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It was Zak. It’s always Zak
God damn it.
Yeah. I saw this and… Fuck. Do people ever flag his shit as abusive? I really wonder how much evidence it takes to get someone banned.
Jesus that guy is tiresome.
JFC. So sick of that guy.
The worst part is that it means the toxic shitbags have won another round. The environment here has gotten a hair worse, and they’re now empowered to try again with someone else.
I’m actually way more sick of the community that provides him cover. The excuses. The defenses. All of it.
There’s this weird thing people do where they conflate the talents of a person with the quality of that person. I see it all the time in other interest areas; it’s not a gamer thing. Being good at something doesn’t make you good.
I wish I could say that that’s a childish mistake but there’s so much hero worship everywhere that I have to think it’s just … bad training? Tribalism? Dunno.
This one blew up so much, I’m hopeful there’ll be consequences for Zak for his behavior at last.
There’s a part of me that wants to post a rant, as I, too, am so SO FUCKING SICK of all the OSR shitbags who are either in total denial or just don’t care about this troll’s behavior. But I know that will just rain down hell upon me and not really solve anything.
There won’t be.
We all know that, right? I mean it’s been years. Now it’s normalized. Now it’s just a shrug and “ehh don’t be so thin-skinned” or SHOW ME THE PROOF or whatever.
Well, fingers crossed. I do hope so.
I just read someone saying, “A lot of claims made against Zak now seem much more plausible.”
It’s good to see someone wake up, but also infuriating.
The willful disbelief is not entirely different from “I pretended to be a woman online for a week and whoa I guess millions of women weren’t all lying about what it’s like.”
Paul Beakley​ exactly on the community thing. People lament his behavior in side channels, while buying his shit.
He’s just a typical coward who’s big and strong on the internet, he’s easy to manipulate, especially when he sees it hit his wallet.
FZRE
Dude is the OSR’s version of Trump.
Sandy J-T yeah. Also, you reminded me of something I wanted to mention, and it sucks that I even have to:
This is a public thread. Participation in this might draw attention to you you won’t like. I don’t have any advice I can offer on that other than to a) do whatever you need to be and feel safe and b) document any harassment you may experience via screencap.
I hate that this behavior has even made me have to think about this stuff. But it won’t be the first time for me — it happens a couple times a year.
welp.