let me explain this to you. Ppl get offended because deviljack-bla-bla is in no way special and if Nathan said this to him that means he could say that to absolutely anybody else. At which point you come to the question how you yourself will react on that joke addressed to you. Which is why you see what you see.
So you're saying nathan had to say it to everyone and then veify if anyone would get offended? All you said is a giant IF, but I myself know that a developer doesn't straightout insult someone like that for no reason, nobody would, only trolls would do that and it literally sounded like an obvious joke be it a bad one or good one. People just rushed to conclusions.