The Mittani encouraged others to go after someone[i] in order to drive them to suicide

...CCP is complicit in this whole fiasco. No wonder they're locking every thread about the situation except this one buried in the Dev blogs that are about as navigable as a maze with no exit.

Should real authorities get involved I would not want to be Hilmar.

There is a huge difference between what he said in that video and what he said at Fanfest. To use that recording as any evidence of the Fanfest debacle being "premeditated" is simple posturing. Get over yourself.

Right, because anytime someone says they're going to do something and then does it, it's completely unrelated. Got me there. I bow to your prowess of logic.

Unfortunately for Mitanni, that video coupled with a prepared slide, the former telegraphing his plan for fanfast & the latter facilitating it, is a clear line of evidence that would indeed support that it was premeditated.

But not the intellect to understand this is exactly what happens in cases of bullying right up until it goes too far. Go read about bullying, cases that have seen the light of day and you'll see parents and friends stating exactly what you have, "They were joking., "They didn't mean it", "They're good kids". And yet a child was driven to the point of suicide. To blame the dead child for not HTFU is the very definition of sociopathic. Alex is an adult, a lawyer, and should already be aware of this. I can only conclude that he's a poor adult and a horrible lawyer. Perhaps that's why some people say he's a former lawyer. *shrugs* I don't really know either way and I don't really care what he does for a living. I do know he's an adult that for what ever reason, perhaps a lack of self-esteem, is pandering to the worst adolescent behavior. Even sadder is CCP's complicity in this....supposedly a group of adults and professionals.

But not the intellect to understand this is exactly what happens in cases of bullying right up until it goes too far. Go read about bullying, cases that have seen the light of day and you'll see parents and friends stating exactly what you have, "They were joking., "They didn't mean it", "They're good kids". And yet a child was driven to the point of suicide. Alex on the other hand is an adult, a lawyer, and should already be aware of this. I can only conclude that he's a poor adult and a horrible lawyer.

Except the part outlining how he's going to present, in front of thousands of people at fanfest, people for whom Mitanni wants to commit suicide.

From your reply I've never seen a more clear cut case of selective perception.

I'm sorry, did you miss the part where he DID single out a specific player to the point of spelling his name for the benefit of drunken associates?

He overstepped the mark by combining the two. He didn't just indicate the vulnerable player, he indicated him specifically in the context of that kind of 'catchphrase'.

I'm sure you'll agree that a major element in the whole clusterfuck is that a phrase that is actually quite serious and is treated as having serious implications if used towards people in RL has become overly trivialised in the minds of many eve players, to the extent that they forget WHY it is offensive and only remember THAT it is offensive.

All I can say is, another Mitanni alt detected. It's not even a nice try Alex. It's a sorry attempt to unlink a clear line of evidence.

Now, if only people would accept that there was a genuine problem and not a 'non-event' then there would really be nothing left to talk about