Canceled my preorder and ordered the Vive about a month ago. Vive arrived yesterday, setup was a breeze, and I spent about 3 hours last night playing Fantastic Contraption, Job Simulator, and TiltBrush. No regrets. I kicked off a half dozen other VR downloads this morning before I left for work, so I'm looking forward…

Yes, that’s correct. The title is, in itself, intellectual property. The content of the game is not considered in this case because the dispute is about the content of the title, not the content of the game itself. The litmus test is simply “if a customer saw a video game box on the shelf with ‘Alien Wasteland' on it,…

Reporting the news, basically. It's the doctor you should be criticizing.

Is this a thing? Can you just do that? I have like 8 people at work that I would happily replace with Jeff Goldblums.

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Sorry, but you’re incorrect. Their trademark claim is for the word Wasteland used as a video game title. That doesn’t just mean games specifically called “Wasteland.” It involves any game for which they can argue that a consumer might mistake as being affiliated or related to Wasteland. Otherwise you could just come…

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…

Plus he has two first names. Fuck guys with two first names.

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.

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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A win-state is the state that must be achieved to have completed or “beaten” the game. What you’re referring to is a game-state or a world-state.

But that’s not changing the win-states. That's just the world reacting to your actions, which is the entire point.

So what's the solution? A constantly evolving language that shifts when the overuse of one word diminishes its meaning? Isn't that sort of how language already works?

The most convincing clue is that he willingly pursued a life of politics.

For all the “looking into” these guys are doing, they don’t appear to be doing a whole lot of "fixing."

I'm sure he does. I'm sure he also knows a politically advantageous action when he sees one.

Team no one. Everyone is a loser in this situation.

We’ve got Hamilton and Choo coming back soon, and I don’t know where we’re gonna put them. Desmond and Mazara are doing just fine where they're at.