Danny M to [email protected]English • 1 year agoSony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!odysee.commessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up1826cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoThe fuck are you talking about wrt Cyberpunk? It was already the trademarked name of the boardgame that all this new shit draws from, the boardgame that coined the fucking term in the first place.
minus-squareTAGlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoThey purchased the trademark from the old role playing game and then expanded it, if I recall. The RPG did not invent the term. It was riding the hype of cyberpunk literature. The first use of the term is from 1980 (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyberpunk). According to Wikipedia, the game did not come out until 1988 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(role-playing_game) ).
The fuck are you talking about wrt Cyberpunk? It was already the trademarked name of the boardgame that all this new shit draws from, the boardgame that coined the fucking term in the first place.
They purchased the trademark from the old role playing game and then expanded it, if I recall.
The RPG did not invent the term. It was riding the hype of cyberpunk literature. The first use of the term is from 1980 (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyberpunk). According to Wikipedia, the game did not come out until 1988 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(role-playing_game) ).