Quoting: GuestI am familiar with jokes about the Germans but i still find the ability to sue (not win, just sue) someone over a "piss off" remark very hard to believe. Even on public internet.

We have (mostly unenforced) laws on public insults in Belgium but such a case would be tossed and at worst end up in penalties for frivolous lawsuit.

I guess real life is not that different here. Insults on the internet is usal business, even death threats are becoming more and more usual.

About what can be done: Are you sure, or is it just a feeling because real life differs so much from law? I'd bet most Germans wouldn't believe it either, just like TheSheeep.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWell, I'd gladly take anyone to court whose special feelings couldn't take some opposing opinion and felt insulted.
PS: I'm not living in Germany.

"Piss off" is not an opinion.
Neither is "A**hole" (your example above).
Opposing is all fine, insulting is not (and it sheds bad light on the sender).

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Quoting: fabertaweWhere are you Lara? These coins are burning a hole in my pocket :D

Happy 6 years cake day!

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI mean, seriously, I'm German, too and read a lot of comments on various sites from Spiegel to Facebook (oh boy, FB comments, that's some sludge right there...) , etc. and if anyone who said something that harmless about someone else (piss off isn't even an insult, it's telling someone to leave) somewhere on the net was sued/suable, the German courts would be blocked for eternity and the law probably abolished.

[Switching to German to avoid missunderstandings]

Mir hat jemand auf einer großen Website "Verpiss dich, Eike!" geschrieben. Da derjenige sich aus meiner Sicht öfter gegenüber verschiedenen Leuten denebenbenommen hatte, habe ich Anzeige erstattet und Strafantrag gestellt. Er hatte das anonym unter einer IP-Adresse getan, die für die Strafverfolgung auf seine Person zurückgeführt wurde. Die genauen juristischen Fachbegriffe muss ich dir schuldig bleiben, ich glaube, "das Verfahren wurde gegen Zahlung eines Bußgelds eingestellt" oder so ähnlich. Fakt ist, er musste 1000€ (Zahl der Tagessätze weiß ich nicht mehr) an irgendeinen Jagdverein bezahlen.

People don't often file charges for insults on the internet, though, for sure.

PS: Isn't it irconic that you didn't want to believe there's a country forbiding insults by law - just to find out you're living in one... ;)

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Quoting: EikeIn my country, it is actually forbidden by law to insult people. (I'd recommend to double-check this for yours...) So in the generality you're stating it, that's wrong.

I doubt very much that such a thing exists in any country.

What are you gonna do, fine people who call someone else an a**hole or idiot? That's impossible to enforce.
You are likely confusing just an insult with actual slander, which can indeed be punishable by law in many countries.

Yes, and I actually did that once for a person who... well, let's say he insisted on it.
He was charged 1000€ (*) for writing what translates well to "Piss off, Eike!" on the net.
You can look up the actual law here [External Link].
I don't know how usual this is internationally, but I really recommend to look it up before insulting anybody (instead of relying on "impossible" and "likely").
And I really recommend not insulting anybody, of course.

(*) going to some good cause neither of mine nor of his choice

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Quoting: slapinReally you have the right to insult people - yes, you will get reaction you deserve, but that right is protected.

In my country, it is actually forbidden by law to insult people. (I'd recommend to double-check this for yours...) So in the generality you're stating it, that's wrong.

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76.596€ of 89.528€.
Looks like a miss at the moment...

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Quoting: ArehandoroReading about Dead Synchronicity's final again it seems I do not remember much about it either hahaha.

So would you say the game released stands on its own? (I don't want to read much about it, that's why I'm asking...)

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A propos dark adventure games...
I waited years for "Dead Synchronicity" and "Kentucky Route Zero" to finally get a last episode (to then buy them). It seems hopes for both are about zero?

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I get the feeling there's game developers somewhere who will do "Don't Starve" content for the rest of their lives. :D

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