TWP Copycat Website?

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MasterLagger
1,695 Posts
Posted Nov 22, 2011
thinkingwithportals.webs.com/

Does this irritate anyone? Another Community Site that is named the same as this site. Is anyone else aware of this? Get a load of Rule #6 on that site: "Showing off stuff that is not yours is okay, just make sure you credit the original" They even faked a copyright!

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Another Bad Pun
516 Posts
Posted Nov 22, 2011
Replied 27 minutes later
The site looks dead. The entire forum only seems to have a few members, and the off-topic section is completely composed of spam. By the looks of it, I doubt the creator of the site even knew that another TWP already existed. It doesn't really bother me much, but it may become an issue.
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rellikpd
1,053 Posts
Posted Nov 22, 2011
Replied 6 hours later
and the idea of "thinking" with "portals" isn't new... it's in the trailers, and game, of the first portal... Even Valve jacked sleeper by registering a ThinkWithPortals.com.... bastards.
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WinstonSmith
940 Posts
Posted Nov 22, 2011
Replied 3 hours later

rellikpd wrote:
and the idea of "thinking" with "portals" isn't new... it's in the trailers, and game, of the first portal... Even Valve jacked sleeper by registering a ThinkWithPortals.com.... bastards.

Yeah they jacked us here. Totally.

Anyway, yeah, the site basically looked dead, but it's up to sleeper on this I guess.

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rellikpd
1,053 Posts
Posted Nov 23, 2011
Replied 20 hours later

WinstonSmith wrote:
Yeah they jacked us here. Totally.

i'm not getting your direction here... ?

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Another Bad Pun
516 Posts
Posted Nov 23, 2011
Replied 19 minutes later

rellikpd wrote:
WinstonSmith wrote:

Yeah they jacked us here. Totally.

i'm not getting your direction here... ?

Wait...

...What?

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MasterLagger
1,695 Posts
Posted Nov 23, 2011
Replied 2 hours later

Another Bad Pun wrote:
rellikpd wrote:

WinstonSmith wrote:

Yeah they jacked us here. Totally.

i'm not getting your direction here... ?

Wait...

...What?

Okay, this is going in a strange direction...

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WinstonSmith
940 Posts
Posted Nov 24, 2011
Replied 16 hours later

rellikpd wrote:
WinstonSmith wrote:

Yeah they jacked us here. Totally.

i'm not getting your direction here... ?

Maybe I missed sarcasm in your original point but I meant to emphasize the fact that I really think it's the other way around if anything. I would have expected VALVe to register the domain name thinkingwithportals.com long before anyone else, and the fact that sleeper swooped in and nabbed it, I believe, constitutes what is formally and technically known as a jack.

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rellikpd
1,053 Posts
Posted Nov 24, 2011
Replied 4 hours later
i was being sincere. and thanks for your explanation... I would agree with you except for the fact that they did NOTHING to make a portal website or community until YEARS after sleeper already had this one rolling. now they have a "blog"

granted the "thinking" with "portals" idea wasn't new, in fact, it's from the game/trailers directly that sleeper got the idea... But valve didn't do anything with it. Sleeper did. which is why I claim they jacked him

anyway...

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iWork925
1,080 Posts
Posted Nov 30, 2011
Replied 6 days later
cough her
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msleeper
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Posted Dec 01, 2011
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Unless they start re-hosting our files, there's not much we can do.