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One thing to note, is that the library of congress has the power to create the exceptions to the DMCA. The EFF lobbies for expansion of the exact powers the article is advocating for. https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca-rulemaking


Fortunately George Lucas only directed them to "Not lose money".


It changed in 1990. There was a logo with both names briefly.


Have you played Psychonauts or it's sequel? or anything from Double Fine Productions. Tim Schafer runs that studio. Also Ron Gilbert does games too under Terrible Toybox including a more recent Monkey Island.


Tim Schafer of Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle runs Double Fine Productions, newly released from Xbox Game Studios to independant status. They're running a kickstarter to extend their runway right now around their 2 week internal gamejam "Amnesia Fortnight" and documentary. (not fortnite related at all). https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/amnesia-fort...

They could really use some support if you're a fan of his work.


Fun way to start a video. "...then for seven years we were part of Microsoft, forced to make propaganda pieces to support our parent companies"


When they were acquired the stage banter was pretty good too. "we can make excel stuff, halo stuff..."


Here he is telling a powerful story about finding the voice by being inspired by his brother's calm authoritative voice, a Vietnam veteran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zryfjSaxXLo


“Strong enough to be gentle” is the epitome of manhood.


Uncontrolled power is easy, just give a kid a gun, real power is serene. "All truly strong people are kind" - Vagabond


From BBC News' article:

His Optimus Prime voice was inspired by his older brother, a decorated US Marine and Vietnam War veteran, who suggested he should play the character as "a real hero, don't be a Hollywood hero".

"He said, 'Don't go yelling and screaming. He's strong enough to be gentle.'

"And that resonated with me, and I could hear his voice all the way to the audition. When he drops down, when he gets serious, is where I found Optimus Prime."

Cullen gave his brother a cut of the wages he received for playing Optimus Prime until his death.


New word of the day: Skeuomorphism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph


You need to hire someone to just record judgy videos of each of the famous titles, to get the full effect. Make it look like a 16bit era videocoded like nighttrap or myst.


just generate the opinionated teen locally on your GPU using LTX or something similar


Movie Money Understanding Hollywood's (creative) Accounting Practices 9781879505865 This is THE book on the subject. There's a lot more to it than that. Sometimes productions get creatively charged by the studios costs that may not be directly related to shift losses. Sometimes contracts redefine common terms so your points structure is completely misleading.


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