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Qoey posted:True. It's like the people who like to remind me that "capitalism is working as intended." I need to stop thinking that corporations actually apply ethics Fixed that for ya
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Feel like I should say a bit more than just driving by. The underlying problem is that corporations exist to make money, above all other things. They have other effects, and may do other things, but their primary purpose, the purpose to which everything else can be subordinated or sacrificed, is to make money. Hence, in the Ur-Example, a dude bro day trader who makes a million dollars for the company is worth more to the company than the secretary that he harasses. She gets fired, he gets protected. This is not moral, this is not ethical, this is not right. But this is how corporations function: there is "no incentive" to protect a minor worker who doesn't produce money for the shareholders. Companies pretty quickly adapted to the idea that women, LGBT+, and BIPOC people can also make money, but the entrenched ideals are the same -- Profit before People. The sort of people who own stock want to see it go up each quarter, and they're not going to be understanding about a 25% loss on their investment because the company did the ethical thing and gave everyone a raise. Lest you think this is something that can be avoided by ethical consuming or "good corporate values", I'll point to the example of No Evil Foods, a socialist vegan meat company that just made a huge anti-union drive: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5pbex/audio-no-evil-foods-a-faux-leftist-vegan-meat-company-busts-union-drive WotC doesn't ultimately give a poo poo what Mearls does to who, provided he keeps D&D Beyond subscriptions rolling in at a great profit. His job isn't to make a good game; his job is to make money for Hasbro. Which he does. Tons of it. They aren't going to fire him because he's doing his job and doing it well. If they see a dip in Beyond subs, then his job will be in jeopardy, but otherwise it'd take a pretty major scandal to dislodge him -- they've already shown that they don't care that he hangs around with porn star abusing sociopaths and right wing nazis, so why would they care if he got rid of (in their view) a contract employee who is big on Twitter? None of these scandals have ultimately hurt the bottom line. Hasbro stock is doing pretty well, all things considered, and historically performed quite well: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/better-buy%3A-amazon-vs.-hasbro-2020-07-11 Public shaming has worked occasionally on companies, but doesn't seem to have any lasting effects. I doubt there's a big enough scandal that WotC couldn't just sweep people off the creative team and say "Look, we're going to do better in the future, and we love our fans and look at this person we just hired" and not have it go away in 3-6 months because ultimately, D&D and Magic control so much of the market share that to stop carrying them/using them would be financial suicide for many game stores, APs, YouTube personalities, tournament players, etc. WotC can be shamed occasionally into posting about how much Black Lives Matter or making their logo a rainbow, but ultimately, those who aren't ruthless enough to understand that Money is the goal, not art, will be discarded. Mearls understands this, hence the subscription character generator service, the getting you to buy both print and digital copies of the books from a premium service, the pdfs available of the entire D&D back catalogue... Unless a company like Mattel decided to get into the RPG market and aggressively push Pathfinder or Earthdawn or Rifts or another old RPG that has a gigantic back catalogue of supplements, I don't think we're going to see any meaningful competition to D&D. I've never seen Fellowship or Apocalypse World for sale in Target or Walmart, and I feel confidant in saying that I never will. Killing D&D would be like killing Monopoly or Clue. It'd be like trying to get Tom Clancy or VC Andrews off the shelf. It will die when tabletop role playing as a hobby dies. Is it the best game? No, of course not. But it's the only game with the backing of a large corporation and a side industry of media savvy people dedicated to keeping it alive. WotC's closest competitor, Paizo, doesn't even come close to the sheer financial weight that Hasbro can swing if they choose. For example, D&D has multiple MMOs out; how's the Pathfinder MMO folks kickstarted years back coming along? Supermarkets stock Wonderbread not because it's the best tasting or healthiest bread on the market, but because there's a demand for white bread, and the other bread types pale in comparison when it comes to volume of sales. Corporate culture cannot, and will not, be meaningfully reformed until another incentive other than Profit Above All Else is found, and any company that achieves any measure of success will begin to think this way. It is the nature of companies in a capitalist society. Do I have a workable solution for this? Heck no! If I did, I'd be writing an academic paper or book about corporate reform, not posting on SA. Ultimately, it ends up being a Scorpion and the Frog type scenario, where that's just what these things do, and saying "Well, they shouldn't do that" kinda misses the point. I'd like it if they didn't do it too, but well, money ultimately trumps any ethics 99/100 times, and the 1/100th gets eaten by the more ruthless. 