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At #LAX w/ @jeffrubenstein getting ready to head back to Seattle after a day of seeing cool stuff we can’t talk about. Yet.

jlmurph2 said: User Actions  Following Larry HrybVerified account‏@majornelson At #LAX w/ @jeffrubenstein getting ready to head back to Seattle after a day of seeing cool stuff we can’t talk about. Yet.

Why do they do this to us? WHY?!?

This worth reading:

iirc famousmortimer feels that 343 essentially restarted Halo 5 development and moved up Halo 2 Anniversary to 2014. Probably false but still somewhat plausible.

His blog post about the matter is super weird.

So putting all of that together I decided, with 99.99% certainty (as I said in my tweet ><) that this guy was a controlled leaker. In my opinion… Microsoft had planned this to get the core excited while most of the world stayed in the dark (like most things that happen on GAF or gaming-reddit).

So he thought, without a source to back it up that, it was a controlled leak and tweeted it. Strange thing to tweet.

After I had posted my “99.99% sure he is a controlled leaker” tweet I got an urgent message from someone who is very respected in the videogame community. Part of the deal was that I wouldn’t give his/her name (which I wouldn’t do anyway) and I’m not trying to pseudo-namedrop right now but I do want to make the point that this person is trustworthy and known and it would be counter-intuitive for her/him to ever lie to me. He/she asked me if a person from Microsoft could contact me. He/she vouched that this person was “very high up” and that he/she has known this person for a long time. I said sure and about 20 minutes later I got an email from someone at Microsoft.

Wait, somebody just contacted him and vouched for another person that was going to mail him. That sounds...weird.

The email was written expressly for me. I mean, obviously all emails you get are written for you, but this person wasn’t just putting together a mass email and trying to hit industry personalities with info. He was responding directly to my tweets saying that NTKRNL was not a part of Microsoft marketing and that Microsoft was trying to track him down with all available resources and that not only was he going to be fired but they were also going to press charges about releasing trade secrets. I read the email about five times. It made zero sense to me. Actually, let me clarify that, it made zero sense that they would spend the time writing this email *TO* me. Yeah, #PS4NoDRM was a big deal, I’m also not oblivious to the fact that I am much more visible in the community now than I was several years ago… but I’m not a bigtime player. I’m barely a bit player. Why spend that time communicating with me? This person didn’t care what I thought. They just knew that I had some sort of reach and were trying to spin it. Big or small. IGN or YouTube personality. They know they need to get the message out through everyone. At least Royal Caribbean sent a vice president…

Why is he suprised that somebody would contact him directly just when the other respected source said he would be contacted directly?

I then got on twitter and said he wasn’t a controlled leaker. He was a renegade employee that was being hunted down by Microsoft. Even with the questions I had about the email they sent (especially since it just told me info and asked me nothing) I believed it because I trusted (and still do) the person who hooked us up to talk in the first place. It was weird but it had to be the truth. So my 99.99% tweet hit the .01% jackpot at that point. I said as much on twitter. I know a lot of people think I’m in this for the attention (I like attention but it’s not the only thing that drives me) or think I want to destroy companies (I have preferences but I’m not fucking insane). The truth of the matter is that I always say what I’ve been told if I trust the source.
3rd party source and bias claims being explained, super weird.

NTKRNL is controlled marketing. Why?

January NPDs. Also, no Titanfall Xbox. Don’t try to spin me, motherfuckers.

Another blanket statement that contradicts the above statements and his sources.

This is just all so weird.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=99298490&postcount=13196

He doesn't do it for the attention? Yeah, ok "famous"mortimer...

How much of his past postings have been on target?

Does anyone who got into the Win8 PS beta get their second email yet with their second code?

Nsanity? Is that you?

Edit: It is! Thanks for the tips of where to find news. Hope you sort out your personal problems and keep safe! Would love to have have you back here, but I understand.

NeoGaf member TheOddOne is a reliable source for Xbox info.