3021

Well, if there’s one thing the internet has taught me, crazy people don’t stop being crazy just because they get caught being crazy.

3022

I wouldn’t believe a word that comes out of this guy’s mouth. He’s pretty consistently bluffed and just made stuff up.

That said, his still having they keys to the website (and I assume that means the Avenger Controller website, not Ocean Marketing) would explain how he was able to impersonate someone with an @avengercontroller.com e-mail address. If that’s the case, I’m baffled that the controller makers would not only hire this guy, but actually hand over their website to him. There’s quite a lot at this point that indicates some kind of preexisting relationship between them. Probably a business one.

3023

So, he started hawking wares for ICP (yes, that ICP) last night, proclaiming he’d teamed up with them. Lots and lots of links.

Four hours later, he’d deleted all of those posts. Did the band that put Tila Tequila on stage actually think this guy is too much? Did he fail to live up to minimum Juggalo love and tolerance levels? Whatever the case, holy shit.

3024

There’s a new interview of Christoforo up at Forbes. Can’t link to it, too new here.

Seriously, I hope that journalist got a breath mint and a handi-wipe after that. It read like a PR piece commissioned by Christoforo.

Also, I note that Christoforo is impossible to lampoon. Yesterday I idly joked that his position was like saying “Sorry, when I walked up to you and punched you in the face, I didn’t know you were a black belt. Could you please stop spin-kicking me?”

Here’s what he actually says in the interview:

Basically, what Mike [Krahulik] did is this: If you were in a bar, drinking and hanging out with a bunch of people, and in that group of people was one guy that you didn’t know was a mixed martial arts champion. He knows he can kick the **** out of anyone in that bar, and you happen to pick a fight with him. He doesn’t tell you what he is, you take a swing at him and the next thing you know you have a broken jaw and you’re on the way to the hospital.

3025

Forbes interview. Holy shit this guy is insane.

3026

Basically, what Mike [Krahulik] did is this: If you were in a bar, drinking and hanging out with a bunch of people, and in that group of people was one guy that you didn’t know was a mixed martial arts champion. He knows he can kick the **** out of anyone in that bar, and you happen to pick a fight with him. He doesn’t tell you what he is, you take a swing at him and the next thing you know you have a broken jaw and you’re on the way to the hospital.

I love that this story is meant to make him seem like a victim rather than the kind of dumbshit who picks fights in bars.

I don’t know the mayor of Boston – I was just joking around. I have a lot of connections in the city, because I was born and raised in Boston. And anywhere I go in the city I get in for free, I have a lot of connections. And I could probably have made a phone call, and if it wasn’t the door guy who let me in (to PAX East in Boston), maybe I could get in somewhere else, through the loading dock or the back.

Jesus Christ.

Edit: Boo. I can’t seem to get to page 2 of the interview.

3027

The Forbes interview is gone.

3028

Dead link, looks like Forbes pulled the interview.

3029

They just changed the URL for some reason. New link.

3030

It’s back!

3031

This whole thing has a “Casey the Punisher” vibe to it.

His transparent insanity shows how out of the norm his communications with customers is. Its very very rare that anyone in his position would treat people the way he did.

3032

I have never seen so much name dropping anywhere, it’s almost pathological. It could be a list of countries or just the consoles he plays. Ask the guy any question and you get back a bulleted list -

I work with a lot of companies in the UK, Italy, France, Japan, Australia, Canada, the US, Mexico, South America – I have buyers all over the place.

I’m a little bit sad, because I’m a techie. I game five hours a night. On my laptop, my iPad, my PlayStation, my Xbox, my [PlayStation] Move, my 3DTV.

MSNBC put a real favourable piece up on me, there are a couple of radio interviews that I’m going to do, Spike TV’s going to come to my house on Monday to shoot a piece on me.

LOL Thanks for the Free PR I know the Editor N Chief of Kotaku , IGN , Engadget I’ll be meeting them at CES

welcome to the real internet check kotaku in 2 weeks when they are reviewing free PS3 Avengers we send them as well as G4 and all the other majors hell yeah , don’t forget to check Amazon, gamestop.com, play n trade , Myers , Frys and a ton of other local stores coming your way

Oh so you know this guy has sold over 500 thousand dollars of product in Dec and is my main distribution arm landing us in GameStop , fry’s , Myers , Best buy , Activision , MLG , play N trade and a lot more . Were in 6 countries…

I can’t get Kevin Kelly to pull some strings or G4 , Paul Eibler Ex CEO of take 2 , Rich Larocco Konami , Cliff Blizinski Epic who were working with on a gears version , Activision who were working with on a MW3 and Spider man Bundle , The Convention Center Owners themselves , Mayor of Boston

This last one isn’t a list but is just too funny. The loading dock indeed.

I don’t know the mayor of Boston – I was just joking around. I have a lot of connections in the city, because I was born and raised in Boston. And anywhere I go in the city I get in for free, I have a lot of connections. And I could probably have made a phone call, and if it wasn’t the door guy who let me in [to PAX East in Boston], maybe I could get in somewhere else, through the loading dock or the back.

3033

I work with a lot of companies in the UK, Italy, France, Japan, Australia, Canada, the US, Mexico, South America – I have buyers all over the place.

He forgot Germany. That’s a convention now. A big one.

3034

You don’t have to tell him twice. He knows the mayor of Germany.

I’m a little bit sad, because I’m a techie. I game five hours a night. On my laptop, my iPad, my PlayStation, my Xbox, my (PlayStation) Move, my 3DTV. I’m a geek, and these are my people. These are the people I hang out with, and affiliate myself with. (…) I don’t want them to be mad over something that’s been taken totally out of context, and wasn’t as bad as everyone says it was.

I love how delusional he is. The bit where he talks about possibly pursuing legal action against PA is just sublime.

Followed up shortly with…

I’m not a civil lawyer, but I’m going to suggest that after threatening legal action one may want to avoid then immediately begging for forgiveness.

3035

Currently disagreeing on Twitter with the author of the piece.

I’m wrong sometimes. I’m unreasonable sometimes. Am I completely out of line finding that interview to be a softball?

3036

I would like to apologize on behalf of all Bostonians. Clearly his parents must be from New York.

3037

No. Not at all. Completely softball.

And I find it amazing that the jackass still found about 5 ways to prove he’s a schmuck.

3038

Not out of line at all. He didn’t even mention the fact that Christoforo had plagiarized forbes on his website. Or that another person posted a bad experience with him early this year.

3039

I think that was the point of the article, that without any hard questions or judgement the guy still comes across as an unrepentant jerk.

3040

From the Forbes piece:

Conclusion

At heart, Christoforo clearly feels that he is more sinned against than sinning – and that he was suckered into taking a swing at Mike Krahulik without understanding the consequences. Personally, I suspect that Krahulik simply did not imagine that, in the context, he would not be immediately recognised.

In either case, it is certainly the case that it was terrible luck to be the person whose Internet argument caught the eye of a superfan. Whether the moral of that is always to behave as if your communications could be shared with an audience of millions, or to play the percentages and hope to avoid this kind of blow-up through sheer probability is probably a matter for the individual conscience.

Really? Whether to ‘play the percentages’? Am I understanding this? His ‘moral’ takeaway seems to be ‘don’t get caught’ too.