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Better for who? I get that some people have this concept of an ideal, altruistic owner but there's no guarantee that owner would make a...
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that was implied (and in some other post explicitly mentioned). If you cannot afford to buy D&D then you cannot run it as a private...
Sep 7, 2025
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so far it seems to be working out for them, if it no longer does they can always change direction Ultimately the customer has to decide...
Sep 7, 2025
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That'll happen when half the world's postal services stop shipping to the US.
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depends on how you define better I guess. I assume Peterson is more thoroughly researched, but to me it was a drier read, esp. Playing...
Sep 7, 2025
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he focuses on the years that Peterson does not cover, and Applecline does not really go into business details
Sep 7, 2025
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Artist hated my banner. We're writing new Contract stipulations that I can't do that to his work in the future. ;)
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My response to this is simply to nerf or remove most options that circumvent challenges like light and food (basic survival...
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They could do that in a franchise model, a studio model, an indie model -- enshittification, like the rants against capitalism existing...
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Prime case in point: the cocaine fueled fiasco that was Gygax/Blume era TSR.
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But it would be more convincing if it was something other than "publicly traded companies bad" while if a company is owned by an...
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no, for one there is no payment to WotC for the right to use something and for another you can use it to create anything, even a...
Sep 7, 2025
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but you should be able to have a reason for your concerns, so far I see nothing that explains why a private investor would be any better...
Sep 7, 2025
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they do not vote on business decisions, at all. They vote once a year whether they trust the leadership of the company, but that is it
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