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blaseball tcg not beating the art theft allegations

[ID1: A tweet from Wayfinder Games, showing the box art for Blaseball: The Card Game. On the cover is art of Jessica Telephone, who's batting with a giant telephone, and Nagomi McDaniel, a woman with a long ponytail who's holding up a massive crab-like claw and grinning.

ID2: A thread from gob! (twitter user glassgoblin):

Still waiting on any kind of formal recognition or royalties given to the fans who designed the players featured in @/blaseballtcg instead of consistently ignoring the fact that @/WayfinderG did not ask for permission to use several of these designs, like at all.

I found out several of my ideas and designs were being used in Wild Cards through press releases, not DMs. I was also quick to recognize that my friends' designs had been used without prior contact. None of us have been credited or paid in this *for-profit* game.

I have stayed quiet about this for a while, hoping that someone at Wayfinder would release a public statement on the lack of design credit. There has been none. This is extremely unprofessional and I have no intentions to buy a game that stole intellectual content from fans.

ID3: A google search for "glassgoblin nagomi mcdaniel" with several images of Goblin's design. Nagomi is a short, muscular half-Japanese person. The lower half of their face is exposed skull with curved tusks. Their left arm has a tebori sleeve, and their right arm is a kona crab claw. Their hair is a dark and long side-shave, partially pulled into a ponytail that reaches their lower back. The crab claw and ponytail are similar to the art in the card game, which was created after Goblin's art. /end ID]