Perhaps someone here in this discussion thread could enlighten me. I’ve heard of ORC, which will license a number of existing game systems, those of whichever independent publishers wish to license their systems. And I’ve learned that Basic Fantasy and Talislanta are already available under Creative Commons.

Well, some of the things based on the OGL include their own rule books. I can see how WotC might view that as unfair, and decide to stop licensing that sort of content under the OGL - along with NFTs and electronic games, some things they mentioned in an official statement before the leak. But giving themselves the…

When the OGL first came out, I figured that the intent was to allow third-parties to write campaigns for D&D. Not to make their own rulebooks  for their own games which are copies of D&D. So I would be OK with the kind of tightening of the OGL that WotC has officially said that they’re planning, to exclude NFTs and…

Although I can’t really bring myself to be other than unsympathetic to his plight, in fairness it should be noted that there is some blame to go around elsewhere. Given that the government is so happy to give subsidies to the coal industry, it might be noted that if victims of black lung simply recieved money directly…

Reading the letter, AMC will not license any Universal pictures on these terms. So any Universal pictures that don’t have an immediate digital release would still be eligible to be shown on AMC screens.

Trump getting re-elected means doom for us all. Bernie Sanders will be percieved by many Americans who see Trump as a threat as an even bigger threat. But as for climate change, no candidate of either party is supporting the only possible course of action that the American people will support which will also…

Although it wasn’t in a tournament, apparently it was in actual gameplay, and the person more effectively targeted due to the aimbot wasn’t party to the demonstration of cheat software. Given that, I can’t say it wasn’t actual cheating. If it weren’t for that, demonstrating cheat software in order to report on it as…

While the occasional individual will be obsessed with a game and spend to excess, I had always thought that RuneScape was a model of what “loot boxes” should be, something done in moderation, and not at all excessive like what I had read about loot boxes in other games.

Wouldn’t this only be a problem if I used VLC to view videos online? If I only view the same video files saved on my computer that I viewed with it before hearing of this bug, how would these files sitting on my hard disk change to exploit the vulnerability?

I know that before Bulldozer, I put together an AMD-based system that used the same kind of cooler they’re packaging with the Ryzens today. While I agree the hooks for attaching it are cheap, I did not at any point feel I was at risk of bending pins. Still, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

I can definitely understand why people are expecting a woman who is of sub-Saharan African ancestry from Overwatch. And because gamers are a community that would react negatively to a character who is just thrown in to meet a quota, that they’re taking their time to do it right is understandable too. So I’m willing to…

Not only did the AMD FX-9590 have a turbo clock rate of 5 GHz, but it had a base clock of 4.7 GHz, which was pretty close. However, other aspects of its design meant that despite the impressive clock rate figure, an Intel i3 contemporary with it could sometimes out-perform it.

Computer chips are complex and useful devices, so they should not be thrown in the garbage when they can still do useful work. If they can replace the defective components and refurbish the phone at an acceptable cost, of course they should go for it.

While that particular claim of a limit to human lifespans, that 115 years appears to be the limit from statistics, that they refuted, is likely to be wrong, I remember a long time ago reading that humans would likely never live to beyond 1,000 years old, because the brain’s cells don’t constantly divide like cells in…

The ability to enjoy equal rights in practice is something that is ensured by law. So, yes, inclusivity is political as you say. Saying that it isn’t political, though, is just a way of saying that equal rights shouldn’t be something we get to vote on; we have a fundamental moral obligation to respect equality, and so…

I read that book about IBM and the Holocaust. Despite the case against IBM it tried to make, the only substantive thing it could pin on IBM was its successful efforts to conceal the role of IBM punch card technology in the Holocaust. The facts that the book recounted, otherwise, all showed that IBM did just about…

An expensive custody battle? Surely if he is convicted of this crime, he will hardly have a leg to stand on in court as far as seeking custody of the victim’s child is concerned.