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internet ridiculous drama: suing players for bad reviews in Steam
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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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Agile! Next update will add a sign in English
Latest posts made by cabrito
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RE: The Official Cool Stuff Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/HA4Tjx6PXG13uQGg/?mibextid=wslSxG
Seen few days ago in Megastructures. While visiting NASA chap was showed the fabrication process, including the baking. Cubes go out bright yellow-orange, while speaking they cool, going grey near the corner but still noticeably orange at the face center. NASA guy tells, yeah, you can take in your hand now, speaker looks one or two times as asking "are you serious?" And finally grabs the cube.
Impressive.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Some web clients will auto open this for you (in spite of the privacy implications, looking at you GMail) which will
There's a setting somewhere that prevents auto. Sorry I can't tell where, too many years I navigated there.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
Windows 11 23H2 reportedly has a nasty bug slowing down PC games
“I could add an endless list of benchmark results here but just let’s say it’s always 23H2 5-8% slower in every single one be it single or multi-thread compared to 22H2.”
also also:
December's Windows 11 KB5033375 update breaks Wi-Fi connectivityThe KB5033375 cumulative update released during the December 2023 Patch Tuesday causes Wi-Fi connectivity issues on some Windows 11 devices.
"This issue affects enterprise wireless networks (ubcsecure, ubcprivate, eduroam), but does not affect home wireless/internet usage."
New year drinking started early at MS?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra where does the meme about obsolete stuff come from?
That was when he was employed without paycheck, so he scavenged the data centers trashcans.
Disks aplenty, so weekly weird disc failures.
Few DRAMs , so playing Windows Jenga while building VMs with minimal footprint.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
Rather than publish books, Wang predicted, humanity will soon begin to publish inventions dubbed "thunks,"
Not until hallucinations are controlled.
On second thought, even with that defect there will be people willing to follow advice by a pathological liar if the narrative is appealing
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
- Last night got an update.
- Today, click on Paint icon to paste a screen capture
- Pop-up window with "Paint was removed: go to the Store to get it"
- close message, open forum to post
- click the icon again to see exact wording: Paint starts.
What was that? Now it auto-installs from the Store?
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RE: Snakes in the cloud for a spreadsheet
Being a cloud-only offer it gets a meh from me.
Im curious about how the tension between MS-long-time-backward-compatibility versus (Python-1-year-release-cadence-5-years-end-of-life, plus third party libraries dropping support for pythons < current - k) will go.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
Seems that win11 has problems to schedule modern CPUs with heterogeneous cores
HandBrake (video transcoder), Steam downloads with high bandwidth:
python software:
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Exceptionally, the symbol for the Cape Verdean escudo (like the Portuguese escudo, to which it was formerly pegged) is placed in the decimal separator position, as in 2$50.
LOL! Somebody had to be a total asshole. I think they belong in the "Things that remind you of WDTWTF members" thread.
something something DD MM YY ...