Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What makes a tomato "look organic"?

The Birkenstocks.

 

[dragoner]

You can take my pesticide ridden crops from my cold d3ad hands!!! n_n

It's all the same, there are no actual standards.

What makes a tomato "look organic"?

I don't know.

 

[kermit4karate]

The Birkenstocks.

This deserves a special callout.

 

[TiQuinn]

Seems that pretty much all of the stores, that invested heavily in self checkout, are experiencing record levels of "shrinkage." To the point that actually using people is cheaper.

I’m totally good with this. Several stores in my area went with virtually all self check and only one or two manned checkout lines. The computers are always annoyingly aggressive about how they function and there’s not enough room if you have a larger cart of groceries. It feels like a way of saving them labor costs.

 

[kermit4karate]

I’m totally good with this. Several stores in my area went with virtually all self check and only one or two manned checkout lines. The computers are always annoyingly aggressive about how they function and there’s not enough room if you have a larger cart of groceries. It feels like a way of saving them labor costs.

It is absolutely a way for them to save on labor costs. Or rather, to save on labor costs for checkers and redirect the savings to executive pay.

 

[Scribe]

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I have thoughts.

When I'm stressed, I cope with organization, or planning, or list making.

1. Gym thought. I am somewhat dismayed that Wizards has not created an actual MtG (no the D&D/MtG Settings do not count) RPG. Like really shocked. I guess they know their marketing data, but it would seem like a slam dunk.

2. I've slept poorly all week, and when I'm stressed + tired, I sometimes go build MtG decks. Its a problem.

3. I really need to throw together a "vibe code" "AI" solution to a business case I have bouncing around my head, and get it bought for a couple million by OpenAI. Yeah, then I can go live on my farm and flip the world the bird.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Snarf: If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal…

The applicant did not get the job.

This isn’t LinkedIn, man!

 

[TiQuinn]

I don’t get it - that dude genuinely seems like he hates anyone responding to him.

 

[Staffan]

1. Gym thought. I am somewhat dismayed that Wizards has not created an actual MtG (no the D&D/MtG Settings do not count) RPG. Like really shocked. I guess they know their marketing data, but it would seem like a slam dunk.

I know Ryan Dancey talked back in the day about how if you have the #1 properties in different categories (like how D&D is the #1 RPG and MtG is the #1 CCG), there's little point to transferring over one property to the other category. Something about competing with yourself and running the risk of having a second lower-ranking property running the risk of dragging the #1 down.

It seems that the current management have loosened that stance, but they're doing it by using the other side as source material rather than trying to compete with themselves. A Ravnica or Strixhaven sourcebook is different from a MtG RPG, and an Adventures in the Forgotten Realms MtG set is different from trying to do a D&D CCG.

 

[Deset Gled]

I know Ryan Dancey talked back in the day about how if you have the #1 properties in different categories (like how D&D is the #1 RPG and MtG is the #1 CCG), there's little point to transferring over one property to the other category. Something about competing with yourself and running the risk of having a second lower-ranking property running the risk of dragging the #1 down.

It seems that the current management have loosened that stance, but they're doing it by using the other side as source material rather than trying to compete with themselves. A Ravnica or Strixhaven sourcebook is different from a MtG RPG, and an Adventures in the Forgotten Realms MtG set is different from trying to do a D&D CCG.

For reference:

Thread 'Ryan Dancey: This is why there was no M:tG setting for D&D'

Nov 4, 2013

Hi! I was the brand manager for Dungeons & Dragons and the VP of Tabletop RPGs at Wizards of the Coast from 1998 to 2000. I can answer this question.

There were plans to do a Magic RPG and several iterations of such a game were developed at various times. After Wizards of the Coast bought TSR, there were discussions about making a Magic campaign setting for D&D.

After the release of 3rd edition, we had planned to do a Monstrous Compendium for Magic monsters which would have been a tentative cross-over product to see what the interest level was for such a book.

In the end, the...

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