WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME!!!

As Spunk said, it's just how shock works, those people are not idiot, they're just blindsided more by the shock and everything is painted darker for them.

Give people time to come back to their sense and then see themselves that the whole case has nothing to do with the game serie or the community as a whole, and they'll come back.

Y'know, I don't really think it's fair to characterize people's distaste as "virtue signaling," to say nothing of how aggravating that phrase is as a dismissal of any concerns as, essentially, "SJW bullshit."

I don't know who is actually talking about leaving the community forever, but I do know that this left a bad taste in people's mouths, even if nobody -- not even C-Drive, not even Phil Parent -- had an idea of what happened until Sunday night.  And if we tried to sweep it under the rug and go on as if nothing happened, it'd be like the situation with NeoGAF a few years back (not to be confused with the NeoGAF situation from a few months back), where innuendo and veiled accusations would always be there in the background as to who knew about the crimes committed and when.  And when those accusations are made, they inevitably turn into, "the community knew and they're covering for him."

Yes, I realize I'm writing this as if Tiger Sword is guilty.  I understand others are more hesitant to assume guilt until proven innocent -- and it's not even something I do typically -- but I always got the impression that, if the police act and put someone on house arrest pending their trial, it's that there's something more serious there.  The police usually won't act on CP trafficking charges until they've got their shit together.

There's also the fact that a friend of mine was dumb enough to collect and distribute CP on a government computer while he was in the Army... and is currently serving a 15-20 year sentence.

anyway, my apologies if this comes off as confrontational or anything!

People are free to be as ridiculous or reserved with their reactions as they want to be.

I talked to Sword fairly regularly, and certainly had no idea about any of this, but I'm not going to let his misdeeds spoil something I enjoy. He has his life, I have mine, they intersect in a tiny niche that has nothing to do with what went down...so I've got nothing to get upset/hurt/feel betrayed/etc. over.

I may not be well-known as a member, but I logged into the Arena almost every day since it went online. I'm not sure how I feel, or if I feel anything at all (since I personally didn't know him). The only thing I can compare this to (and it feels like a stretch to do so), is the case against Ian Watkins, former lead singer of lostprophets. Just Google him if you want to know more.

I won't dwell on anything negative that happened at the Arena, and this is a new start for the community and Fire Pro as a whole. Let's make the best of it.

Okay when Pfs Chaos gets on the Arena and demands his account be deleted because "the weirdo who made this site is actually a pedophile" then after being told Sword just owned the domain and Cdrive (who is innocent) actually built the site.....still goes on about not wanting to be associated with the site.....then calls me a likely Pedophile like Sword for "being Mean" to him.....I do call that Virture Signaling.  and imo it's immature and childish. 

I'm sure a lot of people are in shock and I understand some where friends with the man but it's still silly to hold anyone else but Sword accountable.

Head to the beer distributor and get the Arnold Palmer Spyked instead 🤘