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This is how we know it's science-FICTION. That's even less believable than warp speed.

At that point, I think it's reasonable to look at how things balance - how much are victims injured vs how much power the perpetrator has to avoid consequences and, potentially, reoffend. There were a little under 1000 people affected, the majority of them for $60 or less, the maximum damage...

Heard it, sure. I hear a lot of things. Not all of them I would characterize as fundamentally, or even remotely, true.

I've been responding to Mournblade94's claim that people buying into Harry Potter merch, and Warner's development of an HBO series for Harry Potter, aren't contributing to her ability to wage war on transwomen. Both of those demonstrably are as Rowling herself claims. It's not "just licensing"...

It's true that the backers of the prior kickstarter are victims of JG's incompetence, but the just remedy for that is to hold JG accountable for it (somehow), not have someone else take on that burden for them and ease them off the hook. Justice isn't just for victims, it's for the perpetrators...

And SHE STILL GETS MONEY from all of that. Buy her books now, she still gets money. Keep her properties popular and that raises their value enabling her to claim higher licensing fees. And she uses her money for nefarious ends. The fact that people, including myself, bought her books and went to...

Where does she get her money? She didn't have it when she was on the dole. She got that money from her Harry Potter franchise - all of it - the book royalties, the licensing. It ALL contributed to her wealth - wealth she uses to harm transgender people, particularly transgender women, and taunts...

... which is exactly what Universal/Warner Brothers is doing now. They're definitely compromising with transphobia, rabid, rabid transphobia. This isn't the flex you think it is.

Retired SCOTUS Justice David Souter has died. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-supreme-court-justice-souter-dies-court-says-2025-05-09/

And not just business, but politics as well. I remember a time when a politician had to resign a leadership post by endorsing a white supremacist. That wasn’t very long ago, but then someone got elected and people lost their damn minds and it’s been downhill since.

Well, it was available at the time, and that means it made an impression on people relatively starved for that kind of content, and now drives a lot of nostalgia probably well beyond its actual usefulness. Nostalgia is a heavy drug. Edit: Given when it was published, it’s also a much bigger...

Depends on how close you are to the issue. I definitely side-eye friends and family who know I have queer kids and still eat Chick-fil-A. If I were Jewish and a friend in my gaming group patronized anything JG, including a licensed product, I’d definitely be reassessing membership in that group...

You survived. So far…

Still digging in on that disproven statement? Time to put the block on that stupidity.

Yes, not the main stars of the movies, but not particularly obscure ones either. Bail Organa, Crix Madine, a few others. They're generally mission givers or other background for the adventures in play.

And I think that split is one of the sources of fan enmity of Gygax. Pro-Arneson partisanship was definitely a thing.

True, that's been hanging out there since S1E1.

I doubt it. I think we're not done with her just yet. My guess is her fate is tied up with Dedra Meero's. If not, I'm pretty sure her fate is still to come in the next three episodes. I don't think they'd leave us Bix as a loose end.

Oh, they're definitely out there. They were out there when Gygax was alive at least as far back as the 1980s. They were just a lot less numerous and visible than the idolizing fans.

The Macintosh Portable didn't do so hot either when it came out. They did fairly well among fire departments, I'm told. They could be set up and accessed in the fire engines while on call.