Recent content by JLowder

And yet still far more qualified, through decades of direct experience, to speak to any part of this topic than you and to see where your hot takes are empty and cruel.

No, I don't. I do, however, regularly work with contracts in the tabletop industry, as well as with lawyers and agents. Just negotiated a successful license extension for a publisher with Disney. I wrote many of the agreements (creator contracts, licenses, translation agreements) several...

You have a lot of hot takes that turn out to be just hot takes. You claim bankruptcies are calm and orderly, when anyone who has worked in legal circles knows that's not true. You can even look at the coverage of bankruptcies in the business press to know that's not true, even before you get to...

So you have big feelings about the contracts and bankruptcies, along with the other hot takes you have offered about the way these businesses run. Got it.

You didn't answer the question about your legal background. Are you a practicing lawyer?

Which publishers? Your comment was unclear and seemed to be talking about general bankruptcy filings. Which Diamond contracts from the publishers caught in the current inventory grab have you seen? The specific contracts involved in this specific bankruptcy. And do you have a legal background...

That's not the purpose of this thread. The thread started as a news piece about their crowdfunding campaign. Your purpose has been something else entirely. If you are complaining about speculation, you should avoid the endless hot takes on things like distribution contracts you have not seen...

So you haven't seen the contracts, but still have a hot take on those documents, and have further hot takes on other related matters you are, again, speculating about. Both Disney and Warner-Discovery have stock in the same position as the stock from Green Ronin, Paizo, and the other small...

Have you seen the contracts so that you can say they are "loosely worded"? What did you spot that the lawyers at Disney and Warner-Discovery missed?

That's only true if someone lacks even the smallest shred of empathy for other human beings. It's not even true in legal circles, as bankruptcies can be quite chaotic, as with Lehman Brothers and on and on.

Yes, the world is bigger than me. It includes people who think all businesses are predatory. It includes people who run publishers and distributors who get in trouble and pass, through malice or incompetence, as much of that damage on to business partners as possible, typically shrugging all the...

The world is bigger than you, though, so that hot take--I did okay, even if they screwed over lots of other people--is never going to be the flex you seem to think.

Tariffs are very much on topic, as they are an expense--running into the tens of thousands--that have hit these companies with little notice in recent months. That impacts their immediate cash flow for emergencies, such as the Diamond inventory grab, and undermines the armchair CEO claims these...

And you have repeatedly cast this in the worst possible light while brushing off the behavior of Diamond and the estate, and the significant damage it has caused, as "feces happens." That's on you. There are lots of public facts available about this situation. Even more to people who work in...

And not every company is going to have them always at the ready, especially in low-margin businesses, especially within months of having to shell out money for tariffs levied without sane discussion or processes.