In regards to Paradise Hotel 51 (the website)
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 12:18 pm
Hello, everyone.
I am the owner of this web space.
I’m sure most of the regular users here know all about me and my situation, but I feel there’s a ton of onlookers and casual viewers who are being (unwittingly) fed bullshit by their favourite YouTubers and online influencers.
I have never addressed this before and I don’t plan on doing it again afterwards, but due to the way recent drama has affected my personal life and my family I feel like I have to, so I’ll ask @Iwazaru to pin this as an announcement and leave it here for all those who are willing to read some text. Of course, I can’t do anything about submentals who refuse to learn the alphabet.
1. I am not TopDrunkee. TopDrunkee functionally stopped working on the website 13 years ago. Meaning I am not responsible for the website he ran and he is, likewise, not responsible for the website that I run. Nothing I say is endorsed by him.
2. I do not have a social media presence. In fact, I do not have any personal online accounts outside of business-related ones.
This does not mean that I’m a serial killer with a dark past, as certain people would have you believe. It just means that I prefer to spend my time working, enjoying the company of my wife or on my hobbies, which of course, as you might have realized, include running my website. I consider social media to be an enormous waste of time and I have not engaged with it since 2013, when I deleted my Facebook account and my life has only improved because of it.
3. I do not run these forums. In fact, I do not post on these forums, and I am not a welcome presence on these forums. I believe that a community should be ran and managed by people who belong to it, rather than having an outside observer meddle in their business. (In other words, I hate all jannies.)
These forums are dedicated specifically to fans of TopDrunkee who enjoy his art and online persona. TopDrunkee was the original webmaster of Killer7SINdicate (the website which I purchased all the way back in 2009 and recently rebooted as my own Paradise Hotel 51, which has been archived in its final iteration here: https://archive.kontek.net/killer7.3dac ... psycho.htm) and due to the general disinterest in GhM’s output during the 2010s, the community began revolving around his personality and lifestyle rather than anything to do with old Suda51 games.
Therefore, when I rebooted the website according to my own personal taste a couple of years ago, it became abundantly obvious I was “hogging the spotlight” away from TD lifestylers and fans, since I would mostly talk about old GhM games and attract users interested in discussing those things.
As it was offensive and obtrusive to the community, I banned my previous accounts and let the others rework the forums into what they wanted it to be, as per my previous statement. Meaning my public online interactions are now reduced to zero.
The forum is ran by @Iwazaru, so please, direct all your inquiries to him. I host these forums as a personal favor to him, who holds them very near and dear to his heart.
He does not care what I do with the website (in fact, he just recently found out about the last 12 months of updates) and, vice versa, I do not care what he does with the forums.
The decision that has been taken in accordance to TD’s will was that the new iteration of the forum would be heavily moderated, in order to be more gender-inclusive, to have a more favorable SEO profile and especially in regards to suppressing right-wing opinions.
Personally, I am under the impression that they must not be doing a really good job at it considering I get people constantly bitching at me to delete this or that. I have no intention of managing a forum, so I would kindly ask all of you to get your shit together, and if anyone wants to help Iwazaru go through older posts deleting problematic content, then please contact him.
4. There is no such thing as a “Paradise Hotel” community. It is me and two people who help me with graphics, plus Iwazaru/Qish running the forums. There is an official PH51 Twitter account which is only ever used for announcements, and though I have wrestled control of it recently to speak with a few people, it is not usually ran by me. All the content on the website has been penned by me, and the YouTube channel is ran by me. My only other online interactions are limited to a small Discord server which we only utilize to organize various projects which I would not be able to work on by myself. It’s not some sort of “secret group”, considering its contents are leaked to other Discord servers constantly and I let in pretty much whoever asked.
Most recently, I have been accused of managing dozens of sockpuppet accounts to harass people on Twitter. To be more specific, TopDrunkee (Jack) has been accused of doing so and, through the proxy of people who have no reading comprehension or are wilfully disingenuous, I have been accused of being him.
I initially thought that someone on the forums might be responsible, and asked a moderator to issue a couple of warnings in the past.
viewtopic.php?t=234
viewtopic.php?t=319
My original assumption was "disgruntled TopDrunkee fans". However, it has been brought to my attention by @Digitalman and @Meru (whom I apologize to for making her feel like I was accusing her. We've talked in private, that was not my intention at all) over time that it was some third party who was either impersonating Jack (with the purpose of smearing him / getting the website taken down) or that people just kind of assumed it was him.
As for me, as I have made abundantly clear, I have no interest in engaging with “communities” or “fandoms” whatsoever. I find their focus on underage kids to be, frankly, quite creepy. I do not believe children should engage with adult media and I do not believe it is my role to tone down products that I like, just so that children can more freely interact with games that include rape, terrorism, murder and torture.
Secondly, even if I wanted to, I simply don’t have the time.
The reason why any troll is immediately associated with me is because certain online personalities spend the greatest part of their time making up stories about me or accusing me of absurd and criminal behavior.
Their motivation is that, seven years ago, the previous webmaster (which might I remind you hasn’t worked on the website since 2010) was very vocal about voting for Trump. For what it’s worth, he has recently seen the error of his ways: He connected with Antifa groups in real life, has made statements in support of communism, fights for LGBTQ+ rights and is a financial supporter of a very prominent LGBTQ+ celebrity. This is why I am pretty sure he would not be behind any kind of Twitter harassment; considering he is endorsed by Antifa directly, I very much doubt he’d go around spreading right-wing rhetoric online.
People keep running into his older posts, when he was very much entangled with the Japanese right-wing sphere, and judge him according to those. As I said, I have no intention of running a forum, but I would invite whoever is in charge or wants to help out to edit or delete those posts so people stop harassing Jack for things he clearly does not stand by or believe anymore.
As per me, I am not American at all. The only way you could get me interested in an election is if every politician is put on a bus and driven to a Gulag, and then a vote is held on whether they die by hanging or by shooting.
I understand that this LARP which sees me as an evil emperor who needs to be defeated/taken down is very important to certain online communities. I do not want to take that away from you, nor do I have any interest in playing this game of thrones of fandom leader. I run a static webpage.
Unfortunately, however, the lies spread by these online influencers have gotten out of control, to the point where they started putting my family at risk. I really should not be explaining to my father how or why the fuck some Americans found his phone number, and I should not have to hide in another country with my wife because obsessive people try and trick a community manager into endorsing my murder. Bad actors have been trying to get maladjusted teenagers to kill me for years:
I have not pursued this matter through the legal system and I have gone through the trouble of censoring his nickname just because he and I became friends after he tracked me down, as he had enough brain power to realize he was being fed a line. But things may have gone very differently for me, and he may have committed violence against me and my wife (who lives with me in case you were wondering. Meaning that if my address gets leaked, so does hers.) Thankfully, he instead stood by me in a time of profound grief, and if he is reading this I’d like to thank him.
Most recently, these bad actors actually tricked James Mountain, Grasshopper Manufacture’s PR person, into Tweeting a line that could be seen as endorsing my murder. (e.g. “Fix your heart or die”.)
Thus making the previously mentioned maladjusted teenagers and young adults, who are, more often than not, also on SSRIs and other psycho-pharmaceutical drugs, think that they were being spurred on by the company itself into finding my dox and killing me.
(Me and James have spoken in private and he has retracted his statement, for which I thank him personally.)
This is not exclusive to me either; Whoever had been looking into the leaked killer7 beta was sent false DMCA letters, the people who were translating the killer7 short story have been harassed by the community until they stopped (as confirmed by them in this thread viewtopic.php?t=135), another translator who was working with us previously has also been harassed on Reddit as a “right wing nut” for daring to correct the translation of a game which had been altered to match western understanding of gender roles (for which he had to delete his entire online persona), CJ Iwakura is constantly smeared as a “fascist” just because of his job and recently had his Facebook account hacked (you can ask him for confirmation).
In short, anyone who actively tries to do anything in the GhM fandom gets harassed into oblivion unless he conforms to the opinions of these “community leaders” and constantly redirects their content back to them.
