We need to see those Ballz emails! Lock up the Ballz!

Oh snap! I just saw “Meechum” and was all excited about Middle Earth’s most underappreciated archer.

Also Lord of the Rings. Not sure what Banshee is, but anyone who was alive in the early aughts should recognize Boromir’s younger, less admired brother.

MS Office sucks for sure. Google Docs is okay, but no fun when you need to go offline. I’m a fiction writer in addition to a marketing writer. Google is the go to when I am doing online, business-related work. For offline I still haven’t found a good one. Tried PageFour, yWriter, the beastly Scrivener, Bibisco,…

I would be thinking “oh my god! What sort of glaringly incorrect information has this absolute fool been teaching me?!?”

I have no argument with the legality of any of it. “Legal” just doesn’t equal “morally correct” to me. It’s a philosophical position. But hey, if you guys are going to call me a “cunt” for disagreeing with you, take your victory. Whatever that’s worth to you.

I’m not reading all that, dude. You obviously care a lot more about arguing this than I do. I can live without needing to prove to you I’m right. Best of luck!

I have no idea. Google is probably your friend there. Good luck!

For sure. The article I linked agrees with your theory.

I foresee it being a problem all the time, every day until the end of time!

Oh okay. So someone already did the thing I don’t think they should do. I guess the good guys lost this one.

Thanks for your insight about all of this. I appreciate the chance to learn.

You can try. But you sure got some ‘splaining to do.

Not missing the point. The point is that being uncomfortable taking a company at their word, i.e. not a signed and legally binding contract, is foolish. At best you will be saved by the good grace of their lawyers and their board (it aint the guy who designed the Red Baron quest who will be making the call). At worst,…

Take your cookie.

But they gave us their word they wouldn’t do bad stuff with it. They said it on Twitter and it’s illegal and immoral to tell lies on Twitter.

“This is why companies like Uber and Google HATE it when people use their names as a verb;”

“that’s not what they said” isn’t a legal argument. My perception of what they said on social media is not going to protect a small developer five years from now. I can’t be the only person uncomfortable with just taking lawyers at their word. Why do they need to trademark the generic term if they never intend to…

Yeah this sounds more like a board of directors kind of decision made to preempt competition when interest in cyberpunk surges and people start making games that are similar. They’ll be able to chill any small developers and keep the cyberpunk name-recognition for themselves. Sure, you could still make a cyberpunk…

This is it. Why couldn’t they do this?