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| Hell hath know fury like a man spurned |
It's now been a week or so since Andy-Action Markham was "unfriended" on Facebook, and three days since he discovered the humiliating slight. He's used that time to publicly accuse his former "friend" of a number of things in pursuit of his "you'll never work again in this town" threat.
But the plagiarism thing is a new development.
Now, we should note that Andy appears to be talking about my RPG "neo-clone"Seven Voyages of Zylarthen. I say this based on the context where he refers to "a (not-so-well-known) RPG game plagiarist." Here's the Facebook post:
In the year the game has been out, no one has accused me of plagiarism. No one. Ever. But here's Andy a week after he was "unfriended" making the claim. the other strange thing is that Andy was one of the most enthusiastic "+1'ers of my gaming blog and Zylarthen related posts on it. He didn't think it was plagiarized then. But after he was "unfriended," suddenly he does.
Oh sorry. I should add that the plagiarism accusation comes against Andy writing two more Instant Messages to me today and...not getting any response.
Weird.
So this is post-"unfriending". Indeed, Andy's "Spalding hates Muslims" thing is also mostly "post". Arguably, Spalding's most offensive and "anti-Muslim" post--Quien es Mas Macho? Muhammad o Cthulhu? (yes I actually wrote a post with that title)--was greeted enthusiastically by Andy who called it "funny" and said "it certainly doesn't offend me".
But Andy, why didn't you say I was "spewing hate" then? Why did you laugh along with it then?
Okay, serious note: Andy recently threatened to blacklist me in the RPG community.
He also "outed" me as an anti-gay marriage person because I related my position to him, at his prompting, in a private conversation. I won't apologize for that position. And anyone who knew that I was a faithful Catholic could hardly have thought otherwise. But I intentionally have never (I think--I could be wrong) publicly announced or made any kind of issue of that position on my Google or my gaming or political blogs for a number of reasons, including the fact that I didn't want to get "in-your-face" with people who might disagree, including my gay friends. Again, that's not so say I'm ashamed of it or want to hide it or anything else. But I don't want to evangelize for it or argue about in these forums. It's just not a battle I want to fight here and now. In truth, I think have much more in common with my gay friends and pro-gay-marriage straight friends (though perhaps not on that issue) than I do with a (straight) pissy little pain like Andy.
However, Andy has implied that I'm publicly shoving anti-gay hate down people's throats.
That's a lie.
Given that, I owe Andy nothing, including any kind of privacy hold on his messages to me. I'm going to make fun of him as long as I choose.
Tomorrow, if I have the time, we'll see Andy crying onto my shoulder at 7:30 in the morning (pre-"defriending", of course, but after he knew all the other "bad stuff" about me). I think I have those screenshots somewhere...