No goof, sometimes music I've licensed moves to a new provider and they start putting claims on videos that have it on the ID system. I'd rather remove it than run down the new license holder and wait weeks for monetization while they steal all the ad rev on an entire video for 30 seconds of footage out of 40 minutes of ad enabled content.
He reminds me a lot of these people that only worked in family business that are so terrible at everything they were put in a job that is quite similar of letting the your younger sibling play with the unplugged controller, and started believing they have skills to work for real and make a successful company and they only need money to make their plans work and always when they receive say money they crash and burn in less than a week, because you bet all the money went for the most frivolous thing possible, in my city a guy simply bought a deluxe car because he was sure his company that barely had two months of would recuperated the money in a week because the idea was too brilliant to fail
They are usually wrongheaded and overestimating their ability. If someone like that is often described by his peers as "passionate" when it's also devoid of accompanying qualities like smart, resourceful, having a track record, things like that, I see it as a warning. Describing someone as passionate in this manner is mostly trying to save face for redeeming qualities, because they can't emphasize anything resembling good output.
i think the first thing people should've noticed is that nasa and the government combined should probably have the money to fund something like this and the contacts to get a well known game company in on it
One of my old friends fell for this scam and I told them that if NASA wanted to make an MMO then they would easily have enough to make it rn without kickstarter
@@HauntakuTV NASA is surprisingly underfunded, that's why they had to embarrassingly rely on Soviet ships and now on Space X, all because USA has endless money to bail out billionaires but almost no public funding for government projects as Bezos, Trump and Musk need new Ferraris for golfing or smth.
The company behind Intellivision Amico (which was vaporware) also boasted having a ex NASA engineer working for them. But I think that falls under "you cannot use an employee's public office for private gain, for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise".
Backers: "Here's a bunch of money, now make us a NASA MMO game." Khal: "Ok that's cool, but what if we just sent like 3 people into space instead? That's just as good, right?"
Meanwhile Kerbal Space Program got a Kerbal doll in the ISS two years ago and that game was a first-time project from a company which used to make advertising for Coca Cola. Kudos to Felipe Falanghe.
Did i just watch a game developer have a psychotic break? I have now watched the entire video, i am 100% Convinced the dev is secretly an alien trying to fund a space mission to escape Earth, and becoming increasingly more desperate
@@TobeyFairre7861 I wonder how they made it back to earth to fight the geeze anyways. But knowing they can transform into the super sayan duck man form. They could've probably just flew back to earth on their own
Well, I didn't think Star Citizen would release before we actually had warp drive irl and it technically did launch, so maybe this game should have been more ambitious?
The funny part is Star Citizen has pulled enough money that it really could have built a space academy for 5 -10 students for genuine training with private contracted space launches, and still probably not be that much further from finished.
@@housewilma4904 But is that content good? Because when DNF finally did release after so many years of becoming a punchline, the result was.... underwhelming.
Mine is and I’m trustworhth give me 100,000$ and i can send you to mars using a 25$ mission and nasa backing for 5 million dollars but don’t worry the mission is only 95,000 and thesrss nk government involvement and i need 50,000 dollars
This is the point where my image of him went from "overly ambitious dude who was in way over his head" to "mentally ill" and/or "literally swimming in cocaine".
"The game is going to be set in the year 2035" lol yeah in 2035 we're going to have massive Star Trek space stations orbiting around the Earth... Maybe he's using Elon Musk's time system? lol
I mean, tbf, it's a classic story telling of older games, where they say it's only so many years into the future, but is clearly much more advanced then we are at the time and will be in the actual year. I think the difference is that, in older times, our eyes were full of whimsy and wonder.
Fun fact, that mall he is standing in in a few clips, is a total shit hole. I started going downhill especially around when this Kickstarter would have launched. I doubt it's his fault. But, now I want to blame him nonetheless.
Who watched that initial video and thought it was a good idea to give this guy money. I understand there was no context at the time of kickstarter scams…but that was the most low-effort sketchy BS anyone could ever make. Who thought a real game was going to come from that guy?!
