So, the user known as Zweihander has been banned for opening a sockpuppet account (RPGPundit2), which he used to post links to a website that exposed my name and other personal information about me.
This website also uses my name and the RPGpundit name in the website url.
The guy who created this website, who I'm now assuming to be Zweihander because no one else but the author would give a shit to post this stuff, has been harassing me with it on my blog under a fake name for months now, ever since Trump won the election.
This is pretty much appalling behavior for someone who pretends to be a "game designer". Of course, his history of aggressively shilling his game including with misleading links shows that this is a recurring theme for Zweihander as a human being.
I hope everyone in the hobby finds out about this piece of shit and what he considers appropriate behavior for a designer.
Note: absolutely anyone who provides URLS to the links Zweihander created here will be banned, because it is essentially identical to doxxing me. This is everyone's only warning, as it is assumed anyone who provides such links is acting in EXTREME bad faith.
1) Wow. That's shitty.
2) Wow. That's weird, creepy, doxxy and stalker-y.
3) How do you know Zweihander is the dude behind the sockpuppet? I've always been confused how that is discovered. Is it traced by IP address?
In fairness I completely agree with Spinachcat. I too would like to know how you figure out it was him.
Most of all why in fuck would he even do such a thing? Oh I believe you Pundit, but the sheer stupidity of his actions is just staggering to me. He literally destroyed himself and for what? I mean... Why???
No insult intended Pundit. Your good and I mean really good. Your just not "I will sacrifice my career and reputation" good.
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3) How do you know Zweihander is the dude behind the sockpuppet? I've always been confused how that is discovered. Is it traced by IP address?
Can't speak for the mods here, but in general, all forums log your IP address. So, even on a network where you can renew your lease to get a different DHCP assigned IP address, your subnet (your internet "neighborhood") stays the same. There are other ways such as hardware MAC addresses (override-able in Linux) or things like, if you logout of account A and login to account B, and the forum sees leftover cookies from account A, it might log that.
99% of the time though, it is the same IP address used back to back or simultaneously for two different accounts.
Quote from: Spinachcat;9595291) Wow. That's shitty.
2) Wow. That's weird, creepy, doxxy and stalker-y.
3) How do you know Zweihander is the dude behind the sockpuppet? I've always been confused how that is discovered. Is it traced by IP address?
1. The person who had originally created the attack-sites that "rpgpundit2" linked to, and who has been trolling me on my blog for months now self-identified as "Daniel". I hadn't made the connection, because at no point did he associate himself with Zweihander, and I didn't care enough about Zweihander to remember his name. But Zweihander's name is Daniel Fox.
And no one but him would bother to post to his stupid sites.
2. The "RPGPundit2" account was made with the same IP as Zweihander, and using the same email name.
He didn't even try to hide what he was doing, or he was so monumentally stupid as to not realize how obvious it would be because Admins can see IP addresses and the emails users sign up with.
He has since emailed me, feigning ignorance and trying to pretend that this is some kind of a mix-up, which is nonsensical. If "daniel" had been anyone other than him, and had been out to try to ruin Zweihander's reputation, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have laid in wait for nearly 6 months trolling my blog ceaselessly and making attack sites trying to doxx me, without even ONCE mentioning Zweihander. And you'd think "RPGPundit2" would have identified himself as Zweihander, if this was some kind of a frame job.
So no, Zweihander (and I bet you're reading this because you've already shown your mentally ill obsession with me), no one is going to believe your bullshit. You were a moron and have now been caught dead to right as a months-long troll who engaged in doxxing and hideous behaviour. And I'm going to make sure everyone knows it.
You know some times people make me wonder I mean it's not that hard to follow the rules of a forum folks.
Especially when I consider that the mods on this site are very good for WARNING YOU that you are breaking the rules and giving ample time for you to responding appropriately.
At least we will be spared his CONSTANT shilling.
Wow. That's stupid, and weird, and creepy, and assholish, and also just plain bizarre.
After watching a publisher send out staff and fans to spy on people and infiltrate groups. Not much surprises me anymore.
Pundit.
You might want to head over to BGG/RPGG at the following and/or contact the admin and let them know what this person did.
https://rpggeek.com/rpg/41215/zweihander
Kinda weird, that theres no activity at all? Theres hardly any mention either. You'd think hed have been shilling the game there far more than here?
Quote from: Warboss Squee;959623At least we will be spared his CONSTANT shilling.
That was my first thought. ;)
Quote from: Tod13;959687That was my first thought. ;)
"And then the EARS, I get the IDEA, get ON with it."
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;959714"And then the EARS, I get the IDEA, get ON with it."
I love that movie.
Quote from: Omega;959651After watching a publisher send out staff and fans to spy on people and infiltrate groups. Not much surprises me anymore.
