@XIZOR

So you believe HB, the compulsive liar? You contradict so much of what you say. On one hand I'm not supposed to believe HB, or do, and you do, but don't, or do, I can't keep track when to believe HB. Why would anyone believe anything he says coming from me? If I have something to say, I say it; I don't say it through HB, or P7, or anyone. I never told him you would be banned for slandering TMX, besides, you didn't do that and you moved on, proving him wrong and you gullible. So if HB tried to threaten you something, using my name, like you used my name to attack him (that we are fuck buddies or something), it's all the same thing right?

So you're just bitter that I'm not your friend like I am other people here. I get that, but that's more a problem with you and not me. I can't force myself to be everyones friend, that would be disingenuous. Clearly you're cool enough to be a lot of peoples friends, but it's been a long bug up your butt that you aren't mine. If you'd just been more patient for 2.0, you would see I'd be making a more active part to get involved in the community, and maybe it could have started then. You never saw the old TMA, it had boards for mods & admins, and you'd have been a part of that. But oh well.

I thought everyone knew why old TMA went down because Monkey King had to pull the plug? He was so ashamed he didn't even give me a heads-up warning, but he apologised after. Thank god for Nightshade. The fact Temp TMA sprung up meant I was no longer rushing to get something up myself, so I could then instead spend more time making it a lot better... and better... and so much better it never made my own deadlines. But we still have Temp TMA, right? No, we just have more drama apparently, and people walking out.

Servers were a lot more expensive to run back in the old TMA days, now they're a lot cheaper. This one only costs $35 a month, old TMA was $100 a month. MonkeyKing offered to be the server treasurer, I accepted, and he did a great service keeping TMA online for year after year. He didn't want any credit, didn't want anyone to know how much he had spent on TMA (thousands) because of how people look down on people that donate too much, like they're trying to buy power. He never had any power, but he was respected, and I considered him a great friend. He never complained about donations, or that he was in trouble until it was too late.

I like how your last thought on some of my quotes is a joke (e.g. the Kickstarter thing), I see what you did there.

I handled everything on old TMA, Night was supposed to handle everything here. Did I do anything majorly wrong on old TMA? You cite some things, but nothing major. If your main problem is what happened here, it does fall on Night. But he clearly did not have the time for it, neither did I. The mistake clearly was that we did not put you in charge of things, so we'll both take full responsibility there. But seriously, if I did give you updates on 2.0, would that make you hate HB any less? Would that really change anything? You guys still wouldn't have liked TMX, you still wouldn't have wanted to play 360/PS3 games with him anymore. After all, he became a terrible person over the last 2 years, and that's Temp TMA.

I've been friends with HB since 2001, and I never read anything he posted on Brawl (and barely anything on TT because he didn't usually post on TM forums). You want me to correct everything he says? I correct him on AIM when he says things wrong, but it doesn't stop him posting his opinions. I can't control him, he doesn't kiss my ass. So you're saying his whole friendship with me is fake and he's just kissing my ass so he can get away with murder on TMA? It must really get under your goat that he's my friend and not you. What can I possibly see in the guy? I don't know, he's funny, and under all that bravado is a real person (that you probably don't see on TMA).

You don't think that was a good deal, the Blair thing? 3 months hosting, so he can have his own post that no one has to post in, the only post HE is allowed to post in. Controlled chaos, and you get 3 more months of great times with your best friends on TMA. If you want your own topic (you can have them for free btw), I'll give you one for just $100! So unless you donate $300 so Blair can't have that topic, you really can't talk. I put it out there many times we needed donations, and you aren't a stupid guy right? You can see the sidebar donation tallies, you can see how things don't add up. I try to help the site stay online by giving Blair his silly post, and it's "buying in". Ok... whatever, I'm the bad guy. But I do take full responsibility for that decision.

"You aren’t special aside from the fact that you can code and build cool as fuck websites"

Ah that's hilarious, thanks for that back-handed compliment. I hope one day you get to see what I'm working on and DO think I'm special. I'm losing sleep at the moment, it would really help.

"I do hope one day to have my name in the credits of a video game though. You’ve really inspired me to reach for the stars. I hope to one day be as cool as you are."

You're a funny guy. Hey, I also think HB is a funny guy. How do I choose?

"Because it hadn’t gotten that bad at that point, and to be honest, a lot of us were acting like jerks so banning one person when I myself and others were doing the same thing isn’t the answer."

This is what HB spins to me, that you guys do the exact same things he did and does, but you want him banned for it.

It does look bad that HB was indeed the GhostMod. Nice Of Mice & Men reference, (spoiler) hopefully I don't have to shoot him in the end. The timing was not great but it was never intended as giving you or anyone the middle finger or showing favoritism. It was simply a case of people complaining to me that Brawl was full of spam (this was a few weeks ago), and HB offered to clean up all the spam and I saw GhostMod as the best option. The spam problem was becoming a headache and I just wanted it dealt with so YOU GUYS could continue to enjoy brawl.

I still need help getting 2.0 ready, the problem is most of it is tedious tasks (e.g. databasing all the awards), which I have asked other people but they turned down. People not even in my all-elusive inner-circle. If you really care so much about TMA (and you clearly do else you would have gone ages ago), you'd still be loyal and I hope everyone would still feel like TMA is their home, and not orchestrate a walkout. It's sad it has come to this. I've assured you 2.0 is still coming, but that's not enough. I was mistaken to think it was. Night must also be greatly out of touch aswell because neither of us predicted this fallout. I underestimated the strength of your hate for HB. That ship has only sailed if you're on it. Sounds like you were on it starting exactly 3 weeks ago.

