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NARRATION: Work continues on the Kickstarted website

[[LOISINA looks dismissively at JORENTIIS.]]

LOISINA: So, you got a bunch of money out of people, huh? Good for you.

JORENTIIS: Yeah!  Thanks for contributing!

LOISINA: I DIDN’T contribute.  I’m tired of Kickstarter being used as a substitute for genuine passion!  Why should I give you money to do something a suitably obsessive person would do for FREE?

LOISINA: Used to be, people had a dumb blog idea, they’d DO it.  Spend a little elbow grease.  Take a RISK.

LOISINA: They had a product idea.  They’d have to INVEST their OWN money.  Really weeded out the DILETTANTES!  No more!  Just KICKSTART it!  Bad idea?  WHO CARES!

[[LOISINA flounces past JORENTIIS.]]

JORENTIIS: …Do you understand that Kickstarters only WORK if people actually WANT the thing you’re trying to fund?

LOISINA: They should only let you launch a Kickstarter if you’ve already SOLD ONE kidney

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#865; A Pledge Solely of Scorn transcribed by in

NARRATION: Work continues on the Kickstarted website

[[LOISINA looks dismissively at JORENTIIS.]]

LOISINA: So, you got a bunch of money out of people, huh? Good for you.

JORENTIIS: Yeah!  Thanks for contributing!

LOISINA: I DIDN'T contribute.  I'm tired of Kickstarter being used as a substitute for genuine passion!  Why should I give you money to do something a suitably obsessive person would do for FREE?

LOISINA: Used to be, people had a dumb blog idea, they'd DO it.  Spend a little elbow grease.  Take a RISK.

LOISINA: They had a product idea.  They'd have to INVEST their OWN money.  Really weeded out the DILETTANTES!  No more!  Just KICKSTART it!  Bad idea?  WHO CARES!

[[LOISINA flounces past JORENTIIS.]]

JORENTIIS: ...Do you understand that Kickstarters only WORK if people actually WANT the thing you're trying to fund?

LOISINA: They should only let you launch a Kickstarter if you've already SOLD ONE kidney

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sat down from picking up his food-stamp babies at the government funded daycare and figured out he could scam honest folks by becoming the world's largest crowdfunding website

#865; A Pledge Solely of Scorn

  — August 31st, 2012

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Continued (and concluded) from #864; In Service of an Ideal

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one,  except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.​

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.


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