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Wait, I guess it makes sense. Fire everyone, sell to another company, then that company can try to rehire at a reduced salary.

Nah. They'll sell in a leveraged buy-out, which will give the shareholders at Hasbro tons of money, cost Tencent nothing, and put the new D&D LLC in tons of debt. Then they'll piecemeal out any IP or assets that can make them any money before letting D&D LLC go bankrupt. See what happened to Toys R' Us for a past example.

D&D's 5e SRD was released under CC-BY. It only includes one subclass per class and a handful of monsters, but it's all the rules.

Tales of the Valiant and Pathfinder 2e both have SRDs licensed under the ORC license and are based in D&D-type gameplay.

FATE is a different type of TTRPG that has a SRD licensed both under OGL and CC-BY.

Powered by the Apocalypse is a different system and has a permissive, but hand-wavey license.

Of all of these, ToV is the most like 5e without being controlled by a multi-national, public company.

Yeah. I worked for a SaaS company that had two rounds of layoffs because they hired C-suite executives who were better at talking than building software or running product teams.

One was let go in the layoffs -- but given a book of clients to start a competing business. The other is still there holding pointless meetings that keep people from getting work done.

I agree with you, and normally like posts to just use the original headline, but in this case, it feels like the newspaper is pro-KOSA. They mention in the article hundreds of organizations support the legislation but don't mention the hundreds that have opposed it.

Perhaps something like "Microsoft president endorses online child safety bill night before Big Tech hearing [Bill is opposed by EFF over censorship concerns]" would be a better way to handle adding context.

I saved your post to try out the game. Sadly, it appears that it's being erased from the Internet.

"Spec Ops: The Line ... has been delisted from Steam, with other online stores to follow."

Ah boo. It didn't do that for me, sorry about that! Here's the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240131015504/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sand-mafias-are-plundering-the-earth/

Well, you should have taken 16 seconds. Because two words later it says that she also identifies as pansexual. And in the article quoted, she refers to herself as queer. So BQ+

Are you really arguing that "Amber Glenn becomes first Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer woman to win U.S. Women's Figure Skating Championship" would have been a better headline?

I don't even understand your rant. The committee running WorldCon each year has total control over the Hugo awards. This year the "Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations for breaching the norms and standards of China."

What did that have to do with the UK or any other year's WorldCon?

The caveat being that writing quality isn't a reason to mark a book as "Not Eligible". So even with your critique, it seems odd that you'd have increased confidence in the awards because a government censored a book you didn't like.

Valid points! It looks like this was only her second film as armorer and the line producer scolded her for spending too much time focusing on armory. She warned that mistakes would happen.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-01-28/rust-emails-armorer-hannah-gutierrez-reed

If you believe that prison (or any criminal sentence) is for rehabilitation and restoration instead of punishment, what's the hopeful outcome here?

I'm sure the guy already isn't going to want to work with real guns on any future movie set. Sending him to a rich white guy prison for 18 months won't change that. Nor will it change the laws or practices of what's happening on movie sets. And it won't bring any restitution to the victims' family unless they, in turn, sue.

Seems like the best outcome here would be a plea deal that involves pleading "no contest", barred from using real firearms, and committing to financial restitution for the family.

Their recommendation algorithm was terrible. It just sent me every article from BookRiot and any article that mentioned whiskey.