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canyoneer posted:Uno has sold 150 million copies despite being Crazy Eights with a few other cards added They are making Uno 2: Dos
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Plutonis posted:They are making Uno 2: Dos Disappointed it didn't pick up where the first game left off, with only one card in hand, now you have to make it to two cards, what's gonna happen in the Los Números saga?!
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Disappointed it didn't pick up where the first game left off, with only one card in hand, now you have to make it to two cards, what's gonna happen in the Los Números saga?!
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Plutonis posted:They are making Uno 2: Dos
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Plutonis posted:They are making Uno 2: Dos It's already out, you can go and buy it at Target right this second. It looks like it's exactly like Uno but you say Dos when you have two cards left in hand, and the wilds are a little different.
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food court bailiff posted:It's already out, you can go and buy it at Target right this second. wait this wasn't a joke?
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:wait this wasn't a joke? The only joke is "mainstream" board game companies.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:The only joke is "mainstream" board game companies. yeah for all the bad stuff about the TG industry the mainstream board game industry is a parody of consumer capitalism
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It also has two stacks of cards you can match instead of one, and if you manage to match the color of both stacks (presumably to balance the fact that it's a lot easier to lay down cards), you force everybody else to draw a card. Otherwise it's mostly the same except for the aforementioned changed cards. You could do a lot worse with children's games, really.
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While he wasn't one of the great devils of this forum's mythology, I think it bears mentioning that James Shipman of Outlaw Press infamy apparently passed away last month. It seems to have only just recently come to the attention of RPGnet and the T&T community. There are already plenty of posts along the lines of "I'm sure he was a great personal friend [until he stole your poo poo]" and "he was very talented and creative [when he bothered to write his own stuff instead of stealing it]". I guess those of his friends he didn't betray over and over again and his relatives saw some personal value in him, and I'm sorry they have to feel the sting of that loss, but his ceaseless and deliberate theft is what he tried his damnedest to put out into the world and I'm glad that's finally over.
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James Shipman wasn't just a thief, he was an unrepentant one who would email the people he stole from to publish for profit thanking them for their "contributions." Good riddance.
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To be honest I only half believe it because "Fakes his own death so he can keep trying to publish stolen property" is entirely in character. Like, maybe if a new "J. S." doesn't pop up on Lulu in a few months selling Tunnels and Trolls reprints with stolen illustrations from Deviantart, then I'll be convinced.
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This is gross and unsurprising if true. https://twitter.com/Sphynxian/status/978111459988312064
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Worth clicking through there to read the entire thread. Jessica Price had some useful input too: https://twitter.com/delafina777/status/978124284848517120
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I think the quote that does it for me is: https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/978124816292069376 Wants all the cookies for pandering sums up Paizo quite nicely.
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They got as big as they got feasting on those tough, stodgy grognard cookies, but they also love the rainbow sprinkles and sense of virtue they get out of the progressiveness cookies.
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I took a fair amount of poo poo for questioning Paizo's progressive bonafides, and yet I wish I'd been wrong. But I always felt they seemed totally disinterested in addressing the regressive poo poo at the heart of Pathfinder, and to me that was always the damning evidence. Granted, individual authors, artists, editors, and directors have definitely done their part and tried to be more forward-thinking, and I don't want to diminish that. But the core of of the company is still built on people who celebrate not changing things.
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Yeah, this policy is straight up monstrous.
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LuiCypher posted:I think the quote that does it for me is:
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Reminder that this is what Lisa Stevens had to say about harassment at Paizo late last year:quote:My name is Lisa Stevens and I am the CEO and owner of Paizo Inc. Events of the past few weeks have compelled me to make this statement. So Paizo encourages their employees to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment or assault, except when they want to treat them like attacks against the company, and they promise to handle every issue with tremendous sensitivity except you'll have to take their word for it because they won't discuss anything publicly.
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Kai Tave posted:Reminder that this is what Lisa Stevens had to say about harassment at Paizo late last year: Don't forget - not just that they're treated like attacks against the company, but will be "treated accordingly." So better hope they aren't upset about your allegations of harassment, because they might otherwise apparently loving retaliate?
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What the gently caress is even an "attack against the company?" Like, outside of this context or the lobby scene from the Matrix, what does attacking a company even loving look like? Saying mean things online?
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:What the gently caress is even an "attack against the company?" Like, outside of this context or the lobby scene from the Matrix, what does attacking a company even loving look like? Saying mean things online? The OneShot thing was found to be an attack against the organization, and it's entirely believable for trolls to do this. Just, not as often and credibly as a lot of people seem to think.
