That's not how adults are supposed to act though. Yeah, Dean is young, but Vikki? She's like 52. That's an age where you'd think you realize hiding under your bed doesn't work anymore.
@I'm not a Robot alluded to something in the lawsuit thread that kinda puts this in an amusing perspective, and calls back to the Lady Alchemy affair.
Martina Markota (
@TheAlchemist) had to pay approximately $64,000 to get her lawsuit against her concerning Lady Alchemy dismissed. She did so using the
same argument
@FROG just successfully used (it was filed in the wrong jurisdiction). Some of that expense was offset by the
$15,400 she raised via a GFM. The GFM that, ironically enough, Dean and Vikki painted as a scam.
So, when the dust settled, her out of pocket expenses total up to nearly $49,000, even though she
won. Note that that figure is not necessarily indicative of what FROG is on the hook for, because I believe there was some additionally fuckery in the Lady Alchemy case and (per her) her lawyers weren't that great. There's other variables too.
Unfortunately for D&V, they're
not Martina. Dean only managed to raise approximately $1,300, and Vikki didn't even try to do
anything. Not that I think Vikki would have gotten anywhere near the amount Martina pulled in because...
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Yeeeeeaah. Moving on.
Anyways, this is a pretty shitty situation to be in. You are basically broke, you've already made a lot of online enemies who want nothing to do with you, and the guy suing you is a trust fund baby with far deeper pockets. The best things you got going for you is the trust fund baby is a degenerate faggot (thus, few people seem to like him either), his case is crap, and the law firm he hired is apparently staffed by lawyers who are not the sharpest tools in the shed. That's little comfort to you if you don't have legal representation of your own, and this is your first rodeo though.
But... BUT... a Christmas miracle (in July) happens!
FROG comes along offering to have them dismissed for what essentially is pennies on the dollar. Vikki could have ended up like Martina, but with far
more money left in her bank account, and/or far less outstanding debt. She could have even made a cringe joke about how she does
indeed know how to do long-division because FROG provided VERY generous division.
AND THEY TURN IT DOWN!
It's absolutely mind blowing to me. You can't make this shit up. They were extended a far better offer than anybody would have conceivably thought they would have gotten. And so now, we're awaiting to find out how much the judge is gonna award Preston concerning Vikki's default, and lord knows what's going on with Dean.
I know
@RodgerDodger and
@FROG opine that they both might have expected FROG to pay for
everything instead of just most things. I dunno if that's true, but that just makes it more absurd in my mind if it were. It's already pretty crazy how far the guy who is the leader of CG was willing to help two of CG's biggest critics.