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Digital Homicide plunges further into insanity - Sues Steam users

mysteriousmage09

mysteriousmage09

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Valve vs Digital Homicide.

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Camwi

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After that audio of the DH guy arguing with Jim Sterling, I think this guy just needs to find a new job. He's seriously not right in the head.
 
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RCSI

Member
This is silly on every level, all 23 of them. We can only hope that this is what will do in DH and get their games removed from Steam.
 
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MysteryQuesadilla

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I feel like this is part patent troll. Part publicity stunt with the delusional thought process that what they believe is justified. Listening to the exchange between them and a certain YouTuber of British heritage, they read things into tweets that they tried so hard to connect dots that honestly weren't there.
 
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mre

Golden Domers are chickenshit!!
If anyone wants a run down of their "claims" here's my post from the last thread:
mre said:
What a poorly constructed complaint. The causes of action are just inexplicable. I realize he's a pro se litigant, but, damn. He really shouldn't have even bothered.

Count I - Conspiracy to Commit Violation of Civil Rights -- Nope.

Count II - Disorderly Conduct -- What the fuck? Nope.

Counts III - Stalking -- Sues under a criminal statute. I can find no civil cause of action in Arizona for "stalking."

Count IV - Harassment -- Sues under a criminal statute. I can find no civil cause of action in Arizona for "harassment".

Count V - Criminal Impersonation -- Sues under a criminal statute. I can find no civil cause of action in Arizona for "criminal impersonation," though identity theft and/or, possibly, invasion of privacy are potential analogues for the facts he's alleging.

Count VI - Tortious Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations with Valve -- Finally, an actual, potentially appropriate, cause of action. However, Arizona requires a plaintiff to allege that they "suffered damages due to the breach or termination of the contractual relationship," and Romine fails to allege that Digital Homicides' contract with Valve was breached or terminated in any way. So...

Count VII - Tortious Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations with Digital Homicide Studios LLC -- What the fuck?

Count VIII - Libel Per Se - I think Romine misunderstands the type of statements which constitute libel per se versus libel per quod. There may be a cognizable claim here for libel per quod, but not per se.

Count IX - Unjust Enrichment - What the fuck? He doesn't make a claim for unjust enrichment, and asks for damages equal to anything the purported defendants have ever made or ever will make from anything video game related, from creating games, to streaming/publishing videos on Twitch and YouTube. Just, wow.

Count X - Restitution -- Again, what the fuck? There is no cause of action for restitution.

Count XI - Negligence -- Other than the fact that Romine has alleged nothing but intentional acts, there's nothing wrong with this claim. He uses the language "reckless disregard" with indicates to me that maybe he meant to file a claim for wantonness? Who knows.

Other than the issues above, the biggest thing that sticks out to me, is that Romine doesn't even seem to have standing to assert these claims. All of these claims, to the extent that they exist, would seem to belong to Digital Homicide Studios LLC. Hell, Romine even realizes this with respect to his Criminal Impersonation claim, where he writes:

143. This cause of action may not be representable by The Plaintiff except by The Plaintiff's ownership of 35% of Digital Homicide Studios LLC. This representation is left up to the The Court. Cause of action dropped if The Court decides against.​

I'm not sure why he thought there might be an issue with respect to this claim, but not to the others.

Of course, we know why he filed suit as an individual and not as Digital Homicide Studios LLC: corporations are not allowed to represent themselves pro se in federal court. They must be represented by an attorney. Even if Digital Homicide could find an attorney willing to take the case, I doubt they'd find one willing to do this on contingency. "Sure, let's sue 100 random Steam users. I'm sure our potential $18m judgement will absolutely be collectable." Nope.
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Garmonbozia

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This whole Digital Homicide situation has been a saga of stupidity. The interview with Jim Sterling, the gratuitous suing without a lawyer, the complete inability to take criticism.
 
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Chaser324

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Why would they include this screenshot in their court filing? It makes it seem pretty clear that this is all still part of their beef with Sterling if they were searching for mentions of him to find people to target for this lawsuit.

This is all crazy.

*Allegedly. Please don't sue me.
 
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moltonasty

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LMAO! This is hilarious for how absolutely absurd it is. Imagine other devs/creators started suing people for bad reviews?

Somewhere a producer for the DCEU is like "Wait...you can do that?"
 
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Starwolf_UK

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linkandzelda said:
Inb4 defence force comes out again.
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This is the closest thing I can think of from the previous thread.
timetokill said:
So they made a game and then swapped the assets out to make several games out of it.

Ubisoft does it all the time. What's the problem?
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Not sure if serious though...

fatigues_gasolini said:
They are representing themselves
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Wonder if they found a contingency lawyer and just found out it was a printing error...
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...So decided to represent themselves (which they might not even be allowed to do for some of the charges...that would be a lovely plot twist them being destroyed by the legal system for practicing law without a license).
 
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ngt

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This is so ridiculous I'm starting to believe it's just their marketing strategy, so people keep talking about them and perhaps buy their games because they might be removed from Steam.
 
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Chaser324

Banned
sammex said:
Thanks for doing this. Do you know if the case involving Sterling has had any new developments recently?
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I don't think there's been anything since July when the court approved Romine's motion for leave so that he could have more time to respond to the request for dismissal that Sterling's lawyers filed.

So that lawsuit has pretty much stalled out until Romine does something and now he's already trying to start up another lawsuit. I suspect even if he sees he has no chance of winning the suit against Sterling that he'll still try to keep it active for as long as possible so that he can tell people that the case is open and he hasn't lost.
Just speculating...please don't sue me.
 
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Dr. Benton Quest

Banned
Tevren said:
That explains how they can afford it. IIRC they opened a GoFundMe to help fund their case against Jim Sterling. Raised a laughably tiny sum too.
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They actually lost money when tons of people made 0.01 donations then did PayPal charge backs which generated tons of fees for them.
 
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