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PoontifexMacksimus posted:They are going to try to make isekai fantasy harem anime mainstream Reborn as the The Weakest Class "Monk," but I'll Prove it the Strongest... Wait, No, Nevermind it's Terrible
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Die is fine but they really should just adapt his Darth Vader run. Best piece of Star Wars media and it isn't even close. A Disney+ series starring Chloe Bennett as Dr. Aphra or nothing. 
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She Kills Monster is an independent stage play about a woman who, after her family dies, seeks to learn more about her insular little sister by playing through the Dungeons and Dragons adventure she wrote. I say it at the Flea and was blown away.
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Meinberg posted:She Kills Monster is an independent stage play about a woman who, after her family dies, seeks to learn more about her insular little sister by playing through the Dungeons and Dragons adventure she wrote. I say it at the Flea and was blown away. I haven't seen it, but I read the script. It's solid, heartfelt and authentic.
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Meinberg posted:She Kills Monster is an independent stage play about a woman who, after her family dies, seeks to learn more about her insular little sister by playing through the Dungeons and Dragons adventure she wrote. I say it at the Flea and was blown away. gently caress this makes me wish I was still active in theater. I would be hammering doors in to try and stage this. (If/when it's safe, obviously.)
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Meinberg posted:She Kills Monster is an independent stage play about a woman who, after her family dies, seeks to learn more about her insular little sister by playing through the Dungeons and Dragons adventure she wrote. I say it at the Flea and was blown away. Thank you so much for sharing this! I'm going to try to get ahold of this to read as soon as I can.
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Meinberg posted:She Kills Monster is an independent stage play about a woman who, after her family dies, seeks to learn more about her insular little sister by playing through the Dungeons and Dragons adventure she wrote. I say it at the Flea and was blown away. I saw a friend in a zoom production of this a few months ago, they did a cute bit by having a "stage hand" In a blacked out room wearing black gloves moving miniatures in dioramas for in game bits and made sure their costumes matched the minis.
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Meinberg posted:She Kills Monster is an independent stage play about a woman who, after her family dies, seeks to learn more about her insular little sister by playing through the Dungeons and Dragons adventure she wrote. I say it at the Flea and was blown away. I had the good fortune to see a production of this a couple of years ago, and it was great! Really sincere, heartwarming, and funny. It was done in the round with hexagonal risers of "terrain tiles" in the center making up this cool multi-leveled fantasy stage, with some "real world" locations spread around the perimeter of the space. They also had a good time poking fun at the monsters that show up in the adventure, like a Beholder that was a balloon with eyes drawn on it and some other stuff taped on. Really enhanced the suspension of disbelief that the protagonist was learning throughout the show. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/WeisMargaret/status/1340350657690292224 Dragonlance lawsuit dismissed without prejudice.
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CitizenKeen posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/WeisMargaret/status/1340350657690292224 That’s surprising. It looked like an open and shut case
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"Without prejudice" means they're free to refile. Without prejudice often means that a case is missing a key pedantic component and the judge wants to allow it to be refiled, or more likely, a settlement was reached.
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CitizenKeen posted:"Without prejudice" means they're free to refile. Without prejudice often means that a case is missing a key pedantic component and the judge wants to allow it to be refiled, or more likely, a settlement was reached. Exactly. I would reckon that they reached a settlement, there's an NDA involved, and we'll hear more details about the forthcoming books.
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I got my author lawsuits mixed up and thought that was news on Disney's "we bought the property without buying the obligation to pay royalties" shenanigans.
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Oh no that case would be trending on Twitter in big numbers because of how far ranging it would be.
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thetoughestbean posted:That’s surprising. It looked like an open and shut case Given the tone of the Tweet, it sounds like WotC came to an agreement with Weis and co. with the licensing.
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It is 100% a settlement, yeah.
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An early and easy settlement is probably the best for everybody involved but I kinda hoped that WotC would be publicly shamed in court and then taken to the cleaners
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thetoughestbean posted:An early and easy settlement is probably the best for everybody involved but I kinda hoped that WotC would be publicly shamed in court and then taken to the cleaners The worst that would have happened is some executive would just sigh and shrug a little as they wrote a check.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:The worst that would have happened is some executive would just sigh and shrug a little as they wrote a check. I also imagine that whomever in their GC office who has decided that failure to approve work isn't a constructive breach of contract has also gotten a talking to. (See also Gale Force Nine's suit.)
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DIE would make a great TV series IMO
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thetoughestbean posted:An early and easy settlement is probably the best for everybody involved but I kinda hoped that WotC would be publicly shamed in court and then taken to the cleaners WotC is just a department of a much bigger, pissier machine, isn't it?
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:WotC is just a department of a much bigger, pissier machine, isn't it? Doesn't even matter. 99 percent of filed lawsuits resolve the exact same way, machine or delicate person or thing in-between.
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Memnaelar posted:Doesn't even matter. 99 percent of filed lawsuits resolve the exact same way, machine or delicate person or thing in-between. Yep. Cheaper for everyone involved that way, mostly the filing is just a matter of 'no, we're serious'.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:DIE would make a great TV series IMO Yeah, it'd be a fantastic limited series. Or even an anthology, with different groups getting pulled into different facets.
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This explains a lot https://www.wired.com/story/dungeons-dragons-diversity/ Wired Article citing Orion Black posted:“On a business level, Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins [D&D’s senior story designer] make all the decisions,” they say. “Those two praise this god of D&D, and the image they have of this god is very specific and they can not anger this god. Anything they can change, they have to work through their concept of faith and do some mental gymnastics.” Those are two quotes that discuss rules aspects, but there's a lot more going on in the article. It's a great read.
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So I'm always three steps removed from discourse. Based on just insults and context clues, did Mercer... .tweet a fantasy scenario where magic cops from his D&D game would be helpful in ending the Capitol occupation?
