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Viewtiful Jew posted:The thread moves fast so it's probably bunches of pages back from the end at this point. Like, a month or two. i know. i post a bunch on it. i just don't remember it.
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The Anthony Burch thing I always remember is when I was watching a few Hey Ash Whatcha Playings (which he wrote as far as I know), and there was one about a popular puzzle game that suddenly turned into an extreme and protracted domestic violence scene one character finds out his partner completed something on his game, so he explodes and starts beating her with his belt. She's off camera so he's really laying into her. Not framed humorously or anything, I think the shock value was meant to be the joke? I know he apologised about another one of those videos where there was some bad representation, but I never saw any comment about that one and it left a real bad taste in my mouth
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The current CEO of Failbetter responded with his personal thoughts on AK, with evidence. It's pretty damning, IMO, and distinctly lays out 1) what claims from others he has evidence for and 2) claims from others he believes based on his own experiences with him, along with a few examples (with evidence) of his own mistreatment: https://medium.com/@wastebooks/alexis-kennedy-71044efc0ecf
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Star Guarded posted:The current CEO of Failbetter responded with his personal thoughts on AK, with evidence. It's pretty damning, IMO, and distinctly lays out 1) what claims from others he has evidence for and 2) claims from others he believes based on his own experiences with him, along with a few examples (with evidence) of his own mistreatment: Ooof. That's a power quote right there in the preamble. EDIT: That "enhanced 1-on-1" message, oof. Warthur fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Sep 23, 2019 |
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KOL UPDATE: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-09-23-games-professor-accuses-kingdom-of-loathing-designer-of-abuse quote:In a statement provided to GamesIndustry.biz, Johnson denied several of the accusations:
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Cease to Hope posted:Nick Robinson was a successful video maker at Polygon, and notably co-created Car Boys with the Griffin Brothers. It came to light that he's been creeping on coworkers, fans, and industry peers for a long time. He was fired at Polygon and the Griffins cut ties, but he just disappeared for a while and is now a successful independent YouTuber. I've linked to this excellent post from the top of the thread. Quick note: Griffin McElroy is one of the McElroy brothers. e: I demand that when I am accused of villainy, it be as a line rather than a point.
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Grapplejack posted:KOL UPDATE: what a charismatic fuckin' guy. jeez.
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New Alexis Kennedy poo poo from the guy who now runs Failbetter: https://medium.com/@wastebooks/alexis-kennedy-71044efc0ecf
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fez_machine posted:New Alexis Kennedy poo poo from the guy who now runs Failbetter: five posts up, buddy but also goddamn that piece is a systematic and hyper-credible destruction of AK's poo poo, huh
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Patware posted:five posts up, buddy Yes I so wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt as he's a local indie dev I was actually hoping to work with in the near future But yeesh, gently caress him
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I've linked to this excellent post from the top of the thread. Quick note: Griffin McElroy is one of the McElroy brothers. whoops, will fix lol I just want to emphasize, that list isn't exhaustive; it's just the handful of creeps I could think of offhand. There's the Oculus guys and the Riot Games situation and the Merritt Kopas story that I don't fully know the details of and Tim Buckley and and Max Temkin and and and... And it feels like none of these people ever face any consequences besides ducking their heads for a while. Cease to Hope fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Sep 23, 2019 |
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Star Guarded posted:The current CEO of Failbetter responded with his personal thoughts on AK, with evidence. It's pretty damning, IMO, and distinctly lays out 1) what claims from others he has evidence for and 2) claims from others he believes based on his own experiences with him, along with a few examples (with evidence) of his own mistreatment: jesus what a loving rear end in a top hat. its a shame that a good writer can be such a sack of poo poo. glad he is possibly hosed now.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:jesus what a loving rear end in a top hat. its a shame that a good writer can be such a sack of poo poo. glad he is possibly hosed now.
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Nessus posted:For a while I was like, "see, you can write like Lovecraft without being a shithead" and welp, he's outshitted the old goblin. yeah. lovecraft was just a really racist neet who had like 30 phobias and was also an inbred shut in. the biggest problem outside the horrible bigotry is that lovecraft is just dry and boring. tha that being said i like a bunch of the concepts that he thinks off. also you can make anything lovecraftian if you think about it. like id argue the first two terminators are lovecraftian in a way.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah. lovecraft was just a really racist neet who had like 30 phobias and was also an inbred shut in. the biggest problem outside the horrible bigotry is that lovecraft is just dry and boring. tha that being said i like a bunch of the concepts that he thinks off. also you can make anything lovecraftian if you think about it. like id argue the first two terminators are lovecraftian in a way. Exactly what do you mean when you say "Lovecraftian?"
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richard matheson > lovecraft and he wasn't a weird creep afaik
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Wanderer posted:Exactly what do you mean when you say "Lovecraftian?" The Terminator's endoskeleton lacks right angles therefore making it a non-Euclidean horror.
