internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam
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Video game developer Digital Homicide already earned a bit of bad press earlier this year by slapping game critic Jim Sterling with a ridiculous $10 million lawsuit for posting rude video reviews of their games since 2014, and that still isn't settled.
Based on legal documents posted on Google Docs recently by YouTuber SidAlpha, Digital Homicide developer James Romine is now suing 100 users of Valve's Steam digital distribution platform for $18 million for the heinous crime of leaving bad reviews of their games and saying bad things about the company. As part of the subpoena granted by Arizona judge Eileen Willett, Romine is allowed to demand the personal "identification and associated data" of the anonymous Steam users from Valve.
By Friday evening twitter user "lashman" discovered Valve had removed all of Digital Homicide's games from Steam,all gone along with their community pages, reviews, and associated downloads as if they'd never been there.
He's not even hired a lawyer, his filings are Pro Se, which is why they are full of mistakes that even a novice lawyer wouldn't make.
Jim Sterling, a critic previously of the Escapist, had a series where he played steam games, and talked about how good or bad they were (I think he selected for bad, but if he didn't, Sturgeon's law was in full effect). One of the games he played was Digital Homocide's The Slaughering Grounds. Needless to say, it was rubbish.
However, Digital Homocide decided that Jim's review was terrible and unfair, and released a video called "Reviewing the Reviewer", which was Jim's video, overlaid with sarcastic, bitter text scrolls. Jim then posted a video of himself laughing at that video, and the situation continued to increase in size until we reach today.
However, in that video by Digital Homocide, amid the bitter sarcasm portraying Jim as an idiot, there was a repeated catchphrase, "Because I'm Jim motherf#%king Sterling, son," Jim thought this was hilarious, and his onscreen persona is that of an egomanic already, so it quickly became Jim's actual catchphrase.
sources
- http://motherboard.vice.com/read/valve-bans-game-publisher-after-it-sues-players-that-gave-it-bad-steam-reviews
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523096
totally crazy people...
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It's funny, but when does trolling start moving into running-my -life territory?
Hmm. This guy is stacking the crap like that's going to be dumped in the hole he's digging for himself...
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@Tsaukpaetra I don't think it's trolling; just good old fashioned crazy with some narcissist sauce poured all over.
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@Salamander said in internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam:
@Tsaukpaetra I don't think it's trolling; just good old fashioned crazy with some narcissist sauce poured all over.
Well, he certainly pulled the wool over my eyes then!
Either that, or trollery has gotten so bad that even the crazies start looking sane...
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Poe's Law FTW! Congratulations, Robert and James Romine, you broke the Intarwebs!
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This made me relisten to
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@ScholRLEA said in internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam:
Robert and James Romine, you broke the Intarwebs!
It is not the first nor last time when someone tries to silence criticism, happens on ebay etc as well.
@ScholRLEA said in internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam:
Now Valve just has to clean house on the other eleventy-zillion gamespam 'developers'
I like their free market system, so that an ordinary person can have a game on steam.
The bad games/devs are a small inconvinience - but easy to filter out if you read some reviews or watch game footage.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam:
trollery has gotten so bad that even the crazies start looking sane...
We crossed that bridge a long time ago.
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@Kuro said in internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam:
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Yep. Known issue. Blakeyrat reported, if memory serves.
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@cabrito OBJECTION TO THE SOURCE!
Digital Homicide's video wasn't sarcastic at all. Well, he tried to be, but he sucks at it.
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@cabrito said in internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam:
However, in that video by Digital Homocide, amid the bitter sarcasm portraying Jim as an idiot, there was a repeated catchphrase, "Because I'm Jim motherf#%king Sterling, son," Jim thought this was hilarious, and his onscreen persona is that of an egomanic already, so it quickly became Jim's actual catchphrase.
Why haven't they sued him for copyright infringement yet?
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@antiquarian said in internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam:
@Tsaukpaetra said in internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam:
trollery has gotten so bad that even the crazies start looking sane...
We crossed that bridge a long time ago.