I left ResetEra a bit back after talking about how much of a slimeball Avellone is. I was met with the usual response of how Avellone should be deified and not questioned, which hurt considering present company, and left in shame.
Now it's all coming out. I'm glad people are pointing out all of the things he's not only done but written, too. I mean, if you spend all of your time doing nothing but writing about psychopaths doing psychopathic things, and then enforcing suffering, death, and even genocide without the agency that the games he writes for are supposed to have? That's probably not the sign of the sane mind. In fact, I'm seein ga lot of cases where if a writer writes insane things, they're probably not doing too well.
I've known about him being on Alt-Right festering cesspit and general hellhole RPGCodex for about, oh, two decades now? He used to have some very juicy interviews, the worst of which have been pulled down so that they can't be used against them. There was one memorable one where he described a fellow employee as a "fat bitch," and then went on to talk about how dare she question him, and how he's going to use his connections to make her life hell and maybe get her fired. Avellone's not a nice guy.
What Avellone is fantastic at, however, is creating a cult of personality. He hasn't even written that much, and what he has written is pseudointellectual nihilism, psychopathy, misogyny, and general awfulness that's made the games his works have appeared in worse. Unless anyone thinks that having Durance present in Pillars of Eternity enriches that experience, somehow. Same for that rapist shithead he wrote in Fallout 2, I forget that character's name but anyone who's played it knows whom I'm talking about.
I mean, Ulysses in Lonesome Road was basically just a soapbox for Avellone and how much he hates humanity and wants to see everyone suffer. He's just kind of like that. He's never been well in the head. Someone who's well in the head doesn't claim an IP after helping out with the second game, where they had no input on the first. Yep, the Fallout Bible, where he'd contradict other, senior writers regularly. It was all part of his effort to build a cult of personality around himself.
At the time? I hated that. I hated how he had this giant cadre of ignorant drones who believed that he was the lead writer on a bunch of games he'd barely touched. I mean, he only wrote one two-bit character for the entirety of New Vegas and that was it. Yes, he did some writing for the DLCs as well but that was a case of spot the psychopaths, you could easily figure out what his inclusions were. Speaking of his two-bit character, he wrote her to die to prove that douchey, misogynistic guys always win.
I have no trouble believing in his sex-pestery. I mean, after all he's written and all of the stuff he's said on RPGCodex. I mean, if you saw half of the things he wrote on RPGCodex... It was only a matter of time.
Not being a part of his cult of personality, I just saw him for the incredibly douchey, horrible person he was. Every time he opened his trap it would be to hurt someone, to claim credit for work others did, to pump himself up, or to promote some psychopahtic idea. I remember him talking about how cruel psychopaths were the most compelling kind of characters for him because of course they are. Evil, in general, is just more compelling. No intelligent person wants to be the good guy, according to AVellone. I really can't stand him.
I'm just... i'm glad it's all coming out. I'm waiting to watch him fail at this SLAPP case, get SLAPPbacked (I will cheer), and then disappear so that his taint will never darken any video game ever again. I can live without Ulysseses, Durances, Fanes, and their ilk in the roleplaying games I play. I think we all can.
ah yes, seethe cope and dilate libtard.... ur tears are delicious 
. I guess he is only partly cuck, he is also based and 