However, this has gotten bad enough that I have to address these constant lies somewhere, considering that the same people are still engaging in the same exact behavior every hour of every day, completely obsessed as if psychotic. I will censor out their names because, unlike them, I am not fond of drama, I do not find living “rent free” in someone’s head to be entertaining (especially when it comes to obsessive/mentally ill people who may resort to violence) and I do not want to point my finger at anybody. I only want to address the lies, not the liars.
I will also try to focus specifically on behavior which is illegal in nature.
When a certain YouTuber tells his impressionable teenage / young adult audience that I am “literally a nazi”, he is lying through his teeth, which (maybe unintentionally) spurs on others to have harm done to me or my family. He has, as I already mentioned, been doing this for years now.
He is also committing a crime. As Fascist/National Socialist apology is illegal in my country.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legge_Scelba
According to Article 4 of 1952’s Scelba’s law, Nazifascist apology is punished with imprisonment going from six months to 4 years. Meaning that his written statements fall under the definition of Calumny, as he is stating as a fact to a group of people that an Italian citizen is responsible for committing a crime.
“chiunque [..] incolpa di un reato taluno che egli sa innocente ovvero simula a carico di lui le tracce di un reato è punito con la reclusione da due a sei anni”
Calumny is punished with imprisonment from two to six years.
https://app.toga.cloud/codici/codice-pe ... 8-calunnia
It is also personally outrageous to me, as I have made no secret of the fact that I am Jewish. I hail from a long-standing Italian-Jewish family and I have a very Jewish surname. The Jewish side of my family was deported by the regime during WW2, and both of my Gentile grandparents suffered under the regime for different reasons. I come from a country where these words have a very real meaning, unlike the way they are carelessly thrown around in the anglophone world.
I have never made any secret of my personal political affiliations either. I have always been, and will always be a socialist, with one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) being a personal icon of mine, having visited his grave several times through the course of my life and often taking inspiration from his words and actions.
The PSI, along with the DC (also home to many unjustly reviled Italian heroes), was a staunch enemy of the Fascist regime. It is in no way affiliated with the German National Socialist Party. I don’t expect people to be familiar with Italian political history, I am just making this clear to avoid further confusion.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partito_S ... a_Italiano
As you can see, he is also calling James Mountain an “asshole” for simply doing what any sane person would do, and disassociate himself and his company from the attempted murder of a foreign citizen. As both Japan and the United States are part of the UN, they are subject to extradition in regards to crimes committed against Italian citizens.
https://www.brocardi.it/codice-penale/l ... art13.html
He then, of course, lied to his face to get an interview.
This is the kind of person whose words are being taken at face value when defaming an individual whose personal opinions they have no way of knowing, just because of his YouTube subscriber count.
Not only have I never interacted with this YouTuber directly in my life, I actually recommended his work in an older article I wrote. It is currently not on the website, but only because I was re-writing and expanding it to better fit with the current level of quality of the website. But of course, as soon as it is up again, I am going to remove any endorsement of a man who carelessly spreads lies that could lead harm to me and, most egregiously, my wife and other family members.
When a certain user on CJ’s Discord tells you the website never had an age warning for its satirical content, he is also lying. Of course, the idea that some people "sign in (TO A STATIC WEBPAGE) just to harass" is equally bullshit.
"I wouldn't have brought it up if we weren't making shit up about a person I don't know looolllll"
A content warning has been present on the website since I rebooted it, which was in 2021. Here’s a wayback machine archive of the page that he claims never existed, which is dated by a third party (meaning I can’t be lying about it):
https://web.archive.org/web/20210802234 ... tel51.com/
Considering that you are re-directed to this page through the main URL, it is unlikely that he "never noticed".
Unlike some of the others, his statement does not constitute a crime, but it is still an (albeit minor) example of a concerted effort in lying about my person, my life and my work, and also of the conspiratorial obsessions these people fall into.
When people on a certain Discord server call for my murder in front of GhM staff, with server moderators supporting their statements, they are committing a crime.
https://www.brocardi.it/codice-penale/l ... rt414.html
Instigating a crime (in this case, murder) is punished with imprisonment from one to five years under article 414 of our legal code, even if one has no intention of committing it themselves. They are, again, spurring those few unhinged individuals into action against me and my family.
When several people claim that I hate Suda51 because I happen not to like some of the games released by his company, I don’t even know if they’re lying. They might just be completely insane. Of course, I personally hate a man while running a fansite about his work as a hobby. I cannot focus too much on these as I have to pay attention to the actual legal claims, but there’s dozens of examples of people regurgitating this shit without ever reading anything I ever wrote or ever talking to me (HINT: My personal taste rarely figures in my writing, and when it does it's clearly there from a subjective point of view. Even then, disliking the No More Heroes sequels is hardly a reason to be killed.)
Again, not a crime, but part of a general narrative being spread by bad actors. It also, again, shows the conspiratorial obsession in this fandom; The constant usage of "they" to indicate a nebulous evil force looming in the darkness is a well known symptom of paranoid delusions.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 0X22000811
Which in the past few years, spurred hysteria online in regards to conspiracy theories such as "gang stalking".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking
When people claim that depictions of nazis are endorsement of national socialism and the holocaust, again, they may not be acting in bad faith but it is definitely an asinine statement.
Yes, obviously, pictures like these are meant to be a completely serious endorsement of a worker's party from the 1930s. Are these people deranged?
Oh no, Anime Hitler with sunglasses is going to come out of the screen and gas me. What the actual fuck are they thinking?
The fact that they kept pretending not to know I was being personally accused of harassing random people online through sockpuppet accounts is not due to ignorance. It was only thanks to @Digitalman 's research that the truth came to light in that regard, and I'd like to thank him. Terminally online spergs see me as "competition" for just spreading around everything I can for free, and I guess they finally managed to stop it by forcing me to implement a paywall.
When certain Discord users claim I harass people on Twitter, they are committing a crime. Again, as explained earlier, this falls under Calumny according to the Italian judicial system.
When certain Discord users claim that releasing a Moonlight Syndrome translation ruined people’s lives, I honestly have no fucking clue what they’re talking about, so I can’t even comment on that. It’s such a flabbergasting statement, it just boggles my mind.
It’s also another example of this conspiratorial "they", which ties into statements made by others, that I am affiliated with the Mafia. (Again, illegal. Mafia association is illegal, and therefore it falls under Calumny.)
Of course, this is based on the fact that the website is credited to the "Dataly Mafia", which nobody who is normal would take as an unironic statement of fact. I will let you make a valued judgement in regards to the idea that I am actually a mafia killer who's got nothing better to do than run a videogame fansite.
I am not sure if anyone who posts on the forum is really right-wing, but considering there were posts by people upset that its users were too left-leaning, I frankly doubt it.
viewtopic.php?t=165
I believe most people who held right-wing opinions were either banned, or left on their own. I think people keep running into old posts from Jack/TopDrunkee (who is not me) from back when he was a Trump supporter, but his most recent statements is that he would give his life and stab people in the name of trans rights, so bullying him over stuff he believed and said years ago is frankly uncalled for.
These people are free to contact @Iwazaru in regards to suppressing any past right-wing activity. His PMs are open to the public. It's got nothing to do with me, and I frankly do not believe in censorship, nor do I believe that to be a good use of my time.
When certain YouTubers claim I am “trying to get people to join my community” and that I’ve been “trolling them on twitter”, they are lying. I have no community. I host a static webpage ran by three people.
That part is not criminal, but claiming that I am a “Qanon freak” (when I often made fun of Qanon back when I had an online presence, with my statement being something along the lines of "all you needed to tell white americans to shut them up was 'just two more weeks'") might be, as it is implying a connection between me and a terrorist movement.
Of course, I don't need to keep mentioning the focus on "they", "them", "that group". I do not want to trigger people who have serious mental illnesses into violent action. If they are incapable of differentiating fantasy from reality, they need help, not constant bullying. I sincerely believe most of these people to be vulnerable victims of abusers who instill these insane conspiracy theories in their brains. As a dear friend of mine has grown completely delusional in his old age, to the point of denying blatant reality, I know how far these things can get.
When that certain YouTuber claims that a parody of Qanon dumb shit is a “death threat”, he is committing a crime for the reasons detailed above. (Stating as fact that someone committed a crime in front of people without it having been judged in a court of law falls under Calumny in the Italian judicial system, and threatening violence against others, which they gleefully engage in in these screencaps might I add, is a crime.)
