💀 Horrorcow Nicholas Robert Rekieta / Rekieta "Law" / Actually Criminal / @NickRekieta / "u/Early-Leopard-8351" - Polysubstance abusing puppy snuffing cuckold who dosed his child, "Lawtube pope" turned zesty Dabbleverse streamer. Swinger visitor of 🇯🇲 BBC resorts. Seethed at his ex-BF Aaron on REDDIT. Wife's gunted and toed bod worth $50. Drives like a Jeet.

[I can't imagine]

One of the defendants is saying the lawsuit will only cost $10K. Now, that is beyond fucking belief and makes me question how much grasp on reality the people involved have.

The defendant in question is Apollo Legend, a youtuber that makes clickbait top 10 lists and drama videos about speedrunning. He probably has as much of a grasp on reality as you might expect that sort of person to have.

 

[Tour of Italy]

The defendant in question is Apollo Legend, a youtuber that makes clickbait top 10 lists and drama videos about speedrunning. He probably has as much of a grasp on reality as you might expect that sort of person to have.

He’s like a worse summoningsalt. I don’t hate his videos, and he’s typically willing to call out GDQ for their bullshit which I can always get behind.

I wouldn’t mind seeing him on Nick’s show. If only to see him to get told in person that this shit is going to set him back way more than $10,000, even if they win fees. And if they counter sue I don’t think he’s got a strong case either.

 

[AnOminous]

Free-speech absolutism inevitably leads to griefers rubbing it in your face why free-speech absolutism can't work.

That's why you point out if it's your channel it's YOUR free speech, not theirs, and they can easily set up their own fucking channel if they want to call people niggers and faggots, and they can get their OWN asses kicked off YouTube.

I wouldn’t mind seeing him on Nick’s show. If only to see him to get told in person that this shit is going to set him back way more than $10,000, even if they win fees. And if they counter sue I don’t think he’s got a strong case either.

A countersuit would be straight up dumb. It opens them to the ludicrous but possible outcome that they lose their own SLAPP motion and Billy's case goes forward, meanwhile Billy wins a SLAPP motion against them and they end up owing HIM fees on his SLAPP while still facing a defamation trial in California.

One thing I didn't hear much on, although maybe I was only half paying attention through much of the stream, is why the California suit isn't just barred by statute of limitations, as the s.o.l. for defamation is only one year in California. How does Billy argue around that? I'm not sure it's proper to bring up at this stage, since I'm not sure whether s.o.l. expiring makes a suit a SLAPP.

Another issue is I think the false light argument is stronger than Nick seems to think. They never outright accuse him of cheating, but what did you think when you read their statement on canceling his records and banning him? My thought was they obviously were accusing him of cheating. And the interpretation of everyone else in the community seems to have been that as well.

In fact, it's now even listed on Wikipedia along with other cheating scandals like "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and the Black Sox scandal. In apparent violation of WP:BLP he's even listed under the "Cheating in sports" category. This seems like pretty strong inferential evidence that the general public has taken the statements of the defendants as direct accusations of cheating, whatever they actually said.

This seems like it could survive an anti-SLAPP motion.

It could still easily fall down in a number of weak spots, most of which Nick pointed out, but it isn't as clear cut a lolsuit as it looked at first.

 

[I can't imagine]

He’s like a worse summoningsalt. I don’t hate his videos, and he’s typically willing to call out GDQ for their bullshit which I can always get behind.

I wouldn’t mind seeing him on Nick’s show. If only to see him to get told in person that this shit is going to set him back way more than $10,000, even if they win fees. And if they counter sue I don’t think he’s got a strong case either.

As far as I know, the $10K is for his counter suit, not for his defense. Which I think is even worse, since Billy's case against him is arguably the most likely to survive an anti-SLAPP suit, so it could get expensive.

I think it would definitely be entertaining to see him on Nick's show. I doubt he'd listen to anything Nick would say that might help him, but hearing his thought process behind this counter-suit would be amusing.

 

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One thing I didn't hear much on, although maybe I was only half paying attention through much of the stream, is why the California suit isn't just barred by statute of limitations, as the s.o.l. for defamation is only one year in California. How does Billy argue around that? I'm not sure it's proper to bring up at this stage, since I'm not sure whether s.o.l. expiring makes a suit a SLAPP.

I believe that's why he filed pro-bono? To get it in under the 1 year SOL deadline. He's planning on finding a lawyer and amending the shit out of it later on.

 

[AnOminous]

As far as I know, the $10K is for his counter suit, not for his defense. Which I think is even worse, since Billy's case against him is arguably the most likely to survive an anti-SLAPP suit, so it could get expensive.

This is why I think it's a bad idea. It really looks like it's just a "take that" retaliation suit, which if it's in retaliation for Mitchell asserting his own rights, is literally the definition of a SLAPP. It has to actually lack merit to be a SLAPP but I'm not seeing much there. Everyone involved should probably STFU, although it's more entertaining if they keep talking smack that comes back to bite them.

I believe that's why he filed pro-bono? To get it in under the 1 year SOL deadline. He's planning on finding a lawyer and amending the shit out of it later on.

