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Well Zak, now that you've been drawn here, would you care to make a statement about what exactly is your relationship to Clio Weisman, and what part you played in the creation of the article that appeared and was later taken down from Medium? Want to go on record about whether you wrote any of it? And if not, do you think it met your expectations? Did you have an opportunity to read it before it was published; and if so, did you realize that the almost hero-worship nature of the 80% of the article that was all about you would not in fact do much for your cause, but would rather damage the credibility of the article as a whole, inevitably reading far more like some kind of bad propaganda piece and distracting from what could have been a much more clever take down of all the people who attacked you (and me, and Grim, and Raggi, though it would maybe be too much to expect you to ever have the thought of any of us cross your mind)? I mean, you are a pretty smart guy, so you must have realized that this would just give people like Olivia Hill the chance to use "it's just Zak ghostwriting" or "its just another woman that Zak has brainwashed into defending him" (which, btw, is exactly what Olivia Hill has been doing, over on Something Awful) so as to change the public conversation away from their awful behavior to the subject of you, you, you...

Also, what you shared just now doesn't seem to actually contradict any of what Macris said in his discord post. It's public record that you did quit the show. And the email seems to suggest that you did in fact try to strong-arm him. Hypocritically, as you ignored him pointing out that there were people who had called for you not to be hired in exactly the same way; but of course you always made it clear that you do in fact believe in Censorship and piss all over free speech, you just don't believe YOU should ever be censored. Which pretty much means you believe exactly what people like Olivia Hill or Varg Vikernes believe about free speech. Every asshole in the world believes THEY should get to say whatever they want; that's not free speech, it's just solipsism.
Did you keep the money? As far as I can see that's the only place where you could claim he's lying, if you returned that money. I seem to recall that you did in essence accuse him of promoting transphobia for hiring on Brandon Morse. You were very loud about that, and yet sadly it gained you no special brownie points from the SJW crowd (as we used to call them back then). They'll still hate you forever for doing porn.

I didn't steal anything as the emails make clear.

If you can't even acknowledge that the emails prove Macris wasn't telling the truth, then I'm not going to go play performing monkey for you here.

If you do that: Happy to oblige. But we both have to play by the same rules.

Quote from: Zak S on February 01, 2024, 05:23:38 AM
I didn't steal anything as the emails make clear.

If you can't even acknowledge that the emails prove Macris wasn't telling the truth, then I'm not going to go play performing monkey for you here.

If you do that: Happy to oblige. But we both have to play by the same rules.

Imagine posting an email screenshot intending to disprove something when instead it makes you look like even more of a melodramatic pompous ass. This email doesn't "prove" anything other than a fucking lawyer decided to tell you in the nicest way possible to go fuck yourself for breach of contract.

Quote from: Zak S on February 01, 2024, 05:23:38 AM
I didn't steal anything as the emails make clear.

If you can't even acknowledge that the emails prove Macris wasn't telling the truth, then I'm not going to go play performing monkey for you here.

If you do that: Happy to oblige. But we both have to play by the same rules.

How do you mean you didn't steal anything? Did you return the money that had already been paid for you, for production you failed to complete? You do get that "write it off as a loss" is still a LOSS, because you did not do what you were paid to do, right? I mean if you tell me that you returned what was supposed to be your salary for the show, which you have not stated clearly as of yet, then I could agree that you did not 'steal', you only cost them money with nothing to show for it. But you haven't even stated that clearly yet.

Quote from: Zak S on February 01, 2024, 03:07:48 AM
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Zak, dude, you ain't helping your case with this.  Basically, the dude gave you money for a project that you pulled out of and didn't refund.  That's what I'm seeing in the email you posted here.  That qualifies as theft in nearly every state in the US.  He very well could have legitimately sued you for the losses or filed a criminal complaint against you.  He, in turn, was super nice to you and just wrote it off rather than justifiably destroying you.  This is something you need to be humble and grateful about.

Your behavior here is completely unprofessional and shows that you lack character.

[EDIT: you know what, I'd better sit this one out. I just hope the truth about everything and everyone will come out, eventually.]

Quote from: Zak S on February 01, 2024, 05:23:38 AM
I didn't steal anything as the emails make clear.

If you can't even acknowledge that the emails prove Macris wasn't telling the truth, then I'm not going to go play performing monkey for you here.

If you do that: Happy to oblige. But we both have to play by the same rules.

