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by Havoc 844 days ago
People are saying it’s a con by a fraudster but I get the sense that the organiser is potentially on the spectrum or otherwise at a disadvantage
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Yes me too. Even if it did not meet the expectations by far, there must have been effort going into it. Providing a lacklustre experience is not fraud. A true fraudster would not have bothered.
Ye. I mean looking at the pics, this would easely pass as a local community thing for kids. It seems suprisingly ambitious given the accusation.

I guess the only problem is that they charged 2 or 3 tumes as much as people think it is worth.

If you live in a high cost of living area though, you have to pay marked price for scrappy things though. People can't have their cake and eat it too, where other people should work for pennies.

One of the actors says the guy was just in over his head, but it isn't his first time organising a massively disappointing event! Making me think it is deliberate.
It’s probably a bit of both; the same guy is a prolific ‘author’ of 1 star AI generated books on Amazon.
As a side note, can we please stop using being on the spectrum as an excuse for everything?
Was not an excuse, just an observation. Would you have preferred a different phrasing?
Not sure how you conclude that the guy is on the spectrum: all I read is a guy using AI to create stuff with the goal of making a quick buco, no matter what.

Whether or not he's on the spectrum is as relevant as wether or not he is Scotish, a man or has a beard or not. He sure seems like a shaddy person so.

>Not sure how you conclude that the guy is on the spectrum

The same way you're concluding that this is a guy:

> with the goal of making a quick buco

...impression. You and I are reading this differently, which is fine - happens. Doesn't make my read any less valid than yours though, especially in fuzzy areas like motivations or spectrum.