Here's hoping that they at least don't get gulled by the fake Twitter and Facebook accounts. I swear, half the interest is in poking at the folks trolling, and trolling hard. A lot of folks are hooked on those lines, and damned if the feeding frenzy aspect of this is focused on those folks, as opposed to the asshat in question.

While some might argue there's no such thing as bad press, the extremely quick and negative attention generated by these emails among the tight-knit gaming community shows just how fast a company can go from unknown to infamous.

One would think someone doing marketing for/in that community would know better.

After I saw the conformation that N-Control dumped Ocean Marketing, I purchased an Avenger, as it looks like it'll make long Skyrim sessions easier on my hands.

I see no reason to penalize the company now that they fired the rude offender. Heck, from what I've read about them (before this incident), they do great things to help people with physical disabilities enjoy the same games the rest of us do.

You can never stop bad stuff from happening, but the fast response in terminating the marketing relationship once this came up means that I hope to see N-Control at PAX East.

I thought this was all over yesterday when the dude was fired, and the company he used to represent issued a massive mea culpa for letting continue to breathe?

This is glorious.

Actually... Maybe something good will come out of this.

From what I can tell, game controllers for the disabled are a niche boutique market, and rather pricy.

Perhaps some philanthropist, or better yet, another company that does the same kind of modifications, will get some limelight out of all this fail.

I know at least one soldier returning from Iraq this month who is an avid gamer, but has three less fingers thanks to an IED. I would like to see him have a controller that lets him continue to play on the same level as the friends he used to play with.

fireclown: Casual gamer checking in. What does this avenger thingie do that is so doubleplus awesome?

It is a modified controller originally designed to help those with deformities or disabilities involving their hands use the controller in a more natural way.

Lato: After I saw the conformation that N-Control dumped Ocean Marketing, I purchased an Avenger, as it looks like it'll make long Skyrim sessions easier on my hands.

I see no reason to penalize the company now that they fired the rude offender. Heck, from what I've read about them (before this incident), they do great things to help people with physical disabilities enjoy the same games the rest of us do.

You can never stop bad stuff from happening, but the fast response in terminating the marketing relationship once this came up means that I hope to see N-Control at PAX East.

Thank you, guy who totally doesn't work for N-Control or totally doesn't have something to lose from all this.

CCCarnie: Just last week I told myself: "I think I'm going to start reading Penny Arcade from the beginning. I haven't seen much of their early work."

Now I'm addicted to it, but I'm stuck. The increased traffic to their site has made it impossible to read the comic... And now everything redirects to the same page. I mean, I can still use Fark to amuse me when I don't feel like working... But I picked the worst time to try to catch up on Penny Arcade.

I just finished re-visiting the archives late last week. I really like the "Automata" minicomic they started. It's good, and I'd love to see more, preferably in graphic novel format.

Q: Why chop wood and carry water?

A: For wood and water.