So Jakey
decided to
join Arthur Chu in
going after Brad Wardell today, because that's a completely normal action to do against someone who hasn't been relevant to your cause that hasn't been relevant in years, on behalf of someone who is, in and of themselves, irrelevant.
It's also really funny because Jake and Arthur both make perfectly clear why they're actually doing it:
One of the ironic things about this bit of Autism, aside from the fact that you have these assholes quite literally celebrating a company entering hard times, with bad implications for its staff (very progressive of you both, boys), is both's insistence on Wardell being fucking Satan, something that actually pre-dates GG by over a year. What you're about to read is an especially surreal bit of Jakeism, because it shows the fucking
unfathomable degrees he will go to to attack someone who, by all accounts, has not had anything to do with him, Zoe Quinn, or anyone associated with either
in almost four fucking years.
Most people who have taken a deeper glance at the Autism Holy War (and if you have,
I am so sorry) will tell you about how
Wardell was the victim of a sexual harassment hoax that many game journalists of the time had pre-emptively declared him guilty of - before his accuser's case was thrown out with prejudice, meaning she can never bring it up again. Wardell had to go through over a year of legal trouble to clear the case, and during this time faced constant, ongoing harassment - including a string of death threats that necessitated police involvement. When Wardell sided with GG, however, all of the Journos that had previously declared him guilty by default, including Ben Kuchera, immediately began to drum up literally every fucking thing they could in an effort to make him look like a fucking Batman villain. But it actually goes deeper than this.
The incident in question Jake brings up is, completely unsurprisingly to
anyone with even the slightest understanding of Jake, a lie. The artist in question
did, indeed, draw a comic about Quinn being the whore she is and giving head for better review scores. What he does not tell in the above is that
Quinn tried to do everything possible to blacklist this artist, and when Wardell offered him a job, unaware of the comic, she predictably lost her fucking mind. You can look at the
Crash Override Network Log Leaks or
Crash Override Trello Leaks, and see, in real time, Quinn's clique try to find colorful new ways to fuck Wardell over, because proportionate response and these clowns is like phosphorous and water.
Wardell is not facing a merely facing a lawsuit, but instead what seems to be this bizarre mutation of the Alex Mauer maneuver. This thing is practically a coveree for our new Lolsuit board because holy shit, it has all the trappings of the Waid lawsuit.
Two former creators of Star Control, Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford, who you may recognize from the recent Spyro the Dragon remaster, have filed pre-emptive DMCA takedown notices with Valve
and with GOG in a completely unprecedented move. They have done this while filing a lawsuit, declaring that the title "Star Control" belongs to them, despite them having
no actual legal ownership of it. Accolade was the rights-holder, and Wardell pretty decisively purchased the IP back in 2013 and has been working on the fucking game for four years.
It doesn't end there. Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford have begun demanding the proceeds from all sales to the previous two Star Control games (which, again,
they do not legally own, fucking Stardock, Wardell's company does). The games have been available for years, and the pair have been collecting royalties on the first two games since, and the pair has been waging a war of disparagement against Wardell and Stardock,
using the Games Journalist docket as their own personal attack dogs, because even though GG died years ago, their entire network still hates Wardell with a passion well exceeding their ability to logically justify it,
with Polygon in particular running hit-piece after hit-piece pre-emptively declaring Wardell guilty, proving once more that no matter how many rounds we put into this fucking carcass, it's going to continue to shamble forward in a grotesque parody of life.
Hype Break did a pretty in-depth review of this entire lolsuit and just what a shit-show it is:
Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford are
currently attempting a 2 million dollar Gofundme to cover their legal expenses, because of fucking course they are. They are also suing Valve and GOG over them not getting the proceeds from the other Star Control games, despite, again,
not owning the fucking rights, and
only working on two of the fucking games.
That they are going to lose is a bygone conclusion: Stardock unimpeachably owns the fucking copyright to Star Control, and despite the claims of Reiche III and Ford, they do not own the fucking copyright. Jake and Arthur, meanwhile, as well as their circle of friends, are continuing to lend their support and offensives against Stardock, despite Quinn specifically telling them to fuck off ages ago, specifically because they want Wardell to suffer.