This is Tamouse's Typepad Profile.
Join Typepad and start following Tamouse's activity
Tamouse
Recent Activity
Needs a gender-neutral general title: "Mx"
==
It has one now!
If ever you need a really comprehensive "title" drop-down
Just in case you need a really comprehensive list of titles for a drop-down menu, or if you want an insight into social class, here is the coding behind a form I had to fill in recently, with a few subsequent additions suggested by readers. 11 of the last 12 are an afterthought following an exch...
I wonder if Allie Brosh is doing any better....
Shockwave Flash on my Macintosh
Well, it's certainly OK to be human. I can certainly understand your reaction to someone (quite falsely) calling you out in a public sphere. It became a bit of a Striesand Effect; I'd certainly never have heard of @GamePolitics otherwise, but then I'm not really involved in political efforts anywhere, really, so maybe that's moot. You've certainly been a visible and good advocate for gamers and games. One person's ignorance is not necessarily something get riled up about, but it is understandable when someone smashes your Death Star. When someone else is acting like a jerk, perhaps it's possible, even necessary, to be more strident in your response. I don't think you came off like a jerk, though. Calling out an incorrect calling out is appropriate.
As for the gamerdad thing, that was really craven of ECA to cave on that. Trademarks aren't universal ownership of words or phrases. Having a trademark doesn't give one exclusive use of that term, only in the context of doing business where there might be some confusion. It isn't a license to browbeat anyone or any company into complying with their demands for exclusivity. And especially in a comment like that, there would be no real confusion of you for this other person. Too many people do not understand intellectual property laws at all, and improperly apply them all the time. Just read TechDirt sometime and you'll see it done over and over again. Yet the IP bullies always seem to win, which just strengthens their position for the next time they feel entitled to bully someone into submission on their mistaken belief of ownership.
Ideas can't be owned. Words alone can't be owned. You have as much right to call yourself a gamerdad as anyone else, in most every context except where there might be confusion as to business trade with this other person -- which doesn't extend to all aspects of the commercial world, and certainly not the non-commercial world.
in which wil goes HULK SMASH
Last night, I was supposed to perform in the Thrilling Adventure Hour at Largo with a bunch of my friends, and a bunch of people who I really admire. Unfortunately, the sinus infection I was fighting all week had other plans, so I stayed home and rested on the couch with a screening of Repo Man....
Those eyes!!! SQUEE!
Tiny Snake-Necked Turtle Hatchling at National Zoo
A snake-necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis) hatched at the National Zoo's Reptile Discovery Center in late March. The hatchling is not yet on exhibit because staff would not be able to monitor it. This is the first such hatching at the Zoo in three years. Photo Credits: Mehgan M...
Yep. Boardgames seems like the killer app for the iPad. I thought about this a while ago, too. Being able to take games like these on the road easily would be awesome in the least.
in which the case for buying an iPad is almost made
When Apple announced the iPad, I was so unimpressed and bored with it, I couldn't even muster a "meh." It seemed to solve a problem that didn't exist, and while I kept waiting for Apple to make the case for it, I don't think they ever did. I mean, if I'm going to spend five hundred fucking dolla...
Tamouse is now following The Typepad Team
Mar 31, 2010
Subscribe to Tamouse’s Recent Activity