I think we can safely say that Phil Fish is absolutely part of the problem without it degenerating into mere victim blaming. Of course he doesn't deserve the abuse that he gets, neither do his abuse victims.
I'd be more inclined to agree with you, that Fish is simply another troll, if I'd seen any evidence of him responding to a perfectly reasonable review of FEZ with more "choke-on-my-dick" trollia.
There's a difference between simply being an asshole and being an Internet troll in my mind. Most of the things I've seen him saying is in response to some pretty inflammatory stuff.
They're not abuse victims because they opted into it by going out of their way to harass the guy in the first place. Is that hard to understand? It shouldn't be.
I see what you're saying. I guess I'm not that hung up on the definition of the word "victim". My point is that those kinds of interactions are just horrible and that nobody deserves to be on the receiving end of such abuse.
We (as geeks, video game culture people, internet culture people, humans, whatever) should be able to get past these childish escalating aggression tantrums. This isn't the bronze age.
