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[jolikmc-stuff]

[End of Year] 2025, A Year of Betrayal

This past year. 2024. I think I can summarize it in one phrase:

2024 was a Year of Betrayal.

I was originally going to have a bullet-list of things that went wrong this year, but as I skimmed through my "thoughts blog", I realized that said list would be tremendous, so, I guess I'll focus on what really set me off this year.

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[cherishedverses]

ibxtoycat Saul Goodman arc

[planeyboys]

Vincent Lawsuit (2024)

[nonenosome2]

Suing Minecraft Because They Broke The Law & Pissed Me Off

I don't play Minecraft but this is awesome.

[aaronfj77]

Just gonna post this here... 😂

they're gonna violate food safety standards we've never even heard of

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Alright. Since that Kian Brose guy's funny little lawsuit against Mojang AB seems to be picking up steam, let me just point this out:

Kian's whole argument hinges on the idea that Mojang didn't update their End User License Agreement and Terms of Service before they cracked down on gun game servers and other "adult content". Ironically, he didn't even get an e-mail because his server wasn't up and running at the time. He found this out through a Tweet by TheMisterEpic. Even so, here's the thing…

They didn't have to update their EULA and TOS at that time. All they had to do was inform him and others of the pending updates, which they did.

Straight from the Minecraft EULA from May 2023, before the e-mails were sent, and before the EULA was changed:

We may change this EULA from time to time, if we have reason to, such as changes to our games, our practices, or our legal obligation. But those changes will be effective only to the extent that they can legally apply. For example if you use the Game only in single-player mode and don't use the updates we make available then the old EULA applies but if you do use the updates or use parts of the game that rely on our providing ongoing online services then the new EULA will apply. In that case we'll inform you of the change before it takes effect, either by posting a notice on our Website or by other reasonable means. We're not going to be unfair about this though - but sometimes the law changes or someone does something that affects other users of the Game and we therefore need to put a lid on it.

With the help of ChatGPT, here are the key phrases from the EULA paragraph above:

“We may change this EULA from time to time” – This allows Mojang to update the EULA as needed.

“if we have reason to, such as changes to our games, our practices, or our legal obligation” – Justifies changes based on various factors like game updates or legal requirements.

“changes will be effective only to the extent that they can legally apply” – Clarifies that changes will only be applied where legally permissible.

“we’ll inform you of the change before it takes effect” – The important one. This indicates that users will be notified before changes are implemented.

“We’re not going to be unfair about this” – Reinforces Mojang’s commitment to fairness when making changes. This one isn't legally relevant, but it's a nice touch.

These phrases support Mojang’s position of transparency and fairness under the law, and it very damaging to Kian's case. So… yeah. He can throw however-many millions of Swedish Krona that he wants at it, but unless Mojang and/or Microsoft decide to just roll over, for whatever reason (probably PR and good will reasons), there's no real way he can win.

Not unless his lawyer is the Swedish equivalent of Johnnie Cochran, anyway…

[lonniedos]

Minecraft Lawsuit Is Crazy

[localfandom]

youtube did the thing

[book-lord-123]

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Mojang lawsuit link. I figured this would be a good place to help spread the news about the lawsuit.

[phonemantra-blog]

