Practicing lawyers often do this. They can also actually like someone and still go balls to the wall murder monkey on them, then have a beer with them after they punch out for the day.
It's called being a professional. And it is something Nick knows nothing about.
Being so easily frustrated and upset is a narcissist's Achilles' heel. They cannot stand when their tantrum doesn't have the intended result. It threatens their whole theory of the world. You love to see it.
And for professionals that need professional distance, it means career failure.
See, e.g., Nick.
You have no idea. When he repeats that lie about how I'm begging for orders on who to ban and what posts to delete, that's me an hour into a circular, pointless conversation desperately trying to figure out what this dude wants from me. It's always at an unreasonable hour (first thing in the morning EU) and it always ends with Rekieta saying, "I just want you to know..." after he gives up on getting me to do anything without asking directly.
Is especially aggravating in hindsight because he "just wanted me to know" shit that by now has all come out as bullshit.
You're getting played, even if it is unsuccessful. He wastes your time, talks in riddles or circles, you've sunk an hour in.
My unsolicited advice? Silence text/message alerts from him, look at them at your leisure (he gets a sense of power from a quick response), and sit on any response for a day or so - draft but don't send, read it a day later to see if it advances your own interests, then send.
The point is - he's got nothing to offer you. He only wants to take. So if you don't have something specific you want from him*, his communications don't matter. And he's never going to give you anything you want willingly, so unless you have a purpose with your interaction with him, it's just giving him a stroke.
*if you do, then entertain him if you like, but go in knowing you'll get nothing unless you design it that way. And he's not going to release the cam footage just bc you ask. (Frankly, I wouldn't, either - I'd want to bury that as deep and for as long as possible in his situation.) But the fact he knows you want that gives him a sense of having the upper hand, so any interaction is just him masturbating his ego.
