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thisismyusername

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11880 on: January 25, 2018, 11:03:04 PM »
Let's Cyber. Your avatar. :dead

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« Reply #11881 on: January 25, 2018, 11:04:56 PM »
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11882 on: January 25, 2018, 11:05:50 PM »
Why hasn't anyone done a bullet point list of Lime's claims to live in different places and arrange them in a chronological and objective fashion? Seems like it would be easy pickings for anyone here.

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« Reply #11883 on: January 25, 2018, 11:06:41 PM »
Why hasn't anyone done a bullet point list of Lime's claims to live in different places and arrange them in a chronological and objective fashion? Seems like it would be easy pickings for anyone here.
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11884 on: January 25, 2018, 11:11:22 PM »
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« Reply #11885 on: January 25, 2018, 11:20:40 PM »
Why hasn't anyone done a bullet point list of Lime's claims to live in different places and arrange them in a chronological and objective fashion? Seems like it would be easy pickings for anyone here.
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11886 on: January 25, 2018, 11:25:42 PM »
Why hasn't anyone done a bullet point list of Lime's claims to live in different places and arrange them in a chronological and objective fashion? Seems like it would be easy pickings for anyone here.

His claims get nuked.  The time Lime was confronted with his Dissociative identity disorder Lime bragged that "I don't get banned."  That message was nuked as well as the people who quoted it.
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11887 on: January 25, 2018, 11:42:20 PM »
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US is huge, and the states are separate. People can decide to shut NYC down every day after work like they did in the big city in SK, but then Washington laughs at the blue state destroying itself. Really, you just need locals near DC to decide to shut that area down as symbolic for protests to actually have any effect. Get some perspective on the situation before saying everyones lazy.

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People are putting faith in the investigation for justice to happen. Its why there is a site like this. People feel we havent arrived at the moment they need to get out there.

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You have no evidence to back that up. That site has had blue dots getting added to it like crazy over the last months.

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11889 on: January 26, 2018, 12:08:18 AM »
Why hasn't anyone done a bullet point list of Lime's claims to live in different places and arrange them in a chronological and objective fashion? Seems like it would be easy pickings for anyone here.
I think I saw something like this on VOAT ages ago, well, not chronological or anything, just like ten links to posts that all had contradicting personal information by Lime.

benjipwns

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« Reply #11890 on: January 26, 2018, 12:13:18 AM »
You were single handily the most deranged and up her ass Shill supporter on this site and GAF (Y2Kev wasn't even as hardcore as you).
Unless Jack was lying he got got on GAF I think before the primaries were over and was out of alts, and it was after the election that he sold his account to Peter Daou.

You have to read between the lines and violent rage to bypass Jack's defensive wall, even since Peter has taken over the account it isn't as hilariously deranged as GAF's best Hill Shills were. One of whom happens to currently be offering an ad free forum experience for just $39.99 a year.

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11891 on: January 26, 2018, 12:20:53 AM »
Why hasn't anyone done a bullet point list of Lime's claims to live in different places and arrange them in a chronological and objective fashion? Seems like it would be easy pickings for anyone here.
I think I saw something like this on VOAT ages ago, well, not chronological or anything, just like ten links to posts that all had contradicting personal information by Lime.

Voat huh, is that where you learned how to "dox" people?


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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11892 on: January 26, 2018, 12:22:16 AM »
You were single handily the most deranged and up her ass Shill supporter on this site and GAF (Y2Kev wasn't even as hardcore as you).
Unless Jack was lying he got got on GAF I think before the primaries were over and was out of alts, and it was after the election that he sold his account to Peter Daou.

You have to read between the lines and violent rage to bypass Jack's defensive wall, even since Peter has taken over the account it isn't as hilariously deranged as GAF's best Hill Shills were. One of whom happens to currently be offering an ad free forum experience for just $39.99 a year.

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benjipwns

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11893 on: January 26, 2018, 12:23:32 AM »
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It's a curse that food is so cheap and abundant in this country.
Truly a cursed era in which we live.

