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Robot Style posted:It's very generous to assume Bioware was actually digging into some of the source material rather than just dusting off their standard KOTOR / Mass Effect / Dragon Age "Ancient something or other returns to cause trouble" plot and calling it a day. I mean they had SWAT Bots and Chili Dogs so they at least did a cursory glance.
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It is so hosed up that Penders owns Scourge when everything that makes people give a poo poo about him came after Penders left. This should be Evil Sonic The Speed Demon.
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I really hope SEGA sues Penders into the ground over this
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Apparently the creative time is also made up of Nazis, so like the one good thing about Penders - that he's merely a lovely Lib rather than a right wing monster like most lovely comic book personalities - is kind of moot. https://thankskenpenders.tumblr.com/post/668050838166634496/so-developments-on-the-scourge-the-speed-demon
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This is great. https://twitter.com/thxkenpenders/status/1462233871400026116
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I love how this happened in the same week three new characters were introduced that were based on glitches in the original games and in the one example linked already look more distinct and fitting into the setting than the old character did.
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Well, two new characters. Starline's been around for a bit.
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Still disappointed that this didn't last long enough for Sega to sue Ken Penders into absolute poverty
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drrockso20 posted:Still disappointed that this didn't last long enough for Sega to sue Ken Penders into absolute poverty Fairly sure this fellow has said he won't give up, so chances are getting sued into oblivion is still on the menu.
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drrockso20 posted:Still disappointed that this didn't last long enough for Sega to sue Ken Penders into absolute poverty This whole thing was just ludicrous to me. While he might own the Archie Comics character "Evil Sonic" on paper, there's no way in hell he could get away with selling comics about that character without Sega's permission. Doubly so for a new version of the character created by someone else who absolutely had a contract that made their original characters Sega's property. EDIT: So I finally read the TKP breakdown of this whole thing thoroughly and the situation seems to be "Penders owns Scourge/Evil Sonic outright, but he cannot use the character in a way that causes brand confusion with Sonic". So basically Evil Sonic's pre-Scourge form is effectively unusable without breaking the brand confusion rule, and Scourge himself is iffy if they play up the Sonic similarities too much. Zonekeeper fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Nov 22, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/1472710042629541889
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Dear god why is he horrible in almost all the ways.
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How much of a fanbase does Ken Penders actually have for stuff like this? Do people in the modern Sonic community even know who he is? The pinned tweet on his account announcing the availability of his not-Echidnas comic from May has only accumulated 52 likes over all that time, I can't imagine there's much of market for his NFTs.
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You think nfts need to be popular to be tragically stupid?
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It's the nature of grifts like this that you don't need to fool many people and in fact, works better when you weed out people who don't or can't know any better.
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Synthbuttrange posted:almost? He hasn't gone alt-right pseudofash yet, so he cleared that incredibly low bar.
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Potsticker posted:It's the nature of grifts like this that you don't need to fool many people and in fact, works better when you weed out people who don't or can't know any better.
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Saw this Bucky O'Hare action figure, and why does it look like a Ken Penders character? https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/54507
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HAHA x a million
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Hello please buy GreenSonic.jpg for 100k.
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I have to wonder if him throwing out NFTs of Scourge/Anti-Sonic, Green Knuckles, Robo-Robotnik, and "Julie-Su AKA Shade" as his first actual potential money makers is him trying to bait Sega into taking him to court themselves over the large theoretical sum. Since his own attempted lawsuits against Sega & EA over Dark Brotherhood were dismissed multiple times meaning he currently has no legal claim to Shade, and the others are the ones most obviously derivative of Sega's brand even if he did win in Archie's case.
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This is 100% bait, banking on the fact that Sega won’t want to go through the embarrassment of another court case with this guy.
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I'm awestruck that he's just straight up selling Green Knuckles.
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Green Knuckles isn't even a derivative character, Knuckles was just green for a while.
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Alacron posted:This is 100% bait, banking on the fact that Sega won’t want to go through the embarrassment of another court case with this guy. He even said he agrees NFTs are bad, but is planning on doing this out of some weird form of principle.
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MonsterEnvy posted:He even said he agrees NFTs are bad, but is planning on doing this out of some weird form of principle. So “money” with a heavy sprinkling of “I know this will make my many haters upset?”
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:So “money” with a heavy sprinkling of “I know this will make my many haters upset?” Probably.
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Gruckles posted:I have to wonder if him throwing out NFTs of Scourge/Anti-Sonic, Green Knuckles, Robo-Robotnik, and "Julie-Su AKA Shade" as his first actual potential money makers is him trying to bait Sega into taking him to court themselves over the large theoretical sum. Since his own attempted lawsuits against Sega & EA over Dark Brotherhood were dismissed multiple times meaning he currently has no legal claim to Shade, and the others are the ones most obviously derivative of Sega's brand even if he did win in Archie's case.
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Knormal posted:What does he have to gain by going back to court? Does he really think he has a legal claim to Green Knuckles et al. and is going to get full control of them? I didn't think he was that delusional. Yeah as someone else mentioned Green Knuckles (or “Chaos Knuckles” as I think he was called in the comic) isn’t even an AU counterpart like Scourge and Robo Robotnik were, he’s literally just Knuckles in every aspect.
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MonsterEnvy posted:He even said he agrees NFTs are bad, but is planning on doing this out of some weird form of principle. I get the impression he might be dumb enough to think if he doesn't mint them before someone else (ignoring people can just mint different images of the character) that this would somehow not be defending his copyrights or something.
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BRB minting Blue Knumkles and CyberChaos Knuckles
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Ironslave posted:I get the impression he might be dumb enough to think if he doesn't mint them before someone else (ignoring people can just mint different images of the character) that this would somehow not be defending his copyrights or something. Usually this is sufficiently expensive and headache-inducing that artists don't do it but in Penders' case we absolutely know he is litigious enough to do it, if someone's willing to go fight Archie and Sega in court on a case which they only won because of a hilarious fuckup on the other side's part which he couldn't have 100% counted on (he couldn't have known that they didn't have copies of the original contracts in a vault somewhere which they'd have eventually found), they are going to be willing to go after a shady NFT operation who probably won't want much legal scrutiny of their activities.
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FilthyImp posted:BRB minting Blue Knumkles and CyberChaos Knuckles What if you minted an NFT that was half of each https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/1489877964942544901?s=20&t=G3euZQ82AmmZvYPiktxsqg
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