I know all about fair use, Charles. (Even more, I approve. On the issue of copyright, I’m basically on the side of Negativeland.) I was just yanking Adree’s chain a bit.
Fair use as Charles noted, and oh hey whats this:
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You infringe copyright. Infringing work is removed. Cue waambulance?
…you left out “profit”.
An “acknowledged” asshole? Steve Jackson is a nice person. I first met him before GURPS came out, and have spoken with him several times in recent years. I have found him to be polite and friendly in person and in email.
This includes business dealings. Full disclosure: I still receive royalty statements from a book I co-wrote for SJG.
Why don’t you try emailing him? [email protected]
It’s right there on The Daily Illuminator
In the course of 15 years, he has always been responsive to my emails.
I’ve dealt with my Jackson as well. He was always very cordial and responsive…so yes I was wondering where that impression came from as well.
I do think he holds on too tighly to some of his properties. Who can forget the GURPs fiasco…but it did give us Fallout. :)
I’m also frustrated we’ve never seen a proper Car Wars title. :( Maybe Badlands will go partway…and Hard Truck Apocalypse was close…but man I really want Car Wars and all that entials!
davidf, you really need to check this out if you haven’t already:
Car Wars seems to have completely stalled after the relaunch that was supposed to be the starting point for a simplified, friendlier ruleset. Somebody should whisper into Steve’s ear “Yeah, Car Wars was getting pretty complex, but you know what’s great at handling complexity? Computers!”
I still have an issue of ADQ that briefly mentions something about Origin’s plans for Autoduel 2…
I played it a year ago…its apparenntly evolved quite a bit since i played it…i was put off by my experience in the earlier beta…but i agree it did have some amazing potential. The fact that it now has random road encounteres and character development are 2 key new features I find very VERY intriguing!
The web page interface really put me off for the non driving aspects.