NEW VIDEO - Homestuck Sent Me A Legal Threat, and Then It Got Worse

so this reminds me of my former employer

Viera Galikova

oh historically this kind of thing is always laughably bad for the company. good on you for sticking to your guns sarah!

Queen

i am so impressed by the way you handled yourself in those emails. i would have flown off the handle so many times and it was brilliant to watch you calmly sit back and let everyone talk themselves into way more problems. my god. well done.

sarah

You might just be a litigatibilibuddy (lit-i-gat-i-bill-a-buddy)

Stephen Gillie

1. Glad you have representation and some sane, sound people around to consult and support you and Emily. 2. As to the emails: What the...?!? I guess this type of digital diatribe comes with the territory of amateur enthusiasm??? 18,000 words. I'd suggest counting how many of them were useful and addressed your questions :D I can see a pie chart... 3. If you are ever sued, maybe invoice the parties involved for "miscellaneous therapeutic active-listening (reading?) services" given the responses. Hopefully some level of catharsis has been reached by a gaming company and web comic creator. 4. Thank you for an entertaining deep-dive into game development, Homestuck and Wh-aught Pumpkin Games.

Am I a bad person if I want this to connect to Omegaverse at some point?

loooooooooool it's rummy! incredible!

Eli Bildirici

lol this...fking guy. getting big joel to voice is inspired choice

Eli Bildirici

I literally signed up to your patreon just to ask you if need me to send you some more rope, after you gave so so much to Hussie over that email exchange. Frustrating as it was, this was a masterclass in letting a subject damn themselves. It's why the standard advice is always shut up, and let your lawyers talk. Amazing work, Sarah.

Sean Riley

Fascinating video. Between this and Lindsay Ellis' legal video from a few months back, I'd be curious to see a discussion between you 2 about this stuff in general terms. Glad nothing too terrible happened to you. That Rumsfeld joke is also hilariously timed what with today's news ;D

It reminded me of certain political personalities who go on news programs, then try to fillibuster when asked hard questions, saying the interviewer won't listen and doesn't want to know. This whole debacle seems like them desperately calling in dump trucks to make a mountain out of their mole hill, so they can get more attention. They're way better at creating drama than video games, and should get another video game company to make a game about them, like an American Chopper for video games.

Stephen Gillie

Firstly, I loved your video. Second, after listening to your take on the situation it feels to me that WP heard about your video from a third party and jumped to threatening letters insulting your research before doing their own (actually watching the video). Once they had actually seen it and realized there was nothing to object to they were in to deep to gracefully back out (IMO).

They doth protest too much, methinks.

WP: You should have asked us for information before making your video! Sarah Z: Okay then give me the information WP: Well now I am not doing it

Nicholas Wackowski

MMF too, dang!

Jasmijn Wellner

Big Joel bringing some big ham in those line readings

Jasmijn Wellner

This was a fucking trip. Good lord. I'm so sorry you went through all this, and grateful for the work you put in to salvage an entertaining video out of this non-sense.

Kyle Rudy

I loved the video! You go girl! (As a side note though I was left out of the Patreon credits).

Al’s in the Middle

I generally don't bother making comments if I don't have something substantial to add to a discussion, but, well, this actually managed to make me laugh just seeing a bog standard "TL;DW" slide, so...

Yaron Davidson

Damn, Sarah. I’m used to you sipping tea in videos not spilling it. Great video, loved the guest voices.

BestowalDonkey8

I was planning to go to bed early 😭😭😭

Joel Syverud

OH BOY

Kai Vee