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I'll note that it's entirely possible for someone you disagree with about just about anything to be much more a hero than a villain (by...

Here's the thing: at work, my boss' mentality is "Ticket Queue Go Down Good, More Ticket Bad" and so, I can do things in whatever order...

they are completely in the wrong, regardless of what the court decides. The court does not decide right or wrong / ethical or not, it...

As we are not in a courtroom and no one is formally or even casually accusing Diamond of criminal malice, this is nonsense and just more...

There are book remainder houses that pay pennies on the dollar for stock being blown out, typically because a publisher closes or the...

Is likely someone being on ignore impacting you - either you are ignoring a poster or they are ignoring you, you should be able to tell...

I find it entirely cowardly to fob off this situation as “commonplace”, as though the fact that this apparently happens frequently...

Again, this is excusing predatory behavior. There are non-predatory businesses, of course, and companies can act ethically--here...

No, but you are waving off predatory business behaviors as quotidian and excusing businesses passing off damage on to their partners as...

No, I see predatory business behavior resulting in companies that try to operate professionally getting screwed. Again, there was plenty...

And there was plenty Diamond could have done before the wheel locked to protect their "partners" from the smash-and-grab being run on...

When hobby games distributors Wizards Attic and then Osseum went under in short succession in the early 2000s, burning their clients and...

Oh, man! And I was planning on using that image for my upcoming TTRPG: Thief Holding Torch. Looks like I'll have to find something else.

I have no experience in the business of RPGs outside of being a freelance writer on occasion, but it strikes me as unlikely that...

We have fifty years of outdoors, wide-open experiments to show that very few game companies ever grow very large. There are a wide...