@@agreen182 i have only seen parts but i find all things i have seen of game promotions as low effort, awkward and childish and if they’re not low effort they’re embarrassingly lame. To someone not into gaming i think it seemed fairly normal.
@@alexandrebelair4360There's no way such a thing exists, that is a level of arrogance and heresy I could not imagine existing... I however refuse to look this up in fear of it being true however.
Would you consider covering the Darkest Dungeon Board Game kickstarter? It's got a lot of stuff going. Asking backers for additional money multiple times, holding items hostage in exchange for additional contributions, lies about manufacturing, not delivering promised refunds, selling the game on their site without delivering it to backers, siphoning backer money into other projects, and ultimately running away dissolving the company without providing the second half of the game
I was always difficult to be a space nerd and gamer. Shoveling our way through pile of scams, unfinished projects, games that are "srot of there but not really there", and all kinds of other stuff.
Fr. Like lemme take the customization and weapons and galaxy from Elite Dangerous, mix it with X4’s massive ships and fleets, add in a touch of space engineers and VOILA
@@GimmeMyHandleBack Yeah I feel you man. My dream (sadly I guess) is basically what Star Citizen + Squadron 42 is promising. Proper epic single player game combining space stuff, space stations and on planet content, from there jumping to the MMO part and forging my adventure there, living in space. Having a house hidden on some distant planet, earning creds and rep by bounty hunting etc. But who knows how all that will end up. Currently I am spending time in EVE after long break, it´s nice but.. sort of there but not really there.
Such a weird story, but as always, you told it in a very entertaining way. Banger content. I’m always eager to watch whenever I see an upload from you.
"'Hmm, the title seems a little misleading... I mean yeah this guy's clearly full of it, but compared to some other Kickstarter stories, this is-" 29:36 "Oh. Oh my God."
Wow, I bought that demo on steam back in 2014 - thought it was trash then and never bothered revisiting it. What a weird way to find out you got swindled by a literal crook.
Dude I have a lot to tell , i was part if the beta testing on this game , i also had a space on their on line bug busting workspace , I was in contact with this guy a lot
28:50 Actually, a suborbital flight on New Shepard does get you into space. Space is just 80km up. Getting to space is relatively easy while staying in space is hard. That's why there is a price difference between New Shepard and Crew Dragon.
Kira this was an absolute joy to listen to while i work. Every time you said this is where it gets weird i got more excited to hear what was coming. Great video brother.
That was already technically addressed when the badges on the shirts that NASA uses were pulled and replaced, the only thing NASA was allowed to do was provide assistance in the form of information access and hands on from NASA personnel assistance, not to be a hard and direct partner as in providing actual people to work on it or having their badges used in that manner, US regulations/law prevent NASA from ever doing that.
This is a program the government offers. They have a ton of tech that they want entrepreneurs to commercialize. They give permission to these people to use the tech. Then those entrepreneurs apply to another program called SBIR. This gives them money to test and research commercialized ideas for government use. The idea is all the founder's. They apply and get government grants. So he's taking an idea and attempting to gamify this government tech. They sometimes require the entrepreneurs to match the grant funds and this is why he did this. He didn't have the funds for the matching requirements. If this is what happened, this information is publicly available as they list all SBIR recipients.
For my own sanity imma need you to do one of these videos on Little Devil Inside. It's been YEARS MAN! YEARS! ONE OF THEIR ORIGINAL STRETCH GOALS WAS A WII-U PORT FOR CHRIST SAKE
It's also worthwhile to've spent so much time focusing on the T-shirts or lack thereof, because if a Kickstarter project can't even deliver on something so cheap and easy to ship, then there's a whole heck of a lot more going wrong behind the veil.
I got a strong feeling this project's "inspiration" went something like this... "The internet will give me money if I say I'm making one of those nintendo xbox picture games? And so will the government? Well, how hard could it be?"