I do not mind if people are triggered by parodies of current events. It is their prerogative, as it is to avert their eyes. But to then associate me with a terrorist movement is a nonsensical syllogism and, as I mentioned, illegal.
When a certain YouTuber claims that PH51 is “ran by crazy Russians”, he is not only lying, but he is also besmirching the work of some Russians who DO work with me (one being an incredible asset to the internet community as a whole) and he is demonstrating the same Trumpian rhetoric he purports to hate, “these foreigners are coming to take our jobs.” It is, also, a racist statement, implying that, just because of the action of their president, an entire population must be reviled on principle. Why would “Russian” be an insult otherwise?
It wasn't until I saw this that I realized this person is either honestly convinced that Deep runs the website, or just tries to get his followers to believe that he does. This is another lie. Deep is a friend of mine but he has no access to the website’s backend and no input on what I write or publish. My only input in his Russian translation project (which also, apparently, should not exist, because Russians are filthy and evil) was helping find a tool that would functionally hack the game.
Most recently, I got people contacting me to bitch about his thread on The Silver Case’s translation (viewtopic.php?t=353), claiming that it is “the official PH51” translation. I am left utterly confused as per why anyone would think this, but I will say here that no, I am not responsible for every word that comes out of Deep’s mouth. His opinions are his own.
The rest of his story is, similarly, completely manufactured. This person never tried contacting me in his life; There's a public Twitter, a public YouTube channel, and the website redirects you to an email. I challenge him to provide any kind of proof of his attempt; Of course, none can be provided, as he made it up.
Likewise, Deep did not translate the Moonlight Syndrome videos. As he is credited everywhere, Jolovey did, using the original draft by Izzeybee as a basis (though after so many drafts, very little of it remains in the finished version). We then worked together and with other people comparing notes to make the translation as accurate as possible, which we are still in the process of doing, with me recently dumping several hundred dollars into getting a full transcription of the voiced dialogue by a Japanese native to make absolutely sure we did not mishear anything. Jolovey is also one of the two translators working on the current English patch project. Not "some Russian maniac". I've never seen him be anything but courteous and well mannered to everyone. How dare this person make shit up about people he doesn't know?
He apparently has a problem with Deep personally because they don't like the same videogames. This seems to be the root of his paranoid obsession, to the point of telling him to "eat cement" just because he left a comment under one of his videos.
Does this person know what it means to die by eating cement?
I do, because his country just so happened to bomb mine. My compatriots died by inhaling cement from the collapsing buildings. Dying by having cement solidify within your lungs or throat is a horrifying death. Considering that Deep's country is currently at war, that is an insensitive statement to say the least, especially under a video which happens to star a member of GhM's staff (which he also referred to as an asshole and a nazi supporter). Why are Americans so obsessed with committing violence against others in the name of "justice"?
This same YouTuber also claims that “we” hired people to translate the games (which contrasts with his previous statements, but as we learned through this adventure, the truth is not exactly their forte); that’s a lie, though for the life of me I cannot guess as per why he’d even say that. We have cooperated with three external translators before; Jolovey, NewWorldOrder and thekagepro. All three of them are openly credited in every single video they worked on, but most importantly, all three of them approached me voluntarily to work together for free.
viewtopic.php?p=2441#p2441
(I had to screencap this one because it's on an unlisted video. Since I actually took the time to re-do and re-edit all the videos in higher quality.)
The fourth translator you see credited in a lot of videos and pages, PT, is a different story altogether. I apologize for lying about it until now as we had preoccupations about our privacy, but PT is actually my wife. “PT” actually stands for “Phantom Translator”, though I jokingly refer to her as “Paola Tabascio.” (Not her real name. It’s an inside-joke between us that wouldn’t really matter otherwise. Such as crediting Kim Jong Il as helping with the translations lol.) She has studied Japanese in high school and has lived in Tokyo for a while many years ago, and we work on translations together, hence my joke about her sitting on my lap in the interview.
She gave me permission to come out and say this because she is personally offended by people using her as a scapegoat to attack me and, ironically, herself. She is not happy about people pretending that she has nothing to do with me and I have been “stealing” her work considering we are fucking married.
The only translations that were paid for were commissioned to Dijeh some years ago, and they referred to FSR interviews that nobody was interested in translating for free. (It predated my marriage, obviously.)
Even then, I don't see any reason why me spending my money for something that everyone else gets for free would be grounds for murder.
When stating that I am an “Italian fascist” as a fact, this user on CJ’s Discord server is committing a crime. This one especially hurts as we used to be friends on Facebook, gifted games to each other and so on. He knows who I am, he knows my very Jewish surname and my very Jewish family, so for him to lie out of his teeth just to gain “clout” in the “community” is disappointing to say the least.
I'm also told that he has also openly stated that he believed the Twitter trolls to be impersonators in a Private Message to one of the forum administrators. Meaning that he has to be lying intentionally, rather than being misguided.
I hope getting “cool guy” points on a Discord server was worth committing a crime, trying to ruin the life of somebody who was never anything but cordial to him.
I hate to go on a tangent here, but this English person should learn his own history before making careless, racist statements about Italians. As it has been admitted by the English government that Fascism was, in fact, a manufactured movement financed by the English secret service to destabilize my country.
This is not a crackpot conspiracy theory. It is documented history reported on by all mainstream media.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/ ... -mi5-italy
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-muss ... MW20091014
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33312493
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/benito- ... aly-403150
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldn ... y-MI5.html
(If anyone wants to learn more about this, the entire process has been detailed by Giovanni Fasanella and Mario José Cereghino in the wonderful book "Il Nero di Londra" https://www.ibs.it/nero-di-londra-da-ca ... 8832965087)
Before blaming me for fascist deaths simply because of my nationality, he should look at his own country's history. The Jewish side of my family was deported by a regime manufactured and financed by his people. And he goes around calling me a fascist, just for being born in a country he doesn't like? With what nerve? This is the same exact rhetoric that was used against me back when I was on Facebook, which framed me as a Palestinian murdering psychopath simply for having family in Israel. Fuck off with that shit. Holding me responsible for what my government does (against me nonetheless) is ridiculous, especially as there is a lot of blame to throw around once that lens is turned the opposite way.
Now, this is merely a sample of the lies that are spread about my person every hour of every day. It is a veritable psychosis. This is based on two factors:
The first one has nothing to do with me; As I mentioned before, the original webmaster of Killer7SINdicate (i.e. not me, TopDrunkee) was quite vocal about voting for Trump in 2016, six years after he had anything to do with the website. Which of course got the train running on “everyone being a nazi”. (As I mentioned before, he has since walked back his opinions on all of these subjects and is currently financially supporting a prominent LGBTQ+ celebrity.)
A lot of people, some of them lying, some of them legitimately misguided, think or want others to think that I am TopDrunkee and an American supporter of the Republican party. I am VERY happy to say that I am not American, and I stopped voting years ago, just like the majority of Italian people.
This was, unfortunately, started by an irresponsible comment by CJ Iwakura, saying that “the website is ran by republicans, they're all very conservative” based on one person voting for Trump once.
Now I would like to state here once and for all that CJ IWAKURA IS THE ONLY ONE WHO PERSONALLY APPROACHED ME AND APOLOGIZED, and he also was legitimately confused about me being TopDrunkee for some reason, despite him always using his real face and writing in a completely different style from mine. For that I’d like to THANK CJ IWAKURA and assure everybody that there is no bad blood between us WHATSOEVER.
The second factor, which actually has to do with me, is that I have a background in offensive comedy. I’ll make jokes about politics, terrorism, murder, race, sex and pretty much everything else under the sun. I stand by my position on this matter and I will for the rest of my life (although I admit to cucking out a little bit out of respect to James Mountain) as my personal beliefs far more important to me than some fansite I run as a hobby. As I have stated before, I believe it is important to have adult spaces where adults can have adult conversations and even make adult jokes; Trying to make everything into a tool for grooming/educating children is a recipe for disaster.