I've just been told that I've upset a lot of the people I don't know, for not knowing their names, or what they contributed to this community. I'm sorry, but I just simply was not here to learn about who anyone was. It's just a fact. It doesn't mean I hate you all or don't care, it's just the simple fact I wasn't here to learn your names. Back on old TMA I remember everyones name, I could list 100 people. Infact while working on 2.0, I see their names all the time. None of them are these new people.

Let me make it clear: I appreciate new posters, that is how any site grow. I apologise if I come across like I'm just dismissing you or disrespecting you for all the time you've been here in my absense, I appreciate you keeping the site alive. I just simply don't know your names or anything about you, or your origin.

You can go to any website on the planet and it's highly unlikely the webmaster would ever know who you are, and I don't think anyone is taking offense from that, so please don't here. I will learn all your names in time, especially if you were still here on 2.0, because this is just a small community. I meant no disrespect, just stating facts. It's hard for me to remember so many people, that's why I don't let everyone be my friend on AIM like Xizor (laugh please).

@mecit

You only got internet in 2005? Damn. It's nice to get some understanding from someone in the industry. I didn't know this big blowup happened 2 years ago? I thought it was a year ago, that's when it got so bad it got to me that staff was fighting and being disrespectful to me, so something had to be done. I did step in then, in the sense I talked about it with Night and we came to a resolution. It really just sounded silly all this drama going on in my absense (on brawl of all places /sarcasm), I hoped people would be more understanding of the fact my time is better spent working on 2.0. My biggest crime seems to be I didn't get it finished in time to nip all of this drama in the butt. And people getting angry at me for not updating the community, I admit that was wrong and I regret that now, but at the time I was in my own bubble; I was focused and determined to finish 2.0, for TMA, and in time for TMX and the influx of new people (little did I know the fallout coming my way). My friends could get that info from me and relay it here, the answer being, "I don't know when 2.0 will be ready, but I'm still working on it, and yes I still care about TM and TMA.".

People also assumed I wasn't interested in TMX because I wasn't posting about it, but I talked about it with my friends, however because I was in the loop now I could no longer post about it. I was super pumped for TMX, I was closely monitoring development, and working on 2.0. But because I never gave the community a heads-up, I'm now paying the price. I wrongly assumed people would be perfectly happy with Temp TMA, I know I was as it gave me more time to perfect 2.0. People like Roadie, Night, SolTakr, etc, all know I talk to Dave, and they know exactly what's up with me not posting, I told them why. You won't believe how much I knew about TMX before it came out, and how pumped I was. Keeping tight-lipped was hard. Little did I know of all the resentment that was brewing for me... it was disheartening to say the least.

@XIZOR

The basic gist of all your replies is everything I did wrong and how you would have done it better, endling in zingers. It's not exactly a fair argument because everything for you is hindsight 20/20 right. You don't think that comes across as obnoxious and arrogant? People like that are not usually my friends. One of your friends thinks you might just be trolling me and exaggerating everything (and that's why they don't defend me vs you), so silly me for thinking we were actually having a serious dialogue on some level (which you lacked with me elsewhere), but it's clearly gone off the rails. I thought I had more friends here, but apparently I don't as they're being awfully quiet and just letting you continue to roll. So I kinda feel like I was wasting my time replying to all your gripes and grievances, as if they were legit, as it sounds like you were already set in your ways and made up your mind on things long before I got here. Everything is just a laugh for you now and OH SNAPs.

I regret not updating the community what was going on, but I've already explained why and you can't accept my reasons. I was not pulling things behind the scenes, I didn't even have an account here. It's just endless assumptions, because I wasn't here and that is my fault to stop all those assumptions from even being made in the first place, but it's your fault if you're gonna act based on them without talking to me first or someone that does talk to me. A lot of your beef seems to be lack of communication between us, you feel I owed you that. What I wrongly assumed is people would be understanding of my position, especially my friends who can talk to me any day they like about anything. I like how you say Night was super approachable when he was never even barely here, just like me. But you got to play games with him? Well guess what, I played games with people too from here, you just weren't in that group. I barely ever even saw Night on AIM, because you know what? He was busy with his own life.

But I will say one more thing, and that's about again, the assumption that Dave doesn't or didn't care about us because he didn't post. I asked him exactly why that was, and here is why. He already has our support, we're gonna be in the special thanks. He spent his community time trying to get new people interested in TM, like gamefaqs, neogaf, his blog & twitter. He talked of doing exclusives with TMA. Do I think he should have posted here anyway just to say hi and give us some tidbits etc? Absolutely, but he didn't. But I can't talk. You can assume he didn't care about us, but he did, he put us in special thanks and dedicated a trophy to us (because we're hardcore!!!!!!!!!!!). He might also have been waiting for 2.0 before he posted, but that's just me speculating. Maybe he was intimidated by all you guys? Who knows.

I'd reply to everything else you said but clearly you're just taking the piss right now. Have fun at the Bastard Gaming Alliance. I like how you took the Alliance part, I see what you did there. Couldn't think of your own name? How about the Bastard Gaming Rebellion! Oooo, that sounds cool. I'm gonna register that domain right now...

Also, your convo is fake, I wouldn't have even replied with nothing. /zing

Kilrgrn that's your cue to send him an invite, assuming he's cool enough for the BGA.