EternallyBored said:
I'm not sure why I keep seeing people who expect her to have made a video worth 150 thousand dollars, when her original kickstarter goal was only about 6 thousand, which she wanted so she could buy a lot of video games to do her research. Just throwing money at something doesn't automatically make it better, giving someone a hundred times what they asked for and then expecting them to instantly know how to use that money in the best possible manner is foolish. She's not going to magically become a better video maker just because she got more money, and most professional producers and documentary style makers will require a hell of a lot more than 150K to turn out a professional product.
You do realize Anita had the option of closing-down donations as soon as she had reached her goal? Alright so she would've been happy when it hit $6000, really excited when it hit $10,000, super-amazed when it hit $20,000...and at no point did she think "hey I think that's over 3x more than what I asked for, lets stop it here, thank you so much"?. Nope, she went ahead and gave entire presentations with elaborate collections of all the hate-messages she had received.
Then Anita had the nerve to steal gameplay footage from other players, I highly doubt she has plans to even spend $500 on the actual project. She's taking up to 3 months at a time to release 25 minute videos which are incredibly dull to watch.
Pretty much 99% of the Kickstarter money is hers to do whatever she wants...the nail in the coffin is that she's not even donating a single OUNCE of that money to actual Indie developers who need it.
Now the latest defense I'm hearing people say is "so she's a greedy *****, but her points are still valid!". Yes, her points (I would actually say "point", she only has one) are valid, the gaming industry has gender equality issues just like everything else in the world. Except the "issues" here are purely regarding fictional characters, but apparently the "issue" of Princess Peach, Lara Croft and Dragon's Crown is even more discussion-worthy to some people than the issue of women being discriminated/brutalized/raped in 3rd world countries.
Awesome.