njean777
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Arthur Gies will be your new savior.
Phil Fish has Twitter tantrum, cancels Fez 2 and goes home with his ball
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Arthur Gies will be your new savior.
This was also my feeling watching IGTM yesterday. His GF left him, his dev partner left him and the movie tries to portray him as the pity story? Right after he said he might kill said partner at PAX?
How about he's an insufferable jerk with apparent mental issues? How about he caused these stressful situations?
"I´m better than you", "Suck on my dick", "choke on it", "you are worthless"... dude had many classics.
dragonelite
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Haha want to write an angry mail do it on paper so many steps you need to do before you can begin writing or even send it to the person.
That was a Futurama qoute.
Matt Groening should apologize for making futurama first, maybe we could have averted this whole shenanigan.
Nicktendo86
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Got a chuckle out of me
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Deleted member 80556
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Okay, then. Let me explore the other possibility: he got treatment. It hasn't helped him, he has been bullied, and he snaps insulting people (which I do not condone), he closes himself.
You seem to think that if he got treatment he shouldn't behave like this, but being bipolar is not something you can simply snap out. Even if has taken treatment it is obvious that it's not working for him. But if you think my entire argument it's based on fiction, I won't stop you.
That was a great insult. I don't get why people are freaking out. OMG Phil Fish wants that guy to die!!!!1!
What a childish reaction. A more positive approach would be to want him to stop saying stupid shit and maybe talk to someone about his issues with negativity.
Twitter isn't Futurama.
Baron von Loathsome
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And the character who said that is low on morals, is he not?
AyaisMUsikWhore
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There is a level of take only one can deal with. Not everyone can TAKE everything thrown at them. One insult, two insult maybe three...fine. Waking up everyday with insults, possibly even death threats, and still trying to get by by being me when nothing else is good enough is something that NO ONE can take. I'm a calm person, and I rarely get mad, but sometimes it becomes overwhelming at times when the added stress of work , school, family hits me and using social networking as my only venting platform of choice.
Then in his case, when I do that , I get blasted for it on a daily basis. Where i'm from, a lot of suicide happens here from people who can't even walk the streets without being criticized. Don't even get me started on people who convince themselves that a significant person is talking about them when they are, that subliminal speech and what not. I've been through it and I've lost a lot of people I knew to the same stuff.
Secret Fawful
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What really bothers me in here is the hate for people who have social problems or are socially inept. No wonder I was bullied so much in high school.
I'm not sure which side is supposed to be considered "freaking out"; I don't think many of the people that have responded to some of the stuff he's said publicly ever threatened (or followed through) throwing out their entire career paths over it.
Spirit of Jazz
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Did Beer apologise at any point for repeatedly calling him and tosser unprovoked and telling him to fuck himself because he didn't want to give the press a story?
Metallix87
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If by "low on morals" you mean "has almost no morals whatsoever", then yes, you're correct.
LOL! I've completely turned on this guy recently.
Hope he finds something more enjoyable and less stressful that he's passionate about. Best of luck dude.
SuperSonic1305
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Complain that guy is an asshole.
Be an asshole.
Be an asshole.
funkystudent
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A lot of assholes in this thread.
Sucks for Phil but if this isnt just some knee jerk stunt I hope he can find success in a new field.
If you want to be a public figure on the web need some tick skin if you want to handle the internet or you need to take a step back and leave it alone.
I would rather he quit twitter then quit games.
Also Beer was a being a hugely unprofessional asshole on that podcast that kicked off this mess. I expected better from him. A lot of respect lost for that guy.
Sucks for Phil but if this isnt just some knee jerk stunt I hope he can find success in a new field.
If you want to be a public figure on the web need some tick skin if you want to handle the internet or you need to take a step back and leave it alone.
I would rather he quit twitter then quit games.
Also Beer was a being a hugely unprofessional asshole on that podcast that kicked off this mess. I expected better from him. A lot of respect lost for that guy.
NinjamicWZ
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Acting like an arrogant idiot is the totality of games journalism and the commentary therein. I see no need to apologize for that when it's a ratio of hundreds of thousands to one.
He has to apologize for defending himself against someone who tried to tear down who he he is and what he does with "kill yourself"? No. That's silly. If they were friends or family, then yeah, apologizing with "I'm sorry I said that to you. I didn't mean it" etc would be due, warranted and expected. He's just talking back to some asshole who doesn't like him and said something about him.
dragonelite
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Joke right...
Wishing someone to kill themselves for a shitty comment on how now they wont want to be in the press.
ToyMachine228
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What Phil doesn't understand is that he doesn't face the criticism that he does because he's in the gaming industry, it's because of the way he acts, the things he says, etc. By all means, Fez is a great game. Some may even say that it contains a stroke of genius. But because of the way he acts on the internet, many people can't stand him. If he's moving away from games because of the way people act toward him, then he made his own grave. If he comes back, I'll look forward to his next game. But I don't think I'll ever think highly of him as a person.
I'm just saying that in my experience, that's not how bipolar people act.
No, but Beer is also an asshole so that is no kind of defense for fish.
More stellar fiction, this time laden down with some delicious excluded middle. Your scenario is hardly the only "other possibility", one obvious one that springs to mind is that he doesnt in fact have any/has a self diagnosed mental condition. After all the only "evidence" is one line in one forum post and he hasnt mentioned it again. You would also think, given the creators implied narrative, that it would have been mentioned in the documentary on him.
I also dont "seem to think" anything other than that you shouldnt be putting forward your own assumptions about an unverified mental issue as fact or some kind of defence of his behaviour.
In all these Phil Fish threads people are appalled at what he said. It was an insult. A pretty funny one too.
DarkLordMalik
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May he fish in peace
Herbspiceguy
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Throwing in the towel and blaming others gives me the impression he realises he said stupid things and offended people, but won't admit/accept it.
Maybe he'll grow up working a job, because you're not bound to get far with such an attitude.
Maybe he'll grow up working a job, because you're not bound to get far with such an attitude.
Chie Satonaka
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Don't even care if it's been posted yet.
Riposte
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I'm giving you the MVP award for this thread.
so on point
smarter thing would be to leave it alone but the people that hate phil fish crave the drama as much as he does
Most likely not, but I don't think he will be coming back from this. Many of his "fans" have now realised that they were simply stroking his ego, and that ego has swelled up and caused those fans to realise he is a, well, tosspot. Don't think you could come back from this when articles are basically agreeing with Beer.
Seriously, who just up and cancels a game because of the Internet?
If you are socially inept, and what you say can draw the ire of others, you don't get up on a platform and speak to millions. It's that simple. If you choose to, you have to be ready for people to argue back, and be equally offensive.
Phil Fish shouldn't have to be tolerated. If he wants to speak, he can speak. He has to understand the consequences of that. If he can't handle it, he shouldn't be on Twitter. Nobody demands he be a public face; I'd have to do a Google search if I wanted to find out who made Limbo.
Fish chose this, and he couldn't handle it. He hasn't been targeted, he put a bulls-eye on his arse and started twerking.
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EmCeeGramr
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Beer was a jackass in the way he said it, but there was a kernel of truth: Fish gives his opinion on anything and everything, and both he and his defenders act like this is his noble unique trait that is the only source of all criticism against him. But then he acts like it's insulting and unbearable when people ask him for said opinions on things, as if he has no idea where his reputation as an outspoken developer came from.
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