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Subjunctive posted:Oh, like AreTheyGay’s stuff that was copied? Yeah, maybe, though I’ll admit as I was watching the hbomberguy video I was wondering how he didn’t get copyright struck for replaying so much of Somerton’s videos. I guess it has to be registered with content ID or whatever. I just assume YouTube only cares about copyright if it could potentially affect advertisers. They have no incentive to care about other youtube content copying.
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Subjunctive posted:Oh, like AreTheyGay’s stuff that was copied? Yeah, maybe, though I’ll admit as I was watching the hbomberguy video I was wondering how he didn’t get copyright struck for replaying so much of Somerton’s videos. I guess it has to be registered with content ID or whatever. And even then, you don't want content ID to be that broad so you don't constantly get false positives. For something like AreTheyGay's work or the documentaries that were basically reuploaded with a filter and a new audio track, they wouldn't be hit for the same reason AreTheyGay's video wasn't recognized as a full episode of Merlin. There was enough other stuff that it wouldn't have registered on their automated system.
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From my limited understanding as a non-expert outsider, content ID is a mishmash of YouTube and third-party automated scrubbers, where YouTube has some sort of minimal standard for their internal tools to auto-flag stuff, and then the third-party reporters use the automated reporting tools to flag stuff based on the whims of whoever is in charge of the bot. Some third parties attempt to act relatively legitimately according to their own arcane standards, and then there're the ones that flag every single second of any content they hold, and that's all beside the fraudsters who just claim whatever they want even if they don't own the legal rights to the content in the first place.
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garthoneeye posted:I just assume YouTube only cares about copyright if it could potentially affect advertisers. They have no incentive to care about other youtube content copying. https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21030812/cox-communications-record-labels-lawsuit-appeal-1-billion-piracy-isp-charter They have a real big reason to at least appear to care about copyright.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:https://goodman-games.com/blog/2023...Pbfl4IJRci-bWZY Honestly anything would be better than their current strategy of "$30 shipping on a $10 pamphlet to anywhere but the US" so I'm cautiously optimistic.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:https://goodman-games.com/blog/2023...Pbfl4IJRci-bWZY Diamond is also Alliance, so it makes more sense. Without DC and Marvel exclusively, Diamond is scrambling to get anything they can locked down to stay around.
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Speaking of DCC, its most recent printing has the grogosphere up in arms over changes to one of its passages, removing references to older DnD creators and talking about the future. My take is "ok". But people sure aren't happy. Its not like DCC is "old school" anyway. 
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The grogosphere is all reactionary weirdos. I'm not surprised they are mad about change.
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I think that the Goodman Games guys have realized over the past five years that there's a much bigger market in courting dissatisfied 5e players than appealing to an ever-dwindling pool of nostalgic grogs.
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Lumbermouth posted:I think that the Goodman Games guys have realized over the past five years that there's a much bigger market in courting dissatisfied 5e players than appealing to an ever-dwindling pool of nostalgic grogs. Yeah, i think pivoting toward presenting as Simple D&D instead of Old, Hardcore D&D is a pretty reasonable way to go.
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Panzeh posted:Yeah, i think pivoting toward presenting as Simple D&D instead of Old, Hardcore D&D is a pretty reasonable way to go. They also moved to gender neutral pronouns for their most recent printing of the rules. It still hasn't fully paid off (see the wide array of old white faces above) but they're definitely moving in the right direction.
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Panzeh posted:Yeah, i think pivoting toward presenting as Simple D&D instead of Old, Hardcore D&D is a pretty reasonable way to go. this post clicked something in my brain and I decided to look into Kobold Press's Tales of the Valiant as I remembered that it exists. It actually does something interesting with the Fighter   like, it's not earth-shattering, but it does seem like they're not just literally filing off the serial numbers from D&D
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I recognize Arcing Strike, Parry, Redirect, and Riposte, but I guess changing them from "spend a superiority die, which is a d8, to use this" to "you can use this a number of times equal to twice your proficiency bonus" counts as "distinctive enough for Hasbro to not sue us into oblivion." Even then, come on, bring back the Fighter's Mark from 4e, you cowards. Since we're on the subject of playtesting, I dug up the final 5e playtest from just over ten years ago. I much prefer the playtest version of Indomitable (you have advantage on saving throws) over what made it into 5e (reroll a failed saving throw, the new result is final even if it's worse), and man oh man I am pissed Defy Death isn't a core fighter ability (if you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, make a DC 15 Constitution save to remain standing at 1 hit point.)
