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Did it too late in the day yesterday that it had already gone on to the next one, so here's 654, haha.

Someone needs to put a stop to my reign of terror.

I'm about halfway through The Bee Sting by Paul Murray at the moment. Absolutely superb book.

Seaman_Prime posted...

Oh fuck there was a second Oompa Loompa!

I am rejuvenated by this whimsical turn of events!

Diddy being a colossal piece of shit is not surprising, but even so, the sheer extent of this is eye-opening.

People having the rights to characters they created is actually pretty standard. It's why even now on Doctor Who if an episode features a returning monster you're likely to see a separate mention in the end credits for the person who wrote the first story the monster showed up in. It's why both iterations of Fraiser carry a big credit for the writers of Cheers. It's why Smallville and Gotham carry credits for the creators of Superman and Batman.

When it comes to freelancers/contractors there are caveats, of course, depending on how much was in the brief they were given when they were commissioned - to keep the Doctor Who comparison going, this is why Terry Nation's estate continue to get royalties for and control over the use of the Daleks, while Anthony Coburn's son fails repeatedly to try and claim that the rights to the TARDIS should lie with his father's estate - while both writers are credited with the initial appearance, the former full-on invented the Daleks and so has intellectual proprietorship, while the latter was working to a brief of "this is how Doctor Who and his pals are going to travel" so doesn't get to claim to have invented it. But I highly doubt that when Miller was hired he was specifically told by the studio to include a scene right at the end when a kid specifically called Jason gets out of the water for a jump scare.

So technically, going by the industry standard precedent set over decades, Miller is right to say that he created Jason Vorhees, so he has the final say over the use of character.

The fuckery here, of course, is that while Miller created Jason Vorhees, he didn't create Jason Vorhees. Literally everything that pop culture associates with the character aside from the name and the backstory came from a later flick.

I could totally be on board with matey-boy saying that he wasn't giving permission for another flick with Mrs Vorhees as the killer. That would totally be within his rights. If he wanted to say that they couldn't do any more films where Jason is a weird water goblin child then honestly I'd support that 100%, partially because of the rights issues, but mostly just because it would be a fucking stupid idea. Hell, given how iconic a setting it has become I might even go so far as to say that he should probably have the rights to Camp Crystal Lake (though that could be a Coburn/TARDIS situation).

But I think that the giant, machete-wielding, mask-wearing, slow-walking, sometimes-space-going zombie murderer is so far removed in all but name from what Miller created that it's just too tenuous to give him support here. Like... he's right, but that doesn't make him right.

Irony posted...

It will betray you

Damn. That's cold.

Chadawah posted...

It will look like the picture on the website after the kids take whatever she's cooking up.

Breaking Sad

Pull a Face-Heel turn and join forces with the iceberg.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Should just be "objection hearsay" and be done with it

The reason they're not doing that is presumably because if they do then they're saying "you're not allowed to use that," which - while rendering it inadmissible in the court and thus technically solving the issue - still leaves the notion out there for people to disingenuously use to taint public opinion afterwards. Whereas the current strategy literally forces Merchant to say that these things aren't true in court.

While legally speaking the end result would be the same, there's actually far more strength in forcing your opponent to openly admit in the courtroom that they've been lying about everything, as opposed to just not letting them lie about anything.

Of course, this train of logic assumes that the usuals weren't always going to be disingenuous in their reporting no matter what happened, and the State legal team are essentially trying to play chess against people who are trying to play hopscotch, but hey ho.

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That looks gloriously shit, but it will never top the notoriety of this delightful day out.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/17262041.dorset-residents-slammed-rip-off-lapland-new-forest/

NeonOPPAl posted...

Oh shit

Speaking of which...

ViewtifulJoe posted...

I was apathetic toward Pokemon during gen 5.
If they unveil gen 5 remakes, do you think we could pretend to be appalled at the ice cream and garbage bag designs?

Those are absolute top-tier designs and I'm tired of pretending they're not.

This is now the Official @NeonOPPAI shit-watch topic.

It's shittin' time!

loafy013 posted...

Wait until you find out how rampant STD's run through nursing homes and retirement communities. Old people fuck hard.

You didn't need to tell us this, but you did it anyway.

I just can't get over the absolute Big Brain thinking involved in filing an actual motion to actual court asking for someone to give Team Trump a bit of paper saying "He didn't do it!"

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Got the Plats in Tekken 8 and Bloodstained over the weekend.

Now I'm trying for an Everyone Lives playthrough in The Devil In Me.

The Couch Will Rise Again!

Are you some kind of natural-born TEKKEN prodigy?

Dusk Til Dawn for sure.

Well this is possibly in the top five dumbest things a Trump has said in the past few hours.

Shadow20201 posted...

These topics are going faster and faster. I love it.

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That is dystopian as fuck.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Well he was definitely playing someone way older than that

This. His kids in the show must have been mid-twenties.

I'm glad he's cleared this up.

May just be coincidence, but it seems to go to fuck around the same time as the purge each day at the moment.

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mercurydude posted...

I saw a British at the book store the other day... people couldn't help but stare because he was doing his "cheerio" greetings and all that, and people tend to think you're talking about cereal if you say that around here.

Anyway, I guess he got to feeling self-conscious with all of us Texans staring at him, so he walked out of the store, opened his umbrella, and flew off when a big gust of wind took him.

It struck me as very strange because I thought only their women did that.

A common misconception. It's actually considered rather base and quite coarse for a lady to travel by brolly because one might catch a glimpse of her petticoat.

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I think that the actual word may literally have been the only option by the time I got it, haha.

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