When Jim Sterling Was Sued For $10 Million By Digital Homicide (The Jimquisition)

join me won't you we go on a journey a journey of a game critic food for ten million dollars and the game developer that did it but actually did it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] do you know what it's like to have a job and be unable to do that job because one of the subjects of your job has hit you with a lawsuit for ten million dollars so you keep your mouth shut and you just watch them from a distance so everyone else can talk about them but you can't because that's basically what the lawsuit was designed to do as far as I'm concerned we're talking of course about digital homicide and James reminde Jr who hit yours truly with a lawsuit for 10 million dollars for talking about his [ __ ] [ __ ] games and without further ado I guess let's just let's just get into it here we go so where to begin where to begin I guess it would be prudent to begin at the beginning since then you'll know how it begun that's how beginnings work to bring us up to speed I'm going to try provide a potted history of my run-ins with digital homicide in as briefer fashion as possible here we go in 2014 I published a first impressions video of a new steam release the straw Turing ground the dreadful FPS cobbled together from store-bought unity assets got the thoughtlessly tossed into a shitty little map and used a blood spatter effects copy pasted from Google Image Search I call this an absolute failure and worst game of 2014 contender because it was and the games developer then called eminent uprising with digital homicide as the publisher got really upset with me and posted a video called review the reviewer where they uploaded by original video with text overlay calling me a [ __ ] idiot a terrible reviewer and coining the phrase I'm Jim [ __ ] sterling sung as a failed attempt to parody me after some petulant back-and-forth that included us continuing to review each other's reviews now that I've ever tenderly reviewed the slaughtering ground but let's not let reality get in the way reminds furnaces imminent uprising / digital homicide / James and Rob remind how to my original video taken down by abusing YouTube DMCA copyright takedown strike system animosity grew between us as I continued to cover their awful games which dribbled onto steam like pig slop from a sluice gates within a two-year span digital AMA site would create more than 20 games and that number had grown considerably up until the company imploded digital homicide got angrier and angrier eventually demanding an audio interview that went terribly for them because they concocted bizarre conspiracy theories about me at very little but main calling in their pocket and just lost that [ __ ] a lot everyone quits making games does your job still exist if there's no games to review well we'll answer that question director no absolutely none yeah okay they're just so here's a little right if there are no video games and videos getting Christmas Felicia so yeah okay okay oh yeah I'm sorry Sofia quite act like that I know just follow me okay I'm sorry if that is the case mm-hmm this second so I'm kind of lost my train of thought there that's right that's right now I'll give me one get back after that there was further nastiness a phone call threatening me with lawyers and blah blah blah two years after it all kicked off I get a sheriff knocking on my door handing me a lawsuit for over ten million dollars and there we have it reminds e Stanton Mark one nature of suit 320 assault libel and slander the amount amounted in compensation for me doing some YouTube videos and articles about their [ __ ] business practices and horrible attitudes toward the general public ten million seven hundred and sixty one thousand dollars ten million dollars this number was calculated from several separate dollar amounts two million two hundred and sixty one thousand in direct product damaged four million three hundred thousand in emotional reputational and financial distress and a punitive damage request of five million dollars this all adds up trust me to a total of ten million seven hundred and sixty one thousand dollars and if that doesn't make sense to you don't worry to normal brains very little of this document which reads less sensibly than the [ __ ] John Doe wrote in seven makes much sense obviously the charge is a spurious starting week and evolving into gibbering nonsense the longer it drones on digital homicide smoking-gun the thing Robert remained tried to threaten me with over the phone the last time I communicated with him was their first count of libel per site where I made an assumption about a Shutterstock image used as art for one of their [ __ ] [ __ ] games in an article titled digital homicide in the case of the sock puppet developers in which I exposed the made-up companies the reminds were trying to use to publish more games I apparently stated that galactic hit man's artwork was taken from elsewhere just like the initial up for the slaughtering grounds was now the remains had no right to use the art they used for the slaughtering grounds but James says he bought galactic it man's artwork from Shutterstock and when you're trying to prove your worth as a developer by posting evidence that you bought your artwork your official game artwork from Shutterstock just [ __ ] [ __ ] in hell now it's worth pointing out that I never explicitly accused anybody of theft but nevertheless I amended my article to concede the art may have been bought within 40 minutes of publication that's when I amended it