On that tip, the reason I didn't address your issues about due diligence above, I run with scissors, isn't that I'm trying to dodge a bullet or avoid taking responsibility for my own mistakes. It's just that you frame the question as "why wasn't it obvious to you that this project was going to fail?" Since I'm committed to the opposite position, we don't have a shared premise on which further discussion could be based. [/quote]
The fuck?
Listen Tavis, strip away all my fucking position, and stance. There are two simple questions:
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Did you preform any form of due diligence before entering into a contract with anyone?
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Did you at least see a manuscript before you agreed to the terms?
This is basic business practice. There is no fucking room for sunshine and lollipops and good old fashion blind faith. Divorce Jim from this. If it was any one who came to you with the proposition of running a Kickstarter for them, would you not make sure to protect yourself? For fuck sake, any contract, any business enters into, has to preform some basic form of due diligence to make sure they are not walking into something like this.
You could have, and still believe, that Jim would fulfill his end of the margin – no matter how one sided it is – but you owe it to yourself to make sure you have some protection. For me, if I was going to do this, I would at least like to know if a manuscript is almost done.
You like to state, ad nauseam that this was all about about cooperative development. Look at the mother fucking timeline:
Launched: Mar 2, 2012
Update 1 — 3/3/2012
Update 2 — 3/3/2012
Update 3 — 3/5/2012
Update 4 — 3/7/2012
Update 5 — 3/21/2012
Update 6 — 3/21/2012
Update 7 — 4/7/2012
Update 8 — 4/8/2012
Update 9 — 4/11/2012
Update 10 — 4/13/2012
Update 11 — 4/14/2012
Update 12 — 4/14/2012
Update 13 — 4/14/2012
Funding ended: Apr 14, 2012
Update 14 — 4/17/2012
Update 15 — 4/27/2012
Update 16 — 5/5/2012
I am assuming sometime between 5/2 and 5/5 you paid Jim the Scam for the fucking.
Update 17 — 6/4/2012
The whore skipped your call:
Update 18 — 6/24/2012
The whore changed his number:
Update 19 — 7/6/2012
The whore took the money and ran.
You start realizing you been had:
Update 20 — 8/10/2012
You trying to save face:
Update 21 — 8/17/2012
You’re fucked:
Update 22 — 8/24/2012
Update 23 — 8/31/2012
Why nothing but the sound of silencer for those all important first fucking SIX WEEKS after the damn thing is closed?
Shouldn’t that have been the busy window when, we the fucking the backers are being shown this “legendary” snicker dungeon firm up from whatever notes Jim did not give to his former player in another town, somewhere, somewhen, or sometime?
More importantly, when the fuck were you planning on delivering:
…we need your feedback to make the finished product as responsive to your needs as a gamer as it possibly can be. As a backer, we'll strive to provide you with opportunities to experience Dwimmermount as a player. You'll get maps and legends you can use to run it for others. And you'll get each successive draft of the text, so you can watch how your experience of turning the written dungeon into a living realm of mystery and danger reflects James' reverse process of making his campaign notes into a form usable by others.
Source: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/autarch/dwimmermount?ref=live
Even more, the fucking PDF was supposedly going to be set in stone by June anyway, so June is not the time when you should say: Time to create the experience.
That’s the thing Tavis, you walked into this eyes mother fucking wide open. When you raised that much fucking money, you became a business and your business was no longer a hobby one, it was a serious game design endeavor, and your product was, and mother fucking still it, Dwimmermount. If this is not the case, why the hell, did you not put all of Jim’s branding on the damn thing?
You took a risk, and admirable one, but one that you owed it to yourself to protect yourself. I do not care if you went into business with the mothering fucking Dali Lami, any business that enters into a contract needs to ensure that their ass is covered. You did not protect yourself. Period.
Yes, you have done great with taking this turd Poutine you have been served, but fuck man, cannot you not see that this was doomed to go bad? Fuck my stance on Jim and his lack of commitment or willingness to stick to anything. What if he died, and nothing was fucking done? He had the fucking money? He had the fucking goods. You had nothing. You would be on the fucking hook.
Now do you see where I am coming from?