Sean Malstrom, The fanboy who ruined an internet community.
This is the story of a power tripping moderator who acted like a totalitarian dictator and shut down an internet community. Sean Malstrom was a developer for the Wii, he was admittedly low-skill developer who may have been making the type of games known as "shovelware", this person developed games for the Wii and I believe was a moderator for the 4chan /v/ - Videogames community. In the early days of the Wii there were very few games, a drought, and many shovelware tiles, many people who bought a Wii felt betrayed by Nintendo and wanted to vent their frustration, specially on 4chan /v/, but Malstrom being a mod and a shovelware developer felt personally offended by these criticisms for the company he worked for, and much like how in third world countries dictators will torture and shutdown any press or journalism critical of their regime, Malstrom decided to fully abuse his moderator powers to brainwash people on this community into being shovelware loving Nintendo fanboys, which was especially effective due to the board being Anonymous for everyone except mods who can read IP's, this gave the appearance that every time a mod frequently attacked someone they disliked that it was in fact the entire community against them and NOT a single person, on top of deleting any threads or posts he disliked and getting other mods and janitors of 4chan to harass, stalk, and bully people by their IP lead to massive brainwashing, and stockholm syndrome and Nintendo fanboyism on this internet community.
Malstrom would frequently spend all day long, 24/7, shilling (basically illegal and anonymous advertising on internet communities) that shovelware was going to kill off hardcore gamers, he would say abhorrently stupid things such as "A flood of shovelware is going to kill off the hardcore gamers, and the entire industry will be nothing but casual platformers forever, but at least it will be better than a hardcore videogame crash!" this was because Malstrom was a very untalented videogame developer who could only make extremely simplistic shovelware platformers, and he knew that hardcore gamers wanted games with actual quality put into them. Malstrom knew his games were lackluster and feltm offended every time people criticized the Wii for shovelware or casualization, and he must of not wanted this opinion to grow stronger since then Nintendo may have put stricter Quality Control standards on their consoles, not allowing malstrom to develop any more of his low-quality games for the Wii. This was especially bad, since many talented, mainly Japanese developers were being killed off by low-quality shovelware games flooding the market and pushing their games off of store shelves.
I knew this was all caused by Malstrom, because like a cartoon cat burgler, he'd leave his card, every time he shilled, and deleted posts, he would frequently leave a link to his blog. Malstrom wanted, more like demanded, that people who view him as some kind of savior or prophet of the videogame industry, even though he was doing everything in his power to kill off the videogame industry for his personal greedy agenda.
Malstrom would frequently repeat in Nintendo and anti-Nintendo threads (That weren't deleted instantly) that the Atari crash was caused by hardcore gamers, and the videogame industry needed shovelware to kill them off. I explained to Malstrom after maybe the 10th time he said it, something along the lines of "The Atari produced a massive amount of low-quality games, yet hardcore gamers are a small niche audience, so it seems that if the Atari was flooded with millions of copies of E.T. that they were trying too hard to appeal to casuals rather than too the hardcore, meaning the Atari crash was very clearly a casual videogame crash, though agree that the gamecube was too hardcore and it did cause Nintendo problems." yet he ignored this and kept spewing is ignorant garbage opinions that the Atari crash weas caused by hardcore gamers, and the videogame industry NEEDED shovelware to kill them off, but rather, Malstrom despite his lies was blatantly wrong, the Wii was walking dangerously close to the cliffside that was a casual videogame crash with the amount of shovelware it had, and the industry at the time, despite the failures of the gamecube, desperately needed to be just a little bit more hardcore, yet Malstrom squashed any complaints of criticism for the console, deleting any threads or posts that even slightly criticized Nintendo or shovelware. A hardcore videogame crash is like freezing to death, so Malstrom basically proclaimed that we should burn to death under casualization instead, rather than find a balance. He was a delusional, insane, power-hungry, greedy, shovelware developer, who wanted to be seen as God of the videogame industry.
Malstrom raped, molested, ruined, and brainwashed my beloved internet community for a good 3 years I'd say. Nowadays /v/ has hundreds of anti-Sony threads a month, but back in 2007-2008, not even one anti-Nintendo thread a month was allowed, you had to go to a different internet community to complain about Nintendo. /v/ was once the bastion of unbiased videogame opinions, but suddenly became a Nintendo biased slum, where even the 13 year olds on GameFAQ's had much smarter opinions, and yes GameFAQ's was a far better community than /v/ objectively speaking, since /v/ worshipped casuals and hated the hardcore, but communities like GameFAQ's or reddit are much more casual, meaning by their brainwashed logic those communities are far superior.
