That would have been so awsome if Paul Christophoro would have send that.
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[Brazelton] Maker of game controllers declares war on Penny Arcade
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They're in the exact same business - fraud.
Sometimes I don't think that guy is real person. He's like Owen to Gabe and Tycho's Xanatos. Where would Xanatos be without Owen? He'd be a fucking statue. Khoo is a mythical being that was created by a wish to do what they needed most. That is a more believable explanation than the one where he's some business genius guy who dug their comic and told them he'd work for free to prove that he could be valuable to them making them all millionaires in the process.
elSpike 23 points 4 hours ago
Can you run us through a typical day for you?
Depending on if I swim in the morning, I am in the office at either 8:30 or 9:00 AM. I've already answered between 20-30 emails before I've left for the office, but by the time I get to the office I probably have another dozen or so that need attending to. (for reference, I get between 150-250 actionable emails a day)
From there it's very liquid. I'll be on conference calls, meetings with different teams at Penny Arcade (Mike/Jerry, Designers, Merch, Ad guys, Tech, Child's Play, PAX, etc.), and then dealing with my own projects. Like I said in an earlier answer, I deal with a lot of the "new" and undefined business, so each and every day is different.
I'll try to grab dinner with different folks here (at any time of the year, SOME PART of Penny Arcade is in crunch mode... PAX events, site launches, CP events, merch launches, etc... people work late), and continue to work into the night.
If there's a game I'm playing actively with the office, I'll hop onto one of the TVs here to play between 9-10PM... that seems to be the magic hour for most folks here when we're playing on Live.
I'm usually out of here between midnight and 2 am.
Can you run us through a typical day for you?
[–]robertkhoo[S] 43 points 3 hours agoDepending on if I swim in the morning, I am in the office at either 8:30 or 9:00 AM. I've already answered between 20-30 emails before I've left for the office, but by the time I get to the office I probably have another dozen or so that need attending to. (for reference, I get between 150-250 actionable emails a day)
From there it's very liquid. I'll be on conference calls, meetings with different teams at Penny Arcade (Mike/Jerry, Designers, Merch, Ad guys, Tech, Child's Play, PAX, etc.), and then dealing with my own projects. Like I said in an earlier answer, I deal with a lot of the "new" and undefined business, so each and every day is different.
I'll try to grab dinner with different folks here (at any time of the year, SOME PART of Penny Arcade is in crunch mode... PAX events, site launches, CP events, merch launches, etc... people work late), and continue to work into the night.
If there's a game I'm playing actively with the office, I'll hop onto one of the TVs here to play between 9-10PM... that seems to be the magic hour for most folks here when we're playing on Live.
I'm usually out of here between midnight and 2 am.
The messed up thing is that despite that, he appears to be in good health, and doesn't really seem overly tired.
Because he's a wizard.
Because he's a wizard.
He could be a short sleeper.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/12/short.sleepers.daylight/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/12/short.sleepers.daylight/index.html
I did it for nearly a decade.... it had some bad side effects to be sure though.
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I think it's based on whether you love what you do or not. If you get up and you get to go work with Penny Arcade, more or less on your own schedule, handling such interesting projects... Hell yeah it'd be awesome to get up for that. They're obviously all enjoying themselves since they play games and such at night.
He seems to have a perfect job.
He seems to have a perfect job.
If this asshat would show even one bit of remorse for what has happened I would be inclined to feel that there has been a collective overreaction here. But the only thing he is sorry for is that he got caught. He still feels he is in the right here, even going so far as to believe he's done N-control a favor. While I don't doubt the end result here will be a net gain for N-control, they will have had to do a LOT of work to negate the Christoforo effect. The fact that this guy is going down clawing & grasping all the while STILL making a last ditch cash grab.
To the best of my knowledge, he STILL has not apologized to "Dave" or any of the other "little people" - you know, the customers. He has made some apologies to the big people that he so desperately wants to be friends with (the PA folks, Kotaku EIC, etc), but those don't really count.
While I agree that any harassment of this guy's family crosses the line, I think one thing that should be the end result here is that this douche-nozzle should never make another cent in his chosen profession again. But I think we all know that won't happen. He'll lay low for a bit, change the name of his business, print up some new cards, maybe change his name a bit, & re-emerge. All this makes his current line of action more strange. Just go away, tail tucked between his legs & start the healing process.
In other news - why do we condemn this when the internet ruins a guy's life (Bad businessman, steroid abuser, wife beater & general all-around ass), but we have no problem when they do the same to a 14-year old girl?
To the best of my knowledge, he STILL has not apologized to "Dave" or any of the other "little people" - you know, the customers. He has made some apologies to the big people that he so desperately wants to be friends with (the PA folks, Kotaku EIC, etc), but those don't really count.
While I agree that any harassment of this guy's family crosses the line, I think one thing that should be the end result here is that this douche-nozzle should never make another cent in his chosen profession again. But I think we all know that won't happen. He'll lay low for a bit, change the name of his business, print up some new cards, maybe change his name a bit, & re-emerge. All this makes his current line of action more strange. Just go away, tail tucked between his legs & start the healing process.
In other news - why do we condemn this when the internet ruins a guy's life (Bad businessman, steroid abuser, wife beater & general all-around ass), but we have no problem when they do the same to a 14-year old girl?
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makare
the guy does have a great super villain name.
oooo or a really flamboyantly gay artist
oooo or a really flamboyantly gay artist
Or both? A flamboyantly gay artist supervillain?
M
makare
id watch that
I was going to respond after reading through this cluster-fuck of a story, but you sum up my feelings perfectly.
Can we say lingering bully issues. God, get over it people!
Mike and Paul are douchebags, that's all I'm seeing. Paul is horrible at his job, and was rightfully fired. Mike... where the hell does he come into all of this? White knight internet douche.
The real loser is Dave, who gets nothing out of the deal - unless you consider he's also got bully issues and is relishing in his 15 minutes of internet fame.
Then of course Christoforo decides to top it off with a potential felony. There are precedents of people pulling that sort of cyber-extortion, and they end with (albiet small) amounts of jail time for "computer intrusion", apparently. In addition, since he's still handling their customer service email, he's committing a form of fraud by representing himself as an employee of the company that fired him.
What.
I think the reason the story took off the way it did, is because the customer asked a reasonable question of customer service, was given contradictory and false answers, then basically told, "You're not important to us, so suck it." By the person whose job was to both take care of customers, and to help spread awareness of the product. Since it's a gaming product, that would imply having a necessary knowledge of the gamer market, which Penny Arcade most certainly figures into, not the least of which by having two major conventions. Mike's initial response is also not that bad - as one of the heads of PAX, he has every right to say, "Wow, that's some asshole customer service, we don't want them at our show." By responding to Christoforo, he was basically letting him know why. And that's where it took off to eleven. Christoforo basically proceeded to spit in the face of his own market, refer to his own customer as "some loser crybaby kid" and act like he's some kind of internet badass to someone that he honestly should not have fucked with. Now, calling in the internet goon squad is kind of shithead move, too, but at the same time, would doing anything less have gotten the guy fired, which he deserved?
I think the bad reviews on Amazon, and the personal threats to the guy's family are way beyond acceptable. That's your basic internet shithead pack frenzy in action.
I think the bad reviews on Amazon, and the personal threats to the guy's family are way beyond acceptable. That's your basic internet shithead pack frenzy in action.
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