{"id":5302,"date":"2009-10-01T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2009-10-01T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:31:11","slug":"ea-sues-langdell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5302","title":{"rendered":"EA Sues Langdell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent this link along:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5370359\/electronic-arts-sues-to-cancel-langdells-trademarks\">Electronic Arts is Suing Tim Langdel<\/a>.  This is like finding out Jack Thompson will be in a steel cage match with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2008\/1\/16\/\">Kevin McCullough<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t care who wins, I&#8217;m just glad they&#8217;re fighting!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, that&#8217;s not quite true.  I think EA are scoundrels in the short-sighted business sense, but I&#8217;ve never thought of them as <em>criminals<\/em>. Aside from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EA_Spouse\">EA Spouse<\/a> controversy I&#8217;ve always thought of them as more aggravating and bumbling than malicious and predatory. <\/p>\n<p>Langdell has been inexplicably baiting them (his site as been promoting a game called: MIRRORS <small>a game by<\/small> EDGE) and so now he&#8217;s going to get in the ring with someone about three orders of magnitude above his weight class. He seems to be up for it, so it should be an interesting fight.  Of course, these sorts of cases unwind slowly, and it will probably be a few years before we see the outcome, but maybe he&#8217;s finally feeling a little of the discomfort he&#8217;s inflicted on so many others. Or maybe he sees this as his ticket to riches.  But this is like fist-fighting an elephant for its tusks.  Yeah, that would be a pretty sweet prize, I guess. If you&#8217;re a jerk. And <em>if you live<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent this link along: Electronic Arts is Suing Tim Langdel. This is like finding out Jack Thompson will be in a steel cage match with Kevin McCullough. I don&#8217;t care who wins, I&#8217;m just glad they&#8217;re fighting! Actually, that&#8217;s not quite true. I think EA are scoundrels in the short-sighted business sense, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}