Kim Dotcom, allegedly

This splendid work, by Aurich Lawson, is a perfect aperitif for Sean Gallagher's wonderful article about the ridiculous but astoundingly successful con artist, Quake cheat and entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.

• [hacky]

  Christ, what an asshole.

• [Ender Wiggin]

  C’mon, the man’s like a black hat superhero. He could be “nerdzilla”

• [SedanChair]

  All the money in the world can’t buy class. In fact it may distract you from ever understanding what class is…

  • [nox]

    I’m sure Mitt Romney can afford class at an income of 50K/day.

• [ǝɔʎoſ ʇʇɐW]

  This is what happenes when germans attempt to develope a sense of humor.

• [Franklin]

  Boy what a likeable fellow

• [Bruce]

  There’s a great history of the Pen & Pixel aesthetic this borrows from here:
  http://msjacks.wordpress.com/tag/pen-pixel/

  • [Aurich Lawson]

    To be clear the piece was utterly an homage to Pen & Pixel. There’s a great interview with the founder here if you haven’t seen it: http://www.abcdrduson.com/interviews/feature-vo.php?id=197&p=1

    Glad you enjoyed Rob, thanks. It’s only a pity you linked to the Wired version, as they just reposted it from the original at Ars Technica. :)

    • [Rob Beschizza]

      Fixed! Sorry about that.

• [teapot]

  Yeah what an asshole! How dare he set up a website which millions of people used and enjoyed for free.
  I totally hate this guy because that’s what the mainstream media wants me to think about him. Nice work on the sheeple act everyone.

  • [guanto]

    methinks you may not be familiar with this character or his past adventures/escapades. This guy is fully deserving of mockery, completely independent of recent developments (in fact there is no mention of the website you refer to in this post).

• [Taniwha]

  He’s been getting a lot of media attention here in NZ – this was in this morning’s paper

  http://garricktremain.com/media/Dotcom_copy_copy1.jpg

• [dolo54]

  straight kingpin son! I want to hate this guy but his smart ass face makes me lol.

• [BBNinja]

  I hope he goes to jail for a long, long time.  Not for the whole megaupload fiasco but for his well-known and wide-spread douchebaggery in Quake 2, including massive aimbotting and DDOS’ing a server host because he got his ass beat by a little girl.

  • [miasm]

    Hear Hear! straight-up aimbotting or wall-hacking is just way too obvious and is usually just a fu manoevure as far as QL goes, I missed the whole spectacle of online Q2, so can’t speak to that.
    It’s the sneaky sob’s that throttle the hack to make it appear to be good aiming ‘just-at-the-last-moment’ or near prescient, prediction abilities that really manage to destroy the market, I mean game.

• [Nagurski]

  I always wondered what became of Augustus Gloop after the Wonka incident.

• [Timothy D Little]

  WOW, talk bout a blast from the past. Was a glorious time for on line gaming. The old Planetquake was a blast. Spent many a hour on Quake 2.