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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.
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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?
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.
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.