This defamation appeared to amount to the GBoWR rescinding his "record" for a high and perfect Pacman score, noting that there were evidenced claims that Mitchell had not earned the videotaped score on an official arcade cabinet, but rather using an emulator.
No, that's incorrect. His perfect Pac-Man game wasn't the one where they found evidence he'd used MAME and save-scummed; that was his million-point Donkey Kong game. Twin Galaxies subsequently rescinded all his records, including the perfect Pac-Man game. Guinness, which had used TG as its source, briefly rescinded the Pac-Man record as well, but as you say, later reinstated it.
I like Warren and I disagreed with you on the significance of the Twitter thing a few months back, but yeah I can't see anything here that's defensible. I was hoping her reference to the "sale of inappropriate products" might have been to exploding batteries or some of the other dodgy goods Amazon sells that might indeed be "potentially unlawful", but nope, it's quite clear in context that she's talking about books.
1) I am happy to confirm that the OlneyFans drama has been resolved entirely in the Torch’s favor! Thanks to everyone for your support, but a few extra special thanks are in order...
2) Legal powerhouse @popehat took up our cause and found numerous fantastic attorneys who offered to represent us for free. The GOAT @gross_jennie signed on to be our official pro bono counsel and did a kick ass job...
3)...And finally, the First Amendment did what it was always meant to do: protect the right of a smart ass with a satire website to make all of the baseball/pornography jokes he wants.
Yeah, they used to put effort into their lies. Trump demonstrated they don't have to; they can say the sky is red and the base will insist it's true just to own the libs.
Could we maybe stop making middle-eastern, Muslim-dominated countries our go-to when we criticize oppressive theocrats? This is a home-grown white American Christian problem. Casually stereotyping people in the middle-east doesn't help.
The thing about people who want to eliminate the criminal justice system in favor of punitive lawsuits waged by the rich is, waging punitive lawsuits against them does not solve the problem.
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No, that's incorrect. His perfect Pac-Man game wasn't the one where they found evidence he'd used MAME and save-scummed; that was his million-point Donkey Kong game. Twin Galaxies subsequently rescinded all his records, including the perfect Pac-Man game. Guinness, which had used TG as its source, briefly rescinded the Pac-Man record as well, but as you say, later reinstated it.
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Yeah, that was a pretty weird opener. Big Boomer Energy.
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China's game controllers?
Like, what, 8BitDo? Those are from Hong Kong and they're pretty good but I always have trouble pairing them.
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I like Warren and I disagreed with you on the significance of the Twitter thing a few months back, but yeah I can't see anything here that's defensible. I was hoping her reference to the "sale of inappropriate products" might have been to exploding batteries or some of the other dodgy goods Amazon sells that might indeed be "potentially unlawful", but nope, it's quite clear in context that she's talking about books.
Not a good look, Senator.
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Well that was quick.
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Re: Did they understand?
They do now.
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(And this was a federal case, not a state one in the first place.)
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Which Arizona is not.
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...you...seem confused about how federal prosecutors are selected.
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I wasn't expecting this to end with me saying "good on Brnovich," but here we are.
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Rupert Murdoch? But he seemed like such a beacon of personal integrity!
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Re: Big Tech vs. Big Telecom
Makes sense. It's not like the Biden campaign's top ten campaign contributors included Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook or anything.
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Yeah, they used to put effort into their lies. Trump demonstrated they don't have to; they can say the sky is red and the base will insist it's true just to own the libs.
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It's not that hard to understand.
They're liars.
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Oh, leave Mason alone, guys; he's been gone for two years.
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Could we maybe stop making middle-eastern, Muslim-dominated countries our go-to when we criticize oppressive theocrats? This is a home-grown white American Christian problem. Casually stereotyping people in the middle-east doesn't help.
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Re: seems to me
I guess that depends on whether or not you're aware of the Republican nomination for president.
On the post: New Texas Abortion Law Likely To Unleash A Torrent Of Lawsuits Against Online Education, Advocacy And Other Speech
Re: Isn't Turnabout Fair Play
The thing about people who want to eliminate the criminal justice system in favor of punitive lawsuits waged by the rich is, waging punitive lawsuits against them does not solve the problem.
On the post: Backpage Founders Trial Finally Begins
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Does that include her view that pornography should be banned as a civil rights violation?
Here's a counterpoint: The Problem With Sex Work Is Work. (Disclosure: Dr. Heather Berg is an acquaintance of mine.)
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By this reasoning, if he'd appointed someone on day one, that would mean he'd wasted four months.
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