The Line Of Copy

An imaginary line that separates rip-offs from fan-games and games inspired by an original copy. The line details stuff such as micro-transactions and stolen models.

"There are about 1,000,000 Minecraft clones. Yet they all cross The Line Of Copy."

by xXPatrickStar_GamingYT6969Xx September 13, 2022

Ogilvy on long copy

A reference to the classical Advertising text 'Ogilvy on Advertising', in which David Ogilvy describes the power of persuasion with a good long-copy ad.

So just putting it out there: in this 280 characters or less world, I'm still an "Ogilvy on Long Copy" kinda man.

by CompSciFutures February 28, 2023

Have a copy

I have a mental note or image of what has been said or seen

Sarah: come look at the pictures of Andy at my party last weekend
Wayne: yo I have a copy!

by Tee_campbell August 14, 2023

They didn't copy it

THEY DIDN'T COPY IT, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! You BOTH used the same instruction manual! You BOTH bought the LEGO brand DeathStar from Walmart and when you finished building it you looked at eachother like 🤨 "This guy is copying me!" You ALL bought the HYM IAM brand AI and now it works how I designed it to work. That's what's happening here. You buld Legos and you thought it was you. It wasn't you. You built the Lego Millennium Falcon because that is what the pieces in the box you bought build when you put them together.

Hym Iam "They didn't copy it! You don't think it's weird at all that you all had the same breakthrough at the same time?"

A fucking wannabe "But I don't think it should be Hym though..."

Hym Iam "You are a retarded, delusional, useless fuck. No it should not be you instead of me. You're not more moral. You're not better suited to do anything. You have a self and your self is less suited to do anything them MY self you fucking asshole."

by Hym Iam February 25, 2026

4th party copy

Pirated material, usually software or games

P1: Damn, I want to play this game, but I can't afford it!
P2: Don't worry, I have a 4th party copy you can use.

by moosetwin July 13, 2025

No I am not just copy and pasting from YouTube

Fuck you Baldur's Gate guy and what are YOU doing? Are you just taking the meta narrative of MY thing writing a story around that? Jordan Peterson, Megyn Kelly, and Ben Shapiro collude to use the power of 'the ultimate brain' that they have enslaved for their own ends. Jordan Peterson has got DAME AYLIN imprisoned to make himself immortal. MY INITIALS. The two first merchants of the game? No? Because that look like that's what you did. The Dark Ugre? I would be quoting myself to say "Can you resist THE URGE?" AND the end of the Dark Urge is even a metacommentary on determinism. So that is CLEARLY a reference to me. I both wrote and AM the character. You did the same thing I did. And NO she can still be wrong to fuck him you piece of shit no that us not how that works.

Hym "No I am not just copy and pasting from YouTube. And to the extent that I am, I'm either doing it for clarity I the form of the definition of a word I'm going to riff on OR I'm doing it for ease where I'm copy and pasting MY OWN words to either move them around or transfer the from one box to the next OOOOR... OOOOR... I'm using some initial presupposition from there as either a starting point or evidence for the thing I want to talk about and it is WITHIN THE CONFINES of copyright law. There is an explicit carve-out for THE NEWS... Which is where I'm getting it. And to the extent that I'M NOT. It's from people who are peddling the same exact information as one another and citing the same studies. ACCORDING TO SUCHIR BALAJI (Who was whistleblower about AI NOT MEETING THE4 FACTOR CRITERIA FOR COPYRIGHT) WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS NOT. So that is MORE than just your shitty, useless book getting dumped in as training data. MY IDEAS WHERE THE GOOD ONES. THEIR IDEAS weren't even THEIR ideas. So no I am not doing that. Fuck you. What is good about the story is ME. And Baldur's Gate games are USUALLY real time games, right?"

by Hym Iam November 23, 2025

copycunts

Copycunts are losers with no imagination of their own that mimmick what others do.

Copycunts are annoying, they even submit the same words to Urban Dictionary that others have.

by jpg3 September 7, 2013