I have a background in comedy here in Italy, and my country does not share the skewed and frankly dangerous morality system of the United States (which then naturally bleeds into silicon valley-ran social media), where depiction in a piece of media is immediately associated with endorsement and everything revolves around a Manichean struggle of good vs. evil for the purpose of education. Which is why western fans of Grasshopper’s output honestly believe that the company is endorsing murder, by releasing games that happen to star serial killers. (Hint: they are not.)
In Italy, it has always been right-wing authoritarians muzzling offensive comedy. It was never a left-wing issue.
The seminal 2005 masterpiece Fascists on Mars, the co-writer of which wrote the introduction to one of my books, contains depictions of fascist uniforms, Mussolini quotes, Mussolini statues, blackface and racial slurs. It is, however, a satire ON Fascism, not a movie supporting it. (Which is not dissimilar to how I am free to make fun of Qtards and Yamato Q while also openly stating that I believe it to be an orchestrated call for violence.)
Its director and main actor, Corrado Guzzanti, has been a supporter of left-wing parties since the beginning of his career, and has been banned from television for a while due to his satire on the then right-wing party leader, Silvio Berlusconi.
His miniseries “Where’s Mario?”, which contains hardcore racial jokes about black people being burned alive (It even features the much dreaded n-word! Oh no!) and gypsies being born as thieves, even had a cameo by ex-Democratic Party leader Walter Veltroni.
The idea that “humor” is a dogwhistle to right-wing genocide squads is purely an anglosaxon invention, spread by uncultured people who don't know anything about local history, local culture, and just see the entire world as an extension of the United States.
Similarly, my central inspiration and teacher, Daniele Luttazzi, had also been “cancelled” by right-wing authoritarians in the early 2000s, using his offensive comedy as a scapegoat to actually muzzle his ability to speak against the current (right-wing) government. You can read more about that in https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editto_bulgaro .
To claim that my usage of offensive comedy makes me a self-immolating nazi Jew is a nonsensical syllogism employed by bad actors to foment violence against me and my family. My wife is also Jewish, and every time I light a cigarette we share a gas chamber joke. This is how I am depicted by my friends.
(This is also, pretty much, what I look like IRL.)
The black nazi in the Susie Site Map page was chosen specifically as a joke gesturing towards one of our two graphic designers (the one who made the YT channel trailer), who is a black man, yet he is called a nazi for working on a god damn fansite. If I were to tell you the shit we say to each other in person just to have a laugh, you’d probably get a heart attack from the stress, I’m sorry our sense of humor offends sheltered, rich white Americans, but nobody is forcing them to mingle with us.
Italian satire has a storied history going back to the Latin era, back when Italy was just a landmass and not a nation, with it being codified by the Satyricon in the late 1st century AD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyricon
Which also happens to be the name of a show ran by the previously mentioned and much reviled Daniele Luttazzi, by the way, as a tribute to the legacy of satirical comedy.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyricon ... elevisivo)
It is a tool of freedom, not oppression, and it begins and ends with self-criticism. If you've ever met me in person you've probably lost count of how many times I refer to myself as a filthy kike.
This is my website, built around my personal taste and my writing. It is not a wiki. There are wikis around and everyone is free to use them. There’s no point in me working on my hobby if I cannot have fun and have to be beholden to the “authority” of online influencers under the threat of physical violence.
I have no intention of ever bringing up any of these people ever again. I have never interacted with any of these people in my life and I never will in the future. I have never tried to “build a community” and I challenge everyone else in providing proof of any of their statements I posted above, which is going to be impossible, considering I have no public presence whatsoever. Weirdly enough, it seems that I am the only person actually providing proof and sources to their statements.
I do not, in any way shape or form, condone the harassment of these people. I expressly demand that nobody uses my words here as an excuse to commit any kind of violence or harassment against these people. In fact, they are free to keep using my work without crediting me and I’ll never come bitch at them or complain in any way. Their statements are, however, demonstrably false, and truth had to be restored at least somewhat to avoid putting my family in danger.
After this post, I am once again having this account banned from the Forums. The only avenue of online communication I have is a discord server which I use to speak with a select group of friends privately to coordinate on projects.
If anyone online claims to be me, they aren't. Feel free to tell them I consider them subhuman mongoloids and that I’ll sue for impersonation.
If anyone online claims to speak on my behalf, feel free to tell them I consider them subhuman mongoloids and that I’ll sue for impersonation.
If anyone online harasses people while claiming to be me, or to be acting in my stead, feel free to tell them I consider them subhuman mongoloids and that I’ll sue for impersonation.
(An additional note on this: If you ever see an account called ParadiseHotel51 on Discord, that is also not me. That's @Iwazaru who is responsible for the Forum. I shouldn't need to say this, but he does not speak for me or act on my behalf, and he doesn't even know what I do with the website 'cause he doesn't read it.)
Through the course of the last year, I have worked on the following projects:
- Wrote or re-wrote all the following pages, which of course involves weeks of research:
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/wha ... -the-past/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/moonlight-syndrome/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/ms-analysis/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the-silver-case/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/flower-sun-rain/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/killer7/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the-25th-ward/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/onk/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/kmh/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/kurayami/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the ... -heroes-2/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the ... 2011-2012/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the ... -chainsaw/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the ... e-planet-g
- Worked on the following translations in conjunction with other people. While Jolovey is the main translator on Moonlight Syndrome, we often coordinated with my wife and with my own research to make the translation as accurate and complete as possible. The same is true for the various translators who worked on ONK; I was the one who kept consistency between videos, recorded all the gameplay and timed every single subtitle, which takes hours upon hours and is compounded upon by the amount of research needed to avoid mistakes, especially when it came to Fire Pro Special and Makkana Onnanoko (which was translated, in case you forgot, by my god damn wife).
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/mak ... -red-girl/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/kil ... ort-story/
- Spent an inordinate amount of money (think in terms of thousands) to purchase every single published book relating to a GhM or Suda51 product to have them scanned in the highest possible quality together with one other person. This is TWO people spending their own money (we didn’t do any crowdfunding and very rarely we got anyone else’s help) for something that everyone else gets FOR FREE.
I enjoy doing this, it is my hobby, but it gets harder and harder when people do nothing but bitch at me. People on this forum are still mad that I took attention away from TopDrunkee (which again, I apologize for engaging in conversation at all. It was a bad idea and banning myself gives me more time to work on the site proper) but at the same time constantly whine at me for not posting, not driving traffic towards the forum, not moderating it etc. Please, get your shit together and stop bothering me, because if this causes me any more problems you’re just gonna have to find a different web host.
At the same time, people outside of the “community” (which does not exist. Nobody cares about PH51. There’s TopDrunkee fans who despise me and maybe five people who actually read the website.) do nothing but make up preposterous stories about my personal life which, of course, have no way of confirming since they do not know me, do not speak to me, and I have no public presence online. I have already outlined why some of this behavior is criminal.
For these and other reasons I’ve decided to keep the website private for the time being.
I see no other option, considering that, at some point, I will want to cover lolicon anime culture in relation to No More Heroes, and of course, there's no way of depicting that without being accused of raping children due to the previously mentioned Manichean depiction rule.
I will probably make the text translations available as .epub or .pdf downloadables for convenience (I'm just being lazy. I'll do it at some point. Despite appearances, I am retarded, so I was having trouble figuring out the text effects.) but I would ask those few people who actually use the website to not spread them around too much as they are used to harass my wife for daring to touch something that supposedly only exists to serve the clout of certain YouTubers.
I would personally like to thank @cj_iwakura for apologizing over his misunderstanding, and to apologize to him in turn about overreacting in blaming him (I honestly thought he was being disingenuous. I’m sorry.), Monachuss for trying to set the record straight after (unwittingly, and I don’t blame him for it) spreading a lot of these lies around, and James Mountain for taking the time to look into the issue and realizing that he was listening to what amounted to kindergarten rumors.
I would also like to thank the various game developers who reached out to me during a moment of crisis and vouched for me with James, along with the (one and only) YouTube personality who did the same.
I will become the wind of Liverpool!
PS: “I will become the wind of Liverpool” is a reference to Champion Road. Which in itself is a reference to Jushin Liger when asked about his real identity. “Keiichi Yamada became the wind of Liverpool.” I don’t blame you if you don’t give a fuck about these games, but I also don’t see any reason to play pretend.
