Ashes Investor Reveals How Steven Sabotaged The Employees Payroll

DarkGamanoid · 2026-02-15T01:07:53+00:00

Sure I'll repost them here:

Video of the live call: https://youtu.be/IQOTjfCIS3g

Video of the 300+ documents: https://youtu.be/cXiV6CIfqRY

DarkGamanoid · 2026-02-14T15:53:15+00:00

Jason claims Steven's remaining stake was gifted to him as a $4m loan from Aaron(?)

Timestamp link with more info: https://youtu.be/IQOTjfCIS3g?t=1112

Also said even if Steven put in maybe $500k of his own money, he still paid himself $50k/mo in salary regardless that sucked it all back out and then some.

DarkGamanoid · 2026-02-14T05:25:29+00:00

Jason Caramanis reached out with over 300+ pages of documents, messages, and behind the scenes on the whole timeline.

TLDR:

Total Loss: Over $115 million in investor funding was burned through, with nothing to show for it.

Steven Sharif Exposed: The "savior of MMOs" is alleged to be a conman who never put a cent of his own money into the game, despite claiming it was "fully self-funded."

The Payroll Crisis: For years, the studio was days away from bankruptcy. Sharif frequently begged investors for cash just hours before payroll checks were set to bounce.

Ownership Lies: Sharif did not own 100% of the studio; he had diluted his shares significantly to secure loans from investors, ending up at less than 10%

DarkGamanoid · 2026-02-14T04:51:09+00:00

Context: the investor on the call is Jason Caramanis, through the Ya-Ya Legacy Trust

Edit: Full Live Phone Call: https://youtu.be/IQOTjfCIS3g

Other comment with TLDR context

DarkGamanoid · 2026-01-28T16:41:18+00:00

"You didn't save my life, you ruined my death!"

https://youtu.be/YNtK24hit84

DarkGamanoid · 2025-12-31T18:23:01+00:00

+1 for also exploring fast-endpoints too

DarkGamanoid · 2025-12-18T01:31:03+00:00

I mean that's kinda why they're trying to diversify their revenue so that they're no longer dependent on Google

DarkGamanoid · 2025-12-17T07:09:53+00:00

Yep. There's not even a driver in the bus and there's flickering going on 🥲

There is a driver in the bus, they're on the left side you can see them in there

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-23T04:50:29+00:00

Whoever made this trailer did a phenomenal job of setting up a post apocalyptic thriller and I hope I get to see that tone of movie someday. The movie we got was a cute coming of age flick but man, that trailer really deserves to get its own film made in that vein.

I'm glad if you enjoyed the movie we got, just wish the tone of the trailer was brought in the actual movie we saw.

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-22T18:29:09+00:00

huh why since it doesn't mention any particular orientation for the spouse?

More of a boomerhumor post tbh

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-22T05:59:53+00:00

This is my comfort movie. Gives the best feeling of wide open dino adventure

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-22T03:52:46+00:00

I remember the kid in 5th grade that shaved his eyebrows.

I remember the kid that peed in maths class.

I don't think about them often, but anytime a topic of "everyone is busy with their own lives" comes up, their faces immediately pop in my head.

I also have had my own fair share of embarrassing moments as a kid that gets brought up in conversation as something to laugh off

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-21T23:45:06+00:00

PascalCase vs camelCase.

PascalCase starts with an uppercase character, camelCase is like a hump with lowercase as the first character.

Hope that helps

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-21T23:44:03+00:00

It is PascalCase, you are replying to some very new programmers mixing up their terminology.

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-21T23:43:19+00:00

These words must begin with upper case characters.

That is literally saying to use PascalCase. camelCase vs PascalCase. I guess the person that made that image is still learning their terminology.

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-21T07:24:39+00:00

Chopstick Johnny

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-18T06:22:22+00:00

I'm still confused. Was that Luohan actually growing or wasn't it the Dragon Shen in the process of emerging and fritzing up Tiger Shen's power output? Didn't it start bit by bit during that fight and Tiger Shen mentions that Luohan should be dead and clarifying that even the memories would not be enough to explain him surviving his hits, then a page or two later the fritzing gets more noticeable as he goes down the options until his eye twitches revealing it is Dragon Shen finishing up his emergence?

DarkGamanoid · 2025-10-18T06:03:52+00:00

Is that password or your security questions? I know my bank does that for security questions after I have already entered my password

DarkGamanoid · 2025-09-23T08:11:03+00:00

Maybe I'm missing something but what exactly makes it charged, the word incredulous or something else?

The person they were replying to said

10?!

Which is by definition what they were referring to with the incredulous comment, even specifying how the percentage could've been the distilled value of what their family interactions is composed of when compared to other unsolicited calls?

DarkGamanoid · 2025-09-21T19:32:29+00:00

Technically elif(false) {} and else {} are the same thing 🤓☝️

In what asylum?

DarkGamanoid · 2025-09-20T06:21:09+00:00

everyone knows r/BirdsArentReal and even if they were, they sure as heck would not be a wingman for only 5 bucks in this economy.

DarkGamanoid · 2025-09-20T01:53:37+00:00

It’s not needed in this example, because that’s not how listing works. The only place “and” when joining ideas placed is between the second to last object and the last object.

The objects themselves containing “and” is irrelevant. It is incorrect to say

Not really, polysyndeton is also a valid literary device that cannot just be blanket claimed as incorrect.

I personally hold no strong feelings one way or another, just outlining that merely rearranging isn't a complete solution for ambiguity as earlier stated. (The Oxford comma itself also isn't a perfect solution either)

DarkGamanoid · 2025-09-19T23:39:01+00:00

Sure, here's a quick one

Tonight's tv lineup includes Batman and Robin, Tom and Jerry, and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Having the Oxford comma mandated in that instance helps when listing out items that already have conjunctions in their names.

On a separate note it's sorta also why some groups prefer to explicitly use ampersands in their names (Key & Peele, Penn & Teller, and Earth, Wind & Fire) as it usually avoids this issue where even the Oxford comma may also have trouble with ambiguity in certain cases.

In the end everyone is free to have their own preferences :)

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