No, you’re confusing copyright with trademark. Copyright remains even if you don’t defend against all infringements. It’s only trademarks you have to defend or risk losing them to becoming generic terms. This applies to names, logos, that sort of thing.

I seriously doubt the author knows every single game/anime/movie/comic that each and every cosplayer is from.

It starts with one, then you get a companion one (“Can’t have Peach and not get Mario!”), then you branch into the rest of that set, and now you’ve got to collect every Amiibo in that one series. But then you like Amiibo now, so you get one from a different series, and now you can’t NOT complete THAT series....

Depends on the scope of the project, though. Executive production doesn’t mean much for movies, when there are thousands of people touching a film, but television’s often a much smaller scope, so executive producers can have much more sway and influence.

I don’t mind the inkbrush, but those splat chargers are totally useless against a horde of small fry! D:

I voted for watching Man of Steel because I had no idea how long I’d have to play Superman 64. To completion?

Nope. After beating him, you get Premiere balls to throw at him. If you’re lucky, you’ll catch him, but the catch rate is only 3%, so you might have to do a number of raids.

It usually takes at least 4 years to make a game, and the Shenmue Kickstarter was in the summer of 2015. You’ve got at least a couple of years yet, if not many more.

Why can’t you? That’s what I do.

Lugia’s a pain. WAY stronger, so you def need at least a dozen or more to take him down.

Sure, but it’s not like Gamestop’s the only retail/food chain that’s open on Thanksgiving. So working for Gamestop, working for McDonalds, not enough of a difference for people to only avoid GS like the plague.

Because it’s hard to find work? I doubt most people ENJOY working retail and food service jobs, but gotta pay rent.

If you talk to the spiky haired kid that’s hanging outside the Lobby (opposite side from Judd the cat), he’ll give you, among other things, the option to remove (“scrub”) the abilities off of your clothing. You know, the ones that start as a “?” and then as you play matches, turn into a randomly-rolled ability.

Pokemon Go. This is the last weekend I’ll have a chance to catch Articuno. (Damn these short release windows!)

I totally Nintendo Karen’d this game during my lunchbreak at work today. It’s a little challenging trying to have 4 people crowded around one teeny screen... the meat and tomatoes look too similar from afar!

Yeah, but Moltres is up next and Zapdos is last. These are in order that the teams won at the Go Fest, not in the order of their names.

Articuno was first because Team Mystic caught the most Pokemon during the Go Fest in Chicago last weekend.

The 100% catch rates are only for the people in Chicago who paid to go to that Fest, since the actual day was such a disaster. But yeah, bet that’s going to muck up balance in that city for a long time.

Wish we got more time. The catch rate is only 2%. With only one weekend left, I don’t like my odds...

Regarding the Goofy and Pluto thing: Obviously this is a world with divergent evolution in dogs. As in, the same reason why our world has humans with chimpanzees as pets. Goofy’s the human, Pluto’s the chimp. Just, dog-shaped instead of ape-shaped.