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dans posted:I'm not saying we were well-behaved netizens back in the day, I'm saying Ben isn't a creep, we were children when we made those websites, and all our in-joke bullshit should be taken with a grain of salt. In Ben's mind this is like when some celeb posts on twitter about some embarrassing style they wore back in the 80's. He fully expected people to laugh with him as if he didn't know better....at age 25. If this was just the spider facts page that would be the case. Ben as a person is quite literally a mile wide and an inch deep when it comes to have any substance to his self worth. Sure he got the short end of the stick as a kid but then no effort was really made to get him out and about and socialising with people and so he retreated into a safe space that he hasn't really been able to leave. I also get the feeling that he's been so wrapped up in cotton wool that he has quite the case of arrested development going on. Him dropping out of college only just shows he has trouble doing things without some sort of adult assistance. And this still appears to be the case regarding him having to move states to work on SC. He found the WC community as the one thing that accepted him and attached himself to it like some desperate leech and has spent the better part of twenty years obsessively immersing himself to the point where it's defined the only self worth he's ever known. As a result he becomes cocky and arrogant slowly pushing out other community leaders with such vitriol, even rejoicing in their deaths, till only he is left to run the ship of fools. To make things worse this behaviour gets validated as he's eventually rewarded for his years of service as being the public face of his idol's latest creation. You're talking about a person who at that point is verging on borderline shut-in and lives off a menial admin job at a school while writing up news posts that hallucinate potential sequels from nearly forgotten game franchises of the 90's. Now he gets paid to sit around in cushy digs with free food to live his dream - and the tragic irony is that's literally killing him. On top of that he's given the controls to a new community from the ground up and sets up ridiculous rules about what can or can't be posted and mandatory polls dishing out the law at every moment. Plus he's an individual who has very little solid experience outside his comfort zone to deal with sensitive subjects in a proper way. Of course he runs into the dilemma where you have backers who are just as broken and even more so as himself (see WulfKnight). People so ostracised from social norms that they try to buy themselves some sort of community acceptance in the thousands of dollars expecting some sort of say in the creation of a dream video game or even buying people ships to try and gain their affections. So to save the company coffers they get a light slap on the wrist for posting CP while valid concerns get banished to the wasteland as there's only so many hours in the day and free doughnuts to eat and sitting around watching all the Star Wars movies on company time. Keep in mind this the public face of a company that has been publicly accused by former employees of racist and discriminatory hiring practices, done at a whim because the person hiring subjectively picks and chooses people based on broad assumptions of their personal grooming. Yup, someone wasn't hired because she was claimed to look like someone who doesn't shave down there. And then you have the self described "job tourist" who claims he ran a baseball team in his teens yet until someone put the clippers to him looked like a hobo they'd let in. Said hobo leaked 34gb of game assets onto a public FTP, including a working build of the game and somehow kept his job. TL;DR 90's video game obsessed manchild gets wrapped in cotton wool and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for his actions that are now damaging the reputation of the company he works for. Said company too afraid of community reprisals and potential loss of money to fire him. BogDew fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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dans posted:Being funny or not isn't the point, we were idiot edgelords shooting our mouths off, we never expected any of this stuff to go outside our little network of weirdos. Any attention to him is good attention as he tries to shrug it off as wacky hijinks because he is that socially broken with a personality that is entombed in cult pop culture. He had all the time in the world to prevent this from happening when it was pointed out to him well before others found out, and yet his response towards it is damning. It's telling that he hid the Kelly pics, not the crass jokes, as I suspect people have had a stern talk with him in the past about what's appropriate and what isn't - they're his guilty pleasure. And then on top of that he didn't keep it a secret anyway. It was such common knowledge that members of his community enabled his fixation by sending him framed photos which he saw as such an amusing joke that he put it on his bedside table where it was kept there well into his twenties. It's a far from some silly teenage crush where you might stick a poster on the wall as Bens comments suggest the kind of typical behaviour of people who hit on cashiers because they are lonely and the cashier is kind to them. Ben fails to see the distinction between being noticed for something that's worthwhile or amusing vs something that has utterly ruined his reputation.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:WebDog, do you still keep tabs on Tim Buckley?
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 However your blog is so bloody boring Ben it actually hurts to read. Half of it reads like a high schooler's excursion to aquariums and assorted space centres and museums while the other half is hunting down obscure WC trivia while collecting lots of toy fishes...in his twenties. Oh and he votes Republican: Romney.
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Another day dawns at CIG. The klaxons and flashing red lights still haven't abated. So Ben sits down to write us a letter.   It does back up my theory that Ben really was bundled up in cotton wool when growing up. Again he fails to see why his actions are bad and how damaging it is trying to pass them off as follies from when he was younger. It basically reads as a giant dismissive non apology "Hey it's who I am...deal with it." And all the little extra details only makes him appear even more tragic as his obsession with WC is so unhealthy that he chose to study in Austin because the game was made there. quote:You can search through my entire life and you won’t find anyone saying I was unkind or unpleasant. Hard Light Forums [Freespace 2 posted:Technically Bandit LOAF is attacking my work and the work of every member of the SCP and every modder. I've never liked Bandit LOAF, i've always thought him an rear end in a top hat - and I will not tolerate it. The general view is that people don't see you as a bastion of Wing Commander, keeping the fires burning well into the night, but as an individual who is tragically obsessed to the point of ruin. You sign up to random forums just to set the facts right and promote flamewars on trivial WC facts going so far as to squeeze every nugget of "canon" out to prove what is basically wild speculation. BogDew fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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