Tweaker

Well first off, "we" is not applicable here. You didn't do anything--Smidge and the SAGE team did. That said, the situation has been clarified and we can make actual plans from here that don't involve people from the outside chiming in without context like you seem to enjoy doing. Secondly, the blame was placed directly on us. That's not up for debate. That was made perfectly clear on more than one occasion--because we weren't able to do what we were supposed to do, we were holding them back and hindering progress. It doesn't get more cut and dry than that. Finally, just because you keep reiterating that I look bad doesn't mean I do. Thanks, you think I look terrible. I really don't give a shit. I felt our staff were mistreated and I made sure that people knew it. That notion to me is worth way more than what people on a forum think of me. Save your breath.

I remember that conversation. If I recall correctly, they got in contact and discussed things further from that point. It was over a month ago so I don't remember specifics but I'm fairly confident plans have been made since then. I mentioned before that there were animation tests, storyboards and designs for ----- being thrown about so we've definitely been making progress. In the Skype chat earlier we also seem to have decided on a late September timeframe at some point, so it's not like people are just sitting around doing nothing. What gets me is that you're quoting a month old chatlog for the decision you made. I don't know if I'd establish a temporary lapse in communication due to preoccupied parties as "falling apart," but if nothing else if this was a decision being made you could have made even the smallest effort to talk to us about it, cause we've definitely been available and open to questions, concerns and all of that jazz. It's not cool. Re:the ----- planning forum, I'm pretty sure SS got rid of it because it wasn't being made use of in favor of people just directly contacting one another with plans. If I recall, further ----- planning has just been made in the Retro staff forum. Mind you, I'm not the ultimate authority on this situation as I'm not actively involved in neither SAGE or ----- planning, but these are things I've observed being done in these particular situations. Nobody's sitting still here.

So you don't know or care what happened and you want to make moral judgements about it. Riiiiight. You're pretty cool there, bro. You're missing the point--that blame is being placed on us for this collaboration supposedly falling out. We're not to blame. That's the main point I'm addressing here, other than that I think it's absolutely ridiculous that this is, again, the first time we're hearing about this alliance being broken with the excuse of being "unable to establish contact" being thrown in our face. It's absolute bullshit; if you can't see or understand that and yet still want to judge our emotional investment in this situation, you're painting yourself as unreasonable and not worth listening to. I would love to find out what made Smidge think this course of action was necessary, let alone in the manner he did. Unfortunately, it seems everyone is chiming in on the situation but the person we initially wanted to address, so that's been complicated just a tad.

Well, if you want to live in denial... And we're not contributing a good deal of ourselves to organize our own portions of this event? So we don't have people designing websites and making graphics and animation and planning events and shit? Really? That's good to know. I wasn't aware all of our staff members were lying through their teeth when they sent me storyboards and animation tests specifically designated for our half of the event. We don't deserve to be attacked or slandered or put in a bad light for doing exactly what we were asked to, let alone have insinuations thrown our way that it's our fault that SAGE was delayed or something. It's not. We only did what we were asked to, were always in contact and constantly cooperative. I will not have you run your fucking mouth about how we're at fault for all of this crap based on absolutely nothing. The fact that we were held in such low regard to never be told that this alliance was broken is insulting enough, but you constantly trying to defend indefensible actions is just pissing me off. Shut your fucking mouth. You know nothing about the nitty and gritty in this situation and have absolutely no room to speak about it.

Except we've been staying in contact the whole fucking time and were not made aware of any issues. You can't say that it's our fault that they didn't tell us they had an issue and decided to break off our collaboration. That makes literally no sense. It also defeats the notion that they tried to get in contact with us but failed since we have a multitude of methods to be contacted with. Point is, it is literally impossible to know there is an issue if the person with the issue does not bring it up. That is not our fault. You cannot paint it as our fault. It's not. It's yours. Don't try and spin this shit around on us. We're not fucking psychics. In fact, I talked to Shadix earlier on the phone and even he doesn't know what's going on; rather funny, considering he's supposed to be part of the organization team. I also recall you saying you had no idea this was happening either; weren't you part of the SAGE team as well? What you're saying makes no fucking sense. It can't even be remotely construed as any fault of our own. The disrespect we're being shown in this situation is bad enough. Don't make it worse by trying to insinuate that it's our fault that we weren't fucking told anything. We're easy to contact and more than willing to discuss the situation and make compromises. I'm sure we'd also be willing to understand a necessary break in collaboration if this wasn't the first time we'd been told we're no longer working together. But it is. And that's fucking retarded.

There's no miscommunication. All of our contact information is publicly available on a multitude of mediums, Skype included (where, to my best knowledge, all of this information was actually being coordinated). Worst case scenario, a good number of us are available on both IRC and on Sonic Retro's forums, which we all check regularly. That is not an excuse. He is either lying or he outright did not try. I'm sorry, but if there was any lack of communication it was on your end. We've always been available; in fact, we've been rather concerned at the distinct lack of communication going on between the two teams. For us to learn that there was even a problem now instead of later is seriously disconcerting. This is not conduct cohesive to positive collaboration. I don't like the idea that we're just being shoved off to the side after months of planning and discussion. We're not as disposable as you want to make us seem. Regardless of the status of our collaboration, the fact that this is the way we're finding about any problems is, frankly, absolute horseshit. I'm not even involved in the coordination of either of these events and I'm fucking steaming. This is not acceptable.

Uh... I wasn't aware our collaboration fell through. Thanks for making an announcement before even coming to us and telling us about it, because we had no idea you were backing out whatsoever.

Oh damn, I didn't even think people remembered me around here. Thanks a lot, guys!

I wrote an article detailing my opinions on this game. I would have written more, but I felt Mercury's blog post said everything I wanted to say and more. Brilliant work! By far my favorite game from SAGE this year.

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So you're a babyfur, right? Can I see your suit? I love soft crinkly diapers! X3

Heads up, bro--if you're going to be a braindeaded retard with a total lack of any creative prowess, do us all a favor and don't use a Detective Conan avatar. You're deceiving people with the idea that you might have good taste (you don't).

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