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Dexo posted:You are 100% right but a pedantic note but D&D Beyond is not run by Wizards, they license the name from them, but are run by Fandom. I will fully cop to quote:D&D Beyond derives its income from digital content purchases (revenue from which is shared with Wizards of the Coast, which publishes the official Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition books)... being wrong here. Toph Bei Fong fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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Back in 2011, in the height of the 4e era, there were about 45k listed subscribers to D&D Insider, according to the WotC forum data. Assuming that's correct and not an undercount (i.e. folks who subscribed but without forum accounts), at $10/month for a subscription, that was $450,000 going into WotC's pocket before overhead and salaries, or $5.4 million per year. The character generator ended up a bad, lowest bid product run in Silverlight of all things, and Dragon magazine paid peanuts to its writers, many of whom were fans super excited to be part of "Real D&D" and didn't care about the crappy pay. Part of Mearls' job was to make more money than all this. He's still there 6 years after 5e launched, so it's safe to assume he has. Hasbro famous fires people right before Christmas, when Q4 numbers are released -- I doubt they'd let him just hang on and lose them money. D&D Beyond will sell you digital copies of the books, for a total of up to $637 for all of them, which I don't suspect is happening as often as subscriptions are. I can't find total subscriber numbers, unfortunately, but I suspect Fandom is paying a pretty penny to WotC for that revenue. Toph Bei Fong fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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Mr.Misfit posted:I find this highly fascinating, and if I may ask, Some of this makes more sense when you read the work of one of the original reactionaries, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, who, to put it mildly, was an awful person. He wrote a ton of aphorisms, mainly concerned with keeping the world under pre-Vatican II Catholic rule. He's not technically a fascist, but he is one of the founders of reactionary thought, whose central idea is that modern society is corrupt and decadent, and thus he envisages a return to the "good old days". Where it differs from fascism is that there's no nationalist bent or attempt to build a group around himself. Dávila's writing has no mechanism by which "we" will seize power and return the world to this pure state; he simply criticizes the world and watches it get "worse", and he deliberately kept himself out of any political office, though posts were offered to him. He was the 1970-1990s equivalent of a conservative doomer twitter poster. It's one of those "all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares" type deals. It seems impossible to be a fascist without being a reactionary, but non-fascist reactionism is possible, though rarer. https://web.archive.org/web/20070210070255/http://www.wandea.org.pl/nicolas-davila.html Dávila posted:Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma. (I, 212)
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Feeple posted:That's kinda where I sit on this. The world they paint is one of constant fear and ruin. It has to be awful to live like that. I agree. It reminds me of those terrible reviews of Tarantino movies that Abby Shapiro and her husband did, where whenever they start to get into it or find something interesting, they immediately pull back and ask "What does it mean?" or "What's the point of this?", completely missing that a lot of the fun of movies is interpreting what the director is trying to say (and whether they pulled that off), or to figure out what it means to you. Any sort of ambiguity must be condemned, and any attempt to "trust the viewer" must be questioned. You see that a lot in conservative discussions about aesthetics, honestly. "What I like" must be objectively good, of a quality which no one could possibly disagree with, and "What I don't like" must similarly be terrible in some grand cosmic sense, such that only fools would enjoy it. It seems very insecure, and would be sad if it wasn't so annoying and harmful.
