And I apologized to the person that was affected by that years ago (2011-ish). It's unacceptable to do, I regret my actions back then, and have spent the rest of my adult life trying to atone for terrible behavior. Despite being young, I should have known better by then, especially when it has real-world consequences. There's no excuse for doing what I did, and I find myself still apologizing to this day to people like that. It's one thing to say you won't do it again, and then it's another thing to actually do it again and learn from the hate-driven mistakes in a positive manner and tell people not to do the shitty action you did.
Those who doxx others don't realize what that does to someone, until it happens to you.
In 2014 I had my personal information searched up. I had individuuals calling my family phones, making shitty comments about me and my family, etc; it's no fun. I'm fortunate that no one used my personal information to open a line of credit or bank card in my name, or tried to endanger/harass me outside of that. I am also fortunate that I did not end up with bomb threats, swatting, or other activities that would physically endanger me or my family. The emotions from dealing with the harassment actually led me to having thicker skin, and realizing how much of a terrible person I was then, and how much of a better person I could be going forward.
I've seen that happen in the games industry, for example... Look at John Smedley and what Lizard Squad did to that man; seeing how people take things too far and too personally made me extremely distressed about what I did in the past. In the incident that happened to me, I escalated malicious behavior (trolling an internet forum with gore and 'shock' content) with overly personal and malicious behavior. That doesn't result in anything positive; often times it ends up with the situation getting personal and no one being satisfied with the outcome.
With all that being said, this is also a stream I am running with guests. I hope that everyone is respectful to the guests I have on and that it goes relatively well so it can become a more regular broadcast. Hope to see you guys there.
and become the Michael Jordan of Everquest?
