Hey guys! How’re you doing this fine day?
Man, life has been absolutely bonkers lately. I haven’t had a chance to express how awesome you guys were at Let’s Play Live LA, or E3, or RTX, or with the announcement of LPL Chicago, or the fact I’m going to RTX Sydney… so much amazing stuff all packed in to such a short amount of time.
I promise I’ll get to that and express my thoughts on everything, but right now I want to tell you about something pretty sweet we are doing next weekend.
Next Saturday (July 23rd), from 10am Central until 6pm Central, we’ll be streaming with the charity organization Stack-Up! You can find more info on them athttp://www.stack-up.org We’ll be participating in their Call to Arms as we play video games throughout Saturday, and of course, we’ll have a brand new poster that you can purchase with proceeds going towards the charity!
Who might you find playing on Saturday? That’s a great question! You’ll see some of your favorites from Achievement Hunter, Screw Attack, Rooster Teeth, and Funhaus.
So, come and join us while we make our Call to Arms and raise some money for soldiers who are looking for some distraction while out there serving their country. Use this link to check out our team - http://bit.ly/RoosterTeeth16
Join us on Saturday, it’ll be a nice relaxing eight hours of gaming with your favorite Rooster Teeth personalities and also Funhaus. We’ll be streaming on the Rooster Teeth YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/roosterteeth See you then!
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RobusMaximus
2 years ago
Jack, I recently purchased anXbox One. Is there a charity similar to Child's play that I can donate my old Xbox 360 to?
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APrettyPinkPony
2 years ago
Hey Jack, Are you guys doing an Extra-Life 24hour stream this year? If so is it on november 4th?
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connorhawke
2 years ago
Hats off to you Jack. That documentary was something special.
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Daniel_Olfgar_Bloodmane
2 years ago
Did you see the artwork
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Boston_Tom
2 years ago
Hey, good work on Lets Play Live!
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Daniel_Olfgar_Bloodmane
2 years ago
Hay jack I made artwork for you if you won't to see it it's in my images
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madmanmoe Keeper of Shenanigans
2 years ago
Hi Jack,
Being the charity fundraising guru that you are, i wish to ask for your expertise.
I want to livestream a charity event for the Syrian Refugees. I want to know what resources do i need look up to know how to set up the tools (such as buttons on the live stream and the notifications for when someone donates). I was hoping you would be able to point me to the right direction.
I'm not an expert. I don't have millions of followers. I'm just trying to raise money for a cause. Thanks
--Mahmoud
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Arthro
2 years ago
Hi Jack!
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IronBridge Keeper of Knowledge
2 years ago
I upload new and interesting facts everyday in my series:
"Fact of The Day"
Hope to see you there!
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Hufflebecks
2 years ago
Hey Jack. I've been wondering something - how did you and Geoff meet?
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shay_117
2 years ago
So 343 isn't doing split-screen for halo 5. I think this is ridiculous since it has been in every halo game up to now and so many people love halo for that fact. People love playing with their friends on the same screen and it is one of the few split-screen games left. I found a petition online to save it. Would be awesome if maybe you could mention it during AHWU or something!
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mbloody
2 years ago
Didn't see anything different about the site, new profile pic?
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mbloody
2 years ago
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JDunlap The Dude
2 years ago
Congrats on 500k subscribers! I can't wait for the Magic: The Gathering video, since I shamelessly play on a regular basis.
Also, I enjoyed your first LEGO video. I miss my LEGO days.
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wayway2tall
2 years ago
Supreme Court Opinion Makes Prosecution of Internet Trolls More Difficult
*Disclaimer – I am not licensed to practice law. The following is a reflection of my reading of a Supreme Court opinion, and should not be relied on by anyone. I am not advertising my services, seeking compensation, or looking for notoriety: I am offering an explanation of the significant legal principles as I seem them for informative purposes.*
Today the Supreme Court ruled in Elonis v. United States that a law often used to prosecute internet users who make threatening comments over the Internet could not be used unless the perpetrator knew the language to be threatening. Prior to this ruling, most courts held that an internet threat is illegal if a reasonable person (e.g. the person being threatened, other site-users) would feel threatened. The court today, however, found this rule was not an accurate interpretation of the statute, and required that any person convicted of making internet threats must be “blameworthy in mind before he can be found guilty.†While this ruling is a win for internet users who say the threats they make over the internet are intended for therapeutic or cathartic reasons, I am concerned that Internet threats are often made in passing while read quite seriously, making prosecution difficult under any other interpretation. This ruling requires authorities to demonstrate that a threat was made to be taken seriously, or at least made with the awareness that it might be taken seriously—a more difficult standard to prove unless the defendant admits what he or she was thinking when the threat was made.
