OK, so the NaNoThesisMo thing totally didn't work out for me because I fully didn't take into account the intellectually and temporally devastating quantity of marking I would have to do this month. Que sera, sera. I still got a boatload of writing done, and it won't be long before I'm free
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Blizzard copped the same back in the day what with Warcraft being seen by some as Dune II with orcs. Questions of inspiration being as they may, they're one of the few outfits putting out AAA games that I think deserve to be called AAA. Mind you, it must be nice to have squillions of dollars and the ability to indefinitely delay deadlines while retaining good faith from both your corporate and customer masters.
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As for theft... Blizzverses are all quite derivative - but, you know what, so is the vast majority of SF&F. At least the have the politeness to file off the serial numbers and reshape the bodies a bit as well as applying their own decals.
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And yeah, it definitely isn't theft, but if I were a GW artist or staffer I couldn't help but feel a bit weird about it.
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