Curt Schilling, 38 Studios, and Rhode Island

hilarious and insane.

excerpted memos here: http://www.golocalprov.com/news/secret-documents-see-copies/

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

that story is pretty fucked

disgusting behavior

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

waving the bloody sock

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

"You could hang yourself!"

http://images.wikia.com/avenueq/images/5/54/Bad_Idea_Bears.jpg

He should go on the road with Pete Rose.

oh come on, dude has a secret cache of gold bullion somewhere and we all know it

what kind of dummy puts all of his money into any one thing, unless that one thing is a magic money copying machine

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!"

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

the night they drove old rhodie down
all the nerds were lollin

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

chaffee is the little boy in this emperor's new clothes story, seems like

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

i read that schilling had ~80% ownership of 38 studios fwiw

chaffee is the little boy in this emperor's new clothes story, seems like

― goole, Friday, June 22, 2012 11:40 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah totally

Wait, the film credits were going to be for pr0n, right?

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."

http://blog.pennlive.com/patriotnewssports/2012/07/rhode_island_official_sought_j.html

http://media.pennlive.com/patriotnewssports/photo/11276565-large.jpg

WOULD YOU TRUST THIS MAN??

I do not know whether there might be a fit with 38 but I attach my resume as well.

with this, i thee attach

• excellent communication skills
• good attention to detail

please see my attached resume

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7mkvZUcOj2I/0.jpg

* great at spending money

attaching yr resume when youre shaking someone down for a job is such a rookie move

KoA: Reckoning strangely _not_ a part of the Steam sale today, which seems insane to me.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/07/38-studios-end-game/

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?

The moral of that article = kids, don't do sports.

Or at least don't do sports well.

the moral of that article = being good at one thing does not make you good at everything

also Curt Schilling is the worst

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!"

great article

Yeah - surprisingly somewhat even-handed, when most stories have gone for the (deserved) easy attack

Once, after an IT guy’s rottweiler died, Schilling presented him with a brand-new pup during an all-staff meeting. There was much applause.

i dont want a new dog! he yelled running in tears to his cubicle

lol

Hahaha

looool

Minor bit of good news:

http://m.kotaku.com/5933268/epic-games-announces-best-studio-logo-ever

Some of the unemployed dudes got picked up by Epic and formed a new studio with this awesome logo:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/9/2012/08/impossiblestudios.jpg

They're working on an Infinity Blade game currently.

http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/8460451/curt-schilling-sell-bloody-sock-collateral-failed-loans

the schadenfreude would be richer if he wasn't taking an entire state down with him

he put up the bloody sock as collateral for a loan. jesus.

More importantly, someone accepted a bloody sock as collateral for a loan.

Even a regular sock would have been bad enough.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

He was on Sports Center the other night as an analyst. I was shocked. What does a guy have to do to be disqualified from a job there?