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Diamond set up their operations and deals in ways that we see now endangered their partners. They did so in a way that got past even the...

Of course I don’t think execs planned on doing anything negative to themselves, because they get golden parachutes and retire / move on...

Diamond’s “maliciousness” goes well and beyond just this RPG-centric thread. Comic book companies have been dealing with their nonsense...

No one claimed it was a "great evil plan," but yet again your posts dismiss the events as "feces occurs" in ways that are, frankly...

I am utterly boggled how you are able to distinguish “mismanagement”—again, which definitely includes some shady-as-Hades-stuff going...

Licenses are generally contracted by category (board games, RPGs, picture books, T-shirts, etc) and narrowly defined, with any...

And as they made their distribution deals and then entered into bankruptcy, they allowed their failure to threaten their publisher...

I’ll agree with you that, no, it isn’t a big ol’ heist movie caper. Where I disagree is your casually dismissive “eh, it’s business as...

Makes sense. That also explains why the most successful licensed RPGs are those that are tied to an IP with long-term success and lots...

The problem with the licensed RPGs can be tied to the long approval processes and also the short licenses now being offered by companies...

A lot of us never really gave the supply chain a second thought until it was disrupted during Covid. Even now, many of us don't fully...

If you don't understand why most mid-tier and large game and comics publishers had to work with Diamond/Alliance in some capacity, you...

What? While "malice" does have a specific meaning in law, the word is by no means limited to that context. Maybe you don't use it...

Courts do not define the meaning of words used in conversation. The word ‘malice’ is an English word with, like every word, meaning and...

Strong bet that Jd_Smith1 has blocked you for some reason, because my experience is identical to yours: JLowder is conversing with...