i feel like this is the right thread to tell the world that i would love to play a baseball RPG― Mordy, Thursday, June 7, 2012 2:34 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mordy, Thursday, June 7, 2012 2:34 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there have definitely been baseball MMOs, they all look hilariously low-budget and ive never played them
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
thousands of virtual people roaming the mediaeval countryside playing baseball against each other
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Ripken's_Real_Baseball
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
there have been tons of stat-based baseball board games - there have got to be video game RPGs out there
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
When investing in celebrity-founded gamedev studios, stick with Vin Diesel's.
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
curious how 38 studios could possibly owe north of $150 million to over 1,000 creditors? here's some light reading from their chapter 7 filing: http://www2.turnto10.com/mgmedia/file/552/38-studios-creditors-holding-unsecured-nonpriority/
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 June 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
their office lease is $10m. that seems a bit high, doesn't it?
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 8 June 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
what a mess
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 8 June 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i saw that--they've been there for a while and it seems like they may have never paid rent, or actually every paid for anything?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 June 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
pay for everything with loans, set up in prime real estate, generate no income for years while hiring expensive talent. who could have foreseen the failure of such a flawless strategy?
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 8 June 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
lock everyone responsible inside a dilapidated house in south providence and torch it
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 8 June 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/06/08/could-big-huge-games-have-saved-38-studios/
― s.clover, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
Citizen's bank has filed a lawsuit against Schilling for $2.4m
The RI EDC and Bank Rhode Island have both been subpoenaed in the investigation over the company's collapse
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Also:
A confidential investment memo obtained by GoLocalProv reveals in painstaking and dramatic detail the true risks of the 38 Studios venture back in 2009—in marked contrast with the highly optimistic picture that consultants and staff presented to board members of the state Economic Development Corporation one year later. The document, technically known as a Private Placement Memo, was issued on May 1, 2009 by 38 Studios in a bid to secure $25 million in investment funds. The memo pulls no punches in describing the investment opportunity as “highly speculative and inherently risky.” It warns that membership interests in the company should be purchased only by those “who can afford to lose their entire investment.”
http://www.golocalprov.com/news/investigation-edc-board-kept-in-dark-on-true-risks-of-38-studios/
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
hilarious and insane.
― goole, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
excerpted memos here: http://www.golocalprov.com/news/secret-documents-see-copies/
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
Gamasutra received the letter below on Tuesday evening. In it, the wife of a former 38 Studios employee describes a uniquely heart-wrenching story about uprooting a five-person family for an exciting new opportunity in Rhode Island, where now-defunct 38 Studios was located.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/172303/38_Studios_Spouse_speaks_out.php
― lamborghini persie (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
that story is pretty fucked
― lamborghini persie (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
disgusting behavior
― goole, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
something about that picture of the superfan with the bloody sock is putting me in mind of all those fake relic salesmen in the late middle ages
― goole, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
waving the bloody sock
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
BOSTON -- Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said Friday that the collapse of his 38 Studios video game company has probably cost him his entire baseball fortune, and he placed part of the blame on Rhode Island officials, including Gov. Lincoln Chafee.
Schilling said during a 90-minute interview on WEEI-FM in Boston that he put more than $50 million of his own money in the company and that he's had to tell his family that "the money I saved during baseball was probably all gone."
"I'm tapped out," he said.
lol
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
"You could hang yourself!"
http://images.wikia.com/avenueq/images/5/54/Bad_Idea_Bears.jpg
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
He should go on the road with Pete Rose.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
oh come on, dude has a secret cache of gold bullion somewhere and we all know it
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 June 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
what kind of dummy puts all of his money into any one thing, unless that one thing is a magic money copying machine
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 22 June 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
haha for sure, both schilling and the RI EDC both were like, "wow, this basket is huge! i bet we can all fit all of our eggs in it!"
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 June 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I think if you manage to tank a state's economy, you should have to go down with it, so I am very light on sympathy for Herr Schilling
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 22 June 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
the night they drove old rhodie downall the nerds were lollin
― goole, Friday, 22 June 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
afaict schilling is blaming state officials for the collapse because the RI EDC promised in a letter to 38 studios that they would grant 38 more film tax credits for it to sell to generate revenue -- except the EDC had no authority to promise the tax credits and cannot be held legally responsible for not doing so. i don't know how the blame for this falls on chaffee tbh but oh well
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 June 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
chaffee is the little boy in this emperor's new clothes story, seems like
― goole, Friday, 22 June 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
obtaining more bank loans against future revenues to be generated from selling tax credits promised by an entity lacking the authority to grant them... this is not a good business model
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 June 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
i read that schilling had ~80% ownership of 38 studios fwiw
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 June 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
― goole, Friday, June 22, 2012 11:40 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah totally
― horseshoe, Friday, 22 June 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, the film credits were going to be for pr0n, right?
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Emails obtained by The Associated Press under a public records request show that J. Michael Saul, who was managing director of financial services for the state Economic Development Corp. at the time, asked the chief financial officer of 38 Studios, Rick Wester, about a finance director position in December 2010. Saul also inquired about working there as chief operating officer.The financing deal between 38 Studios and the EDC was finalized on Nov. 2, according to the emails."On a separate note and very confidentially I am beginning to investigate my next opportunity," Saul wrote to Wester in a message sent from his EDC email account. "I do not know whether there might be a fit with 38 but I attach my resume as well."
The financing deal between 38 Studios and the EDC was finalized on Nov. 2, according to the emails.
"On a separate note and very confidentially I am beginning to investigate my next opportunity," Saul wrote to Wester in a message sent from his EDC email account. "I do not know whether there might be a fit with 38 but I attach my resume as well."
http://blog.pennlive.com/patriotnewssports/2012/07/rhode_island_official_sought_j.html
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.pennlive.com/patriotnewssports/photo/11276565-large.jpg
WOULD YOU TRUST THIS MAN??
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
I do not know whether there might be a fit with 38 but I attach my resume as well.
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 July 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
with this, i thee attach
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Friday, 13 July 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 July 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
please see my attached resume
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7mkvZUcOj2I/0.jpg
― dmr, Friday, 13 July 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
* great at spending money
― call all destroyer, Friday, 13 July 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
attaching yr resume when youre shaking someone down for a job is such a rookie move
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 July 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
KoA: Reckoning strangely _not_ a part of the Steam sale today, which seems insane to me.
― Steam Sale Jonesin' (kingfish), Friday, 13 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/07/38-studios-end-game/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Asked about 38 Studios’ failure, Schilling says his management team suffered from “significant dysfunction” and that his video-game developers worked too slowly. Those problems, he allows, are his fault.
Hold up; his devs worked too _slowly_? By what metric was he holding them to? This is a rhetorical question by now, but how long did he expect it to take to pull off a decent AAA game? Did he confuse that designation with the minors?
― Steam Sale Jonesin' (kingfish), Monday, 23 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
The moral of that article = kids, don't do sports.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
Or at least don't do sports well.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
the moral of that article = being good at one thing does not make you good at everything
also Curt Schilling is the worst
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2009/08/tom-landrys-hat.jpg
"Are you guys working?"
"Yes, sir, Mr. Simpson."
"Could you … um … work any harder?"
"Sure thing, boss!"
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link