💼 Careercow Alyssa Mercante / beerandfeminism / kombitchaTEArex / High Heeled Gamer / hayy GIRL hayy / uhLyssa15 - From failed sex worker to failed clickbait journalist. A far-left racist narcissistic abusive smug feminazi. Stalks her targets and their families, DEI & SBI activist, alcoholic junkie, threatens gamers & YouTubers to public fights and then lawsuits.

[Joe Swanson]

Every time this bitch starts to fade into obscurity she acts out in a huge way, it's clear she's just doing this for attention

 

[Hooked on phobics]

I REALLY, SINCERELY hope she gets sued into such a destitute place / her publicized antisemitism shit gets her fired from her current job. I normally hate the idea of that being used as a cudgel, but ends justify the means, Alyssa is a disgusting person.

I just can't square how any lawyer would sign onto that though.

I imagine SOME lawyers, if you throw enough cash, will let you sue the queen of England. Filing lawsuits DOES NOT mean it will be successful though, a shocking amount of lolsuits are filed, but go absolutely fucking nowhere.

Funniest shit would be if a judge threw it out wasting her money though.

 

[AnOminous]

The little bitch Haywood, has an entire paragraph crying about being made fun of.

The KUSK firm is truly a stable of lolcows

Fun fact: the Second Circuit, unlike some other federal circuits, courts can apply state anti-SLAPP statutes under the Erie doctrine. Fairly recently (2020), New York replaced its previously weak and anemic anti-SLAPP statute with one more similar to the robust statutes you see in states like California and Texas.

It's possible they might find the new statute incompatible with federal rules (as other circuits have done), but I can't find a case where they've done it yet, at least not at the appellate level. Only a smattering of cases have addressed it at the District Court level in New York and they're fairly inconclusive, although one judge has opined that the special summary judgment proceeding provided by the new New York statute would not apply due to existing federal rules.

Anyway, since an anti-SLAPP motion operates fairly similarly to an immunity claim, a denial of such a motion would probably be subject to immediate interlocutory review (as Minnesota treated such a claim by Nick Rekieta in the Monty suit).

I hope these tards are up for a complex Erie analysis (on an unresolved issue in the Second Circuit that circuits moreover disagree upon) and a trip straight to the Second Circuit even if it fails.

Is that Marylin Manson?

Apparently he despaired of ever being considered shocking for his transgressive behavior and edgy music in current year and decided to become a lawyer and instead shock people with his herculean incompetence.

SmashJT should absolutely STFU and not talk about this anymore for his own good until after it's over.

He almost has to grift on it because it's going to cost 5-6 figures.

 

[Sho'nuff]

Even if this was a proper lawsuit which... why the fuck is it 54 pages...
Regardless... she's a public figure and everything SmashJT does and responds to is based off of her posting it first. Harassment is illegal behavior, but she never lays out when he broke the law.

 

[Golden Boy]

You should see her latest TikTok video mocking him.

This is the female version of photoshopping pokemon into pictures of yourself. Jesus save me from the cringe.

 

[AnOminous]

IIRC, SmashJT is not in New York. There's immediately a huge jurisdiction problem for her to overcome.

Plaintiff is arguing purposeful availment by directing his activities to New York and sufficient contacts based on I don't know what. It might be a threshold issue to raise. It might also be better to litigate it in New York anyway because the Ninth Circuit doesn't seem to apply anti-SLAPP in federal court.

Either jurisdiction is pretty expensive to litigate in.

 

[black hole]

Oh wow I actually know what everyone is talking about this time. I've been waiting for Obsidian to achieve glory like they did back in the black isle/icewind dale days and I just found out a couple weeks ago they've been rotting from the inside out. This is nauseating. Games are supposed to be outcast guys. Now they're trying to make them for fat girls. You can't make games for women all they do is play with the character creator. I never played kotor 1 or 2 I'm going to go play them and pretend none of this ever happened.

 

[BT9494]

Mercante is such an unlikable bitch that I might actually donate a few bucks to this guy's legal fund.

 

[Golden Boy]

This is a tweet they define as “extreme” and “stochastic terrorism.”

In fact, Tarzia's conduct has become more and more extreme

New York and this Court should recognize a residual liability tort for stochastic terrorism where a person engaged in a targeted pattern of harassment directed at one person, with the express goal of otherwise tortiously interfering in that person's life or livelihood.

 

[AnOminous]

This is a tweet they define as “extreme” and “stochastic terrorism.”

This is what is called a "novel" and "creative" argument. These asshats are literally inviting the court to make up a currently nonexistent common law tort out of thin air by pure magic.

