(Re: Quackalope)
I think it may be best to leave it at that. We all have our opinions.
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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.
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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.
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Here’s a full rundown of Glory to Rome 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.
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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
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Hopefully that changes with the new company that does all their production and fulfilment.
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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.
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Not gaming related, but any good conversation about petty internet drama needs a little lubalin 
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Heres some fresh scandal
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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.
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I had one boss who kept giving me credit for things he’d mostly done himself.
Rare animal, that.
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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.
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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 goes away. It is not yet clear whether any human review was involved.
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I believe there’s been a mistake. You posted this in the scandals thread rather than the “beautiful poetry” thread
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