I'm not 100% sure on the terminology but wouldn't this be attempted swatting and not actual swatting?
Since they're just calling him to make sure everything is alright?
I doubt an actual swat team has ever knocked on his door, he's just farming more pity points.
Late to the party here but I just want to point out how much Mald relies on 'technical truths' to make himself look better.
"I'm a game dev, I worked at Blizzard for seven years." Yes, both technically (barely, for the dev part) true, but he's stringing the two facts together to make you think he worked at Blizzard, as a game dev, which isn't true.
"I worked for the government, as part of a team that hacked into power plants." Yes,
the team hacked into powerplants, you were just the email jockey, barely a step above the Redeems trying to get Grandma to buy them Google gift cards.
"I'm out of mana, what do you want me to do for you?" Yes, out of mana
now, as in you just wasted it all and haven't used your items to regain it. You
could do that, but you won't.
It just smacks of some pretty fucking severe tism, or him thinking he's 'got one over' someone else by saying x and y, and letting them infer z.