btw can I say, I saw that Dungeon Siege movie and it was SUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER terrible
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
Postal July 21, 2007 8% $15,000,000 $146,741
amazing
Schilling doesn't have a BloodRayne in him (bloody sock notwithstanding).
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
so basically the sweetheart deal that the state gave schilling wasn't sweet enough and now he's a pouty loser blaming the state for not bailing him out
what a vile pigfucker this dude is
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
And so how does that translate into welfare baby?
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
slice this dude's balls off and sink them to the bottom of narragansett bay imho
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
taking some dude's point above into consideration i am still dumbstruck that he is saying he has spent all of his baseball money on this.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah that part is amazing and hilarious, no doubt
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
CNN reports some bits I hadn't read yet, like how the total bill gunna be something like $112M when all said n done:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/28/technology/38-studios/
"MMOs are the third rail of the industry. Even established publishers get into trouble with MMOs," he says. "The latest good product, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Electronic Arts spent $200 million to develop plus $80 million for post-launch content and support. Then they spent $50 million on marketing. You cannot make a MMO for $75 million. Rhode Island didn't do their due diligence."
Nearly all of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation's board of directors have resigned or asked not to be reinstated when their terms end.Rhode Island now effectively owns all of 38 Studios' intellectual property and the rights to Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning and Project Copernicus. Dent expects Rhode Island to try to sell the assets to a major publisher -- most likely Electronic Arts (EA), since they were 38 Studios' publisher for Reckoning.
Financial analyst Michael Pachter, with Wedbush Morgan Securities, thinks 38 Studios might be worth $20 million now. However, an out-of-business shell with a half-finished game and no employees isn't going to price well on the market, Dent says.
"[Rhode Island] should have gotten an injunction against 38 Studios from making any material decisions like laying off employees," Dent says. "You could have put together a tax credit package for 38 Studios employees. You need these creative people to make 38 Studios worth anything."
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
"[Rhode Island] should have gotten an injunction against 38 Studios from making any material decisions like laying off employees"
the mass firings put 38 studios violation of the loan guarantee, I think they have would have had to give 2 months notice if they intended to fire more than 50 ppl iirc
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
in violation
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if anybody in power will actually get charged for this stupidity
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
RI is seeking an audit, I think.
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Rhode Island also may launch a forensic audit of Schilling’s company as soon as tomorrow.
oh boy
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
wat is "forensic audit"
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_audit
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_accounting
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
One of the less popular CSI brands then
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
maybe they'll do a 30 for 30 on this
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Nearly all of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation's board of directors have resigned or asked not to be reinstated when their terms end. and will be fleeing the state just as quickly as their little feet will carry them.
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Pareene:
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/31/welfare_baby_curt_schilling_i_am_not_a_welfare_baby/singleton/?mobile.html
See, Curt, it translates into “welfare baby” because you are… begging the government to give you more money? (Schilling also blamed independent Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee — who opposed the loan guarantee deal from the beginning — for 38 Studios’ failure, saying that if the governor hadn’t pointed out publicly that the company was out of money, no one would have noticed that they were out of money, and they could have attracted investors from the private sector, who are of course chomping at the bit to throw money at a video game company founded by a former professional baseball player that successfully released one game in six years.)
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
i remember a Schilling interview way back when where he stated that we were living in the end times, smh
― atlas arghed (brownie), Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
he got a state to give him $75 million to make a videogame so he may have a point
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
^lol
http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Original_Photo/2007/10/21/1192973855_3249.jpg
― atlas arghed (brownie), Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://h9.abload.de/img/simpsons-mmorail-smalsrzqe.gif
― zappi, Friday, 1 June 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 June 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
brilliant
― goole, Friday, 1 June 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
In February, the day after 38 Studios released its first game, Schilling posted 3,200 gold coins — worth roughly $5 million at current prices — as collateral for a loan from Bank Rhode Island in Providence, according to financing statements filed in Massachusetts.
oh my god.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 3 June 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://articles.boston.com/2012-06-01/news/31963290_1_gold-coins-canadian-maple-leafs-tax-credits
Coins ‘N Things declined to talk about its relationship with Schilling.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 June 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
the name coins 'n things is really funny
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Sunday, June 3, 2012 11:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
it's not that impressive, he had a cheat code on so he wouldnt sustain damage and lose the coins
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
What the fuck is it with right wing weirdos and gold coins?