I am the owner of this web space.
I’m sure most of the regular users here know all about me and my situation, but I feel there’s a ton of onlookers and casual viewers who are being (unwittingly) fed bullshit by their favourite YouTubers and online influencers.
I have never addressed this before and I don’t plan on doing it again afterwards, but due to the way recent drama has affected my personal life and my family I feel like I have to, so I’ll ask @Iwazaru to pin this as an announcement and leave it here for all those who are willing to read some text. Of course, I can’t do anything about submentals who refuse to learn the alphabet.
1. I am not TopDrunkee. TopDrunkee functionally stopped working on the website 13 years ago. Meaning I am not responsible for the website he ran and he is, likewise, not responsible for the website that I run. Nothing I say is endorsed by him.
2. I do not have a social media presence. In fact, I do not have any personal online accounts outside of business-related ones.
This does not mean that I’m a serial killer with a dark past, as certain people would have you believe. It just means that I prefer to spend my time working, enjoying the company of my wife or on my hobbies, which of course, as you might have realized, include running my website. I consider social media to be an enormous waste of time and I have not engaged with it since 2013, when I deleted my Facebook account and my life has only improved because of it.
3. I do not run these forums. In fact, I do not post on these forums, and I am not a welcome presence on these forums. I believe that a community should be ran and managed by people who belong to it, rather than having an outside observer meddle in their business. (In other words, I hate all jannies.)
These forums are dedicated specifically to fans of TopDrunkee who enjoy his art and online persona. TopDrunkee was the original webmaster of Killer7SINdicate (the website which I purchased all the way back in 2009 and recently rebooted as my own Paradise Hotel 51, which has been archived in its final iteration here: https://archive.kontek.net/killer7.3dac ... psycho.htm) and due to the general disinterest in GhM’s output during the 2010s, the community began revolving around his personality and lifestyle rather than anything to do with old Suda51 games.
Therefore, when I rebooted the website according to my own personal taste a couple of years ago, it became abundantly obvious I was “hogging the spotlight” away from TD lifestylers and fans, since I would mostly talk about old GhM games and attract users interested in discussing those things.
As it was offensive and obtrusive to the community, I banned my previous accounts and let the others rework the forums into what they wanted it to be, as per my previous statement. Meaning my public online interactions are now reduced to zero.
The forum is ran by @Iwazaru, so please, direct all your inquiries to him. I host these forums as a personal favor to him, who holds them very near and dear to his heart.
He does not care what I do with the website (in fact, he just recently found out about the last 12 months of updates) and, vice versa, I do not care what he does with the forums.
The decision that has been taken in accordance to TD’s will was that the new iteration of the forum would be heavily moderated, in order to be more gender-inclusive, to have a more favorable SEO profile and especially in regards to suppressing right-wing opinions.
Personally, I am under the impression that they must not be doing a really good job at it considering I get people constantly bitching at me to delete this or that. I have no intention of managing a forum, so I would kindly ask all of you to get your shit together, and if anyone wants to help Iwazaru go through older posts deleting problematic content, then please contact him.
4. There is no such thing as a “Paradise Hotel” community. It is me and two people who help me with graphics, plus Iwazaru/Qish running the forums. There is an official PH51 Twitter account which is only ever used for announcements, and though I have wrestled control of it recently to speak with a few people, it is not usually ran by me. All the content on the website has been penned by me, and the YouTube channel is ran by me. My only other online interactions are limited to a small Discord server which we only utilize to organize various projects which I would not be able to work on by myself. It’s not some sort of “secret group”, considering its contents are leaked to other Discord servers constantly and I let in pretty much whoever asked.
Most recently, I have been accused of managing dozens of sockpuppet accounts to harass people on Twitter. To be more specific, TopDrunkee (Jack) has been accused of doing so and, through the proxy of people who have no reading comprehension or are wilfully disingenuous, I have been accused of being him.
I initially thought that someone on the forums might be responsible, and asked a moderator to issue a couple of warnings in the past.
viewtopic.php?t=234
viewtopic.php?t=319
My original assumption was "disgruntled TopDrunkee fans". However, it has been brought to my attention by @Digitalman and @Meru (whom I apologize to for making her feel like I was accusing her. We've talked in private, that was not my intention at all) over time that it was some third party who was either impersonating Jack (with the purpose of smearing him / getting the website taken down) or that people just kind of assumed it was him.
As for me, as I have made abundantly clear, I have no interest in engaging with “communities” or “fandoms” whatsoever. I find their focus on underage kids to be, frankly, quite creepy. I do not believe children should engage with adult media and I do not believe it is my role to tone down products that I like, just so that children can more freely interact with games that include rape, terrorism, murder and torture.
Secondly, even if I wanted to, I simply don’t have the time.
The reason why any troll is immediately associated with me is because certain online personalities spend the greatest part of their time making up stories about me or accusing me of absurd and criminal behavior.
Their motivation is that, seven years ago, the previous webmaster (which might I remind you hasn’t worked on the website since 2010) was very vocal about voting for Trump. For what it’s worth, he has recently seen the error of his ways: He connected with Antifa groups in real life, has made statements in support of communism, fights for LGBTQ+ rights and is a financial supporter of a very prominent LGBTQ+ celebrity. This is why I am pretty sure he would not be behind any kind of Twitter harassment; considering he is endorsed by Antifa directly, I very much doubt he’d go around spreading right-wing rhetoric online.
People keep running into his older posts, when he was very much entangled with the Japanese right-wing sphere, and judge him according to those. As I said, I have no intention of running a forum, but I would invite whoever is in charge or wants to help out to edit or delete those posts so people stop harassing Jack for things he clearly does not stand by or believe anymore.
As per me, I am not American at all. The only way you could get me interested in an election is if every politician is put on a bus and driven to a Gulag, and then a vote is held on whether they die by hanging or by shooting.
I understand that this LARP which sees me as an evil emperor who needs to be defeated/taken down is very important to certain online communities. I do not want to take that away from you, nor do I have any interest in playing this game of thrones of fandom leader. I run a static webpage.
Unfortunately, however, the lies spread by these online influencers have gotten out of control, to the point where they started putting my family at risk. I really should not be explaining to my father how or why the fuck some Americans found his phone number, and I should not have to hide in another country with my wife because obsessive people try and trick a community manager into endorsing my murder. Bad actors have been trying to get maladjusted teenagers to kill me for years:
I have not pursued this matter through the legal system and I have gone through the trouble of censoring his nickname just because he and I became friends after he tracked me down, as he had enough brain power to realize he was being fed a line. But things may have gone very differently for me, and he may have committed violence against me and my wife (who lives with me in case you were wondering. Meaning that if my address gets leaked, so does hers.) Thankfully, he instead stood by me in a time of profound grief, and if he is reading this I’d like to thank him.
Most recently, these bad actors actually tricked James Mountain, Grasshopper Manufacture’s PR person, into Tweeting a line that could be seen as endorsing my murder. (e.g. “Fix your heart or die”.)
Thus making the previously mentioned maladjusted teenagers and young adults, who are, more often than not, also on SSRIs and other psycho-pharmaceutical drugs, think that they were being spurred on by the company itself into finding my dox and killing me.
(Me and James have spoken in private and he has retracted his statement, for which I thank him personally.)
This is not exclusive to me either; Whoever had been looking into the leaked killer7 beta was sent false DMCA letters, the people who were translating the killer7 short story have been harassed by the community until they stopped (as confirmed by them in this thread viewtopic.php?t=135), another translator who was working with us previously has also been harassed on Reddit as a “right wing nut” for daring to correct the translation of a game which had been altered to match western understanding of gender roles (for which he had to delete his entire online persona), CJ Iwakura is constantly smeared as a “fascist” just because of his job and recently had his Facebook account hacked (you can ask him for confirmation).
In short, anyone who actively tries to do anything in the GhM fandom gets harassed into oblivion unless he conforms to the opinions of these “community leaders” and constantly redirects their content back to them.
