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Makes this comic from a couple weeks ago all the more funny.

 kronk wrote:
I wonder how this will affect D&D 3E licenses (Pathfinder)? That's my only concern.

I don't think they have any legal grounds to do so. The rights have already been released. My grasp of the law on this isn't perfect by any means, but in the parlance of the playground, I think they declared 'no backsies' on that one.

I hope so, at least. Paizo are a really good company, and they produce really nice content.

The Mouse could buy and sell Apple in it's sleep


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Hahahah, Destikim predicts the future!

There are Brony's in 40k...recently there ben a sighting of one

 htj wrote:

 kronk wrote:
I wonder how this will affect D&D 3E licenses (Pathfinder)? That's my only concern.

I don't think they have any legal grounds to do so. The rights have already been released. My grasp of the law on this isn't perfect by any means, but in the parlance of the playground, I think they declared 'no backsies' on that one.

I hope so, at least. Paizo are a really good company, and they produce really nice content.

Wait, did they buy the D&D 3E rules outright? Or do they have a licensing agreement for X years? Big difference.

 kronk wrote:

 htj wrote:

 kronk wrote:
I wonder how this will affect D&D 3E licenses (Pathfinder)? That's my only concern.

I don't think they have any legal grounds to do so. The rights have already been released. My grasp of the law on this isn't perfect by any means, but in the parlance of the playground, I think they declared 'no backsies' on that one.

I hope so, at least. Paizo are a really good company, and they produce really nice content.

Wait, did they buy the D&D 3E rules outright? Or do they have a licensing agreement for X years? Big difference.

Neither, the rules were released open to the market. No rights were withheld on distribution or production of content using or reprinting those rules so long as the OGL was printed in the text. This kind of thing might be repeal-able, but I'm fairly confident it isn't, especially since it was technically done by a different company entirely (TSR as opposed to WotC).

The new GIJoe movie line is garbage. Dont care what happens to my old favorite collectible anymore.

 AduroT wrote:
Makes this comic from a couple weeks ago all the more funny.

Spoiler:

Hehehe

 Grey Templar wrote:
Indeed,

Those corporate entities that are supposedly controlling the world? Yeah, its Disney. Nobody else really.

I think you'll find that the oil industry still has too much clout for Disney to have sole control. But that's getting, y'know, all serious and stuff.

I wouldn't be so sure.

Next thing you know, and we will be having castle shaped oil rigs.

Bran Dawri wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Indeed,

Those corporate entities that are supposedly controlling the world? Yeah, its Disney. Nobody else really.

I think you'll find that the oil industry still has too much clout for Disney to have sole control. But that's getting, y'know, all serious and stuff.

I think your sarcasim meter is broken


But actually, Disney is at least equivilant to a big oil company.

Big Oil controls a vital resource, but Disney controls people's minds in a much more direct way. Including the people running the big oil

Disney - The Great Devourer

Now we just need a meme with a mickey head super imposed on a hive tyrant body.

 Squigsquasher wrote:


Also, here's a funny idea: Neon Genesis Evangelion as done by Disney.

To give you a taste of what it could be like, there's already a Voltron fig made from Disney characters. Enjoy!

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:


Also, here's a funny idea: Neon Genesis Evangelion as done by Disney.

To give you a taste of what it could be like, there's already a Voltron fig made from Disney characters. Enjoy!

More like Power Rangers than Voltron, it's produced by Bandai.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:


Also, here's a funny idea: Neon Genesis Evangelion as done by Disney.

To give you a taste of what it could be like, there's already a Voltron fig made from Disney characters. Enjoy!

So this is the type of thing you see on bad acid

What is this? Disney, Hasbro, o, i I'think I'm losting my mind. hehehehe. HAHAHAHA

 htj wrote:
Neither, the rules were released open to the market. No rights were withheld on distribution or production of content using or reprinting those rules so long as the OGL was printed in the text. This kind of thing might be repeal-able, but I'm fairly confident it isn't, especially since it was technically done by a different company entirely (TSR as opposed to WotC).

It would be completely bizarre and miles out of left field if it were repealable.

I mean, it's fairly standard in contracts to have clause that voids the license if the licensee changes hands, but never to have the license voided if the licensor changes hands.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
The Mouse could buy and sell Apple in it's sleep


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Hahahah, Destikim predicts the future!

Uh apple is the most (or #2) valuable company in the world. Disney is a mouse next to it.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
The Mouse could buy and sell Apple in it's sleep


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Hahahah, Destikim predicts the future!

