Recent content by Morrus

Correct. Views and engagement are quantitative, not qualitative metrics. That's the very foundation of clickbait (and it's ragier cousin, ragebait).

UPDATE -- Paizo Publishing has announced that its upcoming releases will not be available at major bookstores or at Amazon because the company has stopped shipping products to Diamond. This includes 12 August releases and 10 September releases, such as Starfinder Player Core, Starfinder GM Core...

Unfortunately, that’s not really an option. Most publishers do offer that option, but it’s only a tiny percentage of their retail sales. The stores aren’t interested in managing their inventory on a per-publisher ordering basis. They just want a single point of contact to put periodical orders...

Every AI thread ends up the exact same way--a dozen people arguing with one person trotting out the exact same stuff that a different one person argued with a dozen people about for 30 pages in each of the last 30 identical threads. Every single time. The only thing that changes is the identity...

I don't have any insight into Diamond's accounts, but typically in a bankruptcy scenario not every creditor will get everything they’re owed. There won’t be enough to go round. There will be a priority list, and the creditors will be a longer list than the list of consignment vendors--it will...

Diamond Comic Distributors--which filed for bankruptcy in January--has asked the bankruptcy court to allow it to sell its consignment inventory in order to pay off its creditors. Consignment inventory is stock which the distributor stores but does not own (as opposed to stock which the...

I have no insight into his figures or what deals he has with his distributor, and haven't watched the video, but yes, books sold via distribution are typically sold at around half retail. Assuming your starting figures--$59 retail, a thousand books--are correct, your calculation seems...

Well, we were talking about YouTube. People in person are very different.

I've moved this to the Promotions forum for you.

I promise you it’s every fandom. I’d actually say D&D is kinda mild compared to some of them. The Star Wars fandom on YouTube is way worse.

Possibly. The topic of this thread is “scandal”. And the “debunking” thereof.

If it’s any comfort, it’s not just D&D. Any subculture or fandom on YouTube is exactly the same.

Yes. There’s a reason it wasn’t covered on this news site. This video is also clickbait. The “scandal” is manufactured. The “debunking” of the scandal is manufactured. It’s all non-news. But it gets all the clicks.