I don’t know what you’re talking about, exactly, but quoting is different from copying.

It depends how much you modify it. I’m talking about modifying it only enough to not be identical, but still intentionally be the same passage.

Maybe you should look into how copyright actually works, instead of how you guess it works. It can be complicated, but your utter flabbergast at its most basic concepts are worrisome.

was obvious to anyone familiar with it.

You’re using the word “quoting” but you obviously don’t know what it means. A quote is, by definition, attributed. The comics example you posted is a good example of that. It’s specifically a reference to the movie. The lifted passages in this game were decidedly not “quoted” material.

It doesn’t matter if this is a clever re-purposing, they still needed to get permission before they used it this way. Credit is not is the issue.

directly copy something wholesale and pass it off as your own

Because that’s still using a person’s work without their permission.

at one point in the script, one of my characters says, “May the Force be with you,” I have to get prior approval from Disney to include that in my film?

Or ask Murakami if it’s cool if you do this.

he might of not even know himself

Quoting a few lines is not “using their work”, just like showing short clips from a movie in a youtube video isn’t pirating the film.

Attribution wouldn’t help. It would simply be taking someones work without paying them.

Umm, I donno. My concern is that this is cover for a bit of a naive slip up. A lot of new writers will crib passages in the same way that people do when they make memes on Twitter, aware that they didn’t “write” it, but convincing themselves that it’s a unique expression nonetheless, because it’s placed in a new…

I seem to remember this new store that pays to force customers to come to their store and their store only.

But as a game developer, would you take extra cash from Epic and make your game exclusive on their store? If so, then your point is diminished entirely, as you are engaging in monopolistic practices yourself.

Um, developers are.

“[Ultra-processed foods] are a bit like pornography—it’s hard to define, but you’ll know it when you see it,” Hall noted.

They’re clearly trying to buy their way to the top of the storefront ladder with their Fortnight money,

Heck, can you give me the definition of a monopoly?