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I couldn’t understand a word that Forrest Whitaker said. That whole subplot was lost on me. Maybe I should rewatch with subtitles on—but what was that machine? Other than the Saw Garerra bits, these three episodes were a step up from last week’s. I really enjoyed it.

Yes, you said that.

Well, that goes for every industry. Physical stuff gets counterfeited, digital stuff gets pirated, things in shops get shoplifted. There’s not really anything we can do about that. We just have to accept that people will steal from us and will feel justified in doing so.

Well, forgetting the arbitrary $60 figure you used, it may be that you have to accept that in the long run that if you individually won’t pay the value of something, you can’t have it. And if nobody will pay the value of the product, then that product is not a viable one and can’t be made...

It’s like D&D Beyond but for games other than D&D.

Feelings won’t make selling things at less than it costs to make them a sensible business choice. If customers won’t pay what a product costs to make, then the product has no viability. This is business 101! Anyhow, I’m not seeking debate or business advice. I just answered a question. :)

Educating people is hard, but I’m encouraged by the progress the industry has made in the last 10 years or so and I’m hopeful it will continue.

You gotta do what you gotta do. I’m sure you know how to run your business. I’m just telling you how I run mine. :) Luckily there has been a slowly but steady increase in public understanding of the value of the intellectual work in a product, and that has been commensurate with a very slow...

The print run is usually one of the smallest costs involved in producing a product. The art, the writing, the editing, the layout…. all that is what costs the money. The $3 per unit (or whatever) on the print run is just a tiny fraction of the total cost. Seems weird to assign the largest part...

They don't currently. As for whether they will, who knows?

I get it. We have two shipments on their way to the US from China too. It sucks! :)

Right, so it's just that it's a project that won't be affected by the tariffs? Which is fine, of course, but I must have gotten the wrong end of the stick with all the 'resistance' talk and the 'anti-tariff' headline. Feel free to ignore me!

I appreciate the sentiment, but how is the Kickstarter “anti-tariff”? Are the proceeds going to help fund some form of relief or activism? The campaign page speaks of ‘fighting’ the tariffs but it’s not clear how? Also, in the name of all that is Billy Joel, shouldn’t it be called “We Didn’t...

Here you go: No mention of ‘feelings’ there. Just a false comparison presented as fact. It’s easy to ignore ethics when you ignore the facts. You might as well say “you seem to be getting hung up on the actual stabbing, while for me that is not the issue with this death.” If you conveniently...

Yes, I gathered. ;) Oh well that settles it! :D To be clear, your ‘feelings’ are not computer science and shouldn’t be represented as such. When you declare in a factual-sounding manner that AIs are just doing what human do, perhaps qualify that with a note that that’s just how you ‘feel’ and...

Oh, this again! Every. Single. Thread! I need an AI bot to do this bit for me. :D The processes that humans and AI do are not the same—neuroscience and AI are not synonyms. They’re not even vaguely similar. AI is not doing what humans do. You are not an LLM or similar to one (unless there’s...

You keep saying that, but that's not what the common objection to AI art is about. Folks' ethical issues with it aren't because they think it's too easy (buying stock art is easy, too, but they have no ethical issues with that), it's because the art, no matter how much you change it, was stolen...

You can buy high quality print versions from our online store. We have warehouses in the US and the UK, so you should have no trouble getting them. (You don’t want to pay for a 600+ page PoD book! You’d be paying way more, plus it would be lower quality, and lack the fancy ribbons!)

See post #8. :)

Nope! You’ve been getting 5 separate articles a month for years. Now you’ll get them as a single magazine. No change for you other than the format.