It ain't over til its over. She hasn't won yet. She will screw herself over by the end of this.
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Millionaire tries to get $829 via kickstarter to send daughter to RPG maker camp?
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It ain't over til its over. She hasn't won yet. She will screw herself over by the end of this.
Muku
Member
You sure about that? Looking grim for the sane side of the internet. And I wouldn't mind if she just sat down and answered legit questions. True or not is a different story, but at least she'd be trying then. And while she says she got a CAD designer her to help with the phone case, it didn't look like it carried any more than the one folks have been saying she was reselling.
Yeah, I think she was buying them and marking them up.
I strongly believe she be her own downfall before the end of the kickstarter. As it gets closer and closer to the end and she starts to realize that she has won it, she will start slipping up and make the big missteps that will lead to the end of it.
I hold out the hope that this will happen.
Eh, she's always have the "This is a NINE YEAR OLD!!!" crutch to fall on.
polyh3dron
Banned
Wait how old did she claim he was?
I would take a bet that says Mackenzie is currently not 9 years old as stated. I don't think that crutch is gonna work to fall back on by the end.
What have you been calling Susan since she asks you to call her by her name?
Why is she looking into DRM, if her daughter is making the game?
Why is she talking about doing things to the game, when her daughter is the one making the game?
Why can't she ask her daughter about which platforms it will work on, since she's actually the one making it? Why must she ask her father?
She's trying to sound "knowledgeable" and appear "aware" of the concerns of "gamers".
edit - yup, LOL
edit - yup, LOL
The Art Factory 1 minute ago
Susan is understated.. 100%.. she knows more than about DRM
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LnGrrrR 11 minutes ago
@susan, glad to hear you at least know about DRM
Muku
Member
She's trying to sound "knowledgeable" and appear "aware" of the concerns of "gamers".
edit - yup, LOL
+1 for the GIF. And LOL @ this, man.
Holy cow, is Maddox still around? I haven't read his page.. in years.
polyh3dron
Banned
LOL this has to be a meme at this point. Every time he puts up something new it's like 3 pages of this.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=467492&highlight=maddox
Muku
Member
LOL, it's funny you say that. I just literally haven't seen him mentioned in years. I don't know of anyone that used to read his page either. I can't even remember how I originally found his website. Or why I stopped reading to be honest. I guess it was just something that was big in the day, we forgot about, and now we're surprised. But I find it highly funny I'm not only one saying that same thing.
EDIT: Holy crap, Seanbaby is still around too. Maybe this is a sign I'm getting old and senile, LOL. Somewhere along the way forgot about these guys. But they're still around, lurking on the internet.
Just like...
Hypereides
Member
Oh man reading that made me sprout more chesthair. Good one. Im expecting a rebuttal from her though.
CoffeeGames
Member
So...apparently I should stop working and make up a scam kickstarter to make money. Since, apparently there are enough morons who would actually pay for this shit. I mean, come on.
Here's the deal though, would THIS KS have actually done as well as it (unfortunately) has, without all the big sites promoting it and basically defending it?
Zoe
Member
It crossed 20K before this thread was created.
moka
Member
It would have been higher if people didn't start questioning it.
CoffeeGames
Member
I haven't seen any real questioning on the major sites that covered it though. They didn't ask very basic questions, that many around here asked, and instead turned it to a "Mom getting attacked for wanting to help daughter" situation.
Gully State
Member
News sites haven't but for the most part, blogs and forum communities have absolutely killed it. There was a slight uptick the day kotaku,cnet and huffington post came in but it's been a trickle compared to the first 3 days. It'll be interesting to see what happens to funding during the last 48 hours. Will people pull out or will there be a 24 hour bump.
I just read the last few posts. She's thinking about selling the game on STEAM and GOG?
MIT just found a way to make money through Steam.
I personally hope she releases it only for origin.
I don't know about this info, but while looking up some family members a while back, I was really surprised at all the information about my family on MyLife. Most of the info was outdated ("currently lives in..."), but was certainly valid.
Man, this story keeps getting crazier.
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
MyLife is a social networking site. Used to be Reunion.com and a few other alumni-type sites. The problem is that when someone sets up a profile on MyLife, the site will then start crawling through/collecting any contact lists and address books it can see (anything not encrypted) and will then populate its database with those people's information. It will then spam the shit out of those people. It's basically a friendship breaker.
10101
Gold Member
So let me get this right the latest is:
This thread never fails to deliver, it has become my second home. That total keeps rising though, I am actually thinking of backing myself (no really) there are a few questions I keep hoping backers will ask but they don't for some reason. Would need to dig out my flame retardant gear first though, not sure if its worth the aggro.
- She is using stock images as assets for the game and saying the backers have made them.
- Her son is apparently 19 (although he may have lied about his age for whatever reason) which would cast doubt on whether her daughter is 9.
- She is planning on adding DRM to the game and / or selling it on a DD site
This thread never fails to deliver, it has become my second home. That total keeps rising though, I am actually thinking of backing myself (no really) there are a few questions I keep hoping backers will ask but they don't for some reason. Would need to dig out my flame retardant gear first though, not sure if its worth the aggro.
glaringradio
Member
Oh that's nice, using Marumiyan artwork on her shitty pinkiesquare website. I'm sure you got permission for that Susan, is he one of your backers?
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
You just needed to tweak your presentation.
Your 7 year old son* is teased by his older sisters for wanting to make clothes. For a mere $20k pledge, they will make a video apologizing.
You only need $893 to send him to a clothing camp, but if others donate, you'll be able to buy him a quality Bernina 830 so that he can deliver clothes to the $10 pledges.
*Existence of son/son's actual age is irrelevant.
