The screenshots you posted of Hugs prove absolutely nothing other than Hugs disagreed with how Berwyn was handled. He didn't prove that the quote was incorrect or altered in any sort of way. He should have easily been able to disprove what B said with a screenshot and didn't do so. So where is the proof that B lied? This leaves us with a direct quote, which Hugs didn't even attempt to actually refute in a he said she said where one side is understandably disgruntled and possibly has a bone to pick. I'm not going to just assume that B is a bad guy to fit your narrative with nothing to back it up. Just like I don't think Hugs is actually a bad person, but just reacted poorly in a moment of weakness. Is it possible? Yes, but only Hugs can prove that was how it went down and he didn't.
Him being gone for 8 months with no warning is by no means whatsoever okay, especially for a person who has done it before. The rules for writing companions are very clear about having to be active in the community. You don't always have to be writing specifically for your companion, but you do need to be reachable to some degree. I don't think it's crazy to expect you to at least attempt to learn the basics of the rules for companions before you levy accusations of the rules not being evenly applied.
Yeah, Balak looks like a dick right there and Savin should have stepped in earlier, but Will self admittedly just wasn't doing his job. If my work was incumbent on others completing theirs, I would be incredibly frustrated as well. You guys just seem to completely gloss over this like none of these people are human beings with faults. People get frustrated with coworkers all the time especially when something is a repeated issue. Most employers would have just fired Will outright and your screenshot just proves that they gave him at least two years to get his act together. It doesn't mean that they are beyond reproach, but they are far from evil for expecting people to do their work on time.
The first Bubble post looks like banter that may have gone too far more than anything and I would be interested to see what happened in the four hour gap. I would also say this is markedly different since they would assumedly have some sort of friendly working relationship and there's a stark contrast between that and random people who don't actually know any of them. We have no idea what their dynamics looked like outside of this and whether or not this is a repeated issue. If that's the case and it was genuinely bothering Bubble then this is problematic. Context is important and this one just doesn't have a whole lot. I would be interested to see if there was more of this floating around.
Franks literally wrote a character just to piss people off. I wouldn't take the word of somebody who wrote a xenophobic character to stir controversy at face value. Savin having a lot more creative control over what gets into his game likely contributed to any emnity between them.
I think the main problem here is a lot of the problems on the dev side happen behind closed doors so it's really hard to say whether these screenshots in particular are giving an accurate picture. Always be wary of singular cherry picked screenshots of chat logs where the main point is just to make a person look worse. The Balak screenshot is much better evidence as it proves that he was an asshole towards Will at some point, but not that it was a repeated incident. Especially so when it ends when Savin realized it was an issue and broke it up. And yeah, I'm defending the devs here because why would I defend you guys to yourselves. That would be weird. Overall I would mainly like to see more context and I hope other's will feel the same when looking at singular screenshots.
