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1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 01:36:29 EST tekk
   Aw man, looking over the Cringely Mineserver thing is a wild ride.
   1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 01:39:19 EST tekk

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      Basically: dude's kids have an idea to sell easy minecraft servers. Holds a $15k kickstarter for it, gets $30k. Units supposed to ship christmas 2015. Then says they have the actual servers and they're waiting on cases, ships thanksgiving 2016. Then they go silent for 6 months and in may they're like "oops lol spent all the money, we're a startup now and got a million from investors. We're a delaware corp with this name and we're consulting with the founder of broderbund"
      1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 01:47:13 EST tekk

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         Except there's no company with that name registered in delaware, there's been no working prototype found, and looking at the specs I'm pretty sure it wouldn't run a minecraft server well to begin with 2 years ago, it has the bare minimum of ram and a fairly weak CPU. Oh and it's been 7 months since the last update. If he wasn't lying about gathering investors I wouldn't be surprised if those investors start throwing the word "fraud" around...
         1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 01:51:37 EST tekk

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            Oh yeah and the investment plan is to sell minecraft servers in 2017. Not that I'm the kind of person to assume that investors *aren't* clueless, but minecraft servers in 2017? Do these guys not have any kids or grandkids or nieces or nephews to ask? Minecraft isn't exactly a growth market these days despite what MS is pushing.
            1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2017 02:29:42 EST tekk

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               Bonus: the website is *still* up an *still* taking preorders. Basically it hits all the squares in sketchy kickstarter bingo