what pisses me off is he is (or was) sitting on the Buckaroo Banzai license but wanted to finish Far West before he tackled that game.  I would kill for a Buckaroo Banzai RPG. a REAL one, not a "well if you use Hellboy or Atomic Robo..."

And after calling me a creepy Zak S fanboy, Skarka blocked me and deleted my comments.

But I got screenshots motherfucker!

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1053161And after calling me a creepy Zak S fanboy, Skarka blocked me and deleted my comments.

But I got screenshots motherfucker!

Well?!

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Post them after work.

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I was going to search for porn after catching up on my Rpg Site reading, but after that I can just sit here and finish.

Kickstarter is ALWAYS a risk. Never spend money you don't mind tossing away.

It's the only way I can sanely use Kickstarter and I've been lucky overall with my pledging.

I chock it up to this. I've spend $100+ on a bad dinner at overrated, highly regarded restaurant multiple times. In retrospect, I shouldn't have eaten there, but the reviews of the place were great and you can't find new favorite restaurant if you don't try new places. Thus, I approach KS the same way. Sometimes, you get a shit sandwich.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1053200Kickstarter is ALWAYS a risk. Never spend money you don't mind tossing away.

It's the only way I can sanely use Kickstarter and I've been lucky overall with my pledging.

I chock it up to this. I've spend $100+ on a bad dinner at overrated, highly regarded restaurant multiple times. In retrospect, I shouldn't have eaten there, but the reviews of the place were great and you can't find new favorite restaurant if you don't try new places. Thus, I approach KS the same way. Sometimes, you get a shit sandwich.

It's a bummer that Far West didn't materialize, yes, but that's not what has people so upset. It's the repeated lies about things, and more recently his abusive behavior towards understandably upset former fans. If GMS had just come out and said "Sorry, but things happened and it's over," people would have been upset, sure, but not like this. The kicker is the multiple times he said the game was "almost done," anywhere from a single week to a couple months away, only for it to still not materialize. All of those were years ago. Sometimes he went silent. Sometimes he had an excuse - almost always irrelevant. And at this point, I'm convinced he even faked his illness(I hope not, but he seems the type who wouldn't hesitate to go that far.) And sometimes he followed up with chapter by chapter progress updates that by themselves went well beyond the promised time frame. He's just a seriously sketchy person, to put it mildly, who won't admit failure and who continues to act as if he has any moral high ground after what he's done.

I invite you to google Palladium's Robotech Tactics Kickstarter if you enjoy tales of crowdfunding clusterfucks.

And I agree with you, it's not the failure that angers backers as much as the shady shit that's being piled on the way to the inevitable conclusion.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1053207I invite you to google Palladium's Robotech Tactics Kickstarter if you enjoy tales of crowdfunding clusterfucks.

And I agree with you, it's not the failure that angers backers as much as the shady shit that's being piled on the way to the inevitable conclusion.

Make no mistake, Skarka is a piece of shit a dog ate, then puked up.

I only know Skarka from reading about Far West's disastrous Kickstarter and my previous enjoyment of his great Hong Kong Action Theater RPG. I have no idea what Skarka does online as I avoid social media because...it's a fucking poison to the mind and soul.  

While I always hope a Creator will fulfill their KS and bring a great project to market, I know that chance diminishes sharply as the years go by and all the money is long gone. Very few Creators have the gumption to pony up their own cash after they lost / spent / drank the backer's cash.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1053285I only know Skarka from reading about Far West's disastrous Kickstarter and my previous enjoyment of his great Hong Kong Action Theater RPG. I have no idea what Skarka does online as I avoid social media because...it's a fucking poison to the mind and soul.  

While I always hope a Creator will fulfill their KS and bring a great project to market, I know that chance diminishes sharply as the years go by and all the money is long gone. Very few Creators have the gumption to pony up their own cash after they lost / spent / drank the backer's cash.

Social media is only the icing on the shit cake that is Skarka's persona. His disastrous behavior on his KS was abhorrent long before his Twittering became an issue to backers. The human-shaped turd is so bafflingly deluded and dishonest it's jaw-dropping. I truly wish you knew me well enough to know that I rarely hold such virulent contempt for a person.

What a ridiculous piece of shit this guy is.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1053565What a ridiculous piece of shit this guy is.

He's gone strangely quiet again after a bunch of promises during May & June.

Posted on the KS updates page:

"Home Stretch.

I'm working through this weekend, but it doesn't look like I'm going to hit my self-imposed deadline of July.  (I know, I know -- I've already beat myself up over this.)  It is what it is, and July has been challenging.

Regardless:  I'm fairly sure that I only need a week to get things squared away -- but, to be on the safe side, I'm going to give myself two.

The coming week, of course, is GenCon.  I will not be going.  For those of you who are, I hope you have a great time!

Also, for those of you who are lucky enough to be living in a city where this will be screening, the new Tsui Hark movie, Detective Dee & the Four Heavenly Kings, is opening this weekend:
 Alas, the nearest theater to me that has it is 517 miles away, in Plano, Texas. Which is probably a good thing -- I have work to do, after all! But if it's playing near you, check it out and let me know what you think!
--
Gareth-Michael Skarka
Lawrence, KS
27 July 2018"

Why go to GenCon? He'd have to face all the backers he lied to and insulted.