This is everything you need to know about this notorious con man and psychopath. There is just so much information out there about this guy and he's been at this racket for years. He's got the audacity to hide a lot of his shit behind an overpriced paywall and just everything about this dude makes me think of the Manhood101 guy. He is infamous on NeoGAF and some other gaming forums and even beyond that. He has lied about himself so many times too and faked his death from what I've been reading. Special thanks to @S-chan and @yawning sneasel for finding a lot of this information.
How bad do you have to be to have a whole Tumblr blog exposing you? Well, he's gotten that down pat and I'll just quote some excerpts from it.
Icycalm, a.k.a. Alex Kierkegaard, is a criminal and a fugitive wanted in America for wire fraud.
Do not trust him with your money or credit card details under any circumstances.
His real name is Antony Zyrmpas which is also sometimes spelled Anthony Zirbas. He is Greek but has lived in various other places including America, Japan and possibly Spain. He may have either American or Greek citizenship or possibly both. He studied aerospace engineering at the University of Washington.
In 2001, in America, Antony Zyrmpas fraudulently stole $165,000 of which only $46,000 was recovered. He got caught and subsequently fled to Greece.
Antony Zyrmpas writes online under the pseudonyms ‘Icycalm’ and ‘Alex Kierkegaard’ at his website www.insomnia.ac and www.culture.vg . culture.vgis registered under the name Anthony Zirbas. He can also be found posting at various forums and message boards.
You have been warned and this is just scratching the surface with all the info you can possibly find.
He has been mentioned in RationalWiki's List of Internet Kooks before and known for being a mangler of the writings of Nietzsche.
His website is just horrific. It's nearly unreadable and it gives me a headache trying to go through all that text.
He's got an obsession with using the word fag when trying to piss on a Jack Nicholson movie.
I think he's describing himself as a beta.
NeoGAF has a thread on some of the most infamous shit he's done.
Just look at this pompous joker's boasting:
I am the number 1 videogame and art theorist in the world, and the game will adhere as strictly as technology will presently allow us to all of my theory's conclusions.
Guess what he wants you to do?
All you have to do is send me an email at icycalm@culture.vg where you will introduce yourself to me and tell me in which area(s) exactly you think you might be able to contribute, and also of any prior experience you might have. At that point I may or may not ask you to submit a trial contribution, and if that goes well I'll invite you to join the team. (If, on the other hand, you actually have some prior work to show me, we will omit this step and I will evaluate your offer to join based on the strength of that work.)
Note that, once I've invited you to join, you will have to subscribe to the site if you aren't already a subscriber. This is for two reasons. 1) There will be a (hidden) subforum on the site where we will work on the übergame, because this method is superior to trying to exchange emails between dozens of people. And 2) I want to know your real name (which PayPal will give me) because I don't want to allow anonymous people to join in and take a peek at the game before I am ready to unveil it. If you prefer to work pseudonymously — via a handle, like zinger, for example — that's fine, and I will not divulge your personal information to anyone. But I will still need to know who you are because I don't want my game design leaked ahead of time, if I can prevent it. (It won't be a huge deal if it's leaked anyway, because everyone else is too lazy, untalented and incompetent to do anything with it even if they had it, but I still want to try and keep it under wraps for as long as I can.)
They have this screenshot from TIGForums where he chimped out.
He made even spergier posts on this website.
He does some pretty bad gaming reviews that were also critically panned by many. Even I find them extremely pretentious and terrible.
Allegedly, there have been reports that he died, but is that really the case? He hasn't had activity this year, but who knows right now.
Just look for yourself. I think he's full of shit like everything else here. It's just pure autism on another level.
http://sheekyforums.com/thread/313188439/video-games/alex-kierkegaard.html
Update:
Additional alt accounts/names:
These are his other alt accounts that I couldn't fit in the title of this thread but important to know.
Anthony Zirbas (alt spelling of his last name)
Anthony Zyrmpas (reported real name)
Alex Kierkegaard (used commonly in his reviews)
The Hyperborean Man (his forum flair on Insomnia)
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