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That Old Tree posted:The OneShot thing was found to be an attack against the organization, and it's entirely believable for trolls to do this. Just, not as often and credibly as a lot of people seem to think. Sure, but if this is the intended interpretation of Paizo's policy ("we're going to take every accusation of wrongdoing seriously and thoroughly investigate it") then that's one hell of a stupid way to frame it, and I can't say I'm inclined to be charitable towards Paizo at this point.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:What the gently caress is even an "attack against the company?" Like, outside of this context or the lobby scene from the Matrix, what does attacking a company even loving look like? Saying mean things online? Saying mean things online that result in lost sales, clients, employees, etc.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:What the gently caress is even an "attack against the company?" Like, outside of this context or the lobby scene from the Matrix, what does attacking a company even loving look like? Saying mean things online? What this effectively means is that the company cares more about what a case will do in terms of external press and public perception about the company. To pull what's probably a clumsy analogy, Larry Nassar was reported to college authorities over a hundred times for sexual abuse and harassment, and yet authorities never did anything because they didn't want to stain the name of the school with a sex scandal. Because if your company is organized around making a profit, and then you get embroiled in something that might damage your company's ability to make that profit, then you can be motivated in a way that prioritizes the protection of the company over the victim of a case.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:What the gently caress is even an "attack against the company?" Like, outside of this context or the lobby scene from the Matrix, what does attacking a company even loving look like? Saying mean things online? Questioning any policies or speaking ill of the company? It seems like one of those banal phrases HR departments use to describe any form of criticism, constructive or unconstructive. Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Saying mean things online that result in lost sales, clients, employees, etc. This is probably closer to the truth but everything in it is meaningless because it's impossible to tell whether or not those type of things had any impact. It's just purposely vague, like most NDA's and noncompete clauses, to be as controlling as possible. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Mar 27, 2018 |
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The wording is vague enough that it allows them to do, well, whatever they want. Which is exactly what a company more worried about revenue than employee safety would do.
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That Old Tree posted:The OneShot thing was found to be an attack against the organization, and it's entirely believable for trolls to do this. Just, not as often and credibly as a lot of people seem to think. Yea but OneShot handled it by taking the reasonable and not insane stance of 'we take these accusations seriously, here's our very transparent reporting on the investigation, we've got multiple paths confirming this was just bullshit so we're not going to act on it but we will continue to take these accusations just as seriously as always'. Paizo is taking the insane stance of 'this is an attack and how dare you????'
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OneShot set the standard and frankly if they can, with their handful of folks, manage it, Paizo hasn't any excuses.
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I certainly wasn't defending Paizo. I was just responding to "what even is 'attack on a company'?"
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It's important to not take this in a vacuum. This is absolutely tied to the poo poo that happened at the last PaizoCon, which included barely responding to one of their guests openly harassing a con-goer and physically attacking staff.
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ProfessorCirno posted:It's important to not take this in a vacuum. This is absolutely tied to the poo poo that happened at the last PaizoCon, which included barely responding to one of their guests openly harassing a con-goer and physically attacking staff. I didn't know about this. what the gently caress.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I didn't know about this. what the gently caress. https://twitter.com/sphynxian/status/882440112646344708?lang=en They handled it by, err, doing nothing, no ban for Webb and they shut down discussion about it on their forums. And about the issues Jessica had raised (Harassment from Mentzer that she was pressured not to talk about by management), and the child abuse gives you magic powers rules/demon they published). To be fair, they did finally apologise for the last one, but only after I posted a thread specifically calling them out for the abuse bullshit, and it got a lot of traction off their forums. Given how many people on their forums were falling over themselves to be defend paizo no matter what, or to establish their edgelord credentials and throw around all the usual SJW accusations and 'it's only a game' etc., I think the management probably does know their audience pretty well, hence wanting to cover up any criticism they can. PST fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Mar 27, 2018 |
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The thing is, I don't doubt Lisa Stevens means what she says. She pretty clearly objected to to sexual harassment when she was at Wizards. But I feel like she's also demonstrated a certain blindness to the faults and failures to those she's close to. I'm not saying that to excuse Paizo or Stevens, mind. Being earnest and effective are two different things.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:The thing is, I don't doubt Lisa Stevens means what she says. She pretty clearly objected to to sexual harassment when she was at Wizards. But I feel like she's also demonstrated a certain blindness to the faults and failures to those she's close to. I'm not saying that to excuse Paizo or Stevens, mind. Being earnest and effective are two different things. I honestly don't know. I'm not familiar with her time at WotC except in the vaguest way, but from what I'm seeing it looks like another person who says they're against the vague concept of sexual harassment but isn't really that against the actual practice of sexual harassment
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I think it's more that concept's equally evil twin, "sexual harassment is bad, but what my friends are doing isn't harassment because they don't mean anything bad by it, they're harmless really."
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From John Tynes' Salon article "Death to the Minotaur":John Tynes posted:Grand as that goal was, I don't believe it was the heart of Peter [Adkison]'s vision. That honor lay with his dream of revolutionizing corporate culture itself, of making Wizards a new kind of company. We would build an alt-culture workplace of smart young people. We would destroy hierarchies by a resolute program of egalitarian consensus. We would earn fabulous paychecks and free dental treatments. We would encourage diversity in every form. John Tynes posted:Although Peter now acknowledges the strait-laced responsibility a CEO has to his or her shareholders, to some extent he mourns the "different sort of company" he says Wizards could have been. He looks back on the weekend of the Truth or Swill game wistfully. "I still don't think what we did was wrong. But society does, unfortunately."
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Welp gently caress that guy, I guess. Especially gently caress his constant use of the word "we" when describing his own assumptions, beliefs, and experiences.
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My bold, visionary corporate concept: a workplace, but one where people gently caress all the time.
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