Urrgh...alright, a couple of things. First, the insults towards xscientist are uncalled for, I think. He did acknowledge he oughtn't have called people "white knights" and such, so if he was willing to apologize we should meet him halfway. And he was agreeing with folks that Ellis was doing sleazy, dirtbag things, so I think being too harsh towards him is a case of us "firing on our own side," so to speak. Bloo and Vlad, please try to be more charitable in the future.
However, I do think this thread should be locked--IMO, we've said all we needed to say. The problems with these sorts of things are twofold--first, in the case of really sordid matters like sexual abuse, creeping, etc. even discussion of them can really pollute the atmosphere of a forum like this. People generally come here to discuss games they have fun with, and being reminded of this sort of sleazy thing one way or another ruins the vibe for a lot of people. Secondly, the Castlevania fandom in particular has a really bad history with whenever its prominent creators leave it for one reason or another. This would be the case *even if Ellis had been let go for entirely non-sexual reasons.* For instance, back in the Lords of Shadow days, I remember one guy would just rag on Dave Cox incessantly, and it got to be such a humongous pain in the ass that even people who disliked LoS got tired of it (and this particular guy's caused me trouble in the Bloodstained community as well). I REALLY don't want the same thing to happen with Ellis. He was let go, apparently due to his personal problems with sex and boundaries, and that's the end of it--let's hope Adi Shankar can pick up where he left off, or if not, Castlevania gets revived some other way. But I think that's as far as it needs to go. xscientist, bloo, Vlad, or anyone else, please PM me if you have any questions or issues about this, but I think this thread has ran its course.