The facts of the case are that Anthony Elonis was arrested for 5 counts of violating 18 USC §875(c) which makes it a crime to transmit “any communication containing any threat to injure the person of another.†The statute was enacted in 1939 to apply to telecommunications that existed at the time, but is still used for federal prosecutions regarding threats made over the internet. Elonis made threats towards his coworkers, resulting in his termination from the amusement park where he worked. He also made threats against his wife, saying “Fold up your [Restraining Order] and put it in your pocket/ Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?†and providing details to the public on his Facebook page detailing what he believed to be the most effective way to fire mortar rounds at his wife’s home and not get caught. He made threats against Police; as well as an FBI agent that visited his house about the threats, posting to his Facebook after the incident “So the next time you knock, you best be serving a warrant/ And bring yo’ SWAT and an explosives expert while you’re at it/ Cause little did y’all know, I was strapped wit’ a bomb/Why do you think it took me so long to get dressed with no shoes on?/ I was jus’ waitin’ for y’all to handcuff me and pat me down/ Touch the detonator in my pocket and we’re all goin’.…†Finally, Elonis commented on another Facebook user’s post, “That’s it, I’ve had about enough/ I’m checking out and making a name for myself/ Enough elementary schools in a ten mile radius to initiate the most heinous school shooting ever imagined/ And hell hath no fury like a crazy man in a Kindergarten class/ The only question is… which one?â€
At trial, the jury was instructed that Elonis was guilty of breaking the law if a reasonable person would have understood that the posts he was making were real threats, which are not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Elonis argued that the word “threat†indicates that he must purposefully or knowingly make the threat to cause someone to feel threatened; a fact which was not determined at trial and which Elonis argues he did not intend. The government argued that Elonis’s purpose in making the argument did not matter because the statute does not require “an intent to threaten†only that the communication includes a threat. The trial judge agreed with the government’s argument, thus instructing the jury that Elonis was guilty if a reasonable person would have understood his words as threats. The Supreme Court overruled this jury instruction, sending the case back to a lower court to determine if Elonis was guilty based on some other interpretation of the statute.
The lower court now must consider whether to adopt Elonis’s interpretation of the statute and require that internet threats be made with the purpose or knowledge of being threats in order to be illegal. If this interpretation is adopted, Elonis is less likely to be convicted because the jury is more likely to take him at his word that he did not intend—and did not know—that anyone would take his posts seriously. The Court could also choose a middle ground between Elonis’s and the Government’s argument by applying the standard of recklessness. Elonis recklessly threatened his victims if: 1) He had a substantial awareness that his words might be taken as threats; and, 2) A reasonable person would have understood that Elonis’s words were threats. This interpretation would likely result in a conviction because the jury would be allowed to infer that while it may not have been Elonis’s purpose to threaten, and while he may not have been certain that his words would be taken as threats, he must have at least been aware that his victims might interpret his words as threats. While the recklessness standard is likely to result in a conviction, the recklessness standard is more likely than the purposeful or knowing standard to be found a misinterpretation of the statute (again) or an unconstitutional burden on Elonis’s right to free speech. The Supreme Court has not offered a definitive ruling, only saying that the method used in this case of interpreting a threat through the eyes of the threatened (the same way most lower courts had interpreted the law) is incorrect and must be retried.
Obviously, the legality of Internet threats is an important issue to anyone interested in safe, well-meaning, and healthy Internet ecosystems. This case highlights the difficulties in prosecu
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BillNyeJr
2 years ago
Thanks for the password nerd!!!!
-1 WTF?
GLORP
2 years ago
Jack,
You may not read this but there is a girl in Rhode Island that is a huge fan of all things RT. Last year she was diagnosed with chronic Lyme Disease and has been unable to do the things a normal girl should be able to do. Tomorrow, Wednesday May 13, is her 16th birthday. She will not be able to celebrate it as she should due to her disease. Furthermore, tomorrow she will begin using IV bags that will make her feel like she has the flu. I have talked very briefly with her and she asked me to contact you to thank you (for what exact purpose I do not know), and said to ask for a temporary follow on Twitter @Lindsey_Clark11 or a friend request on this site. Her RT username is lindsey_11. What I am trying to do with this message is make her tomorrows featured user, but I don't know if I'm too late to make that deadline. I encourage you to please read the rest of her story as she said it on her Tumblr loserwithlyme.tumblr.com/
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blutzy93
2 years ago
nice haircut you got jack.
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chris9801 Achievement Hunter
2 years ago
Looks just like you:
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Fanfrit
2 years ago
So your beard holds the secrets of the universe, right? Like the secrets behind wormholes is buried in there somewhere?
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KennyMeador
2 years ago
I challenge the achievement hunter crew to a Survival pc game. Unturned! I think you gentlemen would create some good laughs from it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHW0OJBPhL0 feel free to take a look.
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jojojojo485
2 years ago
hey jack i wanted to tell u i live in Vegas and i went to stack steak house because u talked about it and it was fucking amazing, i probably would not have gone otherwise. thank you
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FontaGamer
2 years ago
so AzrielRuckus won when they have not signed in 10 months and i looked for the comment and saw nothing from them anywhere?
