
Incompetence is one thing. Negligence is another. Yet career snake oil salesman Chris Price goes above and beyond these to the level of a blatant scam.
Completely shameless in his flippant disregard for delivering to his Kickstarter campaign supporters, the ConsoleOS saga has delivered absolutely nothing of value to backers in nearly 2 years.
Let's fix that.
One very thin silver lining to the whole saga is that his Twitter feeds (@chrisprice and @iconsole) can make for an entertaining drinking game.
The rules are simple. Pick any point in time from when the Kickstarter campaign closed, then take turns reading his tweets in chronological order from there. Drinks are triggered by the following events (all drinks are by the player reading the tweet unless otherwise stated):
when a previously claimed deadline for delivery is missed with nothing to show for it and no acknowledgement is offered: take 1 drink
when an excuse is eventually offered for why nothing was delivered:
if it includes blame on someone "upstream": take 2 drinks
if it includes reference to anything currently "staging": take 1 shot
if it attempts to divert attention from non-delivery through offering something even more unlikely to ever materialise: take 1 shot
if it is due to things with absolutely no value to backers (e.g. DNS migration, new logo, downloads area): everyone else takes 1 drink
Completely shameless in his flippant disregard for delivering to his Kickstarter campaign supporters, the ConsoleOS saga has delivered absolutely nothing of value to backers in nearly 2 years.
Let's fix that.
One very thin silver lining to the whole saga is that his Twitter feeds (@chrisprice and @iconsole) can make for an entertaining drinking game.
The rules are simple. Pick any point in time from when the Kickstarter campaign closed, then take turns reading his tweets in chronological order from there. Drinks are triggered by the following events (all drinks are by the player reading the tweet unless otherwise stated):
- when a reference is made to the ConsoleOS "team" (population: 1): take 1 drink
- when a claim of progress is made with nothing to show for it:
- if it includes mention of work submitted to Gitub: take 1 shot
- if it includes mention of kernel or driver patches: take 1 shot
- if it includes reference to anything currently "staging": everyone else takes 1 shot
- if it doesn't include either of the above: take 1 drink
- when failure is genuinely acknowledged and responsibility is taken without excuses: everyone takes 1 shot for each pig they can see in the sky
- when something of actual value which isn't total bullshit is released: everyone checks the current temperature of Hell and takes a shot for every degree that it is below zero