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TheDiceMustRoll posted:I think a lot of people who were on the Vic side literally thought Mr Beard was gonna walk in, give them the old razzle dazzle, like in the movies, and win the greatest win ever in legal proceedings, because a lot of them don't realize the american legal system isn't really designed around extremely rapid action. poo poo isn't Phoenix Wright were you have three days from court filing to either win or lose. This is just a big problem in general, on all sides: people's main experience with the justice system is movies and TV where everything is neatly tied up and dealt with in maybe a few days. So then, when they encounter the real system, where things drag on for months at minimum, they feel like nothing's happening. Granted, sometimes that's because one party is legit trying to put things off until the other runs out of legal fees, but usually it's just "Doing this poo poo right takes time and also everyone involved has a million other similar cases to deal with and it's all herding cats." It's kind of a miracle things go as smoothly as they do.
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so on the one hand, the flesh and blood tournament seems to be a big success. on the other hand.... i don't think many of the players will survive the outbreak
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:so on the one hand, the flesh and blood tournament seems to be a big success. on the other hand.... Which super-spr.. I mean con is this?
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"the calling vegas", the first of the flesh and blood mega tournaments. think gp vegas but during covid
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Oh! Literally "Flesh and Blood" the game! 
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Puppy Time posted:This is just a big problem in general, on all sides: people's main experience with the justice system is movies and TV where everything is neatly tied up and dealt with in maybe a few days. So then, when they encounter the real system, where things drag on for months at minimum, they feel like nothing's happening. Sometimes it leads to funny results. Quantic Dream's attempts to sue people into not reporting their horrible workplace environment ended up not working so good.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:i don't think many of the players will survive the outbreak Seeing this, I was wondering: "What were the event attendance requirements?" If everyone had to show proof of vaccination, I'd feel differently than if they had not, even if they required masks. BGG Con is going through a bit of this too, as they require you to sign a napkin that says, "I pinky swear I've been vaxxed or have a negative test but will not prove it." According to this: https://www.fabevents.gg/safety: They require masks, have sanitation protocols, etc but nothing there regarding vaccines, tests or anything else to bar entry. They also say they are spacing people out, and it looks less crowded than some PAX's I've seen, but it looks like people are still within arm's reach of each other. Here's hoping it's not a catastrophe. I certainly would have stayed home.
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Nuns with Guns posted:
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MadScientistWorking posted:Can I ask who the gently caress is Nick Rekeita? I know it was Ty Beard but I keep on hearing that dpishit's name all the time. Nick Rekeita is a strip mall lawyer who decided to hitch his train to the people who mine right-wing outrage at pop culture because he saw he could make money as their "legal expert" ignoring the fact that passing the Minnesota bar and paying the appropriate fees does indeed make you a lawyer but not any kind of expert on anything but you do have access to a lot of terminology that makes you appear very smart indeed. Naturally he comes from money with at least some of his financial affairs handled by Ty Beard's firm in Texas, and started the GoFundMe for Vic Mignogna's legal defense fund without asking Vic but setting up Beard's firm to prosecute it in an amazingly transparent display of collusion. While Nick does practice law clearly it is not often as mostly he spends his time doing livestreams on YouTube where you do that thing of paying $20 so he'll read your comment out loud and being angry on Twitter There are also photos of Nick in blackface, so that's nice.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:so on the one hand, the flesh and blood tournament seems to be a big success. on the other hand.... Ironic that players being made of flesh and blood is a bad thing during a pandemic
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Dawgstar posted:Nick Rekeita is a strip mall lawyer who decided to hitch his train to the people who mine right-wing outrage at pop culture because he saw he could make money as their "legal expert" ignoring the fact that passing the Minnesota bar and paying the appropriate fees does indeed make you a lawyer but not any kind of expert on anything but you do have access to a lot of terminology that makes you appear very smart indeed. Naturally he comes from money with at least some of his financial affairs handled by Ty Beard's firm in Texas, and started the GoFundMe for Vic Mignogna's legal defense fund without asking Vic but setting up Beard's firm to prosecute it in an amazingly transparent display of collusion. While Nick does practice law clearly it is not often as mostly he spends his time doing livestreams on YouTube where you do that thing of paying $20 so he'll read your comment out loud and being angry on Twitter Yeah to add onto this "being a lawyer" doesn't mean you're a super expert that can flawlessly predict the outcome of a case or anything. Most lawyers worth their salt won't (publicly) poo poo on a case unless it's extremely dumb, like that guy in toronto who sued a bunch of anonymous posters for defamation of character with zero idea of who they were and no ability to collect damages of any kind. Basically dropped 15k in Lawyers fees to have a judge rule that he wasn't a loser in official court documents.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Yeah to add onto this "being a lawyer" doesn't mean you're a super expert that can flawlessly predict the outcome of a case or anything. Most lawyers worth their salt won't (publicly) poo poo on a case unless it's extremely dumb, like that guy in toronto who sued a bunch of anonymous posters for defamation of character with zero idea of who they were and no ability to collect damages of any kind. Basically dropped 15k in Lawyers fees to have a judge rule that he wasn't a loser in official court documents. Smart plaintiffs sometimes do this so as to have a official court judgment they can use for other things. They will never collect on the damages, but they can take that judgment to e.g. Google and use it to demand they delist embarrassing search results, get tweets they don't like deleted, blogs and news articles taken down, and so on. Handy if you just want to shut someone up or remove an awkward allegation. I don't know if that is what this guy was doing, but that tactic can be quite effective. That guy has an official document saying "calling me a loser is defamatory", and that can be weaponised if he knows what he's doing.
