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This is the text of the “Thank You” email that I, and I’m assuming every other supporter, received:

"Two months ago I stood by a dead van in the middle of the night on a windy French highway after leaving behind the life I had lived in the United Kingdom for the past six years. Freezing, sleep deprived and dead-broke, a terrifying realization dawned on me as I looked at my partner and our three cats waiting in the van: I put us all in this horrible situation and I really don’t know what to do next. Fiasko after fiasko that led to this moment crossed my mind and filled me with the kind of cold fear I thought only accessible to children. The fear of being helpless and small. This was the absolute low point of my life since I can remember. I came very close to regretting standing up to the mighty and the corrupt, since it was now my most beloved who were paying the price.

I will never forget that moment cause without it I would’ve never experienced the love and the support you wonderful people have shown me. We don’t ask for help in the Wild Wild North. It’s easier to just curl up and die than to admit that I am not enough. It’s not strength, it’s fear that isolates us from love.

This morning I woke up to a notification that the fundraiser had reached its goal. It feels surreal. Unbelievable. In less than two months?! Get outta here, it can’t be…

Thank all of you generous, compassionate people who have not only saved me and my family from financial ruin but also given us the means to continue the fight I came close to abandoning on the side of that highway in France. I cannot even begin to tell you how moved I am seeing how people who themselves have almost nothing still find it in their hearts to help someone they’ve never even met. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all for your donations, both small and large! Thank you for the love and the support, your kind words and the time you have given me! Thank you for restoring my faith and resolve! I’m not scared anymore, I know what I have to do."

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    Argo seems like a great guy caught in some really tough situations. Him and Robert Kurvitz falling out still makes me sad as a fan of the whole Elysium setting and its origins.

    If you haven’t already, listen to or watch his super long interviews for the Human Can Opener podcast

    • tymon@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I didn’t know he and Robert had fallen out; do you know what happened?

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Well, the whole thing with ZA/UM happened, you know? Robert, Rostov and Helen getting ousted and all that. It only sort of got worse from there with Argo staying on and trying to salvage what was left at ZA/UM, which Robert felt was a betrayal. But then Robert isn’t always the easiest person to deal with seemingly and disagreements over who should get credit for Disco Elysium has kept them from reconciling. Robert seems to want to take credit for “most of it”, which Argo understandably takes issue with.

        I can’t really summarise it in a way that doesn’t gloss over context I think. I really don’t want to make out either side as being better or worse than they are. I recommend listening to the interviews with Martin Luiga and Argo on that YouTube channel, it’s a better insight than I could give on a Lemmy comment.