The people doing the AMA's responses to the posts show it was more than an accident. One does not respond to posts with pictures of knights and homophobic slurs with 'Hey that could be from one of our upcoming games!' as well preface the entire AMA with a twitter post of (specifically the bolded part) '"We're doing an 8Chan AMA and we have no idea why. Come join us!" without knowing exactly what you're doing before hand and on some level be okay with it. Like, if that tweet was just 'We're doing an 8Chan AMA!" fullstop, then maybe, just maybe that branch of THQN and the top level exec who took part in the AMA are just truly completely incompetent and shouldn't be running a company, but aren't terrible people. Maybe.
But 'we have no idea why.' is the verbal equivalent to promoting the fact you're going to be sticking a fork in a socket as a full grown adult. You know exactly what will occur if you do it, but you go ahead and do it anyway. And on top of that they stuck around and interacted.
Their followup has been their way to avoid any blame or public consequence. It seems to have worked for better or worse, since most press let them go with barely a slap on the wrist.
