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It’s not an unusual username, it is actually quite unoriginal, there are probably thousands of users with variations of the same name. It is the name of the he

by oersted 3mo ago

It’s not an unusual username, it is actually quite unoriginal, there are probably thousands of users with variations of the same name. It is the name of the headline magic ability in Skyrim, which is probably among the top ten most popular videogames of the last 25 years.

dzhiurgis 3mo ago
Wonder if there are expert witnesses in videogame niche. I have no idea what you are talking about.
- bryanrasmussen 3mo ago
  I have not idea either, other than I understand it is a common text from a really popular video game. Why wouldn't variations of that be a really common username?
- oersted 3mo ago
  I understand that certain segments of the population have remained completely disassociated from videogames, and that's fine, but that doesn't make it a niche or an expert topic. Games make significantly more money than movies and TV now. More than 65M people bought Skyrim, and many more millions would recognise Fus-Ro-Dah just from spending time on the Internet anywhere near to gaming circles. The defendant could have told their lawyer and it would have been trivial to research and demonstrate. Not sure what went wrong there.
  - dzhiurgis 3mo ago
    > Games make significantly more money than movies and TV now Don't wanna accuse you of anything, but why would you assume thats an important metric for HN populace. I assume most people here don't own a TV to begin with (personal projection obvs).
    - dafelst 3mo ago
      It's a proxy for reach, which is what GP is talking about.
    - account42 3mo ago
      In $current_year you can watch movies and TV shows without owning a TV.
- DoctorOetker 3mo ago
  oh no please no, not videogame experts in court... just be sane and force any Cyber attribution link in testimony to present in standardized form (with reference to find explanation) Damerau-Lehvenstein edit distance histogram, cumulative distribution, etc. So that all parties (defendant & lawyers, plaintif & lawyers, judge or if applicable also jury) can trivially read and interpret the data: On this platform we also have 4 users exactly 1 edit away, 15 users exactly 2 edits away,... On this platform we thus also have 4 other users 1 or fewer edits away, 19 users 2 or fewer edits away, ... And I assure you Klayme or whomever would have read this part of the testimony over and over, and pushing his lawyers towards the right questions, that is if they allow themselves to work in the interest of their client, which usually they refuse to do, and just submit straw-man arguments intentionally because everybody wants to go home or have shorter workdays so prosecution and defense lawyers just pre-judge how the cookie should be crumbled, and then nobody has to read anything...
ButlerianJihad 3mo ago
Since the introduction of the Skyrim game in 2011, UrbanDictionary has also indicated that the specific phrase is a term for fellatio. Just sayin'
- account42 3mo ago
  UrbanDictionary has a lot of terms that are maybe used by one friend group who thought it would be funny to add it to the site.
gamblor956 2mo ago
It turns out there were exactly two users with that same name. And the man in the story was one of them, which is why this all happened. It is the name of the headline magic ability in Skyrim, which is probably among the top ten most popular videogames of the last 25 years. That can be true and it can still be the case that most people that have played video games have never heard of it, especially on a teen-focused social media platform where most of the users are younger than the game.

by oersted 3mo ago

dzhiurgis 3mo ago

Wonder if there are expert witnesses in videogame niche. I have no idea what you are talking about.

bryanrasmussen 3mo ago
I have not idea either, other than I understand it is a common text from a really popular video game. Why wouldn't variations of that be a really common username?
oersted 3mo ago
I understand that certain segments of the population have remained completely disassociated from videogames, and that's fine, but that doesn't make it a niche or an expert topic. Games make significantly more money than movies and TV now. More than 65M people bought Skyrim, and many more millions would recognise Fus-Ro-Dah just from spending time on the Internet anywhere near to gaming circles. The defendant could have told their lawyer and it would have been trivial to research and demonstrate. Not sure what went wrong there.
- dzhiurgis 3mo ago
  > Games make significantly more money than movies and TV now Don't wanna accuse you of anything, but why would you assume thats an important metric for HN populace. I assume most people here don't own a TV to begin with (personal projection obvs).
  - dafelst 3mo ago
    It's a proxy for reach, which is what GP is talking about.
  - account42 3mo ago
    In $current_year you can watch movies and TV shows without owning a TV.
DoctorOetker 3mo ago
oh no please no, not videogame experts in court... just be sane and force any Cyber attribution link in testimony to present in standardized form (with reference to find explanation) Damerau-Lehvenstein edit distance histogram, cumulative distribution, etc. So that all parties (defendant & lawyers, plaintif & lawyers, judge or if applicable also jury) can trivially read and interpret the data: On this platform we also have 4 users exactly 1 edit away, 15 users exactly 2 edits away,... On this platform we thus also have 4 other users 1 or fewer edits away, 19 users 2 or fewer edits away, ... And I assure you Klayme or whomever would have read this part of the testimony over and over, and pushing his lawyers towards the right questions, that is if they allow themselves to work in the interest of their client, which usually they refuse to do, and just submit straw-man arguments intentionally because everybody wants to go home or have shorter workdays so prosecution and defense lawyers just pre-judge how the cookie should be crumbled, and then nobody has to read anything...

ButlerianJihad 3mo ago

Since the introduction of the Skyrim game in 2011, UrbanDictionary has also indicated that the specific phrase is a term for fellatio. Just sayin'

account42 3mo ago
UrbanDictionary has a lot of terms that are maybe used by one friend group who thought it would be funny to add it to the site.

gamblor956 2mo ago

It turns out there were exactly two users with that same name. And the man in the story was one of them, which is why this all happened. It is the name of the headline magic ability in Skyrim, which is probably among the top ten most popular videogames of the last 25 years. That can be true and it can still be the case that most people that have played video games have never heard of it, especially on a teen-focused social media platform where most of the users are younger than the game.