Even putting aside Stu's article for a second, his behavior in this thread has been immature, unprofessional, and shameful. I wouldn't judge RG by Stu's behavior to date. However, I would lose all respect for RG and its staff, were to continue to use Stu after this fiasco.
I wouldn't necessarily construe RG or Darren's silence as condoning Stu's actions, but I would construe them as condoning his actions should they ever use him again. If they don't use him again, I would continue to be a fan of RG. If they ever use him again, I would wish that RG goes the way of the dodo.
Good points. I do agree with you: should Stuart ever get work in RG Magazine again, I would shake my head in disbelief and never buy their magazine again. I'd lose total respect for the mag for supporting such a douche as Stu, especially after this fiasco. Believe it or not, I'm not saying this because I'm vindictive or anything. It's simple: if I were the big cheese at Retro Gamer, I would not want such a disgrace working for my product, plain and simple.
I should write definitive guides that mention MS1 has 5 levels, and get paid for it.
Sounds like a fantastic deal.
haha ... 'definitive'
Scary thing is, it reminds me, I wrote a Metal Slug review for Neo-Geo.com about six or seven years ago. For the Saturn port. Go to the reviews on the main Neo-Geo.com page and you'll find it. In my review it states
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To sum it up, I was very impressed with this game. It is a joy to play. There are six levels total. Hook up with a buddy and two player action is absolute gaming paradise.
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LOL. Although I have been writing about games online for nearly a decade now, I don't consider myself by ANY means a "professional game writer" and
even I got this SIMPLE fact right. Shame on you, Stu.
on you
For the sake of the historical record, every single post I've made in this forum has been under the name RevStu. Plenty of people were eloquently and intelligently defending the feature against the onslaught of idiocy, I can't imagine why I would have wanted or needed to create one - it's not like I was pulling any punches under my own name. That you've faked a screenshot (or, stretching fairness and the bounds of probability to their limits, that there's been a technical hiccup misassigning an IP address, as someone has already suggested) proves nothing except that you're as malicious as you are stupid. (And wow, talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, by embarrassing yourselves with an MS Paint hack job
So thanks, kids
There's really
only ONE person who embarrassed himself in this thread, and that sucker is you. Your first post filled with unnecessary swears and insults was merely the inevitable spiral of doom you caught yourself in.
Face it. You expected to wade in here, curse like a drunken sailor, waving your opinions around as if they were fact, recruited some cronies to back you up, created a fake account as extra backup and you expected to "get your way" with your attitude and bully-like antics. What you didn't know, however, was that the denizens here know how to dish it back, and do it far more effectively than you ever could.
You got caught in the act with your hand in the cookie jar, ran back home licking your wounds and now trying to save face with your cronies on your lame ole message board claiming further BS such as photoshop, lol. You thought you could fuck with NG.com (clearly by your first words of "Hello idiots!") and get away with it, get the last word and all that shit. Instead, you got
KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT and exposed (again) for the sorry loser that you are.
Ouch
"Cheerio" THAT, mate!