Uh apple is the most (or #2) valuable company in the world. Disney is a mouse next to it.

I terms of revenue apple is #18, in terms of market capitalization they're #1.

 Cheesecat wrote:
I terms of revenue apple is #18, in terms of market capitalization they're #1.

Yeah, Disney's market cap is $90 billion, Apple is about $550 billion. So you can fit six mice in an apple.

And Disney grosses about $40 billion a year (though given the nature of the beast about half of that is pure profit), while Apple grosses about $150 billion. So you can almost fit four mice into an apple.

True true, although I think Apple might have hit its stride. They may have trouble in the next decade maintaining their dominance.

 Grey Templar wrote:
True true, although I think Apple might have hit its stride. They may have trouble in the next decade maintaining their dominance.

Absolutely. Their tech gadget dominance is already over, and next to Samsung they're at best equal, and more likely are now in second place. All that wouldn't matter if they'd managed to make istore the market standard before Samsung caught them, but that didn't happen, and now there's rivals.

Their marketing machine is still a thing to behold. I mean, I have an iphone because I have zero sense of direction and when I got a new phone the iphone 3 was the cheapest plan that gave me a phone that could do maps, so I am most certainly not Apple's target market, but even so I was still like holy crap this place looks like the future when my wife's friend dragged us in there so she could look at ipads.

But marketing alone won't make people buy your product. Well, generally it won't. I certainly wouldn't bet $500 billion on it.

 sebster wrote:

 htj wrote:
Neither, the rules were released open to the market. No rights were withheld on distribution or production of content using or reprinting those rules so long as the OGL was printed in the text. This kind of thing might be repeal-able, but I'm fairly confident it isn't, especially since it was technically done by a different company entirely (TSR as opposed to WotC).

It would be completely bizarre and miles out of left field if it were repealable.

I mean, it's fairly standard in contracts to have clause that voids the license if the licensee changes hands, but never to have the license voided if the licensor changes hands.

Good, that's what I thought. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:


Also, here's a funny idea: Neon Genesis Evangelion as done by Disney.

To give you a taste of what it could be like, there's already a Voltron fig made from Disney characters. Enjoy!

What is this I don't even...

At this rate poor Rei and Asuka will hold the world record for youngest and most psychologically disturbed Disney princesses (whilst Misato takes the award for most frequently rat-arsed Disney princess), Shinji will end up singing his undying love for Rei (or Asuka. Or both.) and that AWESOME fight scene in End of Evangelion with Unit 02 and the MP Eva series will become nothing more than the SPECTACULAR ill fitting music, complete with singing and absolutely no brain pans being ruptured at all. Gendo and Yui will live happily ever after, Giant Naked Rei will spawn some convieniently gigantic bra and panties, the Lance of Longuinius will have a smiley face and sing, Ritsuko will only end up stunned, Pen Pen will somehow gain the ability to talk, the Reiquarium will be filled with mermaids, Shinji will be turned from a sympathetic, psychologically disturbed, frightened kid into a stereotypical whiny bitchpants genuinely deserving of hate, Instrumentality will become a cutesy musical number (as opposed to a deeply unsettling musical number that made me question my existence)...

Simply put, NEON GENESIS EVANGELION WILL BE RUINED FOREVER.

I would still support Misato as a Disney princess that would be fecking hilarious.

Actually I would agree with that.

Derek the Prince: I have come to save you! Fear not my lady!

Misato: Feck that. Beer. Now.

Derek the Prince: But M'Lady, do you not want to be rescued from the big white thingy with the teeth, so we can be wed?

Misato: Unless you're a 14 year old boy with confidence issues voiced by Megumi Ogata who I can fawn over and affectionately call "Little Shin" then no. Now about that BEER.

So, are we going to see a D&D-land soon?

 d3m01iti0n wrote:
The new GIJoe movie line is garbage.

I think it says a lot that they decided to delay the release of the second movie by a year in order to make it worse.

Why haven't they realised that you can't add 3D in post production without making it look like gak?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
The Mouse could buy and sell Apple in it's sleep


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Hahahah, Destikim predicts the future!

Uh apple is the most (or #2) valuable company in the world. Disney is a mouse next to it.

as of right now
Apple: $505Bn market cap
Disney: $90Bn

On the positive DIsney will be around long after Apple goes the way of the Dodo.

That's supposed to be good news?

Saying that, I hate Apple, so...