My Side Of The Story (amp)
 

I would like to tell everyone that Amp has finally returned my emails and I will be talking to him when all this calms down. I'm assuming he was pretty loaded and I knew he was. I knew in my mind this was not the Todd I knew talking to me that way. We had a very mutual respect for each other and I considered Todd an excellent person. I am still in (WTF) mode but feel I have to speak.

I would say most of you do not have children here and CANNOT make accusations towards how people should feel, or how Todd was supposed to react. I do agree with K-man that you truly have to take things with a grain of salt on these boards but K-man doesn?t understand that most don?t have that mentality.

There was a kid on AWI whom I used to battle with all the time and we became the best of friends after I spent quality time with him saying your not your father and your not abusive, So stop knocking people who drink. I later realized that his father was an abusive alcoholic cause he always used to knock us about what we were drinking that weekend. People have ghosts, issues, problems that is fucking life you know. Everyone has problems no matter how Brady Bunch they seem.

I believe it was the timing for AMP to explode about all the little issues he had with people and the fact that he misses his children and I guess MistaT or whoever he is, set him off. I feel bad and I truly hope you see your kids cause I know you guys live in different places, But I will tell you DONT EVER take kid advise from people who don?t have kids cause they don?t know what the fuck there talking about.

I'm a father of three boys and you know that. So when it comes to kids I can relate to how you felt about a direct attack. It even bothered Joe cause he has kids as well. I wont take crap from anyone about my kids so I understand how you feel. You don?t bring kids into this game man you just don?t.

During the dialer days I knew I wanted to get into pay sites and that's what I did. We all knew dialers were coming to an end. I brought 2 dialer companies from nothing to success in no time. I did very well with it but unfortunately the other side that was in charge of accounting fucked my people over with payouts. My people whom I have spent countless hours on design and exits on free sites and CJ, and good friends from all over the globe I go way back with. These are the same people who got screwed from my partner who I thought was a friend. He ends up draining the bank account and lets me to dry and runs with the money and closes shop. I take the heat even to this day. If you?re not strong is this business and cant learn to accept the fact that you?re going to take shit from people no matter how sharp you are or how good you are to people it comes with the package, so deal with it.

Duane-AKA pensfan basically designed most of mafia and Webinc did three sites including the Original Mafiaporn. It wasn?t till later that Amp and I got together and said hey we should do something together. At this point I was struggling with mafia. Most guys didn?t want recurring payouts. I stepped in headfirst and didn?t know what the fuck I was doing. People like Soulcash, Lightspeed, Largecash, Mario-aka Masters spent hours with me to help cause we had so many bugs due to a programmer who just fucked everything up thanks to Jimmy3way.

After Jimmy stepped out it was I, the original programmer and Amp to do designs and start really upgrading Mafia. Amp says hey snow I'm really involved in this design contest and I want to use Mafia as the entry site. I said bitchen that's cool. Good for Mafia and good for amp for exposure. We both definitely got the exposure after he won. It was great then people started saying it's rigged and all this shit. Someone will always say shit no matter how right you are again it's part of the package.

During all this Amp was moving to Hawaii and at the same time had orders from other companies to do designs. He had quotas and really could not focus on a hundred percent here, which I understood. I said hey you have to put food on the table get those sites built and do what you have to do. We were both excited about doing this together and felt we would do well with this. There was even a post about it on GFY. Gary his friend stepped in and was going to work on SE stuff as well. We were concerned about how the new design was going to convert and how it was going to do. At this point it was a test for Amp as well to see how well his designs were doing so this was a good exp for him. Most designers will build you something pretty but could care less whether the thing converts or not. So many things come into play when your in the paysite game you have No fucking Idea.

Amp got really busy and we started loosing touch. He did build the Original, which won the contest, and he built another with a different color. After that we went for a basic one. I would call and ask him what's up and he just told me dude I have to get these designs out I cant work on mafia. That was the last of our talking on the phone basically, other then Hey what?s up how are you. I would call him and he would say oh my girl and I are going here or there. He was enjoying himself at his new location. The truth is we lost touch and nothing was ever mentioned.