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Especially for a Canadian. Canada uses a variant of the Commonwealth defamation laws, where the plaintiff does not have to prove damages, malice, or even that the statement was false. All burden of proof is on the defendant, and they are considered liable unless and until proven innocent. Huge opportunites for legal harassment there, as a certain former RPG writer who is pursuing defamation claims against his ex knows full well and is happy to use his trust fund to support.
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Toph Bei Fong posted:For those who want to know more, ALAB has a really good rundown of how weird that whole situation was: This is a very fun listen for just how ridiculouly, comically inept the whole thing was.
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Loxbourne posted:Smart plaintiffs sometimes do this so as to have a official court judgment they can use for other things. They will never collect on the damages, but they can take that judgment to e.g. Google and use it to demand they delist embarrassing search results, get tweets they don't like deleted, blogs and news articles taken down, and so on. Handy if you just want to shut someone up or remove an awkward allegation. Oh. Well, gently caress.
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Dawgstar posted:Nick Rekeita is a strip mall lawyer who decided to hitch his train to the people who mine right-wing outrage at pop culture because he saw he could make money as their "legal expert" ignoring the fact that passing the Minnesota bar and paying the appropriate fees does indeed make you a lawyer but not any kind of expert on anything but you do have access to a lot of terminology that makes you appear very smart indeed. Naturally he comes from money with at least some of his financial affairs handled by Ty Beard's firm in Texas, and started the GoFundMe for Vic Mignogna's legal defense fund without asking Vic but setting up Beard's firm to prosecute it in an amazingly transparent display of collusion. While Nick does practice law clearly it is not often as mostly he spends his time doing livestreams on YouTube where you do that thing of paying $20 so he'll read your comment out loud and being angry on Twitter I discovered Nick going on a weird Youtube hole about the Maddox lawsuits a few years back. He seemed like a funny guy explaining court proceedings and everything Maddox's lawyer was doing wrong. But when I looked at his other videos, he'd have 2~4 hour long streams defending Comicsgate, the Quartering, and just beginning to talk to Vic at the time (also surprise, he's a Warhammer "Lore nerd". Read: Imperium fanatic). In his short-form videos, he was decent at keeping his political feelings under wraps and cloaking it in free-speech arguments, but in any stream or just longer video, he would get incredibly vocal about radical feminists, cancel mobs, etc. And... looking at his content now, he's gone total political commentary, alongside his internet lawsuit commentary. The Vic lawsuit always seemed super shaky, like the thing an internet lawyer would be making fun of, not propagating; but seeing all the details of his involvement behind the case makes it really despicable. Desfore fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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You know the annoying part is that its just vague enough I can't tell what she is talking about even though I feel like I should. Like what does she mean when she says," What happened to Organized Play Team?" Is she referring to the fact that they tend to gut that team at a moment's notice for other parts of Paizo? Is she referring to active sabotage by management like I've seen people worry about? Did they get harassed which was a distinct possibility given what I've seen? Is she referring to Tonya? Also, for the record Tonya was the person I was complaining about for the past three years. For the record the reason why I was always wishy washy was the weird kind of floating sentiment from Paizo freelancers that if you would cause the company trouble in regards to reporting harassment you could just be dropped from the freelance pool. And I didn't want someone to cause them to loose a source of income because well I decided to kool aide man myself into a situation.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:More tomorrow apparently: Well hopefully it's more substantial than mr Smith's """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""expose"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" on V5's development.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Well hopefully it's more substantial than mr Smith's """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""expose"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" on V5's development. The hell? I assume you mean He Who Shits His Pants and Vampire 5? When the hell did his dumb everything get involved?
