{"id":2937,"date":"2022-06-30T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/monkey-islands-creator-seemingly-shuts-down-blog-after-personal-attacks\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:38:09","slug":"monkey-islands-creator-seemingly-shuts-down-blog-after-personal-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/monkey-islands-creator-seemingly-shuts-down-blog-after-personal-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Island&#8217;s Creator Seemingly Shuts Down Blog After Personal Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Website currently offline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ron Gilbert, the creator behind the <strong>Monkey Island<\/strong> franchise and writer on the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/return_to_monkey_island\">Return to Monkey Island<\/a>, has seemingly shut down his blog after instances of personal attacks from commenters. The website domain <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/grumpygamer.com\/\">https:\/\/grumpygamer.com<\/a> currently fails to load at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/ron-gilbert-will-no-longer-post-about-monkey-island-due-to-personal-attacks\/\">VGC<\/a>, Gilbert posted a message decrying the personal attacks, stating that &#8220;people are just being mean&#8221; and that &#8220;the joy of sharing has been driven from me&#8221;, confirming that he won&#8217;t be posting anymore updates about the game. This was screen grabbed by Dominic Armato, the voice behind Monkey Island protagonist Guybrush Threepwood, and posted on Twitter (mind the language here!):<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/monkey-islands-creator-seemingly-shuts-down-blog-after-personal-attacks\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Monkey Island&#8217;s Creator Seemingly Shuts Down Blog After Personal Attacks<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website currently offline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ron Gilbert, the creator behind the <strong>Monkey Island<\/strong> franchise and writer on the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/return_to_monkey_island\">Return to Monkey Island<\/a>, has seemingly shut down his blog after instances of personal attacks from commenters. The website domain <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/grumpygamer.com\/\">https:\/\/grumpygamer.com<\/a> currently fails to load at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/ron-gilbert-will-no-longer-post-about-monkey-island-due-to-personal-attacks\/\">VGC<\/a>, Gilbert posted a message decrying the personal attacks, stating that &#8220;people are just being mean&#8221; and that &#8220;the joy of sharing has been driven from me&#8221;, confirming that he won&#8217;t be posting anymore updates about the game. This was screen grabbed by Dominic Armato, the voice behind Monkey Island protagonist Guybrush Threepwood, and posted on Twitter (mind the language here!):<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/monkey-islands-creator-seemingly-shuts-down-blog-after-personal-attacks\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}