within 40 minutes remind says tens of thousands of people have used the article in that time but he has no proof of that and neither do I he got remember this was the strongest accusation James remain had an accusation he seemed to be basing solely on the retraction I myself had published because the original version of the article existed so briefly that not even an archive of it exists yes my own edit was used as evidence of what James reminde called negligence on my part me actually expressing due diligence and doing my job and correcting an article is his evidence that I don't do those things that I'm not though Wow I don't get it I I don't know what he is this was the crown jewel of the piece an honest mistake I'd made and correct so quickly that even Romine admitted he couldn't find the original version the only proof it exists is the fact I admit it once existed yeah I made a mistake and corrected it too quickly for a single snapshot to even exist and this is the one that reminds tried to intimidate me with before they went litigious so I've got with me the original document that was served to me and March of 2016 it's in a state of disrepair now I've been using it to eat dinners ourselves we've taken notes with it scriptures got no respect for this document in general we talked about some of the more serious allegations or at least the allegations but the Romans thought were the most the most important but there are some really really desperate ones in here that I thought we'd go through together so count six libel per quod on September 24 2015 the defendant states in of the article being as sly as the Wet Bandits comparing the plaintiff to an incompetent thief parentheses reference to the movie home alone less libel is it me saying that you are a sly as the Wet Bandits me referencing a Macaulay Culkin Christmas film is libel per quod fair enough except not fair enough because that's [ __ ] we've got count seven libel per quod when not using the plaintiffs given name the defendant often uses a modification for the plaintiff last Magma's Romano attempting some form of relation to a mob or Mafia family - a criminal reference this is done in many locations and videos as well as the article actually what happened there was because I don't really give much of a [ __ ] about you sometimes I just forget your name I think it's Romy no but sure put it in here as a count of libel if your must let's go to count mine liable per se and I'm just gonna there's a whole bunch of [ __ ] here but let's just talk about this bit on September 24th 2015 the defendants tweeted according to the email this ECC gains is pursuing a legal action against digital homicide for using its name not enough popcorn on earth I did tweet that I'm not sure how that's reliable they seem to think it's because I'm getting enjoyment from the situation which I was because it was a [ __ ] fast my lawyer countered this actually by claiming that we can't prove whether or not there's enough popcorn on earth which you can't I mean that's basically the allegation here they're saying Jim said there's not enough popcorn on earth so we fired back okay prove it as you can see reminds strongest complaints were basically built from fiberglass and balanced on a [ __ ] egg his weakest complaints were sheer fast interestingly more serious charges are leveled against me in the lawsuit but not officially listed as complaint leading me to believe that a lot of this was a rambling and frustrated attempt to just yell in a way that had to be taken seriously and earned almost an entire page is given over to a Skype conversation between remaining valve in which valves made them remove a bunch of green right submissions and that was Michael according to him because I shot a torch on what I believed and what valve must have agreed to be jubileus Attis attempts to sell reminds games while hiding reminds involvement we follow this up by describing my audience as fanatical young and impressionable calling them easy to mislead in trying to prove - various exploitation of them by quoting this totally unrelated joke I made at the expense of video game journalism what this game is telling us something of the nature of player aging things more likely not why they intend to touch but if there's one thing I've learned about doing game journalism it's that you can pretty much say anything about anything and God many people have swallow it did you subscribe some sort of artistic meaningful thing whether that was the intervention or now someone awfully new yeah this is like that time they tried to prove I was creating an attack force of fans by posting a clip of me injecting carrots with a syringe and making a goof about reading a violent army of mutants James reminds reasoning ability is underdeveloped to say the least so those were the highlights of the accusatory phase let's take a trip to the money zone hi it's me with this piece of [ __ ] document again I thought I'd look at some of the extrapolated elements of the relief demand this is the money that change your mind wanted from me we've talked about it in broad strokes but I will just look at some of the nitty-gritty he's put in here because there's some fascinating stuff again I'm not reading all of it just just some of the highlights for example full reimbursement for five years of lost product value at the per game value at time of loss $19,000 per products at 12 products for 5 years 1 million dollars 140,000 dollars something tells me you'd have never made that kind of money off of these games just that they're for sale value that's just me