Hi I've been really on edge for the past few months and I really think I need to dump it all out here so here we go twitlonger post, I don't mean it as like malicious as much as I just really need to vent out my frustrations because this shit is eating me alive lmao
Idk how obvious it's been that I've been beefing with David/Game Saru since beginning of November but it's been weighing on me and I've been sitting and stewing on it for too long lmao
We've had a generally positive/neutral at worst relationship up until that point, with the worst points coming from him dropping by to give me unsolicited "advice" despite me asking to not do that every time. Eventually this came to a head when him and a few others piled on that because they don't like way we load trucks without moving blankets. I had tried to de-escalate the situation by purging the discord channel where this happened (so no screenshots sorry though I'm fairly sure some exist) and when that didn't work I had a little bit of a melty where I removed all his roles from the Candy Rave server.
This prompted an extremely long manifesto from him outlining how he would be propping up my regional competitors and that any retaliation would prompt him to "wipe me off the face of the planet" which of course I took as a direct threat on me and my livelihood. Since then I've sat back and watched him give out discounts to people for discouraging people from working with me or purchasing from container orders and seen people who simp for him suddenly go from being disinterested in working events to it being their top priority. Coincidence, maybe, but I can't help but feel some sort of connection here.
I'll repost his message in another post and I'll address a few things.
I'm sure it isn't any sort of surprise that 2020-2022 was rougher than usual. There's obviously Gwen dying in January, then I was completely locked out of my warehouse from March-May and my unlimited access was changed to "max 3 hours a day, by appointment, and before 6PM." At the end of the year I was kicked out. I was trying to continue with imports but I had absolutely no space to work with so it was impossible. I cancelled an order and he helped in fulfilling my orphaned orders instead of simply refunding everyone, which I am thankful for.
I was in a pretty deep depression for that time period which I react to by withdrawing completely from everyone. It's a bad habit I have and one that still comes up semi-frequently (chances are you've noticed! If I don't respond to something for a while chances are I'm Going Through It and I just need a little patience) and 2021 was particularly bad for that. I tried getting back into the swing of things with the new warehouse but jumped too early and that fucked a lot up especially when ocean freight prices went like 5x overnight. That was exasperated when a certain event took a year to pay while pushing their timeline back every time I asked; ironically if they would have paid on schedule I could have gotten in on the pre-ship stuck in the Suez prices but that's in the past. I hate that he invoked that situation that he "felt bad for them" in his message without knowing any of the details.
That has all been resolved now and I am happy to say that I both have everything on my planned timetables and currently owe no one and have not for months.
I don't believe he has any interest in seeing a healthy Japanese arcade scene in the US that doesn't involve him dictating the direction or keeping everyone dependent on him in some way. I'm very proud of my independence, and most of us who grew out of the Midwest have happily coexisted for years and the only real friction we've felt between each other came after he started trying to expand his influence here (shades of Tokyo Attack there tbch)
After sending his whole thing to me and mentioning he would be spreading it himself if I didn't respond immediately (I did) I later found out that he just privately sent it to several other arcade people and asked other groups to have me removed immediately, which didn't happen. I'm very disappointed at his inability to keep to his word there and at the attempt at using his influence to put me down further.
Honestly, the hypocrisy I saw with him in dealing with espot and acting very similarly to them how he was to me set us off. Publicly condemning someone for making threats and promoting "working together despite our differences" while privately chastising and threatening me for not operating just like him felt like a very shitty look.
I think there's plenty of room for coexistence as long as we all stay in our own lanes and regions. I've had my own fair share of disagreements with the way he operates most of all lately sending people to work events in his stead. I would honestly hope if someone criticizes how I function from 2000 miles away that they would be putting in at least some effort.
So yeah I'm just writing all of this out just because I have no idea how to approach any of this. I suppose this'll again be considered "psychotic" behavior but I just really hope that people try to understand where I'm at and where I'm coming from and maybe if I just get it off my chest I'll feel better.
, but most of the stuff in the game is decent. I don't know how anyone can do Supreme levels on a Switch Pro because it feels like it can only handle so many inputs (I'm starting to hit Ultra at a snail pace after beating some songs on Expert). There are custom sticks that give you the arcade feel (the game's based on the Japanese cabinet), but as awesome as it is I'm not spending $200 on a custom stick just to collect dust (the days of getting stuff like fighting game and custom sticks are done). Since one of the last DLCs is going to be based off FF16, it would be cool if it would add a character or two from the game into the DLC.
They haven't learned a thing since the Pump server failures in 2021.
