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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".
@_ I'll be honest, when I see someone with the username @_, I have to ask if they're a Perl programmer.
Are you?
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I wonder if anyone has a writeup of the absurd copyright claims TSR made in the late 90s.
(IIRC: Uploading a character sheet to the internet was copyright infringement. So was using the term "hit points". Personal sharing of campaign notes was only legit if done on the TSR BBS.)
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as rumors that gamefaqs will be shut down arise once again, reminder that a full backup was made last year https://archive.org/details/Gamespot_Gamefaqs_TXTs
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type of guy who reads every "type of guy" tweet thinking "ha, at least i'm not that guy"
(this tweet brought to you by gödel's incompleteness theorem)
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techbros when they notice that the duck pond does not have a robots.txt
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its hit or miss whether it gives you a cat or a catgirl
when it does give you a cat it's very similar to the novelai cats though
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