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0 pointsEisenstein3y ago0 comments

The person is claiming rights to a version of the game not yet released because they wrote a game guide about how to do it and the game creators agreed to credit him in the new IP. This has led to him filing the DMCA requests and initiating a claim against the new product. The DMCA requests appear to be retaliatory. That's my understanding from the minimal information provided in the article.

Note however we are getting one side of this story -- the developers. I have no idea what is going on and it is surprising how many times things swing around when both parties are heard (the Doom Eternal soundtrack issues come to mind)[0].

[0] https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-d...

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AnIdiotOnTheNet3y ago

Regarding the DOOM Eternal Soundtrack, no reasonable person should have every believed the original story as claimed by Stratton in the first place. Unfortunately, taken as a whole gamers are a toxically childish and entitled community and it was all too easy to weaponize them against Gordon.

EisensteinOP3y ago

Regardless of what people should have done, or did do, it serves as a stark lesson for everyone to never take a one-sided story (without accompanied compelling evidence) at face value.

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK3y ago

"They" implies multiple, and you are starting the sentence with a singular "the person", and finish the sentence with singular "him". Just stop playing stupid grammar games.

defrost3y ago

> "They" implies multiple

No. It doesn't.

    The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf

    The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) not only accepts singular they, they also use the form in their definitions.

    And the New Oxford American Dictionary (Third Edition, 2010), calls singular they ‘generally accepted’ with indefinites, and ‘now common but less widely accepted’ with definite nouns, especially in formal contexts.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...

Please, learn English.

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK3y ago

Well, one can cherry-pick one's authority on grammar, but any online translator will translate "They walk" to "Ils marchent". One also wouldn't write "they is", so, yes, it's a plural. At least, a sentence should be consistent and not intersperse "they" with "him".

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the_third_wave3y ago

Indeed, please learn English. Finding vague references to the use of plurals for individuals does not make this part of the vernacular just like 'pluralis majestatis' [1] does not do so.

Language evolves so paper dictionaries from the beginning of the 21st century will not be entirely accurate but given the way some publishers of online dictionaries have taken to using their products to push language revolution instead of following language evolution those old paper books are more accurate guides to how people use it than their ideologically-driven on-line counterparts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we

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[0] https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-d...

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AnIdiotOnTheNet3y ago

EisensteinOP3y ago

Regardless of what people should have done, or did do, it serves as a stark lesson for everyone to never take a one-sided story (without accompanied compelling evidence) at face value.

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK3y ago

"They" implies multiple, and you are starting the sentence with a singular "the person", and finish the sentence with singular "him". Just stop playing stupid grammar games.

defrost3y ago

> "They" implies multiple

No. It doesn't.

    The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf

    The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) not only accepts singular they, they also use the form in their definitions.

    And the New Oxford American Dictionary (Third Edition, 2010), calls singular they ‘generally accepted’ with indefinites, and ‘now common but less widely accepted’ with definite nouns, especially in formal contexts.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...

Please, learn English.

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK3y ago

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the_third_wave3y ago

Indeed, please learn English. Finding vague references to the use of plurals for individuals does not make this part of the vernacular just like 'pluralis majestatis' [1] does not do so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we

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