Replies to nerthos, page 54
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@nerthos $5.99.
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@sim @nerthos He fought it for a long time in the courts too, which IMO shows he had no intention of paying. If it was a legitimate contract dispute you tend not to have it dragged out on it. He was trying to make it too expensive for them to get their wages back in terms of legal fees and so forth. But the courts saw it for what it was and made him pay their legal fees too. He declared bankrupcy on that paper of his to try to cut his losses. Most of those writers probably only got a fraction of what he owed them. And here he is now gallavanting around being the media darling. I can understand why many of my writer friends resent him.
He also had a crowdfunder for some sort of scholarship he allegedly scappered with the funds for and used himself, but I'm less up on the details of that one. -
@sim @nerthos This is a guy who built his press empire on robbing writers and refusing to pay them agreed-upon wages. By the way, if you ever want to get him to block you on twitter, bring up that class action lawsuit that was brought against him in British court. He lost and had to pay them. Irrespective of what you think of his views, that's a very applety thing to do to people.
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@nerthos CGP Grey made a good video that more or less explains the social psychology at work here if you're interested in the more serious explanation of the popularity of him and those like him
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@nerthos Yep.
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@nerthos He's in a symbiotic relationship with the sensationalist press, really. But that he's a kiwi-stirrer not worth paying attention to has remained pretty universally trrue.
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@nerthos Unfortunatelly, Kat is just a moe character (except on that one episode)
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@nerthos The two that are assigned to sectors will be assigned to random sectors as part of the procgen so you'll want to observe them before engagement.
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That is a possibility. But yeah, it wasn't a bad movie. I think I prefer it over the seventh one.
