First thing I thought when I clicked on the read more on his German tweet & saw the absolute essay was legitimately just this meme
Frankly have better things to do in life that read an unhinged essay from some dude that's been a known bigot for, hm, years now? (so thank you for getting some quotes in the OP! c: ) Don't remember when the piece about the culture of Moon studios came out, but it was kinda an open secret that he's been far from someone you'd want to be around if you're marginalized in any way for at least some years in German-speaking circles. Don't have any dirt or anything lol, but it's just what I've caught from friends that spent some time in the industry in some way or another. Not surprising as the scene in German-speaking countries is tiny compared to how huge it is in the US for example.
But yeah, it was honestly only a matter of time until he'd go completely mask off in public, outside of company spaces & utterly unhinged Era threads lol.
On a side note, I've not paid attention to GameStar & anything attached to it for some years now (like, I remember watching their news religiously for a while & also GameTube Let's Plays for some years which I don't think were really attached to the company itself, but at least had people working for GameStar/Pro playing games on there), but Maurice seems to be a good egg & calls out shit when needed from all I've seen at least in the last year or so via people like SpeckObst reacting to his videos & stuff like that. Which is just nice, because I initially moved on from watching their content & reading the mag due to me just getting more drawn to places like Vice/Waypoint, Kotaku & Polygon back then as they felt safer & more tailored to me as a marginalized person. So I honestly would've never even expected anything like Maurice's tweet going by what I remember GameStar/Pro being like as a teen.
