Wait I'm behind. So what did Pat do exactly? I'm assuming we're talking about Pat the NES Punk? Sorry I cannot YT at the moment.
Well, I *think* I understand it, but it seems really dumb, so I'm not sure I have it.
Basically, the CUP guys have known Mike for a long time. A year ago when the VGS was announced their podcast started to point out some of the concerns that were going around the Internet. Like many fraudsters, Mike hates criticism more than anything so there was some back and forth, a comment about how CUP was a couple of drunks, all that.
Now, during this year there were basically three sides to this story. 1) the official VGS line 2) anyone critical of the VGS line, and 3) the mainstream media, which only printed press releases from VGS because it can't print here-say from sleezy web shows but also can't afford to investigate anything itself.
During this time I think the CUP guys became very frustrated by this. I can understand why. They were basically pissing in the wind and in this situation is doubly frustrating because the fakery of the VGS was SO OBVIOUS FROM THE VERY BEGINING and still you had these guys saying, "Well, let's wait and see. We can't be sure." long LONG past the time when evidence of the Retro VGS team's deception had grown so powerful it could convict OJ Simpson.
One of these guys was Gamester, and it's no coincidence that, in the hugely unlikely event that the VGS got made, Gamester would have profited more than anyone but Retro VGS. He basically toed a line in case it turned out to be profitable and didn't relent until the POS system was %100 dead for sure. As loong as the VGS looked even *slightly* possible he'd stick by it and all the deception that comes with it. Once he was %100 sure that he wasn't burning any bridges he flip flopped. Some see this as having a lack of integrity.
At the end of Pat's video he kinda vented on all the a$$holes that perpetuated the false dichotomy of haters vs VGS, be they Gawker (who only printed Mike-penned puff pieces) it's dumb fans, or guys like Gamester, when in fact the real struggle was between Retro VGS and the universe we live in. Gamester decided Pat said "f*ck" too many times so, after telling the kids to
stay tuned go away he proceeded to record a video that is four times as long as has four times as many "f*cks", but it does it in such a pansy-ass shit eating McDonalds manager apology sort of way that it really appeals to the people who didn't like Pat's video. Gamester claims his video was made to protect his rep, but frankly...I never saw anything the guy did before today so I had zero opinion of him, but most of the video was self condemnation and passive aggressive lameness. It didn't work on me, whatever it was suposed to do.
In the end, unquestionably, it's people thinking too hard about stuff. I don't care for either of these guys but Gamester has an air of anti-human professionalism I don't like. Would his company make human sized furnaces for dictators? Probably not, but I'm sure his relationship with Mike, the actual crook here, is probably much more in tact than Pat and Ian's are so...keep that in mind.
