For every tweet linked in this post, there's more information in the user's thread and the responses
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EDIT 4: Another report from a different person, someone who was his fan and 18 at the time.
Her account is locked now but she has given me permission to post this.
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EDIT 3: Chris Grant and Griffin McElroy from Polygon, minutes ago
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EDIT 2: Ben also weighed in on the matter:
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EDIT 1: The Curious Cat answer found below mentions "so many gaming writers passive-aggressively subtweeting his comment about jacking it to Krystal". Such comment comes from this tweet months ago:
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To give context to this, this week Digital Foundry did a video on Overcooked's Switch port, showing its poor frame rate; I assume there's a thread here about it already.
The day before yesterday, Nick Robinson, former Giant Bomb intern and currently Video Producer at Polygon, tweeted an uncool joke about the situation, making fun of the devs for trying to make this right:
Then yesterday, this tweet came out of nowhere and started a long discussion:
From that, tweets from multiple people in games or that know people in games continued:
Outside Polygon, Nick does (or did, given the tweets below?) a podcast called "Podburglars" with other two former Giant Bomb interns Matt Kessler and Ben Pack.
This came from Matt between yesterday during that time and a few minutes ago:
I saw a few people either deleting their tweets or locking their account to protect themselves. There are no screencaps, no hard proof, but it's a lot of folks coming from different places to take all that as a lie. I hope you understand why people don't want to put themselves out there:
This might fall on deaf ears, but please do not bother these people because at best you won't get any answers and at worst you'll make their day harder.
Still, I chose to make this thread because it should be known that this asshole is probably doing this for a while and scaring these people into silence.
He also has not tweeted since this discourse started.
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EDIT 4: Another report from a different person, someone who was his fan and 18 at the time.
Her account is locked now but she has given me permission to post this.
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EDIT 3: Chris Grant and Griffin McElroy from Polygon, minutes ago
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EDIT 2: Ben also weighed in on the matter:
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EDIT 1: The Curious Cat answer found below mentions "so many gaming writers passive-aggressively subtweeting his comment about jacking it to Krystal". Such comment comes from this tweet months ago:
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To give context to this, this week Digital Foundry did a video on Overcooked's Switch port, showing its poor frame rate; I assume there's a thread here about it already.
The day before yesterday, Nick Robinson, former Giant Bomb intern and currently Video Producer at Polygon, tweeted an uncool joke about the situation, making fun of the devs for trying to make this right:
Then yesterday, this tweet came out of nowhere and started a long discussion:
From that, tweets from multiple people in games or that know people in games continued:
Outside Polygon, Nick does (or did, given the tweets below?) a podcast called "Podburglars" with other two former Giant Bomb interns Matt Kessler and Ben Pack.
This came from Matt between yesterday during that time and a few minutes ago:
I saw a few people either deleting their tweets or locking their account to protect themselves. There are no screencaps, no hard proof, but it's a lot of folks coming from different places to take all that as a lie. I hope you understand why people don't want to put themselves out there:
This might fall on deaf ears, but please do not bother these people because at best you won't get any answers and at worst you'll make their day harder.
Still, I chose to make this thread because it should be known that this asshole is probably doing this for a while and scaring these people into silence.
He also has not tweeted since this discourse started.