Today it caught my attention that everyone’s favorite frivolously litigious inmate Jonathan Lee Riches is up to his wacky shenanigans again, this time turning his attention to Blizzard Entertainment. He is suing the gaming megacompany for making him a video game addict. Apparently Blizzard was “causing [me] to live in a virtual universe, where [I] explored the landscape committing identity theft and fighting cybermonster rival hacker gangs.”

Riiiiiiight. Sorry, buddy. You can’t sue Blizzard for video game addiction any more than you can sue Budweiser for alcoholism or Ford for reckless driving. They just make the product. They don’t make you abuse it. People will always find a way to be idiots. The tool they choose to be stupid with is simply a variable in the equation.

Really the only thing that irritates me about this case is that that Riches used several aliases to file the amicus brief, signing the document “Vincent Dragonetti.” Vincent Dragonetti is WAY too cool of a name to be wasted on something like this. Vincent Dragonetti needs to be the protagonist of a Guy Ritchie film or the main character in the next Grand Theft Auto. What a waste.