This is my personal account with WizDumGun for the very brief time I dealt with it. It doesn't have to do much with fried_kooch directly, and I was in the game for far less time than
@ULTIMATEPRIMETIME was, but maybe my account will put this lolcow story in better frame for some. That being said it's mostly just longwinded
fftopic:.
I knew fried_kooch and interacted with him, but apparently I didn't know him well enough. I came along with the first wave of WizDumGun, offering my services as an archivist (I had just bought a big ass hard drive for other purposes and basically offered to keep file storage for the group) but (as
@ULTIMATEPRIMETIME I'm sure will get into) the early group was a mess. They basically let everybody who was interested in with zero quality control. Energy was pretty high in the beginning but things did wane, especially as Jan stopped logging on. There was little in the ways of organization, with like, 6 video projects in the air, some music being posted that may or may not be part of a project, a GMOD server with a
LONG list of ideas and no programmer, and nobody really interacting or helping one another (except maybe in small, 2 or 3 man groups without communicating or interacting with the group at large). Jan and a few others kept talking about some kind of PERFORMANCE REVIEW or something after a while once it became aware that fat needed to be trimmed and losers needed to be booted, but apart from that it just seemed like nothing was going anywhere.
I was working two jobs and had a lot of shit going on in my personal life, and I was getting fed up with how things were progressing; basically, as I said, I signed on to be a big hard drive to keep shit for people, but then people out of the blue kept asking me stuff like, "Yo, you recorded that stream right?" When I told people at the beginning I didn't have any recording software or know how to do that proper - all I had was the hard drive space and an Adobe CC account to maybe clean video up if they needed or make some art assets for images, or "Do you have the thing from that meeting?" for something I wasn't even told was going to happen, and had happened while I was at work, and was never told what the thing was. With no real direction for myself, no word from the man in charge, nobody ever sending me files to store the way I asked, and nothing to do but be told about stuff after it happened, I just kept logging in less and less until I kinda stopped altogether. I tried checking in on things sometime in 2017 but either the Discord and the Skype groups had all been destroyed or I had been thrown out as another guy who was AWOL, which, again was totally fair. I was never a part of WizDumGun2 or anything like that. It sounds like I missed out on some serious autism.
fried_kooch for the interactions I had with him never seemed like a bad guy, but I never said more than a few words to him. Honestly I kinda feel sad to see he took this shit so serious.
. I can't guarantee many of them won't be blocked by copyright but "enjoy" what little content is still up.
