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My first apartment had Comcast or DSL. I signed up, a month later I was part of their "experimental" data caps program. During the course of this I had a sales rep call and fell for the pitch. Turns out, he downright committed fraud and made promises that were patently untrue. It took 48 hours of back and forth in various mediums over the course of a month to get the situation resolved.

The solution was to complain on reddit and have an employee give me a one time use code to use Comcast's VIP support center.. Which is ridiculous that it exists in the first place.

I predicated all my subsequent (about 4) moves with "Comcast is not in the area" as a filtering criteria. Fuck Comcast.

You're welcome! My group enjoyed it for sure, I will say the companion app is a huge helper. We particularly liked how the rules aren't overly complex and easy to homebrew.

Definitely runnable without it.

I've only played Mothership for a oneshot (over multiple sessions) while waiting on a party member to become available.

We did not have TT/VTT. We had some visual aids, like the layouts of ships were sent in chat for us to look at. I don't think it really hampered the experience, and I have aphantasia so "theater of the mind" usually doesn't help me much lol. It was more than serviceable.

Actually just started Chrysalis 6: Antvance into the Unknown this morning.

The entire series has been interesting so far!

Lotito holds the record for the "strangest diet" in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a plaque, made of brass, by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award.

I love this.

During my last visit with my grandfather before he passed, he was asking everyone "any personal requests for me to bring to God on your behalf". I'm not religious but it did sort of disarm the tension.

My cheap knockoff elgato has that and it still creeps me out when I use it lol.

Looks like the font + italics is rendering the ampersand (&) weird. At least too me it just looks like a really fancy ampersand.

You're describing a sense of nostalgia. And no, I don't consider it immature.

He did violate their IP, just not with the mod itself but the advertising / his posts - at least in my uneducated opinion.

Take these examples:

https://archive.is/xKCtk https://archive.is/bfg53

He's using their IP to advertise his commercial product - a paid mod that supports their game. This use of IP generally isn't considered fair use. It's not the fact that it supports the game that's a violation, it was the advertising that was more my point.

And then as DMCAs generally go, companies overreact (like Patreon) and overreach. I don't think CD Project Red could reasonably have done anything if all this was was a footnote that his mod supports CP2077 and the advertising was happening via content creators plugging it - or otherwise off Patreon. But because he happens to use their IP to advertise directly, this was the outcome.

I'm not a lawyer though, there is probably more at play here.

If he had a generic mod that happened to support Cyberpunk 2077 / that other game that got him DMCA'd, I'd agree. But he's using that IP, name, etc. to market his product and sell it - the publisher is well within their right to not want to be associated with that.

A DMCA (copyright) troll has a much different connotation than what these two publishers are doing.

What about age 30 means things are over?