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ampersandrew, do gaming w Updates regarding the IndieLand / The Completionist charity fraud allegations
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Things look incredibly bad.

I don't think that they do. They still had the money. It's now been donated, and Jirard is distancing himself from the charity and not running them attached to IndieLand anymore; the trust is gone, so it would have been difficult to get people to donate anyway. The only smoking gun I could see they had against him was the money still in the account (at the time). The accusations about the golf tournaments had no numbers attached to them, only that "there must be more money there", and it felt very unfounded and as though Jobst just needed another video out for his baked in sponsor slot. From what I can see, Jirard did exactly what he should have to make amends, and now that a bunch of people have all been encouraged en masse to lodge complaints to the IRS, the rest of the truth will come out of that inevitable audit, because I sure didn't feel like I got it from Jobst's follow-up videos. His and OrdinaryGamers are two channels I'm certainly not interested in watching again. If you're going to do something resembling investigative journalism, then act like it; don't preamble your video telling me how I should feel about something before you've presented your facts.

brie,

By that I meant from the perspective that the initial allegations still felt like it could all just be a misunderstanding. Now that it has been donated, it seems to be more a matter of who at Open Hand was actually in the know (since it is possible that Jirard geniunely was being misled himself), and why the money wasn’t being donated. The golf tournament stuff definitely feels much more circumstantial since it is based on extrapolation. Overall it does seem like the IRS getting involved is going be the only way definitive evidence of what was actually going on will come out.

ampersandrew,
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I'm reading between the lines of what Jirard said in his recorded calls and his response video when I say this, but I got the sense he and his family wanted that dollar value to be significantly higher so that they could have more control over what it gets spent on. People are more willing to do what you want them to do when you give them $1M than if you give them $1000. Still not a great reason to hold on to it if so, but hardly fraud.

darkstar,

Jirard’s words were unambiguous over the years, though. It was always “we’re working with…” or “we’ve donated to…” and not “we’re looking at these charities”. I don’t know what the rationale for hanging on to that money was, whether it was for the right reasons or not. What I do know is that people were lied to. It doesn’t matter if he intended to or not. It’s not a good spot to be in, and I can’t imagine it gets much better from here. The whole thing felt very much like w crypto scam, except the money was still available, but there was a whole lot of “trust me, bro” and misrepresentation of what was happening behind the scenes.

How many years of research do you need in order to pick the charity or university you want to fund? How many times do you repeat the lies (with numbers!) without even knowing what your own charity is doing? I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a different reason they hung on to the money, because this doesn’t pass the sniff test. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

Mindless_Enigma,
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Karl’s drama/exposé videos have always had this kind of antagonistic energy to them. It usually doesn’t bother me since the subjects, like Billy Mitchell, have brought the absurdity on themselves. Carrying that same energy into serious claims of fraud feels like a poor decision even if it’s the style of video you’re used to making. I don’t think the money would have been donated without these videos so I’m glad they were made, but the presentation was not as effective as it could’ve been.

sculd,

Agreed with the tone of the videos being off and I don’t like both creators.

On the other hand, there is definitely some weird accounting going on at the charity. They are supposed to report all expenses which they didn’t. They also didn’t provide any banking statement that show the money were there all the time. If the fund is misused and then repaid later, they were still misused.

icermiga,

Also, as I understand it, $600,000 is not all the money. Already last year’s tax filings showed more capital than that. The charity also has some money deducted for “costs” that is not broken down, and although I’m an outsider it doesn’t seem very cool because the charity hadn’t actually been doing anything so I can’t imagine donors feeling like costs of that size are warranted.

Luvon,

He didn’t even manage to donate all the money they claimed to have on their tax filings from over a year ago. There is another entire indie land after that at least.

So no. He hasn’t even donated all the money. His “apology” was also pretty much a non apology. “Sorry if you felt mislead”.

CountCorvinus, do gaming w How many stinkers did you play this year?
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I’m sure many would consider Redfall a stinker, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. And this was before the updates.

CountCorvinus, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 10th
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Elder Scrolls Online. According to Xbox’s 2023 year in review, I’ve spent over 750 hours in Tamriel this year.

Also been enjoying Fallout 76 and the new invasion season of Mortal Kombat 1

lobut, do gaming w Updates regarding the IndieLand / The Completionist charity fraud allegations

I don’t watch much Completionist stuff but he really seemed like he was reading a script written by a lawyer for this “response”. As well as, looking increasing angry.

averyminya, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?

I like trotus and the Gameboy

Amphobet, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World video game soundtrack by anamanaguchi Undertale and Deltarune soundtracks

p03locke,
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SCvTW is a good gateway into Anamanaguchi, but their other albums are great, too.

fnafdesktopfan111, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?

Crawl OST by Alex Yoder. All his other stuff is pretty good as well, but this one is my absolute favorite. Too bad he doesn’t release stuff very often.

astromd, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 10th

I’m playing Starfield on Xbox cloud. I only get to play an hour or two a week so progress is very slow but I think I’m about 50% of the way through the primary story.

janus2, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?
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Tokyo Machine!

The_og_koolaid_man, (edited ) do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?

One of my favorites 8 bit trip

Another of my favorites

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dmention7, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?

Not sure if it’s totally your vibe, but Machinae Supremacy is more on the rock/metal side of gaming themed music with a lot of C64 chiptune layers.

“Indiscriminate Murder is Counter-Productive” is one of my faves from them.

youtu.be/uQJXLqqKB1w?si=Q0fXnbhauZE_i8Qu

ReplicantBatty,

Sidology 1 & 2 are both pretty good. Anthem Apocalyptica holds a special place in my heart, though.

ystael, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?

Old, but I think at least inspired or adjacent: Apparat Organ Quartet - Romantika

Onihikage, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?
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Chipzel has already gotten a mention, but I have to say her stuff is fantastic, especially Chipped of the Necrodancer and Super Hexagon.

Developer Konjak (Joakim Sandberg) did good work on the Noitu Love 2: Devolution soundtrack, which is a free download (zip file) from his website and is very chiptune. The actual link on the website’s main page has an errant slash at the end that has to be deleted for the download to work. Some of the album can be found on YouTube if you want a preview.

Another banger chiptune to go for comes from Zircon and the work he did for the Demon Truck Soundtrack, especially https://zirconstudios.bandcamp.com/track/the-devils-mudflap-main-theme. It’s 16-bit Genesis goodness, and the game is pretty fun! Zircon’s done stuff for several games and is generally an all-around musical badass.

Herbert Weixelbaum’s on the album 8-Bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk is a total earworm. The album is full of good chiptunes, but that one’s my personal favorite.

You might also enjoy https://adventuresound.bandcamp.com/album/adventure. Very upbeat and energetic stuff.

Lastly, I have to give a shoutout to Zweihänder. All his stuff is pretty good, and much of it game-inspired.

Enjoy!

p03locke,
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Chipzel has already gotten a mention, but I have to say her stuff is fantastic, especially Chipped of the Necrodancer and Super Hexagon.

Don’t forget the Dicey Dungeon soundtrack. I’d love to hear some real-life rendition of Swing Me Another 6.

nakal, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?
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drcouzelis, do gaming w Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?
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I recently discovered IsabelleChiming and I am in love. They do remakes of classic gaming soundtracks.

…bandcamp.com/…/the-legend-of-zelda-remade

…bandcamp.com/…/zelda-ii-the-adventure-of-link-re…

…and I wrote the soundtrack to the recent Game Boy Color homebrew game, Dangan GB2, if you’re interested… 👀

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJduIfPzsk

ethd,

IsabelleChiming is easily one of my favorites by far too! She’s fantastic.

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