Bankruptcy won't discharge judgments like this; otherwise people would just cause as much financial damage as they could before the inevitable shutdown in court knowing they could just Chapter 7 the penalty out of existence.
Courts don't take very kindly to that kind of shenanigans. Clawbacks are a very real thing. Imagine his mother having her own bank accounts seized if she plays along with a stunt like that.
Nah. If that kind of action could succeed in court every third-rate indie developer on Steam would be going after bogus reviews constantly. Opinions don't rise to the level of defamation, even if carefully orchestrated, especially against public figures. Writing a book and putting it up for sale definitely makes him a public figure.
It means whatever the lien is entered against can't be sold or have its ownership transferred (I'm betting it's his house; that's probably the only thing he's got that worth more than the amount of the lien) without first satisfying the lien.
Whether or not such an action will succeed may be questionable, but "defamation" actions involving negative/misleading online reviews tend to get traction where they don't otherwise. For some reason, courts don't like business review websites being used to go after people personally when there is no actual business relationship.
Fatrick's situation is different than the run-of-the-mill defamation action [even when considering the online review element] specifically because he's a public figure, though in a situation where someone is being accused of being a pedophile, it can be easier to prove actual malice; there's no way you can't actually have malicious intent when you're suggesting a person is a child molester/has molested children/has a propensity toward the same unless, at the very least, they've been charged with it - or you are a victim of the person/have other tangible, verifiable proof of guilt.
They just refinanced in the past year. They have 0 equity in that house.
What Patrick could conceivably do, assuming the lien isn't attached to his broken car or motorcycle is "sell" it to his mom for fair market value and then tell quasi to take all the several hundreds of dollars he got for the sale while driving around in his mom's car like a real adult. This opens two avenues for pests to entertain us: mocking Patrick for driving old lady vehicles, and continually submitting information about items a court could claw back
I wonder if Fatrick appreciates that his debt to Quasi is entirely his own fault. If he dropped the Cloudflare subpoena at the Meet and Confer, he would be in the exact same position he's in now, only he wouldn't owe over $20K to Quasi.
OOPSIE DOODLES
That's what he pitched it as and that's what Fatrick describes it as. Nobody else is calling it "Red October in Space."
My first thought upon seeing that tweet was "why not just read Hunt for red October then, or if I've read it, why not move on to a book with an original premise"
I have no idea how accurate this is, but it's fucking hilarious if true.
Tom Clancy's worst is better than Patrick's best.
I have read Tom Clancy’s Cybernation which was about terrorists using the internet to make a fake nation on a boat and one of the bad guys kept owning dudes with capoeira and it was really homoerotic and yeah that was still better written than Patrick’s stuff
