I read that piece the other day, but didn't realize it was by you. What Wizards of the Woke did was unconscionable. It's also self-marginalizing. They've essentially told everyone in their ecosystem that there's no point being in their ecosystem anymore. In the medium to long term, they'll be irrelevant.
I for one look forward to when you buy the rights to D&D during Wizards of the Woke's bankruptcy fire sale.
I was wondering if you'd paid any attention to some of Peter Zeihan's work? He did an interview with Joe Rogan recently and broadly agrees that a global economic recession and/or state of war is likely within the next decade or so, but he has a quite different perspective on US oil dependency and the petrodollar due to shale fracking.
I'm sorry to hear about the OGL being revoked- I have to agree it's kind of a dick move, but so long as alternative RPG systems are around I think most publishers will survive.
Former MTG player here (Legacy, Modern and Draft mostly). I dabbled in D&D back in the day, but definitely am nowhere near being a pioneer of the Space such as yourself!
I forget the gentleman who said it; but he made the prescient point that Culturally, there are 3 main "past-times" that the American has contributed to the wider world:
1) Baseball.
2) Professional Wrestling.
3) The Comic Book.
... Of course, notice that this list does not have "RPGs" in it; but I would personally add it in, if it were up to me. Broadly then, these 4 "nodes" keep the American ethos (and we are not talking "ideology" here, but rather the underlying non-linguistic cultural, social, etc mores) intact.
As such, if we "work backwards" (i.e. from the 'intact' to the "BROKEN") and ask the question: "What will GUARANTEE the Destruction and total Conquest of America-proper?" The Answer is very straightforward: It would be the undermining of one or more of these "nodes".
We can spend hours on each individual "node" and go over WHY they are now a basket case (and I think for a pioneer in the RPG-space yourself, you would know best your own node and how utterly Fallen it has become); however a bird's eye view will suffice for now:
None of these "Nodes" make profit at the institutional level anymore. Rather, what they have is "Forward Momentum" generated from massive debt/leverage which in turn generates more cash inflow which in turn requires greater amount of debt/leverage... you see the pattern.
If anything, this is the "worst way to go". At least the Romans (for all their indolence, gluttony, etc) died off "as Roman" with their cultural "nodes" still to some imperfect degree intact. America/Yankeeland meanwhile will be Slaughtered when all of its nodes have been flayed off.
I read that piece the other day, but didn't realize it was by you. What Wizards of the Woke did was unconscionable. It's also self-marginalizing. They've essentially told everyone in their ecosystem that there's no point being in their ecosystem anymore. In the medium to long term, they'll be irrelevant.
I for one look forward to when you buy the rights to D&D during Wizards of the Woke's bankruptcy fire sale.
I was wondering if you'd paid any attention to some of Peter Zeihan's work? He did an interview with Joe Rogan recently and broadly agrees that a global economic recession and/or state of war is likely within the next decade or so, but he has a quite different perspective on US oil dependency and the petrodollar due to shale fracking.
I'm sorry to hear about the OGL being revoked- I have to agree it's kind of a dick move, but so long as alternative RPG systems are around I think most publishers will survive.
Former MTG player here (Legacy, Modern and Draft mostly). I dabbled in D&D back in the day, but definitely am nowhere near being a pioneer of the Space such as yourself!
I forget the gentleman who said it; but he made the prescient point that Culturally, there are 3 main "past-times" that the American has contributed to the wider world:
1) Baseball.
2) Professional Wrestling.
3) The Comic Book.
... Of course, notice that this list does not have "RPGs" in it; but I would personally add it in, if it were up to me. Broadly then, these 4 "nodes" keep the American ethos (and we are not talking "ideology" here, but rather the underlying non-linguistic cultural, social, etc mores) intact.
As such, if we "work backwards" (i.e. from the 'intact' to the "BROKEN") and ask the question: "What will GUARANTEE the Destruction and total Conquest of America-proper?" The Answer is very straightforward: It would be the undermining of one or more of these "nodes".
We can spend hours on each individual "node" and go over WHY they are now a basket case (and I think for a pioneer in the RPG-space yourself, you would know best your own node and how utterly Fallen it has become); however a bird's eye view will suffice for now:
None of these "Nodes" make profit at the institutional level anymore. Rather, what they have is "Forward Momentum" generated from massive debt/leverage which in turn generates more cash inflow which in turn requires greater amount of debt/leverage... you see the pattern.
If anything, this is the "worst way to go". At least the Romans (for all their indolence, gluttony, etc) died off "as Roman" with their cultural "nodes" still to some imperfect degree intact. America/Yankeeland meanwhile will be Slaughtered when all of its nodes have been flayed off.