"What is the greatest lie every created? What is the most vicious obscenity ever perpetrated on mankind? Michael Pachter? Dennis Dyack? Jeff Bell? No. It's the tool with which all that wickedness is built: opinions. Whenever anyone wants others to think they are right, they call upon their opinion. Never mind your own needs, they say, think of the opinions of... of whoever. FACE. Derrick. Of EviLore, of the king, of God! The list goes on and on. How many catastrophes were launched with the words "it is my opinion"? It's the "I am right" crowd who light the torch of destruction. It is this great inversion, this ancient lie, which has chained humanity to an endless cycle of guilt and failure. My journey to GameFAQ's was my second exodus. In 2011, I fled a forum that had traded in opinions for flame wars. This revolution simply traded one lie for another. Instead of one man, the Moderator, owning the opinions of all the people, *all* the people owned the opinions of all of the people. So, I came to NeoGAF: where a man could own his own opinion, where a man could benefit from the brilliance of his own mind, the strength of his own finger muscles, the *might* of his own will. I had thought I had left the parasites of GameFAQ's behind me. I had thought I had left the senseless opinionated mass to their collective hive-minds and their five-year XBLG Gold plans. But as the Kotaku people threw themselves on Totilo's sword "for the good of the site", the NeoGAFers drank deeper and deeper of the opinionated poison, spoon-fed to them by EviLore and his New Assholes. And so, I asked myself: in what forum was there a place for men like me - men who refused to say "yes" to the parasites and the doubters, men who believed that opinions were sacred and freedom rights inviolate. And then one day, the happy answer came to me, my friends: there were *no* forums for people like me! And *that* was the moment I decided... to code one."
