I just had an incredibly aggravating experience that I really didn't deserve. I'm not going to name names, because I'm classier than that, but I will explain what happened.

Long story short another industry fur IMed me to shoot the breeze about industry stuff. He started gushing about the 3DS and so did I. Then he stopped me to tell me to say "Hey hey, why don't you listen to me instead of trying to educate me on things I already know." I told him it was a really rude thing to say, but we got over it and continued talking. At one point he explained something to me twice, the first time I let it go, but the second time I mentioned that he didn't need to explain that industry thing to me because I am familiar with it and explained why I was. At that point he snapped at me went off on a tirade, and before I could even reply back to defuse the situation he said screw this and logged off.

Now while we were having this conversation, when things were still civil he linked me to an FA journal of his where he was talking about somebody that called bullshit on his industry credentials and blocked him when he offered to prove himself.

I replied with this:
"I had the exact same thing happen to me several years ago on the #techfurs IRC channel. I had all the evidence on hand when they called bullshit, I had a co-worker come in and verify and even my own boss who was a good friend. They called BS on every piece of evidence as easily faked or just random friends being brought in, and then banned me. Never again going back to that den of retardation and idiocy. It actually encouraged me to make my own IRC channel for gamer furs which I've been running for a few years now. BTW STILL working in the game industry."

Now after raging out of the conversation we were just having I could only imagine he angrily went straight to the journal because he replied to my comment with this:
"Hey, just for anyone watching - just because you happen to write a column or something on the videogame industry or run some shitty website doesn't mean you actually work in the videogame industry. It just means you're some dude who talks about games and gets paid to go to gaming conventions."

I tried to write a reply, but was blocked before I could hit send and reply with this:
"That is an incredibly uncalled for and douchey comment, not to mention completely pulled out of your ass seeing as you have no idea what I've done in the industry in the near decade I've been working in it. I've worked for major companies like IGN/GameSpy, done tech support, retail, did much of the work on and helped run the worlds largest subscription game file website, writing, consulting, broadcast game journalism, run betas, designed and ran contests and advertising campaigns, given multiple speeches on the videogame industry, and had my work in a game or two.

Normally I don't spit out a list, but that was really below the belt and without merit. "

Am I crazy to think this guy just went batshit insane and threw a childish temper tantrum over simple misunderstandings? I mean man on his FA journal he took a blatant cheep shot at me and then blocked me so I couldn't defend myself. You might as well punch a guy while he's tied down. The funny thing is that by blocking me before I could even reply he did to me exactly what he was railing on the guy he made his journal about for. Pot meet kettle.

He mentioned that I give off this air of wanting to prove how much I know about the industry, but the problem is, he didn't understand that whenever I talk about the industry I just start spewing facts about any topic we are talking about. It's part of what gets me hired for consulting and such, with encyclopedic knowledge of the industry any time I talk about it I kinda go off the deep end. It's not with ill intent, it's just how I discuss it.