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Uwe Boll, known to videogame fans as the director of numerous game-to-film adaptations, including Postal, Alone in the Dark, and House of the Dead, has released a profanity-laden rant aimed at crowdfunding. The video comes as a Kickstarter campaign attempting to fund production of his latest project, Rampage 3, limps toward its conclusion with less than half of its goal and fewer than four days remaining.
"Basically, my message is, f**k you," says Boll, "because it is so f**king absurd what retarded, amateur idiots [are] collecting money on that absurd website." Boll goes on to complain about the crowdfunding system's failure to deliver on his expectations.
With the campaign appearing doomed, Boll claims to have decided to give up on the project. Despite his opinion that it is, "an important film," Boll acknowledges, "nobody seems to care about Rampage 3, so, I guess I shouldn't do it, then."
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @04:33PM
The article refers to a youtube video. Please do not watch it directly, since that would require running nonfree software.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Thursday June 11 2015, @04:44PM
And more importantly, it'd be condoning and indulging in this kind of vapid, pointless bullshit. This doesn't deserve to be here, yet it is.
I feel like I'm staring at TMZ or BuzzFeed or something right now. Need brain purge.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 5, Informative) by n1 on Thursday June 11 2015, @05:03PM
Uwe Boll did not deserve the coverage in my opinion, which is why I personally didn't accept this submission which was sitting in the queue for a while. Other editors and the community in general have different interests and perceptions from my own, which is why it wasn't rejected by me either.
All that said, there is a wider discussion to be had about the merits of crowd-funded campaigns. It's a shame that it's perhaps the wrong person (someone with no credibility) who brought it up on this occasion.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by CoolHand on Thursday June 11 2015, @05:50PM
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday June 11 2015, @05:38PM
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday June 11 2015, @05:41PM
What's wrong with Firefox?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @07:02PM
You're obviously not very well read when it comes to Stallmanism:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.en.html [gnu.org]
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html [gnu.org]
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday June 11 2015, @07:14PM
If your reason to not use youtube is because it uses JavaScript then your list of sites not to visit is growing faster than you could ever type it. Not only that but but Stallman's argument is that only SOME JavaScript qualify as non-free, not JavaScript itself. Which means Firefox IS free software but that youtube is not.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @06:24PM
Stallman? That you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @02:22PM
Next.