And don't get me started on antibiotics. Or electricity. What a horrible time to be alive.
This has always been my favorite GAF/ERA fetish. These people are the 1% of the 1% of human history and they act like they live in central Africa during Leopold II's reign to almost modern day, at minimum the mid-2000s.

One time I probably got legit triggered was a whole thread of people lamenting one of those reports about how fewer people were in poverty than ever before that comes out, and how wasn't something to celebrate because everything else is terrible, and after arguing with some morons for too many hours one of them debunked my claim about us living in the greatest time in human history by pointing out that he was unlikely to be able to afford the same size house his parents bought at the same age in five years or some shit like that.

That dick bag probably had hundreds of posts lamenting humans using resources and a capper being a post praising Evilore for on behalf of his entire forums userbase endorsing participation in the Paris Climate Agreement. Although I only really remember Amir0x's reply to that thread and then how it died when someone asked what NeoGAF.com would be doing to reduce it's carbon footprint. (And I don't mean to defend Evilore like some others have been doing, but I think he really went overboard in doing so.)

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11894 on: January 26, 2018, 12:25:02 AM »
Let's Cyber. Your avatar. :dead

Straight dudes always looking to gay dudes for some fashion sense.

Nothing wrong with that. You gayboys sure know how to peacock

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benjipwns

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11895 on: January 26, 2018, 12:25:27 AM »
Didn’t say it was not shitty... but primary everyone? Shut down for months? What?
Wait, I thought we weren't allowed to primary people or is that only if it's a quixotic doomed campaign run by someone who is not only transgender, but radical in their politics, and oh yeah considered a traitor by probably 80% of the electorate.

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« Reply #11896 on: January 26, 2018, 12:25:31 AM »
Damn right we do!
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benjipwns

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« Reply #11897 on: January 26, 2018, 12:26:29 AM »
these avatars :dead

benjipwns

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« Reply #11898 on: January 26, 2018, 12:26:58 AM »
Voat huh, is that where you learned how to "dox" people?
nope, learned it from an episode of CSI: Cyber


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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11900 on: January 26, 2018, 12:39:59 AM »
Voat huh, is that where you learned how to "dox" people?
nope, learned it from an episode of CSI: Cyber

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11901 on: January 26, 2018, 12:45:55 AM »
Voat huh, is that where you learned how to "dox" people?
nope, learned it from an episode of CSI: Cyber

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"So what'd our perp do this time"
"It seems he used the forum's inbuilt search function and quoted a few posts"
"Good god"
"Yeah, it's hard to look at"
"So what does this tell us about our perp"
"Well his screenname is 'benjipwns', we've checked the birth registry and there's been no child born with that name, so we think he's a foreigner. Also, the level of technical prowess involved makes it likely our perp has at least a grade-school level education"
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11902 on: January 26, 2018, 01:01:01 AM »
Why hasn't anyone done a bullet point list of Lime's claims to live in different places and arrange them in a chronological and objective fashion? Seems like it would be easy pickings for anyone here.

Because that's doxxing.


Apparently.
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11903 on: January 26, 2018, 01:15:34 AM »
Anyone have a good lime theory? Is it a real person, can't be, right?
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11904 on: January 26, 2018, 01:18:51 AM »
Listen if you're not curious enough to do a search on someone because they acted like a dick and you want to see if they've always been a dick or are just occassionally a dick, you should probably just become an organ donor and blow your brains out in a hospital waiting room because those organs could go to people who actually deserve to live.

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11905 on: January 26, 2018, 01:27:42 AM »
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I mean, I'm not super comfortable discussing things on a personal level on the internet. I have stalkers, people leak my Facebook statuses and crap, people talk obsessively about me 12+ hours a day in some cases on Reddit and elsewhere, people had been fucking with me at home right before it all happened too. That's part of why maybe a lot of what I've said in the wake of this came off as vague and detached? I don't put my personal life on the internet in recent years.

I was really deep in depression and was dealing with PTSD from some heavy stuff that had happened, though, mainly, and I was having severe bouts of insomnia at the time. I was just starting to pull myself out of all that and was going to take a short break before the impending xf migration (lol) and had plane tickets already booked to go stay with a friend and re-center right when it happened.

