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I can’t help but wonder if reducing the possibility space of opinions one might have about Star Citizen’s development process to “sweaty misogynist nerd (the bad kind of nerd)” and “magnanimous rich nerd (the good kind of nerd)” is maybe showing your hand a bit here. This isn’t to say I don’t believe you with respect to the employee death threats, nor do I think they’re a good thing — internet hate machines formed out of the froth of fermented gamer rage are unambiguously bad and steps should always be taken to reduce or eliminate the damage they cause. I also think there’s a pretty wide array of acceptably minimal and non-bigoted ways to express curiosity, scrutiny, or even displeasure with Star Citizen’s development process. Your lumping of that spectrum of thought into a single uncharitable bucket is probably why you’re being read as combative here.

You were conned. It's not your fault.

Lol. I’ll gladly made a 5-10 year wager if you’d like :)

Meaningful amount of money, too.

I think you already have made that wager. My downside is $0 and my upside is $0.

Your downside is how much you’ve backed and your upside is the joy you’ll get when released.

But it seems like you’re now just emotionally dug in based on your sunk costs. And you seem like someone who is extolling the praises of a particular horse that hasn’t even started the race.

I’ve bought the most basic package. I think it was $40 or $45

I most definitely got my moneys worth out of that over the course of a few weekends playing the first dogfighting module nearly a decade ago with friends. Arguably within a night, I’ve spent much more just on drinks at a bar in a night.

Also, if it flops - as I’ve stated, oh well.

Still glad to make the wager as you seem to be intent you’ll be winning it.

Since my cash out is $0, my upside is infinite and my downside is limited.

I’m not sure what wager you’re proposing but good luck structuring one where you have infinite return on $40.

Either you or I are misunderstanding, I’m not really sure.

I stated I am up to make a wager.

Let’s say, $10,000.

If the public consensus in our determined timeframe is that SC is a total flop, then I am giving you $10,000.

If the public consensus is that the game turned out to be mind blowingly amazing, you are giving me $10,000.

I am too dumb to understand what you’re saying about cash out being $0 & infinite upsides/something downsides.

Hey man I just want to let you know you come across as EXTREMELY unhinged.

If you’re talking to me - thank you, that’s definitely what the internet is for sometimes.

Would you like to live in a world without some extremely unhinged people? Sounds like it would become boring quite quickly.

Perhaps you should direct your inferences to those who send death threats to & stalk game developers. You can find their names & contact easily enough by putting “star citizen death threats” into your search engine of choice - & these type of people tend to be the ones unaware that they’re completely unhinged, could perhaps use a reminder unlike myself.

I can also look thru just a small bit of your comment history on here & make somewhat of the same conclusion about you, not that that (especially my opinion) matters in the slightest.

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