very strange of the courthouse, though, and possibly illegal; there are provisions in the law that ensure that many court cases are public law, and records can be requested through information acts, with the confidentiality agreements straight-up illegal as matters of court are public record. similarly, i'm having a hard time with a newspaper that stages all this for fame and yet doesn't want the story to get out... there are villages that keep to themselves but if one party is highly motivated enough to lie to this extent that includes buying real estate/staging or paying for construction to begin/going to the courthouse multiple times/puppeteering this entire thing, i am sure that the first thing they'd do - if they are doing this for fame, of course - is to spread the story far and wide, which is easily done via the internet. (usually this is done via AP press release.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/s ... CTION=HOME but as you can see, i am finding nothing besides mentioning about the top iphone apps, wherein fnaf hit their radar once. the only other news i can find about fnaf or scott in lawsuits is again the story about the fake fnaf 4 that hit the iphone app market, which is of legal interest far and wide in that scott is suing to find out the identity of the faker and thus sue them (
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/ ... 09953c7274 is a quick writeup from forbes) - but this is in 2015. i cannot find anything more recent.
you see why it all comes across as very fishy. a paper orchestrated something elaborate to report on, but isn't reporting on it? a newspaper firm does all this elaborate setting up of a scam for fame, but then doesn't want any of the potential fame it could be getting from it? this is especially true after
you mentioned that your area is serviced by the washington post. the washington post is a reputable newspaper that is more than ever at the forefront of the internet. however all they mention is the apple store rankings from the AP. they have reported on gaming events before (for example, currently covering pewdiepie's crashing and burning at the moment) and seem to have their foot firmly in the door for such events as to appeal to a segment of online customers. however,
the top apps list is the only mention i can find of fnaf or scott.this is aside from the details of the story. i know many places are self-isolating, but if your government is saying you can't even come
near the courthouse, i doubt the legality of that action. the legal system is also required to maintain transparency by law, not only to the people in its village, but to all those higher up in the chain in bigger cities. the american justice system does not work by isolation - we have a system of courts, not individual ones.
in short this news story should be in the news about ten times over by now. the fact that all that has apparently been found is a photograph which was easily traced back to a wiki for making
fake logos and a
prank, as you'll remember,
and this is beyond fishy.i will leave it to others to assign blame as to who is spinning the yarn, but to be blunt, i think that fiction spun as fact doesn't have a place in this club - especially when it is fiction so bad at being realistic. let us respect our fellow club members and pull their legs, and have a clear deliniation between fact and fantasy. fanfic and stories are great. but someone's trying to pull a fast one here, rather ineffectively, and i do not want to speculate
who is responsible for the lying. i merely want to put forth the idea that it's so cheaply done that it is not worth the time of the people here, because at this point it is becoming very clear that this is fiction trying to badly masquerade as fact.
let us let the fanfiction be fanfiction, and the news articles be actual news articles, in other words, and not derail the club with constant attempts to chase down somebody's pathetic attempt at pulling a fast one. i think the case is no longer of interest to anyone in the club, being such obvious and crude fiction.
so let us talk about other things perhaps more relevant to everyone's enjoyment of the game instead.
