Victor Mignogna v. Funimation Productions, LLC, et al. (2019) - Vic's lawsuit against Funimation, VAs, and others, for over a million dollars.

Markorian said:
It's not really people that were part of it still posting about it, Gaymergay just became the internet boogeyman of any vaguely tech associated journalist and the woke left.
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There are still the occasional GGers out there, basically just keeping an eye out for when the woke left make plays in vidya, but their effect is FAR greater than their presence. I, for example, still keep up on industry bullshit, but nowhere near as much as I used to.

As you say, GG is the internet boogeyman of the woke left, the disgusting inferior caste that dared say NO when their betters, the woke beautiful people, the educated elite at PolyKotakuSutra and DiGRA and the like told them how the vidya industry was gonna be from now on.

And what's even more unforgivable, these disgusting gamers made fun of their ideas and politics and pointed out they were full of shit. Them, the beautiful woke people, who can do no wrong. And then these evil GAMERS had the audacity to network and start talking to other inferior people in literature, comics, tabletop, anime, etc etc, screwing up all kinds of other Cultural Marxist projects in progress elsewhere. The sheer fucking hubris! Don't they know that only the woke left is allowed to organize?!

To the woke left, every pushback they've been experiencing the last 5 years is the direct fault of GamerGate, because the alternative is to admit that people just don't actually support the woke left's bullshit, and they will NEVER accept that. (The woke left is 8% of the US, and of those 8%, only a small fraction are actually active. They're just very very loud and using Marxist organization tricks like entryism to push their agenda.)

A good chunk of the sperging about GG since GG "ended" has been their own networking, trying to bring in pinch hitters to fight shit like the Sad Puppies movement. And that worked for a while -- and you even saw them attempt it early in KV, desperately trying to get bigger media outlets to pick up the story and join in the dog-piling against Vic.

But it never did, because:
  1. Vic sued, which immediately made it too radioactive to touch.
  2. The Obama propaganda money ran out, meaning the Woke Shills suddenly were purged because real news outlets couldn't afford them.
So instead they paid Renfamous and T. Gregg to do their thing, instead.
 
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HighwayStar said:
There was actually a reply brief in which each first letter of seven consecutive sentences was capitalized, and if put together, it spelled "CONTROL". I'm not kidding. This was actually a strategy on their part.
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I can't be the only one that was deeply disappointed that it was 'control' and not 'conslut' - can I?
 
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HighwayStar said:
... each first letter of ... sentences was capitalized ...
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That's, uh... how English is normally properly written, yeah. Also, FYI, this is an example of a type of acrostic. Doesn't have to be first letters of sentences. Any regular pattern of letters (like words, lines, sentences, etc.) can form one, though some are easier to spot than others, not to mention easier to construct.

This is not the only acrostic we've seen in this case, either. Marchi and/or Johnson also put one in the conclusion of her TCPA motion (July 19, 2019), which reads, "GO AWAY NICK". I'd say that was more autistic than this one, considering it's 10 letters instead of 7. They must really like them.
 
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The April 20th deadline has been extended to May 20th.

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Vic should do what's best for Vic, but damn, Weeb Wars (especially the legal side of it) has been some of the best entertainment in 2019 and this early part of 2020. This is kind of the sadness you get when your favorite shows takes a season break or something.

Welp. See you in a month, boys. Let's hope there's FSE-level meltdowns to keep us occupied.

I assume the appellent replies to the various appellee reply briefs will be thrown in, since the actual cross-appeal was sparse.
 
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I'm not a Robot said:
The April 20th deadline has been extended to May 20th.

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On one hand, it’s too bad that we have to wait another month. Then again, this was pretty much expected, Corona or no Corona.

On the other hand, it’s good for Vic’s sake because it now gives his legal team enough time to try to write and edit the cross-appellate brief properly without having to rush. We’ll just have to wait a month.
 
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HighwayStar said:
On one hand, it’s too bad that we have to wait another month. Then again, this was pretty much expected, Corona or no Corona.
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This has been on an accelerated schedule anyway, so the result of the extensions has been to put it on a more normal briefing schedule. I would have been really surprised to see this on time.
 