This is a shame, because I truly wanted to objectively listen you Zak's side of the story with honest answers to these questions.  but I shouldn't have expect anything but this kind of response from anyone of the woke mentality.

Quote from: Zak S on February 01, 2024, 05:23:38 AM
I didn't steal anything as the emails make clear.

If you can't even acknowledge that the emails prove Macris wasn't telling the truth, then I'm not going to go play performing monkey for you here.

If you do that: Happy to oblige. But we both have to play by the same rules.

Just say you don't want to answer the question lol

Quote from: Cathode Ray on February 01, 2024, 08:58:21 AM
This is a shame, because I truly wanted to objectively listen you Zak's side of the story with honest answers to these questions.  but I shouldn't have expect anything but this kind of response from anyone of the woke mentality.

If someone mowed his yard while wearing a Trump hat, he'd call the cops for hate speech. If the dude said Zak stiffed him for the yard work, Zak would produce video evidence of the guy wearing a Trump hat, as if that somehow exonerates his theft.

Zak is a special kind of inconsequential clown who was given a huge platform in the smallest possible circus tent and he thinks he his opinions are remotely valuable outside of a few thousand retards on RPG messageboards. SAD!

An account called b9anders attempt to raise the issue on RPGnot.
Looks like he has been been PermBanned for "posting on behalf of a banned user."

I'm calling Univision as this is now prime for a thursday night soap opera drama and putting in a call on short sale on Jiffy Pop stock options.

Quote from: Thorn Drumheller on January 31, 2024, 05:51:08 PM
if anything, this whole twatgate rpgdrama had reminded me of Ocule's list. I really will only support creators who I know are decent.

Isn't that the truth?

I work in the corporate world - it's filled with mid-wits, nincompoops, bureaucratic twats, and a few geniuses. But the level of drama in the TTRPG world is so... *weeeirdly* childishly pathetic and malicious. When it *could* be so much better. But fuck me if watching this unfold as representative of the hobby... Jesus. It's pretty laughable.

There are good people in this hobby making good products. Support them. I'd say "ignore the weirdos" - but it's clear they won't ignore you if you get into the industry on a meaningful level. But fuck me if I'll work with anyone associated with this bullshit.

No amount of freelancing is worth "credit" earned on the backs of being a potential target for fucktard malignant bottom-feeding narcissists in this industry. (and in full disclosure I've worked with a few of them mentioned in the distant past not that it matters now - it was a more innocent time before the madness set in). But now? BWAHAHAH I'll reinvent the wheel on my own dime, thanks.

Quote from: Brad on February 01, 2024, 09:39:33 AM

Quote from: Cathode Ray on February 01, 2024, 08:58:21 AM
This is a shame, because I truly wanted to objectively listen you Zak's side of the story with honest answers to these questions.  but I shouldn't have expect anything but this kind of response from anyone of the woke mentality.

If someone mowed his yard while wearing a Trump hat, he'd call the cops for hate speech. If the dude said Zak stiffed him for the yard work, Zak would produce video evidence of the guy wearing a Trump hat, as if that somehow exonerates his theft.

Zak is a special kind of inconsequential clown who was given a huge platform in the smallest possible circus tent and he thinks he his opinions are remotely valuable outside of a few thousand retards on RPG messageboards. SAD!

Even tiny shitpiles have their kings.

It's also been alleged that Zak released screenshots of a private convo from the Autarch Discord in an attempt to get Macris and his partner Mike - who as far as I can see, has done nothing to Zak - in hot water with Disney/Marvel over Zak & Macris' personal beef. The beef in question allegedly being that Zak felt he was owed Macris' support during Mandygate, despite Zak having screwed Macris over. The screenshots "coincidentally" dropped as the ACKS II Kickstarter was launching.

Zak, did you have any involvement with the attempts to sabotage the ACKS II Kickstarter?

Over on one of the OSR groups on Facebook, someone said that Alex Hopson, who is working with Zak on a project called Nebulith (which is intended to "decancel" Zak, as Hopson himself put it), asked for his email address last November in order to promote a project. Then, the day the article dropped, Hopson emailed him (and, presumably, everyone else whose email addresses he had collected) with an update about Nebulith (which none of these people had backed or anything), along with the link to Weisman's article.

Zak, what was your and/or Alex's advance notice of/involvement in the writing of Weisman's article?

Edit: well, well, the Macris screenshots from the time of the ACKS II KS have now disappeared from imgur. Almost as if someone is trying to cover their tracks. I just saw them yesterday.

Hi, Zak!