I worked in the industry for several years as well. Just because some workers are relatively easy to replace with under-experienced alternatives doesn’t mean unionization can’t work. Some of the oldest and strongest unions in the country are those that represent labor forces whose jobs look (on the surface) like they…

Customers will notice the lack of quality, and production will eventually come back, even if there’s some short-term backlash. Moviemaking can be done most anywhere, for example, but the studios know they can’t consistently make quality work without union labor.  Video games will be the same.

Unionize. Unionize. Unionize.

I’m pretty sure the Mind Flayer might be a nickname for the alien from Rogue One used to interrogate the pilot.

Interesting. I had not seen that until today. I still wouldn’t hold out too much hope for a TV/game crossover, however. The fundamental question would be whether content that’s original to the show (rather than content original to the books) is transferable to a third party without the agreement of the show’s other…

Remember, there’s no relationship between the games and TV series. CDPR would have to sign a new agreement with the rightsholders for that to happen, and I find that exceedingly unlikely. 

It would be nice to have a transcript of your videos posted though. 

EXECUTE ORDER 69.

The games are their own separate canon.

“Netflix’s The Witcher is based more on Andrzej Sapkowski’s books than it is the games.”

Gamebook is also an existing term.

That’s not a legal requirement to protect the trademark. It’s a fairly standard strategy.

Cellophane lost their trademark in such a manner. While Kleenex and Band-Aid are both household names, they actively protect their trademarks from infringement by other companies and products. 

However, a smart HR department knows that in the long term, the company’s bottom line can suffer if employees are consistently mistreated.

Why can’t white people actually be proactive and talk amongst themselves about the damage they’ve done with their systemic racism?

G/O is still the parent company of Gizmodo et. al.

Apparently when you click on a Twitter-shortened URL, it’s not just one interaction, but several:

Impeachment is a separate process from that of a criminal trial, and it is an earlier process. Because the office of the president is the head of the Department of Justice, it is currently departmental policy that a president cannot be charged with a federal crime until they no longer hold that office. It would…

There’s definitely a “Why Not Both?” scenario available here. Trump gets impeached by the House but not removed by the Senate. He could then get censured by one or both houses.

As much as I’d love it if the short-term results of that were the removal of Trump from office, having elected legislators vote on *anything* anonymously in their official capacities is a terrible precedent.