You remember that lawsuit the GamerGate-loving, feminist-hating “Honey Badger Brigade” was apparently going to file against the Calgary Expo (for tossing them out) and The Mary Sue (for saying mean things about them, or something)? You know, the suit that they raised more than $30,000 to finance from their angry and apparently quite gullible fans?
Well, apparently they’ve filed the suit?
I ended with a question mark because they’ve been a teensy bit vague about what exactly they’ve done.
Rather than go with the traditional press release, you see, the Honey Damsels Badgers have decided to let the world (and their donors) know about this new development by obliquely referencing it on Twitter, nearly a week after the fact, and then pretty much refusing to answer any questions about it.
Like, for example, what exactly they filed, and where, and how exactly they think they can sue a website headquartered in the United States for allegedly getting them kicked out of an expo in Canada. Especially if they don’t actually file a separate lawsuit in the US.
Here’s how things went down on Twitter.
We're waiting on @Calgaryexpo and @TheMarySue to respond. They now have 18 and 40 days respectively. https://t.co/CaSgh0qC0h
— Honey Badger Radio (@HoneyBadgerBite) September 6, 2015
Breech of contract, injurious falsehood; filed last monday @scbritton @Brackstone
— Honey Badger Radio (@HoneyBadgerBite) September 7, 2015
I asked a few followup questions, trying to nail down some details about the filing — if the disbarred lawyer they got to help them with “research” was involved in the filing, and whether they had filed a separate claim against The Mary Sue in the US because, you know, the Mary Sue is based in the US.
@HoneyBadgerBite @Calgaryexpo @TheMarySue What did you file and with whom? A Statement of Claim? Was Kopyto involved in writing/filing?
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) September 7, 2015
@HoneyBadgerBite I'm just asking what you filed. So I won't have t report, 'the HBBs said they filed something but won't say what."
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) September 7, 2015
@HoneyBadgerBite Also, the Mary Sue is American. Did you file in NY state?
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) September 7, 2015
Well, so much for that, I guess.
I also sent a note to The Mary Sue to see if they had any statement or if they had even been notified that the HBB had filed anything. I haven’t heard back from them yet.
Given this dearth of information and the HBB’s apparent unwillingness to answer questions, my best guess is that they filed a Statement of Claim in Alberta based at least loosely on the “Legal Draft” posted on the HBB website back in July, prepared by the aforementioned disbarred lawyer, Harry Kopyto.
In that draft, the HBB’s declared that they were seeking
damages in the amount of $50,000 jointly and severally against the Defendants Alberta Comics and Entertainment Expo Inc. and The Mary Sue for injurious falsehood and also against the Defendant Alberta Comics and Entertainment Expo Inc. for breach of contract and against The Mary Sue for inducing breach of contract.
The Legal Draft describes The Mary Sue as “a daily internet newsletter which promotes itself as the premier destination for entertainment geeks.”
How do you do, fellow entertainment geeks. Could you kindly direct me to the nearest daily internet newsletter?
And it goes on to declare that
the false and disparaging comments published by The Mary Sue also dissuaded persons from engaging in and refusing to have any contact or purchasing merchandise from the Plaintiff.
Can I get in on that? No one bought anything from me that day either, and I’m pretty sure The Mary Sue was to blame. I’ll settle for $60,000 or maybe just a fruit smoothie.
If the HBB’s actual filing looks even vaguely similar to this draft, it will be interesting to see how one goes about suing an American entity in a Canadian court for allegedly saying things that allegedly stopped alleged persons from buying Honey Badger merchandise at a convention in Calgary.
I’m no disbarred lawyer, but somehow I just don’t see this working out for them.
Oh, and how do you “dissuade persons from engaging in?”
Engaging in what?
Aww, pet lawyers. Something tells me that this thread’s going to have a lot more of those.
@Paradoxical Intention:
Hey, hey, hey! You using that logic again?! You cut that logic using out! *joking finger wag*
@C.S.Strowbridge:
It’s about ethics in… tossing money about to make sure that women are endlessly harassed? More money than sense, I guess. *shrugs*
The Honey Badgers are indeed, without a shadow of ambiguity, performing the work of the Lord, and clearly you are all acting in a very sexistic manner by insulting them. Indubitably, and consequentially, they strive vigorously to free the female of the human species from the autocracy of intersectionality, which calls women to bow down before the avaricious goddess of marriage equality and privilege economics.
