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terry_mcintosh [2016/05/17 15:33] – [Future of Ares Digital?] updates w/ 5/17 quotes from ™ Carlos Pedrazaterry_mcintosh [Unknown date] (current) – external edit (Unknown date) 127.0.0.1
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 ====== Terry McIntosh Resigns ====== ====== Terry McIntosh Resigns ======
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 === Lead Developer Resigns Amid Fulfillment Problems === === Lead Developer Resigns Amid Fulfillment Problems ===
 +<wrap lo>//Main article: [[perks|What's Up With the Perks?]]// \\
 +//See also: [[ares_digital_update|Axanar Scrambles to Ship Perks]]// and //[[new_ares_digital|Axanar Launches New Fulfillment Platform]]//</wrap>
  
 [{{ ::terry-headshot.jpg?nolink&200|**Terry McIntosh**}}] [{{ ::terry-headshot.jpg?nolink&200|**Terry McIntosh**}}]
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 > My assets are well protected, so P/C [Paramount and CBS] wouldn't get any blood from this turnip, any more than they'd get a cent from Alec [Peters] or Axanar Productions. =P The only people that seem to be concerned about the Does are the people shoveling san in to their vaginas. … I'm not one of them, sorry. Sue me, P/C! I need a free trip [to Los Angeles]!"(([[face>spacecommandmovie/posts/1042916085765910?comment_id=1042944939096358&reply_comment_id=1083465341710984&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Space Command Facebook Group, Terry Macintosh post to Pavlina Andreev]], 5/14/16.)) > My assets are well protected, so P/C [Paramount and CBS] wouldn't get any blood from this turnip, any more than they'd get a cent from Alec [Peters] or Axanar Productions. =P The only people that seem to be concerned about the Does are the people shoveling san in to their vaginas. … I'm not one of them, sorry. Sue me, P/C! I need a free trip [to Los Angeles]!"(([[face>spacecommandmovie/posts/1042916085765910?comment_id=1042944939096358&reply_comment_id=1083465341710984&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Space Command Facebook Group, Terry Macintosh post to Pavlina Andreev]], 5/14/16.))
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 ===== 'Night of the Long Knives' ===== ===== 'Night of the Long Knives' =====
  
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 It was in role of Facebook group admin that McIntosh attracted the most attention, with his brusque comments aimed at people who dissented from the party line, finally culminating monitoring group members' online activities and in a [[night_knives|mass banning of fans]] who had come to question the wisdom of Axanar's production delays, spending and crowdfunding. It was in role of Facebook group admin that McIntosh attracted the most attention, with his brusque comments aimed at people who dissented from the party line, finally culminating monitoring group members' online activities and in a [[night_knives|mass banning of fans]] who had come to question the wisdom of Axanar's production delays, spending and crowdfunding.
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-===== Future of Ares Digital? ===== 
  
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 +===== Future of Ares Digital? =====
  
 Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden announced McIntosh's departure on the Axanar Donors Group on Facebook: Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden announced McIntosh's departure on the Axanar Donors Group on Facebook:
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 > [Ares Digital] is still viable in that some work would need to be done (maybe 7-9 full days and for me those are typically in the 12-16 hours range) to make it "ready for retail," so to speak. … A[res] D[igital] has been stagnant because I just haven't been interested in it. As I also said, I created it for fun and when it stopped being fun I pushed it to the side.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1218858854792149/?comment_id=1218859501458751&reply_comment_id=1218861198125248&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post, CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar Facebook group]], 5/17/16.)) > [Ares Digital] is still viable in that some work would need to be done (maybe 7-9 full days and for me those are typically in the 12-16 hours range) to make it "ready for retail," so to speak. … A[res] D[igital] has been stagnant because I just haven't been interested in it. As I also said, I created it for fun and when it stopped being fun I pushed it to the side.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1218858854792149/?comment_id=1218859501458751&reply_comment_id=1218861198125248&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post, CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar Facebook group]], 5/17/16.))
  
-McIntosh went on to defend his stance, stating he had documentation proving he had fully disclosed this to Peters:+In a June 6, 2016, Facebook post, however, fulfillment director Diana Kingsbury announced Ares Digital was to be [[ares_digital_update|replaced]] by a new system. 
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 +McIntosh went on to defend his stance, telling a group of Axanar critics he had documentation proving he had fully disclosed this to Peters:
  
 > All parties involved were given that disclaimer many times and from the get-go — email history and Facebook PM history, which are both searchable, show that if anyone had a doubt that was involved — so while I'll gladly volunteer to nibble around the edges of a turd burger for making the decision to shove it aside for my own reasons, I'm not willing to take on a full bite.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1218858854792149/?comment_id=1218859501458751&reply_comment_id=1218861198125248&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post, CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar Facebook group]], 5/17/16.)) > All parties involved were given that disclaimer many times and from the get-go — email history and Facebook PM history, which are both searchable, show that if anyone had a doubt that was involved — so while I'll gladly volunteer to nibble around the edges of a turd burger for making the decision to shove it aside for my own reasons, I'm not willing to take on a full bite.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1218858854792149/?comment_id=1218859501458751&reply_comment_id=1218861198125248&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post, CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar Facebook group]], 5/17/16.))
  
-Regarding the future of Ares Digital, the proprietary crowdfunding fulfillment software he developed on Axanar's behalf to sell as a service to other crowdfunded projects future, McIntosh held out the possibility for it to become "a nice little profit center" that might also be provided as an open-source platform. "The latter surely would cause a few sphincters to tighten in that market segment," he added.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1218858854792149/?comment_id=1218859501458751&reply_comment_id=1218861198125248&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post, CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar Facebook group]], 5/17/16.)) {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}+[{{ ::blade-honor.jpg?nolink&200|**MARKETING** McIntosh is listed as director of marketing for another scifi web series seeking funding on Kickstarter, //Blade of Honor//.}}] 
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 +Regarding the future of Ares Digital, the proprietary crowdfunding fulfillment software he developed on Axanar's behalf to sell as a service to other crowdfunded projects future, McIntosh held out the possibility for it to become "a nice little profit center" that might also be provided as an open-source platform. "The latter surely would cause a few sphincters to tighten in that market segment," he added.(([[face>groups/CBSvsAxanar/permalink/1218858854792149/?comment_id=1218859501458751&reply_comment_id=1218861198125248&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post, CBS/Paramount vs. Axanar Facebook group]], 5/17/16.))  
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 +==== Another Crowdfunded Production ==== 
 +McIntosh is also listed as director of marketing for another web series, [[imdb>title/tt4503366/|Blade of Honor]], an original science fiction drama also [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bladeofhonor/blade-of-honor|seeking crowdfunding]]. He served in the same position for //Prelude to Axanar//. Many of the same cast and crew work on the two productions. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
  
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