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"I've got the intellectual property cops crawling up my butt."
Dan Rydell, Sports Night

I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

Lionel Snill: The final straw was those idiotic modders. They took my half-finished game and made a GOD DAMN MOCKERY of it. ALIENS? In a post-apocalyptic wild west. [Exasperated] It made no sense. If I couldn't finish the game myself I sure as hell wasn't going to let them do it for me. Getting the legal documents drawn up to take on those modders really fired me up. It was just what I needed to bring those low-lifes to task. Those gormless basement-dwellers were going to pay for ever attemp-
(The scene gets interrupted with a glitch, as the hooded Jeremiah in the dimly-lit room speaks to the player)
Jeremiah: He goes on like that for a while...

But then, this is Nintendo's pattern, isn't it. They did the same thing with Let's Play videos. "You know that thing that fans do out of love for our product? That's ours now. And we're going to turn the screws until all that love turns into MONEY!"

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