Dude, you hear one sentence from this guy and you instantly know he is full of shit. How the hell do people give money to these kind of projects? It baffles me
this guy def had some kind of mental thing going lol. like a manic episode or something. he talks progressively more nonsensically and his plan to send people to space reads more like honest delusion than an attempt at a scam
well i do think he is also a scammer but only kind of. he mislead people from the start by claiming it was nasas game, but i think he probably thought he could pull off everything he said he would do and he was willing to lie to get there.
When he pitched it, he shouldn't have said NASA asked him to do it. If NASA wanted a video game, they would pay for it, he wouldn't need to do a Kickstarter of all things. How did anybody fall for this?
3:58 Early Access kind of did a full 180 with so many projects in it being rug pulls, and then Baldur's Gate 3 projected to be a failure and becoming GOTY.
Their initial ask of $25k isn't even a third of the average American's salary. Even $45k isn't a full year's work for ONE person, let alone a full team of MMO devs. How anyone thought this was realistic is wild. For a team of 14 experienced developers for 5 years - again, an underestimate for a fully-fleshed MMO - you could expect to need $8 million and upwards, ignoring marketing and running costs.
1:35 absolutely baffled by this kickstarter video, why is he talking like a children's television show host, is he speaking to investors or auditioning for blues clues
If they truly wanted more scientists and engineers than they gotta increase those wages, simple as that. Young kids today decide between getting into debt, studying for several years and then paying back the loan while not being able to afford their own home and becoming a multi millionaire streamer at the age of 20. Make becoming a scientist or engineer more desirable.
I'm gonna say, something I always see in kickstarters of games and such. One million dollars is not enough to make a game, not even close. Not even an small game, a mobile phone game or something like that. And in the case of an mmo, 40 million dollars like he said at one point would probably not be enough either.
The more of these vaporware Kickstarter game stories I hear, the more I'm reminded of televangelists and their endless false promises. It's like so many of these folks are absolutely delusional - beyond dreamers, into perhaps actual mental illness like narcissism or something.
he clearly was a scammer. it's sad that Kickstarter ends up getting a bad rep. I think crowdfounding could inspire alot of interesting projects. perhaps only on a hobby basis
I watched Starlite's first video (video title: StarliteLite 2013 02 19 15 20 00 48), I think he really wanted to incorporate a learning program (at least when he was still interested in it), as you can see in the video, e.g. what hertz is or how to decode a signal, but I think it was all just too big for him.
So... im working on my own game and hope to one day do a kick starter and all the jazz... with all these asshats ruining a good opportunity, im honestly scared to put myself out there...
Audio is a bit fecked at 38 mins
Yeah copyrighted section had to do a youtube "auto trim" and it has wrecked the audio in the process. Sadly nothing I can do about it now.
@@KiraTV1I'm choosing to interpret that as: "i dun goofed"
No goof, sometimes music I've licensed moves to a new provider and they start putting claims on videos that have it on the ID system. I'd rather remove it than run down the new license holder and wait weeks for monetization while they steal all the ad rev on an entire video for 30 seconds of footage out of 40 minutes of ad enabled content.
Man fuck all that copyright bullshit... annoying that you had to do that Kira, we get it tho
Rambus really kick started the era of the patent troll instead of invent something steal revenue from lawsuits/patient infringement cases.
this dude pitched this game like he was talking to a classroom full of toddlers
Yeah I am surprised he did not start saying "sweetie" and "honey".
this is spot on
he really was talking to toddlers,...
Felt the same way. It sounded like the start of a cheesy science video you'd be shown in elementary or middle school.
And sadly it worked.
I can’t tell if he’s a scammer, utterly deranged, or both.
He's a man with big dreams but a severe lack of focus
I'm gonna vote "both".