However, this has gotten bad enough that I have to address these constant lies somewhere, considering that the same people are still engaging in the same exact behavior every hour of every day, completely obsessed as if psychotic. I will censor out their names because, unlike them, I am not fond of drama, I do not find living “rent free” in someone’s head to be entertaining (especially when it comes to obsessive/mentally ill people who may resort to violence) and I do not want to point my finger at anybody. I only want to address the lies, not the liars.
I will also try to focus specifically on behavior which is illegal in nature.
When a certain YouTuber tells his impressionable teenage / young adult audience that I am “literally a nazi”, he is lying through his teeth, which (maybe unintentionally) spurs on others to have harm done to me or my family. He has, as I already mentioned, been doing this for years now.
He is also committing a crime. As Fascist/National Socialist apology is illegal in my country.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legge_Scelba
According to Article 4 of 1952’s Scelba’s law, Nazifascist apology is punished with imprisonment going from six months to 4 years. Meaning that his written statements fall under the definition of Calumny, as he is stating as a fact to a group of people that an Italian citizen is responsible for committing a crime.
“chiunque [..] incolpa di un reato taluno che egli sa innocente ovvero simula a carico di lui le tracce di un reato è punito con la reclusione da due a sei anni”
Calumny is punished with imprisonment from two to six years.
https://app.toga.cloud/codici/codice-pe ... 8-calunnia
It is also personally outrageous to me, as I have made no secret of the fact that I am Jewish. I hail from a long-standing Italian-Jewish family and I have a very Jewish surname. The Jewish side of my family was deported by the regime during WW2, and both of my Gentile grandparents suffered under the regime for different reasons. I come from a country where these words have a very real meaning, unlike the way they are carelessly thrown around in the anglophone world.
I have never made any secret of my personal political affiliations either. I have always been, and will always be a socialist, with one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) being a personal icon of mine, having visited his grave several times through the course of my life and often taking inspiration from his words and actions.
The PSI, along with the DC (also home to many unjustly reviled Italian heroes), was a staunch enemy of the Fascist regime. It is in no way affiliated with the German National Socialist Party. I don’t expect people to be familiar with Italian political history, I am just making this clear to avoid further confusion.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partito_S ... a_Italiano
As you can see, he is also calling James Mountain an “asshole” for simply doing what any sane person would do, and disassociate himself and his company from the attempted murder of a foreign citizen. As both Japan and the United States are part of the UN, they are subject to extradition in regards to crimes committed against Italian citizens.
https://www.brocardi.it/codice-penale/l ... art13.html
He then, of course, lied to his face to get an interview.
This is the kind of person whose words are being taken at face value when defaming an individual whose personal opinions they have no way of knowing, just because of his YouTube subscriber count.
Not only have I never interacted with this YouTuber directly in my life, I actually recommended his work in an older article I wrote. It is currently not on the website, but only because I was re-writing and expanding it to better fit with the current level of quality of the website. But of course, as soon as it is up again, I am going to remove any endorsement of a man who carelessly spreads lies that could lead harm to me and, most egregiously, my wife and other family members.
When a certain user on CJ’s Discord tells you the website never had an age warning for its satirical content, he is also lying. Of course, the idea that some people "sign in (TO A STATIC WEBPAGE) just to harass" is equally bullshit.
"I wouldn't have brought it up if we weren't making shit up about a person I don't know looolllll"
A content warning has been present on the website since I rebooted it, which was in 2021. Here’s a wayback machine archive of the page that he claims never existed, which is dated by a third party (meaning I can’t be lying about it):
https://web.archive.org/web/20210802234 ... tel51.com/
Considering that you are re-directed to this page through the main URL, it is unlikely that he "never noticed".
Unlike some of the others, his statement does not constitute a crime, but it is still an (albeit minor) example of a concerted effort in lying about my person, my life and my work, and also of the conspiratorial obsessions these people fall into.
When people on a certain Discord server call for my murder in front of GhM staff, with server moderators supporting their statements, they are committing a crime.
https://www.brocardi.it/codice-penale/l ... rt414.html
Instigating a crime (in this case, murder) is punished with imprisonment from one to five years under article 414 of our legal code, even if one has no intention of committing it themselves. They are, again, spurring those few unhinged individuals into action against me and my family.
When several people claim that I hate Suda51 because I happen not to like some of the games released by his company, I don’t even know if they’re lying. They might just be completely insane. Of course, I personally hate a man while running a fansite about his work as a hobby. I cannot focus too much on these as I have to pay attention to the actual legal claims, but there’s dozens of examples of people regurgitating this shit without ever reading anything I ever wrote or ever talking to me (HINT: My personal taste rarely figures in my writing, and when it does it's clearly there from a subjective point of view. Even then, disliking the No More Heroes sequels is hardly a reason to be killed.)
Again, not a crime, but part of a general narrative being spread by bad actors. It also, again, shows the conspiratorial obsession in this fandom; The constant usage of "they" to indicate a nebulous evil force looming in the darkness is a well known symptom of paranoid delusions.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 0X22000811
Which in the past few years, spurred hysteria online in regards to conspiracy theories such as "gang stalking".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking
When people claim that depictions of nazis are endorsement of national socialism and the holocaust, again, they may not be acting in bad faith but it is definitely an asinine statement.
Yes, obviously, pictures like these are meant to be a completely serious endorsement of a worker's party from the 1930s. Are these people deranged?
Oh no, Anime Hitler with sunglasses is going to come out of the screen and gas me. What the actual fuck are they thinking?
The fact that they kept pretending not to know I was being personally accused of harassing random people online through sockpuppet accounts is not due to ignorance. It was only thanks to @Digitalman 's research that the truth came to light in that regard, and I'd like to thank him. Terminally online spergs see me as "competition" for just spreading around everything I can for free, and I guess they finally managed to stop it by forcing me to implement a paywall.
When certain Discord users claim I harass people on Twitter, they are committing a crime. Again, as explained earlier, this falls under Calumny according to the Italian judicial system.
When certain Discord users claim that releasing a Moonlight Syndrome translation ruined people’s lives, I honestly have no fucking clue what they’re talking about, so I can’t even comment on that. It’s such a flabbergasting statement, it just boggles my mind.
It’s also another example of this conspiratorial "they", which ties into statements made by others, that I am affiliated with the Mafia. (Again, illegal. Mafia association is illegal, and therefore it falls under Calumny.)
Of course, this is based on the fact that the website is credited to the "Dataly Mafia", which nobody who is normal would take as an unironic statement of fact. I will let you make a valued judgement in regards to the idea that I am actually a mafia killer who's got nothing better to do than run a videogame fansite.
I am not sure if anyone who posts on the forum is really right-wing, but considering there were posts by people upset that its users were too left-leaning, I frankly doubt it.
viewtopic.php?t=165
I believe most people who held right-wing opinions were either banned, or left on their own. I think people keep running into old posts from Jack/TopDrunkee (who is not me) from back when he was a Trump supporter, but his most recent statements is that he would give his life and stab people in the name of trans rights, so bullying him over stuff he believed and said years ago is frankly uncalled for.
These people are free to contact @Iwazaru in regards to suppressing any past right-wing activity. His PMs are open to the public. It's got nothing to do with me, and I frankly do not believe in censorship, nor do I believe that to be a good use of my time.
When certain YouTubers claim I am “trying to get people to join my community” and that I’ve been “trolling them on twitter”, they are lying. I have no community. I host a static webpage ran by three people.
That part is not criminal, but claiming that I am a “Qanon freak” (when I often made fun of Qanon back when I had an online presence, with my statement being something along the lines of "all you needed to tell white americans to shut them up was 'just two more weeks'") might be, as it is implying a connection between me and a terrorist movement.
Of course, I don't need to keep mentioning the focus on "they", "them", "that group". I do not want to trigger people who have serious mental illnesses into violent action. If they are incapable of differentiating fantasy from reality, they need help, not constant bullying. I sincerely believe most of these people to be vulnerable victims of abusers who instill these insane conspiracy theories in their brains. As a dear friend of mine has grown completely delusional in his old age, to the point of denying blatant reality, I know how far these things can get.
When that certain YouTuber claims that a parody of Qanon dumb shit is a “death threat”, he is committing a crime for the reasons detailed above. (Stating as fact that someone committed a crime in front of people without it having been judged in a court of law falls under Calumny in the Italian judicial system, and threatening violence against others, which they gleefully engage in in these screencaps might I add, is a crime.)
