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  • What was one major movie you saw that you didn't like?

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  • One Hour Photo. I don't know if it was Oscar bait or what, but I don't understand how it has 80% on RT.

  • Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Denies Selling Game To Chinese Firm: Here’s What To Know [was: Hasbro Seeks to Sell IP “DND” and Has Had Preliminary Contact with Tencent]

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  • I think Tales of the Valiant is closer to D&D 5e and also licensed under ORC. Either is a great option for people looking to leave D&D though.

  • Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Denies Selling Game To Chinese Firm: Here’s What To Know [was: Hasbro Seeks to Sell IP “DND” and Has Had Preliminary Contact with Tencent]

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  • Small improvements and cosmetic changes appear throughout, but outside of a few minor changes in terminology, the changes are not anywhere substantive enough to be considered a new edition.

    Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project!

    Don't quote me on it, but I'm pretty sure the remaster was about removing anything licensed under OGL so they could license it under ORC.

  • Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Denies Selling Game To Chinese Firm: Here’s What To Know [was: Hasbro Seeks to Sell IP “DND” and Has Had Preliminary Contact with Tencent]

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  • Wait, I guess it makes sense. Fire everyone, sell to another company, then that company can try to rehire at a reduced salary.

    Nah. They'll sell in a leveraged buy-out, which will give the shareholders at Hasbro tons of money, cost Tencent nothing, and put the new D&D LLC in tons of debt. Then they'll piecemeal out any IP or assets that can make them any money before letting D&D LLC go bankrupt. See what happened to Toys R' Us for a past example.

  • Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Denies Selling Game To Chinese Firm: Here’s What To Know [was: Hasbro Seeks to Sell IP “DND” and Has Had Preliminary Contact with Tencent]

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  • Pathfinder 1e had a good license and would be very familiar to D&D 3e players. Pathfinder 2e has a great license but would have a bit of a relearning curve for D&D 5e players.

    Tales of the Valiant is probably the closest to 5e with a great license.

  • Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Denies Selling Game To Chinese Firm: Here’s What To Know [was: Hasbro Seeks to Sell IP “DND” and Has Had Preliminary Contact with Tencent]

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  • D&D's 5e SRD was released under CC-BY. It only includes one subclass per class and a handful of monsters, but it's all the rules.

    Tales of the Valiant and Pathfinder 2e both have SRDs licensed under the ORC license and are based in D&D-type gameplay.

    FATE is a different type of TTRPG that has a SRD licensed both under OGL and CC-BY.

    Powered by the Apocalypse is a different system and has a permissive, but hand-wavey license.

    Of all of these, ToV is the most like 5e without being controlled by a multi-national, public company.

  • What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR

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  • Yeah. I worked for a SaaS company that had two rounds of layoffs because they hired C-suite executives who were better at talking than building software or running product teams.

    One was let go in the layoffs -- but given a book of clients to start a competing business. The other is still there holding pointless meetings that keep people from getting work done.

  • Microsoft endorses anti-LGBTQ online "child safety" bill KOSA night before Big Tech hearing (US Politics)

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  • I agree with you, and normally like posts to just use the original headline, but in this case, it feels like the newspaper is pro-KOSA. They mention in the article hundreds of organizations support the legislation but don't mention the hundreds that have opposed it.

    Perhaps something like "Microsoft president endorses online child safety bill night before Big Tech hearing [Bill is opposed by EFF over censorship concerns]" would be a better way to handle adding context.

  • Games that force you to make hard choices

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  • Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand

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  • Amber Glenn becomes first LGBTQ+ woman to win U.S. Women's Figure Skating Championship

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  • Well, you should have taken 16 seconds. Because two words later it says that she also identifies as pansexual. And in the article quoted, she refers to herself as queer. So BQ+

    Are you really arguing that "Amber Glenn becomes first Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer woman to win U.S. Women's Figure Skating Championship" would have been a better headline?

  • The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have finally been released – and we have questions

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  • I don't even understand your rant. The committee running WorldCon each year has total control over the Hugo awards. This year the "Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations for breaching the norms and standards of China."

    What did that have to do with the UK or any other year's WorldCon?

  • The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have finally been released – and we have questions

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  • The caveat being that writing quality isn't a reason to mark a book as "Not Eligible". So even with your critique, it seems odd that you'd have increased confidence in the awards because a government censored a book you didn't like.

  • Alec Baldwin Indicted on Manslaughter Charge in ‘Rust’ Shooting

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  • Alec Baldwin Indicted on Manslaughter Charge in ‘Rust’ Shooting

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  • If you believe that prison (or any criminal sentence) is for rehabilitation and restoration instead of punishment, what's the hopeful outcome here?

    I'm sure the guy already isn't going to want to work with real guns on any future movie set. Sending him to a rich white guy prison for 18 months won't change that. Nor will it change the laws or practices of what's happening on movie sets. And it won't bring any restitution to the victims' family unless they, in turn, sue.

    Seems like the best outcome here would be a plea deal that involves pleading "no contest", barred from using real firearms, and committing to financial restitution for the family.

  • Removed

    Shutting down Artifact

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  • Their recommendation algorithm was terrible. It just sent me every article from BookRiot and any article that mentioned whiskey.

  • 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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  • Well that's some bull. The software knows what items are covered and which aren't, so that's just assuming folks needing help are thieves.

  • 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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  • At Giant, I'm pretty sure it's decided by the system based on some algorithm, not the employee. The one time I was audited, we were in the store for a long time and had removed a few items from the cart after adding them.

    The audit consisted of the employee scanning ten random items and confirming we had scanned them too.

  • Portal 64 dev says “don’t be mad at Valve” for the project’s shutdown

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  • Your whole point is undercut by the existence of Portal: Revolution, Portal: Mel, City of Heroes, etc. There's a way to do fan creations that's supported by the IP holders and ways not to do it.

    I don't expect indie devs to be experts at the law but they can hardly be surprised if they go outside the boundaries set by the IP holders and then get a C&D.