Author: Stephan

Since my minor…*ahem* indiscretion yesterday, GoGreenMachine has recieved a number of apology letters from various individuals in the community whom feel my outburst may have been directed at them. Now, let me start by saying that my statement on GGM yesterday was not directed at any one person in particular…nor even at a group of people really…more so at a consistently negative mindset exhibited by a number of people. One that I have become more and more uneasy with. Yesterdays wide assault on Peter for his actions simply brought my emotions on the topic to a head.

Having said that, I would like to share one of these letters with you:

This is not hate mail so I do hope that you read it. I have been a loyal Ninja Turtle fan since I grew up watching the 80’s TV show. When I heard the Mirage/Viacom News I am very ashamed to admit that I reacted like one of those people you mentioned in your rant. I was angry, disappointed, and felt betrayed, but after reading your rant and the post on Mr. Lairds blog, I ask for your forgiveness. I am very sorry for the way I reacted to the news, I think we (the fans) need to remember why we love TMNT. We watch, and read the Turtles, because of The Turtles! We love Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo, not the powers to be, I don’t wanna watch Peter Laird fight Foot Ninjas! I wanna watch the TMNT do it! There not dead, right? It will be different, but it will fun! Thanks for reading this, and please accept my apology, I wish you and everyone at GGM the best of luck! Cowabunga!

While I appreciate this letter from the bottom of my heart, and do believe this person is very sorry for their action, I would like to remind them, as well as the rest of you who may have fallen victim to this negative mindset…that I am not the one to whom you owe an apology.

Together, we will see this thing through.

Stephan & the Machines.

Ok, I’m about to do something I haven’t done since the days of the TurtleVan, when it was all me, and I didn’t have the reputation of my staff to protect. I’m going to rant. The following is not the opinion of anyone at GGM except myself. If you have a problem with it, take it up with me personally, or better yet, just stop reading this blog all together, because if you are the people I’m talking about, I don’t want you here anyway.

Certain members of this fanbase are a cancer. A disease. You. The person who complains that they want something, and then when they get it, they complain. You. The person who, when someone you claim to respect has made possibly the biggest decision of his life, choose to shit all over him instead of stand by him like you SHOULD.

You bastards are so wrapped up in trying to shove what YOU would do down our throats, that you don’t stop for ONE SECOND to think what is good for the property, or good for Peter as a human being.

Boo Hoo. This isn’t what you would have done. Really? Well when you have nurtured an intellecual property for 25 years, slaved over it, lived it, bled it, breathed it, used it to provide for your family, KNOWN NOTHING but this ONE THING for TWENTY FIVE YEARS…THEN you can come tell me what it is that YOU would do; and THEN and only THEN, will I listen to you, because you’ll know what the hell you’re talking about. Until then, you Don’t!

You know who you are? You’re the beer swilling asshole who sits on his fat ass and screams at his football team through a television to make the plays like you want to make them; when you have never thrown a football in your goddamn life. That is you. And I hate you. With every fiber of my being.

-Stephan
Please send all hate mail to Stephan@gogreenmachine.org Then please get the hell out of my fandom.