How one Community Manager stole all of Battletech
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Yes. Unfortunately battletech is become full of faggotry. I just want to play with mechs man. But I think after this kickstarter I'm done buying cgl stuff unless they uncancer themselves.
I have never seen this happen to any corporation that went woke. Some might point to Twitter being bought out by Elon, but all he really did was cut off a few corners of the rot; it's still woke.
Any captured institution by the woke mob is a lost institution.
Admittedly, we do have a rather short frame of reference to see how things play out in the long run with this woke shit.
At the same time though they've effectively dug in and have fortified things not only with DEI funding but also with state (California), EU, and UN policy/laws as well.
And then beyond that, if a company was not only stupid enough to invite degenerates into their company, but actually let them weasel their way up to major positions, then it'll be even tougher to force them out and allow real fans to retake control.
There's a real possibility that the only viable answer is essentially a scorched earth policy on tainted companies, franchises, and IP's.
And of course all of this hinges on the overall cultural damage on younger generations not being so far gone that they're unable to develop a taste for actual quality work and art. (I'm usually not "too" cynical about this concern, but I'm not going to deny that it is a legitimate risk.)
I wish I carried an ounce of your optimism, but alas... I do not. Every time I venture into normie space and get a taste of what the gen-z types are eating up, content wise, it proves how far they have strayed... or rather, how far they have been led astray.
Many of them defend woke media, woke education, and woke principles. Only the ones who regularly consume manosphere content or purposeful anti-woke content have any sensibilities about them.
Sad times ahead, unless some kind of pivotal cultural cataclysm happens that wakes up a large part of the youth generation.
There has to be someone who is making a non-Woke BattleTech these days.
Not if the lawyers have any say about it, and their cash register always ka-chings.
Lawyers can't stop you from creating your own spin off. They can only prevent you from publishing & selling it.
I don't expect anyone here would be trying to start up their own physical print book sales or physical hobby model sales, though. The threat of legal issue is pretty much just a cope to avoid doing the work.
I'm not a BattleTech fan so I don't have a handle on the nuances of the setting, but it seems fairly straightforward to clone since the setting seems to only have one major conceit (big manned robots).
Creating a setting with some names-filed-off factions with new characters would be easy. For copyright-safety you can't use literally-the-same mech designs & names but there's enough mech designs and material out there from various properties that it would be very difficult to claim something is a infringement rather than a derivative work.
I mean, people have already done it with Pathfinder. No reason it couldn't be done for giant mechas.
They won't. You can't even shit on the faggoty short story book that cgl did without pushback.
I think the right approach might be to wait until the tiniest political intrusion comes up and annihilate it, with prejudice, to make an example for the others.