It doesn’t matter if a trademark uses a real, existing word (see: Apple, Adobe, Virgin, Red, Sun, etc.), though using made-up words may help prevent accidentally using the same name as someone else for a similar product/business. The point of trademarks is to have a word (or a logo, look, etc.) that distinguishes your…

“You realize that once a scam is found out, it’s LESS likely to ever be successful again now that everyone knows it, right?”

In which case they’d essentially face criminal charges for falsifying evidence.

Wow, this is just embarrassing for Iron Maiden. (Thanks, holding company!) There’s obviously no merit to the complaint and no reasonable person would be confused by either the name or logo.

They didn’t file the trademark until Oct of 2016, the first Playdate (con) was in March of 2016.

To be fair, the device name obviously wasn’t thought up five seconds before they started putting together the application for the trademark, much less when they actually filed it. Time and effort had been spent developing the name before that. It most likely had been decided well before the event happened, especially…

It actually sounds like they came up with the name pretty much simultaneously, with the hardware name likely being decided on before the event (but the trademark finally going through a few months after the event). I can understand, after having the name trademarked, that they wouldn’t want to change it and wanted to…

I’m pretty sure he’s been working hard to avoid all mention of the issue, because acknowledging it would cause this whole thing to collapse.

Plus, you also save a lot of money by not realizing you’re wildly under-building everything.  I’m sure, once they figure that out and have to redo everything to make it usable, the cost savings will still be there, right?  Er...

Yeah, that too. I was assuming good-faith estimations wrt transportation, which is pure Dunning–Kruger on his part. If he’s looking specifically at one part of tunnel construction costs being cheaper, for example, even then it’s only because the tunnel is, as you say, too small, too unsafe, too limited in scope.

And given that he’s using the same tunneling equipment as everyone else, only minus the experience and expertise other tunneling companies have... I’d say his notion of things being “cheaper” speaks more to his ignorance about where the costs lie, rather than any sort of breakthrough.

Yeah, the whole thing seems rather unlikely. But if all that’s going on is a script being written, odds are that, like most scripts, it won’t get made. They’re probably not sure where to go with Star Wars at this point, so they’ve likely commissioned a bunch of scripts for radically different potential film directions …

It’s also about creating a perpetual and disposable workforce that’s too poor, uneducated, and sick to fight for better.

“Pro-life” only refers to white fetuses.

That would make sense - there are two sets of standards for games, those for foreign games, and those domestically developed.  So they easily could find it impossible to get PUBG past censors, but change the client slightly, claim it as their own and get it released no problem.

The big difference from the publishing side of things is that Game For Peace, unlike PUBG, has “regulatory approval to generate revenue”.

Yeah, 2 was more ambitious, but 3 was far more polished and consistent. I played them in reverse order and 2 was sometimes painful to play in comparison to 3.

For me, those scenes are part of what I point to as proof that SR 2 wasn’t as good as 3. Those scenes weren’t “badass” so much as desperate, cliched attempts to be like a Quentin Tarantino movie, bizarrely within the context of a game that was goofy AF. Relative to the actual game, those often sadistic cutscenes were…

Wasn’t this the exact point you made yesterday?

I’m pretty sure “the horse won because of political correctness” was not an argument anyone else was making, though.