Update 1: Josh continues to deny allegations that he stole things from others ites. He said he never even looked at the tips on the TF2 Wiki, which are nigh identical in wording. Not to mention a picture he used was smack dab in the middle of these tips he never saw. He says he just had a good idea and someone else had an identical idea. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out how this is completely impossible and idiotic (see links below)

This is something I haven’t done in awhile. I’d like to get a bit more personal with you, the reader(s).

You may have noticed that a decent chunk of content has pretty much permanently vanished from the site. Now, this is no magic or a move on my part.

I made two mistakes this past Sunday.

1) I didn’t back up the site to a file like I should every day.

2) I didn’t let a spoiled person get what they wanted.

You may say, “whats with number 2 mr. alek?”, and here is what I say.

Josh was a decent writer. He could fill in a good chunk of post content. So I said, “Eh, why not just let him be an admin. He won’t stop saying “let me be an admin” anyway. Harmless enough, right? Wrong.

In a matter of days he wanted everything changed. And when he faced an disagreeing opinion? Bitching and whining. He didn’t get what he wanted? Well, he would try to get it somehow. It went to his head, all this power he had recieved. He wanted everything he couldn’t have.

To his credit, I will say he sometimes had valid ideas, but the fact that he always made a fuss that there was another side to his viewpoint always drove him nuts, which is just absolutely insane. He wants to change the name and forces it to be our only decision. Guess what, just no. There are some things you just don’t do in a second. Sadly, we don’t live in a world where you get everything you want. Some things just don’t happen, end of story.

You may have recently heard that we co-opted a deal with advertising agency M80. We now occasionally receive free games from the publisher THQ. All they want in return is some form of opinion at some time.

Of course, yet again I get another pointless headache. I want to get a copy of Drawn to Life to review, so I take it in, but come review time, I get writers block. Hm, I’ll try a few more times. Then comes Josh. (paraphrased below…)

Me: “Eh, can’t write anything for this, I’ll hand it off to someone else.”

Josh: “Keep trying. “

Me: “Sorry, I think I will give it to someone else”

Josh, later: “I’m very angry that you didn’t fulfill your responsibility and that you probably will never let us get any games again. Because of this, I can never trust you to review a game we get ever again, so I’m going to probably change the shipping address of our games so that I can get them. I’ll just review them. I should be allowed to handle this, not you.”

That had to be the biggest fucking joke I’ve ever heard, for several reasons.

1) What are you, my mother? Responsibility? One of M80’s employees personally stated:

“No worries about timeliness - we realize that some things take time, especially if you want to craft a well-formed opinion about something. So in the end, there wasn’t any trouble at all”

See, there’s the big picture. Josh assumed something was true without fact checking and made an ass of himself. It lead to him not getting what he wanted, so he was pissed.

2) You think you should get to keep all the games to yourself? Not a chance, get real for once. You think you can just get all the free games you want because I have writers block on one thing? Same for a Call of Duty 4 review I had that never materialized. I have my days, accept it instead of taking it as a sign of things to permanently come.

3) He doesn’t even have realistic expectations for anyone who wrote here. Of course, he can post as much as he wants, and of course that’s fine with us. But when we have lives to attend to, he doesn’t give a shit. He just wants us to post as much as we can. Personally, no way dude. No way am I going to neglect family and work for some little site. There are more important things. Not to mention, he says he’s the only one who ever does anything. And to this I reply:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

There were other people there, and they did things. Just because you have like 200 posts doesn’t grandfather you in to be an ass.

In another conversation, Josh also mentioned that he specifically “deserved to be an admin because I do everything” when I demoted him in response to his somewhat out-there behavior. Well, hey, guess what, but I’m gonna pop-up the ego balloon you have increasing in size rapidly. You don’t get to do everything just because you throw out a ton of content. It’s nice.. but it doesn’t mean that you are always right or that you are better then everybody else. It means that you threw out a ton of content. End of story. Don’t expect a reward all the time.

He always complained that he never got gratification for all that he did, and guess what? Are you that much of a narcissist that you constantly need to be told “you’re awesome!”? We already liked what you were doing. You just asked us to praise you more and more. And that’s simply ridiculous.

Josh always assumes. He assumes we have responsiblities, that this and that has to be done… but again, get back to Earth, buddy. I’m writing a fun little site. You’re pretending to run a business. You’re not 24 with a fresh business degree and a suit, you’re a teenager who plays video games and writes for some cool little site I had as an idea one day. If I have to get little bullshit headaches from one of my writers on something that should be fun, you’re out the door. I don’t care what you do or what happens without you around. Go and skip around in your spoiled little fantasy of getting whatever you want.

He left, and made his own little site, so he could do whatever he wanted. And that’s fine. He wants it to be big? See you in about 7 or so months, which is how long it took us to get on stable legs consisting of a decently sized reader base. If you want to copy all of your old content and post it on your site.. go ahead. Steal the show. Remove all the work of the people who helped you, including in joint reviews and removing pictures, and steal content from other sites (this post) (note that he also always deletes comments pertaining to this issue). So good luck starting from the beginning. At this point you have maybe one writer who will post at all, because your friends, no offense to them at all, don’t do much post wise. And here’s the only thing I care about. Don’t yell at them for not doing too much like you did to us.

You say I’m a rude, irresponsible, childish asshole liar and then expect me to believe you hide your new site from us to be nice? Nice try, liar.

Don’t make others miserable (or in my case, laughing at you, Josh) because you didn’t get what you wanted. Get back to earth before you choke from lack of air in space.

Final note: You know why we removed you from groups, josh? Because you don’t work for us anymore, and we don’t like jerks. We don’t want to deal with that.