At the same time, using FFXIII as an example, it took several hours of play before you could even level up your characters. It took so long to get you into the game, had it had any other branding than “Final Fantasy” gamers would never have stood for the pacing and it would have been panned by critics.

I still have mine, and play occasionally with friends. It was my introduction to games where dicking over your friends is the real objective.

This is goddamn brilliant. I wish I could buy the first person who did this a drink.

I’m not sure what gave you that impression, but it’s not correct.

Yeah, and Canada is not the USA either, but if a guy walked around in Canada carrying an improvised device connected to a 4qt jug of who knows what, you can be damn sure someone would question that and/or run.

Bah. This completely misses the point of last year’s great Madden commercial and turns it into a parody of itself. That isn’t funny, I might add.

I’m sure that’s exactly what everyone in Akibahara thought before the rampage.

And security didn’t have a problem with a guy walking in carrying this?

Well that’s not unsettling at all.

I thought of the Xbox episode but completely forgot about Spaced! So much awesome in that series.

Well don’t forget that the Athena interrogation scenes in the Presequel happen concurrently with Tales from the Borderlands. The flashbacks (i.e. the gameplay) are all before Borderlands 2 though.

As it turns out, there’s not much choice in the matter. Based on some events that happen in The Presequel, Jack isn’t... out of the picture, we’ll say.

Excuse me for a second. Just got something in my eye here.

It takes place after Borderlands 2 and runs concurrently with the interrogation scenes of The Presequel. And if you had any question about TPS being canon, this game makes it clear that they’re all canon and so is Tales. Every time there’s a new entry in this series, my desire for a half hour Borderlands CG television…

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That is absolutely the point I’m making. Alternately, the company could pay the guy for his work as though he were an artist, but there’s no way he’ll be making money off that image otherwise.

Your metaphor breaks down somewhat when applied. You don’t see the guy who pimps his ride get slapped with a cease and desist order if he creates a “transformative work” with his Mustang.

They can seize your art yes. They can’t use it. That’s two different things.

That gives the company the right to put a stop to the derivative work. It does not give them the right to take the derivative work and use it as their own, any more than it would give them the right to not pay their employees.

At the same time, your logic would have the company not needing to pay its own artists since the company owns the copyright to the image they’ve created. Whether or not the artist owns the copyright would determine if the artist would be able to sell the image themselves, but doesn’t give the company the right to use…