It didn't look like there was anything wrong with the recent threads he made, so I assume it was probably that call out to another user that did him in with one of the two basketball series S threads, which he didn't just call out by name but also in the thread title itself and in the post. All of which was unnecessary.
A lot of people would troll him and give him obvious bait, and he would take it every time because he wanted to have a cage match with everyone because he didn't like inaccurate information. He sourced all his claims and provided a lot of great historical stuff, but he allowed very little wiggle room to even have an opinion that was contrary to whatever data he had, even if that opinion didn't necessarily contradict the data because he would assume you were a fanboy poisoning the discussion.
He was
way too easy to bait for multiple pages, and when a person entered one without reading the entire thread from page 1, the user he was arguing with would make Eddie look like he was some condescending mad man that was throwing insults or attacks at people without prompt.
He never figured out how to tell when he was being trolled, so he never knew when a person wasn't seriously having a discussion nor when to leave a conversation, instead he would keep feuds going. A person new to most debates he was engaged in, even by mistake would almost always jump in and side with the person opposing him everytime because he was always seen as the aggressor, even when he was right.
He was also very petty, when he felt he was unfairly judged or did figure out a user wasn't being good faith, he would days or even weeks later go after that user again just to do the "ackshlually I told you so" jargon which would start another argument because he would feel that those users
got away with something and he had to get them back. The recent basketball series thread I just referenced would be an example.
His best threads were the early computer graphics threads and historical call backs to older console history, which is a shame because iirc he said he was going to fix the broken images in those threads.
Months ago he fell apart in the 1996 platformer thread which was the big one, it was embarrassing for both Eddie and the people who were messing with him. Sure it was his fault he kept taking the bait and arguing with several people on different topics, then the other users would take advantage of the confusion when a new person entered the conversation. He fell to that same strategy like 5 times in that thread I couldn't believe it.
iirc he got banned 3-4 times in that thread alone, because he kept coming back refusing to just let things be and move on only to get banned again learning nothing. I'm assuming if you get hammered that many times you start to run low on second chances by the mods, because not too long after he finally stopped returning to that thread, he started limiting the scope of his thread topics to focus primarily on VR and Xbox special editions.
There were many users who liked Eddie, and many users who didn't and had a grudge with him. It made it very hard to post about similar topics because a part of the community would associate it with Eddie negatively, even so far as making jokes that users may have been hijacked by Eddies account if they had an argument or made a topic that was associated with his views.
It's for this same reason that I doubt old newspapers will be used in discussions for a long time on gaf because those are also now associated with Eddie. Even if that seems illogical.
It sucks he turned so hard to VR and Xbox clothes because the only other time you saw legacy platform discussion on Neogaf was that one members threads where he shills his YouTube platform under the pretext of discussion, so Eddies move away from old skool gaming to VR and Xbox special editions was painful. You could tell he was trying very hard to not cross the line and kept limiting what topics he discussed after that platformer thread to avoid another ban.
He had a lot of historical knowledge and posted a lot of interesting sales data. I know a fair bit about old 3D games but I never would have heard of games like GalacticDan or Dark-wood on the Acorn computer, or knew about Commodore game sales figures without him, or at least not without going through a time consuming research process that would likely involve paywalls.
Eddie also engaged in the discussion afterwards,
I would argue he did this too much.
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i didn't know what following worked on here.
