You seem to have 100% misread the original post. It wasn't saying that WotC should make books about ancient gods, it was saying that WotC should put the names of ancient gods into Creative Commons. In the 10th post, you said you would love to see something that OP wasn't really talking about. Reread.
No, I read it correct - about WotC and the "rights" to names like Thor, Zeus, etc.
And in my 10th post - I explained (since it was already covered prior to the nonsense of the "legality" of WotC even trying to sue if someone made a book with those names... which is obvious, since there's comics called Thor that were out long before WotC's Deities & Demigods) - and I explained how they're focused on Forgotten Realms. But in my same post, just for the sake of conversation I said: Now that said, I would love to see a Deities & Demigods kind of book like 2ndE for 5th Edition.
So, no - didn't misread it. You don't seem to have read my post where I said that, despite me linking to it.
So just like most things, as conversations start, they evolve into related things. (Just like how it's now "devolved" into how you believe the thread is "dumb" and felt the need to come in and say it... rather than simply ignoring the thread... and your comment has, ironically, made it continue, doing the opposite of what you'd wanted, and you keep coming back, contradicting your own desire...)
I thought it was still going after a few days, I didn't realize it was just somebody popping in to say something pointless days after everybody had stopped.
Evolving conversations are great and all, but it's pretty annoying when a thread discussion is about something separate from the actual thread. In fact, it's against the rules.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Bear in mind that CC-BY is a copyright license; it doesn't have anything to do with trademarks. AFAIK, WotC has not claimed to have trademark rights over deities from real world mythology and religions. Copyright doesn't apply to the idea of these characters, but it does apply to specific descriptions of them, such as those found in the SRD. So a license is needed if you want to reproduce that text.
It's similar to how you can't copyright the rules of a game, but you can copyright a particular explanation of the rules (also like what's in the SRD).
Evolving conversations are great and all, but it's pretty annoying when a thread discussion is about something separate from the actual thread. In fact, it's against the rules.
And you coming in here and telling people to stop because the thread is dumb... isn't against the rules? It's not going against the very rule you're mentioning above?
Had you not said anything, the thread would have probably died out as you wanted. But by coming in here and calling it dumb - only made it go on. Because, to me - that was absolutely rude in how you phrased it. Perhaps if you'd come in and said, "Hey this has veered off the topic of the OP, maybe start a new thread?" - I would have taken that way more kindly that someone who hasn't participated in the thread coming in and simply saying it's dumb and to stop.
Because to me, that sounds like a ten year old having a fit.
I thought people were still discussing the thread days after it was posed and subsequently dismissed. I'm sorry.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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I’m not sure what purpose putting historical mythological names in the Creative Commons would serve. They’re already public domain
No, I read it correct - about WotC and the "rights" to names like Thor, Zeus, etc.
And in my 10th post - I explained (since it was already covered prior to the nonsense of the "legality" of WotC even trying to sue if someone made a book with those names... which is obvious, since there's comics called Thor that were out long before WotC's Deities & Demigods) - and I explained how they're focused on Forgotten Realms. But in my same post, just for the sake of conversation I said: Now that said, I would love to see a Deities & Demigods kind of book like 2ndE for 5th Edition.
So, no - didn't misread it. You don't seem to have read my post where I said that, despite me linking to it.
So just like most things, as conversations start, they evolve into related things. (Just like how it's now "devolved" into how you believe the thread is "dumb" and felt the need to come in and say it... rather than simply ignoring the thread... and your comment has, ironically, made it continue, doing the opposite of what you'd wanted, and you keep coming back, contradicting your own desire...)
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I thought it was still going after a few days, I didn't realize it was just somebody popping in to say something pointless days after everybody had stopped.
Evolving conversations are great and all, but it's pretty annoying when a thread discussion is about something separate from the actual thread. In fact, it's against the rules.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Bear in mind that CC-BY is a copyright license; it doesn't have anything to do with trademarks. AFAIK, WotC has not claimed to have trademark rights over deities from real world mythology and religions. Copyright doesn't apply to the idea of these characters, but it does apply to specific descriptions of them, such as those found in the SRD. So a license is needed if you want to reproduce that text.
It's similar to how you can't copyright the rules of a game, but you can copyright a particular explanation of the rules (also like what's in the SRD).
And you coming in here and telling people to stop because the thread is dumb... isn't against the rules? It's not going against the very rule you're mentioning above?
Had you not said anything, the thread would have probably died out as you wanted. But by coming in here and calling it dumb - only made it go on. Because, to me - that was absolutely rude in how you phrased it. Perhaps if you'd come in and said, "Hey this has veered off the topic of the OP, maybe start a new thread?" - I would have taken that way more kindly that someone who hasn't participated in the thread coming in and simply saying it's dumb and to stop.
Because to me, that sounds like a ten year old having a fit.
I'd like to think we're more mature than that.
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Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
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I thought people were still discussing the thread days after it was posed and subsequently dismissed. I'm sorry.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)