Unfortunately, consumer demand drives it. People listen to what's comfortable. I don't understand why the top40 stations are some of the most popular. Even the "indie" and punk stations play all the same crap. It's clearly selling though.
There's not that much to understand, and you said it yourself- it's what's comfortable. Radio is listened to primarily (really, almost exclusively) in cars and in offices. It's a passive medium, just on in the background while the listener is doing something else.
That's why "shaking things up" rarely works in radio. For the most part, listeners don't want a challenge or to be actively entertained, they just want some inoffensive noise to keep them company.
They own Parker Brothers and Wizards of the Coast, among a dozen other brand names, so yes, they are still producing games. D&D 4th edition just came out after all, and they still keep churning out new versions of the old classics.
If you haven't heard of NEW board games, then you probably aren't a parent. Who else even buys new board games now? The classics still sell extremely well, and there's not much interest in anything new except for the occasional fluke that becomes a fad, or this or that game based on whatever cartoon is popular now for kids.
I'm not writing this to defend their good name, and it does seem wrong to me that they own the rights to just about every game and toy in Western culture, but you make it sound like they're just a holding corporation making money from frivolous lawsuits.
I realize they were trying to make a game where there is no good-vs-evil in the D&D way, but at times methinks they tried _too_ hard. They don't need to twist everything I say or do into sounding like a wrong, immoral, selfish or heartless choice.
I guess you never played with my DM. Everything every player did was turned into a wrong, immoral, selfish or heartless choice.
It's poor form to truncate a quote, correct grammar or (heavens forbid) change the wording.
It's NOT poor form to correct spelling. In fact it's completely acceptable to do so, and is done often... when the journalist or her editor wants to give the subject credibility. On the other hand [sic] is most often used to make the subject seem amateurish or unintelligent.
It's a subtle and in my opinion dirty trick, but quite a common one. As an example read the "letters to the editor" page in your local paper, you may see that letters that agree with the editor's slant are correction free, while those that disagree have spelling errors and [sics] intact.
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Unfortunately, consumer demand drives it. People listen to what's comfortable. I don't understand why the top40 stations are some of the most popular. Even the "indie" and punk stations play all the same crap. It's clearly selling though.
There's not that much to understand, and you said it yourself- it's what's comfortable. Radio is listened to primarily (really, almost exclusively) in cars and in offices. It's a passive medium, just on in the background while the listener is doing something else.
That's why "shaking things up" rarely works in radio. For the most part, listeners don't want a challenge or to be actively entertained, they just want some inoffensive noise to keep them company.
They own Parker Brothers and Wizards of the Coast, among a dozen other brand names, so yes, they are still producing games. D&D 4th edition just came out after all, and they still keep churning out new versions of the old classics.
If you haven't heard of NEW board games, then you probably aren't a parent. Who else even buys new board games now? The classics still sell extremely well, and there's not much interest in anything new except for the occasional fluke that becomes a fad, or this or that game based on whatever cartoon is popular now for kids.
I'm not writing this to defend their good name, and it does seem wrong to me that they own the rights to just about every game and toy in Western culture, but you make it sound like they're just a holding corporation making money from frivolous lawsuits.
I realize they were trying to make a game where there is no good-vs-evil in the D&D way, but at times methinks they tried _too_ hard. They don't need to twist everything I say or do into sounding like a wrong, immoral, selfish or heartless choice.
I guess you never played with my DM. Everything every player did was turned into a wrong, immoral, selfish or heartless choice.
It's poor form to truncate a quote, correct grammar or (heavens forbid) change the wording.
It's NOT poor form to correct spelling. In fact it's completely acceptable to do so, and is done often... when the journalist or her editor wants to give the subject credibility. On the other hand [sic] is most often used to make the subject seem amateurish or unintelligent.
It's a subtle and in my opinion dirty trick, but quite a common one. As an example read the "letters to the editor" page in your local paper, you may see that letters that agree with the editor's slant are correction free, while those that disagree have spelling errors and [sics] intact.