Malstrom seems to be a right-wing person, yet he pushed so many far-left-wing beliefs on /v/, it honestly felt like he was parroting the communist manifesto in the form of Nintendo fanboyism and I'll even give an example to prove it. Karl Marx said he wanted to destroy capitalism and eventually live in primitive self-ruled communes, like cutting off your nose to spite your face, Marx would tear down society and all its selfish benefits for a bit of martyrdom pride, yet Malstrom was similar in that respect, Malstrom said "One day the videogame insdustry wil be nothing but shovelware platformers, but at least it will be better than a hardcore videogame crash!" was like Karl Marx saying "One day we'll all live in primitive communes, but it will be better than when capitalism self destructs and crashes!" both are very pessimistic views that want to throw away something good for basically nothing, because of some inane logic dictating that the sky is going to fall if you don't sacrifice something important. Marx convinced many people to believe in the self-righteous ideology of communism and in many ways Malstrom did exactly the same thing, Malstrom told /v/ that they basically needed to martyr themselves and die off for the sake of casuals, and /v/ wanted to be righteous believed Malstrom's lies and instead became self-righteous Nintendo communists, attacking any opinions remotely anti-Nintendo, and worshiping their demise at the hands of casualization.
Years later Nintendo has redeemed itself in many ways, doing the exact opposite of what Malstrom wanted, including reducing the amount of shovelware on their consoles, garnering third party support, uncensoring videogames, many things that appeal to hardcore gamers, yet despite that Nintendo still has never abandoned casuals, they have simply made amends for abandoning the hardcore. The point of appealing to the hardcore, was never for nintendo to abandon casuals, as Malstrom repeatedly miscontrued (purposefully to garner simpathy for shovelware), but the coexist with the hardcore and NOT throw them undern the bus for casuals.
I remember giving up at one point, and accepting Malstrom as being right, and me being wrong, yet despite so humbly admitting defeat from the very depths of my heart and soul, Malstrom kept being evil, and kept spewing garbage. Malstrom said no matter how much the hardcore would compromise for casuals, they would inevitably be killed off, and would never be allowed to, find their own place in the videogame industry. Like how communists killed off their intellectuals, Malstrom wanted to kill off thew hardcore, despite them wanting peace with casuals, Malstrom basically wanted to genocide them from existence. Malstrom had communist style beliefs, I imagine he believed in his delusional head were conservative and right-wing, Malstrom wanted a stale, boring sterile, completely casualized industry where hardcore videogame enthusiasts would be shunned and neglected of their purehearted love for videogames. Yet, if that is Malstrom's belief, that a flood of casual shovelware should kill off the hardcore, then if we went even more conservative, then shouldn't a flood of non-fiction books come and kill off videogame companies like Nintendo? Maybe we can go even further and just extinguish life itself, the universe, perhaps being permanently infinitely unhappy is the peek of the "conservatism" he preached.
Of course, all of this happened right after I got over my addiction for an extremely abusive and hardcore videogame called World Of Warcraft, a bought a Wii hoping I'd finally find happiness, instead I got a videogame drought and mentally sodomized by some power hungry delusional fool. Now it's 2019, and Malstrom is praising the tumor that was Classic WoW, even though it had shit all over its casual player base, he seems to be inamored with it. Youm know Malstrom, I legitamately tried my very hardest to accept YOU were right, and I was WRONG, do you know how hard and rare it is for a human being to go to those mental depths? Yet, despite obeying your commands, you never gave me what I deserved, you never gave me the most basic, and intrinsic right every living being in this universe is entitled to, and that's happiness, and because Malstrom, bercause you and you're foolish logic never made me happy, even when I tried my hardest to believe in it, that's how I know from the bottom of my heart, soul, and mind, that you were completely wrong. If you, now, admit to your mistakes though, I'm sure you won't suffer even 1/10th of the mental anguish and torture I went through dealing with you. I'm sure you'll grow a wiser, more well adjusted person, because I remember admnitting that YOU were right, and it simply caused me to go insane. The truth though should always bring sanity and happiness with it, but you preached insanity to many people.