Kind of curious about this one.
Quote from: BedrockBrendan;959746Kind of curious about this one.
Me too. I've got popcorn, who's bringing the beer?
We're too deep in crazy land for beer. We're in a bizarro world where Zweihander doxx'd Pundy, so it's definitely time for tequila shots.
Quote from: BedrockBrendan;959746Kind of curious about this one.
Sanguine is the one I had heard of first. Sometime around 2000 they started pulling this and I heard from more than a few people about it and some first hand accounts. So who knows how far they went? But from comments it went on a good while. I still have no clue why. But they were certainly doing it.
Others I've run into personally are SJG and White Wolf staff spying or infiltrating. Nothing Im aware of on the Sanguine level. But still a WTF moment. And along with those two's other screwups is part of why I detest both so much.
What sort of insecurity (or unmitigated arrogance) does it take to do stuff like this?
Quote from: Spinachcat;959784We're too deep in crazy land for beer. We're in a bizarro world where Zweihander doxx'd Pundy, so it's definitely time for tequila shots.
for the love of god man we will need good booze for this pick your poison whiskey,rum brandy or sake. :P
Quote from: Omega;959651After watching a publisher send out staff and fans to spy on people and infiltrate groups. Not much surprises me anymore.
Ditto. I'd thought I'd seen everything, until a small-press RPG publisher offered me a bribe (free trips to RPG conventions) to get me to change all of my blog posts and forum posts / comments to support his position. Cut him and his associates off right away.
Quote from: Spinachcat;959784We're too deep in crazy land for beer. We're in a bizarro world where Zweihander doxx'd Pundy, so it's definitely time for tequila shots.
* chugs Everclear *
I used to think how secretive game companies were was weird. Non disclosure agreements and such. But really, if everyone was kind of in on it, I can see how the cloak and dagger aspect of it could be fun. But no, these are gamers we're talking about and they'll go over the line and take offense all the time.
Quote from: Omega;959800What sort of insecurity (or unmitigated arrogance) does it take to do stuff like this?
I haven't seen much of this myself but that is interesting. I've very rarely encountered it directly since I started Bedrock, but I have had one or two interactions where someone pulled something slightly shady. In both cases though, it had zero impact on anything. In an industry this small with such low stakes, this sort of behavior just doesn't seem to fit very well. It is like someone who rigs their daughters soccer game.
Quote from: BedrockBrendan;960069I haven't seen much of this myself but that is interesting. I've very rarely encountered it directly since I started Bedrock, but I have had one or two interactions where someone pulled something slightly shady. In both cases though, it had zero impact on anything. In an industry this small with such low stakes, this sort of behavior just doesn't seem to fit very well. It is like someone who rigs their daughters soccer game.
If there is one thing my life has taught me its that some people will take some things considerably more seriously then there is any reason to and pull some super scummy garbage even its it doesn't make scene.
Like it will make them king of the world or some such.
Quote from: kosmos1214;960261If there is one thing my life has taught me its that some people will take some things considerably more seriously then there is any reason to and pull some super scummy garbage even its it doesn't make scene.
Like it will make them king of the world or some such.
It's almost like the smaller the stakes the pettier people can become.
Quote from: Warboss Squee;960293It's almost like the smaller the stakes the pettier people can become.
Yeah I know exactly what you mean and yes for some that seems to be exactly the case.
Thank god he's gone. When he started pitching his WFRP retroclone idea over at Strike to Stun, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and even gave him some pointers. It became soon obvious to me that this guy is a talentless and arrogant human being who deserves no attention whatsoever.
Edit- I bet that all his peasants are still like ninjas. Gaining stealth benefits from 3 different sources.
Quote from: Warboss Squee;960293It's almost like the smaller the stakes the pettier people can become.
Given that $800 backing losses in parking lots are usually more contentious than $50K six-car pile-ups with injuries, I think that has the ring of truth. Investigating the former always seems to end up being more work for me than the latter because of how worked-up the drivers get.
Just a heads up. I've banned "MiracleMax", who was very obviously that pathetic little cunt Daniel aka the author of the worthless zweihunder game. It's hilarious to watch someone's slide into obsessive mental illness as they find themselves unable to quit me.
Quote from: RPGPundit;961895Just a heads up. I've banned "MiracleMax", who was very obviously that pathetic little cunt Daniel aka the author of the worthless zweihunder game. It's hilarious to watch someone's slide into obsessive mental illness as they find themselves unable to quit me.
Fucking knew it! How did you find out?
Quote from: Snowman0147;961902Fucking knew it! How did you find out?
He slipped up with his last attack thread.
I mean, we already knew already. It was obvious. He's not a smart man. In fact, he's a fucking moron.
Dang I was hoping for ISP, or some clue that confirms it. Oh well he failed his common sense.