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Which publishers? Your comment was unclear and seemed to be talking about general bankruptcy filings. Which Diamond contracts from the publishers caught in the current inventory grab have you seen? The specific contracts involved in this specific bankruptcy. And do you have a legal background...

That's not the purpose of this thread. The thread started as a news piece about their crowdfunding campaign. Your purpose has been something else entirely. If you are complaining about speculation, you should avoid the endless hot takes on things like distribution contracts you have not seen...

So you haven't seen the contracts, but still have a hot take on those documents, and have further hot takes on other related matters you are, again, speculating about. Both Disney and Warner-Discovery have stock in the same position as the stock from Green Ronin, Paizo, and the other small...

Have you seen the contracts so that you can say they are "loosely worded"? What did you spot that the lawyers at Disney and Warner-Discovery missed?

That's only true if someone lacks even the smallest shred of empathy for other human beings. It's not even true in legal circles, as bankruptcies can be quite chaotic, as with Lehman Brothers and on and on.

Yes, the world is bigger than me. It includes people who think all businesses are predatory. It includes people who run publishers and distributors who get in trouble and pass, through malice or incompetence, as much of that damage on to business partners as possible, typically shrugging all the...

The world is bigger than you, though, so that hot take--I did okay, even if they screwed over lots of other people--is never going to be the flex you seem to think.

Tariffs are very much on topic, as they are an expense--running into the tens of thousands--that have hit these companies with little notice in recent months. That impacts their immediate cash flow for emergencies, such as the Diamond inventory grab, and undermines the armchair CEO claims these...

And you have repeatedly cast this in the worst possible light while brushing off the behavior of Diamond and the estate, and the significant damage it has caused, as "feces happens." That's on you. There are lots of public facts available about this situation. Even more to people who work in...

And not every company is going to have them always at the ready, especially in low-margin businesses, especially within months of having to shell out money for tariffs levied without sane discussion or processes.

It's not that the games are not generating money. As in comics, the cover prices charged have not kept up with the cost of goods. More importantly, of that cover price, less of that money is going to publishers (and then to freelancers) because distributors and platforms such as Amazon have...

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Lots of speculation there, all, of course, framed to present Green Ronin in the worst possible light.

The Legal Objectivist Shuffle! Take a bow. You were a big hit. Absolutely.

Again, you seem confused about the public facts in this situation and even the difference between opinion and fact or legal and common use of words. But, hey, San Diego Comic Con and Gen Con are coming up. You should definitely book flights and take this road show to the conventions. Drop by...

You seem confused by the fact that there are public facts about this situation. You also keep falling back on (mis)use of legal language to pretend points are not legitimate; you have already been called on this, right? It's tedious and falls flat every time you do it. Move on. Not as tedious...

Diamond set up their operations and deals in ways that we see now endangered their partners. They did so in a way that got past even the corporate counsel at Disney and Warner-Discovery, so pretending the small game companies should have caught this is ridiculous. Malicious is, in fact, the...

No one claimed it was a "great evil plan," but yet again your posts dismiss the events as "feces occurs" in ways that are, frankly, repulsive. And, yet again, not the flex you seem to think. Oh, and the matter may not be as cut and dried as you seem to think, as there are ways in which the...

And as they made their distribution deals and then entered into bankruptcy, they allowed their failure to threaten their publisher partners, whose stock is potentially being grabbed by the bank in a way that could well destroy those companies. As with your argument about the use of "malice," you...

Licenses are generally contracted by category (board games, RPGs, picture books, T-shirts, etc) and narrowly defined, with any additional categories or even additional products likely costing a fair bit, especially on licenses such as Star Wars. I don't know the details of the current SW...