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I got the same impression (that they were friends). Look, whatever you might think of Jeff's actual abilities as a designer, he's a flaming moron to think he can blog about game design under his own name and NOT get responses from people who have, you know, played his game.

There's a reason why many people who blog about their work -- either directly ("My job sucks because of X and my Company sucks for Y and Z") or indirectly ("The problem with companies in this line of work is...") -- often stay anonymous.

Gaming is worse because many gamers are quite computer literate. The odds of your boss stumbling across your little known blog are slim, but the odds of some of the players of your game -- a game YOU have a great deal of influence and responsibility for -- stumbling across your quite well known blog are pretty freakin' high. And once someone does, it's going to be broadcast -- especially if people are pissed.

Freeman's blog is public. He blogs under his own name, about the very industry he works for. It's not a freaking "private space" -- had someone hacked into a private forum he set up for him and his friends, there'd be grounds for complaint. He published his thoughts for the world to see, and then got pissy because people didn't react the way he wanted. They were MEAN. They compared his public words to his public works and spoke unflatteringly about it. There were even insulting trolls!

Boo-fucking-hoo. Welcome to the internet, Jeff. It's not a kiddie pool.