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Penny Arcade - Comic - Mobster Energy
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Mobster Energy
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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For those men such as myself who can only aspire to the lofty heights of reason that our dear hosts occupy
I'm no trademark lawyer, but I'd think Ubisoft could have won that particular dispute pretty easily in court. "Your honor, one is a video game and one is an energy drink." Case closed.
For real. I've never heard of this game before but "Gods and Monsters" makes me what to see what it's about. "Immortals: Fenyx Rising"...not so much.
Everything makes a sick kind of sense now. Can we please stop being in a world where companies think they can own the rights to everyday words? Seriously, when does this horse shit end? Are they going to sue Wizards when they publish the next Monster Manual? And how would that even go down? "Sorry, you can't publish this book that you've been making different editions of for decades before our product even existed"?
Didn't Bethesda once sue somebody for use of the word "Scrolls" in the title?
Yes. Notch, the guy who originally created Minecraft, was working on a new game that was simply titled "Scrolls" and he got sued by Bethesda.
But yeah, Monster Energy Drink doesn't have any legal hold on the word "monster" and since literally every logo they have says "Monster Energy Drink" and has their claw-mark logo attached to it, I don't think there's any risk of confusing the beverage "Monster Energy Drink" with "Gods and Monsters" the video game.
At a base level, I don't get this simply because of how obscure the connection is. If they were naming the game "Monster", I could get it. But "Gods and Monsters"? Okay, bizarre.
And yeah, it seems like an easy win in court. But I wonder if Ubisoft's caving isn't explained by the fact that it's owned by Coca Cola. Maybe they didn't want to cut off the present and future product placement money by creating bad blood with Coca Cola. Winning in a trademark battle in court doesn't mean your increasing your profits by the maximum extent, and one of those two things are the top priority for megacorps.
The only way Monster ever got money was inserting themselves into a defendant's bankruptcy proceedings and try to hoodwink that judge.
Edit: I mean, fuck Ubisoft for just so many reasons but this is beyond spineless.
Coca-cola does not own the Monster Beverage company they own 19% of the publically listed companies shares.
How dare Tycho besmirch the name of these noble creatures
Thanks. That's what I get for believing something on the internet.
They could always work with Pepsi, future creators of Fenyx ("It'll turn your insides into ashes!")
Anyway, must be something about that name that makes companies go crazy.
That brand name turns people into real.... something. It's on the tip of my tongue....
I feel like Fenyx would be a better name for an erectile dysfunction drug.
Maybe if spelled Phoenix. Or stylized FeNyx. I think it works great for an energy drink. Fenyx: "No, seriously, it'll mess your insides up. Don't drink this. Maybe a ghost pepper-based energy drink was a bad idea, actually."
Assassin's Creed: Nacho Cheesier is still working out the finer points of its preorder skins.
Doritos objected so they renamed it Assassin's Cheese.
Also, I'm disappointed that no one has brought up the fuss over the word "saga" that was created by the makers of Candy Crush Saga a few years back.
-Tycho Brahe
Here you go
Yep... That can be limed.
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
The suits are just trying to appeal to the millenial zoomer tiktok lit woke crowds with a dope af name.
Maybe J.K. Rowling owns the rights to the word Phoenix now.
-Tycho Brahe
It's not that someone owns the word phoenix, it's that Ubisoft can't own that word, so they'll change it to something they can own. It's like how Games Workshop has been changing the names of all the stuff in either version of Warhammer:
- Imperial Guard became the Astra Militarum
- The Tau are now the T'au
- Eldar (a word they stole from Tolkien) are now Aeldari, and Dark Eldar became Drukhari
- Orks in their fantasy setting are now Orruks, Dwarves are now Duardin, & Elves became Aelves
- The Empire became the Cities of Sigmar
It's a wonder GW still uses 'Space Marines' for their official product names, rather than calling them Adeptus Astartes, since this whole shift was initiated after they tried and failed to assert a copyright claim on the space marine term (which was absurd on the face of it, seeing as it's a super-generic sci-fi term dating back to at least 1932).Basically, going forward, expect any company in the entertainment industry to use creative spellings for old words, because they want to be able to copyright &/or trademark their brands.
The comment about the word phoenix was just a tongue-in-cheek joke. But thanks for the info. lol
-Tycho Brahe
When you hear it? ...is hearing "catoblepas" a common occurrence for you? Or an ever occurrence?
Well, it's a mythical bovine creature with a gaze that can either petrify or instantly kill (depending on version) whoever it makes eye contact with (sometimes it's the breath that does it), so it'd be fairly fitting to name a siege-weapon after one.
Edit: case in point (naming siege weapons after sturdy animals), the onager is named after a type of wild donkey.