Protecting intellectual property is crucial for any successful video game franchise. Recently, two industry titans, Ubisoft and Microsoft, took a stand against the unauthorized sale of merchandise related to their popular titles, Assassin's Creed and Minecraft. These lawsuits highlight the ongoing battle against counterfeiting within the gaming industry. Ubisoft and Microsoft Sue Over A Multi-Platform Assault: Targeting Unlicensed Merchandise Both Ubisoft and Microsoft filed lawsuits targeting the sale of unlicensed merchandise on various online marketplaces. These marketplaces, including iOffer, Wish, Amazon, Walmart, and eCRATER, allegedly hosted third-party sellers offering counterfeit products that infringed upon the intellectual property rights of the respective companies. Deception Through Imitation: The Problem of Counterfeit Merchandise The lawsuits allege that the infringing merchandise uses recognizable elements from the Assassin's Creed and Minecraft franchises. These imitations are likely designed to deceive consumers into believing they are purchasing genuine, officially licensed products. Ubisoft specifically mentions that counterfeit sellers leverage SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tactics to gain a higher ranking in online searches compared to legitimate merchandise. This deceptive practice makes it difficult for consumers to find authentic products and increases the likelihood of them unknowingly purchasing counterfeits. A Persistent Problem: The Elusive Nature of Counterfeiters One of the significant challenges in combating counterfeit merchandise is the sellers' ability to evade detection and legal repercussions. The lawsuits mention that these sellers have employed tactics like changing company names or utilizing websites hosted on non-US servers to avoid previous litigation attempts. This highlights the need for a multi-pronged approach, combining legal action with cooperation from online marketplaces to effectively shut down counterfeit operations. Protecting Intellectual Property: The Goals of the Lawsuits Both Ubisoft and Microsoft aim to achieve specific outcomes through their respective lawsuits: Cease: The lawsuits seek to permanently halt the sale of unlicensed merchandise by the targeted sellers. This would prevent further infringement on their intellectual property rights. Preventative Measures: The lawsuits aim to establish legal precedents that discourage future attempts at counterfeiting these franchises' merchandise. Damages Recovery: Ubisoft has estimated damages of $2 million per intellectual property violation, indicating their intent to recover compensation for lost sales due to counterfeit products. Identifying the Source: While the initial lawsuits do not name specific sellers, a critical next step involves identifying the manufacturers and distributors in China, the primary source of many counterfeit goods. A Broader Issue: The Impact of Counterfeit Merchandise Counterfeit merchandise poses a significant threat to the video game industry beyond lost revenue for developers and publishers. Here's a breakdown of some of the negative consequences: Consumer Harm: Counterfeit products are often of inferior quality and may not meet safety standards. This can put consumers at risk and damage the reputation of the original brand. Loss of Jobs: The sale of counterfeit merchandise undercuts legitimate businesses and can lead to job losses within the gaming industry. Erosion of Trust: The prevalence of counterfeits can erode consumer trust in established brands and make it difficult for them to compete in the marketplace. FAQs Q: Why are Ubisoft and Microsoft suing over counterfeit merchandise? Ubisoft and Microsoft are suing to protect their intellectual property rights and prevent the sale of unlicensed merchandise that infringes upon their popular franchises, Assassin's Creed and Minecraft. Q: What are the risks of buying counterfeit video game merchandise? Counterfeit merchandise is often of inferior quality and may not meet safety standards. Additionally, purchasing counterfeits hurts the video game industry and can lead to job losses. Q: How do counterfeiters evade litigation? A: Some counterfeiters change company names or host websites on non-US servers to avoid legal repercussions, as highlighted in Ubisoft's lawsuit.

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[kuvlarstuff]

Internet Drama and Real Life

Hello Tumblr, I never thought I'd have to make this sort of post before but lets get into it. First off: I'm very much neutral on the subject of the whole Proship or Anti-proship debacle. I'm not chronically online as most people are because I'm just not a big tumblr user. Second off: I've interacted with people who are on both sides of the debate. I'm friends with people who are on both sides of the debate. Does this change anything about me? No not really. Does this mean that I support proshippers? No. Does this mean that I support anti-proshippers? No. Does this mean that I just want to have fun with the people I interact with online and be friends with them? Yes. Somehow, within the last day or so, people within the whole UTMV fandom have gone from the simple mentality of "block and move on" to "doxxing and killing". Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, what the fuck.

Reminder: This is petty internet drama. It's nothing to dox people over. If you truly believe that someone for having a different view point on the world needs to be violently hanged and killed, then you need to step back and look at the situation and what you're saying.

