it appears he changed the name to @oceanstratagy

edit: i gave him too much credit and spelled strategy correctly when in reality he has again gone for a different spelling

PJFrylar

United States350 Posts

December 27 2011 19:07 GMT

#23

I really can't believe he carried on the way he did. He had to have known it was career suicide and would lead to nothing good.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-christoforo/1/295/835
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-christoforo/4/492/836

I wonder if it is the same guy. It is the same name and lists the same college, but it could just be a wild coincidence. It would however explain how he is seemingly so bad at PR with his degree being in Culinary Arts.

hypercube

Hungary2735 Posts

December 27 2011 20:29 GMT

#24

What a trainwreck. I'd feel bad for him if he didn't come across as such a douchebag.

I mean, I can understand saying stuff you didn't mean in person sometimes but this was email. He had all the time to stop and think if this was a good idea. I have to think he truly believes that this is an acceptable way to talk to people.

dangthatsright

1158 Posts

December 27 2011 20:29 GMT

#25

Dude what Culinary Arts degree = master at PR

More seriously, I'm pretty sure you only need an element of common sense to do better than that, nothing terribly special such as an appropriate degree.

SaYyId

Portugal277 Posts

December 27 2011 20:43 GMT

#26

I don't think it will ever be a meme since it's just too big of a sentence.
Anyways, always interesting to see someone fucking up this badly. lol @"IGN and whatever have my back" xd

LlamaNamedOsama

United States1900 Posts

December 27 2011 21:48 GMT

#27

There have been a couple of news articles about how terrible this guy is, haha. One of them had his linkedin account, which, ironically, reads in part of the description:

Last, we believe in the power of great relationships, founded on honor, accountability and being responsible – and we value being there for people and their business --- when it matters most
1. Our clients' interests come first. Our experience demonstrates that if we serve our clients with excellence, our success follows.

2. Integrity and honesty are at the core of our business values. We expect our leaders and people to maintain high ethical standards in everything they do, both in their work for Ocean Marketing and in their personal lives.

[Edit]: Oh, and memes have been made

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/35l3on/

DEN1ED

United States1087 Posts

December 27 2011 23:53 GMT

#28

lol at this guys apologies. "I underestimated you and its cost me a lot of trouble..." So it's ok to treat someone like that, you just have to make sure they won't stand up for themselves first.

holynorth

United States590 Posts

December 28 2011 00:16 GMT

#29

Speaking of memes....

http://i.imgur.com/r5RCE.png

(This is fron Reddit, posted by TheDutchess)

Ruffian

United States369 Posts

December 28 2011 00:46 GMT

#30

Holy crap that was terrible. He couldn't even type a proper email. I was seriously cringing through the entire thing.

Clbull

United Kingdom1439 Posts

December 28 2011 00:58 GMT

#31

I feel sorry for the guy who actually invented the controller and wants it to succeed. OceanMarketing seem to have probably sent his product into a nosedive towards failure.

Tzel

United States72 Posts

December 28 2011 01:41 GMT

#32

might have missed that somoene posted this, but there's been an update: http://penny-arcade.com/resources/an-update1.html

or, if it's not loading -
+ Show Spoiler +

I just wanted to post an update with some of the stuff that has happened over on my end with regards to all this Ocean Marketing stuff.

Around midnight last night Paul sent me a mail saying that I could expect to hear from their attorneys. As of right now that still has not happened and honestly I don’t expect it will. Our attorneys (who are real people with an office and everything) are ready should it get to that point though.

At 7:12am this morning I got another mail from Paul. It was one line and simply said:

“You have the power Mike Please make it stop”

The reality is that once I had posted the emails I didn’t have the power anymore. The Internet had it now and nothing I said or did was going to change that.

An hour later I got a more complete apology:

Hey Mike,

I just wanted to apologize for the way our emails progressed I didn’t know how big your site was and I really didn’t believe you ran Pax , So for what’s its worth I am very sorry. Your post has obviously made my life very difficult and I have not slept yet dealing with all the spam and personal information intrusion as well as my family being smeared on the internet.

If you can please accept my apology and anything you can do to help if not me my son and wife please do. I have apologized to Dave and apologized to you what else can I do please tell me so I can make things good. I obviously care or I would not be emailing you.

I think there is a big difference between being sorry and being sorry you got caught. I have a real problem with bullies. I spent my childhood moving from school to school and I got made fun of everyplace I landed. I feel like Paul is a bully and maybe that’s why I have no sympathy here. Someday every bully meets and even bigger bully and maybe that’s me in this case. It’s the same thing that happened with Jack Thompson. It might not always make the most business sense and it is a policy that has caused us some legal problems, but I really don’t give a shit about that. When these assholes threaten me or Penny Arcade I just laugh. I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames.

-Gabe out

CrazyAsian

United States188 Posts

December 28 2011 01:45 GMT

#33

Who knew there were worse people out there than Gus Ledesma?

Mobius_1

United Kingdom2763 Posts

December 28 2011 01:47 GMT

#34

It's hilarious how his attitude changes when he realised it's Penny Arcade, tries to be apologetic but fails miserably and then goes back to his foul-mouthed don't-give-a-fuck (in the bad and not cool way) when that doesn't work.

Also I really question how people can even start to do business with him in the first place. I would love to read some of his pitch emails for the laughs. Maybe his wwebsite is really good.

holy_war

United States3590 Posts

December 28 2011 02:17 GMT

#35

A reddit user found a court document of him being charged for beating his wife and kotaku tracked him down as a user on some steroid website (roid rage much?).

Parnage

United States7414 Posts

December 28 2011 07:30 GMT

#36

The internet does not much care for it's ilk being treated poorly. Even more so when you poke at one of the Pillars of Geekdom in the US if not the world. What a terrible mistake to make. Sadly the product controller itself looks really neat and useful. I hope that it still does well because frankly this guy is a scumbag but that's not the controllers fault.

Sokalo

United States375 Posts

December 28 2011 07:32 GMT

#37

As to PA having hiccups. Via his twitter.

@rkhoo
Robert Khoo
Many are asking: It's not any one place that's slowing down PA this morning. Based on stats it's the whole Internet descending upon us.

NeoLearner

Belgium1847 Posts

December 28 2011 07:41 GMT

#38

Got to hand it to the guys from "Penny Arcade"

Holy crap, that guy really looks like a douche. If I got "Dec 17" as an answer, without any update what so ever, followed by a reduction in price of 10$, I would've cancelled on the spot.

Don't know why, but even his final "apology" seems douchy to me. "Sorry man, I really didn't believe you ran Pax". What does that have to do with ANYTHING?

haduken

Australia8267 Posts

December 28 2011 07:48 GMT

#39

Rofl i'm laughing so hard right now because I see sales type like this guy every day @ work.

props for him actually going out and being a douche about it though, I personally wanted to do that to a client so many times... the name dropping wasn't cool though lol.