I guess I don't understand how the internet works or I missed something there.
It appears that if you direct message someone on the internet, you're a "stalker"? So, Josh or Doug messaging someone directly to try and solve their problem with LRG makes them look bad?
That just reads to me like someone on the internet feels attacked because the person they anonymously complained about actually responded directly to them and that became an invasion of privacy.... or something.
Maybe I should tweet something about that in-stock distro title I ordered almost a month ago to see if Doug/Josh want to "stalk" me and help me get it to ship. I won't complain.
On a side note, I just noticed a bunch of LRG e-mails about soon-to-be-shipped product in my spam folder. I guess there's more about to ship than I thought (including the Casltevania Fan Bundle). And, of course, there was also some came I have zero memory of. I don't even remember what it was now. I'll just let myself be surprised.
Assuming you're talking about the second tweet series, there's more context to it and it's probably not all in the chain so that's my bad.
The guy who Doug kept DMing is SeafoamGaming. He was a big LRG fan from early on, and was relatively close to Josh and Doug. They bought the Shiren PC version from ages ago and were the main one that publicized the issues with it - namely, that it included a download code rather than the jewel case and game disc that it was advertised to have. In the wake of the noise he made, Josh made some tweets that were conspicuous (either via intent or poor wording):
https://twitter.com/SeafoamGaming/status/1547661987621900290
Meanwhile, Doug started DMing him asking how they (LRG) could make it up to him and his answer was (perhaps obviously) getting the game case and disc that were promised. They eventually got him a jewel case, but supposedly lost the rights to the game itself and have since been unable to produce a disc. So LRG pissed off Seafoam by not delivering what they advertised, and it created friction between people who were formerly on good terms. Bridges burned and bad blood all around.
Since that time, it's come out that LRG knew about the code-for-disc swap months in advance and sent nothing to the affected parties, despite it sitting for a month in their warehouse while other stuff shipped out. Between the time the games were packaged and delivered was approximately three months, with absolutely 0 communication. To LRG's credit, when things did blow up they did produce the empty jewel cases and refunded people, but you can imagine how the additional detail coming to light would galvanize an already tense situation.
Since then, Seafoam has been very publicly critical of LRG (a la this article:
https://seafoamgaming.com/2021/11/25/limited-run-games-quality-control-is-out-of-control/). For a long time, Doug and Josh had blocked Seafoam and then last month (after about eight months), Doug started reaching out to Seafoam via DM when he'd tweet about LRG, and would occasionally subtweet the issues Seafoam was commenting on:
https://twitter.com/SeafoamGaming/status/1547064273817436160
From Doug's perspective I imagine he was just trying to mend the issues, and I don't know that I'd personally use the word "stalker", but it does come across as very tonedeaf and socially inept.
