Millions of word trademarks (word marks) exist. They’re limited to (protectable for) a specific commercial purpose, usually geographically as well. The more generic the mark, the harder it is to protect in court.

I get that not everyone (a) understands or (b) agrees with what, say, feminists do all the time. But there’s a distinct difference between a good faith attempt to engage and celebrating one’s ignorance:

I grew up in Puerto Rico. I know many other people from Spanish-speaking countries, friends and family, and the word is being used more and more globally and within academic circles as a way to be more inclusive.

Ridiculous. Privacy is important period for everyone. These journalists get death threats for no reason as is. Stop putting zero value on privacy.  You don't have to be guilty of something to be entitled to it.

Can we not over analyze every stupid thing that happens through the lens of who could feasibly find offense in it?

You’re creating an issue out of something that wasn’t intentionally trying to do anything harmful.

While I support their decision to do what makes sense for their company, especially financially, it felt like their counterarguments were mixed between easy lob shots and fraught fallacies:

To be honest its just the way THEY do Switch versions, which is usually least possible effort

Despite the shenanigans, a middle-aged woman has become accepted and celebrated in a medium that tends to be indifferent, if not downright hostile to those that are not young and beautiful. Yes, I see that as a positive thing.

Eh, I can’t read anything undocked because the text is small as shit. Eh...

If you have a household income of a quarter of a million American dollars every year, you can afford shit. Fuck off.

Bethesda also teased private servers coming to the game “sooner than you think.” What does that mean? I have no idea. I didn’t expect them anytime soon, so that really doesn’t mean anything to me. But who knows, maybe next month private servers will be supported in Fallout 76? But probably not.

WHERE MY MUPPETS AT

Explaining that he’s barefoot because of “asylums” to flippantly explain that they’re visually referencing stereotypes associated with people being on suicide watch under hospitalization was an extremely bad choice.

DuckTales and Goof Troop are a nice start but not enough for me to subscribe. Call me when they add Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin and Gargoyles.

Yeah, I think “standardized” is a good word for it... or “conventional”. They’re going from left to right, line by line now, as one would expect of a Western comic, rather than erratically changing order without any apparent indication of the intended order.

“Purple and orange? When have those ever gone well together?”

Ubisoft in one hand: Give us music to put into our game!

This effects way more than the willing participants though. It devalues creative professionals who would have been paid if Ubisoft was doing this properly.

The problem is that there’s no guarantee they’ll choose your song. It’s in the name, Spec[ulative] Work - companies hold “contests” where they basically get thousands of hopeful young artists to spend their own time and money making content, on the off-chance that they get chosen. The company gets thousands of “free…