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That just goes to show that investors should be kept as far as possible away from the actual running of a company. Mel Brooks had the right idea.

That's a good point. If the payment processors take the stance "We won't interfere with any legal sales", that's a pretty solid stance that's hard to attack. You think that crap should be illegal? Take it up with the government or with the platform, but as long as it's legal we won't interfere...

Yes. It might not be to my tastes, but playing a villain in a game is not the same as performing or condoning villainous acts IRL. Or should we condemn and prosecute Ian McKellen for his attempts at genocide when playing Magneto? Or Ben Kingsley for his sadistic murders in Se7en?

Yeah, but in this case it was the same artist drawing a deliberate homage to his own earlier cover, including choosing similar characters in the second one (Human Torch – Sun Boy, Mr Fantastic – Brainiac-5, Invisible Woman – Invisible Kid, and Thing – Blok) and putting them in the exact same poses.

I think you mean 1982, not 1961. And both covers are John Byrne.

Are you implying that Gladiator and Superman are similar?

As I recall, he had some issues in Ragnarok as well. There's a scene where he's planning to jump out of their ship onto Bifrost and Hulk out on the way down and have a Big Hero Moment stopping Fenrir and, well... doesn't. At least not for a while.

Nah, I was referring to the Aberrant RPG where the Novas have "superpowers" that are all basically unconscious manipulation of "Quantum" which is basically reality-warping magic. That's basically a fix for all the "If you think about it..." aspects of various super powers. If you have enough...

That's just Quantum Strength :)

He did use the gay wedding cake as an example earlier, and given the circumstances I think I actually agree with the verdict there. The way I see it, if a gay couple goes to a bakery and says "We want to buy that cake", that shouldn't be an issue. The baker should not have the right to decline...

Sure, you'll find plenty of puritans who want to ban books and other media containing explicit descriptions or images of straight stuff. But that bar is set a lot lower for LGBTQ+ stuff. You won't find anyone trying to get a book with a kid with a mommy and daddy banned, but one with two daddies...

I've been looking around for maybe half an hour and I can't find what regulation that is supposed to be? Most regulations I can find regarding payment processors have to do with technical issues like fees, not being forced to provide equal access. I'd love to have something I can point to when...

There's some info in this BlueSky thread that looks useful:

Hmm. I don't know about "dark energy" or "dark matter" in Marvel (though I know it was a Big Deal in the Alternity RPG back in the 90s). What they do have is Darkforce, which is energy/force from another dimension and which is primarily used by Cloak (whose body is normally intangible and a...

As an individual, I totally can. I can spend my money wherever I choose. As a business, I have an obligation not to discriminate based on various things. I can't refuse service to black people, for example, or relegate them to a separate part of my business. And if I'm running a business that...

I see your point, but the correct avenue to attack that would be to try to influence Steam to change their policies, not to influence Mastercard and VISA whose job is to enable people to pay for things they want to buy. In the long run, this is the kind of thing that will influence platforms to...

That's because fully attrition-based games are dull. Individual encounters often don't pose a challenge, because their job is to wear you down a little so the fourth or seventh or tenth encounter actually becomes dangerous. That's why healing surges in 4e was such a genius move – they allowed...