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- May 17, 2021
He's either real lucky or real careful.
Having witness his career, it is the former, and he pissed it all away.
Something I don't see brought up at all with regards to the Dear John stream that I noticed when I first listened to it during MATI was that Nick mentioned at one point that John "never asked" if any of the claims were true. His exact words upon rewatching are, "You know what he never asked me? 'Hey man, are these things true?'" It's weird for him to point it out, weird enough to suspect that that's part of what actually set him off.
In other words, Nick WANTED to try to have a "private conversation" with John but couldn't.
This is Nick's MO. As @Captain Manning has laid out, this has happened with multiple people (Kalea, PerceptionCheck [DMs in OP], Manning, @elb, and others) Nick's appeal at the start of his descent into madness was 'DM me! This is a personal conversation I'd rather not have in public. I can be honest there!' That should have been a massive red flag. His life was 'funny and WEIRD'.
Once he started getting critiques, he lamented that people didn't just 'DM and ask' him if something was true or not.
After that, he began pre-emptively DMing people 'Hey! I just want to let you know [insert rumour] is not true. You don't have to say anything. I just want to let you know!', trying to get a head of it.
This morphed into the infamous 'shower calls' that Null (and others) recieved. In these he would play up the friend angle and hint vaguely at what he wanted people to do without saying it, then be frustrated when they did not do it. We learned more about his rhetorical tactics from other who said that Nick would constantly try to 'restart the conversation' by saying that he did not understand something--forcing a long and tedious diversion into definition of meanings and feelings. He would also employ the tactic of 'just saying [he] disagrees' and when all else fails, he would say that a REAL fried would come to him before they make any judgements and BELIEVE him.
Nick is a manipulative weasel, and he spergs out if he is not in control of the definitions or flow of conversation or opinion.
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