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    Building a Better Ghostbuster

    Again, this isn't really supposed to be about could or should or even realistic expectations. It's just a thought exercise: imagine you're a production assistant or something in Hollywood and your boss has just handed you a Ghostbusters project. I was riffing off of reboots initially, but some...
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    Ocean's Eleven female spin-off

    As I've said before of Ghostbusters 2016, if the first and best part of your pitch is 'the same thing as this other thing but with different genital configurations', you /don't have a pitch/. Nothing says this can't be a good film, any more than Ghostbusters /could/ have been, but if the sex...
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    Building a Better Ghostbuster

    So, this morning I found myself contemplating what would go into making a better remake of the Ghostbusters franchise than the one we got. Before I go on, let me emphasize: this isn't really a suggestion or a list of demands or anything like that. I have exactly zero expectation that anyone...
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    Back in Your Hole

    There's a lot of misunderstanding about how Trademark, Copyright and IP Law in general actually work (there's a very strong tendency for people to conflate them, since they generally relate to the same things, but cover different aspects of a thing and how they're used), and it's worth noting...
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    Back in Your Hole

    Things that are peculiar and possibly worth talking about in this case: The AM2R project has been public for eight years, and this is, so far as I'm aware, the first move Nintendo has made regarding them directly at all. A DMCA takedown was filed against the download, but they have not...
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    Ghostbusters reviews are...positive!

    I'd like to take this opportunity to re-iterate a bit on what I've said about this film in the past, and what I see going forward now that the first reviews are coming out. When they announced it and declared it would be "Ghostbusters, but with women!" I was vaguely antipathetic because if...
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    Blizzard Responds to Nostalrius Server Closure Complaints

    Hence the 'if it had gone on long enough without contest' caveat, among other things. This is going to be perpetuated as long as people don't understand IP law as an umberella, and how Copyright and Trademark differ in use and as long as the conversations on the subject remain at least...
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    Blizzard Responds to Nostalrius Server Closure Complaints

    Thank you for the clarification. Losing their biggest trademark would still be a hell of a thing for a company like Blizzard. I come back to 'it's messy'.
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    Blizzard Responds to Nostalrius Server Closure Complaints

    This actually /can/ cause some arcane legal issues if it goes unhandled. IP law being what it is, if a company doesn't take clear steps on a regular basis to protect their ownership, they risk losing legal control of it. If Nostralrius had gone on long enough, and someone could prove...
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    #103: Ride

    But will it be a Pinto /Airship/?
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    Escapist Podcast: 213: Is Ghostbusters Ruined?

    Personally, I keep hoping some bright spark will get the idea of trying a proper Ghostbusters multiplayer game. They mentioned the idea franchises in the original, but we've never yet seen a game where you could get together with your friends and go bust ghosts while exploring a load of modern...
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    Fans "Fix" Ghostbusters Trailer With Recut

    I find it concerning that they accomplished this suckectomy by excising the bulk of the content previously shown. I don't think it's that they have no idea how to sell it, it's that what they're selling is implicitly malformed as thing to sell. This is looking less and less like a reboot and...
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    Ghostbusters Trailer - Holy s#!t, how is it this bad?

    So, going to rattle off some more opinions here since...this discussion exists now, too. First, the positive: the cast really seems to be into it and enthusiastic. That can mean a lot even with a weak script, or in the face of literally everything else going poorly (see: Raul Julia in Street...
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    The First Ghostbusters Trailer Ain't Afraid of No Ghost

    So, I've tried to be fairly reserved about the whole thing. I enjoyed the original as a child, and there's nothing implicitly wrong with a reboot (though the trailer seems a bit confused on this point, introducing itself by reminding everyone that Ghostbusters existed rather than letting itself...
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    Undertale and Curly Braces

    Shamus, I think Undertale would be a very interesting dissection for you, even if you can't connect to the game on the sort of personal level a lot of people seem to. Play it with the eye of a developer, and see what you can get out of it from that angle. Study the plot beats and how the...