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Cease to Hope posted:whoops, will fix lol Whoa what did Max Temkin do? (He was one of the co-creators of Cards Against Humanity and probably the most visible part of it for those who don’t know.) Dapper_Swindler posted:also you can make anything lovecraftian if you think about it. like id argue the first two terminators are lovecraftian in a way. Capitalism is lovecraftian. A vast, uncaring system that barely notices those it crushes and operates on a very different, often inscrutable, system of morality very different from our own. Also it can be ridiculously racist just like Lovecraft. 
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A former girlfriend of Max accused him of raping her in college. He was kinda weaselly in his apology like how everything they did was consensual and the girl never confronted him about it and social media makes people lie etc etc
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The Verge has more on the Vic Mignogna trial. Glad we still have enough of a legal system in the US to protect these folks, and this is a well-written article, but gently caress, how lovely.
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Star Guarded posted:So the dude with money got grifted by a lovely lawyer to waste a bunch of his victims' time, money, and emotional health. Great. They went after the judge? I’m hoping we can get some real teeth behind anti-harassment laws, because that poo poo is insane. Edit: then i started digging, and found his anime fans equating him to Emmett Till. This timeline is beginning to get weird. Hav fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Sep 24, 2019 |
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Pulcinella posted:Whoa what did Max Temkin do? (He was one of the co-creators of Cards Against Humanity and probably the most visible part of it for those who don’t know.) yeah. pretty much. like i always think of lovecratian in the "unknowable or creeply simple monsters/systems/etc. Wanderer posted:Exactly what do you mean when you say "Lovecraftian?" like in the sense that skynet/machinese are unknowable and horriflingly simple. its an AI system that woke up and said kill everything and now its just doing that for decades. I guess AM would be a better example of lovecraftian AI. i overthink poo poo lol.
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Nessus posted:For a while I was like, "see, you can write like Lovecraft without being a shithead" and welp, he's outshitted the old goblin.
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:A former girlfriend of Max accused him of raping her in college. He was kinda weaselly in his apology like how everything they did was consensual and the girl never confronted him about it and social media makes people lie etc etc iitc there was also quite a bit of "my lawyer has suggested I sue but I won't because I'm such a nice guy"
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baka kaba posted:AM isn't unknowable though (if we're talking the Harlan Ellison thing), it's just like a creep rear end human with the power to be a real abusive rear end in a top hat Harlan Ellison was also a massive sex pest, so he's 100% on topic. AM was even in a video game!
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Grapplejack posted:KOL UPDATE: Apparently the backlash from this was enough for her twitter account to go dark 
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Osmosisch posted:Apparently the backlash from this was enough for her twitter account to go dark *person is credibly accused of sexual assault* Internet: Let’s not be rash in our response to this. *person denies allegation* Internet: Let’s descend on the accuser like a swarm of locusts.
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exquisite tea posted:I've always felt as if "sex pest" is kind of a weak term for what these men end up doing, like you go to take out the trash and out pops a little Harlan Ellison humping your leg. I mean in Harlan Ellison's case he totally did this, so maybe it's at least a proper term. Along with rapist. He was also a big enough name to do stuff like put dudes in hospital pretty much at random and not get any sort of trouble. Like he ambushed the president of NBC and beat him to a pulp for having slighted him and everyone just shrugged it off. Never mind him groping women on stage or bragging about all the rape he got up to.
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exquisite tea posted:I've always felt as if "sex pest" is kind of a weak term for what these men end up doing, like you go to take out the trash and out pops a little Harlan Ellison humping your leg. I think it's actually an appropriate term for people who are weird little creeps without actually being rapists or serial abusers or whatever, and that having that granularity between "regular, healthy guy" and "dangerous predator" is actually important. One of the reasons sex offender registries are bad is that they create a binary offender/nonoffender status, but "sex offender" is a category that can range from "made lewd jokes at work" or "got drunk and peed in a park" all the way to "molested a bunch of little kids". The people in the former category should probably not make a habit of that behavior, but it's extremely obviously different from the latter. That said, there's definitely people who use "sex pest" to describe the latter, and in that case I agree with you. Baku fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Sep 24, 2019 |
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Sex pest seems like one of those tabloid terms that nobody ever actually uses like "romp".
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"sex pest" seems like a good term for a specific set of behaviors that don't necessarily meet mainstream qualifications for sexual assault. of course, we haven't even agreed as a society on what sexual assault is soooo... also I can't find anything about Harlan Ellison beating up NBC president but I did find stuff about him punching an ABC executive. yikes edit: agreed with tea that sex pest is in the vein of fuckboy
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Lazy_Liberal posted:"sex pest" seems like a good term for a specific set of behaviors that don't necessarily meet mainstream qualifications for sexual assault. of course, we haven't even agreed as a society on what sexual assault is soooo... I may have misremembered which dude he beat up like an rear end in a top hat. Or he beat up both. It's implausible though. He was apparently pretty well known and even celebrated for just randomly kicking the crap out of people.
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exquisite tea posted:What was wrong with fuckboy? IIRC fuckboy originated as a slur against gay men
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