WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew takes dives into season three of Netflix's The Travelers and ponders how it continually plays with time travel in interesting ways while D. Bethel gets educated and affected by the Netflix documentary, Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski––a documentary about artist Stanisław Szukalski and his time trying to create a national artistic identity for Poland, his brush with nationalism, his loss of everything due to Nazi occupation, and his rediscovery by a bunch of scraggly Los Angeles underground comix makers.

Here's the trailer for Travelers, season 3.

And here's the trailer for Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 49 - Muting the Ambulance (15 May 2015): When Andrew talked about another Netflix original, Grace and Frankie.
• Episode 121 - Almost an Andrew Sandwich (27 Jan. 2017): Where Andrew reflected on the first season of Travelers.

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

FEATURED MUSIC:

-"Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-"District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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NERD LAW, 2019: Two unrelated but intriguingly similar trademark cases have made the rounds in the news this last week. Chooseco, the owner of the Choose Your Own Adventure franchise has brought a lawsuit to Netflix over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and the tenuous if not honorific connections that movie has to the classic children's book series. In the world of video games, the Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations has sued Take Two––owners of Rockstar Games––for the apparent vilification of the company in the developer's highly successful late-2018 release, Red Dead Redemption 2. Andrew and D. Bethel sound the Nerd Law alarm and discuss these two cases in depth.

Dan will be tabling at Stocktoncon Winter this Sunday, January 20, with Kyrun Silva of Taurus Comics yet again (which hints at a return of the Con Artists limited podcast series)! If you're in the area, please stop by. For more information, read this post at Long John or go straight to the source at Stocktoncon.com. Hope to see you there!

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Shortcast 03 - Interview with André La Roche (31 Dec. 2014): A talk Andrew has with fellow lawyer and nerd to talk about writing for tabletop RPGs.
• Episode 150 - Comivention (15 Dec. 2017): A Nerd Law episode where Andrew examines Epic Games' suing of players cheating in Fortnite.
• Episode 156 - River City Rampage (17 Aug 2018): A smorgasbord episode of Nerd Law as Andrew discusses the acquisition of Fox properties by Disney and Nintendo's drop of the hammer on emulation sites.
• Episode 158 - Bluster and Impotence (05 Oct. 2018): A Nerd Law discussion about ComicsGate's Richard Meyer suing Mark Waid for "tortious interference with a contract."
• Shortcast 76 - A Sense of Place (30 Nov. 2018): Where D. Bethel discussed his early time with Red Dead Redemption 2.
• 11 January 2019 - Close the Loop: Where Andrew talked about his experience with Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

LINKS:

• The Pinkerton Detective Agency was a job, it was not a requirement to be a hero as this tweet from JoeWV testifies.
• Despair, Inc.'s first and only installment of the "Lose Your Own Adventure" series of books.

• Asplund, Andrew. "Nerd Law 101: Intellectual Property Basics." A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 22 Mar. 2017.
• Doctorow, Cory. "Games Workshop Trademark Bullying Goes Thermonuclear: Now They Say You Can't Use 'Space Marine' in Science Fiction." Boing Boing. Happy Mutants, 06 Feb. 2013.
• Goslin, Austen. "Netflix Hit With a Choose Your Own Adventure Lawsuit Over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch." Polygon. Vox Media, 11 Jan. 2019.
• Robertson, Adi. "Red Dead Redemption 2's Pinkerton Agents Are at the Center of a Lawsuit." The Verge. Vox Media, 14 Jan. 2019.
• Wales, Matt. "Gearbox Boss Randy Pitchford Accused of Taking Secret $12m Bonus, More During Legal Tussle With Studio's Former Lawyer." Eurogamer. Gamer Network, 11 Jan. 2019.

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

FEATURED MUSIC:

-"Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-"District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew...watches? plays?...the Black Mirror interactive movie, Bandersnatch, while D. Bethel gets sentimental about Transformers again after watching Bumblebee.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 06 - Heart Law, Article 9 (03 July 2014): Where D. Bethel relays his thoughts on the fourth Transformers movie, Transformers: The Age of Extinction.
• Shortcast 26 - It's Fun to Do Less (07 July 2017): Where D. Bethel discussed his thoughts of the previous Transformers movie, Transformers: The Last Knight.
• Shortcast 57 - Fair Point, Dude (01 June 2018): Where Andrew steps into modern coding by taking a Udemy course.
• End-Of-Year-Cast 001 - #WIN (28 Dec. 2018): Where Andrew talks about programming Choose-Your-Own-Adventure styled browser-based games.

LINKS:

• Rubin, Peter. "How the Surprise New Interactive Black Mirror Came Together." WIRED. Condé Nast, 28 Dec. 2018.
• The Cave of Adventure: A HTML5 Choose Your Own Adventure Series – Link to Andrew’s early efforts at programming a “Choose Your Own Adventure”-styled browser-based game.

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

FEATURED MUSIC:

-"Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-"District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
*Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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LOOKING FORWARD: With 2018 behind them, Andrew and D. Bethel discuss what they're looking forward to in 2019. Andrew is interested in the upcoming premium Disney streaming service, Disney+, as well as to Bethesda Game Studios adding more content to Fallout 76, while D. Bethel can't wait for It, Chapter 2 to hit theaters as well as playing the new game from Firewatch's Campo Santo, In the Valley of the Gods.

What are you looking forward to in 2019? Let us know in the comments!

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 84 - Your Cursor is My Prisoner (19 Feb. 2016): Where D. Bethel discussed his time with Campo Santo's Firewatch.
• Shortcast 17 - YouChoob (08 July 2016): Where Andrew discusses his experience playing Gone Home.
• Shortcast 31 - The Secret Was the Clap (29 Sep. 2017): Where D. Bethel enjoyed the first installment of the new It movie.
• Shortcast 54 - Cameo Train (11 May 2018): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss Avengers: Infinity War.
• Shortcast 76 - A Sense of Place (30 Nov. 2018): Where Andrew talks in depth about playing Fallout 76.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Fienberg, Daniel. "The Duffer Brothers Talk Stranger Things Influences, It Dreams, and Netflix Phase 2." The Hollywood Reporter. 01 Aug. 2016.

INFO:

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

FEATURED MUSIC:

-"Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-"District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
*Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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