Some Stuff from Error's Very Public Twitter Account

Here at Gamefaqs Users Against Censorship, we seek to not only inform but entertain. We've seen that everyone's favorite lead mod Error1355 can dish out some unflattering comments towards his critics, but what about the other side of the story? In the interest of balance, let's take a look at Error's twitter account and pick it apart, so that future recipients of his wrath will be on a more level playing field.

NOTE: by gamefaqs standards this is not harassment in any way - Error's messages are very public and depending on who you ask, bringing this up for belittlement purposes would truly be the adult, professional thing to do, just like when Error did it. Also I don't care because we aren't on gamefaqs.


What sort of picture can we paint here? The somewhat frequent tweet rate, combined with the job complaints, reveal a man who needs an outlet for his frustrations (don't we all) and who is willing to tell about strange or insignificant things in his life to anyone out in the wide wide web. Unfortunately, as the case often is on Twitter, there are so many messages, yet so few people who care.

Perhaps a little overcome by his twitter loneliness, one day Error decided to set up a challenge for himself:

Like many underappreciated individuals, Error found himself alone and in front of the TV for yet another night, possibly while making chocolate pudding.

A desperate plea for help? It was clear Error needed a companion. And he would leap into any bargain bin he could find to get one.

It's okay, we understand.

Since Error is one of those guys who tweets about pretty much anything, it wasn't a surprise that he'd inevitably bring up gamefaqs, where again, his talents are not appreciated enough.

For someone who doesn't seem to like his job on account of having to take complaints, was Error expecting to kick back and take it easy by volunteering to do more of it as a mod? Maybe it's all he knows. Maybe the control makes up for it. As Bill Watterson once wrote, "The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse."

Politics, politics, politics, Error gets complaints about politics. Some of them from me. Here's what he has to say.

Fair enough. Or as he once put it to me in an email, his stance is not to be a jackass. Which is fine, no one says you have to pick sides personally. But I will say, when it comes to picking what others get to say, then it becomes our business. Here's where you have to define what an "extreme" view is, why it's "offensive" and if it's moddable (because anyone can get offended over anything). Error's retweets come into play here.

We now have a clash of opinion. Error believes a conservative is equal to an extremist (so would all their opinions be offensive?) I think it's extreme to lump the wife of an American soldier in with a terrorist who wants to kill them both. Error's a mod, while I am not. Guess who wins?

I'm not one to go for these types of arguments myself, for at the same time it tries to insult someone by comparing them to a terrorist it also attempts to downplay what the terrorist is doing. It just comes off as a sleazy oversimplification that ignores real differences. We here at GUAC can surely slap together something just as easily. Here's a little piece we like to call Obamahitler:

But I suppose it could be worse...

We could be getting modded by this guy.

Anyway I wouldn't recommend wading through the sad, sad life of a disgruntled guy working at a call center and occasionally taking his anger out on gamefaqs users. That's why I do it for you and get the big bucks...at least ten times the pay you'll get for not doing it.

Let's not delve too much into his trippy, (intentionally) dated website beyond the passing mention. An artifact from his 13 year old self's newfound web prowess, or a domain to mark his gradual descent into madness? These questions will have to be answered some other time.