringe. And this is what I feared about KS. I have never really been a big fan of it, but I know some folks have gotten the funding they needed to do their projects, and that's great. Just don't think it's for me. But this pile of crap was obviously written by the mom. It just screamed that way to me the whole way through. I can't imagine that even if someone did donate 10k, they'd even get a letter from the brothers. It'd probably be written by her as well.
If I had a Kickstarter account, I'd definitely report it. I'm actually almost tempted to make one to do so. She is on a fine line there, but a time or two clearly state it's for an "education".
Also, this is total hogwash. The thing about her not being able to wait to go to be with hardcore gamers her age. What a bunch of bullocks. She tell her daughter not to make friends with the opposite sex? Growing up there were no girls that were into gaming like I was. Only one or two at most that even played them at all. So I made guy friends to talk about games with. Especially since there was no internet for help, it was nice to pass information back and forth.
If I had a Kickstarter account, I'd definitely report it. I'm actually almost tempted to make one to do so. She is on a fine line there, but a time or two clearly state it's for an "education".
Also, this is total hogwash. The thing about her not being able to wait to go to be with hardcore gamers her age. What a bunch of bullocks. She tell her daughter not to make friends with the opposite sex? Growing up there were no girls that were into gaming like I was. Only one or two at most that even played them at all. So I made guy friends to talk about games with. Especially since there was no internet for help, it was nice to pass information back and forth.
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