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• 1990: BBSes
• 1995: Usenet newsgroups
• 2000: Email discussion lists
• 2005: Web forums
• 2010: LiveJournal communities
• 2015: Reddit subreddits
• 2020: Discord groups
• 2025: Scratching around in the wastelands for scavengeable supplies and a way for it all to maybe begin to make sense again
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Aaron Swartz died ten years ago today January 11, 2013. Let's all take a moment to remember him and all that he did. #RememberAaronSwartz
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Paizo (publishers of Pathfinder) react to rumors of Wizards of the Coast moving from the existing Open Game License to a new, predatory license and attempting to somehow retroactively revoke the old license: https://paizo.com/community/blog
The punchline: Paizo previously used the OGL to release their original content because it was there; now they feel it is no longer trustworthy so they're making their own license.
The name: The Open RPG Creative License (ORC).
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@gherhartd The trigger is, no doubt, the OGL 1.1 leaks.
As for why new licenses, I wouldn't be surprised if many of them literarily don't know about licenses other than the OGL.
Woo. I am having a real one.
Expected for this time of year, but with the additional stress going on it's pretty rough rn.
Hug your kids.
@lispegistus Upon learning this, I'm having a much stronger disgust reaction than I would have predicted.
I'm really kind of baffled about the OGL 1.1 fracas, because so much of it seams to be about VTTs and Twitch streams, which do not feature in my RPG hobby in any way.
Did these things really become so important for today's D&D?
Waiting for the #TwitterFiles expose on #GamerGate.
Not sure what's worse, the people unable to see context and saying <wow, that's bad>, or the people unable to see context and saying <wow, that's good>.
I'm just going to start calling it "cheek amputation" in hopes that the name will catch on and gross people out so they stop doing it.
The current OGL 1.1 fracas reminds me of this thread from The Forge: http://indie-rpgs.com/archive/index.php?topic=5109.0
They question if d20 supplements count as "indie" by their definition (Creator owned: Ip and publishing rights,) and conclude they are.
No one considered OGL revocation.
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Last week, Gizmodo's Linda Codega caught a fantastic scoop - a leaked report of #Hasbro's plan to revoke the decades-old #OpenGamingLicense, which subsidiary #WizardsOfTheCoast promulgated as an allegedly #open sandbox for people seeking to extend, remix or improve #DungeonsAndDragons:
https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634
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Long thread/11
Crucially, the deal is silent on whether Deere will supply the tools needed to activate VIN locks, meaning that farmers will still be at Deere's mercy when they effect their own repairs.
What's more, the deal itself *isn't legally binding*, and Deere can cancel it at any time. Once you dig past the headline, the Deere's Damascene conversion to repair advocacy starts to look awfully superficial - and deceptive.
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Oh God.
There's a _Nier: Automata_ anime airing. That means my timeline will be full of horny fan art of 2B.
Radical Libertarians are poised to repeal all regulation. You have discovered a strange thaumaturgical/legal loophole that will allow you to ban one thing and have it stay banned.
What is the one thing you ban?
The OGL 1.1 fracas is going to raise the bar for corporate trust. Possibly to an unattainable level.
I haven't seen such a destruction of the commons of public trust since... TSR tried to claim that they owned the copyright to everything that used the term "hit points".
