Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.44.141.89-20131113224543/@comment-160529-20140101211813

Octo8 wrote: You sure get strangely angry about what a community of strangers might consider "true" in a makebelief world of a pixel game. That seems... disproportionate. Maybe you want to take a walk outside, smoke a cig, or something?

This isn't a question of intellectual property. If Bethesda thought MK was infringing on their intellectual property, they'd sue or threaten to. Now, of course TES is a franchise, but so what? Intellectual property is still just an *RL* legal matter, nothing more. It defines how courts would settle stuff if it ever came to that, nothing more. It doesn't define what we as a community have to accept as cannon. That is an issue completely separate from the legal issue. What is cannon is defined by what fans and developers accept as cannon. And in *both* cases, including the devs themselves, that includes MK's material.

You might not know this, but most companies consider it in ill taste to sue FAN FICTION WRITERS for copyright infringement.

'''And fans have absolutely no bearing on this you idiot, fans are completely meaningless to what is canon and always will be. I am a fan, but I dont operate under the goddamned illusion that if I say something is canon it magically becomes canon.'''

I have tons of head-canon, and theories, and other stuff. But I am not a fucking sad child about it trying to rationalize my idiot ideas as being real to the elder scrolls universe through an ex developer.

and I will say it again... KIRKBRIDE... IS NOT.... A DEVELOPER AT BETHESDA!!!

GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL!