In topic: "the UHC situation"

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025, 3:57 PM1 day ago

@Wheatrice Alright, I'm going to make sure this response doesn't turn into a blog post. (Responding to https://www.fruityrumpus.com/forums/reply/689aa97dc24c58e6535930f3)


Alright, i can very much see why you don't think Hussie is capable of what Gio said due to incompetence. To be honest i held that sort of opinion too in the past due to the Sarah Z video coming off as extreme incompetence, and just... well it's really stupid to throw legal threats at someone with a lawyer if you don't have the law to back you up. I do still think Andrew Hussie is incompetent at the business and legal side of things here. It's just unlike with the Sarah Z video, the law was very much on their side here. So their legal threats to Gio had some real teeth to them.


On the "Habitual Abuser" claims, those are clear reflections of Gio's feelings on them due to the UHC debacle and makes his bias clear (which i think it's a good thing, it'd be weird for Gio to try and pretend to be unbiased on something that directly affects him, like imagine if Gio felt this way but hid it? Now that'd be dishonest of him.). Hussie constantly throws legal threats and Miles supports them all the way by acting as an intermediary (Sidenote 1: i still find it weird Miles continued acting as one when the HICU became a thing, and then when he became co-director, feels like a conflict of interest. To draw a comparison Gio makes, It's like if your Union Rep was great friends with your boss. There isn't anything "wrong" with that, but it could lead to bias which hurts the Union Rep's ability to do their job, which in Mile's case is being independent from Hussie. Y'know like how James Roach didn't involve themselves in the UHC dealings since doing so would make James directly subordinate and literally speaking for Hussie.). But i don't remember Gio claiming more members of the HS team are "Habitual Abusers" like Gio didn't call James Roach one, or anyone else, at most a vague handwave towards "upper management" being responsible.


As i went over before the articles have issues due to being rushed but i realize i don't really have anything else to add that my original post didn't there. Like the FRAF section of the HICU article he uses information he got from his interview with Cami, without it, what the hell would've Gio written? So much of the weirdness to me is the articles needing more time in the oven. Especially the HICU article which would've benefited from more interviews and research on the "Case Studies" (Sidenote 2: if Gio really had to get the articles out on 8/8. Get rid of the case studies and focus on past incidents. Since those aren't reliant on interviews and getting new information no one has seen before. Like the first half of the HICU article, which focuses as to why the HICU needed to exist due to previous incidents of heavy-handed use of copyright laws against people. Like seriously the HICU article could've been a great resource on PAST incidents but its marred since Gio wanted to focus on current Homestuck licensed projects like FRAF despite not putting in the necessary research to make those parts good.)


Now finally on Mile's post here. I still think it's a bad idea and Miles shouldn't have done it. While he might want to protect himself against Gio's claims, since no one wants to be seen as a abuser or otherwise shitty person. The main way he could would be the stuff the OFFICIAL response would have. This leads this response lacking much in the way of things to properly go against Gio's claims of his character beyond well... his personal feelings. (Sidenote FINAL (3): So go on a particular point here is Mile's claim of this article being more like Gio yelling FIRE! In an open theater which to be honest , Gio did. But i do think that Gio thought there was a Fire in said theater thanks to what he personally faced in UHC. It does mean Gio should've spent more time and been more cautious, or release the HICU article later if need be.) There's also the problem that sin of a Official response, people will take this as one because it's the best we got at the moment. Which is a problem since this response mainly focuses on Mile's interpretations of events with doesn't really contradict anything Gio says happened, which just makes Gio look like he's right. Which isn't what Mile's Intended.

(Sidenote FINAL V2 (4): Mainly a quick response to timeisrestored, Gio having their name on the UHC website link makes sense, since it's hosted on his website giovanh.com. Just because they're a well known name doesn't change that fact. If it's your work, it's ok to put your name on it. Also the homestuck.giovanh.com website used to host the online port of UHC, (which was Gio's personal project, unrelated to Bambosh and not endorsed by UHC) and was quickly reworked to also host the offline version when bambosh left the project if memory serves me right.

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