I'm not a finance here I don't know a huge deal of money but I do know a lot about shitty video games and yeah let's turn a page shall we let's go to emotional and financial distress including extreme financial strife resulting in loss of quality of life lots of time to visit with family immediately upon arrival striking $500,000 podcast we have timepieces this is the best bet this is the best bit James wanted money for OK time loss dealing with this case the case he brought before me and research involved including the almost 1000 hours going to spend researching more hopefully he wants me to pay for him cannot afford a lawyer that's what he wants me to go [ __ ] hell reduce the game output because he was too busy googling how to file a [ __ ] spurious lawsuit what else we got we got punitive damages he wants 5 million in those two and this this really exposes to me the motive real motive for the lawsuit it's a punishment to discourage the defendant and all others that followed suit with the defendants actions from performing similar actions in future this basically confirms what Robert remained said to me in a phone call when who said that he wanted me to stop talking about digital homicide otherwise they'd sue me this is what they wanted all along they wanted me to just be quiet and let them go about peddling their shite it's not really my job to be quiet and let them go about peddling their shite as evidenced when they hit me with this lawsuit and then I couldn't do a part of my job may legally protect his job but let's say let's just have a look at the last bit which this is a sweet sweet mate they want as part of their relief package apologies in place of every offending article and video for a period of no less than five years this actually is not legally enforceable I don't think this here is just a complete violation of free speech you can't make me take anything I've written and said and done about you off the internet and replace it with apology videos for five years it was an apology video in the primary YouTube location on the defendants channel for a period of no less than as I say five years and then after that we got basically you know 19 20 pages of lawsuits and the rest is evidence which you're not supposed to submit at this time we've just got receipts and proof that in a proof that he's lost money and stuff so it's a bunch of graphs many of the meaning of everything just pictures see that that's an impressively sick looking document but if it ate out all the stuff that isn't polka be inferior that's actually how thin it is and if we get rid of all the parts of this lawsuit that are [ __ ] well that's what we're left with and that's what arrived on my doorstep in March of 2017 after speaking with some legal advisors I was referred to the law firm Hartland Titus and lawyer Bradley Hartman it's worth pointing out that every single person I talked to on my way to contacting Hartland reacted to the lawsuit with a mixture of confusion and contempt at both the accusations and the financial compensation sort nobody professional who looked at or even heard of this document in my presence was anything other than shot to the delusion on the pages at any rate once I found my lawyer it was agreed upon to seek dismissal as frankly I have better things to do than be sued by an idiot Harmon offered me three ways in which we could get this case dismissed and being the sort of guy I am I decided we go for all three at one point to one James remind file prosign without a lawyer but his allegations pertain to digital homicide an LLC that would require a lawyer if it wanted to sue my hot wet at point to remind wanted this case to be heard in what seems to be the nearest courts which [ __ ] house I think the lazy little [ __ ] and it failed to establish minimum contact proving I do enough direct business with Arizona to be sued their point three and it was a very simple point the case was complete and total [ __ ] [ __ ] my words nobody else's now the thing about court cases especially frivolous shitty ones like these is that they can be really boring so while there was a lot of stress a lot of expense a lot of fiddling and [ __ ] around not a lot of it's all that interesting so we're going to go broad strokes and say that what occurred next was a lot of [ __ ] amendments and responses and requests some back-and-forth BS that just exasperated the ever-loving hell out apartment and myself James like to make a lot of weird filings that were unnecessary and senseless probably something you wouldn't be doing if he played for a lawyer James remind trying to establish minimum contact by purchasing a gym position t-shirt from the fine folks at shark robot and donating one dollar a month to my patreon claiming that because he could purchase shirts for a third-party company and patronize my content again to a third-party company he had proven that I do business in Arizona you can't actually just make up evidence like that my actually how it works at one point rewind called our side asking if he could email interrogator eezol would have to physically send that basically remind wanted to start asking me formal questions already we had to explain to James that you do not send interrogator is at all at this stage that's meant to happen after a case management conference and we were nowhere near that level yet to be fair I didn't know a lot about these processes either but that's why I had a lawyer just as another personal highlight going back through the correspondence that I've been having over the months for this video I love the amount of