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The sheer unprofessionalness is just boggling. 

Oh that's hilarious.

But also kinda tragic. I mean this Paul Christoforo guy clearly has some issues, no idea what the word "professionalism" means and probably no idea how to spell it. And chances are his amateurishness and personality problems have just sunk that company. I feel sorry for anyone employed by him since they've probably just lost their jobs.

Start placing your bets on how quickly his Facebook page gets wrecked  :grin:  https://www.facebook.com/PaulChristoforo

It's down as of this second, so in less an 3 hours...

Even GEICO (http://i.imgur.com/r5RCE.png) is keeping up with current trends  :awesome_for_real: :awesome_for_real: :awesome_for_real: :drill: :drill: :drill:

yeah keep shitting on me kids, remember I have your CC info from orders. Let's see how tough you are after some nigerians get em. #War

How did this guy even pass the sniff-test when he approached the Avenger people?

Regarding the litany of names Christoforo's e-mail called up as potential supporters — a list that included everyone from Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski to the mayor of Boston — he said the tactic was meant to "impress, not to threaten" and didn't come through correctly because "you can't see tone of voice in email."

"I don't know the mayor of Boston," he admitted. "That was taken totally out of context, I was just joking around. I am from Boston, though, and I know a lot of people who own clubs. I know some influential people, like the guy who runs the door at the convention center

"I don't know the mayor of Boston," he admitted. "That was taken totally out of context, I was just joking around.

Hi people, this is basic business acumen speaking: research the fuck out of anyone you hire.

This guy is either a smooth-as-shit talker in person or this is some friend-of-a-friend reference thing that got this presumably one-man PR firm hired to represent a company that even does a tiny amount of business with established websites. How did this guy even pass the sniff-test when he approached the Avenger people?

I can't look away from this, I tried and went to MSNBC but even they had an interview with him (http://ingame.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/28/9770514-chastened-gaming-rep-responds-to-internet-infamy). It's mostly the Paul guy blowing more smoke and being sorry he got caught, my favorite part:


So doormen are influential now? Awesome, I know influential people at a number of bars. Be impressed with me people of the internet....be impressed!

"If I had known, I would have treated the situation a little better."

Really? Is that supposed to be an apology? So you only act like a dick to people you don't think are important. Great policy, asshole.

The fact that he proceeds to even talk about Mike being "unprofessional" is laughable. It's disgusting that this man still has any semblance of a job in this industry. Fuck you, good sir.

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The only valid point is that his wife and child should not be involved. That's the unfortunate reality of pissing off the internet. The anonymous douches who will take it too far.

This guy is enough of an asshole himself. Focus on him, leave his family out of it.

Apparently I am now an Investigative Journalist or something.

I just got off the phone with Paul, and he had some vaguely interesting stuff to tell me about his relationship with David.

Firstly, they met in January this year, at CES, and they have worked on various things (such as Afternoon Artists, which they incorporated around August 2011), so the story that Paul was hired by David without him having any idea of his competence seems pretty unlikely.

He also said:

* The kid with the disability was the inspiration for the controller, according to David
* His friendship with David is "on the rocks right now but we are friends"
* He wasn't hired by David to deal with the marketing for the controller as much as he was "helping him in a limited capacity taking those customer service calls."
* He has no idea about the Amazon reviews - what they were or who wrote them. "I don't know what he does day-to-day - I'm in California and he's in Miami."

He really has no idea how badly he fucked up here, either. He's got interviews for Spike TV and Forbes lined up, and he's going to tell them the same stuff he told MSNBC, and that he told me - he had a bad day, and he figured that Penny Arcade/PAX wasn't really a big deal, so he felt justified in telling this guy to go fuck himself.

Right now he says he is in damage control mode - I made sure he'd got his girlfriend to set her facebook account to private for the time being - but he really doesn't understand why anybody thinks he's an idiot, and as long as that remains the case he's going to continue hurting himself. In a similar vein he was obviously upset that his criminal record had been posted but seemingly more concerned with it being posted than having people know what he had done: "people are vicious, they'll use anything to make you look evil."

I asked him how he felt about David and the other guys distancing themselves from him, and making him seem like he was just a bad hire. He said that he doesn't exactly feel like he's been hung out to dry, and that he is hopeful that the press release that is going to be put out ("they're going to put out a press release soon; I just got off the phone with them") will put him in a more positive light.

I would imagine that, given how David Kotkin has played it so far, he is completely hanging Paul out to dry, but I guess we'll see, if that press release ever surfaces.

That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Moisés Chiullan has had a busy day. Since he took over handling N-Control's PR after Roid Rage Nightmare Paul Christoforo, Chiullan has done a pretty masterful job of damage control. He's managed to very publicly disown and denounce Christoforo (going so far as to say that there "isn't a bus big enough for me to throw Paul Christoforo under) and has personally taken to Twitter to answer people's questions about the situation. Tonight, though, Chiullan set up a Reddit AMA to directly respond to all the questions and revealed that his predecessor isn't done making life difficult for N-Control: It turns out the man is trying to extort some serious cash from them

Just when you thought the story couldn't about Paul Christoforo couldn't get any more ridiculous,

There's always a bigger douchebag.