If it’s still 9 months away, there’s no real reason to announce it publicly before the Christmas season. The fact that the original Switch’s sales are flagging is not a reason to announce, since it’s not launching in time for the holidays. Its announcement isn’t going to spurr Switch 1 sales.

When it’s announces will be entirely deoendent on when retailers need to know launch details. Once it’s outside of Nintendo, they’ll have to announce things publicly or risk losing control over the narrative.

That creative endeavor: A 5e clone with Blades’ progress clocks slapped on top of it.

Ah, the dichotomy of Linux users:

“wHy DoEsN’t EvErYbOdY uSe LiNuX???”

and

“gEt On My LeVeL nOoB”

No, what they want is to be able to coax more money out of their sales numbers. Retention is correlated with future purchases, both of paid DLC (if the game has it) and of future studio titles.

And it’a an easy metric to point to when talking to a publisher and negotiating funding.

Never seen an explosion on the surface of a stellar remnant*? This year, you’ll have your chance

“Roll acrobatics, I guess.”

“Natural 20!”

"Ok… You contort your body in ways that no humanoid creature should be able to, and successfully fit inside the jar.

"Can I get everyone else to make a Wisdom saving throw, please?

"Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.

“Ok, everybody else now thinks you’re a djinni.”

“None that you can see” is a fun response. Especially on a high roll, if you’re rolling knowledge and perception checks in the open. Gets 'em good and weirded out.

You can’t truly degoogle chromium without a hard fork. Soft forks are still enabling them and their grip on the web, even if they’re not specifically spying on you in particular.

What they mean is “I use woefully malformed websites loaded up with all sorts of weird shit that eats ram on the regular, and somehow that’s my browser’s fault”

I’m assuming there’s a translation issue here. Those are mechanics that you don’t enjoy, which, yeah, can be seen as disagreeing with the designers on their pholosophy of game design.

But Paizo has taken rather firm choices around inclusion which has casued some people to call out the company for being “woke”, so saying you “disagree with their philosophy” might raise some eyebrows and have people searching for your red cap.

World governments wouldn’t be able to stop the LGM from just landing in the middle of Tokyo for all to see. They have no control in that situation.

Discovering microbes on Mars might be one thing, but it’s also the kind of thing the general public wouldn’t give a shit about.

I’ve watched chunks of society freak out over everything from basic food ingredients to vaccines because they contained polysyllabic words that people decried as “chemicals”.

And I’ve spent my whole damn life listening to people abuse the word “theory” until the the Christofascists and neo-nazis managed to become mainstream.

People abuse technical words with a purpose. Don’t play apologetics for them because you believe their understanding of words is more nuanced than they are.

Look at the positions of d and k on the keyboard. _ema_es.

Wow, that race is one of the more bloated pieces of kit I’ve read in a while, just from the point of view of empty word count.

Also, only available from level 10 on? Wyrmlings start at CR 1! That’s what? Level 2 or 3?

The BattleZoo people have been focusing on playable dragons lately. They probably have something much less fussy and unwieldy than this.

The NSFW isn’t to be taken literally. In this case it’'s a “I don’t want to spontaneously see your weird ass bug and vampire kink bait when I didn’t subscribe to anything that would reasonably have it, thanks”. The tag gives viewers the ability to opt in.

No? I said the opposite of that.

The question I was answering was “why aren’t there more employee owned companies?” And the answer is it’s a lot harder to get seed money for those, because the rent seeking parasites don’t want them to exist.

They don’t fulfill the fantasy of being a rent-seeking social parasite.

I love it when the meteors hit just right.

Have you seen the installed customer base? An independent publisher would be extremely hard pressed to walk away from that.

We have seen branching out since the OGL fiasco, though, which is nice. More system neutral or OSR versions of modules and statblocks, or multi-system statblocks.

Yes.

The board must put the interests of shareholders above other stakeholders, but those interests consist of a lot more than just immediate revenues.