Atrocity Exhibition wrote:
It wasn't about the money but he should have taken the money?
The offer of £10K came with a big fat 'shut the fuck up forever' caveat, i.e. It was a straight bribe and/or pay-off. The one thing they explicitly didn't do is in any way admit their guilt and/or suggest Stu was correct, indeed, they also specifically demanded that he never mention it ever again to anyone as part of taking the cash. (It's all there on the blog site.)
That was his bail-out point for sure, take the money and run, that he pressed on, not knowing what the result would be, tells me it was about principles and not money.
What I was saying was if it was not about the money (and apparently it was more about him being right and them being wrong) then he had his chance to be right.
When someone says to you "here, take this money to shut up" then it says everything. So, that left two reasons why he did not take the money.
1. He was after public bragging rights.
2. He wanted more money. I have read it, and am fully aware of his thoughts of the £10k being woefully short of his estimate of a couple of hundred thou.
Personally I don't see it as a bail out I saw it as a chance for victory. Sure, you don't get to go running around telling everyone how brilliant you were but it would have been a
personal victory.
Hence my
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough.TBH? either way I find it incredibly unprofessional to be spouting it all off to the world. Maybe being some kind of matyr made him feel good, maybe you have some respect for him for doing so? I don't know. Personally I think it was incredibly stupid. If I was in that situation that kind of thing would be
my business. I certainly wouldn't want to tell the world what was going on. Maybe if he learned to do that instead of always being so (
publically) vocal he would go through life a lot better off?
Sometimes you need to learn to bite your tongue. Going on a forum load of users of the Neo Geo (for example) and making a pratt out of yourself (see*) isn't such a great idea when you work in the media?
* His whole argument on the NG forum was of course correct, as pathetic and hair splitting as the whole thing was. However, any argument he had collapsed when he basically started calling people foul names and bragging about how he doesn't work just sits around on his ass all day. Hardly professional. I mean, I can almost see the publications falling over one another wanting to hire such an upstanding hard working professional eh?
I know the publication he wrote for came along and basically said
"nothing to do with us, but we think he's great" must have been a great confidence boost. However, the couple of hundred people who piped up and said
"we don't buy your publication specifically because you let him write for you" isn't something you should just brush aside and ignore. Well, unless you are as stupid as he can behave.
Seriously, take our old FME battles of words for example. Right or wrong, don't you think a
professional (as he loves to repeatedly fucking call himself) should behave as such?
Or just throw ridiculous temper tantrums on the internet (I mean the ones where he was a huge advocate for the modding/hijacking (depending if it was your work to begin with and your stance on such things) over people modding
his work weren't completely ridiculous and hypocritical?
I've made my opinion clear to you in PM AE. Sometimes life deals you lemons and you need to just suck them and get on with things. Not create a big noise over it and end up looking stupid.