There's certainly the seedlings of doubt being sown through healthy criticism in the form of low effort posts about our perception of Chris being a bias as if that's relevant so that won't go beyond this one sentence.
Instead I'm here to point something out critical that goes a bit beyond the scope of just RPG discussion and it's alumni. That being that, it really doesn't matter if Chris loses this case. That being said, don't misunderstand me: I too, want, hope, and think he will succeed in his efforts at striking back at subhumans who don't have a care in the world about who they hurt so long as they acquire social capital to leverage themselves on with their goals in life and aren't even smart enough to be cautious about opening their mouth. But really, I say it doesn't matter, because even if Chris loses this case, it shows that that people like Chris. People like us. People like me. That we make a difference, and put a dent into this sorry state-of-the-climate this world has become. It shows that no, false accusations are not in the fact the end of a man's life, and that while you certainly shouldn't put yourself in any position carelessly to go about that way, there are options. There are people learning, studying, rallying together to change everything at best, carve back out that small niche in the world where you can escape it all, at worst.
The worst mistake a man can make is simultaneously both being too trusting and overestimating his fellow man, and underestimating them at a distance as well. There is hope. Even if Chris loses this case? We'll probably know the details. We'll know what works, and what doesn't. It's like XCOM. You start out completely oblivious to the overarching menace from beyond your understanding in every way, only to research what you've seen time and time again used against you, and then you learn to use it, adapt it, modify it, and ultimately win with it.
Think of the devs we've got going on here at the codex. Think of the up-and-coming ones reading this right now, contemplating, just a step away from becoming one themselves, but hesitating due to this zeitgeist. If it isn't clear to you by now, good games with good cultures are still possible. What if it turned out this whole time that it was really only the codex's tendency to incline and decline that ironically was the real reason why we didn't ascend?
I ask you, codexian. What can a rabbid catlady feasting off nepotism with an IQ at room temperature do, that you can't do? Truly.
Ask not what good games have come out, ask what good games YOU, have coming out.
And MCA will win this case. Somewhere up in his head, through all the stress of it all, he's thinking about everyone here and he's giving a nostalgic chuckle at every reverence of him. Hell, he might even be reading this thread, right now. You never know in life. Life seriously has the weirdest ways of working out sometimes, and like someone wise once told me: "Happiness is a choice."
