"Last Downfall parody for the forseeable future"
So.... there'll be another one in about eight hours?
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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So.... there'll be another one in about eight hours?
Oh come on Squiggy - you'll do another one once W&S file Axanar's/Peters' formal response to the C/P Complaint now that the W&S Motion to Dismiss was 100% denied. --- Surely
nuDiana went on, posting this later that day:
I can think for myself, not blame others for anything I say or do 
It's funny how many people throw around a word like narcissist, when they themselves have no problem calling someone names or talking about them from a safe no risk distance to promote opinion pieces on all of their social media.
But thank you, I'm glad I learned this early on
It's funny how many people throw around a word like narcissist, when they themselves have no problem calling someone names or talking about them from a safe no risk distance to promote opinion pieces on all of their social media.
But thank you, I'm glad I learned this early on
She needs to change the password on her Facebook.nuDiana went on, posting this later that day:
I can think for myself, not blame others for anything I say or do
It's funny how many people throw around a word like narcissist, when they themselves have no problem calling someone names or talking about them from a safe no risk distance to promote opinion pieces on all of their social media.
But thank you, I'm glad I learned this early on
#hacked
Hey, thanks for the semi-shout-out at about 2:25!
United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [of the Roddenberry vision of Star Trek], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
I like the ballsy monitor bit starting at 02:05
I would recommend posting a "Sticky" thread with links to the latest news. I know there's at least one member who posts here, Carlosp, who maintains a site, perhaps there's other news sites as well. I would recommend a sticky with at least links to his page since searching through this thread is time consuming and pointless given its size.
Bloomberg News has published an article about the lawsuit today, "The Star Trek Fan Film That Went Too Far," which reads exactly like Mike Bawden's Axanar talking points. Nice work, Mike. Bloomberg is a good get
I've documented the article's myriad factual and contextual problems, which I also posted in a series of 20 tweets on AxaMonitor's Twitter.
This is the payoff of patiently putting a scam on the record, bravo.
Boiling the frog depends on the frog having no external point of reference about what the temperature was yesterday. Axamonitor provides 5 9's of precision with that temperature.
I should hope that a manager at Bloomberg would look at the article, look at your critique and the information backing it up, and assign a followup investigation knowing they've been PR-sweet-talked.
Now if she could only teach her SO that.nuDiana went on, posting this later that day:
I can think for myself, not blame others for anything I say or do
But the PR sweet talk is the story here. "Company sues other company making knock-offs of its products" isn't really something new or interesting, and surely not enough to generate a great deal of clicks and hence advertising revenues for these news sites.
I can totally see why more mainstream outlets want to "sex up" the story by boiling it down to "Paramout sues over Vulcan ears" or coming down vaguely in favour of David rather than Goliath, because the alternative (big company rightfully defends its own copyright) isn't really an interesting enough hook for non-fans, I would argue.
Man bites dog is news, and not vice versa, etc.
That Bloomberg article put me in mind of a chimp playing with a loaded Uzi.
I know. They couldn't even get that part right.
Pish lol anything I say online I would have no! issues saying to someones face.nuDiana went on, posting this later that day:
I can think for myself, not blame others for anything I say or do
It's funny how many people throw around a word like narcissist, when they themselves have no problem calling someone names or talking about them from a safe no risk distance to promote opinion pieces on all of their social media.
But thank you, I'm glad I learned this early on
Roddenberry made exactly one Star Trek movie, and not many people think of it as their favourite. All of the movies after it added a lot of action. It wasn't JJ Abrams who came up with Picard's wild and crazy dune buggy ride in Nemesis, to take just one example.
A few of the movies managed to include some character development, one or two managed to include a little philosophizing, and none of them would be considered hard science fiction. Star Trek is space opera, not hard science fiction -- the real hard stuff would never include half-human, half-alien characters, or psychic powers, or transporters. But I digress. The movies tended to make Star Trek simpler and more action-driven because a TV episode needs to appeal to a few million people, but a hit movie needs to appeal to tens of millions of people. Anyone who looks for the best and deepest Star Trek in the movies is, generally speaking, looking in the wrong place.
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