On this Steve, it is FAR more serious than you think it is.
It's not just a quarrel between "friends".
These are scammers trying to destroy a person's life without conscience.
Showing absolute predatory behavior, predicting I can't do anything about it.
It asked me where the origins of my ideas were from the house.
It was toying with that concept, where it seemed ambiguous.
It did not plan on how I can come up with more ideas,
it did not plan on my ability/creativity at the time.
It was fully intending to steal, and destroy my life.
And it persists, manipulating the environment,
from the serious, to absurdity, and when that is repeated enough,
with an apology given previous, to the public and the authorities,
it may not seem serious. So it is dismantled over TIME.
And that is the crucial factor here. TIME, the duration dismantles
the previous. It plays on this fact.
But what do you see? Do you see it repeating, despite the warning?
Do you see it only reacts to serious penalty, and when that seems
unlikely, do you see it repeating?
It is toying with people's perception.