Didn't conduct myself great in general in the heat of it all and it was an obvious nightmare from a PR standpoint, sure. I'm human, y'know? It both blindsided me and scared the shit out of me to be #metooed out of nowhere. I blocked that girl out of my life years ago for a reason.

Yeah I have "resources," like I lawyered up and talked to PR firms and whatnot, but a lot of those avenues were just looking to take advantage and extract as much money as possible from a vulnerable public figure, and I was in shock for the first few days and trying to navigate all the things happening internally on GAF. My IRL friend network got back to me with good PR connects and whatnot after a bit. The problem is that a week is an eternity during a scandal like that, and that's about how long it took to vaguely plant my feet on the ground and get to a functional headspace and get lawyers and PR, and by then the mods had already left and the board had been spammed with Reset adverts to a degree that was impossible to address and the mass exodus had already happened and the narrative had shifted to "it doesn't matter if the allegation is true or not."

I documented actionable evidence with my lawyers that discredits the BS story, but the consensus was that from a legal standpoint the allegation was already retracted when the Facebook post had been removed right after it was posted, legally an injunction can't be filed broadly against future statements because of free speech protections, and I had no interest in seeking monetary damages from her. That was all established about a month later, when the witch hunt had already run its course and the press wasn't interested anymore. A lot of major sources asked for comment initially, but I needed some time to center myself, yeah? Like, BBC Radio wanted a phone interview with me for example but it was plainly obvious to me that my initial comments sucked and weren't helping matters, so I focused on getting my shit together, pulling myself out of depression, cooling off, reworking things heavily internally with GAF and deciding where if anywhere to take it from there.

It's incredibly scary to be falsely accused of "sexual assault" (revised to "sexual misconduct" by the press). I was in a really, really vulnerable spot personally already, I was miserable with how the day to day with GAF was too, and I've never had my community turn on me like that before from the inside. I've kept things indie here even when it got huge, minimally monetized the site, never wanted to take money from the community, etc. It was so shocking that so many veteran posters here seemed to revel in burning the site down and calling me all sorts of outrageous stuff or telling me to kill myself.

I understand the other side of it too, especially with some distance, but I'm an eccentrically earnest and sensitive person I guess I would say, and the presumption of guilt and malice directed my way from so many people at the same time, on basically a worldwide stage, was really hurtful and I spent as little time on the internet as possible for a while in the wake of it, other than rebuilding NeoGAF's internal admin and keeping it vaguely operational. I tried to be around friends as much as possible and start properly addressing the depression and PTSD issues that had been miring me all year. I had multiple family medical emergencies come up within a week of the scandal breaking, too, and that's a whole separate thing I was dealing with that I'm not going to get into.

I mean, sincerely, it's endearing that you wrote fanfiction about how you would've handled it in my shoes, and everyone on the internet seemed to think they knew how to handle it like a pro, but I don't think anyone here has a great idea of how that would've actually gone down for them, all things considered. Mistakes were made, personally and professionally, and I'm not a saint or anything, but that allegation is totally made up. When the world demands a confession and apology for something that never happened, and throws you on the rack in the meanwhile, and you're already completely tilted before it had even hit, it's not a simple thing to navigate, I assure you.

Anyhow, I'm still here, like I said I would be, it just took some time to figure things out, assess where to take the site, and find a good group of people to make it happen. I received hundreds of supportive messages via PM on here, but I think it speaks to the intensity of the witch hunt that it was all private expression of support and very little was stated on the board itself. Anyone appearing to be associated with me in any way was attacked at the time. When you get blown up like this, there's an intense feeling of standing completely alone, and being single at the time and pretty distant from most of my friends all year didn't help matters going in.

That's about as specific as I'm willing to take things right now, I think. Does that help clarify a little on a human level?

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11906 on: January 26, 2018, 01:37:32 AM »
it hurts to learn your heroes are not calm and reserved from thousands of fights but instead suffer from PTSD :fbm

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11907 on: January 26, 2018, 01:38:46 AM »
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11908 on: January 26, 2018, 02:24:19 AM »
What's this new avatar fad.

