Glad to see he came out of this on top. He's one of my favorites in the industry; amazing writer and team lead. It's also good he got a good paycheck out of this. Those two jackasses definitely cost him work over the last couple of years.
It is odd he is advocating for them when they are the cause of this situation . But I have met rare people like that who are very forgiving . Not many though.
We don’t know all the details so who knows. It does seem like they all got paid, but that’s is conjecture .
There seems to be no punishment in accusing people for crimes they didn't commit. At least not when it comes to [email protected] and physical abuse from men to women.
@sinceforever it's legally settled, I wouldn't wanna be reminded of the situation daily either by throwing them under the bus on twitter daily, even when that would be justified. Also if he applies for a new job, it's never a good look to have your socials filled with trying to give them payback, even when he is in the right.
At the end of the day Karissa Barrows and Kelly Rae Bristol lie and got caught. They could not sustain their lies in from of the judge. And also the wording of the title should be different and most honest. It makes it sound like they have reached a settlement where Chris is the one that yielded when it was the accusers that got caught lying, they are the ones who had to settle. It is a shame, although he got paid large sum his reputation is still ruined, I don't think that he will be working again after that.
Ideally he should have held out for convictions for those liars. But I understand the financial pressure he is under - he is now a pariah in his chosen field of work despite the facts, and his attorneys are probably getting a ton of this money anyways. However, if I were him, the terms would have included a public admission and apology from the two lying liars. Not the milquetoast “we were misunderstood” bullshit. They publicly accused him falsely, so they need to admit it and apologize to him in front of the world.
So it's took the best part of 3 years and all the legal fees and costs, also potentially destroying a man's life to get to the 2 signatures of he didn't do any sexual abusing or anything for that matter Couldn't the 2 women have said that 3 years ago 🤔 sounds to me like 2 women trying to stick together to get a retirement package while ruining a man's life.
Imo those who make false allegations and are proven wrong should be punished I have seen this happen so many times over the years to those who are innocent. The ones who make the false allegations get away with it barely get a slap on the wrist while the accused gets their name dragged through the mud and nobody will see that person the same way anymore.
The sad part is once you're accused, your reputation is never the same even if you're completely exonerated. Bogus charges should have serious consequences like jail time or huge fees.
As long as there’s a difference between losing a case and blatant lying then I’m all for it. Liars should have to go on all social media outlets and tv holding up a sign that says “ I tried to destroy a human life by lying and I failed.”
Yeah, this whole situation with Chris Avellone (and others, like Zoё Quinn lied about Alec Holowka, etc) reminds me of a movie, «Jagten» (The Hunt) with Mads Mikkelsen.
Don't want to spoil, but *SPOILER ALERT* a lie lead to Mikkelsen character becoming an outcast, friends turning away from him and trying to hurt him in any way possible. And even when he proved he didn't do what she said and the little girl said she lied, people still didn't forgive him. So the character did absolutely nothing wrong, but people didn't care.*/END SPOILER ALERT*
A lot of adults acts like kids nowadays no kids behave BETTER mane they believe every damn thing, this recently happened to someone else too they played the camera footage back and it was just a casual convo the man didn’t even inappropriately touch the lady but folks still accused smh a big part of society is filled with idiots lol
I used to be a full on supporter of the me too movement. Now I see how many lives it’s ruined… (not everyone who has been wronged is getting 7 figure settlements). There has to be a better way of holding people who deserve it accountable. I no longer judge until I see all of the facts. What a sad and disappointing result that shows the pettiness of humans.
Society has been broken down into a whole bunch of dialogue over things that don’t matter nearly as much as class dynamics. This is planned and supported by the corporate class. Working class solidarity cannot exist if we’re constantly arguing over petty shite. All working people (men, women, and non-binary people) are getting screwed every which way economically. We should shut up about everything else and focus on that. The pronouns that someone uses and which celebrity is (allegedly) a jerk are far less important than what your bank account looks like at the end of the month.
There are men that are assholes and there are women that are assholes . It’s really hard to tell which is which when people lie so much. We rarely get all of the facts in these cases really. You have to be there to know the true facts for sure
So annoying. Dying Light 2's story SUCKED because they scrapped all of his work. What ever happened to, "innocent until proven guilty"?
Sucks that he got such a bad rep and he will most likely lose some work because his name is already damaged. Hopefully he will have an opportunity to get his foot in the door again and continue to help make great games :) I hope Techland feels like idiots. They fucked up so bad.
99% of these people claiming these #metoos are all fake and trying to get settlements. They almost always find in favor of the false accused. These women (and sometimes men) need to get a damn job and stop trying to ruin lives.
It really showed how screwed the modern day dynamics are that the false accusers are trying to gaslight the general public by claiming they never made their past accusations and Avellone is forced to go along with it or the false accusers could have dragged this out even longer which would have resulted in the cloud hanging over him and more lost income and distress.
I've been in workplaces and seen false accusations made by both sexes and the false accusers rarely had any real consequences while the accused endured shame, abuse and loss of standing within the company.
In one case I saw an over 65yo gay man falsely accused of SH by a 18yo female who he had told off multiple times for constantly using her phone, not working and ignoring customers and other staff and even though he was innocent and cleared by the companies investigation he was forced to move to branch over 1 and a half hours from his home. He died of heart failure 6 months later and at the funeral I was told by his relatives he'd aged more in the 3 months after the initial accusation then the prior 10 years. The 18yo female suffered no repercussions and continues to work at the branch on a casual basis (the company won't fire her because of the potential bad optics but they also don't want to give her more hours as she simply doesn't want to work while at work and has a very bad attitude).
So in this case at least the false accuser was rewarded with ongoing employment albeit with limited hours as the company now knows the type of person they're dealing with.
This older man would occasionally offer lifts to people if they'd walked or taken public transport to work and some people labelled this as creepy. He offered me a lift once when my car was being repair at a mechanic's workshop. This is the world we live in now where even good deeds are punished so it's little wonder people increasingly keeping to themselves.
Maybe he can take over that KOTOR remake now
Glad to see he came out of this on top. He's one of my favorites in the industry; amazing writer and team lead. It's also good he got a good paycheck out of this. Those two jackasses definitely cost him work over the last couple of years.
Unfortunately the damage is done, and most will continue to see him as the villain regardless of what was decided in court.
So in the end he gets paid and then asks that all respect the privacy of them two lying tricks? That’s strange as Hell.
Sounds like everyone got paid to just forget about it. Otherwise I would think those two would have been held accountable for telling a blatant lie.
At the end of the day Karissa Barrows and Kelly Rae Bristol lie and got caught. They could not sustain their lies in from of the judge.
And also the wording of the title should be different and most honest. It makes it sound like they have reached a settlement where Chris is the one that yielded when it was the accusers that got caught lying, they are the ones who had to settle.
It is a shame, although he got paid large sum his reputation is still ruined, I don't think that he will be working again after that.