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TSR (2) Confirms TSR (3)'s Acquisition of Trademark (Updated!)
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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8318431" data-attributes="member: 6701124"><p>Doing family genealogy things and collecting stories about the last few generations... there are lots of things I wish I hadn't run into. It would just be nice to not have to look at them relative to the mass of people of their day as an excuse, and to have more that were better than the typical of the day. (Of course, most people can't be better than the typical views of their time by definition.) And going back further it sure isn't fun to dig up most well-to-do ancestors in early America when they had a really good chance of either having gotten there based on people they owned, or starting owning people once they got there :-/</p><p></p><p> ...</p><p></p><p>So, if one were assigning alignments on the 9 point scale to historical figures and organizations from, say 1960 and before, would many of them actually get a G by modern standards? (How many weren't hideously racist, sexist, slave owning, child abusing, violent, anti-LGBTQ+, or had horrid legal systems).</p><p></p><p>Is that actually be an argument for getting rid of alignment all together if one had to combine modern sensibilities with trying to write up something "vaguely historically inspired"? </p><p></p><p>Partially out of context quote:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]138887[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>See the last question in this one of <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/q-a-with-gary-gygax.22566/page-79#post-1143027" target="_blank">TSR - Q&A with Gary Gygax</a> for the whole thing (which I wish I could say was encouraging).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8318431, member: 6701124"] Doing family genealogy things and collecting stories about the last few generations... there are lots of things I wish I hadn't run into. It would just be nice to not have to look at them relative to the mass of people of their day as an excuse, and to have more that were better than the typical of the day. (Of course, most people can't be better than the typical views of their time by definition.) And going back further it sure isn't fun to dig up most well-to-do ancestors in early America when they had a really good chance of either having gotten there based on people they owned, or starting owning people once they got there :-/ ... So, if one were assigning alignments on the 9 point scale to historical figures and organizations from, say 1960 and before, would many of them actually get a G by modern standards? (How many weren't hideously racist, sexist, slave owning, child abusing, violent, anti-LGBTQ+, or had horrid legal systems). Is that actually be an argument for getting rid of alignment all together if one had to combine modern sensibilities with trying to write up something "vaguely historically inspired"? Partially out of context quote: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1624722073141.png"]138887[/ATTACH] See the last question in this one of [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/q-a-with-gary-gygax.22566/page-79#post-1143027']TSR - Q&A with Gary Gygax[/URL] for the whole thing (which I wish I could say was encouraging). [/QUOTE]
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