Read the thread (which you obviously didn't do.)
Case dismissed! Discovery and Tardigrade game "not similar"
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Nah, I'll just ask questions and see if anyone answers.Read the thread (which you obviously didn't do.)
Nope.
No, some dork who was developing a video game saw some very vague similarities, both his game and Discovery used a giant tradigrade, his teleported itself through space, Discovery's was plugged into the spore drive. He misrepresented some facts to make both projects look more similar than they are and sued, he then tried to prove for months that someone involved with Discovery saw his unfinished ideas and pictures on steam where it was part of a contest or something with thousands of other games in development no ine cared about. He never could and currently everyone's waiting for the judge to dismiss the case.
Professional Discovery haters on youtube have been egging him on the entire time and are pretending Discovery is somehow in trouble because of the lawsuit, spoiler alert: It's not.
No real reason to call him a dork, or any other name. Just a man who, probably wrongly, believes someone stole his idea. He isn't the first and won't be the last.
Cool, thanks for the summary.
He isn't just wrongly believing, he actively misrepresented characters to make them appear way more similar than they are. I really don't agree there's no reason to call him a dork, he's more than earned that with his behavior like pretending his game was going to be a huge success and highly anticipated ...
Apparently there’s a new video from one of the usual suspects floating around.
I ended up in an argument in a fan club group - with several members who took the video as gospel - trying to point out the ridiculousness of the notion that they cast people based on resemblance to pixellated characters in an obscure game. The counter to that, it seems, is “It must be true coz Kurtzman sucks”. Sigh.
I ended up in an argument in a fan club group - with several members who took the video as gospel - trying to point out the ridiculousness of the notion that they cast people based on resemblance to pixellated characters in an obscure game. The counter to that, it seems, is “It must be true coz Kurtzman sucks”. Sigh.
A strong argument. How did the judge not listen to it?
He also has claimed just the other day in a new video, that the Judge has already ruled in his favor (which hasn't happened) and that CBS has admitted to using his ideas. (which they haven't)
The deadline has come and gone for all parties to make their case.
(there's been nothing more from Abdin's lawyers about finding anything to prove their STEAM theory)
It's just a matter of waiting to see if the Judge will dismiss or allow it to go to a jury.
I think the Judge is waiting to see of either side will blink and ask for a compromise.
But if Abdin's lawyers haven't found anything to prove their case, then CBS just has to wait them out.
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Wow. That's really all you need to know about the guy.He also has claimed just the other day in a new video, that the Judge has already ruled in his favor (which hasn't happened) and that CBS has admitted to using his ideas. (which they haven't)
I'm pretty sure that he started out just worrying about whether or not CBS would give him any problems when and if he ever actually published his game.
Something that he's gone completely off the track of, at this time.
(and which is beginning to seem like he will never get to a de facto form)
But at some point he began to actually believe the diatribe from folks who hate DISCOVERY and went off on this tangent of trying to "destroy the evil CBS" with apparently a complete loss of objective thinking.
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And any decent attorney would tell him to not do anything like that. Which proves he either is not listening to his attorneys or that his attorneys are not very good. Based on what we know, it very well could actually be both.I'm pretty sure that he started out just worrying about whether or not CBS would give him any problems when and if he ever actually published his game.
Something that he's gone completely off the track of, at this time.
(and which is beginning to seem like he will never get to a de facto form)
But at some point he began to actually believe the diatribe from folks who hate DISCOVERY and went off on this tangent of trying to "destroy the evil CBS" with apparently a complete loss of objective thinking.
The part about the attorneys level of competence, was kinda-sorta already proved by the amount of rookie mistakes and numerous refiling's that have been necessary on their part right from the get go.
But, charging headlong into claiming that CBS should relinquish all the proceeds from DISCOVERY to Abdin,
as well as abandon the production completely, was the topping on the cake of incompetence and egotistical arrogance.
I guess GO BIG or GO HOME is their business motto.
Pretty much, I guess. I mean, it's common to ask for much more than you're probably going to get in litigation like this, but not THAT much. It just makes them look, like you say, incompetent and egotistically arrogant.The part about the attorneys level of competence, was kinda-sorta already proved by the amount of rookie mistakes and numerous refiling's that have been necessary on their part right from the get go.
But, charging headlong into claiming that CBS should relinquish all the proceeds from DISCOVERY to Abdin,
as well as abandon the production completely, was the topping on the cake of incompetence and egotistical arrogance.
I guess GO BIG or GO HOME is their business motto.
I'm no lawyer, but I wonder if there is some esoteric legal point to this...The part about the attorneys level of competence, was kinda-sorta already proved by the amount of rookie mistakes and numerous refiling's that have been necessary on their part right from the get go.
But, charging headlong into claiming that CBS should relinquish all the proceeds from DISCOVERY to Abdin,
as well as abandon the production completely, was the topping on the cake of incompetence and egotistical arrogance.
I guess GO BIG or GO HOME is their business motto.
That is, Abdin's argument is that the story was stolen; therefore, the story is rightfully his. I'm thinking that if he asked for only part of Discovery's proceeds, then the argument from the other side would be "If you really think that CBS stole it, then why do you feel you're only entitled to part instead of all?"
A side note...
It seems that YouTube is starting to shut down some of the more severe Trek ranting and conspiracy videos.
Looks like CBS is going into full swing with pointing out and asking for Copyright Strikes against several TY Trek posters.
PLEASE NOTE:
I'm posting this link ONLY because he describes what's been going on in detail and I haven't found any other source talking about it yet.
I DO NOT endorse this YT channel in any way shape or form...
(he is waaaay to whiny for my tastes and his EGO is bigger than the imagined size of his ...)
Anyway here it is...
It seems that YouTube is starting to shut down some of the more severe Trek ranting and conspiracy videos.
Looks like CBS is going into full swing with pointing out and asking for Copyright Strikes against several TY Trek posters.
PLEASE NOTE:
I'm posting this link ONLY because he describes what's been going on in detail and I haven't found any other source talking about it yet.
I DO NOT endorse this YT channel in any way shape or form...
(he is waaaay to whiny for my tastes and his EGO is bigger than the imagined size of his ...)
Anyway here it is...
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That is probably an interesting logical-mind-game to play,
but it really has nothing to do with how these kind of suits are legally decided.
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