Actually Kickstarter
doesn't offer anything but one big deposit to a bank; it doesn't even integrate paypal in any way I can find, same for backers too.
EDITED because it's been resolved now (my account will be back to normal in a week), but the book is a year away and this would have only tied up my money for a month at worst, so it wouldn't have affected the project. It was only a problem for me because my personal money to live off of got tied up with it.
This happened because they have a bot that looks for deposits in multiples of $5000, and once Kickstarter took its share, the deposit I got rounded down to $25,000. If it had been a higher, but odder number like $33,000 they said it would have gone through unflagged, it's just how their algorithm is trained. There's also meant to be a person who looks at these flags, would have seen that I get money from kickstarter all the time, and was supposed to unflag it the same day. They didn't get it in time before the same automated system moved it on to be "investigated" which is what locks your whole account.
In short, a robot thought the project might be a money laundering scam and put my account on hold for a week.
I've yet to fail to deliver on anything that's been kickstarted, so nobody should worry about mismanagement. Everything is already budgeted with room for a safety net! And if the game comes out without me ever having to spend any of that safety net, I'll put it all towards the next Mortasheen thing I'll want to work on! Assuming the game is received at all positively, I know I'd next want to focus entirely on getting more monsters made with the help of more artists.
I would never doxx anyone and you know it. Literally every act of aggression in this drama has come from your side. I seek only peace
You posted a list of users' real names and said you had "more information" you were holding onto, that's usually what someone says when they're threatening to doxx. And I don't know that you wouldn't, because I also didn't think you would do any of these other things.
What I feel I have to emphasize again here is the sheer absurdity of you so ferociously defending an
anonymous figure. If those "friends" were so important to "Noah" then "Noah" could have made a new, different account, and talked to those same users about anything other than pissing or toilets. Anime, gaming, football, reptiles, anything, any other hobbies or topics at all, and nobody would ever know it was "Noah." So you aren't even crusading over someone losing real friends - you're JUST crusading endlessly over the fact that someone could no longer get away with sending *just piss fetishism specifically.*
And that was already inappropriate behavior. Your screenshots still only show Beetledrink saying "lol I get weird pee messages," but everyone getting those messages already thought they were freaky.
Sending things like this to strangers was already "wrong" before anybody said so, is what I'm trying to tell you. You/Noah never should have been sending these things to anyone, so you really don't have any business getting mad about losing their tolerance.
It's worth noting that people with mental illnesses or trauma - autism, ptsd, depression, a history of being bullied, etc. - have a noted difficulty saying no, turning people away or being honest when something makes them uncomfortable. You/noah may not have intended it, but you were basically taking advantage of that vulnerability in some of these kids by continuously sending these things and assuming they were welcome without ever questioning it. When you found out nobody liked it to begin with, the right thing to do would have been to apologize and promise not to do it anymore, which again might have kept you all those same friends. Instead it's as if discussing piss is SO important to you, you won't accept any friendship scenario where piss boners have to stay in your dribbly pants.
I hope all these Kiwifarmers are at least getting a real kick out of this, it seems like their jam. I know
I still think it's funny at the same time that it's creepy and frustrating. We all do, we just can't make piss man jokes in public without it summoning you out of the void like a depressing and unsexy Beetlejuice.