He reminds me a lot of these people that only worked in family business that are so terrible at everything they were put in a job that is quite similar of letting the your younger sibling play with the unplugged controller, and started believing they have skills to work for real and make a successful company and they only need money to make their plans work and always when they receive say money they crash and burn in less than a week, because you bet all the money went for the most frivolous thing possible, in my city a guy simply bought a deluxe car because he was sure his company that barely had two months of would recuperated the money in a week because the idea was too brilliant to fail
They are usually wrongheaded and overestimating their ability. If someone like that is often described by his peers as "passionate" when it's also devoid of accompanying qualities like smart, resourceful, having a track record, things like that, I see it as a warning. Describing someone as passionate in this manner is mostly trying to save face for redeeming qualities, because they can't emphasize anything resembling good output.
Scammers are not mentally balanced to begin with. Anybody with morals will not scam someone.
i think the first thing people should've noticed is that nasa and the government combined should probably have the money to fund something like this and the contacts to get a well known game company in on it
One of my old friends fell for this scam and I told them that if NASA wanted to make an MMO then they would easily have enough to make it rn without kickstarter
I think the first thing people should have noticed, is that they gave over money before asking about who were the people making it and how.
@@leftworld3332011 was a different time. Kickstarter has a massive history of projects failing to materialise now, that wasn't the case back then.
@@HauntakuTV NASA is surprisingly underfunded, that's why they had to embarrassingly rely on Soviet ships and now on Space X, all because USA has endless money to bail out billionaires but almost no public funding for government projects as Bezos, Trump and Musk need new Ferraris for golfing or smth.
The company behind Intellivision Amico (which was vaporware) also boasted having a ex NASA engineer working for them. But I think that falls under "you cannot use an employee's public office for private gain, for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise".
Poor Deth Nightslayer. I hope he receives his shirt, someday.
I feel ya, buddy.
I said the same thing, he seemed to be the most bummed about it all
I'd rather badgers than badges though. Imagine getting a free badger.
@@halfbakedproductions7887 Honey Badger don't play
Such a good ol time nicks tho like one of those xXGarudaDarkXx stuffs
His gravestone will say "where is my shirt".
Backers: "Here's a bunch of money, now make us a NASA MMO game."
Khal: "Ok that's cool, but what if we just sent like 3 people into space instead? That's just as good, right?"
That one guy who keeps asking about his shirt. What a legend
Meanwhile Kerbal Space Program got a Kerbal doll in the ISS two years ago and that game was a first-time project from a company which used to make advertising for Coca Cola.
Kudos to Felipe Falanghe.
Did i just watch a game developer have a psychotic break?
I have now watched the entire video, i am 100% Convinced the dev is secretly an alien trying to fund a space mission to escape Earth, and becoming increasingly more desperate
lol
I am taking this as fact until proven otherwise.
Lmao like a shitty version of the man who fell to earth
nah he's the most level headed jew
@@d3monable What’s that supposed to mean?
That dude has an unhealthy obsession with wanting to send strangers to space
“It Could Be YOU!”
@@glennac"It *WILL* be you"
Reminds me of that episode of Regular Show where Mordecai and Rigby sent things and people to the moon
@@TobeyFairre7861 a bunch of baby ducks, send them to the moon
@@TobeyFairre7861 I wonder how they made it back to earth to fight the geeze anyways.
But knowing they can transform into the super sayan duck man form. They could've probably just flew back to earth on their own
half way through the video I had a realization that Moonbase Alpha came out in 2010. A Year before this "game" was funded on Kickstarter.
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Ah yes the guy that can't ship a tshirt... that's who I trust to send me to space!
You: Houston, we have a problem.
Houston: That delay is a cause for the delay.
The Elon Musk of incompetence
@@Stribog1337 That's just Elon Musk
step 1: give money
step 2: investigate who I'm giving my money to
step 3: next time, start with step 2...
2011 was a wild time. Game takes place in 2035 huh? We were so optimistic.
Well, I didn't think Star Citizen would release before we actually had warp drive irl and it technically did launch, so maybe this game should have been more ambitious?
At this point I'll be happy if we don't end up back with horse and buggies by 2035.
I’ll still be driving a 2007 ford focus in 2035 lmao
@@bipolarminddroppings Star Citizen isn't out of beta AFAIK. Betas don't count as "launch".
