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Yes, I did ask if the govt has the position of "you cannot deny sale of a requested item to X group" or does the govt say "you are mandated to sell a requested item to X group"? I acknowledge that you feel there is no difference. I disagree. There is a difference between an authority saying...

It's an example of compelled action versus banned action, which is what I was discussing. Sure, I'm currently in Pennsylvania. Where I encountered that issue with the local govt was in Blair County. As said, in recent years, they don't really try anymore, but they were kinda a-holes about it...

Not everyone applying for HUD housing is a protected class, no. Also, it wasn't the organization making the choice. The "choice" was mandated. That's an example of compulsion to do something versus being told you cannot do something. There is a difference, and that is an example that exists...

Another example: Let's say, for example, I decide to sell a car to you. If the local govt here feels that the amount that you and I have mutually agreed upon is below what the local govt feels I should sell the car for, they can try to force me to charge you more. Thankfully, most attempts...

Not exactly, but sorta... Currently, I work for an agency that deals with HUD subsidized housing. In some cases, yes, there actually are times when I have been required to give an available apartment to a particular person over someone else, even when the someone else was -by the normal rules...

There is a difference. As was explained by someone else upthread, it was ruled that the govt cannot compel speech. That is an example of there being a tangible and legal difference between saying "you cannot do X" versus "you must do X." Obviously, the shadowbans mentioned are not a speech...

In real life, part of winning a battle is engaging in strategy and tactics that skew things to be unfair in your favor. Sometimes that's stealth & ambush Sometimes that's attacking the enemy's logistics so that they're cold, hungry, or otherwise impaired It may be that a "fair" game system...

I agree with the majority of that. I both understand and support measures that protect people from discrimination. Though, I would also add that -from my own point of view- there is an important difference between a govt saying that you cannot do something (i.e. discriminate against a...

And I agree with that. However, it was, as I understand in the comment to which I replied, stated/implied that a business owner has no right to decline business. I'm of the belief that consent should matter.

Is it your view that you cannot choose with whom to do business? I'm asking because I am not sure that I understand how that position exists among the community simultaneously with members of the community stating that a game company should have chosen to not do business with an individual...

Some games do have that. Things like shock can occur. PCs could have advantages that mitigate or eliminate that (or they start without such advantages and gain them). It's surprising what the mind can normalize.

I see where I miscounted. 😄 I sketched it out with a thick marker. Misread the lines of my own handwriting. I had the idea of how it worked.

44 Edit: Looks kinda like a Base 4 number system, expressed across 3 rows. 0, Left (1), Right (2), T (3), 4 moves to the next row When you get 4 more, the original 4 on the left gets bumped to the right. Repeat; bumping to the next row when necessary.

I prefer dependent.

I feel that $50 is reasonable for a boxed set with this much content.

Sure, I get that. Currently, companies aren't trying to make something illegal into something legal; their position is that they're not doing the illegal thing at all. @Nikosandros made a good point about writing something saying that video games cannot be licensed, only sold. If something...

I'm sure there's a way to write something that covers that. I'm simply pointing out that a ruling or an opinion about game ownership doesn't mean a whole lot when companies say that they don't sell games -they sell licenses. I'm not in any way defending what contemporary companies do. I'm...

How things went with 4E is what I had in mind. I'm not familiar enough with D&D Beyond to know how a D&D Beyond subscription would be seen as something different than the subscription to the 4E tools.

My guess would be that it depends on what you want to do in game. Multiple pillars of play across multiple types of campaigns. There's a lot of variety across X-Com's tactical warfare, Stargate's Sciency Planet Hopping, Alien's Sci-Fi Horror; etc. Currently, I can only speculate based upon...

Earlier, I posted a quote directly from Steam. Similar to Steam, Playstation network operates in a similar way. The license agreement you agree to when purchasing a digital game specifies that Sony retains ownership and can revoke access under certain conditions, such as if the game is removed...