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Dong Nguyen killed a chart-topping game because his guilt became so bad after realizing it had become "an addiction" that he couldn't sleep. Gametech Holdings, LLC has now revived the game back but with *more* dark patterns, loot boxes, and predatory design. This is cool Tweeted at 10:53 AM · Sep 12, 2024 "But why would Nguyen sell the Flappy Bird Trademark??" "Hope he got his bag" Looks like he *didn't*. It seems like it's been long enough that the trademark was considered abandoned, so Gametech Holdings LLC filed against him, and just. Grabbed it for free. Tweeted at Sep 12 Wow. If that's truly how it went down, it's genuinely fucking depressing. Great work, gang. You got me bothered about Flappy Bird. You can see all the court docs here: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Dong%20Nguyen%20Ha%20%20… Tweeted at Sep 12 In a better world, this banger would have been the end of the story: Tweeted at Sep 12 At LEAST the guy who created the game Flappy Bird was (allegedly (VERY heavily)) based on is part of this. So that's something. Genuinely hope that guy is getting something for it, it's deserved. Tweeted at Sep 12 But yeah. Quite shit. Very cynical. And the wild part is... we've gotten SO much worse since Flappy Bird haha. Even this is almost TAME by today's standards. We're just beating a dead bird. Until the inevitable NFT drop. Can't wait for FlappyCoin. Gotta join that Telegra- Tweeted at Sep 12 I find the fixation on the 'IP' so odd. It's not trying to conjure anything meaningful, Nguyen isn't involved, and arguably the original game was itself a ripoff. The 'value' being presented here is a paper-thin "remember when 2014 happened" Tweeted at Sep 12 ...and now it's my turn to cynically plug my own non-criminal stuff hi you might like it Tweeted at Sep 12 awesome new idea? what if follow me instead of the new flappy bird account fun thread summarizing what we do here: Tweeted at Sep 12 listen i'm sorry i gotta take the chances i get Tweeted at Sep 12 Calling my shot, they're gonna try to spin this as the 'noble motivation' in their next press release Tweeted at Sep 12 Look- these dudes aren't villainous masterminds. Don't give them that much credit. And they're not heroes either. Nobody's burning or building orphanages here. It's just another case of businessmen seeing an opportunity to make money and taking it. Tweeted at Sep 12 It's just particularly dreary to necromance a brand that was killed by its creator *on principle*. It's a case study. A big sigh. A photocopy of a photocopy, claiming originality by using the expiration date on a trademark. We see the problem. This ain't the solution. Tweeted at Sep 12 Glad they brought this dude on to get paid! But we're not gonna pretend that this is a pure effort to re-balance the scales of a cosmic wrong - that's a side effect of a trade for rights. It's... it's flappy bird. Best thing to do? Move on. Find people doing interesting new work. Tweeted at Sep 12 After this point in the thread, we've probably both spent too much time thinking about it. Let's put this energy elsewhere <3 and uh... again, gotta take the chances i get. i have some fun shit planned for the next few months Tweeted at Sep 12

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