Deathray Specs

How do you escape a global pandemic? Has Kieren gone ‘off world’?

Kieren deleted the channel himself, he even said so on his Facebook page

‘Deathray to tomasparks. We have in our midst a complete smeg pot. Brains in the anal region. Chin absent, presumed missing. Genitalia small and inoffensive. Of no value or interest.’

Well, someone has claimed the @retrolaird account. Only 2 followers so far

I think those are accounts that just retweet anything with the #retrogaming tag

Just a note from my watching brief on various Twitter accounts - Kieren deactivated his main account @RetroLaird on 1st April, so with Twitters 30 day ‘change your mind’ policy he’ll need to reactivate it soon or lose it for ever. The AtariFan/Retrogamerssuck account deleted around the same time but did pop up recently before disappearing again - assume this was to buy another 30 days grace before oblivion - the clock is ticking...

ShillerSimon have become AtariAge Fan Club, yes?

I assume you are the same generation as me - didn’t grow up with social media so some of the things that go on may be a little hard to comprehend for us but as someone with teenagers I have often wondered whether the same thing should happen - remove them from social media and thus they won’t see comments and be hurt but that is far from the point. You remove them, you exclude them, you punish them, the trolls get their little victory. I decided this was not fair on my kids, why should they be excluded because some asshole teenager is being a dick on social media. Bullies will exist in all formats, that can be down the pub, at school, at work, on social media, even within your own family. What do you do? Stop going to the pub? Stop going to school? Stop going to work? It’s too simplistic to say ignore, unplug, whatever - I can see where Vince is coming from - but the problem in my opinion isn’t people getting upset from trolling - it’s the trolling. Let’s not let them have their little victories, let’s call them out for the scum that they are. I’m fine if people don’t agree with the above, happy to hear others views, just my point of view and apologies for going off topic.

Yet he keeps digging and finding a new lower level to the barrel

It is absolutely pathetic behaviour and be sure, it hasn’t gone unnoticed. I’m sorry you seem to be taking the brunt of it, as if you don’t have enough to deal with already. It can be easy to say ignore and shrug it off, but can see the distress it causes. Ultimately though, the person behind those accounts is a sad, ‘grown’ man who thinks this is a good and productive way to spend his time. Keep being you RP, there are no ‘rules’ for Twitter, post what you like - it harms no-one else. It’s a shame those accounts can’t take the same advice as they obviously need help, whether they deserve it or not.

Speaking of fuckwit - he’s back in fake tweet screenshot mode

Well, well, well...

That’s a very good idea - it’s normally easy to tell who they are targeting with comparable tweets as evidence.

And worth mentioning these were posted by the @ShillerSimon twitter account - the only person to see these ‘tweets’ apparently.....

To be fair, there’s nothing to suggest they took baths together.

Does this mean you know who is behind that account?

Interesting, hadn’t seen that. On a similar thread, Poppy Fluoxetine is an anagram of Floppy Puoxetine. I await the vague Twitter reference.

Lost Dragon I’ll add a bit of context to this, but in doing so I’m not suggesting, as I said earlier, that Kieren is correct in his accusations. Joe Milano - Robert Yaw - I believe I may have inadvertently set Kieren off on that one - did a reverse image search on Joe Milano’s twitter pic and it linked to an account run by Robert Yaw - but most likely Joe Milano liked one of Rob’s post. This was posted in Kieren’s Statement. I expect i’ll Need to make some apologies at some point, if not here and now - sorry. Xray_Specs - Rob Hitchen - I run the Xray_Specs twitter account but I am not Rob Hitchen. Rob I think had Arun in with the ShillerSimon account on Twitter around Horacegate, so by Kieren’s logic, anyone disagreeing in the same way must obviously be the same person. Rob Morton and Ian Lightbody I understand were involved with the backers of the Vega+ in attempts to retrieve backers monies - I believe RCL are in liquidation and the liquidators final report will perhaps shed some light of where things all went sideways. hope that helps in some small part

Hmm, interesting that I am lumped in with the other fake accounts - fair in some respects - but I only troll the trolls (well that’s what I keep telling myself anyway). I’m afraid he is mistaken with regards to my identity and therefore I wonder: A) why he assumes I am Rob Hitchen and what evidence he has for this B) knowing he’s wrong about me, how right is he about the others?

There was no need for him to derail the positive feedback he was getting in that second image grab, was there? He brings up supposed comments and then at the end the other person says they don’t have Twitter so can’t verify it - an opening for the evidence to be presented missed again?

I think you have an admirer

That account also posted this reply on another thread and then quickly deleted it before I could reply

As the sun sets on one sock puppet account, the moon rises on a near identical one. How many more are there?!

Going by that middle article are we expecting some sort of explanation for 41 pages in around 2024? Hopefully we’ll all be allowed back outside by then.

Well, looks like we are hurtling towards the 1,000 posts on a thread barrier