What happens after the case gets tossed next week?

[guest]

Patrick will suddenly learn humility and beg for our forgiveness.

He will admit Norm is funny, Carol is a stud, SpaceEdge is clever, Quasi needs to be paid, Dan's kung fu is the best, Mewler's dolls are adorable, Niki is a dyke, his parents names are Mama Raven and Tommy, the large headed gentleman is not Kyle but does consume pennies, and that yes indeed he is very very fat.

 

[TorquieTwoBeers]

I don't think anything is going to happen. He'll think about it for a while and come up with some very specific wording that makes it look like he won. He'll claim victory. He'll also ignore the ruling that demands he pay Queso's fees and deal with the ramifications of that down the line.

This is a man (kinda) who quit his job ten years ago to write science fiction full time and despite having no book deal and no discernable income claims he's a massive success. He also claims, despite having such a fat head that he resembles the Smoothie King Cake Baby, that he's not fat. Reality means nothing to him.

 

[fenrir]

He'll realize there's no such thing as "winning" against 100 anonymous individuals who enjoy poking those they deem fat faggots. He'll get a real job and work to pay back the money piece by piece. Then he'll focus on improving emotional intelligence, diet, and exercise, and providing for those he loves.

 

[Gay Faggot.]

No. We cannot allow this.
We're going to rescue that frumpopotamus from him if it's the last thing we do.

The only animals in that barn that deserve rescuing is mewler and the gay cat. I assume his other lizard is going the route of toothless (anally and orally raped to death).

 

[guest]

He also claims, despite having such a fat head that he resembles the Smoothie King Cake Baby, that he's not fat. Reality means nothing to him.

Glassy blue eyes, corn teeth, huge fat baby head....once you see it, you can never unsee it.

 

[Matt from Tinder]

Pat has already eaten up more than twelve percent of SFWA's endowment, which was probably gifted to SFWA by a rich pedo several years ago. Those kinds of donors don't grow on trees. If SFWA plays hardball with Pat and he stiffs them, will Pat be able to continue as a crappy writer without the fantasy hugbox on twitter giving him encouragement?

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

At some point he will have to break the truth to niki that he lost the case and she might need cut back on all the vegetables she eats.

 

[analeggsalad]

for some reason I'm thinking about De Niro in 'The Fan'... what are some other stlaker/victim movies? One where the two are more co-dependent would be a better fit for what's going on here

I saw Gaslight (1944) a few years ago on TCM, the flick that coined the meme phrase, it's a pretty solid companion to what SpaceEdge did to Seth and Pat over the past year. Not 1:1 but the depth and length of deception, and ruinous effect on the person it was committed on is comparable

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

Cape fear

 

[FurBurger]

He will waddle back to his handlers demanding more money.

I don't believe he has much in the way of outside funding. I don't think the SWFA can fund him without losing their charity status; as this case is clearly for his benefit ("inurement") not genre fiction as a whole. Nikki's parents might kick in a bit, to protect their little girl from the consequences of marrying a loudmouth asshole who insists on escalating every single argument, but we're talking maybe $10-15k.

The rest will be straight out of their mortgage, or a personal loan from a bank.

Patrick has to become our butler

That may just be part of his cunning plan, child. It'll be hard for Quasi to keep his identity hidden when Fatrick's laying out his clothes every morning.

Cape fear

Yeah, but it's SpaceEdge, soooo... Vape Fear.

 

[Uncle Anthony Cumia]

Shut your fucking MOUTH, child. It will not be tossed, and Quasi will owe me $100,000!