NWN and related ventures are serious business operations with a lot of investment behind them at this point. While it's easy to claim a nihilistic, apolitical stance in his position when talking about some online bitching around a discussion forum, it seems very obvious that when the heat actually got turned up in the direction of his real life affairs he wasn't really prepared to die on that hill at all.
I never joined, but I'll miss the endless dorkfest 'what are your top 8 albums with the bass panned in the left channel?' type threads.