WotC WotC needs an Elon Musk

[cbwjm]

He's always been a smug git but basically agree.

Corporations are not nice but people seem to enjoy their products.

I find people's responses to Amazon amusing and the hypocrisy.

Where we live Amazons not such a thing due to postage.

I pretty much only use Amazon for kindle books nowadays, postage is a large part of it. Most of what I want can be bought in NZ for much less money overall.

 

[Zardnaar]

I pretty much only use Amazon for kindle books nowadays, postage is a large part of it. Most of what I want can be bought in NZ for much less money overall.

I try and avoid Amazon as much as I can due to their labour practices if nothing else.

Combined with a more minimalist lifestyle. I'll pay for experiences eg nice meal or whatever but going off consumer crap I ultimately don't need.

I need to hire a skip and throw out alot of that said consumer crap. That's gonna be an experience.

Mocking Auckland and the French is free.

 

[Chaosmancer]

That's literally what a default is. A default is what happens unless you choose something else. I mean, try running a computer program or phone app sometime. It runs even if you don't make choices. Because it has default settings. If you change them, there will be a button somewhere to reset to default just in case you don't like what you changed and can't remember what the defaults were.

Defaults are in fact "What you do when you don't want to choose."

Boot up a fighting game with a character selection screen. Which character is the default character that you get without choosing? None of them. the default is that you are given a choice. It is not impossible to have a default that is a choice.

 

[CleverNickName]

I just read an article on BBC.com about Elon Musk. Apparently he's no longer the richest man on earth. He's now worth "only" $178bn, while Bernard Arnault of LVMH is worth $188bn.

"Musk has gone from a superhero to Tesla's stock, to a villain in the eyes of the Street, as the overhang grows with each tweet," Dan Ives from Wedbush Securities told the BBC. "The Twitter circus show has hurt the Musk brand and it's a major overhang on Tesla's stock."

So, nah...WotC definitely does not need an Elon Musk.

Elon Musk no longer world's richest man

His wealth has been hit as shares in his electric car maker Tesla have more than halved.

www.bbc.com

 

[Vaalingrade]

Alright guys, time to tell Bernard Arnault that his feces does not emit a foul stench instead. Follow him, emulate everything he does. Fawn over him. Ignore his actions, personality, and whatever it is he actually did to become rich for the fact that he has the most monies now. He won and now he gets all of Elon's vassals. That's how it works.

 

[Maxperson]

Boot up a fighting game with a character selection screen. Which character is the default character that you get without choosing?

Exactly. It gives you a choice as the default.

the default is that you are given a choice.

Yep. In that isolated instance, yes. Now pick a fighter and try playing a special move other than the default moves it gives you. 5e is like that, too. The default for rolling characters is array or rolling. You get a choice by default. You have no such choice with the planes. The default is all of them unless you change the default.

 

[Azzy]

Alright guys, time to tell Bernard Arnault that his feces does not emit a foul stench instead. Follow him, emulate everything he does. Fawn over him. Ignore his actions, personality, and whatever it is he actually did to become rich for the fact that he has the most monies now. He won and now he gets all of Elon's vassals. That's how it works.

Nah, I'm fine despising all oligarchs.

 

[Lanefan]

The default can be a choice. A default is not "what you do when you don't want to choose" it is "the standard or baseline"

Yes, THE standard or baseline. As in, one.

I don't know what a "proper" guide would be like, but the DMG already covers religions, calendars, wilderness environments , urban environments,
governments, planar travel, creating NPCs, creating villains and creating adventure sites.

For most of those, it's in terms of how to run adventures in/with them; and handwaves at best at how to design them. Religions and governments are the only aspects they touch that involve actual worldbuilding.

A decent worldbuilding guide would have, at the barest minimum, the following (though in a more coherent sequence!):

--- tips, tricks, and how-to's on designing and drawing maps; and what to do with blanks spaces (leave 'em blank!)
--- a brief primer on medieval social geography e.g. how frequent are villages and why, the frequency and spacing of larger towns/cities, etc.
--- some ideas on species distribution e.g. a completely mixed society or each species has its own discrete enclaves or a mix of these
--- a guide to different governmental and-or social structures (including the bad ones!)
--- something about food and agriculture in terms of how much land is needed to feed how many people
--- a maybe-not-so-brief primer on weather and climate, with tips and ideas on how different world designs would alter the weather there (e.g. what if the polar axis is vertical thus there are no seasons as we know them)
--- a piece on setting astronomy and what differences would arise if the world had, say, multiple moons or two suns or was a binary planet
--- corollary to this, a guide to how tides and currents would work under different astronomies; essential if the party ever goes to sea or adventures on a coastline
--- a rough guide to ecology; just how many monsters can coexist in a given area, how do-can they interrelate, etc.
--- a rough guide to setting biology; just how are all these monsters created
--- a deep dive into how to create a coherent, if brief, history of how things came to be the way they are today
--- thoughts on how-if your world will or could connect to other worlds/planes
--- a deep dive into cosmology; what other planes are out there, what is their function, who lives there, etc. and how those planes all relate to each other
--- probably some other stuff I haven't thought of.

Note what's glaringly missing from that list: religion and deities. Those need their own separate book, in tandem with this one.

 

[darjr]

They could make Elon feel right at home!

This auction of twitter office furniture and supplies, set up in what looks like a desperate cash grab, should do the trick. I’m sure he’ll recognize every desk of every fired employee.

WotC could even give him one if the desks and chairs ti use rotated out “new” each and every day. It’d be icing on the cake to include the nameplates.

Heritage Global Partners | Twitter: Online Auction Sale Featuring Surplus Corporate Office Assets of Twitter!

bid.hgpauction.com

 

[FrozenNorth]

Alright guys, time to tell Bernard Arnault that his feces does not emit a foul stench instead. Follow him, emulate everything he does. Fawn over him. Ignore his actions, personality, and whatever it is he actually did to become rich for the fact that he has the most monies now. He won and now he gets all of Elon's vassals. That's how it works.

I for one welcome Bernard Amyot as the visionary leader WotC needs. After all, the luxury high goods market is exactly the same as the toys/games market.