@@JuryDutySummons Tbf I'd be surprised if society even makes it to 2035 the way we're going.
There was more lines of text in that Facebook group then the actual code of the game lmao
No one in their right mind would claim they have an office in Winnipeg.
_Winnipeg, we have a problem._ /s
Aaron Funk certainly has some opinions on that topic.
If you all can fund me $40M then I'll send one lucky individual to McDonalds. It'll be much safer than space, trust me bro.
I'll volunteer to go
@@OrgaNik_Music unfortunately you now have ecoli
@@OrgaNik_Music ends up getting poisened by a MCD worker for the 40M
They don't even have mc nuggets in space so this is actually a good deal
Same chances of dying 💀
Khal Shariff just hit every classic grifter move, disappeared, and refused to elaborate.
i think you mean "Astronicus"
I'm shocked that so many people fell for it.
at the start of the vid i thought so too, but the longer it's going, the more it is giving me delusional vibes (in the pathplogical sense)
NASA, we hope for a fun game with cutting-edge graphics... so we accepted giving the licence to a small company who have never made a game...
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Captain America: "i understood that reference"
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The funny part is Star Citizen has pulled enough money that it really could have built a space academy for 5 -10 students for genuine training with private contracted space launches, and still probably not be that much further from finished.
Star Citizen is a hilarious reminder of how much gamer guys are suckers.
@@WobblesandBeanas a Star Citizen backer who hasn't refunded yet… yeah
star citizen actually has content its issue is the devs cant ever decide enoughs enough and launch already i call it "duke nukem forever syndrome".
@@WobblesandBean Speaking from experience I see
@@housewilma4904 But is that content good? Because when DNF finally did release after so many years of becoming a punchline, the result was.... underwhelming.
But we already have the perfect NASA game!
Moonbase Alpha!~
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These people are simply scammers. There is no business model that has any reason to be this vague or evasive or contradictory
Mine is and I’m trustworhth give me 100,000$ and i can send you to mars using a 25$ mission and nasa backing for 5 million dollars but don’t worry the mission is only 95,000 and thesrss nk government involvement and i need 50,000 dollars
i don't know why but when you got to "he started calling himself Astronicus" i almost broke down laughing.
This is the point where my image of him went from "overly ambitious dude who was in way over his head" to "mentally ill" and/or "literally swimming in cocaine".
bro went full edward sallow and crowned himself caesar, son of mars
That guy weirdly looks like papa John lol 😂
Oooh, that's why he seemed vaguely familiar
It's-a da space pizza guy-a.
Or Patrick Tomlinson.
He gave me Dale Winton vibes.
"The game is going to be set in the year 2035"
lol yeah in 2035 we're going to have massive Star Trek space stations orbiting around the Earth...
Maybe he's using Elon Musk's time system? lol
Yahaha...
...... not to forget that the game will only be delivered by 2040, being optimistic.
Well, according to Elon from 7 years ago, we already have a base on mars.
@@BluePhoenix_ Elon Musk’s understanding of “relativistic” time is less Einstein and more Politician. 😁
I mean, tbf, it's a classic story telling of older games, where they say it's only so many years into the future, but is clearly much more advanced then we are at the time and will be in the actual year. I think the difference is that, in older times, our eyes were full of whimsy and wonder.
"Musk bad"
Fun fact, that mall he is standing in in a few clips, is a total shit hole. I started going downhill especially around when this Kickstarter would have launched. I doubt it's his fault. But, now I want to blame him nonetheless.
i feel like most malls nowadays are kinda like that lol. probably his fault tho
@@BlisaBLisa Totally his fault.
Who watched that initial video and thought it was a good idea to give this guy money. I understand there was no context at the time of kickstarter scams…but that was the most low-effort sketchy BS anyone could ever make. Who thought a real game was going to come from that guy?!
There's one born every minute.
@@agreen182 i have only seen parts but i find all things i have seen of game promotions as low effort, awkward and childish and if they’re not low effort they’re embarrassingly lame.
