It depends. "I'm a lawyer:" "What do you think about $LATESTLAWTHINGINTHENEWS ?" "I'm a patent lawyer:" "That sounds interesting." "I'm a videogame lawyer:" "I didn't even know that was a thing."https://twitter.com/Gigs_and_hills/status/1052918185777909761 …
wait you weren't with counsel for Zynga when they were calling me up to establish my MUD's prior art dating to 1995 on things some patent troll was claiming were you
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Nope. I met counsel for Zynga socially at a conference once, but that is the extent of my interaction with them. Trivia: I was the archwizard of what was for a short time the largest MUD in the world.
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oh now you can't just drop a bomb like that and not tell me what it was
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DrakeMUD. My roommate was the God: he did most of the technical stuff (all of the technical stuff as far as I can remember tbh.) I was the arch-wizard and wrangled players and tried to get content put up.
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Looking back it was so full of copyright infringements that I thought were clever homages to old computer games and books and stuff that I feel ashamed of myself in hindsight, but it was fun.
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haha uh yeah i'm just gonna get real quiet about intellectual property now
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