Malstrom made /v/ believe that hardcore gamers were evil, that they didn't understand that casuals were an important aspect of the industry. Reality is Malstrom was simply exaggerating to garner simpathy for his casual shovelware games he was making on the Wii, and hardcore gamers simply wanted to be respected as a consumer even if they are smaller market than casuals. Though Malstrom made /v/ believe they should martyr themselves for a casual industry that will never appeal to their interests or make them happy, that they should just give Nintendo money and buy shovelware games and be grateful for the opportunity. But even if casuals are more important for the industry financially, /v/ as a hardcore videogame industry has no interest in casual games, so no matter how much money casuals make, for the sake of our own selfish, capitalist interest, casualization will never matter unless it benefits us, and that's al I wanted. I was willing to compromise with casuals, accept second place, if nintendo would just throw the starving hardcore a bone, but even that was too much for the evil greedy, shovelware developer named Malstrom, he truly believed hardcore gaming should die off and the industry should be nothing but casual shovelware garbage games made by him. I was willing to accept Malstrom was right, accept second place to casuals, but Malstrom crossed the line into pure evil territory when he said repeaterdly hardcore gaming should die off completely and never exist again in any way, shape or form.
/v/ became Malstrom's dream come true, a 100% Nintendo biased board, where they believed all his lies, just like how Kim Jong Un preached he was God incarnate, Malstrom preached he and his shovelware was the savior of videogames, and /v/ believed him.
In the end Malstrom taking over my internet community traumatized me, in a period where I was being abused by my brain damaged mother which was related to a Vanilla WoW addiction, Malstrom was the straw that broke the camels back in my life, and I forgive him, he probably has a form of severe aspergers syndrome, but i did stop playing videogames for 10 years, and no longer am a hardcore videogamer, am basically a huge casual, the irony. Though my intentions of being a hardcore gamer were honestly good, I didn't hate casuals, I acknoledged they were necessary, I just didn't believe we as a community of hardcore gamers, should be killed off by them like Malstrom wanted. I wanted /v/ to stand up to Nintendo and casuals when we were being treaded on, but Malstrom convinced /v/ that somehow casuals wre being abused instead and THEY were the victims. I'm sorry for saying Malstrom that you shouldn't have any videogame opinions, I hope you do many good things for the videogame industry from now one, I just wish you'd acknoledge that the manipulation of an internet community, and shilling, was completely immoral and wrong.
Malstrom, I am a hardcore gamer, I'm proud of it, I don't hate casuals, but you have to understand, casuals will never be more important than me, or less important, like the communist manifesto you preached casuals should kill off hardcore gamers, in the same way Karl Marx preached that the poor should kill off the rich. Well actually, I am no longer a hardcore gamer, you got your satanic wish and I stopped playing videogames for 10 years and became a casual, but i will say that I am likely the only true hardcore gamer ever to have existed and i died and was crucified for the sake of casuals, and i forgive them.
This article is currently unfinished and will eventually be rewitten or revised but in case I end up too busy with life and never get the chance to organize my thoughts, I will just post this and put it out there
Malstrom would frequently spend all day long, 24/7, shilling (basically illegal and anonymous advertising on internet communities) that shovelware was going to kill off hardcore gamers, he would say abhorrently stupid things such as "A flood of shovelware is going to kill off the hardcore gamers, and the entire industry will be nothing but casual platformers forever, but at least it will be better than a hardcore videogame crash!" this was because Malstrom was a very untalented videogame developer who could only make extremely simplistic shovelware platformers, and he knew that hardcore gamers wanted games with actual quality put into them. Malstrom knew his games were lackluster and feltm offended every time people criticized the Wii for shovelware or casualization, and he must of not wanted this opinion to grow stronger since then Nintendo may have put stricter Quality Control standards on their consoles, not allowing malstrom to develop any more of his low-quality games for the Wii. This was especially bad, since many talented, mainly Japanese developers were being killed off by low-quality shovelware games flooding the market and pushing their games off of store shelves.
I knew this was all caused by Malstrom, because like a cartoon cat burgler, he'd leave his card, every time he shilled, and deleted posts, he would frequently leave a link to his blog. Malstrom wanted, more like demanded, that people who view him as some kind of savior or prophet of the videogame industry, even though he was doing everything in his power to kill off the videogame industry for his personal greedy agenda.