Wrong, needs to be a girl and if she is poor and maybe part of some minority even better, well maybe. You need to add as many "feel" good crap as possible, it gives you some powerful name calling capabilities when then critics come. Oh and don't forget that "journalists" love that stuff.
VibratingDonkey
Member
You haven't seen this then.
And I hadn't seen Ben Kuchera popping in to call those who take issue with this kickstarter assholes before closing the comments? What's up with that?
CoffeeGames
Member
Interesting he said if there were further issues to take it up via email. This guy hasn't even been decent enough to respond to emails I provided him back in January, after he told me, "You certainly have my attention. What's the issue you found?".
But he was decent enough to block me on Twitter, I guess trying to continue living in his journalism bubble of honesty/transparency?
Why he would try and waste more readers' time on Penny-Arcade in emails, when he has a history of not answering my own emails after he asked me about an issue I had mentioned, I think is kind of bizarre...
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Wait, she intends to sell the game?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
It's like she's leaving all these incredibly dumb bread crumbs on purpose.
Why not? She already saw how websites, backers and even the MIT are falling for it, might as well go for the big bucks now. Buy the game made by a poor 9 years old girl bullied by her older brothers and show the world any young girl can make a game!!!11!
ramoisdead
Member
This is starting to remind me of that one episode from Ed, Edd n Eddy where Eddy kept tweaking the same scam over and over again. The kids in the cul de sac fell for it the first couple of times but within time knew what was really going on. Some of these backers act like they're straight from a cartoon, you would think they can take a clue from the source they're portraying.
I hope that anyone, who is still following this, is only doing so in order to learn a valuable life lesson about our society. Some of you are letting this become an obsession. If this KS has opened your eyes to some things, then I suggest that you spend that time, which you have used to follow Susan, on educating yourself about other, far more reaching & important, corruption within your economy.
This KS scam is the bottom of the barrel for people of this nature. It's inconsequential in monetary terms. In ethical terms, it is a decent spring board for those of us who were either too young or too naive to know about this sort of thing, and why certain individuals constantly get away with it.
May I suggest a book to those of you who wish to know more. Some of you may have already heard of it. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: John Perkins.
My dad suggested this book to me, and he cosigned much of it. My dad was the keystone of a team responsible for making quite a few people into millionaires and millionaires into multimillionaires. Amongst other business consortium's, he was a member of a nation wide financial think tank, which consisted of some of the best financial minds in the country. So he was definitely in a position to know some things, to say the least.
There is a very dark side to the business world, especially the higher up you go. You won't get far unless you belong to some of the more prestigious associations of commerce and finance. The banks and corporations, that control the flow of money, just won't work with you. And no business wants to be on their "black list" whether your business is internet based or otherwise.
This KS scam is the bottom of the barrel for people of this nature. It's inconsequential in monetary terms. In ethical terms, it is a decent spring board for those of us who were either too young or too naive to know about this sort of thing, and why certain individuals constantly get away with it.
May I suggest a book to those of you who wish to know more. Some of you may have already heard of it. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: John Perkins.
My dad suggested this book to me, and he cosigned much of it. My dad was the keystone of a team responsible for making quite a few people into millionaires and millionaires into multimillionaires. Amongst other business consortium's, he was a member of a nation wide financial think tank, which consisted of some of the best financial minds in the country. So he was definitely in a position to know some things, to say the least.
There is a very dark side to the business world, especially the higher up you go. You won't get far unless you belong to some of the more prestigious associations of commerce and finance. The banks and corporations, that control the flow of money, just won't work with you. And no business wants to be on their "black list" whether your business is internet based or otherwise.
CoffeeGames
Member
Exactly. I posted a video to YouTube of our 3 year old beating Super Mario Bros. World 1-1, and wasn't exactly astounded by all the sites posting "Watch gameplay video of 3 year old BOY beat Super Mario Bros. World 1-1!!!" (None did, except me on my blog.)
Perhaps had I said, "3 year old girl beats Mario to prove to her brothers she can do it" it would have been picked up by sites? Even though the title would be factually incorrect, that doesn't seem to matter when the sites run with stories right? And if they contact me, I sure don't have to worry with them asking me any legitimate questions about the video, right?
Have him play again, and do just that. See how far it goes.
I want backers to use this as their avatar.
I'm -this- far away from regretting having posted that pic here.
Oh, god, I'm sorry... Oh, gawd... I cannot escape that frondy gaze.
Muku
Member
I think most of us take it as a joke, because honestly? JCS is a nut. Though with what he has to say and the amount he likes to talk about Susan, does make one wonder what his deal in all this is. Still thinking he's creeping behind a plant watching the Wilson family. But, this does go to say Susan should distance herself from JCS. Yeah, he's a supporter, but he's one of those supporters that I wouldn't want on my side, even if I was the only one on my side. I find he tends to hurt rather than help. And this is in regards to all his creepy talk about the family. Never mind his incoherent thoughts at times.
We, my friends, have a week to go until we can begin the watching to see how this turns out. I don't expect crap from a 9 year old. It's not to say a 9 year old can't make anything, but this whole thing has been a farce, and at this point, I still don't feel like anything concrete has come from Kenzie. The whole telling of the base story thing was kind of coached by her father. And to be fair, basing it off the KC and whole troll thing seems like a facepalm moment. But also goes to show she had no plans before this.
One week until perhaps the real party begins?
Muku
Member
Actually, now you mention this, makes me wonder if it's going to be one of the shortest RPGs in history, or if the genre will change. I liked how in one of Susan's walls of text, she noted that RPGs were one of the hardest genres to make. Does this mean Kenzie will make this an adventure game instead or something? I'm sure she thought everyone on the net was a Debbie Downer by saying "OMG RPG in a week?! LOLOL". She doesn't even know the start of it until she sees how much is involved.
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