I didn't know where to put this epilogue to the bickering with quash (from the Blazblue thread), so I am putting it here. Via email:
quash wrote:You have set a new low yet again with your overreacting. Why is it you have to throw a tantrum like a goddamn child every time someone does anything besides cower and give in to your demands? Didn't you once say you didn't want a forum of yes-men? Newsflash: none of your so-called staff is contributing anything worth a damn. If you think your behavior hasn't played a big role in that, you are sorely mistaken.
I'll keep this short and to the point: feel free to use anything I post on my blog, I have no problem with that. Your website, which I still fully support, desperately needs the kind of insight and analysis I'll be providing. If I get around to writing any reviews for you, I'll e-mail them. I don't care if you never open up the forum to guests again or never lift my ban, since communicating with you by any means other than this gets old fast. You couldn't even graciously admit that my article kicked ass because you had to save face for your audience, which is quite sad, honestly. I expected a beatdown because I knew that you wanted to deal one. It may be reactive thinking, but it's also the result of witnessing your behavior follow the same pattern for years. You can't blame anyone for being conditioned to it because you are practically a self parody at this point.
Take this for what you will, since I guess my opinion only matters when you want it to. I will still be doing my thing, which I'm convinced nobody else can do at this point, if not for the lack of intellect, the lack of balls. I'm sure you will continue to do your thing, which I still think is much needed. I just won't have the pleasure of posting on your forum anymore, which is fine by me.
Take care.
I wrote:Without the staff the site would look like shit and be missing tons of good content like the Recap translations and dozens of awesome reviews. We have a hidden Staff forum where they post their contributions before they go on the frontpage, you retard. Literally 30% of the content on the site is by regular staff members. Just because you don't SEE what they contribute and are too dumb to infer it doesn't mean the contributions are not there. And I didn't overreact to anything. You are again too blinded by your stupidity to see that it was coming -- I even SAID that it was coming several days ago in the Welcome forum: I clearly said that we are going back to the subscription model long before you shat up my Blazblue thread. You just helped me realize that the sooner I did it the better, so I did it sooner. And for that, if for nothing else, I thank you.
And your article is shit compared to mine. I was being kind in the thread because you were nice enough to make it. Borderline pointless meandering for pages and pages without even touching on the issue. You did not even answer the question that you posed in the title! So many years of thinking since Seth published his article, and you STILL have not managed to find the answer!
The only reason I will post the article is because I will be trashing it in my Power Stone review, and I would like to have it handy. I've done this before (with Sullla's metagame article, for example, which was entirely wrong from the first sentence to the last, but which still got posted on my frontpage), and I am sure I will be doing it again.
As for my site "desperately needing" your insight lol. Have you even READ any of my theory essays? Once again zero understanding and appreciation for whom you are talking to. You are leagues below hundreds of other forum members, which is why you've been repeatedly banned, and will stay banned forever from now on. Good riddance.
I will write an email with an explanation for the move back to the subscription model and send it to every Insomnia reader whose email I have (i.e. the 1000 or so people who have signed up to the forum over the years), so wait for that if you are interested in my full reasoning for this move. I am already feeling much better for having made it.