To someone not into gaming i think it seemed fairly normal.
I mean, people bought Trump's bible.
@@alexandrebelair4360 At least there you got what you paid for, in all its utter tackiness.
@@alexandrebelair4360There's no way such a thing exists, that is a level of arrogance and heresy I could not imagine existing... I however refuse to look this up in fear of it being true however.
Would you consider covering the Darkest Dungeon Board Game kickstarter?
It's got a lot of stuff going. Asking backers for additional money multiple times, holding items hostage in exchange for additional contributions, lies about manufacturing, not delivering promised refunds, selling the game on their site without delivering it to backers, siphoning backer money into other projects, and ultimately running away dissolving the company without providing the second half of the game
I'm so mad about that one. The one thing I ever kickstarted, and only because the company had done it successfully before.
@@TheTingcat I get so mad every time it pops into my head.
4:10 aslo around that time the whole "we'll be on mars by 2024" thing was going on. Ironic to be writing this in 2024 😂
Yeah, Americans went from "we'll be on Mars on 2024" to literally Taliban calling them out on removing women's rights.
@@KasumiRINA when did the taliban say that?
I was always difficult to be a space nerd and gamer. Shoveling our way through pile of scams, unfinished projects, games that are "srot of there but not really there", and all kinds of other stuff.
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Fr. Like lemme take the customization and weapons and galaxy from Elite Dangerous, mix it with X4’s massive ships and fleets, add in a touch of space engineers and VOILA
@@GimmeMyHandleBack Yeah I feel you man. My dream (sadly I guess) is basically what Star Citizen + Squadron 42 is promising. Proper epic single player game combining space stuff, space stations and on planet content, from there jumping to the MMO part and forging my adventure there, living in space. Having a house hidden on some distant planet, earning creds and rep by bounty hunting etc. But who knows how all that will end up. Currently I am spending time in EVE after long break, it´s nice but.. sort of there but not really there.
Where do Derek Smart's games fit in that list?
Holy shit I actually had this game when I got my first pc. Got a solid 30 minutes of playtime before I gave up on it.
Do you still have the program on your computer by chance?
Such a weird story, but as always, you told it in a very entertaining way.
Banger content. I’m always eager to watch whenever I see an upload from you.
There's just no justice in this world if Deth Nightslayer of all people never got his shirt.
That delay was definitely a large cause for delay.
?????
Profit?
OMG I did an internship with this company back in 2018! I don't recall this game ever being mentioned though.
What was it like there? What other kind of projects did they work on?
Sure you did. I did too!
@@jrbowler84i confirm i was astronicus :D
"'Hmm, the title seems a little misleading... I mean yeah this guy's clearly full of it, but compared to some other Kickstarter stories, this is-"
29:36
"Oh. Oh my God."
Wow, I bought that demo on steam back in 2014 - thought it was trash then and never bothered revisiting it. What a weird way to find out you got swindled by a literal crook.
Dude I have a lot to tell , i was part if the beta testing on this game , i also had a space on their on line bug busting workspace , I was in contact with this guy a lot
At this point 'MMO' and 'Kickstarter' are two words that don't go well together. You know it's going to be a disaster. Lol 🤣
I'm at 19:00 and it feels like the video should end here but it's just the halfway point. Am a little scared of what is lurking ahead...
28:50 Actually, a suborbital flight on New Shepard does get you into space. Space is just 80km up. Getting to space is relatively easy while staying in space is hard. That's why there is a price difference between New Shepard and Crew Dragon.
Most people use 100 km as the altitude where space starts.
Kira this was an absolute joy to listen to while i work. Every time you said this is where it gets weird i got more excited to hear what was coming.
Great video brother.
A tax credit doesn't mean you're given money, it means you pay that less tax.
Heard that guys voice and knew instantly he was full of shit. You can just hear it in the way he speaks and acts.
Didn’t anybody ask NASA for comment?
That's an issue with most of these videos.
No follow-up or any journalistic engagement that needs a bit of work.