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Martial Actions are also Fighting Styles turned into weak Battlemaster Maneuvers instead of passive bonuses. Which, eh... Fighters need more levers to pull, yes, but I'm feeling distinctly uninspired by this.
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I have the distinct feeling a lot of people will want to play D&D Larian Edition in the future.
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D&D where the entire party wants to bang within 30 seconds of meeting each other, and the omniscient, all-powerful DMPC gets super judgmental toward anyone who decides they're not into that.
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Anyone checked out the MCDM RPG Kickstarter? Only thing I've heard so far is that they got rid to hit rolls.
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leekster posted:Anyone checked out the MCDM RPG Kickstarter? Only thing I've heard so far is that they got rid to hit rolls. Taken a look at it and might back it. As far as I can tell it's not a d20 system at all but works with 2d6. It has a system of combat escalation, so basically the further into combat you are the more stuff you can do, to avoid battles getting slogged down (like a more elaborate version of the Escalation Dice in 13th age). Typically overenthusiastic Matt Colville video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UADbYrPAodQ Backerkit page here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/mcdm-productions/mcdm-rpg It's interesting enough that I'd certainly like to play at least one game. And I like that rather than promising the moon and stars their target is "this is the cost of making the basic rules and bestiary. If we make more money than this we'll be able to look at more stuff like VTTs but we're not committing to that yet at all". Lamuella fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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Kestral posted:D&D where the entire party wants to bang within 30 seconds of meeting each other, and the omniscient, all-powerful DMPC gets super judgmental toward anyone who decides they're not into that.
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Removing attunement, removing multiclass requirements, reducing spell ranges, free action weapon switching, and changing potions to bonus actions are just obvious no drawback improvements.
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Goa Tse-tung posted:I have the distinct feeling a lot of people will want to play D&D Larian Edition in the future. Rules tweaks aside, that's just normal D&D but with more stacking of boxes to throw alchemist fire at a height.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Removing attunement, removing multiclass requirements, reducing spell ranges, free action weapon switching, and changing potions to bonus actions are just obvious no drawback improvements. I’ll just add on to this and say just do away with Bonus Actions, Movement, and Reactions and take the DC20 approach of giving players 4 actions that recharge at the end of their turn. I’m a bit skeptical on if it will take off or not, but y’all should check out DC20 by Dungeon Coach; it takes the opposite approach of MCDM and gets rid of the damage roll, increasing damage done for every increment of 5 you exceed the target number/AC by.
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disposablewords posted:Martial Actions are also Fighting Styles turned into weak Battlemaster Maneuvers instead of passive bonuses. Which, eh... Fighters need more levers to pull, yes, but I'm feeling distinctly uninspired by this. VVVVV Edit: I'm pretty sure Mighty Deeds was part of DCC from the get-go, and it came out a couple years before 5e was released. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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Terrible Opinions posted:Didn't DCC mighty deeds come out before 5e's fighter stuff? During the playtest, they were taking everything and kitchen sink. Mearls wanted to take the escalation die from 13th age but it was probably deemed insufficiently pandering to grognards.
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Oof. Hasbro cuts 1,100 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, prompted by the ongoing malaise in the toy business quote:NEW YORK (AP) — Toy maker Hasbro said Monday it is cutting about 1,100 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, as the malaise in the toy business extends through another holiday shopping season. Maybe another fifteen or sixteen Magic sets aimed squarely at collectors will fix this problem.
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BattleMaster posted:I bet they're still making a profit and those people are being punished for not yielding infinite growth Pretty much, 11.2% adjusted operating margin in Q3 for consumer products versus 48% from WotC/digital.
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Halloween Jack posted:Chris Cocks will make you jump, jump.
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Saucer Crab posted:Pretty much, 11.2% adjusted operating margin in Q3 for consumer products versus 48% from WotC/digital. Important to note here, also, that explicitly these cuts are because other, non-WotC parts of Hasbro are suffering. So it’s not even that WotC didn’t meet growth targets, it’s that other parts of the company didn’t.
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Mors Rattus posted:Important to note here, also, that explicitly these cuts are because other, non-WotC parts of Hasbro are suffering. So it’s not even that WotC didn’t meet growth targets, it’s that other parts of the company didn’t.
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