We all know that the mere mention of your name will summon you to a distant thread,
No. What we do know is that :
1) It's false, and there is no evidence to support it
2) It's an age old
age old urban legend from back in the day when there were only few places worth posting. So of course you would find me at those places. In fact, I wrote a
Twitter thread two days ago waxing nostalgia.
3) Just because someone said it, doesn't make it true. But that's the Internet for you
and so getting into a fight with you just reveals the depth of ignorance of your adversaries, but you still chose speech over silence.
I don't regard arguments as fights. People who do, are those who don't know what meaningful discourse is.
Choosing "speech over silence" is not always a choice. That's how people get bullied. Nobody gets to bully me.
But I remember 2015 well, and I remember Roberts accusing anyone who pointed at problems of being a Derek Smart alt. That's what made it compelling. You could not be alone, yet here CR was painting you as a jealous loner.
That nonsense was all on his toxic Shitizen base and employees. And because he gets fed bs from the likes of Sandi, Ben and Lando, he just ran with it. That's how he ended up issuing a press release about something that I didn't actually do - and which started this war they simply couldn't win, mentioned me several dozen times in a 2015 diatribe over TheEscapist article which I had nothing to do with, ended up referring to me in a GamesCon interview, a Polygon interview etc.
You are right though that there were a lot more people who believed CR and very few who openly sided with you. And many who claim to have been there back then.
The thing is that once they made it a "Derek Smart vs Chris Roberts" thing, the die was cast, and sealed the fate of the project and the conflict that ensued.