That was already technically addressed when the badges on the shirts that NASA uses were pulled and replaced, the only thing NASA was allowed to do was provide assistance in the form of information access and hands on from NASA personnel assistance, not to be a hard and direct partner as in providing actual people to work on it or having their badges used in that manner, US regulations/law prevent NASA from ever doing that.
@@mattgottesmann3514 So why not do it yourself?
NASA with Blackjack and Hookers? Now, that sounds like a game. :p
Dam i wouldn't trust a guy that talks and acts that way. salesman vibes.
Would it be a fitting time to say: "Houston we have a problem"?
It would be a perfect time even
Since the topic is space, I guess we have to say it. We have no choice.
there's a universe where this guy got his Astronaut thing up and running, and i'm glad it isn't this one
It's the universe adjacent to the one where the monkeys wrote Shakespeare
This would be the OceanGate of space.
Seems like this guy read about Star Citizens development and said fuck it I could do that easy money
It looks like his crowd funding actually pre-dated Star Citizen. Which I guess makes him, er... a visionary of sorts?
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@@MrMarcusIndia Bro invented kick starter scams.
Why "fake it until you make it" is the worst advice ever. 😂😂😂
This guy has big dreams, but no roadmap. He needs to set a few small goals because it's gonna take him like 20+ years to get there if ever.
Why you slandering Chris Roberts
Michael Superbacker and Deth Nightslayer - digital kin.
I love these videos. They're so much fun.
thanks for all the great videos, i really enjoy listening to them while drawing, seeing one posted brightens my day
Holy !!!!!! ... that guy Khal is on another level !!!!! 🤣 totally MENTAL !!!!!
This is a program the government offers. They have a ton of tech that they want entrepreneurs to commercialize. They give permission to these people to use the tech. Then those entrepreneurs apply to another program called SBIR. This gives them money to test and research commercialized ideas for government use.
The idea is all the founder's. They apply and get government grants. So he's taking an idea and attempting to gamify this government tech. They sometimes require the entrepreneurs to match the grant funds and this is why he did this. He didn't have the funds for the matching requirements.
If this is what happened, this information is publicly available as they list all SBIR recipients.
This whole debacle sounds like an adventure of somebody's crazy uncle.
For my own sanity imma need you to do one of these videos on Little Devil Inside. It's been YEARS MAN! YEARS! ONE OF THEIR ORIGINAL STRETCH GOALS WAS A WII-U PORT FOR CHRIST SAKE
It's also worthwhile to've spent so much time focusing on the T-shirts or lack thereof, because if a Kickstarter project can't even deliver on something so cheap and easy to ship, then there's a whole heck of a lot more going wrong behind the veil.
Stop Khal before he sends a man to space in a lightning-struck carbon-fiber hulled rocket ship.
carbon fiber is actually a good material to use for a spacecraft tho
40min of "it gets worse" , extremely common kickstarter L.
I got a strong feeling this project's "inspiration" went something like this...
"The internet will give me money if I say I'm making one of those nintendo xbox picture games? And so will the government? Well, how hard could it be?"
Badgers, got it.
We don't need no stinking badgers...
As an American, I appreciate you clarifying the difference between badgers and badges 😅
Badgers? BADGERS? We don’t need no stinking badgers!!!
Dude, you hear one sentence from this guy and you instantly know he is full of shit. How the hell do people give money to these kind of projects? It baffles me
By looking at that man for one second, I would not give him one cent
The guy looks deranged just from the 1st kickstarter video
This is what happens when you let a CEO have too much cocaine. :D
How anyone was convinced to part with money after watching that joke of a Kickstarter video is beyond me.
this guy def had some kind of mental thing going lol. like a manic episode or something. he talks progressively more nonsensically and his plan to send people to space reads more like honest delusion than an attempt at a scam
well i do think he is also a scammer but only kind of. he mislead people from the start by claiming it was nasas game, but i think he probably thought he could pull off everything he said he would do and he was willing to lie to get there.
