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The never ending Edgeventures of Tim Langdell

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21 hours ago, Alex W. said:

Oh, for those keeping score: both parties have filed their final briefs and as usual Langdell's is full of bafflingly pseudolegal theories and Mobigame's is mostly them pointing out things he's done wrong or that make no sense, such as the failure to properly enter his own testimony into the record which I noted earlier.

 

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91212834&pty=OPP&eno=71

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91212834&pty=OPP&eno=72

 

You could just email this to HBO as a script, and they could go into production immediately with no changes. It's dynamite.

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32 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

I really believe that's the one exhibit that is actually fake, what with the Gmail address and everything.

 

Which could be the case, but Langdell certainly doesn't help it when he starts a lengthy rant about a "frenchperson".

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The whole thing is fucking amazing, and I have to thank Dr Timothy Langdell for his personal contribution to making life on the planet just a little bit more interesting. 

 

That part about the authenticity of the email stands out as it's the only thing he's argued that seems convincing - it does look very much like a fake ('because I can winning' obviously doesn't sound like the sort of thing he or anyone with English as a first language would write) and his observations and objections on that seem, unusually, to the point. But he does choose to formulate some of those objections in such a delicious way.

 

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Whoever wrote this is a crazy Frenchperson, and it certainly isn’t me.

 

:lol:
 

Just classic, classic stuff from the mouth and brain of Ol' Timmy L which is a thing he'd never call himself.

 

Of course, in the twist at the end of Season 1, Episode 6 - the season closer - we'll see the back of a shadowy figure in Timothy's bedroom, in Timothy's bed. And the figure is talking to someone in a soft French accent, assuring him that "'Ol Timmy L won't be beaten down by them. Don' you worry my dear monsieur Langdell. You are invincible, my dearest one, mon petit soldat." And he'll turn slightly in bed, and we'll see by the profile of the mysterious silhouette that he's smiling, stroking his own arms gently, softly caressing himself into a profound and dreamless sleep whence recollection never comes. 

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I don't want to be a big downer, but I keep mentally coming back to the guy who was a comfortable professor with a side business in trademark trolling, who is now looking down about a million dollars in legal rulings and costs against him and (assuming Edge Games isn't the titan of industry it's made out to be) no real assets to pay them. If someone ever covers this in a serious way as a book or something it's going to be a tragedy.

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3 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

I don't want to be a big downer, but I keep mentally coming back to the guy who was a comfortable professor with a side business in trademark trolling, who is now looking down about a million dollars in legal rulings and costs against him and (assuming Edge Games isn't the titan of industry it's made out to be) no real assets to pay them. If someone ever covers this in a serious way as a book or something it's going to be a tragedy.

 

Fuck him. He's a troll, who tried to make a living off a word, via the courts.

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It is a tragedy though - tragedies don't have to be about a good guy. They're about the downfall of the protagonist. I mean, Othello was a bit of a cunt, though admittedly he morphed into that from the status of hero.

 

What Langdell needs is an Iago by his side, or a Grima Wormtongue, to round out his story. What we need is the epic span of his dissolution, from the idealistic young creative at the helm of Softek in the 80s, turning out such genre-defining masterworks as Fairlight and Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal, showing the Oscars he won at Cannes for his early work, his Nobel Prize for Achievement in Games That Are TV Tie-Ins, then his cruel treatment at the hands of an unappreciative public, the dalliance with coke, the failed turn as a designer of Edge magazine covers, then the fateful day he met his own Iago while studying Zen Buddhism at a prestigious West Coast University, and qualifying as a Catholic priest. He tried to find a way out through God, only to find one through the Devil: think PT Anderson's The Master but with an infinitely worse cast, script and director.

 

The only problem, of course, is that it's all made up: there is no Iago - or maybe there was, he's sure there was, but Tim can't remember exactly what he did for the company now. Just that he had a French accent and his handwriting was curiously similar to Tim's own. Then it all goes a bit Fight Club at the end.

 

Now if that's not a tragedy, I don't know what is. It's all made up, of course, but that never stopped Tim before.

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