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« Reply #11909 on: January 26, 2018, 03:02:30 AM »
What's this new avatar fad.

Essentially, next to the username, you choose a small image to represent you. This provides a visual way to identify posters at a glance.

Hope this helps x
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11910 on: January 26, 2018, 03:52:22 AM »
My avatar is a work of art and it's memory will far outlive my own.

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« Reply #11911 on: January 26, 2018, 03:55:18 AM »
This thing I allowed to happen multiple times daily to other people and that I myself personally participated in at times, is incredibly scary and depressing and dangerous now that its happening to me

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« Reply #11912 on: January 26, 2018, 04:00:08 AM »
You guys talking jawgagging about transsexuals? What I don’t like is that unless you’re informed properly about what exists below, it could be construed as false advertising, much like if you were to go and buy a jar of pickled onions, with a picture of pickled onions and described as such, but then you open the jar and it’s actually a man with a penis.
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« Reply #11913 on: January 26, 2018, 04:03:41 AM »
You guys talking jawgagging about transsexuals? What I don’t like is that unless you’re informed properly about what exists below, it could be construed as false advertising, much like if you were to go and buy a jar of pickled onions, with a picture of pickled onions and described as such, but then you open the jar and it’s actually a man with a penis.

http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/forums/lizards/724937-painful-jaw-gagging.html#/topics/724937

The fuck are you even talking about

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« Reply #11914 on: January 26, 2018, 04:13:12 AM »
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« Reply #11915 on: January 26, 2018, 04:17:53 AM »
Freenudemacusers1 neogaf status update:

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Do they send you an email or do you have to log in?

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« Reply #11916 on: January 26, 2018, 04:19:58 AM »
Let it go smelly nerds. There are better things to do than spunk your empty minutes away by applying to a has been Internet forum.
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« Reply #11917 on: January 26, 2018, 05:35:33 AM »
Let it go smelly nerds. There are better things to do than spunk your empty minutes away by applying to a has been Internet forum.



Like what?

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11918 on: January 26, 2018, 05:47:44 AM »
WARNING : Hansel

https://www.resetera.com/posts/3744958/

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Didn't we learn a year or two ago that Nutella causes cancer?

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« Reply #11919 on: January 26, 2018, 05:47:56 AM »

Hi

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« Reply #11920 on: January 26, 2018, 06:00:35 AM »
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At this point I need Sean to be sentenced for something. He’s a straight up traitor to this country, spouting bullshit to keep a criminal in office simply to save face at this point.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/3779443/

Traitors tainting our vital fluxes everywhere.
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« Reply #11921 on: January 26, 2018, 06:09:16 AM »
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Dude is a legit traitor, full stop. Unreal

https://www.resetera.com/posts/3778256/

Oh, I just need "literal" to complete my tic tac toe.

Let's play some more with that potential crime carrying capital punishment box of matches.
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« Reply #11922 on: January 26, 2018, 06:09:54 AM »
Let's Cyber. Your avatar. :dead

Straight dudes always looking to gay dudes for some fashion sense.
The gays here tho?  :doge
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« Reply #11923 on: January 26, 2018, 06:15:16 AM »
Let's Cyber. Your avatar. :dead

Straight dudes always looking to gay dudes for some fashion sense.
The gays here tho?  :doge

You're right, nobody should learn fashion sense from a dude so bad at being gay he had three kids.
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« Reply #11924 on: January 26, 2018, 06:20:11 AM »
Thanks bb I’ve been working on my wrist voguing for a few weeks 💅🏽

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« Reply #11925 on: January 26, 2018, 06:23:00 AM »


He's not gay, he's another super woke pedo/rapist who doth protesteth too much

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« Reply #11926 on: January 26, 2018, 06:36:01 AM »
Let it go smelly nerds. There are better things to do than spunk your empty minutes away by applying to a has been Internet forum.

