CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

[muCephi]

Apologies. Meant to have posted this here this morning; I was bleary-eyed.

On AxaMonitor: Alec Peters is on the hunt for a leaker, starts out by accusing the wrong guy, a longtime ally.

Didn't someone here point out that a screencap of the 'leak' of the discussion showed Alec's comments on the right hand side, which is used for the owner of the device showing the capture? Is this how fb chat works too? Did I misunderstand this, does everyone see the moderator on the right?

 

[dmac]

The Imaginary mole community tastes purple over said meme.

They aren't imaginary! They simply protest underground.

 

[Indysolo]

Remember that Kickstarter for Star Thieves that was planning on shooting at Valkyrie Studios (or whatever AP and RMB want to call it this week)?

Looks like they just made it, with $31,970 pledged of a $30,000 goal.

One of the backer comments here caught my interest, though:



Looks like the good folks at Valkyrie Studios made sure this one was funded...so they'd have a tenant.

With that low amount, would this really benefit Valkyrie?

Neil

 

[Karzak]

WHACK-A(LEC)-MOLE

 

[muCephi]

WHACK-A(LEC)-MOLE

perhaps he is playing this:

 

[ThankYouGeneR]

OIC

Star Thieves: Episode 2 - Valkyrie Greenscreen Studio

Hold on. I'm watching the linked video now. It says in print as RMB is speaking onscreen:
"Robert Burnett, owner Valkyrie Studios"

Have I missed something? Up to right now I had only speculated out loud (though believing it to be true) that those guys were part and parcel of the 'new owner' group.

Did I miss where this had come out publicly?

 

[carlosp]

Didn't someone here point out that a screencap of the 'leak' of the discussion showed Alec's comments on the right hand side, which is used for the owner of the device showing the capture? Is this how fb chat works too? Did I misunderstand this?

I think they were discussing the text message screen cap between Alec Peters and James Cawley that Peters released through a surrogate.

 

[muCephi]

Hold on. I'm watching the linked video now. It says in print as RMB is speaking onscreen:
"Robert Burnett, owner Valkyrie Studios"

Have I missed something? Up to right now I had only speculated out loud (though believing it to be true) that those guys were part and parcel of the 'new owner' group.

Did I miss where this had come out publicly?

I think he claimed on FB that the title was incorrect. But that of course is a narrowly scoped denial.

 

[carlosp]

Hold on. I'm watching the linked video now. It says in print as RMB is speaking onscreen:
"Robert Burnett, owner Valkyrie Studios"

Have I missed something? Up to right now I had only speculated out loud (though believing it to be true) that those guys were part and parcel of the 'new owner' group.

Did I miss where this had come out publicly?

I think I reported it on the CBS/P v. Axanar FB group a couple weeks ago. RMB insists that was an error on the filmmakers' part.

 

[Steve Roby]

Ahem. Sorry to be a grammar fascist, but I keep seeing the following homophone confusion here: it's "piqued" my interest, not "peaked" or "peeked".

peak = highest point
peek = to look
pique = stimulate interest or curiosity​

​

Homonymphobia. The problem is real.

 

[ThankYouGeneR]

Huh. Okay. Thanks, muCephi and Carlosp. (no FB for me)

 

[Sgt_G]

Star Thieves that was planning on shooting at Valkyrie Studios

Star Thieves? How oddly appropriate.

 

[ThankYouGeneR]

Star Thieves? How oddly appropriate.

I tracked on that too.

 

[muCephi]

Huh. Okay. Thanks, muCephi and Carlosp. (no FB for me)

welcome. no remark in any way aimed at anything you said. just following a thread of frivolity.

 

[Maurice]

Homonymphobia. The problem is real.

Homophone. Not homonym.

 

[Jam3s1701]

So.... Renegades have "no interest in taking a public stance" in the Commandments of Alec Peters..

Interesting...

 

[dmac]

Hold on. I'm watching the linked video now. It says in print as RMB is speaking onscreen:
"Robert Burnett, owner Valkyrie Studios"

Have I missed something? Up to right now I had only speculated out loud (though believing it to be true) that those guys were part and parcel of the 'new owner' group.

Did I miss where this had come out publicly?

I wondered who would be the 1st to catch that.

 

[mos6507]

WHACK-A(LEC)-MOLE

A better game would be a Pac-Man clone where JJ and Justin Lin are the fruits in the middle that keep allowing Alec to turn the tables on CBS/P.

 

[Maurice]

^^^The fruits don't do that. The power pellets do.

<—PAC-MAN expert

 

[mos6507]

I'd bet my truck that their is going to be a feature length documentary about this someday, and it will be a heart of darkness situation where the documentary is better then the movie would have been. After all, this is basically the OJ Simpson trial for nerds. It would have a good narrative structure, since the scales continuously tip him into more and more of villain territory as it progresses, and it's wild enough that I think even non trekkies would enjoy the ride.

This might seem like a strange connection, but it reminds me of the once-urban-myth about the E.T. cartridges buried in a landfill. For the longest time classic game nerds kept suggesting that someone like Mythbusters take that on, but cynics kept saying that it just didn't resonate enough to justify the expense, but sure enough, the landfill got drilled and some carts got liberated (some in working condition) in conjunction with a documentary about the crash.

So I would not be surprised at all to see someone do a documentary on Axanar after the dust settles, despite how nichey it seems.

If the faux-documentary Prelude is all we ever see of Axanar, it would be kind of appropriate to book-end it with a talking-head documentary about Axanar the lawsuit.