It is well known that Shakespeare’s character Katie from the Taming of the Shrew, and Ofelia from Hamlet, are forerunners of the badger spirit. The Hufflepuffs in Harry Potter, and Cedric Digory was assassinated; this has been used as a code of communication by the networks of those whom know the truth about civilizatory remobilization.
All hail Katie!
I *like* this troll. He talks like some random person who stumbled into a ren faire and is trying to fit in. XD
I mean, I’ve heard people say women are being trapped by a lot of things, both correct and completely off-the-wall, but marriage equality?
Marriage equality?
Hey, Thomas—gay lady here. Go and shield your eyes from the possibility of an unholy union between us sinners. You’ll feel better, and we don’t have to deal with you… not that your Fauxe-Olde-Englishe isn’t amusing.
Wait. WAIT.
This is troll of the year, guys. He just claimed that the *Hufflepuffs* were a secret Honey Badger message.
Oh stars above, I think this is the greatest troll I have ever seen.
Makes me wonder who this troll is. . . like do they giggle to themselves every time they post their nonsensical pontificating thinking themselves oh so clever?
Assuming they actually filed in a US court, here’s my short vignette of the proceedings.
“12(b)(6) motion is granted. Now get the fuck out.”
fin
@andlexist he’s been around before, just takes random things and people and spouts of conspiracy theories that are entirely impossible
@cupisnique
Yeah, I know. But the way he does it! Perhaps he is secretly a Markov chain, languishing in some MRA’s computer until his creator leaves, at which point he attempts “communication” in the only way he knows! 😀
http://31.media.tumblr.com/4e09b9fd01297cf10419dfc9eeffa734/tumblr_ng92ij8Wpw1tnisgno1_500.gif
This is amazing. This is the single greatest statement you’ve ever wrote. You should just quit while you’re ahead before you get boring again.
*claps excitedly* It’s the faux-Shakesperian troll! Yippee! *shares popcorn with the Mammothers*
All those dragon age gifs make me want to finish Inquisition . . . too bad downloading the game would take a billion days here in ol’ Peru =(
@cupisnique Wait, they’re being serious?This is fun.
*noms popcorn*
@Pandapool
I knoooow. This… this troll just claimed that Shakespeare and J.K. Rowling were Honey Badgers.
I repeat my theory that TH is a sapient Markov chain. XD
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…dear Google Images gods, *how* did I mess that up so badly? O_<
I’m still delighted that he changed Kate from Taming of the Shrew into Katie. Because Katie is our feminist overlord and apparently she’s doing double duty as a Honey Badger? Or more likely, she infiltrated them. Go Katie!
All hail Katie!
WWTH, have you ever come across an indie RPG called Kobolds Ate My Baby? Every time we mention Katie it makes me think of it.
@PI:
“Nobody bought stuff from us so SJWs* must be to blame” is a common meme amongst #GGers and other social conservatives; we saw it recently in another thread about offensive comedians not getting bookings, for example. It’s a fascinating insight into just how little they actually care about their much-vaunted capitalism when it works against them.
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*Jackie is now reading this as “…so necromancers are to blame.” Heee.
@WWTH (I found myself typing “Katie” here.)
Katie is obviously a shapeshifting dragon. *nods sagely*
@EJ (TOO)
Those darn necromancers! Making people not buy stuff with their necromancer powers!
@andiexist:
Maybe not sentient (although that’s a marvellous theory) but I think it could well be a Markov chain. The sentence “The Hufflepuffs in Harry Potter, and Cedric Digory was assassinated” does not contain a verb, which is quite a common issue with Markov-based random text generators set to create turgid, complex prose.
The final DLC is coming out tomorrow in NA, just FYI. Everyone is excite.
@EJ
I’m still trying to figure out how to rewrite the skeleton plug in so it reads necromancers and stuff. Java, man, they coded it in Java.
@Jackie:
“Find/replace” is your friend. Which environment are you reading the code in?
(My best friend is a huge fan of Java and will not hear a word said against it. I’m more of a C man myself, but I concede that Java is the correct language for many things, especially browser plugins. Which language would you have done it in?)