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« Reply #11927 on: January 26, 2018, 08:10:20 AM »
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I mean, I'm not super comfortable discussing things on a personal level on the internet. I have stalkers, people leak my Facebook statuses and crap, people talk obsessively about me 12+ hours a day in some cases on Reddit and elsewhere, people had been fucking with me at home right before it all happened too. That's part of why maybe a lot of what I've said in the wake of this came off as vague and detached? I don't put my personal life on the internet in recent years.

I was really deep in depression and was dealing with PTSD from some heavy stuff that had happened, though, mainly, and I was having severe bouts of insomnia at the time. I was just starting to pull myself out of all that and was going to take a short break before the impending xf migration (lol) and had plane tickets already booked to go stay with a friend and re-center right when it happened.

Didn't conduct myself great in general in the heat of it all and it was an obvious nightmare from a PR standpoint, sure. I'm human, y'know? It both blindsided me and scared the shit out of me to be #metooed out of nowhere. I blocked that girl out of my life years ago for a reason.

Yeah I have "resources," like I lawyered up and talked to PR firms and whatnot, but a lot of those avenues were just looking to take advantage and extract as much money as possible from a vulnerable public figure, and I was in shock for the first few days and trying to navigate all the things happening internally on GAF. My IRL friend network got back to me with good PR connects and whatnot after a bit. The problem is that a week is an eternity during a scandal like that, and that's about how long it took to vaguely plant my feet on the ground and get to a functional headspace and get lawyers and PR, and by then the mods had already left and the board had been spammed with Reset adverts to a degree that was impossible to address and the mass exodus had already happened and the narrative had shifted to "it doesn't matter if the allegation is true or not."

I documented actionable evidence with my lawyers that discredits the BS story, but the consensus was that from a legal standpoint the allegation was already retracted when the Facebook post had been removed right after it was posted, legally an injunction can't be filed broadly against future statements because of free speech protections, and I had no interest in seeking monetary damages from her. That was all established about a month later, when the witch hunt had already run its course and the press wasn't interested anymore. A lot of major sources asked for comment initially, but I needed some time to center myself, yeah? Like, BBC Radio wanted a phone interview with me for example but it was plainly obvious to me that my initial comments sucked and weren't helping matters, so I focused on getting my shit together, pulling myself out of depression, cooling off, reworking things heavily internally with GAF and deciding where if anywhere to take it from there.

It's incredibly scary to be falsely accused of "sexual assault" (revised to "sexual misconduct" by the press). I was in a really, really vulnerable spot personally already, I was miserable with how the day to day with GAF was too, and I've never had my community turn on me like that before from the inside. I've kept things indie here even when it got huge, minimally monetized the site, never wanted to take money from the community, etc. It was so shocking that so many veteran posters here seemed to revel in burning the site down and calling me all sorts of outrageous stuff or telling me to kill myself.

I understand the other side of it too, especially with some distance, but I'm an eccentrically earnest and sensitive person I guess I would say, and the presumption of guilt and malice directed my way from so many people at the same time, on basically a worldwide stage, was really hurtful and I spent as little time on the internet as possible for a while in the wake of it, other than rebuilding NeoGAF's internal admin and keeping it vaguely operational. I tried to be around friends as much as possible and start properly addressing the depression and PTSD issues that had been miring me all year. I had multiple family medical emergencies come up within a week of the scandal breaking, too, and that's a whole separate thing I was dealing with that I'm not going to get into.

I mean, sincerely, it's endearing that you wrote fanfiction about how you would've handled it in my shoes, and everyone on the internet seemed to think they knew how to handle it like a pro, but I don't think anyone here has a great idea of how that would've actually gone down for them, all things considered. Mistakes were made, personally and professionally, and I'm not a saint or anything, but that allegation is totally made up. When the world demands a confession and apology for something that never happened, and throws you on the rack in the meanwhile, and you're already completely tilted before it had even hit, it's not a simple thing to navigate, I assure you.

Anyhow, I'm still here, like I said I would be, it just took some time to figure things out, assess where to take the site, and find a good group of people to make it happen. I received hundreds of supportive messages via PM on here, but I think it speaks to the intensity of the witch hunt that it was all private expression of support and very little was stated on the board itself. Anyone appearing to be associated with me in any way was attacked at the time. When you get blown up like this, there's an intense feeling of standing completely alone, and being single at the time and pretty distant from most of my friends all year didn't help matters going in.