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He exposed the crimes of disgraced forums user Ettin in aiding and abetting the Chechnyan regime
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MadScientistWorking posted:You know the annoying part is that its just vague enough I can't tell what she is talking about even though I feel like I should. drat I wonder what that must be like.
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Xiahou Dun posted:The hell? I assume you mean He Who Shits His Pants and Vampire 5? When the hell did his dumb everything get involved? Swedracula had him do a visual novel back when. Part of Zak's "expose" alleges he also wrote the entire edition in collaboration with Swedracula, Hite, and others, but it got cancelled and rewritten because Zak became too radioactive a public figure to be associated with.
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MadScientistWorking posted:You know the annoying part is that its just vague enough I can't tell what she is talking about even though I feel like I should. Like what does she mean when she says," What happened to Organized Play Team?" Is she referring to the fact that they tend to gut that team at a moment's notice for other parts of Paizo? Is she referring to active sabotage by management like I've seen people worry about? Did they get harassed which was a distinct possibility given what I've seen? Is she referring to Tonya? Apparently so: https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1437553501245222913
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Arivia posted:Swedracula had him do a visual novel back when. Part of Zak's "expose" alleges he also wrote the entire edition in collaboration with Swedracula, Hite, and others, but it got cancelled and rewritten because Zak became too radioactive a public figure to be associated with. He didn't become too radioactive! He's a poor victim being preyed upon by the enemies of all mankind, Ettin, Olivia and their horde of twitter trolls. That's it, certainly nothing he ever said or did. TheDiceMustRoll fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Sep 14, 2021 |
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I mean it's pretty clear that Martin Ericcsson never found Zak too "radioactive" to work with given at one point they made some sort of blogpost about how they'd heard claims that Zak was a toxic individual and decided they were all spurious, though I'm not even sure that site is even still around which helps muddy the waters.
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Kai Tave posted:I mean it's pretty clear that Martin Ericcsson never found Zak too "radioactive" to work with given at one point they made some sort of blogpost about how they'd heard claims that Zak was a toxic individual and decided they were all spurious, though I'm not even sure that site is even still around which helps muddy the waters. They deleted the blogpost anyways after they cut ties with Zak, i remember that I grabbed a copy from the internet archive and posted it in this thread back when he was being Me too'd but I can't remember when and I have.. several pages worth of posts in this thread. e: Here Kurieg fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Sep 14, 2021 |
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Kurieg posted:They deleted the blogpost anyways after they cut ties with Zak, i remember that I grabbed a copy from the internet archive and posted it in this thread back when he was being Me too'd but I can't remember when and I have.. several pages worth of posts in this thread. A lot of that stuff kept getting deleted which makes gathering the receipts a pain in the rear end, I recall there being another post they made crowing about the fiction anthology Ericsson reprinted and added a story too which was bad both because Ericson's story was singularly terrible (the phrase "full rear end-rape stiffness" was involved) and also because the anthology had been, I think, edited and written for by a sex pest.
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Kai Tave posted:A lot of that stuff kept getting deleted which makes gathering the receipts a pain in the rear end, I recall there being another post they made crowing about the fiction anthology Ericsson reprinted and added a story too which was bad both because Ericson's story was singularly terrible (the phrase "full rear end-rape stiffness" was involved) and also because the anthology had been, I think, edited and written for by a sex pest. Not just a sex pest, an actual convicted child molester. Edward E. Kramer, a man whose sole contribution to the earth remains ensuring that Michael Richards is never more than "the second-worst Kramer."
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GimpInBlack posted:Not just a sex pest, an actual convicted child molester. Edward E. Kramer, a man whose sole contribution to the earth remains ensuring that Michael Richards is never more than "the second-worst Kramer." I'd never seen that incident until just now, and the buzz around the school when it happened was he told an edgy joke. He literally just calls an audience member the slur and then shuffles off the stage. The dude got an insane amount of protection there good lord
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paradoxGentleman posted:Is it normal to make a "more to come" tweet like this? I've never seen it before. I mean what's the point of it, build up the hype? Yes. I don't mean to imply that Price is of the same caliber as the people who made twitter threads about "tick tock Trump, the Russian collusion walls are closing in", but that's maybe the most visible example of this sort of thing.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Yes. This is pretty out of character for her, she didn't do this for Mentzer, Microsoft(?) and one other place. So there's either just way too loving much to do and she's legit just tired, or it's a hype game.
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Spoilers: the past week or so has been very busy for her. Because y’know it was Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is coming up in mere days.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:This is pretty out of character for her, she didn't do this for Mentzer, Microsoft(?) and one other place. So there's either just way too loving much to do and she's legit just tired, or it's a hype game. https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1437592971097038848
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