I always kept the door open for him to come in with me as a partner. Mafia was doing ok but not great. It had bugs and the programmer just had it all cluster fucked. Amp ended up doing Celebrity sites or some other venture with Gary. I must have ICQed amp 25 times in the last 6 months and no answer. A phone call man I just don?t understand why you didn?t call me. Did you call and say HEY SNOW I'M OFF TO DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH ANOTHER PERSON. JUST PAY ME THIS FOR THE DESIGNS. OR do this or send that. A GOD DAM BILL PERHAPS? I'm a born communicator and I NEVER hide or run. People can talk shit but you know what I NEVER FUCKING RUN and those of you who know me will see that. I would have been like cool NP good luck to you in your project. 6 months go buy and the circus act explodes I mean come on man.

I had no idea what was up in your life amp. But I'll tell you this about me. I had to partner with a large company to keep myself alive cause I wouldn?t have made it. Mafia has been completely recoded from the ground up. Been working on that for 6 months. I went through hell with my wife and we divorced after 15 fucking years. I should have committed suicide with all the bullshit I have gone through and I didn?t have to rage on anyone. I was in a miserable depression and was completely devastated. I let everything go, Fuck Mafia, Fuck making money, Fuck the net. I wanted to sit home and dwell. I was a mess. It took 7 months for me to get back to life. I'm revived, my kids are great I have a GF now and I'm busting my ass to get MAFIA VERSION 2.0 off the ground. This is my fresh start I have a new life now, But I miss seeing my boys on a daily basis.

All you had to do was call, Simple bro. We all have our baggage. Don?t feel alone. You have something no one can take away and that's Design. You have a new life with a new girl and live in Hawaii. How great is that? I wish you the best and I truly want to help in any way I can. I want to pay you for whatever you feel is right. I want this to wash . I know this is a book but really wanted to explain the whole picture. I don?t need to prove myself to you or anyone cause you I know I'm a Dam good friend and person. The people who know me and mean something in this biz know my position. So I will be pretty active with mafia now and don?t need extra drama in my life. I have nothing more to say other then I want you to feel comfortable with what we did together or come to some kind of conclusion. I will not post on this issue anymore at this point and will call you on the phone when you are sober or the Todd I used to know.

SNOW

Sobriety :thumbsup

who's the lucky allofem.com reviewer this time? :glugglug

Ok so both people involved with an AMP Design didn't get a bill, had no idea they owed a dime for anything, no price was ever discussed ? Sounds like a communication problem more than anything else.

SNOW how many times do I have to done told you... you don't have a side to any story....:winkwink:

you're a good man steve.... we'll talk next week when I have a phone again and work all this stuff out away from the GFY audience. Or we can get started now if you like. I'd really much rather fix this with you somehow than burn this relationship down completely over all this. So I'm in full agreement with you about letting this wash. I don't need or want any more drama in my life or business either. I'm getting too old for this stuff. I need some freaking stability. This will be my last post on this issue as well and I'm looking forward to talking again, but I wanted to acknowledge your post here since you clearly put alot of time and thought into it, and that already says quite alot to me.


Brujah, I can't stop you of course, but I'm asking you... please don't throw any more gasoline on the fire. I'm trying hard to fix the train wreck I caused here. I already know I don't have the best communication skills when it comes to the telephone. I never have. I suck at it. It's a birth defect.

Very well then case closed..

Take 50 percent up front on anyone you deal with. Pensfan worked that way and Web-inc and I paid them every fucking cent.

CLOSED..

I LOVE happy endings !
:thumbsup

And a decry of peace was heard,
and it spread throughout the land,
and it was a good peace.
The peasants rejoiced.
The sound of merriment was heard,
wine was poured, meat was carved,
women were brought forth and ravaged
and the peasants rejoiced.

And there was gladness in the kingdom,
...evermore.

haha :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Either way, good post. I actually read through all of it even though I have jack shit to do with any of this... But it's life experience so it never hurts. Good luck with Mafia 2.0 SNOW :thumbsup

Dont piss on people and tell them it's raining.

Dude you're fucking nuts.

I do not now nor have I ever been or protrayed myself as a programmer. How the fuck could I fuck up your sites? The only thing I did that had anything to do with programming was to hook you up with a programmer I know.