(I mean i know what it is, but for Pete's sake.)
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Sunday, 3 June 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha took me seriously like 3 minutes of rereading that sentence to realize that we were talking *actual gold coins* and not wowgold or somethin
― max, Sunday, 3 June 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
The Kotaku commenters on any article on this are predictably terrible.
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Sunday, 3 June 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
still laughing at all these gold coins
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
"but i've put so much of my personal wealth back into the economy!" *hoards gold coins*
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
curt schilling is literally a dragon, obv
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
the real money's in palladium. i have an uncle who buys up bars of palladium and keeps it in the attic, with a honey trap made out of gold in front to 'fake out' the thieves.
― nerds being macho (remy bean), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://fawkes.rpgresource.net/images/latinum_slip.jpg my ferengi lawyer advised me to invest in gold-pressed latinum
― kel ler/pharmacists (some dude), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
at least he still has his +3 Helm of Warding
― atlas arghed (brownie), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
don't really follow MMOs, but does this article seem on point?http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/06/04/what-happened-to-38-studios/
also like this comment:
Some more details:-This particular loan was backed, in large part, by stimulus funds. The stimulus which Curt railed against.-They laid off the entire staff Friday. The staff got an email from Schilling and the board which consisted of three lines. Not even a good luck or goodbye.-38 Studios helped lure people into Rhode Island by helping them sell their homes. Except they didn't and now some of the laid off staff are getting messages from the bank wondering why they haven't paid their second mortgage.-Schilling claimed to have put 30mil into the project, when papers revealed he only put in the 4mil. There's evidence that the first thing he did was pay back the 4mil he put in.-The state borrowed from the banks in order to do this. The banks made 7% on this and have already been paid in full.-I read the Facebook wall post of a friend of a friend who was part of the 38 studios layoff. His resume? Full Sail University.
-This particular loan was backed, in large part, by stimulus funds. The stimulus which Curt railed against.
-They laid off the entire staff Friday. The staff got an email from Schilling and the board which consisted of three lines. Not even a good luck or goodbye.
-38 Studios helped lure people into Rhode Island by helping them sell their homes. Except they didn't and now some of the laid off staff are getting messages from the bank wondering why they haven't paid their second mortgage.
-Schilling claimed to have put 30mil into the project, when papers revealed he only put in the 4mil. There's evidence that the first thing he did was pay back the 4mil he put in.
-The state borrowed from the banks in order to do this. The banks made 7% on this and have already been paid in full.
-I read the Facebook wall post of a friend of a friend who was part of the 38 studios layoff. His resume? Full Sail University.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
curt schilling is the worst person.
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― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
I wish Karl Ravech or somebody, anybody, would just ambush the hell out of this guy on Baseball Tonight.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
when was the last time he was on ESPN? i don't really watch baseball tonight anymore, so i'm genuinely curious. imagine he'd have more important things on his hands.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
He was on Baseball Tonight a couple of nights ago, so I guess he's still doing his regular ESPN gig! I had the sound off, waiting for something else at the top of the hour.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
that's insane!
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously! ESPN has suspended the talent for cuss words, racist headlines, sexist behavior, etc, but apparently bilking RI out of millions and "o snap we didn't really sell your house for you" is ok.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/38_Studios.jpg
drown curt schilling in a vat of pig shit imho
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
not to lol at laid-off workers in this economy, but this:
wanna bet the Full Sail University was one of these dudes?!?
http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2012/05/25/1337919654_0011/539w.jpg
― Stinky Ray Vaughan (Eisbaer), Thursday, 7 June 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link