times one or all of us on my end literally said I don't know what he is doing I think that really sums up the whole case better than anything else did you James at any point know what you were doing did you have any idea I mean did you did you think you were going to get to a million dollars did you think did you think did you think did you have a [ __ ] thought in your skull stuff gets fuzzy and dull around this point until the next big development remind be Stanton mark to an amended lawsuit intended in part to month to the point raised in our dismissal motion it was mostly the same drivel but contained one personally fascinating change and upgrade from over ten million dollars to twelve million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars James tried to justify the added millions by citing new information regarding things I allegedly did to damage his product he went to another mill on to the punitive damages to who knows why at this point I wouldn't be shocked if the [ __ ] fairy frog princess told him to do it I mean look to be quite honest I've been going back over months of emails and pouring from hundreds of pages of documents and I'm confused even though I was there months past little things happened but nothing definitive not until January 13th of this year when our motion to dismiss was granted not fully but partially stopping immediately at our first point for dismissal the judge basically gave James remaining two choices to try and continue this terrible mass he'd need to lawyer up and pursue his claims as digital homicide LLC or rewrite the lawsuit to explain how he James Romain was personally defamed by yours truly frankly it looked to me like the judge was throwing remained one hell of a lifesaver a chance to let this case die on its own with remind having just recently failed to sue a hundred enormous Steam users and causing valves to sever ties with him I honestly didn't think James would contain quite the extreme amounts of spite and stupidity required to continue but I underestimated him at this point in the proceedings however I'd like to take a brief intermission to talk about life outside the lawsuits you see digital homicide has on multiple occasions referred to me as a leech claiming I sponge off the industry while they actually support it and do real creative work during 2016 I rarely mention digital homicide except in passing and they went about their business without all that defamation they think I do I figured it'd be fun if we now looks at what we all personally achieved during 2016 to show our respective ability and creativity without getting in each other's way let's start with me while I was being sued I invented the copyright deadlock a method of messing with YouTube's Content ID system to help regain video makers at least a small if petty degree of control it was a move that Garner's a fair few press headlines and was lauded for its inventiveness kicks off steam clean light to try and help promote promising games that might otherwise struggle to get noticed among all the lazy cynical garbage the video series greenlight good stuff has seen so far a 100% greenlit rate for its featured games several of which are already out and quite good lend my voice to a number of independent games sometimes paid sometimes for free appearing in well-known titles like volley as well as lesser-known titles including the recently released Herald and the upcoming play growth that was being directed by Conrad Ramon who's on the spin-offs of hot sauces made for me obviously I continue to grow the Jim position and the channel and just everything you know my business has just been doing great even made a short quasi film thing Jim saw which was very well received and had DC Douglas in it I shall become the number one bubblin boy while they were suing me digital homicide attempted and failed to raise funds for a lawyer through PayPal attempted and failed to raise funds for a lawyer through GoFundMe put so many assets flips on greenlight that at one point valve had to flag them many of these games were sequels to each other before any of them had actually been greenlit and they all looked almost [ __ ] identical look at it [ __ ] these are all different games attempted to sue 100 anonymous team community members and expected valve to fork surnames over valve responded by removing all of digital armors ID games from Steam and moves that effectively destroyed the company it's interesting isn't it that digital homicide takes itself during a period where I the man they blame for all their failures wasn't saying anything about them no articles no video I just sat back and watched as James Romine willfully and systematically set about tearing his own career to shred tell me James at what point do you decide to take any responsibility for your problems at what point to you look at the one common thread in all of your setbacks you and at least get curious about your involvement in your own downfall I know if you'll ever find the self reflection you sorely need not when I look at Romijn V Stanton mark 3 everyone in the Sterling camps is an agreement that somehow beyond all possibility Romine had managed to pen and even floppy a mess than the first lawsuit it was erratic hard to follow neither of us could tell what the [ __ ] he was talking about half the time and the attempts to switch all the accusations from digital homicide to James Rowe - the sole proprietor or a company I barely even mentioned was a level of desperation I personally not been party to before or since and that counts all the times I've tried to have