# Topic of the Week: Scandals **URL:** \ **Category:** Boardgames\ **Tags:** topic-of-the-week\ **Created:** [18 November 2024 15:30 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546 "2024-11-18T15:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [19 November 2024 01:51 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/21 "2024-11-19T01:51:28Z")
(Re: Quackalope) I think it may be best to leave it at that. We all have our opinions. ---
**Author:** ![EnterTheWyvern](https://discussion.tekeli.li/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecd19e/32.png) [@EnterTheWyvern](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/EnterTheWyvern)\ **Post date:** [19 November 2024 13:54 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/22 "2024-11-19T13:54:57Z")
> [@Acacia](#): > > [Lehmann, Rahdo, and Res Arcana](https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/cdziya/argument_between_tom_lehmann_designer_of_res/) (and this one was so out of character for both of them…) As someone who now pays no attention to BG media I’d missed this contretemps. I think Rahdo was nice in his handling of Mr Lehmann. However I do think there is maybe a little something that TL has around a separation of concerns with opinion and fact. In the UK there are differing legal requirements for news and opinion. I don’t know if something is workable or if it matters enough for board game reviews to separate fact from opinion or even if it’s actually what caused the confusion here. Maybe reviews are purely opinion anyway so misrepresenting rules might just be part and parcel of the whole shebang. ---
**Author:** ![EnterTheWyvern](https://discussion.tekeli.li/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecd19e/32.png) [@EnterTheWyvern](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/EnterTheWyvern)\ **Post date:** [19 November 2024 13:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/23 "2024-11-19T13:57:25Z")
At my table the scandals were never ending to the point of ‘scandalous!’ being a common exclamation for years. The pesky opponents scandal was an ongoing saga. ---
**Author:** ![Acacia](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/acacia/32/6915_2.png) [@Acacia](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Acacia)\ **Post date:** [19 November 2024 17:11 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/24 "2024-11-19T17:11:05Z")
Here’s a full rundown of [Glory to Rome](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/how-a-ceo-fiddled-while-beloved-board-game-glory-to-rome-crashed-and-burned/) if you haven’t heard the story behind the scarcity. Surely there are more tales of horrendous crowdfunding implosions? I’ll admit I’m not well versed in those. ---
**Author:** ![raged\_norm](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/raged_norm/32/21570_2.png) [@raged\_norm](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/raged_norm)\ **Post date:** [19 November 2024 17:27 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/25 "2024-11-19T17:27:42Z")
Holy Grail Games imploding after the Rallyman:Dirt Kickstarter Monolith (?) recently went under, after delivering nothing Peterson Games are good games (apparently) but really bad at business ---
**Author:** ![lalunaverde](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/lalunaverde/32/28591_2.png) [@lalunaverde](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/lalunaverde)\ **Post date:** [19 November 2024 17:42 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/26 "2024-11-19T17:42:55Z")
> [@raged\_norm](#): > > Peterson Games are good games (apparently) but really bad at business Hopefully that changes with the new company that does all their production and fulfilment. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [21 November 2024 16:13 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/27 "2024-11-21T16:13:37Z")
On the RPG side rather than the boardgame side. Status is reasonably well-attested, but it might be all lies. It’s early 1997. TSR is collapsing. Peter Adkison of WotC has offered to buy out the company, and Lorraine Williams of TSR is negotiating the details with him. She’s quite happy to sell on the role-playing business, but makes it very clear that the rights to Buck Rogers ((which her grandfather stole from the original artists and writers) are a family thing and will stay with her. Adkison has seen the abysmal sales figures—they’re an industry-wide joke, nobody wants this stuff, a senior TSR staffer said off the record “we’re going to keep publishing this until you buy it”—and desperately tries to keep a straight face and pretend to be very sad that this won’t be part of the deal. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/kat/32/1336_2.png) [@Kat](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [27 November 2024 20:53 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/28 "2024-11-27T20:53:49Z")
Not gaming related, but any good conversation about petty internet drama needs a little [lubalin 🥦](https://m.youtube.com/shorts/pWyOrbpGCpE) . ---
**Author:** ![lalunaverde](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/lalunaverde/32/28591_2.png) [@lalunaverde](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/lalunaverde)\ **Post date:** [28 November 2024 10:43 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/29 "2024-11-28T10:43:49Z")
> **[\*Joyride\* is \*PowerBoats\*/\*PowerShips\* | Joyride: Survival of the Fastest](https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3412685/joyride-is-powerboatspowerships/page/1)** > > It's Powerboats, tweaked a bit to "RPG style". > The last email about the Powerboats contract I got 23 September 2019 from Duncan Molloy, with only this text from Duncan: > "I think we’ll work together very well. Give me a little while, as our lawyer is... Heres some fresh scandal ---
**Author:** ![Phil](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/phil/32/1508_2.png) [@Phil](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Phil)\ **Post date:** [28 November 2024 12:41 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/30 "2024-11-28T12:41:57Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TLo4Z_LWu4) ---
**Author:** ![Boronian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/boronian/32/1607_2.png) [@Boronian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Boronian)\ **Post date:** [30 November 2024 19:26 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/31 "2024-11-30T19:26:15Z")
This is one of the things I hate the most. When someone at work tries to present something I did as their own. And with a board game it is even way worse because there went so much energy, time and sweat into creating it. I don’t know but it seems the designer is pretty powerless in a situation like that. The injustice is hard to stand for. ---
**Author:** ![Acacia](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/acacia/32/6915_2.png) [@Acacia](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Acacia)\ **Post date:** [2 December 2024 17:45 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/32 "2024-12-02T17:45:34Z")
I had one boss who kept giving me credit for things he’d mostly done himself. Rare animal, that. ---
**Author:** ![mistercrayon](https://discussion.tekeli.li/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@mistercrayon](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/mistercrayon)\ **Post date:** [3 December 2024 09:15 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/33 "2024-12-03T09:15:08Z")
I hadn’t realised that Hans im Gluck owned Carcasonne. Like many I thought it was egregious that they RTMd meeple but it makes a bit more sense given how Meeples are entwined with the identity of carcasonne. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [9 December 2024 12:27 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/34 "2024-12-09T12:27:15Z")
Funko (as in those horrid vinyl “dolls”) gets a spurious trademark infringement notification from its own “AI”, sends a legal threat to a domain registrar, all of [itch.io](http://itch.io) goes away. It is not yet clear whether _any_ human review was involved. > **[Itch.io Down Thanks to Funko Pop's "AI"](https://www.enworld.org/threads/itch-io-down-thanks-to-funko-pops-ai.708360/)** > > Digital gaming storefront Itch.io announced on Bluesky that the cause of an outage early Monday morning was the pop culture collectable company Funko filing a complaint with their domain registrar. The filing came from an "AI Powered" Brand... ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [9 December 2024 15:06 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546/35 "2024-12-09T15:06:33Z")
I believe there’s been a mistake. You posted this in the scandals thread rather than the “beautiful poetry” thread [Previous page](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/topic-of-the-week-scandals/5546.md?page=1)