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Dawgstar posted:Technically it was Ty Beard, who also acts as Rekeita's estate lawyer and if you think that's suspicious Nick would start a fund for Mignogna without even asking Vic first and getting Beard to prosecute it, well, congratulations on being awake. That said if you followed folks like Greg Doucette who kept people up to date because he is an actual lawyer who does actual cases (there has always been debate about how much law Nick practices regularly) who had found out about the case and commented on it throughout in giant Twitter threads because every lawyer who saw it found it the most hilarious thing ever. For those who want to know more, ALAB has a really good rundown of how weird that whole situation was: https://www.alabseries.com/episodes/episode-4-weeb-wars-pt-1 https://www.alabseries.com/episodes/episode-5-weeb-wars-pt-2
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GimpInBlack posted:Not just a sex pest, an actual convicted child molester. Edward E. Kramer, a man whose sole contribution to the earth remains ensuring that Michael Richards is never more than "the second-worst Kramer." I like it when Wikipedia doesn't pull punches or try to weasel out of telling things like they are 
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GreenMetalSun posted:uh................ oWoD was very bad. This isn't even the worst stuff I could find (The only Black sample PC in the Ventrue handbook)    
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Warthur posted:- They gave it to Phil Brucato, who is himself Very 1993. (He's one of those people who fit all three of the criteria I outlined above as prerequisites for taking 1st edition Mage seriously.) Yeah, Brucato is a well-meaning and friendly guy, but he's just so... himself... and so tied into that early 90s zeitgeist. The Mage podcast opened with an interview with him, and it's extremely illuminating as to just how different a generation he's from, and how weird it is that he's been sort of isolated inside it, despite the world moving on: http://magethepodcast.com/what-is-mage-the-ascension/
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Halloween Jack posted:Is it like that bit in This Is Spinal Tap, where Fran Drescher tries to explain to them that the 60s are over? The host is kinda bowled over that he's talking to such a famous and influential guy, and to be fair, it's a pretty big coup to get The Mage Guy on your very first episode, so it's a pretty soft and friendly interview. But pretty quickly, Brucato gets off on a tangent about why he's called Satyr and not Phil, and how it's been rough because his friend Coyote isn't doing too well, and you can just see the Siouxsie and the Banshees poster and the side table covered in Amy Brown faerie statues, like the past 25 years hadn't really happened but they kept getting older for some reason...
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Rent seeking in a nutshell, starring Zorro https://the-delve.com/2019/06/29/zorro-copyright/ quote:Over at Nova Southeastern University, Stephen Carlisle nicely summarized the current copyright status of The Curse of Capistrano and McCulley’s follow-up, The Further Adventures of Zorro:
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KingKalamari posted:That's also a system that sports a high potential for state control of information: I know that, for instance, the animation industry under the Soviets was one that was well funded and produced some excellent work, but the type of ideas and ideologies these works could espouse was tightly limited due to being dependent on resources from the ruling government. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQO28yyxAMQ
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It's a real shame, and I hope his health improves. He's such a friendly guy, like that uncle you only see twice a year but you wish you knew better because he's seen some poo poo, but doesn't want to talk about it because dice are way more interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-A5Ec-Ybs
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Mors Rattus posted:this sounds less like a pagan ceremony and more like a larp Not sure how much to gossip in here, but all of the folks involved were major players in the University of Buffalo gaming club's Vampire LARP. Like, long after they'd graduated, they'd still come back to play with the club. The LARPing aspect eventually got banned from the school for a while, it was so bad. Like most LARPs, it was filled with some of the worst people in existence, quibbling over the stupidest, pettiest poo poo in existence, while also occasionally trying to bang goth chicks and/or being the queen bee who manipulated and abused nerdy people. Like, I'm not legit not sure how to give more details without helldumping about 20 year old LARP drama.
