| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#1117 I think at this point it's not possible to stop it without involving police directly. Still may be possible to reduce the damage if there would be some pressure towards Thrinacia from press, but I'm n… | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#1111 And they at thrinacia say it's payer's responsibility to check whether a project is a scam: https://www.thrinacia.com/blog/post/tips-to-avoid-crowdfunding-scams | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#1109 That number of 144k is probably fake (as will the growth be fake too), but the money that people pay them now will do to their pocket and are not refundable. So, it's sure that they will get some mone… | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#610 The videos do look really convincing. So unless you researches all the lichess/chesscom findings carefully, it's very easy to believe those are legit. And most people don't bother to read all that. Be… | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#533 @N78_Training In a theoretical case it's all real and it's a witch hunt, it would be nice if they could show convincing arguments that they are serious. For example both lichess and chess.com offered … | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#508 What's going on in heads of contributors? I can answer. If you don't follow recent news, you have no way to know that it's a scam. Videos do look pretty legit. Also that name already was around for so… | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#498 I think bakers don't really read comments. The only way to stop them now is to draw Kickstarter attention somehow. Also even maybe not only directly by trying to contact them, but also by covering thi… | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#481 Even if they reach their goal, they still don't get the money before the time finishes. That's why thy picked so short timespan, just 2 weeks (they probably think now that they should have picked just… | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#424 One argument for them using magnets is that around 2:58 when he removes pieces from the board, somehow he suddenly needs both hands to put pieces aside for some reason (off the camera). Probably those… | mooskagh |
| General Chess Discussion - Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence#414 Also "currently the hardware is very advanced, between 65% and 70%" is not what engineer would say. That precision of project progress estimation doesn't really exist in real world. And even when it's… | mooskagh |
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