I do not mind if people are triggered by parodies of current events. It is their prerogative, as it is to avert their eyes. But to then associate me with a terrorist movement is a nonsensical syllogism and, as I mentioned, illegal.
When a certain YouTuber claims that PH51 is “ran by crazy Russians”, he is not only lying, but he is also besmirching the work of some Russians who DO work with me (one being an incredible asset to the internet community as a whole) and he is demonstrating the same Trumpian rhetoric he purports to hate, “these foreigners are coming to take our jobs.” It is, also, a racist statement, implying that, just because of the action of their president, an entire population must be reviled on principle. Why would “Russian” be an insult otherwise?
It wasn't until I saw this that I realized this person is either honestly convinced that Deep runs the website, or just tries to get his followers to believe that he does. This is another lie. Deep is a friend of mine but he has no access to the website’s backend and no input on what I write or publish. My only input in his Russian translation project (which also, apparently, should not exist, because Russians are filthy and evil) was helping find a tool that would functionally hack the game.
Most recently, I got people contacting me to bitch about his thread on The Silver Case’s translation (viewtopic.php?t=353), claiming that it is “the official PH51” translation. I am left utterly confused as per why anyone would think this, but I will say here that no, I am not responsible for every word that comes out of Deep’s mouth. His opinions are his own.
The rest of his story is, similarly, completely manufactured. This person never tried contacting me in his life; There's a public Twitter, a public YouTube channel, and the website redirects you to an email. I challenge him to provide any kind of proof of his attempt; Of course, none can be provided, as he made it up.
Likewise, Deep did not translate the Moonlight Syndrome videos. As he is credited everywhere, Jolovey did, using the original draft by Izzeybee as a basis (though after so many drafts, very little of it remains in the finished version). We then worked together and with other people comparing notes to make the translation as accurate as possible, which we are still in the process of doing, with me recently dumping several hundred dollars into getting a full transcription of the voiced dialogue by a Japanese native to make absolutely sure we did not mishear anything. Jolovey is also one of the two translators working on the current English patch project. Not "some Russian maniac". I've never seen him be anything but courteous and well mannered to everyone. How dare this person make shit up about people he doesn't know?
He apparently has a problem with Deep personally because they don't like the same videogames. This seems to be the root of his paranoid obsession, to the point of telling him to "eat cement" just because he left a comment under one of his videos.
Does this person know what it means to die by eating cement?
I do, because his country just so happened to bomb mine. My compatriots died by inhaling cement from the collapsing buildings. Dying by having cement solidify within your lungs or throat is a horrifying death. Considering that Deep's country is currently at war, that is an insensitive statement to say the least, especially under a video which happens to star a member of GhM's staff (which he also referred to as an asshole and a nazi supporter). Why are Americans so obsessed with committing violence against others in the name of "justice"?
This same YouTuber also claims that “we” hired people to translate the games (which contrasts with his previous statements, but as we learned through this adventure, the truth is not exactly their forte); that’s a lie, though for the life of me I cannot guess as per why he’d even say that. We have cooperated with three external translators before; Jolovey, NewWorldOrder and thekagepro. All three of them are openly credited in every single video they worked on, but most importantly, all three of them approached me voluntarily to work together for free.
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(I had to screencap this one because it's on an unlisted video. Since I actually took the time to re-do and re-edit all the videos in higher quality.)
The fourth translator you see credited in a lot of videos and pages, PT, is a different story altogether. I apologize for lying about it until now as we had preoccupations about our privacy, but PT is actually my wife. “PT” actually stands for “Phantom Translator”, though I jokingly refer to her as “Paola Tabascio.” (Not her real name. It’s an inside-joke between us that wouldn’t really matter otherwise. Such as crediting Kim Jong Il as helping with the translations lol.) She has studied Japanese in high school and has lived in Tokyo for a while many years ago, and we work on translations together, hence my joke about her sitting on my lap in the interview.
She gave me permission to come out and say this because she is personally offended by people using her as a scapegoat to attack me and, ironically, herself. She is not happy about people pretending that she has nothing to do with me and I have been “stealing” her work considering we are fucking married.
The only translations that were paid for were commissioned to Dijeh some years ago, and they referred to FSR interviews that nobody was interested in translating for free. (It predated my marriage, obviously.)
Even then, I don't see any reason why me spending my money for something that everyone else gets for free would be grounds for murder.
When stating that I am an “Italian fascist” as a fact, this user on CJ’s Discord server is committing a crime. This one especially hurts as we used to be friends on Facebook, gifted games to each other and so on. He knows who I am, he knows my very Jewish surname and my very Jewish family, so for him to lie out of his teeth just to gain “clout” in the “community” is disappointing to say the least.
I'm also told that he has also openly stated that he believed the Twitter trolls to be impersonators in a Private Message to one of the forum administrators. Meaning that he has to be lying intentionally, rather than being misguided.
I hope getting “cool guy” points on a Discord server was worth committing a crime, trying to ruin the life of somebody who was never anything but cordial to him.
I hate to go on a tangent here, but this English person should learn his own history before making careless, racist statements about Italians. As it has been admitted by the English government that Fascism was, in fact, a manufactured movement financed by the English secret service to destabilize my country.
This is not a crackpot conspiracy theory. It is documented history reported on by all mainstream media.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/ ... -mi5-italy
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-muss ... MW20091014
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33312493
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/benito- ... aly-403150
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldn ... y-MI5.html
(If anyone wants to learn more about this, the entire process has been detailed by Giovanni Fasanella and Mario José Cereghino in the wonderful book "Il Nero di Londra" https://www.ibs.it/nero-di-londra-da-ca ... 8832965087)
Before blaming me for fascist deaths simply because of my nationality, he should look at his own country's history. The Jewish side of my family was deported by a regime manufactured and financed by his people. And he goes around calling me a fascist, just for being born in a country he doesn't like? With what nerve? This is the same exact rhetoric that was used against me back when I was on Facebook, which framed me as a Palestinian murdering psychopath simply for having family in Israel. Fuck off with that shit. Holding me responsible for what my government does (against me nonetheless) is ridiculous, especially as there is a lot of blame to throw around once that lens is turned the opposite way.
Now, this is merely a sample of the lies that are spread about my person every hour of every day. It is a veritable psychosis. This is based on two factors:
The first one has nothing to do with me; As I mentioned before, the original webmaster of Killer7SINdicate (i.e. not me, TopDrunkee) was quite vocal about voting for Trump in 2016, six years after he had anything to do with the website. Which of course got the train running on “everyone being a nazi”. (As I mentioned before, he has since walked back his opinions on all of these subjects and is currently financially supporting a prominent LGBTQ+ celebrity.)
A lot of people, some of them lying, some of them legitimately misguided, think or want others to think that I am TopDrunkee and an American supporter of the Republican party. I am VERY happy to say that I am not American, and I stopped voting years ago, just like the majority of Italian people.
This was, unfortunately, started by an irresponsible comment by CJ Iwakura, saying that “the website is ran by republicans, they're all very conservative” based on one person voting for Trump once.
Now I would like to state here once and for all that CJ IWAKURA IS THE ONLY ONE WHO PERSONALLY APPROACHED ME AND APOLOGIZED, and he also was legitimately confused about me being TopDrunkee for some reason, despite him always using his real face and writing in a completely different style from mine. For that I’d like to THANK CJ IWAKURA and assure everybody that there is no bad blood between us WHATSOEVER.
The second factor, which actually has to do with me, is that I have a background in offensive comedy. I’ll make jokes about politics, terrorism, murder, race, sex and pretty much everything else under the sun. I stand by my position on this matter and I will for the rest of my life (although I admit to cucking out a little bit out of respect to James Mountain) as my personal beliefs far more important to me than some fansite I run as a hobby. As I have stated before, I believe it is important to have adult spaces where adults can have adult conversations and even make adult jokes; Trying to make everything into a tool for grooming/educating children is a recipe for disaster.