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KingKalamari posted:Weren't the ownership rights on Dragonlance a little bit more complicated? There was a big lawsuit between Wotc and Hickman/Weis over Dragonlance novels being cancelled, that wrapped up earlier this year. https://boundingintocomics.com/2020...hout-prejudice/ quote:Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Lawsuit Against Wizards Of The Coast Dismissed Without Prejudice I'd be shocked if this wasn't the result of some contractual stuff to get Dragonlance back into print in a 5e form, especially given that the trilogy the lawsuit was over is back on. https://twitter.com/trhickman/status/1341265375053246464 https://twitter.com/trhickman/status/1353735475194814466 https://twitter.com/trhickman/status/1354826799868383236 https://twitter.com/trhickman/status/1435731598150823937 Toph Bei Fong fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Sep 29, 2021 |
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Serf posted:i remember arguing with some ttrpg nerds about the confederate flag and being told that it wasn't a symbol of racism, it was just popular because people remembered it from "the dukes of hazzard" Yeah, the problem isn't that the paintjob is patterned after a car from an old TV show, it's that on this particular TV show, the car is literally called the General Lee, and has a big confederate flag on the roof. If it was, like, Kitt from Knight Rider, or the ambulance from Ghostbusters, or something, it would be fine.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:I usually find that most altHistory people are always more interested in what if the shitheads won. What if Hitler won, what if the Roman Empire never fell, what if Japan nuked US, etc.  https://writeups.letsyouandhimfight.com/baghead/diana-warrior-princess/
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https://kotaku.com/hey-magic-the-gathering-your-story-is-doing-great-wi-1846627064quote:Teferi is a Planeswalker, the “main characters” of Magic’s story who have the unique ability to travel between worlds. When we meet Teferi in Return to Dominaria, he’s lost the ability to Planeswalk, and he’s trying and failing to crack open a tomb filled with traps and puzzles with his grown daughter, Niambi. His story manages to weave in elements like the joys of fatherhood and the regrets of his past into this Indiana Jones-type action adventure filled with time spells instead of cultural graverobbing. There’s no racism or weird racism allegory, and these characters, through their names like Niambi that evoke African-ness and the clothes they wear in card art, are still culturally identifiable as Black. Reading Teferi’s story in Return To Dominaria gave me this feeling of “this is what I’ve always wanted” in stories that feature Black people, and it makes me wonder why storytellers in TV and video games seem to lack Magic’s imagination.
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GreenMetalSun posted:What is ‘wokewashing’ in this context? Something like Hamilton where the horrors of slavery, racism, and other such nasty things are ignored in favor of just pretending that black people were there and it was great and no one had a problem with them. Which, honestly, is fine sometimes, because sometimes you just want to tell a romance story about the ton without someone doing heavy analysis on how Mr. Darcy was probably a slave plantation owner.
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Puppy Time posted:Yeah, this. Nerds have done that poo poo since time immemorial, the difference is that now writers are more aware of it and for some reason ultrasensitive to that particular criticism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQH2rmQ5-vk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgVB3qsySQ
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Kai Tave posted:Yeah, it's not incorrect to say there are a bunch of people who would eagerly work for scraps to have their names listed as a Real Big Boy Paizo Game Designer, but Paizo is in a position where their work, however much you may agree or disagree with this breakdown, is considered to be of sufficient quality that bringing in a bunch of unknown freelancers to scab would almost certainly be a massive disaster for them. Lisa Stevens is not wrong to say there are people who would gladly work at Paizo for free, but to have to replace everyone with those sorts of people wouldn't be tenable. "You can easily be replaced" is a looming threat that works best if you can dole it out in drips and drabs, it gets a lot less tenable if a substantial chunk of your workforce calls you on it at once (hence the value in labor organizing). I am reminded of something a journalist friend said about her work for an anime news website, and why they didn't really hire too many fans: "It's much easier to teach a journalist about anime and manga than it is to teach an anime and manga fan how to be a journalist."
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:i apologize for framing it in a way where i'm implicitly poo poo-talking your friend on a personal level, but at the same time, media journalism (and especially for nerd media) is like 99.9% "advertising with delusions of grandeur" You're not 100% wrong, but there's a definite difference in the ability to rewrite a press release in such a way that it makes the show look appealing, and therefore gets it views on Crunchyroll through their affiliate link, versus talking about how great the dragon girls look and maybe accidentally spoiling the ending via comparison to another show. The forum reviews are definitely more useful to the consumer, but monetizing that as a career... It is increasingly like being a good buggy-whip manufacturer or typewriter repair person, in that the demand has cratered and the world has mostly moved on, even though the skill itself is difficult and takes time to learn to do well.