sex the third dramatic incarnation of the lawsuit recast - James Rowe mine as the sole proprietor of micro strategic designs one of the many companies he conjured up to cower behind I had no shortage of company names using a paragraph under tweet as his evidence bromine magically spun a new lawsuit to claim that because I factually and accurately found the link between NSD and digital homicide I defined him he then listed out the same complaints he made before about all those mean things I said about digital homicide because why why that that wasn't the case and he was ordered to make this not about to digital homicide it's supposed to be about James remind [ __ ] me even left in a bit about the popcorn anyway what really sticks out here is the fact remain a did some new accusations confirming no matter what happens in his life if it's bad he'll blame me stunningly Marx theory of the lawsuit goes so far as to allege a civil conspiracy first of all he says that because I've done voice acting for games I didn't make and don't make money off the success of I'm a direct competitor to him first of all I've got a taken aside to say change your mind don't flatter yourself I will never consider you a direct competitor to me ever in any medium ever he thinks I'm a direct competitor and therefore colluded to destroy him he claims that I have knowingly orchestrated attack campaigns against him with others he also suggests I have conspired with the real ECC games in Poland somehow as part of this attack he suggested operation clean light and my silly mask wearing alter ego the steam cleaner were knowing references to harassment and use the lawsuit a [ __ ] lawsuit to vent and sound off about the other people he tried to sue as if it was my [ __ ] responsibility I think complaints he admits in the text are not my responsibility apparently just needed to waste my time even more by whining about mean things other [ __ ] people did okay let's calm down a little so a little bit riled up there I'm actually talking off script right now I've got a lot of this episode pre-written and I do all yeah but this is just pure from the heart because I really do want to communicate that this bit of the Lord see the bit that I just talked about is for me the worst part of it this is the worst part of the two and a half years I've spent dealing with the Roman brothers right here where I'm accused of civil conspiracy and what else did he say in the most in a criminal direction of harassment something like that the implication that I have been knowingly surreptitiously orchestrating actual line crossing attacks on James reminds person that to me is one of the most offensive things I've ever seen written about me and I've read a lot of offensive things written about me the idea that James Ramon wants an apology from me for the criticism I've leveled over the years is game but his but his [ __ ] is so offensive to me after that that piece of writing became public record something I consider to be the most definite re-- series of allegations in this entire document whatever he thinks I said about him whatever he thinks I did if that were published in a paper that's what libel looks like take another good look at it that is what libel looks like the other interesting new section is the part about intentional infliction of emotional distress the actual text isn't interesting just the usual trash about plaintiff did knowingly do a naughty etc but my lawyer informed me that the level of distress referenced is on par with stealing somebody's child and pretending the child had been killed that's the level of emotional distress Romanies claiming for ultimately amounts to one article and a [ __ ] tweet at this stage oh and the greedy [ __ ] also wanted fifteen million three hundred and twenty six thousand dollars now and whatever other compensation the court would like to give him and apparently when he's vocally challenged on this are these allegations so confidently written devolve into I think Jim did this well Jim might have done this he might have spoken to Val he might have colluded with ECC day maybe is might I think what you think I would do with that sort of argument something like this video that you're watching now no no this is a birthday party enjoy it's fun if you would have dragged me to an Arizona courthouse to listen to your absolute nonsense in-person fun that wouldn't be on the [ __ ] menu sunflower so anyway at this point my lawyer and Romine had to talk anyway so they talked I was not part of those conversations directly but I can say that after several ups and downs as Hoffman navigated an increasingly erratic bruised ego an agreement was reached upon sadly James did not take to my suggestion that I should get the digital homicide brand name as recompense for what he done with this loss exact sour things for a moment but Hartman's reasoning ability is to be ended he simply explained carefully what would happen if this went to court and we're not just doing about counterclaims any of the obvious stuff he explained exactly how this little argument would play out in court something tells me the reality of talking to my real lawyer that I actually have made this all a bit too real anybody can play lawyer anybody can file a claim but there can be consequences for that little game and many times over the past year I've been convinced and talked down from just letting this go to a courtroom and becoming the consequences and after some more back and forth including one moment where we penned an agreement to sign and he sent us back a signed edited document