is it just me or does anyone else think that story would make a great Commodore Hussle show. Graham gets a cease and desist letter and then spends the whole show hiding from a company only to learn that they went bankrupt month prior.
As a budding lawyer, I love hearing Bionic Trousers business talk. Someone spoke with Graham and Paul at an early enough age to make them very aware of how to protect themselves and LRR and it's great to hear. The business working of Bionic Trousers is great, because you have been able to give at least a dozen people jobs despite not being a booming TH-cam success. The way you have monetized a smaller, but more rabid fanbase is fantastic
See, Toys R Us went the d*ck route and tried to bully their way in to things when the proper thing to do would be to offer you money for the web domain.
His Imaginarium Studios thing reminds me of my high school "I'm going to make video games!" phase. And I liked space stuff, and I liked the idea of seeing a planet from afar and watching the sun (or local star) rise over the side of the planet rather than over the top (like we see when we're stuck on a planet). So I thought, "Vertical Horizon! I wonder ifanybody is using that?" So I searched online (I think Google hadn't taken over the world yet, so I think I used Yahoo) and found some local band on the east coast of the USA that had a new album dropping soon. And I though, "That'll be fine. No one outside of their home town will hear about them, and it'll be fine." In case you don't remember the '90s well, they sold like ten million albums and became a household name across the country. So that didn't work. Also, I never made any genuinely worthwhile games.
@@TheEvilCheesecake wow uncalled for I just have a pretty bad memory and didn't remember where it was did you scroll all the way through the comments looking to be salty
is it just me or does anyone else think that story would make a great Commodore Hussle show. Graham gets a cease and desist letter and then spends the whole show hiding from a company only to learn that they went bankrupt month prior.
Instablaster...
"Nice studio name, did your mom pick it for you?"
Bus, that really got me
"Yes. And?"
Ah yes, the "No U" legal argument
As a budding lawyer, I love hearing Bionic Trousers business talk. Someone spoke with Graham and Paul at an early enough age to make them very aware of how to protect themselves and LRR and it's great to hear. The business working of Bionic Trousers is great, because you have been able to give at least a dozen people jobs despite not being a booming TH-cam success. The way you have monetized a smaller, but more rabid fanbase is fantastic
fun fact, Imaginarium Studios is now the name of a 3D animation studio in the UK owned by Andy Serkis.
lyndon ray So what you're saying is that if Graham kept the domain name, he could have actually sold it?
@@Kokonutzlz URL speculation!
It's all fun and games until a toy store sues a minor
See, Toys R Us went the d*ck route and tried to bully their way in to things when the proper thing to do would be to offer you money for the web domain.
His Imaginarium Studios thing reminds me of my high school "I'm going to make video games!" phase. And I liked space stuff, and I liked the idea of seeing a planet from afar and watching the sun (or local star) rise over the side of the planet rather than over the top (like we see when we're stuck on a planet). So I thought, "Vertical Horizon! I wonder ifanybody is using that?" So I searched online (I think Google hadn't taken over the world yet, so I think I used Yahoo) and found some local band on the east coast of the USA that had a new album dropping soon. And I though, "That'll be fine. No one outside of their home town will hear about them, and it'll be fine."
In case you don't remember the '90s well, they sold like ten million albums and became a household name across the country.
So that didn't work.
Also, I never made any genuinely worthwhile games.
In hindsight do you think it was probably worth it that it fell through, given any potential legal trubs that could have come up?
It would have been easy enough to change the company name to avoid legal problems. "Nuclear Squid Entertainment" was my backup.
You could have shortened it to something. "Verizon" perhaps...
That doesn't sound like they tried to sue him so much as legalistically intimidate...
A children's toy company trying to sue a child is uh.. well it's something alright
I can't believe my brother was too busy to tell me Desert Bus came and went, and I missed *this*.
Edit: Too busy *watching Desert Bus without me*
Is "the studio behind Myst using Strata to animate" the precursor to "Jon Bois using Google Earth in all of his Secret Base work"?
Well, you outlasted them
I don’t wanna grow up, but I gotta get a lawyer...
i had that same idea for a cryptocurrency called Exposure
`exposure.zone` was bought by someone on 12 December 2017.
Presumably, by the guy in this video who said he bought exposure.zone so he could start a cryptocurrency
Graham said "Ok Boomer" to toys R us....
Can you make a living off url speculation
Yes. People do a lot of that, squatting on website names until people want it
Where's Road Quest ep5
It was on break for desert bus.
@@seth2250 Thanks
One of "those" fans
@@TheEvilCheesecake wow uncalled for I just have a pretty bad memory and didn't remember where it was did you scroll all the way through the comments looking to be salty
@@leftwingdragon6235 looks like i was correct