I used to work for a company that did CGI. We heard by word of mouth that Paramount were looking for tenders for the CGI for a licensed Star Trek game, including a short demo movie. But the catch was, there would be no contract, and nothing could be done in writing.
When we eventually got someone on the phone (really, they wouldn't talk about this in email) and asked why, they reluctantly explained that it was because when Paramount's legal team gets a whiff of something like this going on, it becomes their job to kill it. They tend to refuse anything that gives even a suggestion that $NON_PARARMOUNT_EMPLOYEE is licensed to create Star Trek content. In practice, this makes anything but a full, final contract for the winning bidder simply impractical. The best that our contact could promise was that he would try and ensure that we weren't sued for putting in a tender.
And so we did the demo movie (quite nice, actually), and delivered it, by hand, in a face to face meeting that never happened. We didn't win the bid, but it certainly opened our eyes.
What's the relevance to this? It's that MMORPGs necessarily involve ordinary $NON_PARAMOUNT_EMPLOYEE people creating content. Paramount were killing this stuff while it was still in its infancy. Even if they do manage to license the whole kit and kaboodle, can you picture the tortous EULA and T&C's for a Star Trek MMORPG? Try and imagine the limitations that will be placed on players, and the atmosphere of fear and mistrust that will spring up. If you think Sony Online have poor customer relations, just wait until you meet a Paramount Intellectual Property Protectorate lawyer in game. The Borg are a pale shadow of these guys.
Sure, it could go differently, but years of history says otherwise. Best not to get your hopes up over this one.
A 300lbs virgin who whacks off impotently to Sailor Moon every night before collapsing in a sobbing quivering mound of self loathing. Just so we're all clear, we're talking about god damn cartoons here.
A 300lbs virgin who whacks off impotently to Sailor Moon every night before collapsing in a sobbing quivering mound of self loathing. Just so we're all clear.
The set will be beseiged by angry nerds demanding that he cease and desist. All of his time will be spent in posting passive aggressive rants about why he's not going to get caught up posting any more passive aggressive rants. His wife will be counting every penny and pencilling in divorce papers, and any profits will have to go on therapy for his kid. What's fun about that?
If he wanted to die young, he should have done it before Jersey Girl. Now we all know that he's just a second rate hack with nothing to bring to the party but dick and fart jokes, and a strong line in self loathing.
"I know that I'm a sold out whore, and I don't have a fucking clue what it's going to be about or how to make it suck as little as possible, so I'm going to get passive aggressive and alienate even more of my dwindling fanboy base. Hahaha, Movie Poop Shoot, I already parodied you, you don't get to criticise me."
He fucked them up royally in Dogma. Hey, Kevin, you can't have two people hold each other back, you putz. The decent scenes in J&SB:SB were farmed off to the second unit.
Smith's biggest problem is that the only thing he can do tolerably well is dick and fart jokes, and he's basically alienated the demographic that enjoyed them by saying that he's sick of it, and sick of people who ask for more J&SB and say that they didn't like Chasing Amy.
Well, tough luck, Kevin. You demonstrably can't do anything else, other than write crappy false sounding dialog, so stick to what you know or give up the fight and just stick to being Comic Book Guy.
After marketing costs - not to mention re-editing to cut as much of Lopez as possible - it lost several million. That makes Smith fucking anathema in mainstream now. Mainstream is a zero risk business - you don't get a second chance.
So much for closing down the View Askewniverse, you sold out fuck. I guess Smith has realised that he can't pay the mortage making pointless mainstream tripe like Jersey Girl, even by blackmailing date rapist Affleck into mouth whoring for him indefinitely.
I guess he'll just have to go back to having the same drop outs and dopers grind out the same tired old Star Wars and stolen Man of Steel, Women of Kleenex comics references until his age demographic chokes itself to death on Jar Jar dolls to escape the monotony. Well, if it keeps that dumb fuck Mewes from selling his ass for heroin and getting busted yet again, then good luck to him.
Sure, but any Peter Principled IT goober actually looking for a bloated piece of malware crap that will keep his department busy for years to come now knows exactly where to go. All publicity is good publicity, and never underestimate the cynicism inherent in large IT purchasing decisions. BOFHs need to build empires too.
No, not my legs, the other thing - I can't feel anything from the tiny shrivelled part of my heart that still cared about HL2. It just doesn't look that great, and the sneak peek previews haven't exactly been raving. That, plus the near total silence from the developers other than the gfx card 'bundling' debacle, and it's two thumbs meh from me.
Andy Anthrax uses the name Bobby Bomber as an alias and this name somehow makes it onto the No Fly List.
Andy turns up at the airport and claims to be Bobby.
The girl at the checkin desk says "I'm sorry, Mr Bomber, your name is on the secret no-fly list. You can wait and see a supervisor, or you can go home and choose another alias next time.".
The hell? All that happens is that Andy Anthrax finds out that he's on the list? So the next time he books a ticket, it will be as Barry Boxcutter.
Has anyone in the Department of Homeland 'Security' considered that this scheme is only going to stop innocent people who don't happen to have multiple identities? If we had any confidence in this list, then Senator Kennedy should have found armed agents waiting to take him down the moment he entered the airport. That this didn't happen just highlights that the whole no-fly list is a bad joke that's got way out of hand.
We need real security, not window dressing. And no, answering "National Security" in response to any criticism of the policy is not a substitute.
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But a god damn ad, astroturfer. Also, in case you missed the Clue Boat, Lucas knows how to do that as well. You know, like he did in 1977. Whedon is a third rate hack parasiting from the abrosia that drips from the end of Lucas's massive cut cock.
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I used to work for a company that did CGI. We heard by word of mouth that Paramount were looking for tenders for the CGI for a licensed Star Trek game, including a short demo movie. But the catch was, there would be no contract, and nothing could be done in writing.
