[Pip Boy]

*Sigh*

I really wanted to be done with this and just leave, but I've had a few people contacting me through IM (mostly in regards to (their words) "Liz's blatant trolling") and I want to publicly set the record straight so people can stop asking me about it individually.

If I did say anything that could come across as biggoted, it was a matter of ignorance and mild insensitivity at the worst and never of malice or spite, as is often the case with racism. See, where I come from, homosexuals aren't given dirty looks or voted against, they're beaten openly in something of a local sport referred to as "gaybashing". Any intelligent and moral person can identify this behavior as reprehensible, and so obviously I've no support for it at all, but when the narrative for hatred of the minority is so clearly set, the small offense of being slightly skeptical when asked to join a boycott is negligible. Silly even.

The second point I'd like to make, Liz, is that your chlidish self-image of being some crusading white-knight alerting us all of the dangers of "the man" and of society getting us down is, while I would hope done with the best intentions, completely wrong. You've been openly spiteful and malicious towards me ever since I said a few words of hesitation at joining a boycott you demanded everyone join with almost no case to support it (at the time I initially made those comments).

Ever since then you have willfully misinterpereted everything I say to make me out to be some kind of horrendous strawman, going well outside of the bounds of responsible and respectable behavior in doing so, our moderators' forgiveness of which is a part of the reason I have chosen to leave. The fact that such childish behavior is permitted to happen time after time after time in such a fasion with a slap on the wrist at worst is a complete and utter failure on part of our forum's moderation staff. I'm not saying I'm 100% clean in this, after you began your sad crusade to torch the strawman you've crafted in my image, the cynic in me took over and decided that any constructive point I tried to make would be willfully misused anyway, so I resorted to some admittedly tongue-in-cheek and sometimes rude behavior. I'll admit to that. Maybe even a few days' ban, not that it'd mean anything at this point, would be in order for that.

The fact remains, however, that your selfish and egotistical attitude has become such a nuisance that it has caused at least 2 forum members to openly tell you to "fuck off" and leave, while many more do so in a more subtle fashion. You go well out of your way to look for a cause to advocate, and then jump the gun calling for a boycott whilst calling "biggot" every time someone says "wait, lets see what this is really all about first". Every time someone would say we try to make sure we've got our facts straight, you'd simply flame them and accuse them of oppression. You're like a liberal version of fox news, and frankly I'm sick and fucking tired of it.

I'd like to note on my way out that this isn't a call for the mods to ban Liz, or backseat moderating or anything. I'm leaving so frankly I don't give two shits whether Liz gets a few days in time out or a shiny new sheriff's badge. I can remember a point in time, however, where double-posting against the will of Fenris got me a 3 day ban, and now this kind of blatant flaming and openly malicious treatment of forum members has become excusable. I am not contesting my ban in this, I had it coming, but this double-standard I seem to be faced with is shit, and when it comes down to it I guess thats why I'm going. I have said all I am going to say on the matter. Please do not contact me on steam or otherwise regarding this matter anymore.