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• On the post: The NY Times Challenges ‘Worldle’s’ Trademark

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2024 @ 06:42am

  To be clear...

  This was entirely my error, folks, and I want to echo the apology from Mike above, if not make it more forcefully. I try to be much better about this in terms of scrutinizing source material and failed to do that in this case. Apologies to our awesome community!

• On the post: Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call Of Duty’ In Real Life

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 10:49am

  Cool comment, Scooter. Please point out where I've been either pro Marxist or pro groomer. I'll wait....

• On the post: Homicide Rates Hit Another Historical Low Despite What You May Have Heard Pretty Much Everywhere

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2024 @ 01:16pm

  Wut?

  "The chart doesn’t tell you by how much that number has increased over last year or the year before (hey, this year’s line was hungry, and ate those lines!)." WTF are you talking about? There are several years represented on that graph and you can see how 2023 is at the top of all of them. What am I missing? "Are police, on average, more lethal? Are citizens, on average, more deserving of lethal responses? The data doesn’t tell us those things." Did you never learn about context clues in school? Homicides are down and police killings are up. And you're asking if people are more worthy of being killed by police when violent crime is down? WHAT?!?!?!?

• On the post: Florida Man Wants $2 Million From Rockstar Over Parody Appearance In GTA6 Trailer

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2023 @ 07:43am

  What in the actual hell are you talking about?

• On the post: You Still Don’t Own What You Bought: Purchased TV Shows From PS Store Go Bye Bye

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2023 @ 01:49pm

  If every infringement is a lost sale, is every instance of someone losing what they bought like this a "stolen purchase"?

• On the post: Illinois City Decides To Blow Tax Dollars On Operating A Storefront For Private Security Camera Company

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2023 @ 06:43am

  Thank you

  Thank you for this complete and total takedown of my hometown, sir :)

• On the post: PlayStation Ends Its ExTwitter Sharing Integration, Likely Due To API Payment Requirement

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2023 @ 10:24am

  Not, in fact, a valuation. Which is one of the things Masnick just lied about. Hi. I wrote this article, not Mike. I'd like you to acknowledge that failure to pay attention to detail as a starting point before we get to your other claims, to see if this conversation is even worth having....

• On the post: Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2023 @ 12:29pm

  Of course not, because Twitter isn't talking as to why it was suspended, which leaves the press and public to speculate. And that speculation follows the most logical conclusion one can come to, with some circumstantial facts in evidence. If you have a competing theory with equal circumstantial facts in evidence, please do tell!

• On the post: More ‘3 Stripes’ Nonsense: Adidas Opposes LIV Golf’s Trademark App For Logo

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2023 @ 07:56am

  Blech good catch. Working on correcting the headline....

• On the post: Forget About Platform Exclusives; Here Comes The PC GPU Exclusives!

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2023 @ 09:30am

  Thank you commenters

  I'll admit the comments here, mostly, are quite helpful and that I won't pretend to be a technical expert on upscaling technology. What I will commit to is digging into this a bit further and for sure if there is reason for a follow up post on this topic, I will write one. I typically have a decent deal of trust in outlets like IGN, but hey, I'm capable of missing the nuance on stuff, and I'm sure they are too. Thank you again to the commenters for the feedback.

• On the post: Paramount DMCAs ‘Star Trek’ Fan Project, Apparently Deaf To The History Of ‘Star Trek’

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2023 @ 09:22am

  Did any of those licensees turn their licensed products around and give them away for free?

• On the post: Huh: Microsoft To Sell Cloud Rights To Activision Games To Ubisoft To Placate The CMA

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2023 @ 02:48pm

  I may have made this same prediction in our writing room discord chat :)

• On the post: Russian State Media Ponders Taking Over Trademark Name, Logo For Liberal Radio Station

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2023 @ 09:11am

  ;)

• On the post: Netflix Defeats Spurious ‘Slumlord Millionaire’ Lawsuit

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2023 @ 06:39am

  Indeed I should. Meant to and ommitted it by mistake, but fixing that now.

• On the post: Goodbye Twitter: Techdirt Will Soon End Our Automated Posting

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 03 May, 2023 @ 02:58pm

  This is the way.

• On the post: Bethesda DMCAs Its Official Twitter Account Trying To Stop ‘Redfall’ Leaks

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 03 May, 2023 @ 02:39pm

  Saw some of the same reviews. Which makes me very sad; I was looking forward to this title.

• On the post: Disappointing: Sweetgreen Changes Name Of Burrito Bowl, Bowing To Chipotle

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 May, 2023 @ 06:50am

  “Chipotle Burrito Bowl” - Can either of you explain precisely which part of that menu item's name is NOT purely descriptive? If not, it's simply not trademark infringement. You cannot commit trademark infringement with a purely descriptive use of a word or term.

• On the post: Parody Post About Nintendo’s IP Bullying Hits All The Right Notes

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2022 @ 07:03am

  No.....but I would have if I'd thought of it.

• On the post: EA Streisands Leaked ‘Skate 4’ Footage Into The News

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2022 @ 09:21am

  Heh

  Feels like an obvious case where they'd want it branded the "Mass Effect"....

• On the post: Honda Just Declared War On 3D Printer Makers Community

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2022 @ 06:24am

  Sure, but as I've discussed recently on this very site, Nintendo is the Disney of the video game industry....

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