When we eventually got someone on the phone (really, they wouldn't talk about this in email) and asked why, they reluctantly explained that it was because when Paramount's legal team gets a whiff of something like this going on, it becomes their job to kill it. They tend to refuse anything that gives even a suggestion that $NON_PARARMOUNT_EMPLOYEE is licensed to create Star Trek content. In practice, this makes anything but a full, final contract for the winning bidder simply impractical. The best that our contact could promise was that he would try and ensure that we weren't sued for putting in a tender.
And so we did the demo movie (quite nice, actually), and delivered it, by hand, in a face to face meeting that never happened. We didn't win the bid, but it certainly opened our eyes.
What's the relevance to this? It's that MMORPGs necessarily involve ordinary $NON_PARAMOUNT_EMPLOYEE people creating content. Paramount were killing this stuff while it was still in its infancy. Even if they do manage to license the whole kit and kaboodle, can you picture the tortous EULA and T&C's for a Star Trek MMORPG? Try and imagine the limitations that will be placed on players, and the atmosphere of fear and mistrust that will spring up. If you think Sony Online have poor customer relations, just wait until you meet a Paramount Intellectual Property Protectorate lawyer in game. The Borg are a pale shadow of these guys.
Sure, it could go differently, but years of history says otherwise. Best not to get your hopes up over this one.
From The Enquirer.net.
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Did you hear me? I said huzzah!
A 300lbs virgin who whacks off impotently to Sailor Moon every night before collapsing in a sobbing quivering mound of self loathing. Just so we're all clear, we're talking about god damn cartoons here.
Grow up, for god's sake.
That's no text, you sad kiddle fiddlers.
A 300lbs virgin who whacks off impotently to Sailor Moon every night before collapsing in a sobbing quivering mound of self loathing. Just so we're all clear.
I don't deserve to live.
Have you even fucking seen Jersey Girl? Watch first, then rate. Try and understand that it's the same god damn guy directing this film.
The set will be beseiged by angry nerds demanding that he cease and desist. All of his time will be spent in posting passive aggressive rants about why he's not going to get caught up posting any more passive aggressive rants. His wife will be counting every penny and pencilling in divorce papers, and any profits will have to go on therapy for his kid. What's fun about that?
If he wanted to die young, he should have done it before Jersey Girl. Now we all know that he's just a second rate hack with nothing to bring to the party but dick and fart jokes, and a strong line in self loathing.
"I know that I'm a sold out whore, and I don't have a fucking clue what it's going to be about or how to make it suck as little as possible, so I'm going to get passive aggressive and alienate even more of my dwindling fanboy base. Hahaha, Movie Poop Shoot, I already parodied you, you don't get to criticise me."
He fucked them up royally in Dogma. Hey, Kevin, you can't have two people hold each other back, you putz. The decent scenes in J&SB:SB were farmed off to the second unit.
Smith's biggest problem is that the only thing he can do tolerably well is dick and fart jokes, and he's basically alienated the demographic that enjoyed them by saying that he's sick of it, and sick of people who ask for more J&SB and say that they didn't like Chasing Amy.
Well, tough luck, Kevin. You demonstrably can't do anything else, other than write crappy false sounding dialog, so stick to what you know or give up the fight and just stick to being Comic Book Guy.
After marketing costs - not to mention re-editing to cut as much of Lopez as possible - it lost several million. That makes Smith fucking anathema in mainstream now. Mainstream is a zero risk business - you don't get a second chance.
He'll blow the money on, well, blow, sure as night follows day, sure as every even numbered Star Trek film sucks ass.
So much for closing down the View Askewniverse, you sold out fuck. I guess Smith has realised that he can't pay the mortage making pointless mainstream tripe like Jersey Girl, even by blackmailing date rapist Affleck into mouth whoring for him indefinitely.
I guess he'll just have to go back to having the same drop outs and dopers grind out the same tired old Star Wars and stolen Man of Steel, Women of Kleenex comics references until his age demographic chokes itself to death on Jar Jar dolls to escape the monotony. Well, if it keeps that dumb fuck Mewes from selling his ass for heroin and getting busted yet again, then good luck to him.
Sure, but any Peter Principled IT goober actually looking for a bloated piece of malware crap that will keep his department busy for years to come now knows exactly where to go. All publicity is good publicity, and never underestimate the cynicism inherent in large IT purchasing decisions. BOFHs need to build empires too.
No, not my legs, the other thing - I can't feel anything from the tiny shrivelled part of my heart that still cared about HL2. It just doesn't look that great, and the sneak peek previews haven't exactly been raving. That, plus the near total silence from the developers other than the gfx card 'bundling' debacle, and it's two thumbs meh from me.
The hell? All that happens is that Andy Anthrax finds out that he's on the list? So the next time he books a ticket, it will be as Barry Boxcutter.
Has anyone in the Department of Homeland 'Security' considered that this scheme is only going to stop innocent people who don't happen to have multiple identities? If we had any confidence in this list, then Senator Kennedy should have found armed agents waiting to take him down the moment he entered the airport. That this didn't happen just highlights that the whole no-fly list is a bad joke that's got way out of hand.
We need real security, not window dressing. And no, answering "National Security" in response to any criticism of the policy is not a substitute.
The hell? Oh, I was, but it seems that it's one of those opt-outs that you have to keep confirming.
Please take notes. This is how real lawyers do it.
Best. Troll. Evir.
But a god damn ad, astroturfer. Also, in case you missed the Clue Boat, Lucas knows how to do that as well. You know, like he did in 1977. Whedon is a third rate hack parasiting from the abrosia that drips from the end of Lucas's massive cut cock.
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