From F13, some more unfounded accusations from people who are completely clueless about what they talk:
1- I was banned because Shild was ready to jump at the slight occasion I gave, since he doesn’t like me and that’s his message board (no problem with this).
2- What triggered the ban was a bait that MJ threw himself, and I fell on it instead of replying to him in a PM like I should have done. It was him to call me out twice, on the Vault and F13, but the thread on the Vault was locked before I could reply.
3- I have no pathological, nor compulsive hatred for MJ. In fact I don’t have anything against MJ as a person. I don’t know him, don’t pretend to have any idea about how he is in person. I criticize MJ the game designer, solely on the public figure and what he does in practice.
4- MJ didn’t respond to any secret personas. He *thought* I had made accounts to troll him, but I have no responsibilities if someone else makes accounts on a forum and posts things from this blog without asking my permissions, in the same way I can’t be responsible for spam that may appear on the blog. MJ never apologized for accusing me of this.
There’s a very wide gap between truth and its perception. No one cares about these details but I’m always forced to explain. So if you want to accuse me then you also have to consider the details. If you don’t fucking care, then drop the thing instead of exhuming it again and again.
It is true that MJ is a “target” for me. It is true that I wrote many posts where I call him out directly. This is not representing any particular fixation with his persona. In the same way I never had any fixation with Lum, Dave Rickey, Raph Koster, Jeff Freeman or Tom Chilton. The frequency these people appeared in my posts is proportional to my interest. It’s not incidental the fact that for nearly five years I wrote about game design, in particular about PvP, and these guys have been most involved with those aspects. Especially lately Tom Chilton and Mark Jacobs. Both lead designers of the two mmorpgs I played in the last years.
This is alike saying to someone who has a blog about politics that he is obsessed with either Obama or Bush. So lets forget this stupidity, please. And when you explain why I was banned have the courage to say simply I wasn’t liked.