Perhaps, but which one (Or even which ten) of the hundreds of fighting game characters would be nominated? Even if fighting games are as popular as you say, the individual characters are not nearly as popular as the game itself. Last year, only one fighting game character even made it past the second round last year: Scorpion (Alas, poor Ryu, forced to fight Samus in the second round).
The only three fighting game characters in this year are Ryu (The "star" of the Street fighter series, if there ever was one), Ken (A Ryu clone who's in because you need someone to be the 15th seed to lose in the first round) and Scorpion (The only reason he's in is because of his record last year)
There seems to be a very heavy slant towards the jRPG genre
It's because GameFAQs has a heavy RPG slant (Let's face it, who needs a walkthrough for a fighting game?). This year was determined partly by nomination, so who you see is who the most people wanted. Me, I wanted Dan Hibiki to get in this year.
Last year, though, Scorpion of Mortal Kombat fame pulled everyone for a loop by getting into the Elite Eight.
I don't just want to drive a car. I just want to get from point A to point B. So I use public transportation, gets all the work done for me.
Of course, I also think the average end-user would be intimidated by an open-ended system such as *nix, in much the same way sixteen-year-olds sometimes feel intimidated driving for the first time. They're afraid they're going to crash their ride into a wall and blow up.
The big hole in the "parody/satire" defense is the fact that Strawberry Shortcake (A children's book character if you didn't know) isn't their target. It more targets American McGee. Just take a look at their news for that day (Especially Gabe's post midway through).
And the problem is that court precedent doesn't support them (link to.pdf file). The third case "Dr. Seuss Enterprises Vs. Penguin Books" is especially relevent.
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Perhaps, but which one (Or even which ten) of the hundreds of fighting game characters would be nominated? Even if fighting games are as popular as you say, the individual characters are not nearly as popular as the game itself. Last year, only one fighting game character even made it past the second round last year: Scorpion (Alas, poor Ryu, forced to fight Samus in the second round).
The only three fighting game characters in this year are Ryu (The "star" of the Street fighter series, if there ever was one), Ken (A Ryu clone who's in because you need someone to be the 15th seed to lose in the first round) and Scorpion (The only reason he's in is because of his record last year)
It's because GameFAQs has a heavy RPG slant (Let's face it, who needs a walkthrough for a fighting game?). This year was determined partly by nomination, so who you see is who the most people wanted. Me, I wanted Dan Hibiki to get in this year.
Last year, though, Scorpion of Mortal Kombat fame pulled everyone for a loop by getting into the Elite Eight.
Of course, I also think the average end-user would be intimidated by an open-ended system such as *nix, in much the same way sixteen-year-olds sometimes feel intimidated driving for the first time. They're afraid they're going to crash their ride into a wall and blow up.
Thing is, I don't want to *learn* to use my computer, I just want to use it. See the difference?
The big hole in the "parody/satire" defense is the fact that Strawberry Shortcake (A children's book character if you didn't know) isn't their target. It more targets American McGee. Just take a look at their news for that day (Especially Gabe's post midway through). And the problem is that court precedent doesn't support them (link to .pdf file). The third case "Dr. Seuss Enterprises Vs. Penguin Books" is especially relevent.