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Radius55 Site Admin
2 years ago
1) All comments were supposed to be put in the journal, and a number of the pages had to be deleted because they were slowing down the site.
2) Last signed in is the last time you physically entered your password. Cookies will last indefinitely. If you look at my profile, I haven't signed in since late February
3) I can confirm he made a post
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nowa
2 years ago
"We did it, minion! Jack thought he could stop us with the door? HA! I was MADE to open doors! There's no stopping us now, minion! Together, we shall free Pandora! I will lead you into battle! I will destroy Handsome Jack with my bare hands! I will- STAIRS?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
-ClapTrap-
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nowa
2 years ago
Lol didn't really notice. Sorry if it seemed like if I was spamming
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Radius55 Site Admin
2 years ago
You've posted this same comment over two dozen times in the past two weeks. The contest is over and you can stop now.
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Desayjin RTX Guardian Emeritus
2 years ago
So this is still a thing going on? Might need to get someone to clean up your personal comments section!
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CornontheRob
2 years ago
Claptrap
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StephanieAme
2 years ago
"Aaaaannnnddd.....open!"
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spar124
2 years ago
This post has been deleted by a moderator.
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spar124
2 years ago
aw I was quoting Gavin when he asked for a free sponsorship
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MatthewLeeCa
2 years ago
fake
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kenny76
2 years ago
Claptrap, since a winner hasn't been announced.
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TheMaysacre
2 years ago
Claptrap
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AHJarrett
2 years ago
Claptrap
"CL4P TP Steward Bot"
Thanks 2K and Achievment Hunter!
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ksissick26
2 years ago
claptrap
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mschinells
2 years ago
Claptrap
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GyroCaptain
2 years ago
Claptrap
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THE_corndawg
2 years ago
Claptrap
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aduck14
2 years ago
Claptrap Mother Trucker
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GobJin
2 years ago
Hey Jack, don't really know who to inform about this, there is a typo in the Achievement Hunter Community TOS/guidelines page, it says "minuets not minutes."
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rjoegia
2 years ago
claptrap!
i almost died when i saw the video! this is the most bad ass claptrap i have ever seen made!
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Riebz
2 years ago
Upon reading Fragger's journal about the situation, i wanted to let you know that I have a lot of respect for what you did to help resolve the situation and not only just that you did it, but the emotion described by Fragger is honorable, I admire the fact that you didn't just do what you had to do to take care of the situation, but the genuine anger(as described by Fragger) about what was done that showed a lot about the amount of concern you had for the well-being of that particular community member, as an aspiring Marine Corps officer, when I saw that, I knew that what you and Geoff did will stick with me for a long time as I learn what it means to live and do things in service of others, especially when concerning very bad situations and people. What you do for the community is greatly appreciated
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BenDover4Me
2 years ago
Claptrap
Weaponize it
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AHevilJack
2 years ago
Claptrap
Hello Jack. So we finally meet. I've come back in time to tell you some things so you don't become evil! Follow these steps and you will not be converted by the darkness.
1. Move that thing we hid! It will be found and stolen!
2. Punch Gavin directly in the testacles. He will deserve it.
3. Make sure Ray never makes that time machine in minecraft!
4. Steal Ryan's personal favorite weapon to stop the RTX MASSACHRE OF 2021.
5. Be very nice to your significant other (it works out)!
6. Eat the next fruit you see and your life will be followed by absolute good luck.
7. Build that machine you wanted to always build that makes video games reality and kill Lester in GTA, become the king in chivalry, and build a house in minecraft.
8. On June 28, 2015, MAKE SURE THE HOUSE IS LOCKED BEFORE SLEEPING.
9. YOU MUST FOLLOW THE LAST STEP TO COMPLETE THE PROCESS. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE OR ELSE EVIL CONSUMPTION DEATH HEART EXPLOSION SEIZURES EILL OCCUR!!!!!!!
10. Get the AH members to sign their favorite borderlands characters (optional). Then send the borderlands handsome edition clap-in-a-box to me. :) after all, I am your biggest fan *smirk*
UPON COMPLETION YOU WILL BE REWARDED WITH THE TILE OF PIMPS FROM THE FUTURE EVIL YPU AND IT WILL KEEP YOU GOOD GUY JACK!
Thank you!
You've done yourself a huge favor, I assure you.
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TheDoctor100
2 years ago
Claptrap
They're coming outta the wall-sphincters
- Doc
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7ucky
2 years ago
Claptrap!
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LiamBurns
2 years ago
Claptrap
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MolinaM160
2 years ago
Claptrap.
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JeromeDog
2 years ago
Claptrap, I farted while writing this
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mckinnonemmett
2 years ago
claptrap
claptrap is god!!!!!!!
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lifelongfan
2 years ago
Claptrap I will chase small animals with him.
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Tuff_cake_
2 years ago
claptrap give me ur milk
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topherrr
2 years ago
CLAPTRAP
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