FinalEdit

Oh god it's been two hours, but whatever, here goes.

I just want to say you've produced possibly one of the finest games ever made and have inspired an interest in space in multiple generations of people.

You've planted a seed in me and have inspired my intellectual interests as well as my gaming interests.

Thank you, so, so much. KSP is frickin' amazing.

Oh, fuck it also I've literally just jumped into the thread but if no one else has asked:

What are update plans with regards to in-game music?

Thank you once again.

I remember seeing messages posted to a facebook group (it's essentially like the website "Clients from Hell" but for the specific industry I'm part of) by a guy who came in a started name dropping, calling himself famous and mocking people who posted there, calling them failures and whatnot. When the obvious backlash occurred he got really, really nasty, eventually threatening the moderators with physical violence, sending messages to those involved in the discussions and essentially researching the companies people worked for and threatening to call those companies and report the user for "online bullying". At first it was all a big joke, it seemed like no one could be this ridiculous without being a massive troll. Then he started screenshotting things, posting them on his "blog" and making private threats to people.

A bit of research on his name and I found blogs where he'd clearly interviewed himself, made fan posts about himself and whatnot. A bit of digging in his facebook history saw his pages get 10k likes in one day, but none before nor after said day (assuming here he'd paid for likes or something). Basically everything was clearly fake, self serving etc. Trawling down the google list of search results for his name uncovered criminal records posted by the town he was convicted in for violence against women, aggravated assault, stalking as well as misdemeanour things. Even further down the line to that were blogs from the women he'd harassed, warning against contact with him, and just a bit after that were results claiming he worked for the government and had access to brain implant mind control technology (this one clearly written by him it seems).

Anyway it was fucking scary and it made me realise just how easy it is to be targeted once you expose yourself even for a minute. A harmless facebook group of people just there to have a laugh about the pitfalls of an industry suddenly became very sinister and very scary. I wanted to reach out to him but in many ways I'm glad I didn't because it would have essentially painted a fat target on my online world and could have lead to all sorts of trouble. The problem with this kind of thing happening across borders is that it's hard to pin down what to actually do about it. I'm fully prepared to see this guy on the news in the future having committed some sort of mass crime spree, which is awful because someone does need to reach out to him, and he does need mental health care - but what can the average person do especially if the only way one is exposed to this kind of personality is in the perfect context for them to be a victim of it?

If he did it would have exited through his collar no doubt...

Nothing WHATSOEVER to be ashamed of. You didn't know, and anyone could react the same.