Elon would probably be a mixed bag, but Rudy would be terrible.
Rudy's problem is that he only views Magic as a speculative market and is dismissive of the ecosystem that prevents the floor from falling out of that market. He's the guy who would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, because he doesn't understand that his investment is dependent on the continued health of the game, and the continued health of the game is dependent on not going all in on the degenerate gamblers.
With Elon, I don't know how it would go. There's not much of a victory in saving the company if it means cutting the things that make it worth saving.
Tell me you don't understand Rudy without telling me you don't understand Rudy.
My understanding of Rudy's position is that the tail should be allowed to wag the dog: rather than the secondary market existing to allow players to obtain the cards they need to build a deck given the limitations of Wizards' limited print run, blind packed distribution, Wizards should attempt to maximise secondary market profits to maximise their sales to fourth-party resellers at the expense of their sales to players. The reason I believe this is because of his explicit dislike of the "game pieces" faction (that Wizards should respond to undersupply of in-demand cards by reprinting them, increasing the player base, reducing the effects of external economics on competitive integrity and directly increasing their own sales to the players) and also the fact that he fell for MetaZoo, a game which sold itself on collector-focused gimmicks like a Reserve List but without the fundamentals to make it worth collecting.
Ah, there it is. Tell me you're a filthy commie without telling me you're a filthy commie.
The market is not the purpose of the market. Thinking people should treat shares like the partial ownership of a company and not just an up-market form of betting on greyhounds doesn't make me a communist.
Transformers are easier than mobile suits, no need to worry about maintaining internal space so you don't smush a pilot. Or carry excess materials like life support.
I'd love it if he just embraced the turn-around investor role. A one-man private equity firm with the world's easy roadmap to profitability, "fire the retards and roll back your products to 2015 or earlier." He'd make all his money back and could just keep going.
In most cases you don't need to. Can't find it but there is a meme that nails it. Every panel is some "diverse" woke person explaining the fluff they "do" at the company. The last panel is the one remaining guy whose job is, "working on the product."
I can almost guarantee that in places like Twitter, 5% of the employees were doing all the actual work and they were generally the same people who were doing the work before the DEI fad and vanity hiring sprees.
Creative companies are harder. They actually ran out the people who made them good. If you're the head writer, you can't just quietly chug along in the background without being noticed. So they actively gun for you instead of letting you keep the ship afloat while they play around.
Didn't he literally fire an entire actual floor of Twitter and nothing changed, good or bad? That serves to show how bloated some companies are where there's so much bureaucracy and middle management going on a lot of it only exists so it can exist. Meanwhile as per the meme you describe somewhere squirreled away in some dark, dank [heh] corner is the actual workforce who do their best to get things done and make as little noise as possible after what happened to James Damore.
Even if he just negotiated to buy WOTC from Hasbro, I’d love seeing less woke shit in MtG and D&D. I don’t really know what side of the UB debate Elon would come down on, but at the very least, I think it unlikely he’d make that worse.
Imagine using the dragon dagger to summon your PA. I wouldn't even be mad if that was me. It would have to play all the notes though, not just the standard summon six.
Elon would probably be a mixed bag, but Rudy would be terrible.
Rudy's problem is that he only views Magic as a speculative market and is dismissive of the ecosystem that prevents the floor from falling out of that market. He's the guy who would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, because he doesn't understand that his investment is dependent on the continued health of the game, and the continued health of the game is dependent on not going all in on the degenerate gamblers.
With Elon, I don't know how it would go. There's not much of a victory in saving the company if it means cutting the things that make it worth saving.
Tell me you don't understand Rudy without telling me you don't understand Rudy.
Ah, there it is. Tell me you're a filthy commie without telling me you're a filthy commie.
My understanding of Rudy's position is that the tail should be allowed to wag the dog: rather than the secondary market existing to allow players to obtain the cards they need to build a deck given the limitations of Wizards' limited print run, blind packed distribution, Wizards should attempt to maximise secondary market profits to maximise their sales to fourth-party resellers at the expense of their sales to players. The reason I believe this is because of his explicit dislike of the "game pieces" faction (that Wizards should respond to undersupply of in-demand cards by reprinting them, increasing the player base, reducing the effects of external economics on competitive integrity and directly increasing their own sales to the players) and also the fact that he fell for MetaZoo, a game which sold itself on collector-focused gimmicks like a Reserve List but without the fundamentals to make it worth collecting.
The market is not the purpose of the market. Thinking people should treat shares like the partial ownership of a company and not just an up-market form of betting on greyhounds doesn't make me a communist.
I like to imagine Elon has a dartboard with various company names on them to decide who he tweets about at any particular time like this.
Not because he's going to actually buy them, just to watch them all suddenly shit themselves and run around in a panic.
Please god make more of the High Moon Transformers games. Or at least put them back on Steam.
My only concern is we may have actual transformers before we get Gundams by doing this /s
Pfft! PFFT I SAY!
Transformers are easier than mobile suits, no need to worry about maintaining internal space so you don't smush a pilot. Or carry excess materials like life support.
Not much honestly. Less than seventy dollars per share.
$8.91 Billion USD. Around 2% of his net worth.
I'd love it if he just embraced the turn-around investor role. A one-man private equity firm with the world's easy roadmap to profitability, "fire the retards and roll back your products to 2015 or earlier." He'd make all his money back and could just keep going.
when he fires the libtards does he replace them with jews, satanists (but i repeat myself), the "smart" jeets, or a mix of all three?
In most cases you don't need to. Can't find it but there is a meme that nails it. Every panel is some "diverse" woke person explaining the fluff they "do" at the company. The last panel is the one remaining guy whose job is, "working on the product."
I can almost guarantee that in places like Twitter, 5% of the employees were doing all the actual work and they were generally the same people who were doing the work before the DEI fad and vanity hiring sprees.
Creative companies are harder. They actually ran out the people who made them good. If you're the head writer, you can't just quietly chug along in the background without being noticed. So they actively gun for you instead of letting you keep the ship afloat while they play around.
Didn't he literally fire an entire actual floor of Twitter and nothing changed, good or bad? That serves to show how bloated some companies are where there's so much bureaucracy and middle management going on a lot of it only exists so it can exist. Meanwhile as per the meme you describe somewhere squirreled away in some dark, dank [heh] corner is the actual workforce who do their best to get things done and make as little noise as possible after what happened to James Damore.
Even if he just negotiated to buy WOTC from Hasbro, I’d love seeing less woke shit in MtG and D&D. I don’t really know what side of the UB debate Elon would come down on, but at the very least, I think it unlikely he’d make that worse.
I keked
He should buy Blizzard too
Blizzard died 3 expansions ago.
Too late
What would he do with Power Rangers?
Wear the suits.
I was hoping funding a full megazord.
Imagine using the dragon dagger to summon your PA. I wouldn't even be mad if that was me. It would have to play all the notes though, not just the standard summon six.
Imagine PA cosplay.
My Little Pony is about to get based.