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breaking things is the easy part, I wish that were not the end of their philosophy, but for all intents and purposes it is

I feel this is the potential end result of the “Move Fast and Break Things” philosophy. In the course of breaking things, a lot of...

Yeah and I don't disagree, but I think d20 caused a temporary burst of investment by companies and people who could barely afford it...

Eh, in techbro culture, it's impossible to be too over the top about the potentials of AI. My brother works in the industry, and some of...

So how did that story end exactly? Remind me. No, it's absolutely an offense and disrespect to basically all creative professions...

Or they could consider it a challenge, like the American folk tale of John Henry versus the drilling machine to carve a railroad tunnel...

Considering how many games flop, can humans understand the concept of fun?

That’s a heck of a risk. I’m sure there’s lots of CEOs in the market for COOs who make publicly damaging remarks about their company...

IP was included in some of the writeups, so it wasn't clear how/if you could use them. Like names were mentioned, but were IP. Now...

AI could absolutely come up with the rules for Tiny Towers in the same way that a million monkeys at typewriters could come up with Hamlet.

Here is another view from his new book about the sale of TSR. He gives this as a talk at GenCon and I hope he includes an interactive...

That's pretty damn cold comfort. "What they did was perfectly within their rights as a soulless corporation" doesn't exactly inspire...

No, I don't. I mean, in terms of reviewer scores, user scores, every common measure. You can pretend things that are trash aren't...

Making 4E into a tactics rpg (in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics or X-Com) wouldn't be that difficult at all. I mean, not in relation...

What do you mean by "digital stuff"? You mean character builder and VTT? Or actual video games? Because 4e would make an absolutely...