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One thing that's worth knowing: We've done a lot of research on human productivity, and the fact is, people doing 80 hours a week are getting less work done than people doing 40 hours a week. Lawyers don't work long hours because it gets stuff done; they work long hours because hours are billable.

I misread the subject line as asking about the basic archetypes for today. You know: Business, Technical, Social, Academia, Labor.

This makes no sense whatsoever. Imagine, if you will, six characters. Each has an 18 in one stat and 10 in all the others. Are you seriously telling me that you would expect "exactly the same personality" from these? How does personality even relate to or come from stats? This just doesn't make...

Someone elsewhere in a chat pointed out many more red flags in the filing, including a company that has income all of which is in whole dollar increments reporting total revenue that's not an even multiple of a dollar.

"D&D" never did anything of the sort. Maybe some fans do, and in that case, that's whose idea it was: Those fans.

Oh man. You do NOT want to mess with the Postal Inspectors. Seriously, I know a lot of law people from a bunch of branches of practice of law, and they all just uniformly say the postal inspectors are TERRIFYING. They are not super overbusy like the other branches, and they are EXTREMELY...

i'm just gonna say: probably get a lawyer, and don't say things without clearing them with the lawyer. don't be like Justin, who is an idiot.

I don't actually entirely care whether they're within their legal rights, because they had previously promised people they wouldn't try to do that. If your pitch for how much I should trust a company is that you don't know for sure that they would do something unambiguously illegal to me that a...

The "repeated" incidents I'm referring to are not WotC, they're other companies which suddenly announced something that struck me as deeply unethical, and backed down. And then, in every previous case, went ahead to try other similar things again later. Yes, it was just one proposed change, but...

If someone proposes to do a stupid thing that is within their rights and does not betray my trust, I might think they're a dumbass but won't be mad. If they repeatedly promise to absolutely not do a thing, and make contracts with me and other people that include a commitment not to do that...

Right. But a break across a 1-foot-wide plank is no larger than one foot across. So, the whole bridge has every plank broken, but each individual break is small enough to mend.

If each individual plank of a broken bridge is under one foot wide, then you can repair the planks individually.

Sticking up for family can be a good thing, but getting into the fights your kid picks as an adult looks suspiciously like you think they're completely incompetent. Which in this case seems like a good call.

There's the locate city nuke. The combination of metamagic feats that allows you to turn a relatively easy spell into something that kills most creatures in a hundred mile radius is probably pretty dangerous.

Something could be 100% unambiguously public domain, and they could still have put it in "product identity" and claimed that the terms of their license required you to act as though it were theirs. Could they win a lawsuit over you using that item? Maybe not! But they could credibly threaten...