chrisr said:
Also, on the subject of being a crook and a liar, I have yet to see anyone step up and say what I owe them, or how I screwed them.
To be honest, I don't know of a fun story that is specific to Chris off the top of my head as I was smart enough not to ever attempt a purchase from either of you. However, there are a couple stories that spring to mind in reference to Dion and you
AND Dion are what make up NGF and with that, you are at the least guilty by association.
Let's go back to when Dion told everyone on the DHP that Metal Slug X came with an orange genre insert, direct from SNK, way back when.
LIE. There's more to that story too, but I don't feel like retyping the whole thing.
Or how about when Dion took a decent sized order from Tonk (some $300-500 or so I believe, but amount is irrelevant) and instead of sending Tonk what he ordered, because Dion
lied and said he had stuff in stock to get his hands on Tonk's
money when he did not indeed have said stock, sent Tonk a totally random assortment of games that had nothing to do with his purchase. Of course, there is a lot more to that story too, but again, I don't feel the need to type the whole thing. In any case, it's
shady, dishonest, bullshit.
I don't care if these examples are of you or not. The fact is, NGF is both of you and his transactions are your transactions. These two examples popped into my head after thinking, literally, about 10 seconds. And I say again, there are more.
To be honest, I don't really care what the final outcome of any of this court business is. The bottom line is, the both of you could have been really good to this hobby but instead you invested so much of your ego into making some stupid fucking games into a ridiculous symbol of affluence and psuedo
cool that your efforts simply became a parody of themselves. You two are like the guy that shows up at the club with a gold medallion thinking that all the attention he is getting is because he is so hip and good looking, when in reality it's because he is the butt of a multitude of jokes. BTW, this dress code evidently fits Dion to a "T," from what I have seen of him in his own photos, but who cares. That's petty anyway.
Whether you had rights to everything or nothing, then, now or any other time is completely beside the point.
Your organization was shady.
You treated you customers with contempt.
Your organization lied to its customers, about its stock, the state of things, etc.
You defaced and destroyed original pieces of SNK's legacy with your so called "corrections."
You hurt this hobby and made it less than it otherwise would have been.
Perhaps the last sin is the greatest. The fact that this thread even exists in some small way diminishes the greatness that the Neo represents to we die hard fans. Perhaps over the years, time will erode the oily smear of NGF's touch on this great platform.
I don't care who releases what information when. None of what I have typed changes, regardless because it has
nothing to do with IP rights and everything to do with behavior and ethics.
So, with that in mind, I give you the
Shinji Salute and welcome you to be on your way.