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I just got caught up on the thread after a month of convalescence. In regards to the Tenkar case, are we sure LaNasa's lawyer actually wants to win?

Nor does the US anymore. They were ruled to violate the First Amendment. The only time you can actually get in trouble for stolen valor is if you use your supposed military service to convince someone to give you something, or that you qualify for some position or other. And then it's really...

If they actually screwed up, they'll have been told. More frequently, they just aren't stellar at their job. Not bad enough to discipline, but not good enough to be worth holding onto. To be clear, commander's driver (and similar special duties) isn't something you give to someone who's...

Don't be ridiculous. They don't get a cut from someone else's GoFundMe.

Last I checked, Wonderfilled had posted about Ernie being in the hospital, and asked people to send their prayers his way. Dungeon Hobby Shop retweeted them. Honestly, what I saw there wasn't really objectionable. Just the sort of thing you'd expect someone to post about a friend or colleague's...

Specifically, Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a critique of Soviet-style communism. Orwell was an avowed socialist, and fought alongside the communists and socialists during the Spanish Civil War. He was against capitalism, but even moreso was against any totalitarian style states, regardless of...

I thought maybe on the site there would be a bit about donating proceeds towards Ernie's medical bills, but nope.

I think it's really tempting to grab at any crumb of potential comeuppance for LaNassa. I've definitely been guilty of it myself. I think it's because these things take so much time. LaNasa losing his case against WotC, and most of his other tabletop ventures, has been fairly inevitable. But the...

No, it's named for the Roman jurist Julius Paulus. An action to undo a fraudulent transfer to ensure debts were paid was one of his legal innovations.

Though also, due to certain reform acts, this doesn't necessarily add up linearly. That is, if he's convicted for ten counts of concealing assets, he almost certainly wouldn't serve fifty years. There's a somewhat complicated formula judges generally follow for sentencing multiple counts.

The problem with LaNasa setting up a Hanover is that to properly set up a bag man, you need to maintain some distance or plausible deniability between you and the bad naughty word, and he seems constitutionally incapable of keeping his hands out of the cookie jar. I have no doubt that he would, if it...

So, clearly the bankruptcy hearing went well for him.

If Elise comes forward with more details, it would be interesting. In the absence of that, I'm going to put more stock in Luke's side of things than Ernie's.

So, he claims in the bankruptcy proceedings that the IP is worthless, but then says "Who would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on something that's not worth anything?" I might be misunderstanding, but isn't he outright admitting he's being fraudulent? Or is this a wrinkle in how...

I don't think it's impossible. I think it's unlikely, but if he decided his ego couldn't stand listening to a judge, he could face some jail time. I think it's more likely he just gets told to stop being an idiot and pay what he owes, but I don't think it's impossible he decides he can out-alpha...

Deset already mentioned. It's further mingling of his businesses during a bankruptcy proceeding. On its own, it might not open up the Museum of the Bizarre to being counted in the assets of the bankruptcy proceedings, but it's part of a pattern of LaNasa mingling his various businesses together...

I mean, he probably knows he's made mistakes (though he would never allow such weakness as admitting that). But those are just temporary setbacks that he can surely overcome with his superior mind and will.

I mean, from our perspective, it seems clear that Justin deserves to be ground down in court. However, I could see them settling for somewhat less provided they got their main objectives met, if only to avoid the possibility of him spinning it into "big corporation bullying the little guy." But...

It can be tough to sell people on the idea that all public aid is bad and they should let poor people die. But what you can do is restrict the budget so only some of them can get aid. And then you can put strict rules on how they can get access to that aid, taking it away as soon as they slip...

It's remarkable that people can convince themselves of things like this, it's true. Also of things like "the Earth is flat," or "there's a conspiracy of famous pedophiles hiding under pizza places." And yet people do. It's important to note that they don't generally come to these beliefs all at...