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From this news article, I found this comment interesting:

I recall Masahiro Sakurai, the guy doing Super Smash Bros. Brawl, jokingly stating in an interview that the creator of the original Kid Icarus had asked him if he could do a sequel using the character design from Brawl.

Considering that Gumpei Yokoi is dead, either Masahiro Sakurai doesn't know his gaming history or it was a pretty tasteless joke.

Going through Random Action Hour's Transformers pages made me think of Zobovor, so I searched his site and this is one of the first few results for Zobovor.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Zobovor

Holy crap! Now, I never knew the guy personally, so I can't really comment on whether or not is truth to any of their claims, but they certainly make the weakest argument possible.

Among his more egregious episodes include accusing a perfectly innocent girl of being a prostitute

Maybe "prostitute" is the wrong word to use there, but saying you'll take a picture of yourself in any pose for $20 is at least trashy, if not slutty. Earth to Internet Men: This is NOT how your "perfectly innocent" female behaves.

offering scathing commentary on a piece of fan art;

Scathing? He said it was "nice, as always" and told people to be sure to read the alt tags. The only part of that commentary that could be considering criticism is calling Nightbeat "cheatsy", but he was making a comment specifically on the character design itself, not the fanart's interpretation. If you think that's scathing, then you're either the most thin-skinned crybaby in all of existence or you have no reading comprehension skills.

and masquerading as a female Transformers fan for his own amusement

I fail to see how that link relates to that, let alone proves it, at all.

Perhaps his most insane moment came when he openly defended Nicholas Morency, claiming that possession of kiddie porn wasn't really that bad.

How conveeenient that there's no link for this one. Then again, considering how non-damning the others were...

Zobovor also deliberately ruins the value of these highly detailed and intricate collector's items completely by slathering gobs of paint on them in a vain attempt to more closely resemble the ugly, undetailed blocks of color found on the Transformers cartoon series. (This means that while comparable-sized collections are worth 6.2 billion dollars, the estimated resale value of Zob's collection is approximately $0.42 USD.)

Zobovor mentioned on his site that he got hatemail from Transformers fans for doing repaints, and even back then I thought those people should be punched. IIRC, the only things he actually repainted were:

- Those little one-solid-color eraser-like rubber toys that were based on Transformers in their robot forms.
- Second-hand toys that were in mediocre-poor shape and wouldn't have much resell value anyway.
- Kitbashes of characters he made himself.

And seriously, they're his private collection. He may not have interest in reselling them anyway. And I get REALLY annoyed with people who feel you can't just enjoy a hobby for the sake of fun and love of the source material. You have to put a multi-thousand dollar value on everything and leave it in the most pristine and untouched condition possible. My mother bought me a beanie baby cat a long time ago before they became a popular fad as a gift when I was sick, and after they became popular, there were people who acted like they wanted to crucify me for having long since removed the tag and therefore not be able to sell it for $1,000 or more. That's exactly what these people remind me of and it's also why so many NES communities literally devolved into nothing but people talking about their collections and trying to get them complete instead of actually playing the games and discussing them.

Also, back when I was frequenting Transformers boards, I can't tell you the number of times I saw someone start a topic that was something like, "I just bought a new Transformer toy, but I'm wonder...should I open it and try to transform it, or should I leave it in the package?", and just about everyone would say, "OMG! LEAVE IT IN THE PACKAGE!!"

Zobovor's known pastimes have included adopting every rabid stray cat in the neighborhood by enticing them with scraps of flesh from sacrificial virgins. He reportedly has at least two children, though he may be confusing them with the aforementioned cats.

Because it's so much more horrible to give shelter and food to homeless animals than it is to be a hypersensitive fanboyish nerd who takes an 80's toyline way too seriously. And though I get the "joke" of the second sentence, it's not worded correctly.

He regards Transformers as a religion, and as such, any disagreements with his views as complete and utter blasphemy.

Am I to believe the writer of this article is any different...?

At least when I go on tirades against people in the STA's, I ground every argument in reality, even if I might exaggerate somewhat for the sake of comedy.