Malstrom would frequently repeat in Nintendo and anti-Nintendo threads (That weren't deleted instantly) that the Atari crash was caused by hardcore gamers, and the videogame industry needed shovelware to kill them off. I explained to Malstrom after maybe the 10th time he said it, something along the lines of "The Atari produced a massive amount of low-quality games, yet hardcore gamers are a small niche audience, so it seems that if the Atari was flooded with millions of copies of E.T. that they were trying too hard to appeal to casuals rather than too the hardcore, meaning the Atari crash was very clearly a casual videogame crash, though agree that the gamecube was too hardcore and it did cause Nintendo problems." yet he ignored this and kept spewing is ignorant garbage opinions that the Atari crash weas caused by hardcore gamers, and the videogame industry NEEDED shovelware to kill them off, but rather, Malstrom despite his lies was blatantly wrong, the Wii was walking dangerously close to the cliffside that was a casual videogame crash with the amount of shovelware it had, and the industry at the time, despite the failures of the gamecube, desperately needed to be just a little bit more hardcore, yet Malstrom squashed any complaints of criticism for the console, deleting any threads or posts that even slightly criticized Nintendo or shovelware. A hardcore videogame crash is like freezing to death, so Malstrom basically proclaimed that we should burn to death under casualization instead, rather than find a balance. He was a delusional, insane, power-hungry, greedy, shovelware developer, who wanted to be seen as God of the videogame industry.
Malstrom raped, molested, ruined, and brainwashed my beloved internet community for a good 3 years I'd say. Nowadays /v/ has hundreds of anti-Sony threads a month, but back in 2007-2008, not even one anti-Nintendo thread a month was allowed, you had to go to a different internet community to complain about Nintendo. /v/ was once the bastion of unbiased videogame opinions, but suddenly became a Nintendo biased slum, where even the 13 year olds on GameFAQ's had much smarter opinions, and yes GameFAQ's was a far better community than /v/ objectively speaking, since /v/ worshipped casuals and hated the hardcore, but communities like GameFAQ's or reddit are much more casual, meaning by their brainwashed logic those communities are far superior.
Malstrom seems to be a right-wing person, yet he pushed so many far-left-wing beliefs on /v/, it honestly felt like he was parroting the communist manifesto in the form of Nintendo fanboyism and I'll even give an example to prove it. Karl Marx said he wanted to destroy capitalism and eventually live in primitive self-ruled communes, like cutting off your nose to spite your face, Marx would tear down society and all its selfish benefits for a bit of martyrdom pride, yet Malstrom was similar in that respect, Malstrom said "One day the videogame insdustry wil be nothing but shovelware platformers, but at least it will be better than a hardcore videogame crash!" was like Karl Marx saying "One day we'll all live in primitive communes, but it will be better than when capitalism self destructs and crashes!" both are very pessimistic views that want to throw away something good for basically nothing, because of some inane logic dictating that the sky is going to fall if you don't sacrifice something important. Marx convinced many people to believe in the self-righteous ideology of communism and in many ways Malstrom did exactly the same thing, Malstrom told /v/ that they basically needed to martyr themselves and die off for the sake of casuals, and /v/ wanted to be righteous believed Malstrom's lies and instead became self-righteous Nintendo communists, attacking any opinions remotely anti-Nintendo, and worshiping their demise at the hands of casualization.
Years later Nintendo has redeemed itself in many ways, doing the exact opposite of what Malstrom wanted, including reducing the amount of shovelware on their consoles, garnering third party support, uncensoring videogames, many things that appeal to hardcore gamers, yet despite that Nintendo still has never abandoned casuals, they have simply made amends for abandoning the hardcore. The point of appealing to the hardcore, was never for nintendo to abandon casuals, as Malstrom repeatedly miscontrued (purposefully to garner simpathy for shovelware), but the coexist with the hardcore and NOT throw them undern the bus for casuals.
I remember giving up at one point, and accepting Malstrom as being right, and me being wrong, yet despite so humbly admitting defeat from the very depths of my heart and soul, Malstrom kept being evil, and kept spewing garbage. Malstrom said no matter how much the hardcore would compromise for casuals, they would inevitably be killed off, and would never be allowed to, find their own place in the videogame industry. Like how communists killed off their intellectuals, Malstrom wanted to kill off thew hardcore, despite them wanting peace with casuals, Malstrom basically wanted to genocide them from existence. Malstrom had communist style beliefs, I imagine he believed in his delusional head were conservative and right-wing, Malstrom wanted a stale, boring sterile, completely casualized industry where hardcore videogame enthusiasts would be shunned and neglected of their purehearted love for videogames. Yet, if that is Malstrom's belief, that a flood of casual shovelware should kill off the hardcore, then if we went even more conservative, then shouldn't a flood of non-fiction books come and kill off videogame companies like Nintendo? Maybe we can go even further and just extinguish life itself, the universe, perhaps being permanently infinitely unhappy is the peek of the "conservatism" he preached.