I have a background in comedy here in Italy, and my country does not share the skewed and frankly dangerous morality system of the United States (which then naturally bleeds into silicon valley-ran social media), where depiction in a piece of media is immediately associated with endorsement and everything revolves around a Manichean struggle of good vs. evil for the purpose of education. Which is why western fans of Grasshopper’s output honestly believe that the company is endorsing murder, by releasing games that happen to star serial killers. (Hint: they are not.)
In Italy, it has always been right-wing authoritarians muzzling offensive comedy. It was never a left-wing issue.
The seminal 2005 masterpiece Fascists on Mars, the co-writer of which wrote the introduction to one of my books, contains depictions of fascist uniforms, Mussolini quotes, Mussolini statues, blackface and racial slurs. It is, however, a satire ON Fascism, not a movie supporting it. (Which is not dissimilar to how I am free to make fun of Qtards and Yamato Q while also openly stating that I believe it to be an orchestrated call for violence.)
Its director and main actor, Corrado Guzzanti, has been a supporter of left-wing parties since the beginning of his career, and has been banned from television for a while due to his satire on the then right-wing party leader, Silvio Berlusconi.
His miniseries “Where’s Mario?”, which contains hardcore racial jokes about black people being burned alive (It even features the much dreaded n-word! Oh no!) and gypsies being born as thieves, even had a cameo by ex-Democratic Party leader Walter Veltroni.
The idea that “humor” is a dogwhistle to right-wing genocide squads is purely an anglosaxon invention, spread by uncultured people who don't know anything about local history, local culture, and just see the entire world as an extension of the United States.
Similarly, my central inspiration and teacher, Daniele Luttazzi, had also been “cancelled” by right-wing authoritarians in the early 2000s, using his offensive comedy as a scapegoat to actually muzzle his ability to speak against the current (right-wing) government. You can read more about that in https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editto_bulgaro .
To claim that my usage of offensive comedy makes me a self-immolating nazi Jew is a nonsensical syllogism employed by bad actors to foment violence against me and my family. My wife is also Jewish, and every time I light a cigarette we share a gas chamber joke. This is how I am depicted by my friends.
(This is also, pretty much, what I look like IRL.)
The black nazi in the Susie Site Map page was chosen specifically as a joke gesturing towards one of our two graphic designers (the one who made the YT channel trailer), who is a black man, yet he is called a nazi for working on a god damn fansite. If I were to tell you the shit we say to each other in person just to have a laugh, you’d probably get a heart attack from the stress, I’m sorry our sense of humor offends sheltered, rich white Americans, but nobody is forcing them to mingle with us.
Italian satire has a storied history going back to the Latin era, back when Italy was just a landmass and not a nation, with it being codified by the Satyricon in the late 1st century AD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyricon
Which also happens to be the name of a show ran by the previously mentioned and much reviled Daniele Luttazzi, by the way, as a tribute to the legacy of satirical comedy.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyricon ... elevisivo)
It is a tool of freedom, not oppression, and it begins and ends with self-criticism. If you've ever met me in person you've probably lost count of how many times I refer to myself as a filthy kike.
This is my website, built around my personal taste and my writing. It is not a wiki. There are wikis around and everyone is free to use them. There’s no point in me working on my hobby if I cannot have fun and have to be beholden to the “authority” of online influencers under the threat of physical violence.
I have no intention of ever bringing up any of these people ever again. I have never interacted with any of these people in my life and I never will in the future. I have never tried to “build a community” and I challenge everyone else in providing proof of any of their statements I posted above, which is going to be impossible, considering I have no public presence whatsoever. Weirdly enough, it seems that I am the only person actually providing proof and sources to their statements.
I do not, in any way shape or form, condone the harassment of these people. I expressly demand that nobody uses my words here as an excuse to commit any kind of violence or harassment against these people. In fact, they are free to keep using my work without crediting me and I’ll never come bitch at them or complain in any way. Their statements are, however, demonstrably false, and truth had to be restored at least somewhat to avoid putting my family in danger.
After this post, I am once again having this account banned from the Forums. The only avenue of online communication I have is a discord server which I use to speak with a select group of friends privately to coordinate on projects.
If anyone online claims to be me, they aren't. Feel free to tell them I consider them subhuman mongoloids and that I’ll sue for impersonation.
If anyone online claims to speak on my behalf, feel free to tell them I consider them subhuman mongoloids and that I’ll sue for impersonation.
If anyone online harasses people while claiming to be me, or to be acting in my stead, feel free to tell them I consider them subhuman mongoloids and that I’ll sue for impersonation.
(An additional note on this: If you ever see an account called ParadiseHotel51 on Discord, that is also not me. That's @Iwazaru who is responsible for the Forum. I shouldn't need to say this, but he does not speak for me or act on my behalf, and he doesn't even know what I do with the website 'cause he doesn't read it.)
Through the course of the last year, I have worked on the following projects:
- Wrote or re-wrote all the following pages, which of course involves weeks of research:
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/wha ... -the-past/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/moonlight-syndrome/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/ms-analysis/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the-silver-case/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/flower-sun-rain/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/killer7/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the-25th-ward/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/onk/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/kmh/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/kurayami/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the ... -heroes-2/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the ... 2011-2012/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the ... -chainsaw/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/the ... e-planet-g
- Worked on the following translations in conjunction with other people. While Jolovey is the main translator on Moonlight Syndrome, we often coordinated with my wife and with my own research to make the translation as accurate and complete as possible. The same is true for the various translators who worked on ONK; I was the one who kept consistency between videos, recorded all the gameplay and timed every single subtitle, which takes hours upon hours and is compounded upon by the amount of research needed to avoid mistakes, especially when it came to Fire Pro Special and Makkana Onnanoko (which was translated, in case you forgot, by my god damn wife).
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/mak ... -red-girl/
https://www.paradisehotel51.com/sin/kil ... ort-story/
- Spent an inordinate amount of money (think in terms of thousands) to purchase every single published book relating to a GhM or Suda51 product to have them scanned in the highest possible quality together with one other person. This is TWO people spending their own money (we didn’t do any crowdfunding and very rarely we got anyone else’s help) for something that everyone else gets FOR FREE.
I enjoy doing this, it is my hobby, but it gets harder and harder when people do nothing but bitch at me. People on this forum are still mad that I took attention away from TopDrunkee (which again, I apologize for engaging in conversation at all. It was a bad idea and banning myself gives me more time to work on the site proper) but at the same time constantly whine at me for not posting, not driving traffic towards the forum, not moderating it etc. Please, get your shit together and stop bothering me, because if this causes me any more problems you’re just gonna have to find a different web host.
At the same time, people outside of the “community” (which does not exist. Nobody cares about PH51. There’s TopDrunkee fans who despise me and maybe five people who actually read the website.) do nothing but make up preposterous stories about my personal life which, of course, have no way of confirming since they do not know me, do not speak to me, and I have no public presence online. I have already outlined why some of this behavior is criminal.
For these and other reasons I’ve decided to keep the website private for the time being.
I see no other option, considering that, at some point, I will want to cover lolicon anime culture in relation to No More Heroes, and of course, there's no way of depicting that without being accused of raping children due to the previously mentioned Manichean depiction rule.
I will probably make the text translations available as .epub or .pdf downloadables for convenience (I'm just being lazy. I'll do it at some point. Despite appearances, I am retarded, so I was having trouble figuring out the text effects.) but I would ask those few people who actually use the website to not spread them around too much as they are used to harass my wife for daring to touch something that supposedly only exists to serve the clout of certain YouTubers.
I would personally like to thank @cj_iwakura for apologizing over his misunderstanding, and to apologize to him in turn about overreacting in blaming him (I honestly thought he was being disingenuous. I’m sorry.), Monachuss for trying to set the record straight after (unwittingly, and I don’t blame him for it) spreading a lot of these lies around, and James Mountain for taking the time to look into the issue and realizing that he was listening to what amounted to kindergarten rumors.
I would also like to thank the various game developers who reached out to me during a moment of crisis and vouched for me with James, along with the (one and only) YouTube personality who did the same.
I will become the wind of Liverpool!
PS: “I will become the wind of Liverpool” is a reference to Champion Road. Which in itself is a reference to Jushin Liger when asked about his real identity. “Keiichi Yamada became the wind of Liverpool.” I don’t blame you if you don’t give a fuck about these games, but I also don’t see any reason to play pretend.