Zak Smith is suing his accusers

[Ralif Redhammer]

Same.

I feel like this thread is also the opportune place to point out that James Raggi published a book called Zak Has Nothing to Do With This Book that is pretty much a diatribe lamenting (har) about how he can't work with Zak anymore because snakes won't let him and how awesome Zak's stuff was for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. As if the original official statement he made wasn't already a tepid thing.

Clearly, there are a lot of people willing to underwrite ZakS going down in flames. I approve.

 

[Maestrino]

If it doesn't outright kill you, it wasn't wrong?

That seems to be the insinuation.

 

[dragoner]

Same.

I feel like this thread is also the opportune place to point out that James Raggi published a book called Zak Has Nothing to Do With This Book that is pretty much a diatribe lamenting (har) about how he can't work with Zak anymore because snakes won't let him and how awesome Zak's stuff was for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. As if the original official statement he made wasn't already a tepid thing.

I saw them chumming it up at Raggi's booth at GenCon, exactly after Raggi had made a giant deal about security there, with there in fact being NO NEED for it, because there wasn't anyone messing with him, and there is already security for the convention center. Except that didn't stop the cries of right wingers of how they NEEDED to take their guns to GenCon, lamenting how wrong it was that GenCon was a gun-free zone; it's like a whole confederacy of giant scumbags.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Umbran]

Mod note:

Folks need to be more vigilant about allowing real-world politics "slipping in" to their posts in this thread. With the fact that this will already be a touchy subject for some, tolerance of such will be low.

Like... the gun control comment? Not really appropriate for these boards.

And, if you outright say you need to duck after saying something? That was probably unwise. Don't push the line here, please, folks.

 

[lowkey13]

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[RogueRonin]

I'm glad to see how much they've exceeded their funding goal. Hopefully the legal fees won't end up costing them a dime when all is said and done.

 

[Bohandas]

Frankly, I'm so tired of accusations, allegations, rumors, insinuations, and alleged incidents, I really couldn't care less. That's not a great attitude, but there it is.

I'll drink to that and take it one step further, I'm glad that someone (Smith) is finally doing taking a stand against it. I'm sick of the current trend of every accusation everywhere automatically being assumed true by the public, sight unseen.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Dannyalcatraz]

Given the number of separate allegations, the corroboration, and that his behavior was previously known and (charitably) was previously overlooked and/or diminished due to the presence of ...what... an allowance of certain behaviors (unfortunately) in our hobby, it is difficult to say that this is an example of an accusation being assumed true by the public, sight unseen.

I’ll just reiterate from past similar threads that, according to studies and official crime stats in the USA, only between 2-10% of reports of sexual misconduct are actually false. Those percentages are similar to the ranges for false reporting of other serious crimes, like murder. Odd, then, that only accusations of sexual misconduct engenders a parade of people concerned about false claims of criminal behavior.

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, rates of false reporting are frequently inflated, in part because of inconsistent definitions and protocols.
For example, some law enforcement agencies might label a rape claim as "false" just because there's not enough corroborating evidence to prosecute. (Those cases would be more accurately described as "baseless" or “unprovable” rather than "false.")

So, just based on criminal statistics, one takeaway is that the more accusations against a person there are, the greater the odds are that the person is guilty of at least one of the allegations.