Doxxing someone, while not inherently illegal, is very immoral on various social media platforms. Multiple people on both sides of the debate, whether you're an "anti" or a "proship", don't want their personal information released online. Why would you do that? What's your end game there? By posting someone's private information with the intent to harass and make their life miserable, they can actually file a civil lawsuit against you. It's very, very easy to file a civil suit against someone else. There's also the various other legal ramifications such as violations of personal privacy, harassment, and if you're actually wanting to follow through on those threats of violence, cyberstalking. -----

Also before you come at me and say "oh, you're neutral, you support proshitters", that doesn't make you look like the good guy man. I'm neutral because I'm just a guy that wants to play minecraft and I want to talk with my friends. jesus christ. EDIT: While you're here, I recommend taking a look at this post:

Pro vs Anti-shipping opinions from someone who is Neutral…and will get canceled on both sides anyway

[rslashrats]

i keep seeing random youtube videos by some minecraft youtubers being recommended to me about someone wanting to sue mojang and i’m sorry but the whole situation seems so fishy to me. i am not really knowledgable in legal affairs but the fundraiser being used to hire legal experts to assess if it can even be done and it being advertised as costs for a lawsuit feels. wrong

[infectiouspiss]

fuck me im so out of the minecraft loop right now that i didn't even know we were bringing a lawsuit against mojang for breaking multiple laws in order to fuck over the minecraft community

[spaceumbredoggos]

However fucked up Alex reveals Bill and Ford’s relationship is revealed to be in The Book Of Bill, Kenz and Bill’s is a hundred times worse.

Disclaimer: I am not glorifying abuse in any way shape or form. I myself have had nightmares similar to this despite never being sexually abused, both Bill related and otherwise. Some of these are based on personal experience (such as the nightmares), whilst others are a device used to show how fucked up shipping Bill with pretty much anyone is. Not even the Axolotl is safe in my opinion. If Bill was real, I’d guarantee he’d probably be a massive creep and with how thirsty his fankids are (and I’m calling myself out here) he’d probably use his magic to g*oom those kids like a church pastor. The thing that scares me the most about Bill being canonically real is not that he could catastrophically end the world, it’s his oversexualization in the fandom that got so bad, Alex himself had to make him unattractive. This will be along the lines of a Yandere Bill Cipher x Reader headcanons. With that being said, here’s a few content warnings:

G*ooming, Pedoph*lia, s*xual abuse and assault, physical and psychological abuse, mind control, cult-like things, psychosis, and general paranoia. I’m not saying these things actually happened, but knowing Bill’s character and his powers and history, if he was real, I’d generally be afraid for anyone in the Gravity Falls fandom. Especially minors.

This could be my most controversial post yet, and it could jeopardize any potential of getting into some colleges. This may sound like paranoid rambling, but I know that Bill is just a cartoon character. That being said, Alex like the blur the line between our world and the world of gravity falls with Bill’s character, dicing around the fact that he’s influenced history and wrote all religion on the basis of a lie. I’m not scapegoating him as “controlling global politics on a massive scale” because that would be stupid and I’ll sound like those tin foil hat rednecks that snort moonshine and burn pride flags. My heart goes out to all those who have been impacted by all forms of abuse as an abuse survivor myself. Alex, if you see this post (or any other of my posts/ read my fanfics), just know that it’s a critique on the fandom and the canon lore, and a cautionary warning to avoid lawsuits in case The Book of Bill Cipher causes mass psychosis.

As a kid (ages 7-9) I would watch Gravity Falls casually. At that age, the only thing I consumed online content wise was Skylanders and Minecraft content (Skylanders until age nine, then it was pretty much a lot of Team Crafted, Popularmmos, DanTDM, and other Minecraft YouTubers.) I didn’t invest in the Gravity Falls fandom until I was eleven (that’s when I first started writing my fanfics. The drafts are long gone because they were on school computers that were crammed with viruses due to kids installing Minecraft mods (this was just before chromebooks became mainstream. I went to a special ed middle school specifically for autistic individuals (it was pretty ableist, gonna make a post on that.) so the rules on what was allowed in school were pretty loose content wise. It didn’t have to be educational, as long as it didn’t have blood or guns. There were no safe search filters or Go Guardian (I remember one of my friends accidentally finding Iris from Pokemon black and white vore. I also found Pacifica vore.)) Before that, the February before my tenth birthday, my dad took my TV out of my room due to behavioral issues (undiagnosed autism go brrr). Around that time, there was talk in my town that the Disney channel was “rotting kids minds” with bad attitudes and crude humor (this could be said about any child’s television network (I mean, look at Nickelodeon.) but I lived in a pretty conservative area of Southern California and had a pretty conservative dad. So naturally, Disney was the scapegoat (this was way before the “woke” era of Disney.)) All of this talk of Brainrot made me stop watching the Disney channel during the peak era of gravity falls (2015 as a whole) and I didn’t watch gravity falls again until summer of 2016 when my tv was put back in my room (with intense parental controls so that I couldn’t watch my vet shows.) That’s when I had my first gravity falls dream about Bill cipher. It had to do with getting unicorn hair to protect my house from Bill Cipher. I had an interest in dreams previously due to warrior cats. It was at that moment when Gravity Falls was added to the obsession list.

