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Comment: Re:Never build a house on another man's land... (Score 1) 265

by CompassIIDX (#31312598) Attached to: 8-Year Fan-Made Game Project Shut Down By Activision
And if you don't actively attempt to defend your trademarks... you can lose them.

I always hear fanboys trot this one out when a company stomps a fanmade project into the ground. But does it have any real merit? I'm not familiar with trademark law at all, but it seems fishy to me that you can legally own the rights to a property you developed, and then lose those rights to another party -- who would have no legal claim to said property otherwise -- simply because you didn't attack them with lawyers at every opportunity.

Can someone cite a case of this actually happening?

Comment: Re:DDR? (Score 2, Informative) 160

by CompassIIDX (#29333675) Attached to: Measuring Input Latency In Console Games
He shouldn't have referenced "BPM" because it's not really accurate, but by "500 BPM," he's talking about the rate at which the notes are falling down the screen. Many people take advantage of Hi-speed settings which allow you to increase this rate, thus decreasing the total number of notes your brain has to process at any given time. So a 125BPM song at Hi-speed 4 scrolls the notes at a rate of "500BPM." The actual beats per minute remain the same, though, obviously.

Comment: Re:DDR? (Score 1) 160

by CompassIIDX (#29333601) Attached to: Measuring Input Latency In Console Games
DDR != any rhythm/timing based game. For example, early IIDX and Pop'n Music, pre-timing adjustment settings, are more or less unplayable on modern TVs. You're actually "building" the songs -- constructing them note by note -- as the basic framework plays on. Try doing that with terrible lag, it ain't pretty. In short, this:

"...any rhythm/timing based game will be perfectly fine with a fair amount of lag so long as the lag is consistent."

is completely false.

Comment: So let me get this straight... (Score 5, Interesting) 528

by CompassIIDX (#28473705) Attached to: Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional
It's cool if I forcibly strip-search a 13 year-old girl as long as I'm a school official working on "official business." I can't be held accountable.

But if that same girl willingly texts me a cellphone pic of herself in a bikini, I'm looking at time in hard prison and branded a sex offender for life.

Seems perfectly logical to me.

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