On 10/22/2024 2:16 PM, Justisaur wrote:

On 10/18/2024 3:32 AM, JAB wrote:

On 17/10/2024 18:41, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although if you really want, maybe I could dig up a new
game-industry-does-NFT story to keep things fresh? 😜

There you go.

https://kotaku.com/flappy-bird-nft-crypto-blockchain-telegram-1851649000

WTF!?!?!  I didn't think you could take control of a trademark that'd
been abandoned?

Even so, wouldn't copyright apply?  Don't we have 100 years after the author's death?

I suspect the answer to both questions depends on what country you are in.

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

What about you? Where do you stand on the vital 'subtitles' issue?
Please provide your short answer below ;-)

On, these days. Used to be off unless music or something drowned out the
speech or it was otherwise hard to understand.

I suppose I'm also getting old and, well, I don't have much exposure to
native English speakers currently. I have exactly one US native
colleague, everyone else speaks broken English, more or less. I'd think
that would improve my understanding but apparently not.

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Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> writes:

On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:32:40 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Music off? You're _are_ a monster! ;-)

Nothing hits me harder nostalgia wise then hearing the soundtrack
from the games I really care about. Music definitely ON.

Maybe game music could be a topic for another CRAP poll. I can't say I
much remember a theme from any game, apart from some of those from the Commodore 64. Or now that I thought about it, Deus Ex. And Fallout:
NV. Both of the Horizon games a little too, I think the theme music is
the same on Zero Dawn and Forbidden West. But it's pretty rare.

OTOH, licensed music in some games has sometimes become even fairly
important.

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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

WTF!?!?! I didn't think you could take control of a trademark that'd
been abandoned?

There was never a registered trademark for Flappy Bird, and when someone
else attempted to register the trademark the author never took the
opportunity to challenge the application. So the registered trademark
was eventuly granted to someone else, effectively superceding the Flappy
Bird author's (unregistered) trademark.

Even so, wouldn't copyright apply? Don't we have 100 years after the >author's death?

Copyright only applies to the game, it's code, graphics, story, and stuff
like that. It doesn't apply to the name of the game. There's lots of
games, books, movies and other works that have identical names depsite
being completely unrelated. So the author could presumably sue or issue
DCMA takedown notices against other games and other kinds of works that
copied Flappy Bird too closely (though the gameplay mechanics aren't copyrightable). But as he wants nothing to do with the game anymore,
that's unlikely to happen.

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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:16:16 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Justisaur wrote:

On 10/18/2024 3:32 AM, JAB wrote:

On 17/10/2024 18:41, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although if you really want, maybe I could dig up a new
game-industry-does-NFT story to keep things fresh? ?

There you go.

https://kotaku.com/flappy-bird-nft-crypto-blockchain-telegram-1851649000

WTF!?!?! I didn't think you could take control of a trademark that'd
been abandoned?

In the US? Yup. It's called "dilution."

Even so, wouldn't copyright apply? Don't we have 100 years after the >author's death?

Copyright has nothing to do with branding. It protects the exclusive
right to copy and publish specific content.

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On 10/16/2024 7:41 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:59:12 +0300, Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> writes:

On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:32:40 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Music off? You're _are_ a monster! ;-)

Nothing hits me harder nostalgia wise then hearing the soundtrack
from the games I really care about. Music definitely ON.

Maybe game music could be a topic for another CRAP poll.

We've done one on that before (not that's stopped me from repeating
poll topics). But it's been a while. I'll add it to the list.

(yes, I have a list... largely because I kept repeating poll topics
and wanted to try to avoid that in the future)

Which has now evolved to the point where it is used to repeat topics....

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On 10/17/2024 10:41 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:14:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 10/16/2024 7:41 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:59:12 +0300, Anssi Saari
<anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> writes:

On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:32:40 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Music off? You're _are_ a monster! ;-)

Nothing hits me harder nostalgia wise then hearing the soundtrack
from the games I really care about. Music definitely ON.

Maybe game music could be a topic for another CRAP poll.

We've done one on that before (not that's stopped me from repeating
poll topics). But it's been a while. I'll add it to the list.

(yes, I have a list... largely because I kept repeating poll topics
and wanted to try to avoid that in the future)

Which has now evolved to the point where it is used to repeat topics....

So you're saying I need a list for that too? ;-)

In fairness, we've (most of us) been doin' this Usenet thing for so
long that it's a bit hard _not_ to repeat topics every now and again.

Although if you really want, maybe I could dig up a new game-industry-does-NFT story to keep things fresh? ;-P

How much would we have to pay to get the second paragraph?

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On 17/10/2024 18:41, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although if you really want, maybe I could dig up a new game-industry-does-NFT story to keep things fresh? 😜

There you go.

https://kotaku.com/flappy-bird-nft-crypto-blockchain-telegram-1851649000

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JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 10:32 this Friday (GMT):

On 17/10/2024 18:41, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although if you really want, maybe I could dig up a new
game-industry-does-NFT story to keep things fresh? 😜

There you go.

https://kotaku.com/flappy-bird-nft-crypto-blockchain-telegram-1851649000

This one extra sucks because the creator of Flappy Bird is a
genuinely good person who removed his game out of concern for its
players.
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 02:21 this Wednesday (GMT):

1) ON due to my poor hearing since birth. :( It's not just for gaming
too! TV, movies (finally tried AMC Theatres' closed caption device https://www.amctheatres.com/assistive-moviegoing [device #3] for awesome Deadpool & Wolverine), iPhone's real time [not perfect], online videos,
etc.

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

How about a short CRAP poll for once? I know, you're looking askance
and saying, "You? Short? I don't think so. This is going to be a
five-page essay and have thirty options to chose from." But just you
watch! It's gonna be real short!

Here we go:

Subtitles: On or off?

[snip]

i didn know ants could hear ;)
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