I'm thinking of starting a thread to talk about the history of Magic commercials. Anybody interested?

I have not seen many of those. Just the horrible Ice Age one, a short but cool one for Rav and clips from a learn to play VHS.

The more everything tries to move to a purely digital format, the more irritated and disconnected I become to it.

Everything Magic or everything Everything?

Everything everything.
It applies to magic as well, of course.

I find your lament...amusing for lack of better term as one day later they announce the discontinuation of DCI numbers.

Eh, that really doesn't effect me. I don't take part in tournaments or anything like that. I'm strictly a kitchen table player.

D'oh! In my mind trailer did not equate to commercial. I've seen like, all of those.


First time I've heard "sunsetting" as a euphemism for deaderizing. was it already common? Or is WOTC just so deep in the corporate speak that they'd use it in a public notice.
Little peeved here that they're playing up the fact they're leaving people's info up for a whole 30 days as a kind gesture. Remember when they announced the forum reboot and told people that no content from one day prior to the announcement would be saved?

I am thinking of doing a really dumb, insane, brave, time-requiring, dangerous thing than no man ever done before.
I am thinking of reading Umineko, for the first time, backwards.
That's a month-length visual novel with a super mega complex plot that one of my friends likes a lot.

The length and complexity of it would probably get to me, but the freakout of one of the fans of it just to the very idea of doing this entices me...

(I am the kind of a person that once created a NSFW community portal for a thing just because one of the mods in the normal community for it told me "we have no NSFW community portal here. I am not even interested in NSFW there.)

Is there a particular reason that Umineko should not be read backwards, more so than other works?

Insane complexity, aggressive self-referrence, reliance on sudden twists.

how do you read a VN backwards

insert the disc upside down

Make sure you set your region to Australia before you do that, though.

I've heard the term before, though deprecate is a more common term in my field. A quick search shows that's it's more of a legal term than a corporate one.

Fairly good video about the corruption of creavity by corporate interests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqhC5fMyU_I

Not that I'm really that big a star wars fan or anything to begin with, but anybody see where a member of their writing team went on a tirade about how unimportant canon was?

I watched that, too, I agree it was pretty good. Magic was the very first thing it made me think of, though...


Same here, but I still found it depressing to see it die.

I came across a video about it on Youtube, but I didn't watch it because I though I knew what to expect anyway. Did they have anything profound to say about it, or was it just "We can do with our IP whatever we want, and fans are entitled morons anyway"? Corporates' disregard for canon really has become an epidemic, hasn't it...

Boiled down to "we need to know what's officially canon, but once it's out there everything and nothing is canon cause you should put together your own Star Wars story"

Which is as flippant as it is empowering?
It's an odd position to take, but what it really means is "I don't care, why should you?"
I mean, he even directly said "It's all fake anyway." totally missing why anyone is invested in something.

I wasn't aware that Dr. Who was on the downspin. Not that I'm a Whovian. Given the barbs at Ghostbusters though, the author might just be a red piller.

I can definitely see the corporate safe mentality in the Netflix Locke & Key show. Not sure if anybody here's watching that, but the comics had a much more true-to-reality feel. I'm not talking about the toned down sex and violence. I mean the black and white paint-by-numbers moral logic underlying some of the character motivations.

Corporations soaked in socially-safe taste-making must be having a hard time adjusting to the ascendancy of outsider geek culture. It's the sort of thing that doesn't get past their normality filters; they couldn't risk being seen by somebody in their social/work group enjoying something quirky. While the rest of the world seems to becoming more broad-minded about outsider tastes, the corporate type is hyper-evolved in the other direction.
This sort of PC* is the same reason prostitution is illegal, dangerous alcohol and opioids are legal when harmless marijuana is not, why minorities are repressed and a thousand other things that are unequivocally evil. Any rational person could tell you how to run a better world than what we have today, but this mentality of denying the light of reason keeps our world mired in its fecal state.

*I mean Politically Correct in the real sense of the word- saying, doing or thinking whatever is politically advantageous to say do or think instead of what is accurate. I'm of the opinion the term needs reclaiming. It shouldn't be a byword for "but I wanna use disparaging words!"