On Kickstarter updates, John Sleazepaniak admitted that he spent money out of the book budget (i.e., money that was given by backers) to pay someone to translate emails from the interpreters, so that he could then whine about their unprofessionalism. And had the balls to complain that the interpeters were using up the backers' money by making him do such things. Of course, he did this in the most hyperbolic way -- by calling them sociopaths, the worst people he'd ever known, and whining about "persecution" (I know a lot of people who would take issue with his use of "persecution" there).
After an insult-filled tirade, John Sleazepaniak then said that he intends to include details in the book of how/why the money was spent, so that backers know what really happened. In other words, he's planning to PUT THIS MADNESS IN PRINT.
And then! After basically saying he's going to smear all these people in print, he acts incredulous in a subsequent Kickstarter update when he finds out that the targets of his wrath don't want the book to be published (no doubt because they were reading his updates).
John Sleazepaniak's posts alone provide enough "facts" for me to decide that he is the one at fault in this fiasco. Hearing the story from the other side just reaffirms it. As far as I'm concerned, HG101 is dead to me unless they kick this goon to the curb.
