Some respect? Not a bad improvement from before when you labelled me a "snake and a liar" and couldn't even bring yourself to type my name (you made a point of calling me "Mr. journalist guy" among other things.)
The idea that you "delivered" on what you guys promised is fairly laughable. I guess there's an argument that you technically did, because your promises were so vague to begin with, but I doubt many of the people that propped up your venture with donations feel they got a return. Still, donations right? What you gonna do?
I've never had a vendetta with you. Interestingly, it has always been the other way around. For example, when did I utilise any of my staff / colleagues to write strange blogs undercutting your credibility? When did any of my staff / colleagues lie about you "cyberstalking" them? When did I spread it round that you had bi-polar disorder? It's strange because I did none of these things, but only one of us can say this honestly.
You seem to think a vendetta is me writing about your ROOT team. Let's qualify that. I broke that you were picking up a SMITE team and specifically which one. That was embargo news. You got upset about this as did the players.
One of those players, Jerbie, took it upon himself to abuse and threaten me, and lie saying by announcing that they were signing for ROOT I had cost them a spot with Dignitas or Evil Geniuses. When I spoke to those organisations neither had any contact with that team, so I called him out on the lie. I humiliated him on a SMITE talk show, which bizarrely seemed to make me the hate figure, and then he threatened to "slash my tyres" and orchestrate violence upon me if he ever saw me.
Within a couple of weeks a video of a player on the team using the "n word" to describe an opponent surfaced and I wrote an editorial, as is my right, about how you had punished racist players in the past but because you were doubling down on SMITE (at the time) you were going to give them a pass.
Remember when you hilariously said it had been "dealt with internally" and then that night the players went on stream laughing about it and how nothing had happened? Then they followed it up with some dubious discussions about Chinese people? Probably not. This never happened, just a fever dream caused by my anger fuelled grudge against you.
Oh and of course, how can I forget... The root cause of your sudden distaste for me prior to that? I wrote an article saying it was disgusting that a gaming organisation should take to a kickstarter to fund itself. A view I still hold, and most serious organisations in the industry hold by the way.
It seems you are the one who got upset over these things. I had no strong feelings about you either way, just another average player and someone trying to play at organisation management without much of a real clue. That's ten a penny in e-sports.
I am sorry if my reporting and writing makes you feel targeted. I am reminded of an old adage - if you lie down with dogs you will get fleas.
/vendetta
