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rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


Nothing hurts.

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new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
Hogan always gets his win back. Always.

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

I want to believe the numbers were direct from Vivid's founder because he loves wrestling that much.

iirc they just said every unique hit on the gawker story was someone willing to pay for the tape and that you can watch porn online for $5, ergo we deserve this precise number

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
Hulk Hogan took down The Gobbledy Gawker, jack.

Onmi
Jul 12, 2013

If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.
So does this put Hogan back in black?

rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


Quick how do I change thread titles.

WHATCHA GONNA DO, GAWKER, WHEN THE 11-INCH PYTHON RUNS WILD ON YOU?

Joey McChrist
Aug 8, 2005

what a worker

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
LOL the wiki on Gawker lists Hogan as its owner now.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

natetimm posted:

LOL the wiki on Gawker lists Hogan as its owner now.

https://twitter.com/kmtwanderlust/status/710970055668838400

super macho dude
Aug 9, 2014


Hulk Hogan ate too much sushi, showed his dick on cctv, and hosed like an old man. Here's millions and millions of dollars.

dsriggs
May 28, 2012

MONEY FALLS...

...FROM THE SKY...

...WHENEVER HE POSTS!
:kingsley: SHOVE THE SERVERS INTO A NOSEDIVE, HOAK HOGAN :kingsley:

bean mom
Jan 30, 2009

super macho dude posted:

Hulk Hogan ate too much sushi, showed his dick on cctv, and hosed like an old man. Here's millions and millions of dollars.

no justice in this world

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


i hope hogan frames the jury's verdict and mounts it on a belt that he takes everywhere he goes

UltimoDragonQuest
Oct 5, 2011




The dog is gawker.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Slanderer posted:

the bond is like $50 million tho

its only like 20% of their valuation

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


ayn rand hand job posted:

its only like 20% of their valuation
lol yeah lemme just liquidate 20% of the company's value to pay a fine, no big deal at all

Eleanor Pwnsevelt
Dec 25, 2003

After-party @ my friend Bubba's house brothers!!! - HH

Distant Chicken
Aug 15, 2007
You may have won the war, Terry, but now the whole world knows you don't have a ten inch penis. Was it worth it?

C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008

ayn rand hand job posted:

its only like 20% of their valuation

There's a world of difference between valuation and the liquid assets they'd have to put into escrow. I know Denton was said to be worth $250m at one point but I don't know how much he's worth now, how much of that was based on his "media empire" and how much he had in actual assets.

They might not be able to appeal just based on not financially being able to.

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
https://twitter.com/peterstringer/status/710967525773807617

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

St Evan Echoes posted:

lol yeah lemme just liquidate 20% of the company's value to pay a fine, no big deal at all

My company with declining traffic and revenue that I already had to beg from venture capitalists to help continue funding.

Joey McChrist
Aug 8, 2005

OatmealRaisin posted:

You may have won the war, Terry, but now the whole world knows you don't have a ten inch penis. Was it worth it?

terry bollea stated to the court himself that he does not have a 10 inch penis

hulk hogan however does

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


im still betting another investor/media company with cash will put up the bail in exchange for equity.

in the meantime i'm hoping hogan cuts an epic promo on their asses

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel
To put it another way, Vince McMahon is a billionaire, but he doesn't have a billion in liquid capital. Neither does Denton, to a lesser degree.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

:smith:

Skaw
Aug 5, 2004
Finally. Thanks HO KOGAN for putting Kotaku and the rest of that lovely family of clickbait sites to rest.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Conde Nast should buy gawker and send that CFO guy they blackmailed round to fire everybody and smash their offices with an ax.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

C. Everett Koop posted:

There's a world of difference between valuation and the liquid assets they'd have to put into escrow. I know Denton was said to be worth $250m at one point but I don't know how much he's worth now, how much of that was based on his "media empire" and how much he had in actual assets.

They might not be able to appeal just based on not financially being able to.

That was the point. The bond alone is more than the revenue for 2014.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
Congrats Wood.

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

bubba the love sponge only had to pay hulk hogan $5000

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
So to recap:

Gawker media is a loser because they're going to go out of business
Hulk Hogan is a loser because he got his privacy horrifically violated *AND* he's not going to probably actually see any money in the end
The judge is a loser because of their hilarious and flagrant bias
America is a loser because of our joke of a legal system
The lawyers on both sides are winners, because billable hours y'all.

:patriot:

Cardboard Box
Jul 14, 2009

i hate hogan but gawker was very much in the wrong here and im glad they lost

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Mukaikubo posted:

So to recap:

Gawker media is a loser because they're going to go out of business
Hulk Hogan is a loser because he got his privacy horrifically violated *AND* he's not going to probably actually see any money in the end
The judge is a loser because of their hilarious and flagrant bias
America is a loser because of our joke of a legal system
The lawyers on both sides are winners, because billable hours y'all.

:patriot:

You forgot Bubba the Love Sponge, who is a loser because he just lost his only friend (Hulk Hogan)

Then again Hogan's only friend was Bubba who he just lost

So yeah, what a wonderful situation where the only actual happy people are the lawyers who are getting paid no matter what

keevo
Jun 16, 2011

:burger:WAKE UP:burger:
Why wouldn't Hulk end up seeing any of that money?

https://twitter.com/WWESubway/status/710979533298487296

keevo fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Mar 19, 2016

MotU
Mar 6, 2007

It was like she was evicting walking garbage.
Pillbug

thank you ho-gan

*clap clap clap-clap-clap*

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

Chris James 2 posted:

Then again Hogan's only friend was Bubba who he just lost

Isn't he still friends with that Nasty Boy?

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."

keevo posted:

Why wouldn't Hulk end up seeing any of that money?

For one, because the amount is going to be horrifically slashed on appeal if not thrown out altogether. For another, because I very much doubt Gawker can scrape up that much liquid cash even if they go bankrupt and sell all their poo poo. For a third, because the lawyers will take so much of it that he'll probably have just about enough to buy a sandwich when all the thrashing is over sometime in 2019.

C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008

Mukaikubo posted:

So to recap:

Gawker media is a loser because they're going to go out of business
Hulk Hogan is a loser because he got his privacy horrifically violated *AND* he's not going to probably actually see any money in the end
The judge is a loser because of their hilarious and flagrant bias
America is a loser because of our joke of a legal system
The lawyers on both sides are winners, because billable hours y'all.

:patriot:

There's also the matter of legal precedent. If Gawker can't afford the appeal and the judgment stands, you can see other individuals going after media companies on privacy matters.

Keg
Sep 22, 2014
I'm glad that Hulk Hogan is getting 9 figgies, but I'm sad he didn't have to show his dick to prove it isn't 10 inches

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Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."

C. Everett Koop posted:

There's also the matter of legal precedent. If Gawker can't afford the appeal and the judgment stands, you can see other individuals going after media companies on privacy matters.

Oh gosh yeah, and you can bet most of those will be for grounds a lot less morally clear-cut than posting an old dude's sex tape, good point.

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