Of course, all of this happened right after I got over my addiction for an extremely abusive and hardcore videogame called World Of Warcraft, a bought a Wii hoping I'd finally find happiness, instead I got a videogame drought and mentally sodomized by some power hungry delusional fool. Now it's 2019, and Malstrom is praising the tumor that was Classic WoW, even though it had shit all over its casual player base, he seems to be inamored with it. Youm know Malstrom, I legitamately tried my very hardest to accept YOU were right, and I was WRONG, do you know how hard and rare it is for a human being to go to those mental depths? Yet, despite obeying your commands, you never gave me what I deserved, you never gave me the most basic, and intrinsic right every living being in this universe is entitled to, and that's happiness, and because Malstrom, bercause you and you're foolish logic never made me happy, even when I tried my hardest to believe in it, that's how I know from the bottom of my heart, soul, and mind, that you were completely wrong. If you, now, admit to your mistakes though, I'm sure you won't suffer even 1/10th of the mental anguish and torture I went through dealing with you. I'm sure you'll grow a wiser, more well adjusted person, because I remember admnitting that YOU were right, and it simply caused me to go insane. The truth though should always bring sanity and happiness with it, but you preached insanity to many people.
Malstrom made /v/ believe that hardcore gamers were evil, that they didn't understand that casuals were an important aspect of the industry. Reality is Malstrom was simply exaggerating to garner simpathy for his casual shovelware games he was making on the Wii, and hardcore gamers simply wanted to be respected as a consumer even if they are smaller market than casuals. Though Malstrom made /v/ believe they should martyr themselves for a casual industry that will never appeal to their interests or make them happy, that they should just give Nintendo money and buy shovelware games and be grateful for the opportunity. But even if casuals are more important for the industry financially, /v/ as a hardcore videogame industry has no interest in casual games, so no matter how much money casuals make, for the sake of our own selfish, capitalist interest, casualization will never matter unless it benefits us, and that's al I wanted. I was willing to compromise with casuals, accept second place, if nintendo would just throw the starving hardcore a bone, but even that was too much for the evil greedy, shovelware developer named Malstrom, he truly believed hardcore gaming should die off and the industry should be nothing but casual shovelware garbage games made by him. I was willing to accept Malstrom was right, accept second place to casuals, but Malstrom crossed the line into pure evil territory when he said repeaterdly hardcore gaming should die off completely and never exist again in any way, shape or form.
/v/ became Malstrom's dream come true, a 100% Nintendo biased board, where they believed all his lies, just like how Kim Jong Un preached he was God incarnate, Malstrom preached he and his shovelware was the savior of videogames, and /v/ believed him.
In the end Malstrom taking over my internet community traumatized me, in a period where I was being abused by my brain damaged mother which was related to a Vanilla WoW addiction, Malstrom was the straw that broke the camels back in my life, and I forgive him, he probably has a form of severe aspergers syndrome, but i did stop playing videogames for 10 years, and no longer am a hardcore videogamer, am basically a huge casual, the irony. Though my intentions of being a hardcore gamer were honestly good, I didn't hate casuals, I acknoledged they were necessary, I just didn't believe we as a community of hardcore gamers, should be killed off by them like Malstrom wanted. I wanted /v/ to stand up to Nintendo and casuals when we were being treaded on, but Malstrom convinced /v/ that somehow casuals wre being abused instead and THEY were the victims. I'm sorry for saying Malstrom that you shouldn't have any videogame opinions, I hope you do many good things for the videogame industry from now one, I just wish you'd acknoledge that the manipulation of an internet community, and shilling, was completely immoral and wrong.
Malstrom, I am a hardcore gamer, I'm proud of it, I don't hate casuals, but you have to understand, casuals will never be more important than me, or less important, like the communist manifesto you preached casuals should kill off hardcore gamers, in the same way Karl Marx preached that the poor should kill off the rich. Well actually, I am no longer a hardcore gamer, you got your satanic wish and I stopped playing videogames for 10 years and became a casual, but i will say that I am likely the only true hardcore gamer ever to have existed and i died and was crucified for the sake of casuals, and i forgive them.
This article is currently unfinished and will eventually be rewitten or revised but in case I end up too busy with life and never get the chance to organize my thoughts, I will just post this and put it out there
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