I have to admit that Dangen's rebuttal is very difficult for me to read. I do not mean this in an emotional sense; I'm having trouble understanding the purpose of a majority of the document. Many times they post evidence I have already posted myself, as if they hadn't read my original post at all. They claim this duplicate evidence is from a wholly different context, and that it is now their proof of my malicious and duplicitous character. Other times they even confirm claims I make, then attach an angry diatribe about how petty it was of me to have made such a claim at all.
I've found it easier to process Dangen's rebuttal less from a factual angle, as facts are in short supply in the document, but an emotional one. The majority of the document appears to have been constructed around haphazardly collected screencaps from e-mails and contracts, Dangen's Slack archives of the developer channels and private messages from Ben Judd and Scott Steffes, and DE Dev saying things in random Discord servers.
The rebuttal's primary goal seems to be to attack my motive and character. In their view of things, I was a malcontent, greedy, and controlling middleman who had inserted myself between the development teams and Dangen with the intent to poison the publisher-developer relationship, siphon off the developers' earnings for myself where I could, and eventually construct my own publishing empire from the corpse of Dangen Entertainment.
In service of this, they haphazardly attempt to mix what evidence they could find of DE Dev or me saying "toxic" things in an attempt to conflate our opinions and demeanors to the reader, while placing them alongside written assertions about my constant demands for money and control.