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Cessna posted:I liked his stuff when I was 13, but in my defense, I was 13. The only reason I know him is via CCGs from my childhood  
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Admiral Joeslop posted:4e is only even good because it recognizes and embraces what D&D is, a combat based wargame. If offers token support for non-combat applications but they're no better or worse than other editions. Dear god, this! These seemed to be the type of folks who need "Profession: Sailor" on their sheet to say that their character is a sailor, but haven't read the book to know that said Profession skill in fact conveys no bonuses to sailing or seamanship, is only usable during downtime to generate funds between adventures, and that you'll still need rope use and a bunch of other separate skills to actually make your character do such things, but would also claim to fully understand the rules and they've definitely not houseruled anything! 4e made the "mistake" of assuming that people would actually use the rules as written. I recall folks asking on the Wizards forums if they could simply ignore the fighter's mark mechanic, because really they just do theatre of the mind combat and really does it matter? and folks who seemed annoyed that there weren't freeform combat rules for leaping on the back of the griffin and stabbing it in the back of the head or whatever. I also recall a lot of annoyance over how it was just complex enough that it took genuine effort to make a new class, as opposed to "Fighter attack bonus, cleric saves, gets spells like a sorcerer" style of new class that could be done on an A4 sheet in previous editions. This was somehow coupled with an annoyance at "Storygames" (that would support the aforementioned style of play much better), but because those intentionally lacked the Rolemaster style of "Everything is explicitly on your sheet and if you took Drive: Cart rather than Drive: Wagon, you're poo poo out of luck" and the solo mini-game of character creation, they were not as popular.
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Froghammer posted:I feel like there's some nomenclature issues here, with white and black referring to both skin tones (closer to light tan and deep brown) and colors. It would be good if it stopped cosplayers from doing blackface.
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PeterWeller posted:The Dark Elf trilogy made it pretty clear that Drizzt was not the only good person in Menzo. His sister Vierna was decent and loving until the Lolth cult drilled that out of her, and that process left her basically insane with bitterness. His father Zaknafein is who first showed him to question the teachings of Lolth, and he sacrificed himself so Drizzt could escape. What made Drizzt special was that he got out. In retrospect, there's a big dose of "Men Going Their Own Way" in the early Drizzt novels: http://gamingphilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/10/sexism-in-realms.html posted:The corrupted elves known as the drow are also the only elves with a matriarchal society. Salvatore himself isn't sexist, and seems pretty good on women being in charge whenever he gets the opportunity to talk about it. HIs later books are much better about this https://apex-magazine.com/interview-with-r-a-salvatore/ posted:Well, thank you for saying that. I have often been accused of being an incredibly sexist because my female dark elves are so evil, but my male dark elves are just as evil. First of all I didn’t create the drow society. That goes to Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and the early creators of Dungeons and Dragons, who decided it was a matriarchal society. But for me that’s great. I have five older sisters so I know about evil women. I’m kidding! I love them dearly. But I have five older sisters and an older brother so I grew up with strong role models.
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Mormon Star Wars posted:I've never see anyone talk about the Ciaphas Cain books to defend 40k as satire, because they aren't satirizing the real world - Ciaphas Cain is satirizing other 40k written media. I.e., the joke is that the other 40k books are so over the top that they would have to be baseless propaganda, so Ciaphas is a look at what the actual events could have looked like. And having them as in universe documents, being actively redacted and re-written by an inquisitor, because their contents would be too shocking to the morale of the Imperium if they were ever released, adds another level of satire onto the already present "Flashman-but-nicer-and-also-40k" That said, one would have to have actually read (at least) the blurb on the back to figure out which of these are the joke ones and which are "serious" ones:    
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I'm reminded of the time Zak tried to "get" people by saying he'd donate to a charity if they argued in his very precise way, then then tried to claim that anyone who just donated to the charity anyways, bypassing him completely, was still ethically awful because, by not arguing with him in the way he wanted to be argued with, they were "withholding" money from the charity? It makes me think of that scene from Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, where The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair tries to rope Mrs. Strange into a bargain to save Lady Pole. Arabella replies that, were he a true gentleman, he would simply help her friend because it is the right thing to do, and that if he seeks to make profit in exchange for doing the right thing, he is a bad person.
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HERE IS THE ARTICLE YOU CAN SEND TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY SAY “BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?”