Takeaway from this: People were genuinely surprised when an Iranian was a con-artist.
I like the series where incompetent guys try to create something big with a few pennies budget
The guy released the beta on steam to recoup the money he spent on the shirts to the kickstarter donors
When he pitched it, he shouldn't have said NASA asked him to do it. If NASA wanted a video game, they would pay for it, he wouldn't need to do a Kickstarter of all things. How did anybody fall for this?
We already got the perfect NASA game and it's Moonbase Alpha. 🙌
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3:58 Early Access kind of did a full 180 with so many projects in it being rug pulls, and then Baldur's Gate 3 projected to be a failure and becoming GOTY.
I used to make fun of people in British novels always drinking a cognac after shocking events but man, now I think I understand. This is wild.
I trust this guy to get me to space about as much as i oceangate to get me to the seabed
Well, Ocenagate was able to keep that promise. Just no guarantee that you'll make it to the surface afterward.
Kira ur so persistent in ur detail and editing. Great episode, made me laugh how ridiculous
Their initial ask of $25k isn't even a third of the average American's salary. Even $45k isn't a full year's work for ONE person, let alone a full team of MMO devs. How anyone thought this was realistic is wild. For a team of 14 experienced developers for 5 years - again, an underestimate for a fully-fleshed MMO - you could expect to need $8 million and upwards, ignoring marketing and running costs.
1:35 absolutely baffled by this kickstarter video, why is he talking like a children's television show host, is he speaking to investors or auditioning for blues clues
How is it deluded?
*Hears the word "MMO" in the first few seconds*
Never mind.
Well at least he managed to make some badgers.
Now if he can just make some mushrooms and a snake he might have something.
deep cut reference. thats a meme from b4 we called em memes
@@quillclock I'VE SEEN THINGS-
Mr Weebl comes to mind.
Khal should give out the shirts and have them say “I gave away a lot of money to a kickstarter and all I got was this crappy t-shirt”
Sounds to me like he pocketed a bunch of free money and only needed to type out some bs every other month for a couple of years to keep it.
Its also now 12.99 on steam 🤣
If they truly wanted more scientists and engineers than they gotta increase those wages, simple as that. Young kids today decide between getting into debt, studying for several years and then paying back the loan while not being able to afford their own home and becoming a multi millionaire streamer at the age of 20.
Make becoming a scientist or engineer more desirable.
The backers would send Khal to space by strapping him to a rocket. 😂
I'm gonna say, something I always see in kickstarters of games and such. One million dollars is not enough to make a game, not even close. Not even an small game, a mobile phone game or something like that. And in the case of an mmo, 40 million dollars like he said at one point would probably not be enough either.
Oh Star Rangers! I had it confused for a sec wit 'Space Rangers', an **actually** good and **existing** game.
The more of these vaporware Kickstarter game stories I hear, the more I'm reminded of televangelists and their endless false promises. It's like so many of these folks are absolutely delusional - beyond dreamers, into perhaps actual mental illness like narcissism or something.
11:17 "try not to cringe"
I've never had a more visceral reaction to asterisks in my entire life.
What a fascinating guy. Either he really overestimated himself or underestimated the work needed. But it is the updates that are so strange
he clearly was a scammer. it's sad that Kickstarter ends up getting a bad rep. I think crowdfounding could inspire alot of interesting projects. perhaps only on a hobby basis
Until people like this will face criminal judgements they'll keep coming as it's seems this is the only legal way of scamming 🤔
I think we’ve gotta give Astronomous more space money
I watched Starlite's first video (video title: StarliteLite 2013 02 19 15 20 00 48), I think he really wanted to incorporate a learning program (at least when he was still interested in it), as you can see in the video, e.g. what hertz is or how to decode a signal, but I think it was all just too big for him.
It sounds like it failed to reach orbital speed.
It failed to get off the sticky note.
So... im working on my own game and hope to one day do a kick starter and all the jazz... with all these asshats ruining a good opportunity, im honestly scared to put myself out there...