I think it looks fucking awesome.

I don’t really understand what’s going on. I watched the trailer, and thought “Neat, I’d play that.”

I’ve only recently started making enough from YouTube revenue to barely scrape by. Realistically speaking I’m in a position to at least have a stable income. There’s plenty of huge YouTubers but there’s also a lot of less popular, yet still somewhat successful people that can at least make ends meet.

It’s Britain, that’s probably normal driving conditions for them there.

Based on my observation of fellow Californian motorists in the rain, there are two distinct schools of thought on this issue.

The way I see people drive in the rain it’s like they believe hydroplaning is an urban myth or something. This shit is real people.

If it weren’t for Forza, maybe he would have learned not to drive so damned fast in the rain.

Those people should be more worried about learning N1/N2 level Japanese before they worry about being able to make a steady living wage in an all Japanese-speaking environment.

Yeah, for sure. It’s not like everything is happy and rosy or like this is a sensible situation. And it’s DEFINITELY not like US IP law makes a great deal of common sense.

The big difference between Tim Langdell and inXile/Brian Fargo is that inXile is actually putting out games. Langdell was going after *anything* that contained the word ‘Edge’ from movies to games, etc, and that was just the name of his company. Fucker hadn’t put anything out since like 1988.

Right, and these people are using the word Wasteland as the title of a game. It’s obvious to you as a person who plays and follows video games that the two are unrelated, but it isn’t necessarily obvious to a random member of the public.

And think about it from the court’s perspective. Suppose in a year someone tries…

How generic is it really? I typed “Wasteland” into Mobygames and came up with Wasteland 2, it’s predecessor (released in the mid-1980s), Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland, and a game nobody has ever heard of called The Waste Land based on a TS Eliot poem (came out in 2014, has 75 reviews on Steam).

Yes, but it’s the law that’s bullshit, not their need to abide by it. Like it or not, the law could consider their failure to pursue this a failure to protect their IP, which could weaken their case in any future IP trademark disputes they may face. They have to do this or they weaken their own legal position in…

Blame it on the idiotic IP laws in the US. They *have* to defend “Wasteland” or they will be unable to legitimately prove ownership of the name.

That's an incredibly juvenile attitude and it betrays an ignorance of trademark law. Disliking a company does not justify piracy or theft. You're just using that as an excuse to get things for free because you're greedy.

Yes it is. They trademarked the word for use as a video game title.

Don’t cut yourself in that edge there you trendsetter.

Since according to these lawyers, words seem to confuse people, all future games will just be a unique number starting with the next released game.

Nah, their hands are tied. US trademark law requires them to aggressively protect their trademarks or they can actually lose them.

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