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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8779064" data-attributes="member: 6799660">"Um," call it what you like. I suppose I could have included strategy in the quote marks, but I think it somewhat is a strategy, if not an actually advisable one. Either way, it is a pattern of behavior and a reward-response structure that can explain decisions. Some people make a pattern of risky decisions that seem to work for an uncannily long time. Predominantly as an observer effect -- we don't take notice of people who did something risky and get hoisted for it on the first or second attempt, it's only the outliers that get talked about. Regardless, for those outliers, the previous success in that pattern reinforces to them that they ought to continue the pattern. My larger point is that he's taken relatively big risks, and it has previously paid off for him*. Thus it is no surprise that it made perfect sense to him to try to play chicken with Hasbro. Likewise, for the rest of us it is no surprise that it didn't work. *And I think we can all agree that it wasn't because of his phenomenal brilliance or business acumen. As for the transphobia and such, I still wonder if that was the initial strategy. Maybe it was and he just gambled that WotC would rather pay him to go away than make an example of him. Or maybe it wasn't until Ernie's interview outed them and then he decided to lean into the cringe (either to really make WotC want him to go away, or else because he thought he could pull huge amounts from the like-thinkers). Either way we probably will never find out what he thought he was doing, and all the potential options seem mind-numbingly dumb.</blockquote>

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