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Oh look, an update on a Kickstarter that will at this point likely deliver at least a year late. I am sure the comments will be supportive and understanding...
I backed a project last year that was clearly a labor of love by someone who, I knew, was almost certainly in over his head. Supporting the project didn't cost much (maybe $40?) and, if he does what he says he will -- which isn't hard, but it requires a bit of project management and learning how to use Affinity Publisher and dealing with a printer -- it'll be worth the wait.

But boy, you would think this guy was intending to fleece his ~100 backers and run off to, I dunno, Duluth or something. (It's not that much money.)

On the other hand, I backed an Unbound book, and the people behind Unbound are, at best, playing cute games with UK bankruptcy law, and at worst, stealing from their own company. And people seem thrilled to give them the benefit of the doubt indefinitely on a very expensive book we've all backed.

You never can tell.
 


Thanks for stopping by, Eeyore.
The great thing about Eeyore as a character is that it shows kids what kindness and compassion looks like. Eeyore's friends in the Hundred Acre Wood never abandon him despite his sullen disposition and depression. He's legit a walking poster child for mental health and his friends keep on inviting him to hang out and never give up. They show him empathy and compassion at every turn.
 

On a somewhat related note, I sometimes wonder how hungry and desperate the first people to eat some types of foods were.
Yeah. That thought goes through my head regularly. I'm the primary cook at my house so I'm always encountering ingredients and recipes that make me wonder about that. How desperate were they to try that? How did they randomly come across this complicated series of steps to make that edible?
 


I backed a project last year that was clearly a labor of love by someone who, I knew, was almost certainly in over his head. Supporting the project didn't cost much (maybe $40?) and, if he does what he says he will -- which isn't hard, but it requires a bit of project management and learning how to use Affinity Publisher and dealing with a printer -- it'll be worth the wait.

But boy, you would think this guy was intending to fleece his ~100 backers and run off to, I dunno, Duluth or something. (It's not that much money.)

On the other hand, I backed an Unbound book, and the people behind Unbound are, at best, playing cute games with UK bankruptcy law, and at worst, stealing from their own company. And people seem thrilled to give them the benefit of the doubt indefinitely on a very expensive book we've all backed.

You never can tell.
The project I was referring to is Dolmenwood. The US shipment for non-book items is stuck in tariff limbo while they work through appealing the costs, so who knows the result or timeframe on that. The last few updates had people wanting to just pay extra to expedite their personal shipment like that is a thing that could be done or even a reasonable thing to ask. I get wanting books and stuff because I hate reading PDFs, but the PDFs have been in our hands for quite awhile so you could run something right now if you are that desperate. They're dealing with something no one could have planned for when the project was launched, so maybe people should just have some patience and let them work through what is already stressful enough without people being ridiculous.
 

Yeah. That thought goes through my head regularly. I'm the primary cook at my house so I'm always encountering ingredients and recipes that make me wonder about that. How desperate were they to try that? How did they randomly come across this complicated series of steps to make that edible?
Who looked at a mussel and thought "seems edible enough to me"? lol
 


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