Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/tetris-issues-legal-warning-after-white-house-releases-arcade-full-of-parody-games-3405931/

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WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 35 pts · 8d (2 replies)

One of the games, Build the Wall, borrows heavily from Tetris. Players stack falling blocks to defend the southern border during a “zombie border siege” and “protect the border from the coming horde.”

Allowing the blocks to reach the top of the screen triggers a “border breached” message.

 

Ahhh, this administration's usual level of not thinking things through rears its idiotic head again. This basically says building the wall is counterproductive, and you win by keeping it down.

TheFogan@programming.dev · 38 pts · 8d (1 reply)

No no you win by having continuous construction projects that never finish and rack up "points" (IE taxpayer dollars) through your cronies.

WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 8d

Brilliant! You must work for this administration.

7112@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 8d (2 replies)

Back in my day we made games about killing nazis not being them

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 7d

Ironically The New Collossus includes an in-universe game about being a Nazi lmao

https://wolfenstein.fandom.com/wiki/Wolfstone_3D

Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d

it's ridiculous that now it's even normalized playing as nazis like in this asset flip https://store.epicgames.com/p/beach-invasion-1944-d654d6

velma@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 8d

More than Taylor Swift ever did.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d

Come on Nintendo sue them, and their children, and children’s children. You’ve done it before.

Cursed_Fig@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 8d (1 reply)

Honestly I hope the case gets thrown out. Parody laws are good and we don't need the precendent that companies can get an obviously-unserious knockoff removed if they want.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 8d

I think there's a difference between a government using your property for political purposes and an individual using your property for parody.