That's about as specific as I'm willing to take things right now, I think. Does that help clarify a little on a human level?
If he hadn't tried so hard to cultivate this façade of globe-trotting, Muay Thai fighting, dick slinging badass these last 7 or 8 years, this plea for compassion and understanding might have a bit more weight behind it.

Most of us still remember the "She'd probably fall in love with me  :smug" post or "I have more muscle mass than Bruce Lee" or his braggadocious post about illegal mountain bike races in the rain and his calm and resolve from a thousand fights. If he was to admit some of his lies and was willing to confide that his online persona was the result of insecurity, I might be able to dig up some sympathy for him from the depths of my cold, black heart. Maybe.

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11928 on: January 26, 2018, 08:30:53 AM »
This thing I allowed to happen multiple times daily to other people and that I myself personally participated in at times, is incredibly scary and depressing and dangerous now that its happening to me

I'm glad you caught the irony of that statement, too.

"Hay guyz! Dogpiling sucks! But my mod team allowed it to happen on a daily while I did nothing."


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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11929 on: January 26, 2018, 08:44:01 AM »
Damn, long time no see. You need to give your username the 2018 upgrade. Something like 'ProblematicAdam' or 'BadFaithAdam'

Toxic is soooo 2009.

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11930 on: January 26, 2018, 09:14:16 AM »
Love the tayswift avvies, gang. Keep it up, because she keeps me up.

unnnffffff

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11931 on: January 26, 2018, 09:25:11 AM »
Four kids? Wow, nudemac truly is a Latino.
IYKYK

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11932 on: January 26, 2018, 09:34:52 AM »
PTSD stands for Post Throw-up Shower Declined

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11933 on: January 26, 2018, 09:38:08 AM »
Ok I thought about bringing this up and thought better of it but then Cindi's open racism against latinos has emboldened me

https://www.resetera.com/posts/3787444/

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my mum is casually racist.
She once saw a black dude driving in Medford, Oregon and exclaimed "That guy's as black as the ACE OF SPADES!!!"

I was 9...

Is this a reference to something I'm not getting or what?  It's certainly not polite nor something anyone should be saying regularly, and could be described as casual racism, but it seems to be more about noticing skin color than hatefulness.  It's not "all those people drive terribly," or "what's HE doing here," or anything like that.  The comparison makes it worse but it's just a step removed from musing whether someone is first or second generation African.

These replies though...

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That is really racist.

Have you confronted your mum about this since?

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That is not causal racism, that is full on racism

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Well, it obviously scarred her son to the point of always remembering it.

Very heinous. He might want to consider not talking to her again if this is a pattern.

Cut your own mother out of your life for that??

No one has any business saying that but it's also about as harmless as you can get.  Old fashioned southern hate this is not.
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11934 on: January 26, 2018, 09:40:18 AM »
Racism? It was a joke.
IYKYK

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11935 on: January 26, 2018, 09:40:37 AM »
 Rick James called Charlie Murphy by the nickname 'darkness' and these people laughed.  They are all white nationalists

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11936 on: January 26, 2018, 09:47:16 AM »
Racism? It was a joke.

Now that's the type of problematic content that got you banned for two months.

Uncle

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11937 on: January 26, 2018, 09:49:17 AM »
Racism? It was a joke.
Oh obviously, I was joking too, sorry I'm not as good as benji  :doge

I shouldn't mix sarcasm with genuine incredulity
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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11938 on: January 26, 2018, 09:55:23 AM »
Oh, are we telling racist jokes now? OK, I got one —

What’s the one thing you never tell your Latino maid?

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Re: The Other Forums Gentlemen's Thread for Refined Discussion of Uncouth Behavior
« Reply #11939 on: January 26, 2018, 09:55:33 AM »
Four kids? Wow, nudemac truly is a Latinx.
Fixed  :wag

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Oh, are we telling racist jokes now? OK, I got one —

What’s the one thing you never tell your Latino maid?
Stop microaggressing
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