City State of the Invincible Overlord (CSIO) was an early, third-party campaign setting for D&D, published by Judges Guild (JG). Goodman Games (GG) is a modern publisher of the TTRPG Dungeon Crawl Classics. They have an ongoing series rewriting old modules that have been pretty well recieved, though WotC pulled out of the program, leading GG to turn to third party content.

The original CSIO co-author and JG owner, Bob Bledsaw Sr., passed away in 2008. His son, BB Jr., made some lukewarm comments on social media about woketards and "jewmedia" that got everyone up in arms and saw GG cut ties with JG.

This past week, GG announced CSIO was going to be republished under their brand and eveyone got their panties in a twist. GG put out a statement that reads to me like "we need money and shouldn't have bailed on a business partner for brownie points. But if you really think about it, we're doing this for you and out of the goodness of our hearts." The striking takeaway being that GG was directing JG to use royalty payments to cover refunds for an incomplete 2010 CSIO Kickstarter.

Then they put out another statement saying they were limiting the print run of their own product to cap possible royalty payments to JG at the theoretical Kickstarter refund maximum. Now, Goodman readily admits this is a largely symbolic gesture and that the CSIO project is unlikely to make enough money to generate royalty payments sufficient to cover the theoretical KS refund maximum. The JG KS was for $85,000. At 10% royalties, CSIO would have to get north of $850,000 for Bledsaw to get any money from the deal. A comparable JG re-release by a different author, Dark Tower, only hit $450,000.

GG is somewhat known for taking a long time to do new print runs of products, so promising that CSIO will never get another GG print run isn't a difficult promise to fulfill. And I'm sure the FOMO angle will drive sales. Still, crazy to go through such theatrics, rather than just say that your company has contracts and needs money.

...how fun it was to get panicked all-company emails about every little thing Trump does.

Today was whether we would lose positions because of the pause on federal loans.

This kind of thing makes me wonder how fragile the system really is. Maybe you could make a significant impact by getting a true believer in and turning off the tap for four or eight years. Someone who has a better bite/bark ratio than Trump.

Or have lower class families been buying plastic to increase the appearance of their quality of life for 6+ generations?

I get that we're going through mega-inflation since covid. Even before that, if you bought whole foods and clothes that aren't plastic (nylon), the ol' paycheck only stretched so far.

I'd really like to pick the brain of a self-aware Boomer and find out how long it's been like this.

I increasingly see that question on other forums and it drives me up the wall. That question is a perfect storm of two things: ▪︎the mindless consumer fanboy-ism that has destroyed all major film franchises ("it contradicts the lore, is objectively miserable, and an active waste of my time, but it has Star Trek in the title, so I'll watch it.") ▪︎developmentally stunted inability to fill in any blanks whatsoever

I promise you, Pee Pee Poo Poo: The Musical: Season 1 has absolutely no key nutrient you have to absorb to comprehend season 2. In fact, if we're talking one of these shows that go through three showrunners a season, it might be more comprehensible if you skip the earlier stuff.

The system doesn't really matter. I'm just looking for a group to listen to or watch that doesn't have faggots or troons (and yes, I know how tall an order that is).

Son of a Dungeon was refreshingly all male and apolitical, but like all Corridor's stuff was more about the visuals than anything else.

8chan used to be a magical place that hit the perfect mix of world commentary, discussion of specific topics (compare to the good .wins that are all seething at the world, just to different degrees), and humor.

I know 8chan moved, but the new site just isn't the same and is pretty dead. Is there any current place where you can find pol-flavored /v/?