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Omi-Polari posted:The red alerts are going off because all this involves the motion capture studio in Manchester, which is making those inexplicable Gary Oldman videos that don't have anything to do with an actual game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfHCaQ0_a4g
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Unfunny Poster posted:What the gently caress are you guys talking about? How did we jump from "these guys are incompetent game devs" to "these guys are running a money laundering scheme for mobsters"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFDAqJwVDEU
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Oct 13, 2015 07:50
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Derek, who owns the Star Citizen racehorse? Would be interesting if it was someone actually indicted.
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Devian666 posted:If they are laundering money it's easier to conceal transactions within legitimate expenses. If those expenses are large they're easier to conceal.
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Wait wait wait. There was a horse named "Gizmondo" among the various expenses of the mafia-owned company. Derek Smart was tipped off by some kind of weird UK bookie account. There is actually a horse named "Star Citizen." 
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Oct 13, 2015 07:53
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Lesnick played us like a GOD drat FIDDLE!!!
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gently caress this thread moves fast. Current Directorships Elms Financial Consulting Limited Virtual Poker Limited Directorships held in the past five years Warthog plc Warthog Property Limited Warthog Entertainment Limited Roadhog Games Limited Phatfish Limited Sourcery Development Limited Zed Two Limited This poo poo reads like the current list of companies run by CRoberts and his lawyer, I'm sure this happens all the time in regular non-scam businesses too, but why does it seem like these shysters always have 10 companies under their ownership at any one time, how is that NOT sneaky as gently caress?
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Omi-Polari posted:fwiw the person who tipped off Smart is this guy: Sillybones posted:Sandi is just the mafia handler for Croberts. Shady, vague past. No skills or history, yet suddenly becomes head of marketing. 'Married' to a giggling fat british school boy.
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My friend had a gizmondo and tried to get me to buy one. It had Pandemonium on it and some racing game and that is my Gizmondo story.
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Oct 13, 2015 07:55
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It would be totally hilarious if some mid-level mobster who really loves race-horses was the connection that was needed to sink Star Citizen.
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Omi-Polari posted:The Gizmondo people also splurged on celebrities. Like Busta Rhymes in 2005 or somebody like that, and some other names. Enron gave awards to high profile political figures including George W. Bush. All while they were putting loans down as assets to cook their books.
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Oct 13, 2015 07:56
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I can't wait to read the Wikipedia page for this train-wreck in five years or so. Who wants to start taking bets on what the word cloud will look like?
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Didn't Dick Wulf say he "owes Chris for his success" and yet is unemployed and spends all his cash on jpgs/food for lesnick?
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Oct 13, 2015 07:57
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What the gently caress. This thread. I thought Gizmondo was a web-zine thing about electronics and games. Never heard of it as a console. This shits getting surreal.
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:poo poo, that horse is 3 years old. They weren't singing Happy Birthday to the game after all!
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bullet3 posted:At the rate this thread has escalated in 3 months, we're about 5 weeks out from actual CIG sanctioned murders being discovered All that's left will be global thermonuclear war. Or at least some pictures of what it might look like.
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Oct 13, 2015 07:57
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Derek Smart you are an evil genius and this it just the best loving rabbit hole. It goes down forever. I will not be satisfied until Chris Roberts is implicated in every major video game disaster in the last two decades. Next we're going to find out he had a major hand in Red 5 studios and was best man at Curt Schilling's wedding.
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I think the tipster was talking about Star Citizen, the horse, and not the game. But somehow Goons never fail to impress.
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Maybe that guy presenting the starmap at citcon was so scared cause they threatened to break his legs when he tried to quit! 
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Sarsapariller posted:There is actually a horse named "Star Citizen." It's 3 years old, and just like its namesake never completed anything.
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 Simon/Nicolas Elms I WONDERED WHO THE gently caress THAT WAS loving gently caress gently caress WHAT THE poo poo gently caress IS loving GOING ON loving HERE HOLY gently caress BALLS loving gently caress gently caress gently caress  
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Bootcha posted:
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I walked past the Gizmondo shop in London by accident, I considered going in but then did not. Thank you for your time.
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what does it feel like being the best non Eonwe/Beer poster in this thread
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Bootcha posted:
Wait are you the Goon who is an investor into this?  The gently caress is going on.
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Bootcha posted:
dreams, dreams happen now
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Oct 13, 2015 08:01
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Bootcha posted:
Reconsidering that investment eh?
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Oct 13, 2015 08:01
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i sure am tired of all these star citizens
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Devian666 posted:If they are laundering money it's easier to conceal transactions within legitimate expenses. If those expenses are large they're easier to conceal. Yeah, with a sixty day shoot you can bury that money in food and drink and services. Assets that have been used up that you've bought from shell companies, stuff that would only come up after you've basically gotten the money and are running. There really is a lot of dirty money you could hide in a crowd funding project of this magnitude. bullet3 posted:At the rate this thread has escalated in 3 months, we're about 5 weeks out from actual CIG sanctioned murders being discovered "Tonight on sixty minutes...they thought they were funding their dreams but they were only funding their nightmares. It was a universe of lies, deceit and cold blooded murder. This is the story of how one man almost sailed off into the stars with one hundred million dollars and the battle cruiser that stopped him."
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Sarsapariller posted:Derek Smart you are an evil genius and this it just the best loving rabbit hole. It goes down forever. This won't wrap up until we have proof that the Roberts original family name is Hitler.
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This is my favorite game*
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Oct 13, 2015 08:03
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Also why would you name your product so that it sounds similar to Jizz-Mondo?
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God, this is loving amazing
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Bootcha posted:
He's a guy that works for the motion capture studio and also was a director in Gizmondo since its inception in 1998 (it was acquired by Fat Steve in 2001. Swedish authorities knew who he was by then and there ain't no way that dude didn't know he was working for a literal mobster. Fat Steve wasn't exactly subtle) until its dissolution in 2008, which served as a money laundering scheme for the Swedish mafia. Get your money out now. Like, right now. (Also you might want to use some of that to make sure that there's not a lutefisk waiting under your bed while you sleep at night) Dapper Dan fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Oct 13, 2015 |
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Unfunny Poster posted:It's 3 years old, and just like its namesake never completed anything. It did lose in its races against Dr No and Don't Touch though.
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Unfunny Poster posted:Also why would you name your product so that it sounds similar to Jizz-Mondo? Game.Com was already taken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp460zM_PGA
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Bootcha posted:
When do you actually get a ROI because they're selling merch... now is the time to get your ROI and bail.
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So, I know there are important revelations happening right now, but does anyone have a link to the Space Court video with Smoke Weed Everyday playing? I can't find it in the hundreds of pages.
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