 

[Pickle Man]

Unfortunately for her, SmashJT is more than popular enough that if he decides to pass the hat, he'll be able to raise enough to cover expenses. I think this probably won't survive a motion to dismiss though.

He can easily afford the money himself. This is the same guy who drop 10 grand on the vaporware known as the Intellivision amico. From my understanding, his wife parents seem to be loaded with $$$.

 

[AStupidMonkey]

I don't even know the case number.

Would one of you kind sirs post the plain text of... whatever the fuck it is she's even claiming?

 

[JohnnyG]

Accusing a woman of being a Prostitute is akin to accusing anyone of being a Pedophile. It is per se defamation. This statement would in fact be a problem for SmashJT, with or without material damages to mercante, but for the niggling detail that she did in fact publicly claim to be a Cam Whore, which is considered by many in "The Public" to be a form of prostitution.

Gotta love the blatant hypocrisy of Alyssa, who 100% believes that "sex work is real work!", trying to claim that she's been defamed because somebody insinuated she was a prostitute.

I assume she's angling for a settlement, because one likely outcome of this is legal precedent that yes, e-hooers are still hooers, and you can call them that. So I'm sure Alyssa's fellow-hooer-travelers will be as thrilled about her lawsuit, as deep blue states were when New York fought Bruen to the Supreme Court, and lost everyone else's gun control too.

I can't think of a better symbol for Leftist insanity than a smash the patriarchy, celebrate your abortions, brag about camwhoring, exhibitionist invoking "impugned a delicate lady's innocent and fragile virtuous chastity" to lawfare her enemies. It's up there with "defund the police" types demanding federal felonies for tire tracks on rainbow crosswalks.

 

[H3LLH4MM3R666]

To elaborate, Nathan was the author of the largest puff piece to be written about Zoe Quinn, hyping up Depression Quest and her "gamedev skills" seemingly out of nowhere when much better games are listed within the same article. It begged the question: why would he write about her at all? It later came out that he also paid her $600. It seems pretty obvious she buttered him up & slept with him to get articles written about her, he accidentally knocked her up, and paid for the abortion.

Nathan Grayson's part of Gamergate leans more heavily on the Gamejournopros mailing list side, rather than The Zoe Post™ itself.

Futhermore, that was just one of the three articles Nathan wrote about her. He also interviewed her on RPS and invited her to write a "How to Develop Games" article on Kotaku. It contained no useful info for aspiring game developers, it was a guide on how to google for actual guides on how to develop game engines

Keep in mind this was all BEFORE she even finished Depression Quest! Oh and Nathan was in the game's credits in the "Special Thanks" section. It was absolutely baffling seeing Zoe keep getting featured across multiple sites, for months, for a half-finished text adventure about angst identical to a thousand other ones made by first year gamedev students and hobbyists.

Also I wonder how pissed Kotaku and G/O media are that they're being blamed for firing someone for being harassed. Not even during Gamergate's heyday did they fire their most hated editors, even as they lost sponsors. Did G/O face a loss of sponsors? Surely they're going to be asked to clarify if she was fired or resigned

 

[FrigginWeeb]

So since I'm no lawyer, I have to ask those more legally educated here -
Does this have a snowflake's chance in hell?

 

[Disastrously Dumb]

I said it before, a while back. She has an unhealthy obsession with SmashJT
Im surpised SmashJT didnt take any preemptive legal move to have her stop mentioning him or make contact to him and his family. (which would of been funnier because she would most definitively go after him harder)

 

[AfghanBlue]

How old is alyssa? Why does she look 60? Who would upload this thinking it looks good and unbothered it's just goes on and on, who knew how long one minute could feel.


I was gonna say she looks like Madge from Neighbours in the 90s but Madge actually shits all over her.

 

[One Sixth Native American]

She’s trying to get Jeff to waste lots of money but could he counter sue? At least to cover his legal fees? She’s obviously broke but couldn’t the court garnish her wages?

Mostly I just think it would be funny to see her as essentially a slave to someone like Jeff. It would grind her gears to know a percentage of everything she does goes to someone she hates so much.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

How old is alyssa? Why does she look 60? Who would upload this thinking it looks good and unbothered it's just goes on and on for a full minute
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She's in her late 30s.

 

[AnOminous]

So since I'm no lawyer, I have to ask those more legally educated here -
Does this have a snowflake's chance in hell?

It has at least a chance to survive a motion to dismiss on the literal prostitution claims depending on the context and whether it constituted a claim of fact, if not because of the sexual chastity part, because prostitution is illegal in New York.

It has a chance to get thrown out under 12(b)(6), and possibly sanctioned under Rule 11 or New York State's anti-SLAPP law.