Mimi wrote:
He is publicity hungry, like anyone who has not only taken on a cause but actually made it their livelihood to push it: this is only going to up his profile, get more people looking, dev=bating with him: increasing his circle of influence. He will feed off of this for a long time and will be loving it, so of course he is still going on about it because it makes sense to milk it for every drop of ire that he can.
I totally agree. His only mission in life in all the years I have known of him have been fame. Stu is a bit of a chameleon in that regard. Any time he can find some sort of cause to attach himself to and become the speaker for he will. At first it was about the price of video games. No one else was speaking up so Stu took it upon himself to lower the price of games here in the UK. He took to magazines, newspapers and then the TV, IIRC.
Once that had all died down and he felt he was successful he moved on to cheating fruit machines. However, it was the way he did that that still upsets and angers me to this day. Back then two guys were coding an emulator for nothing but casual use and reliving memories. Stu comes along and finds out (how he didn't know it before is a mystery, what a thick cunt) that fruit machines were mostly pre determined. IE - the game rom itself had already decided if you were going to win or lose before you had pressed the button. And dear lord, the fucking noise he made about it ! Once again he took what wasn't his in the first place (the emulator) and then used it for every wrong reason it was coded for, to attack the gaming industry.
Once again he was in magazines (and boasted about it on his website or by posting clippings etc) in newspapers and on the TV. And all the time this was going on the developers of these emulators begged him not to misuse them for things they weren't designed for. It could have gotten them in a lot of trouble legally. Did he listen? like fuck,
it's all about the cause and fuck any one (his own words) that doesn't agree !He then went on a TV show on BBC3 IIRC and sat and spouted off an unparalleled amount of bullshit. At one point he cracked out a very old computer SIMM (a stick of memory) and waffled on about game storage and so on. It was all so, so cringe worthy.
What did he get? well after all of his noise and fuss the gambling industry merely put a sticker on their machines stating that the outcome of the gamble may be pre determined.
All of that hurt, upset and "fuck you"s for a fucking sticker.
The only thing I have really seen since was him begging for free things to "review". A bean bag is it?
Only now Stu is all grown up and political and stuff and gets to swear at celebrities.
Some one mentioned Narcissism? Stu could give Narcissus a fucking run for his money.