As a neurodivergent eleven year old surrounded by other neurodivergent preteens and teens, we found common ground talking about Gravity Falls at school. I also would, whenever I didn’t feel the prying eyes of the grown ups or my peers would go off outside and act out my gravity falls x pokemon x warrior cats fanfiction (I’m not sure if those are signs of maladaptive daydreaming disorder or I simply had an intense imagination that would consume my body and make me want to just act out my fanfictions outside. I don’t do this anymore, mostly because of my own embarrassment and I can just write it out.) Yes, there were times where the discussion or action played out Bill Cipher being real. A lot of my “play” as I called it back then was me being kidnapped or possessed by Bill. I even wrote some really cringey fanfics involving my friends and Bill Cipher. To this day, I still involve my family in my fanfiction, but more final drafts will have their names changed. Weirdmaggeddon was a common topic, as well as Bill Cipher possession.

As time went on, I had more dreams about Bill Cipher, fueling the obsession and the fact that Bill could be real. During my middle school years, I never had a crush on Bill Cipher, despite what my friends seem to think. My parents just took it as whatever and as long as I was happy and just working towards going to a neurotypical non-sped school. My crush on Bill Cipher didn’t start until I was in high school. I remember it specifically being Valentine’s Day 2020 when I learned that I have a crush on the triangle. My dreams of Bill would only get more frequent and worse from here (involving the typical horny teenage dream that I don’t want to elaborate because I feel weird doing so (you’ll see why later on.))

Now there’s typically nothing wrong with having a cartoon crush. Given any other cartoon character that doesn’t have a canon history of influencing this world (Bill’s history of influence is vague but it still counts) I would excuse this as another silly cartoon crush like PurpleCliffe simping for Cynthia and the like. However, given that it��s in the show’s canon that Bill could be real and he crossed over to our world, do you understand what implications this could have? Bill is trillions of years old, he’s likely seen every timeline to ever exist. Meanwhile, there are whole armies of fankids who are down bad for him (including me.)

Notice how when I first started getting into Gravity Falls that I didn’t have a crush on him. How many other fankids felt the same way? It wasn’t until years of obsessing over Gravity Falls did I develop feelings for him. And of Alex says in the Book of Bill Cipher what I think he’s going to say (that Bill probably ab*sed Ford sexually with possible g*ooming involved), notice the pattern that is being presented here? Alex, if you blur the lines between fiction and reality with a villain who may or may not have canonically g*oomed and abused someone, possibly using mind control given his powers and his role as a dream demon, could it really be so far fetched that… (I’m not going to say it because it’s leaving a sour taste in my mouth, but use your imagination.)

If we take Alex’s word that Bill has crossed over to our world, then we can only assume that there are vulnerable kids and adults being… You get the picture. I’m not explicitly saying that it is happening right now, but this is problematic because revealing that Bill ab*sed Ford in that way means that Alex would probably imply that Bill is doing the same to MINORS. I may sound paranoid and this may just be a ramble, but considering the show’s canon and how mythology is filled with cases of degenerative acts from deities, this is a really fucked up situation.

It may be funny to say “haha, evil triangle man is sexy” but at the end of the day, Alex stated that Bill has crossed over into our world. For all we know, he could be taking advantage of the fact that people thirst for him, probably not in pleasant ways.