My sister has a dance rehearsal today. I really hate how much makeup the girls wear for this. For fuck's sake, she's 11, not 16!
Reminds me of the "pimp my sister" sketch from Robot Chicken. Do they make them wear the supper inaproriate booty shorts and sports bras? Cause if so I would turn that teacher in for child pron.
My sister has a dance rehearsal today. I really hate how much makeup the girls wear for this. For fuck's sake, she's 11, not 16!
Reminds me of the "pimp my sister" sketch from Robot Chicken. Do they make them wear the supper inaproriate booty shorts and sports bras? Cause if so I would turn that teacher in for child pron.
No, but the shorts they sold (not uniform) said "Dance" on the butt. Better than "Juicy" but still, what the fuck?
Wow. I seemed to have inadvertently started a heated flame ware over at boardgamegeek. I started a thread in the Do it yourself section asking for advice about making my homemade Seafarers of Catan. Apparently some people think it is theft of I.P. to make a homemade board. Others are claiming the first group does not understand words or phrases like, "intellectual property", "theft" and "of". The former group's whole thing is that this game is in print and easily available. The latter's retort is, "It is not stealing i.p. He is not making money off of it, using their artwork, and he did not claim that he is the originator of the game. Also he did not break into a store and steal it"
What do you fellas think? By making a homemade version of Seafarers am I an i.p. theif?
IP laws don't protect game mechanics, only the art and the exact wording of the rules printed down in the rulebook (?).
I could make a game called "Neito's kick-ass game with tons of tits and booze" that plays exactly like Settlers and I'd be totally within my legal rights as long as I didn't use any of Klaus Teuber or Mayfaire Game's artwork.
However, I'd also be a gigantic human phallus for doing that, but that's another story.
IP laws don't protect game mechanics, only the art and the exact wording of the rules printed down in the rulebook (?).
I could make a game called "Neito's kick-ass game with tons of tits and booze" that plays exactly like Settlers and I'd be totally within my legal rights as long as I didn't use any of Klaus Teuber or Mayfaire Game's artwork.
However, I'd also be a gigantic human phallus for doing that, but that's another story.
But instead of towns, they could be stripclubs! And roads could be alcohol distribution lanes!
I'm not sure but I think interface elements can be patented, such as the response wheel in Mass Effect.
Game mechanics are expressly non-patentable (in America), so in terms of most games, I can do basically anything I wanted, as long as I don't use their assets/source code.
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What do you fellas think? By making a homemade version of Seafarers am I an i.p. theif?
I could make a game called "Neito's kick-ass game with tons of tits and booze" that plays exactly like Settlers and I'd be totally within my legal rights as long as I didn't use any of Klaus Teuber or Mayfaire Game's artwork.
However, I'd also be a gigantic human phallus for doing that, but that's another story.
I'm not sure but I think interface elements can be patented, such as the response wheel in Mass Effect.