Justin LaNasa shares his opinion of EN World

[Umbran]

There's a pretty brutal episode of QAnon Anonymous discussing Jim C.

This is kind of off topic folks. Please bring it back around to gaming. Thanks.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Always interesting to hear from a failed politician like LaNasa with a record of having female employees don swimsuits and wrestle in a kiddie-pool full of grits in exchange for promotions.
Definitely the sort of mover-and-shaker whose opinion matters!

I didn't know about that part of his biography!

His political career has made me more certain that some or all of these guys are plugged into the American conservative media echo chamber, as has the the fact that these guys seem to use every publicity opportunity to talk greavance against a scary, undefined mob that wants to bring them down, much in the vein of Fox News' primetime editorial content and the like. I'm now more certain of my hypothesis from the trainwreck last Summer that, probably more unconsciously than purposefully, they are trying to build their whole RPG company on the American news media model of picking one political tribe to be their audience and catering to what they want to hear.

And... it actually might kind of work in theory if they ever manage to produce some actual products the people their muted bigotries and loud tirades appeal to could actually buy and if they pursued the course with more savvy. To really cash in they would have to have more discipline in recognizing that if you don't like them its because you aren't their target audience, and every demand you make of them to appologize or whatever is just giving them another opportunity to not do so and sell to their target demo of people who don't want them to apologize.

But I don't think they have the discipline to succeed on such a model. That would require accepting that some people don't like them and actually reveling in that fact, exploiting it to gain attention and win over others, and that doesn't really come natural to most people. Instead I think they ape American conservative media grievance culture without really understanding how to turn that into profit and with the hopeless dream that their critics will eventually let up on them.

I'm sorry to everyone to for whatever degree I've injected politics into the discussion. My interest in the matter is less political than anthropological.

 

[darjr]

LeNasa DOES have “products” to get money from thier targets. Or at least did.

Repackaged dollar store dice for one. Chotskeys of barely changed IP they don’t own or didn’t create. An upcoming convention. And a museum.

 

[Sacrosanct]

LeNasa DOES have “products” to get money from thier targets. Or at least did.

Repackaged dollar store dice for one. Chotskeys of barely changed IP they don’t own or didn’t create. An upcoming convention. And a museum.

I think their biggest money maker is "come play with Ernie for a few hundred dollars an hour!" And people are willing to pay that from what I can tell

 

[darjr]

I think their biggest money maker is "come play with Ernie for a few hundred dollars an hour!" And people are willing to pay that from what I can tell

Have they actually had anyone do that?

 

[Sacrosanct]

Have they actually had anyone do that?

Apparently, judging by some of the feedback I've seen from people saying how fun it was to game with Ernie. Disposable income I guess..

 

[Umbran]

LeNasa DOES have “products” to get money from thier targets. Or at least did.

So, I may be misrembering, but I think the Museum is technically a different business from nuTSR. Still involves him, but not actually part of the (still theoretical) publishing concern.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Apparently, judging by some of the feedback I've seen from people saying how fun it was to game with Ernie. Disposable income I guess..

Yikes. I wouldn’t pay that much to play with a celebrity dream team of my choosing!

Okay, maybe if I could get them to play my game and post it online if it turns out good lol

But just for fun!?

 

[thirdkingdom]

On the subject of gaming, I had listened to a lot of the Evil DM's early OSR podcasts (Save or Die, Roll for Initiative) and enjoyed them. The turn to the alt-right that I see him take online saddens me. He did a lot in the early to mid 2010s to promote OSR gaming.

 

[Dire Bare]

I was hoping for something more exciting. But he does call EN World a “very big company”, which is funny. I might put that quote in the site header.

“A very big company” - Justin LaNasa, TSR 9.651(c)

You guys should unionize.