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theironjef posted:So I'm always three steps removed from discourse. Based on just insults and context clues, did Mercer... .tweet a fantasy scenario where magic cops from his D&D game would be helpful in ending the Capitol occupation? https://twitter.com/matthewmercer/status/1347357973379567617 Sure seems like it.
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lmao that sure is dumb of him.
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It is very much like the first ten minutes of a movie about a character that needs to learn to live in reality. Except those movies usually star children.
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https://twitter.com/TheDovetailor/status/1348082068434034689 I'm not very familiar with Pandey but signal-boosting.
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Hostile V posted:https://twitter.com/TheDovetailor/status/1348082068434034689 This Pammu person is using some very harsh language and denouncing Ajey Pandey over some very minor things. To wit, the specific things Pandey is accused of:
These are the specific things Pammu here are using to show that Ajey Pandey "engaged in harmful & triggering behaviour". The first two are not really bad behaviour in any way in my eyes, and the third is horribly unspecific. It could be weeks of abuse, it could be a single instance of rudeness. Which makes a Twitter denounciation thread seem a bit excessive. Like usually when someone's done something bad you lead with how they made you watch while they kicked your puppy, not how they talked to one of your acquaintances about a puppy-kicker's work in flower arranging. In fact, the omission of anything substantial makes this seem like an attempt to get Ajey Pandey cancelled by using very harsh language to imply that he's an emotional abuser when he's actually not done anything. So honestly I'd recommend holding off on signal-boosting anything until there's any evidence Ajey Pandey did more than write a tweet mentioning an abuser in a reply to someone Pammu follows on Twitter and then not apologize in the way Pammu wanted.
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Ajey also made an apology thread that mentions some of that a few months ago. https://twitter.com/AjeyPandey/status/1330241992203309065 He deleted a post specifically talking about Pammu after she protested that he didn't talk to/apologize directly to her first. I recall that, after saying he was going to stop aggressively self-promoting and reviewing other people's work for a while, he started doing so again the same day. (When people pointed it out, he deleted that too.) Disclaimer: This is just some additional information related to the above, and not me saying Ajey has done anything particularly terrible or that he should be cancelled or anything. I do not know or follow anybody involved in this drama, just saw a bunch of other people talking about it when it came up back then.
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LatwPIAT posted:This Pammu person is using some very harsh language and denouncing Ajey Pandey over some very minor things. To wit, the specific things Pandey is accused of: I used to say that a big problem in the RPG business is people refusing to name names. Now people arenaming names, but more often than not, I have to play Internet Detective to get to the bottom of the controversy. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Jan 10, 2021 |
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Halloween Jack posted:It's not in the initial post, but someone said something about being obnoxious in a Discord. Yep. Please name names if someone is a problem, but also name the actual problem, not just skating around it, especially if you're going to disable most people's replies so no one can actually clarify what you're even talking about. Holding off on making a judgment on this one but it ain't a promising opening. e: also, can I get one thing clarified real quick on their chain? I get content warnings and appreciate them when they're present, but is there really much of a point to "CW: Ben Flowers" when the entirety of the relevant content is just saying the name again? You put the entirety of the content you're warning about in the content warning... SkyeAuroline fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jan 10, 2021 |
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Halloween Jack posted:It's not in the initial post, but someone said something about being obnoxious in a Discord. I think that's part of the Pandey apology thread, he was promoted to a mod in Kwan's Asians Represent discord and was somehow so bad at it that it required a public apology(which honestly sounds like an interesting story). theironjef fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jan 10, 2021 |
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SkyeAuroline posted:e: also, can I get one thing clarified real quick on their chain? I get content warnings and appreciate them when they're present, but is there really much of a point to "CW: Ben Flowers" when the entirety of the relevant content is just saying the name again? You put the entirety of the content you're warning about in the content warning... Content warnings on Twitter are almost wholly useless in general, to be honest -- tweets are so short that by the time my brain has processed the warning my eyes have already taken in the rest of the tweet. They're even less useful on image posts. The Mastodon solution (which I think involves hiding CWed content behind spoiler bars) would be much better.
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potatocubed posted:Content warnings on Twitter are almost wholly useless in general, to be honest -- tweets are so short that by the time my brain has processed the warning my eyes have already taken in the rest of the tweet. They're even less useful on image posts. Sure, I mostly only find them useful on long threads or whatnot (but I also follow people who do those, which isn't the majority). Just trying to figure out why a CW as long as the content is an idea at all, let alone a good one.
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It presumably involved discussing the actually triggering events in greater, explanatory detail for people who were not originally involved. Like, putting up a content warning of Zack S. before going into the litany of triggering ways he loving sucks.
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Mr. Maltose posted:It presumably involved discussing the actually triggering events in greater, explanatory detail for people who were not originally involved. Like, putting up a content warning of Zack S. before going into the litany of triggering ways he loving sucks. quote:CW // Ben Flowers There's not really further details on the abuses of Ben Flowers. It's literally a "Watch out, I'm about to mention a name, here is that name, here it is again" usage. My best guess is that it's to head off twitter wags saying "Well you are also saying it." Or, less disingenuously, it's just that she is very committed to safety-based discourse and not as bothered with concerns about if it makes linguistic sense on a case by case basis. theironjef fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jan 10, 2021 |
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potatocubed posted:Content warnings on Twitter are almost wholly useless in general, to be honest -- tweets are so short that by the time my brain has processed the warning my eyes have already taken in the rest of the tweet. They're even less useful on image posts. For what it's worth, you can mute terms on Twitter, so to a certain degree Content Warnings could be used to just prevent you from seeing those tweets at all. Like if a rape victim wanted to just mute the words/phrases "rape", "sexual assault," etc.
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