without telling us it was edited like with that [ __ ] stupid James remind finally agreed to drop this utter utter ludicrousness we both agreed to drop the case with prejudice which means it can't be filed against me again and we'd both suck up our legal fees which I was going to have to do anyway because let's face it what does James have he's a punch line with basic coding ability he's so wrong that even a lot of people who hate to me think he's acted like a buffoon he managed to tank his own company while the man he blamed for everything wasn't even talking about him and he's been left humiliated and mocked for throwing a years-long temper tantrum that comb in several embarrassing methods of legal documentation and a dismissal with prejudice that actually adds a little admonishing point about how he needs to consider fair use if he ever wants to take down my [ __ ] again and this creature thinks I spend my time conspiring to ruin him James mate I wouldn't conspire to have a food truck bring you a bad sandwich there is nothing I could do to you you haven't done to yourself and more than anything else at this stage a pity I truly [ __ ] pity you so James I gotta ask is it fair to call the slaughtering grounds an absolute failure now ba-ba-ba-ba-ba some of you may have expected a falling 'video some of you may have just expected 10 minutes of me laughing I threw in a little bit of a performative laugh at the beginning for those people but to be perfectly honest and the back up the statement I published before this video went up I don't find this little funny it's not funny it's disgusting I think it's an incredibly despicable underhanded attempt to undermine my free expression and stop me doing my legally protected job like I said it is absolute I like it seeking and I cannot it's frustrating that I cannot adequately put into words the contents I have for what reminded and I think he crossed the line from attention throwing generic themed as more on to us truly nasty piece of work horrible horrible little man and I'd know I know I I imagined this video in many different windings I've had a long time to think about it and you know I imagined all of the dramatic speeches I did all of us standing here and posturing and no no I've done my video that was my reward for all of this was just being able to finally talk about it and I'm done and as for Jane to remind I'm done with you unless you want to carry this on I feel like I've been pretty damn lenient here and and I know you'd listen to that in Scott I know you're scuffling because you don't think this is lenient at all you think you're the victim you think you're the one who's been attacked all these years you think you're the one who's been nothing but the poor lost lamb being set upon by the wolves but that's not the case and you started this all with your shitty video about me that went into personal insults instead of talking about the merits of my coverage you issued me with a DMCA takedown strike you cajoled me into an audio interview with your brother because I've never spoken to James that's another thing I should tell my god never spoken for the guy is always hidden behind his brother and yet he's the one leading the charge on we're all super here for a man who's so angry at me and so owes it summize it's funny how you know we've never actually [ __ ] spoken but to talk about some of that the whole bullying aspect I get called that a fair few times you know I've read all of your little think pieces over the past few months you know I've seen the ones that asked you know is Jim sterling a hero or a bully very interesting stuff fascinating adorable even but one thing I don't actually talk about very often is just what covering fingering like has done for me I've been harassed I've been dogs I've been threatened I recently recently we've got a very interesting death threat that was caught before the person who posted it deleted it from an alleged greenlight developer who said that he and a bunch of other ones were planning to all file spurious lawsuits to try and kill me off with stress they saw that this lawsuit has understandably tired me out a little bit and caused me a fair bit of expense I'll give you the figure well it's more than comic book I'll tell you that much more than a vintage comic book and anyway comments like that are not uncommon those kinds of threats those kinds of attacks are not uncommon because I'm the only person who really sort of at least in in in this structure of games media who actually puts on the rubber gloves and goes into that [ __ ] sewer that is seen horrendous [ __ ] green light system which saying [ __ ] is going away but my work won't be done because I'm sure asset flippers and chances and all sorts of pricks will continue to invest them and I'll be there covering it and you know it's not the world's most noble job but it's mine and I can do it I should be allowed to do it and I will continue to do it and if anybody if any [ __ ] idiot thinks they can repeat what Cheney did and somehow succeed well you're welcome to try because I won't show mercy next time and you will write yourself upon me and that really is it you know I've spent so long thinking about the cutting final speech I'd give to James remind but now that I'm here now that it's finally happening it's like I've got a wounded ant in my hand and I've just realized the energy it's spent moving my fingers to crush it outweighs the satisfaction I get from doing it as far as I'm concerned we do thank God for me not worth it [Music] [Music] yeah Konami still shares in digital homicide