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GreenMetalSun posted:For real? Among other things, yeah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b12NUpmcfw8 quote:On another occasion, Odin “sacrificed himself to himself” by hanging on the world-tree Yggdrasil for nine days and nights, receiving no form of nourishment from his companions. At the end of this ordeal, he perceived the runes, the magically-charged ancient Germanic alphabet that was held to contain many of the greatest secrets of existence. He is depicted as having subsequently boasted: quote:Like other northern Eurasian shamans, the völva was “set apart” from her wider society, both in a positive and a negative sense – she was simultaneously exalted, sought-after, feared, and, in some instances, reviled.[11] However, the völva is very reminiscent of the veleda, a seeress or prophetess who held a more clearly-defined and highly respected position amongst the Germanic tribes of the first several centuries CE.[12] In either of these roles, the woman practitioner of these arts held a more or less dignified role among her people, even as the degree of her dignity varied considerably over time. Toph Bei Fong fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Dec 22, 2021 |
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moths posted:This is kind of a right-wing myth, though. https://www.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:its a joke about people making random bullshit up about people with no basis in anything wrt random dead people they find. "It's ritual!"
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:This is probably the wrong topic, but how did East Asian stuff get associated with the color yellow in the first place? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_terminology_for_race quote:Categorization of racial groups by reference to skin color is common in classical antiquity.[7] For example, it is found in e.g. Physiognomica, a Greek treatise dated to c. 300 BC. quote:In the 1730s, Carl Linnaeus in his introduction of systematic taxonomy recognized four main human subspecies, termed Americanus (Americans), Europaeus (Europeans), Asiaticus (Asians) and Afer (Africans). The physical appearance of each type is briefly described, including colour adjectives referring to skin and hair colour: rufus "red" and pilis nigris "black hair" for Americans, albus "white" and pilis flavescentibus "yellowish hair" for Europeans, luridus "yellowish, sallow", pilis nigricantibus "swarthy hair" for Asians, and niger "black", pilis atris "coal-black hair" for Africans.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:People have been making GBS threads on Joss Whedon since 2015, his wife accused him of abuse in 2017. I think the only reason Whedon "fell" was because Ray Fisher also named executives in 2020 alongside Joss Whedon as the problem and I assume those guys at the top decided to give them something to eat to save their own careers. I don't think his comments to and about Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins helped either. Kinda difficult to play "Male Feminist Ally" while also being on record threatening to gently caress up two prominent women's careers if they won't obey
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The Chairman posted:"what if a character sheet on the blockchain" Original Character DO NOT STEAL!!
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Ultiville posted:Right, the issue is that unlike say a deed, the power of the state doesn't back up the NFT. Which I guess is good if you're trying to break the law, but is less good when you're trying to establish property ownership. Yeah, that's a mistake so many of those utopian libertarian types make: there isn't some grand metaphysical and/or transcendental method of ownership that makes a stack of signed papers more "real" or binding than a string of numbers on a computer. But there is a group of people with guns who will forcibly remove you from the property via violent means if you don't agree with their interpretation of the law, and they couldn't care less about whatever magic incantation from Black's Law Dictionary or "One Weird Trick" you think will ward them off.
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Mors Rattus posted:This is transparently being pushed by investors and the c-level guys who have no idea what they’re talking about but are tripling down. "Phase one we need a name for the product" "Uh that's actually the last step, you've got the transparencies out of order" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmQxzBHmWjs&t=486s
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Tulul posted:There's probably a fascinating book waiting to be written about the reoccurring obsession with this sort of "realism" in MMOs; so many games have had this fantasy of being some kind of all-immersive life simulator and almost all of them have failed, quite often hilariously and spectacularly. It's a well that designers can't seem to stop coming back to, no matter how many bloated corpses are lying around it. IIRC, some players in the early planning stages of PFO were clamoring to have spells like Time Stop apply "for real" and wanted it to arrest all movement in the game save for the caster's for the spell's duration. Yes, rather than speeding up your attacks or movement or whatever like a normal MMO buff, instead literally every other player and NPC on the server would be frozen until the spell wore off. As funny as it is theoretically to imagine a group of trolls chain casting Time Stop to prevent the game from being played by anyone, from a game design standpoint...
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