quote: I posted the first section of my screenplay on the Internet, and my modification of the story has outraged some people to the point that they have threatened to write their OWN version of the script, and I've had to point out to them very kindly that even if they have no money, I have to sue them in order to protect my copyright. If I don't sue, then my work can go into the public domain, so please don't make me sue you and your university and your Internet provider and your parents and everybody else, so that I can protect my copyright.
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Q: You are renowned for playing Sid Meier's "Civilization" computer game. Card: "Civilization II" is the one I play. Whether it's because they listened to my reviews of the first version or whether they're good and wise people, they've openly made the game more adaptable so that I can play the game I want. I can go in and fiddle with the "Rules.txt" file. I'm really not interested in the war-game aspect of that. It's still there, but it's trivial. I love exploring the right place to build a city, building it and growing it in the right way, outsmarting all the other computer-driven players and learning everything my people need to learn. The terrible thing is, I've learned my system and I'm just repeating it over and over again, so it's boring, but I'm addicted.
Giving up a game addiction causes withdrawal. When I travel without my computer, I have this anxiety that keeps me from sleeping because I'm not playing "Civilization." It's terrible. I don't feel that way about my fiction. I can sleep perfectly well having written nothing, but if I haven't played my game that day, I'm anxious.
Now this is funny.
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Now if I was theSid Meier don't you think Mr. Card would be worshiping me or something? Rather then the other way around. Posts: 1567 | Registered: Oct 2004
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"Which would you rather have, the sales of 'The Last Starfighter,' which had the teen audience, or the sales of a movie like 'E.T.'?" And they go, "But 'E.T.' was a special movie." And I'd say, "Good, make a special movie out of Ender's Game. That's fine with me." "
They didn't get it. They wanted to cast the next Brad Pitt, so he could have a love interest. They wanted to remake "The Last Starfighter."
I refused to deal with people until they agreed that Ender would be played as under age twelve. Again, it's these same rules: "But we want the teen audience." And I would say, "Which would you rather have, the sales of 'The Last Starfighter,' which had the teen audience, or the sales of a movie like 'E.T.'?" And they go, "But 'E.T.' was a special movie." And I'd say, "Good, make a special movie out of Ender's Game. That's fine with me."
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I hoped it was a joke too, but it's so hard to tell when you just read it and are as unexperienced as I am. Reading it again, I'm pretty sure it was a joke. -gullible-
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quote:I think he was making a joke. I sure hope he was anyway.
If you read anything, you'd see he envisions a dry-comic type for the Anderson role. EDG fits this description very well. And she is, actually, very funny.
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