The California suit was filed by counsel. It's the other suit(s) that he filed pro se just to get them in by the deadline.

California's s.o.l. is one year, Florida's is two.

 

[I can't imagine]

One thing I didn't hear much on, although maybe I was only half paying attention through much of the stream, is why the California suit isn't just barred by statute of limitations, as the s.o.l. for defamation is only one year in California. How does Billy argue around that? I'm not sure it's proper to bring up at this stage, since I'm not sure whether s.o.l. expiring makes a suit a SLAPP.

He filed the suit in April of last year, before the s.o.l. expired. It just wasn't served until earlier this year, after (presumably) he got a lawyer to actually write up a complaint. AFAIK, some defendants still haven't been served, though I read that on Ars Technica last week, so it might have changed since then.

 

[Iron Hamster]

Hasn't this been going for years? And didn't they find he actually used an emulator or something? I remember watching some dude's vid about jumpy sequences.

 

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Hasn't this been going for years? And didn't they find he actually used an emulator or something? I remember watching some dude's vid about jumpy sequences.

They're claiming that he did, yes, but he has a ton of witnesses that saw him do it on actual hardware. I suspect he just pissed off someone with a little power who decided to skullfuck him as best they could, and REEE REEE REEEEEEE.

If you wanted me to pick you a list of "top 10 most autistic internet communities" then "classic arcade high score truthers" would be up there alongside Model Trains, Warhammer 40k, and Mechanical Keyboards.

 

[Kosher Salt]

They're claiming that he did, yes, but he has a ton of witnesses that saw him do it on actual hardware. I suspect he just pissed off someone with a little power who decided to skullfuck him as best they could, and REEE REEE REEEEEEE.

If you wanted me to pick you a list of "top 10 most autistic internet communities" then "classic arcade high score truthers" would be up there alongside Model Trains, Warhammer 40k, and Mechanical Keyboards.

It's easy (and relatively cheap, compared to owning an actual working arcade game) to just shove an emulator into an arcade game cabinet. Unless they physically inspected the circuit boards inside (and knew what they were looking at), observers are irrelevant.

 

[Iron Hamster]

They're claiming that he did, yes, but he has a ton of witnesses that saw him do it on actual hardware. I suspect he just pissed off someone with a little power who decided to skullfuck him as best they could, and REEE REEE REEEEEEE.

If you wanted me to pick you a list of "top 10 most autistic internet communities" then "classic arcade high score truthers" would be up there alongside Model Trains, Warhammer 40k, and Mechanical Keyboards.

Yeah, I got that autistic vibe about the whole thing. One guy was trying to say someone switched out a board on the sly but it wasn't really convincing.

 

[AnOminous]

He filed the suit in April of last year, before the s.o.l. expired. It just wasn't served until earlier this year, after (presumably) he got a lawyer to actually write up a complaint. AFAIK, some defendants still haven't been served, though I read that on Ars Technica last week, so it might have changed since then.

Yeah well, about that, then, the deadline for serving a lawsuit in California after filing it is 60 days. So how is it remotely timely to serve it well after that? It could be procedurally fucked.

 

[I can't imagine]

Yeah well, about that, then, the deadline for serving a lawsuit in California after filing it is 60 days. So how is it remotely timely to serve it well after that? It could be procedurally fucked.

Yeah, it's something I had noticed about it last week. I meant to tag you in to see if you had any idea if that was kosher or not. In the case of Apollo Legend, I can at least plausibly see that they could need time to identify where he lived, since his identity online is pseudonymous. But Twin Galaxies isn't exactly hard to find; their address and phone number are literally on their website. There really shouldn't be any reason it would be difficult to serve them in a timely manner.

 

[Kosher Salt]

Case number: 19STCV12592
WILLIAM JAMES MITCHELL VS TWIN GALEXIES, LLC
(the spelling was corrected in the first amended complaint)

04/11/2019 Complaint
02/05/2020 Proof of Personal Service
03/12/2020 1st Amended Complaint

The 1st Amended Complaint is attached.

It does look like there was a long delay between the original complaint being filed and when service was effectively made. In any event it seems that the attorneys for Twin Galaxies consented to receive service of the amended complaint by mail on behalf of the defendant, as the certificate of service on the plaintiff's first amended complaint indicates that service by mail was made on the same day that it was filed.

 

[feral cat #6385]

Video game stream tonight.

 

[Screech Man Bad]

The low effort non-content continues. PPP destroyed the empire.

 

[feral cat #6385]

The low effort non-content continues. PPP destroyed the empire.

The PPP stream may have been the jump the shark moment for him. We shall see...

 

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

I found some enjoyment during his confessions bit on last night's show. Really, Nick? You think the audience hasn't noticed you hate and bully people, especially fatties? No shit, Sherlock.

At least he had admitted it, first step to recovery there. But then he goes off again near the end, and it just felt like a kid apologizing because they were forced to apologize, in the most insincere way possible.

 

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Yes yes, we get it, he's now got his passive aggressive hatedom. "PPPants won." Right.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I found some enjoyment during his confessions bit on last night's show.

Got a timestamp for this?