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Fair point by skip 10/03/2015, 1:49pm PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:


I didn't follow the Kickstarter campaign at all. My understanding is that Sandi Gardiner ran the campaign. I have no idea why she is being brought into any of this. She constructed a campaign that netted, what, $90 million dollars. The salaries of the guys that actually played in last Sunday's game for the New Orleans Saints amounted to $74 million. She out-competed a professional football team.

Sure, the rest of it looks like a clownboat - a boat of clowns, if you will - but she did her job. There is no way Wing Commander is the most popular franchise of all-time and this just ran itself. The crowdfunding for this is the work of a genius.


If she ran the crowdfunding campaign that started this Ponzi scheme, then she deserves her share of the spoils. That being said I still hold that holding onto someone, even someone incredibly competent, who has been brought to HR dozens of times may not be in your organization's best interest if the boss can't give them a stern reprimand since she's also in charge of the boss's blowjobs. Roberts refused to even verify Gardiner was his wife until Smart forced him to; some part of him knew that it would look bad to his backers.

Roberts is too arrogant to allow anyone else to steer this Hindenberg or keep his employees, especially those he's related to, in line; it's ultimately more damning to Roberts than to her though. And holy fuck, it just passed 90 million dollars. That's over $90/backer and $15 million dollars in the last 6 months. Broussard's overpromised game was released a bit too early or he could have jumped on this neverending free money.
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The latest Star Citizen article and subsequent meltdowns by skip 10/03/2015, 12:49pm PDT NEW
    Re: The latest Star Citizen article and subsequent meltdowns by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2015, 12:58pm PDT NEW
        Fair point by skip 10/03/2015, 1:49pm PDT NEW
    I can't wait until this creates a crowdfunded class action lawsuit NT by fabio 10/03/2015, 3:54pm PDT NEW
        But you've been able to walk around your hangar since August 2013! NT by Chris Roberts 10/03/2015, 6:24pm PDT NEW
    Holy shit. There's a possible lawsuit from these idiots by skip 10/04/2015, 7:40am PDT NEW
        Re: Holy shit. There's a possible lawsuit from these idiots by J. Jonah Jameson 10/04/2015, 10:04am PDT NEW
        The Escapist is holding firm. All right, Roberts. Lawsuit time, right? by skip 10/05/2015, 7:13pm PDT NEW
            Do they even have many dissenting backers? Would it just be a million toadies? by Worm 10/05/2015, 9:18pm PDT NEW
    Here's the Forbes recap for those who can't be arsed to dig through this shit by WITTGENSTEIN 10/05/2015, 7:40pm PDT NEW
 
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