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Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate
Benjamin Duranske writes "Jonathan Lee Riches, an inmate in South Carolina famous for filing long, handwritten, rambling screeds against celebrities, politicians, and even buildings, has filed a third-party motion in Federal Court in Arizona in the MDY v. Blizzard botting case claiming that Blizzard's World of Warcraft 'caused Riches mind to live in a virtual universe, where Riches explored the landscape committing identity theft and fighting cybermonster rival hacker gangs. Riches was addicted to video games and lost touch with reality because of defendants. This caused Riches to commit fraud to buy defendants video games. Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job, Riches mind became a living video game.'"
This belongs in stupidpeople.slashdot.org, attentionwhores.slashdot.org, or the catch-all idle.slashdot.org, not games.slashdot.org.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
its amazing the continuing trend of folks using the 'my mind was warped by the normalisation and glamour of violence in video games and horror films' but these same people have sufficiently strong minds to not succumb to the continuous deluge of advertising thrust upon us every day. in the 90's we had advertising everywhere, the sidewalk, the urinals, the sky, but NEVER in our dreams
Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job
So he's suing because he'd prefer to play the game than have a legit job? There are tons of things I'd rather do than my job, and my job isn't even all that bad. But here at work, I'd rather be watching a movie than doing my job. Yet here I am, at work.
... posting on Slashdot. Can I sue Slashdot for being more interesting than my job?
I feel sorry for the guy. He should be in a psychiatric ward, not a prison.
That's a bit extreme, simply write a bot program that can do "meaningful" judicial exchanges with the person in question. Let him have his fun writing long memos, and the program sends him back memoranda, motions and decision. He's happy, and no one else notices.
I'm aging rapidly, I bought a new game and had no idea if my machine was good for it.
can't judge fine him for legal system abuse ?
The world belongs to those who get up early. - I'm far from being the king of Earth then
I find it very impressive that an inmate who committed fraud is allowed to file lawsuits that border...actually they're just plain insane. Jack Thompson and him should do lunch, they'd make a fine super duo
You have been sig'd
Well, sure. "Lonely bored crazy guy yells at squirrels in the park" is not a headline either.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job
If this works I'm going to quit my job to masturbate all the time. Then I will sue the Govt and the Porn industries of the world for causing me to quit my job and for the horrible calluses I would develop from constant fapping.