Comment by tuna74

11 hours ago

He was a very entertaining blogger! RIP.

However, he was also ripping people off and making up stuff: https://www.jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?f=true&p=272

It was his kids running a Mineserver Kickstarter. If you fund a bunch of kids on Kickstarter never seeing a finished project are very high. Cringely and his kids obviously made a good faith effort.

  • Read the linked article.

    It is OK to fail. It is not OK to continuously lye to people who have provided you with money (or anyone else for that matter).

    • Yeah when you have backers imploring you to just admit defeat honestly, you’ve reached a whole different level of Kickstarter failure