So now you admit you were bought out by another company, but in an earlier thread you boasted that you own maif free and clear? Dude your lies are stacking up as fast as the bullshit on GFY.

See page two.

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...threadid=69582

I started out as a web designer around 95... and the reason I got out of that biz -- it's very VERY hard to negotiate with the customer... there's always communication problems... I only came away with one thing "the customer almost always knows what he wants even though he tells you that you have creative freedom, etc..." -- so you have to drill them and drill them to get every last worthless bit of creative juice out of that customer's head... It's not really about creativity tho -- because 9 times out of 10 if you produce some quality work that you enjoy -- the customer won't necessarily be happy... They WILL be happy if you give them exactly what they want -- and that's usually some vague vision that they have in their head already -- you just have to pull it out of them and it's like pulling teeth... Otherwise you will just keep showing them samples and then you'll just keep making corrections -- "well I didn't really picture it that way" -- etc. etc.. Anyway that's just my 2 cents -- that's why I got out of the design biz... It's 95% negotiations and maybe 5% artistic talent.

Wow.

Many of us that have been around for awhile are completely aware that Snow's reputation is shady at the very best.

What has he done?

I agree that it does take solid communcation. The hardest thing about being a web designer is details. Clients are too busy to provide vital information and details. Therefore making it harder on the designer to come up with something clean, turnkey, and satisfying for the client.

I disagree that it takes 5% artistic talent. I would'nt be a designer if it only took 5% to come up something. It's hard... it reallly is. but... once i get that picture in my head, i'm gone with it. Then when it's done. I sit back, look at it, and say to myself. whoa! I did that!?

this guy cracks me up

:1orglaugh

i'm glad your social security check covers your AOL subscription

:1orglaugh

King your input means nothing, not even to the monkeys.

Are you on break box boy? Don't take a break, they will be impressed and you will make cashier in a couple of years. I was in this business for six years, almost half of your age kid. When you turn sixteen and get your drivers license let me know. As I told you before I hire a driver when I have to travel for more than a couple of hours.

Yours even less so. :321GFY

Though I have no idea what happened through this whole ordeal I do know this.
I have known Snow for quite some time now and have found him to be;
- an honest business man
- a respectable human being
- a very hard worker
- and encompass family values only a damn good father would have.

This is my experience through the time I have known and dealt with Snow.

Keep on Rockin'

Neither Snow or Amp
has ever done me wrong

i havent said one word in regards to this situation
because it doesnt concern me..
it can only be resolved by the parties involved..
and i hope it does get resolved for the better

Too long to read.

so you *admit* to being pathfinder.

or are you still just the son who came across dad's computer and found us a couple months ago?
:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

That's a very long text

Ariba, ariba the leader of the "Six Amigos" rides again.

I am not Pathfinder and I am not his son. Pathfinder took me in at the age of 12 when my real mom and dad were killed in a car accident. Pathfinder and my father were both career military and best friends. Get you facts straight or shut the fuck up. :321GFY

King you can fuck up a wet dream. Get lost seriously YOU SMELL, and have no business here. Stay out of my business before I find you and Hurt you.

snow.. when i first saw mafiaporn.com with Aria on it before most other sites had her i knew it was a winner.. right on. goodluck with it!!

cool glad you like it most do..

Those that actually needed to read it did so. That's all that matters.

Okay.

I have established 4 out of the 6.

Labret
12clicks
Fletch XXX
Sly

2 dark riders still hide in the gallows shadows.

:smokin

Bring guns. My back is to fucked up to duke it out. :321GFY

the hardest part about lying is trying to keep your story strait huh pathfinder?:1orglaugh

My "story" is, was and will always remain the same. It is easy when one speaks the truth. It is you that makes up shit out of thin air. Now go :321GFY. I have work to do as soon as I complete the pot of coffee I am working on.

is there a Cliff's Notes version, or will it be on HBO soon?

oh right, breaking back into the business just like our dear departed pathfinder wanted to do. :1orglaugh

You are full of shit. My dad quit the business and went to mainstream. Feel free though to make up whatever BS you care too. Now :321GFY again.

HMMMM

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