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NZXT responds to damning Gamers Nexus video accusing it of running a "predatory, evil" rental scam (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To the NZXT community. We've heard your concerns. We are aware of the recent claims made against us and are actively reviewing the situation. Rest assured, we are committed to addressing this thoroughly and will share an official statement soon.

Translation: Fuck! you caught us. We are currently in PR disaster recovery mode and trying to figure out how to spin this to not look like complete scum bags. Rest assured, we are committed to trying to find some escape goat to throw under the bus and minimizing the damage to our reputation.

[–] db2 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

escape goat

Scapegoat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Escape goat is probably a Trailer Park Boys reference, some of us just like to deliberately mispronounce things in an ironic manner too.

[–] jaybone 4 points 1 day ago

Getting two birds stoned at once.

[–] Wooki 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Scapegoat

Escape the goat

Rest assured we are trying to escape the goat and minimising the damage to our reputation.

[–] tabular 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Escape from g0at

[–] db2 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That goat crawled through 500 yards of shit and came out clean on the other side

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Literally the etymology though. 'scape instead of escape is the original "mispronunciation" otherwise it's just a straight-forward translation of Azazel, the goat which escaped in Levictus 16.

[–] pivot_root 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A slightly more accurate translation:

Oh, you actually noticed. We are currently waiting for our pack of lawyers to prepare the paperwork to file a suit against GamersNexus for what we are going to claim is libel. Rest assured, we are committed to trying to find some escape goat to throw under the bus and minimizing the damage to our investors.