Meltdown's of the most dubious sort.
So, I watching an episode of Kitchen Nightmares.. I think you know the one. It involved a husband/wife team who were utterly delusional. These two believed, without a doubt, that they could do no wrong. In fact, they felt they saw enemies on every side and that anyone who criticized them was just a 'hater' who was trying to destroy their business.
Things got so bad, that the Gordon Ramsey gave up and walked out - the only time that had ever happened.
If things had ended there it would have been bad enough - but of course, it didn't. Outlandish accusations, bizarre threats, and rants about how they 'Were standing up against those critics, no one would stand up against!' became the rallying cry. All of this was of course followed by claims they had been hacked, deleted messages of bad behavior etc.
Who were these erstwhile critics? Why, people on the internet of course! Yelp, Reddit, their facebook page... really anybody who would even comment lightly on their behavior they would lash back.
Now to be fair, not all of the abuse they received was warranted - the usual internet nastiness came out to play, and that remains unacceptable. There was plenty to go on about WITHOUT assholery.
Now why am I talking about the now infamous story of "Amy's Baking Company"? Its old hat, old news right?
But doesn't it sound awfully familiar to a current meltdown going on involving a certain gaming company?
I don't think I need to retread any ground here about the growing infamy of the Digital Homicide vs Jim Sterling fiasco. But its hard not to see the parallels: Two groups who refused to take criticism, two groups who stalwartly denied responsibility for their own failures, two groups who shouted loudly that they represented the 'beaten downtrodden masses, brutally oppressed by mean spirited haters' (my paraphrase).
Of course, I have already addressed this incident a year ago now, but since it's escalated to legal action - and I was reminded so strong by a little TV - it sad to see that people refuse to face down their own limitations.
We all have them folks - best we can do is try to overcome them as we can.
Things got so bad, that the Gordon Ramsey gave up and walked out - the only time that had ever happened.
If things had ended there it would have been bad enough - but of course, it didn't. Outlandish accusations, bizarre threats, and rants about how they 'Were standing up against those critics, no one would stand up against!' became the rallying cry. All of this was of course followed by claims they had been hacked, deleted messages of bad behavior etc.
Who were these erstwhile critics? Why, people on the internet of course! Yelp, Reddit, their facebook page... really anybody who would even comment lightly on their behavior they would lash back.
Now to be fair, not all of the abuse they received was warranted - the usual internet nastiness came out to play, and that remains unacceptable. There was plenty to go on about WITHOUT assholery.
Now why am I talking about the now infamous story of "Amy's Baking Company"? Its old hat, old news right?
But doesn't it sound awfully familiar to a current meltdown going on involving a certain gaming company?
I don't think I need to retread any ground here about the growing infamy of the Digital Homicide vs Jim Sterling fiasco. But its hard not to see the parallels: Two groups who refused to take criticism, two groups who stalwartly denied responsibility for their own failures, two groups who shouted loudly that they represented the 'beaten downtrodden masses, brutally oppressed by mean spirited haters' (my paraphrase).
Of course, I have already addressed this incident a year ago now, but since it's escalated to legal action - and I was reminded so strong by a little TV - it sad to see that people refuse to face down their own limitations.
We all have them folks - best we can do is try to overcome them as we can.
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