User blog comment:Jkphantom9/RWBY: Combat Ready Kickstarter/@comment-28288412-20170927184225/@comment-4010415-20170929201700

If there is an actual reason they decided to do a Kickstarter instead of funding it themselves with the company money, I wish they had told us.

I know that Achievement Hunter often costs the company money because of repairs and replacements, due to the AH members' destructive nature, but surely the company still has a lot of money in the budget and can afford to start up a board game.

For those of you who don't know, Achievement Hunter makes a habit of playing with weapons, and now grappling hooks, and they like to throw things around in their office, despite having a lot of expensive equipment in there. They're... a playful bunch. The somewhat recent-ish destruction I can remember off the top of my head includes


 * This hilarious video. Quite some time back, Michael (Yes, Sun's VA) slammed a tomahawk into Gavin's (Scarlet's VA) desk, leaving a hole in it. A short while before Let's Play Live, there was some conversation that went down between Gavin and Jeremy, resulting in Jeremy ax-kicking Gavin's desk, believing it would be fine (for some reason). He slammed his heel directly onto the tomahawk hole, which split the entire desk literally in half and resulted in a computer monitor getting utterly annihilated.


 * Michael put holes in the roof of one of the office buildings (they're actually converted airplane hangars) by throwing a grappling hook up there.


 * The company got a... thing... a metal thing with wheels that you put a trash bag in, and they wanted to use it to transport things around the compound. Some of the AH members decided to transport people instead. That "taxi service" resulted in the bars in the bottom of it to get bent down to where they nearly scrape the floor. But it's totally fine, they recorded it and even gave Burnie a ride in it to his meeting.


 * They've broken some of the ceiling tiles in their office by throwing a giant dildo at them.


 * They were throwing something at a wall to bounce back, I can't remember if it was a ball or a severed piece of giant dildo, but at one point, it hit a light instead.


 * I believe the microwave they filled to the brim with melted marshmallows was a spare that they could throw away without consequence, but it still deserves an honorable mention for their destructive shenanigans.


 * Who knows if Trevor needed to buy a new keyboard after they put Smarties candy (the American kind, not the chocolates) through a blender and dumped the dust on his desk.


 * They went on an adventure to get zip ties from another area of the office building just so they could play around trying to escape the zip ties. But then they got distracted by the pile of bean bag chairs and ended up doing running jumps off a metal folding chair into them. Later in the video, they received a text that they damaged that chair.

This is setting aside the fact that they bought equipment to raise Jeremy's desk all the way up to almost the ceiling and also bought a lift that they attached his chair to, so they could raise him up to his desk so he could still record let's plays. You can see what I mean here.

But yeah, while AH surely costs the company money with their shenanigans, Rooster Teeth still makes a lot of money and even buys interesting things for videos.