Channel: Jim Sterling

Views: 3,983,555

Rating: 4.9205508 out of 5

Keywords: Jim Sterling, Digital Homicide, Lawsuit, $10 million, $15 million, Money, James Romine, The Slaughtering Grounds, Temper Tantrum, Steam, 100 Anonynous Steam Users, Valve, Law, Legal System, Lawyer, Libel, Slander, Assault, Allegations, Accusations, Spurious, ECC Games, Idiot, Stupidity, Controversy, Steam Greenlight, Game, Games, Gamer, Gaming, Videogame, Vidoe Game, Commentary, Criticism, Greed, Downfall, Robert Romine, Free Speech, Speech, Nasty, Fight, Harassment

Id: qS-LXvhy1Do

Length: 38min 10sec (2290 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 27 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Emptycoffeemug]

For the curious who want more background into this legendary tale:

• The original video of Jim playing Slaughtering Grounds.

• Jim's reaction to the dev's reaction of Jim's original video. The dev took the video and overlayed text defending his game and insulting Sterling.

• The famous Jimquisition meltdown saga where Jim explains that the previous two videos and adds that 'Imminent Uprising' DMCA'd his video.

• Another Jimquisition episode about the studio Digital Homicide where Jim breaks down how the studio has flooded Steam with garbage games.

• The absolute cringefest of an interview with the devs, which I haven't fully watched because I was afraid I'd implode from sheer cringe.

• Jim's statement on his website. I recommend this especially, because you can feel how horrible this whole affair was when you read this article.

[u/Evil007]

It's over, finally. This may very well be the last time we ever, ever hear from this company or dev.

[u/KrisKorona]

Top 10 Anime Plot Lines

Its been fun to watch

[u/andyp]

Digital SUICIDE

[u/darkmikolai]

Some might say what I am doing with Digital Homicide is petty. I would counter that by saying its extremely petty. But you don't mess with Jim Fucking Sterling son.

[u/Alstorp]

Jim only has 500.000 subs? Thought he was more popular

[u/Tonyp32810]

Anybody have a link to the steam cleanlight. I would like to take a look through some of the games in there, but I can't seem to find anything about it on Google or otherwise.

[u/SuperSheep3000]

Jim really should've gone for damages if he was so bothered by the money spent on a defense. Kudos to him taking the higher ground to get the case dismissed.

[u/[deleted]]

Time to kick back and relax while enjoying that.

And wonder who will be next to do that because learning from other people's mistakes is so old school.