By brianfantana32 - 12/09/2012 04:24 - United States - Spokane

Today, I was assigned to write a short story about what we imagine Earth to be like in 500 years, and daily conflicts people experience. My teacher loved it and read it aloud to the class. He asked for my inspiration, and I didn't have the heart to say that I ripped off Mass Effect 3. FML
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brianfantana32 10

This. This is more of a morality issue than a legal issue. I didn't take it word for word (even though that's hard to do since it's a video game and not a book), I just used the concept.

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GAUZE 5

Mass Effect is the best inspiration hahah~

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Hiimhaileypotter 52

I hope you put your own twist on it and didn't write just about how the game is, exactly. :|

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Zomg_Okay 26

We had to do something similar once. Guy in my class ripped off the entire plot of Fallout 3. As the teacher was reading it out, one of the other guys shouted "Suddenly, a Fallout 3 appeared!". Luckily for the first guy, the teacher wasn't a gamer and it went clean over her head. If looks could kill, though. :L

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brianfantana32 10

That's too obvious, who hasn't played Halo? It's a much better story, and I would LOVE to rip it off, but it's too obvious.

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TallMist 32

#69 I haven't. Aside from HALO Wars. Hated it.

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Keith1212 4

Not really in my school, all of the students are a bunch of clueless idiots who only know to "Kill the thing that looks odd"... Unfortunately, I tried Halo. The teacher's also like me, a giant lore nerd and immediately said " HEY, THAT'S HALO YOU'RE PLAGIARIZING." I should have known better. He knows my xbox name and everyone in my class. He messages us from time to time to ask if we've done our homework assignment... I want to move school immediately

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murphdarkly 13

I hope you get caught plagiarism is never cool... Although the mass effect series are an awesome games

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stitesy29 18

Pladgerism!! I'm in middle school in Minnesota and we can get suspended for that (they have special machines to detect it).

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drkate25 30

Plagiarism is hard to spell also, but they have special machines to detect it--spell check.

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Betrys 7

SCORE!!!! Best inspiration in the world! Mass effect is amazing

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lbtaylor1984 4

post up what you wrote I'm wanting to read that

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Stormdriven37 6

Why is this an FML? You got a good grade for using a game which has a great story. Sounds like a complete win to me.

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DJXage 1

you do realize that not only can bioware sue u for using or ripping off mass effect 3 for a school assignment but for mainly plagiarism you do realize this right?

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Neekovolwf 22

That's BS since it's a school assignment it's allowed. If he were to publish it for the public to read as his own work, without giving credits to the producers of ME3, then he could be sued.

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