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I think that's a lot of tilting at windmills unless the folks doing the suing are people with deep pockets like a Carl Icahn-type individual to be able to prove that executive bonuses and stock sales are evidence of wrongdoing.

There's certainly impact from people buying more of those cards, and it can absolutely be a bad idea to use short term interest that's driven from speculation as the basis for making more and more cards. I'm not saying they didn't do something dumb, but it's a far cry from something that is...

But do they refer to their product as collector's items? Do they profit from the increase or decrease of that perceived secondary value? That's part of this. Yes, the elephant in the room is that there is a secondary market where these things are sold for a lot of money. Yes, Hasbro is aware...

Would Hasbro say they've entered into a social contract regarding the secondary market value of their cards? Like, that sounds very much like a collector's justification for why Hasbro is to blame for prices in the secondary market, but that doesn't make it true.

I know very little about Hasbro and MtG overall, so this may be either basic knowledge but does Hasbro actively participate in this secondary market? Overprinting product can be damaging to the company if it cannot sell that inventory (see TSR circa 1990s), but the damage to the secondary market...

It squares for me in that I don't see this as a zero sum question. That there is a difference is not necessarily the biggest factor. How much agency is given is more of the difference maker IMO. There are plenty of campaigns that are a lot more linear and have a structure that is not too much...

Well, that preservative is still a big part of keeping it shelf stable and for taste purposes over time. A lot of beer is still at only a 4% to 5% ABV.

I posted that without noticing there was a thread, lol.

Maybe it's just because of the way I grew up, but I don't see a huge amount of difference between a Fighting Fantasy or Choose Your Own Adventure book and TTRPGs. There are, obviously, differences in terms of the amount of freedom you have as a player of the latter, but I've always looked at it...

When the Masters of the Universe teaser trailer drops - :love: When you remember Jared Leto is playing Skeletor - :cry:

That's tough - there's really nothing our there in the mass market that satisfies the no hops requirement. I would really look at another drink like mead. Mead has a lot of variety in flavor and complexity, and even amongst the beers that get close to having no hops, like Dogfish Head's Midas...

I started a conscious effort to stop doomscrolling on social media and it's amazing to me: 1. How much you still are able to keep up with the important news. 2. How stupid the little stuff starts to sound if and when you do become aware of it. 3. How many people I followed for one particular...

What is it with working out after the holidays, and trying to cut some weight that your body does that whole "Oh, wait! You're starving! We need to hold on to every bit of weight possible." Me: "No, you doofus. We ate too damn much over the past month, and now you don't know what's normal...

Exactly. They were really riding high on a wave of goodwill going into those movies.

I dunno...these trailers are good and all but at the end of the day they've got to pull all these individual strands into a pair of cohesive movies. It's not that they can't do it - we've seen Infinity War, Endgame and Deadpool and Wolverine but they've also added a lot of dead weight and...