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HighwayStar said:
Gamergate is still a thing? My God, these people have nothing better to do with their spare time.
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I seriously doubt it is, the only reason why it's brought up is when the SJWs need people to be reminded of that boogyman. They know it's done but its the only thing that gave them any kind of relevancy, which is why they keep on beating that dead horse.
 
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I seriously doubt it is, the only reason why it's brought up is when the SJWs need people to be reminded of that boogyman. They know it's done but its the only thing that gave them any kind of relevancy, which is why they keep on beating that dead horse.
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"Gamergate" in itself hasn't done anything in years. Heck, it lived and died in 2016. What remains are two groups: SJWs who needs a scapegoat and boogeyman to blame everything on, and old gators who still looks at what the SJWs are spouting off, laughing at it like we do here, and awaiting the next big thing (that will probably never happen, it's been 4 years already, and media trust is still plunging down to oblivion).

I wonder what next trusted organisation will be exposed for their vices and fall... Oh wait, at this point it'd be more surprising to find anything that's true to their root and message instead of the opposite. Nothing is sacred anymore, and profits are king, by any means necessary...

Back to the lawsuit: That extension was pretty expected. I still expect a wordcount waiver/expander & maybe another time extension. @AnOminous, besides complaining in their reply brief, anything apellant can do about all that bullshit spewed by the apellees? Any motion to strike new info/bullshit paragraphs from their briefs?
 
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Kendrick said:
Back to the lawsuit: That extension was pretty expected. I still expect a wordcount waiver/expander & maybe another time extension. @AnOminous, besides complaining in their reply brief, anything apellant can do about all that bullshit spewed by the apellees? Any motion to strike new info/bullshit paragraphs from their briefs?
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The word limits are going to make it difficult to respond with fully fleshed out arguments but a lot of the shit they said in the nature of factual assertions is stuff there isn't a speck of evidence for in the record or is even directly contradicted by it. It's also just inflammatory and irrelevant because their disagreement with Vic's version of facts is irrelevant. The very fact they disagree on material issues of fact shows TCPA wasn't correctly applied.
 
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AnOminous said:
The word limits are going to make it difficult to respond with fully fleshed out arguments but a lot of the shit they said in the nature of factual assertions is stuff there isn't a speck of evidence for in the record or is even directly contradicted by it. It's also just inflammatory and irrelevant because their disagreement with Vic's version of facts is irrelevant. The very fact they disagree on material issues of fact shows TCPA wasn't correctly applied.
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My not-an-attorney reading of their responses left me confused, it felt like half of what they said was for PR purposes.

Don't know how an appeals court is going to react, but it made me wonder if the presence of material fact questions is enough to get the initial ruling overturned.
 
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Ivan Shatov said:
My not-an-attorney reading of their responses left me confused, it felt like half of what they said was for PR purposes.

Don't know how an appeals court is going to react, but it made me wonder if the presence of material fact questions is enough to get the initial ruling overturned.
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It was jusr PR, well more defamation under the protection of legal filings. You'd note they constantly assume facts not in evidence, and don't cite to much in the record.
 
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diskboomer said:
It was jusr PR, well more defamation under the protection of legal filings. You'd note they constantly assume facts not in evidence, and don't cite to much in the record.
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So it would appear that the MoRon, Funi, Jamie might have just shot each other in the foot. It'll be funny watching this play out if that's the case.
 
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DragoonSierra said:
I notice theres nothing about a word limit extension in there
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I wouldn't expect them to request a word limit extension until they know how many words they're going to need. If they ask for a thousand more now, but end up needing two thousand, then they'd have to waste everyone's time asking for a second word limit extension. I'd suspect the most likely place for us to see the request for more words is as an attachment to the reply.
 
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Kendrick said:
"Gamergate" in itself hasn't done anything in years. Heck, it lived and died in 2016. What remains are two groups: SJWs who needs a scapegoat and boogeyman to blame everything on, and old gators who still looks at what the SJWs are spouting off, laughing at it like we do here, and awaiting the next big thing (that will probably never happen, it's been 4 years already, and media trust is still plunging down to oblivion).
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A small correction, Gamergate was 2014. It's been 5 and a half years, with the six year mark being this August. Regardless of what happens, you can probably expect the social media grudge against Vic to last as long.
 
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