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Now, here's the thing. I'd say you would be sharing those winnings with the original winner unless you prevented them from getting the ticket

The January 2nd Powerball draw was not won by anyone and paid $39M.

That's plenty of seed money to invest in Google, Bitcoin, et al with perfect knowledge of stock trends. Even if it's only short term knowledge due to breaking from the original timeline, you could easily grow your investment into the billions overnight.

Perhaps the most amazing stock of the year was Xcelera.com, formerly known as Scandinavia. Once a closed-end fund specializing in Scandinavian stocks, and then an operating company that owned a hotel in the Canary Islands, it made a small investment in an Internet company last year. Before it disclosed that investment, the family of Alexander Vik, the company's chief executive, was given options to buy a million shares of stock, at a price of $3.25 each. The shares ended 1998 at $3.75, or $1.25 adjusted for two subsequent splits. They ended 1999 at $139.50, an increase of 11,060 percent. The Viks' option position is now valued at $415 million.

That's not so much losing your home as it is having it forcibly purchased from you at a fair market price. At least in theory.

Half Life 3.

bloviating

What a wildly inappropriate waste of a thesaurus.

the slightest bit of research

Are you competing in some obscure Internet irony competition?

Write that article and post it in a blog. Use ChatGPT if you need to. Bang, you're the media.

I mean, you'll want to do all the SEO things to drive your hit rate, but this ain't the old days anymore where major media conglomerates control the news.

Thanks Obama!

I think we could work it out. We can for driving tests.

I don't think we can. Have you seen the results of our "driving tests"?

In all seriousness though. I get what you want to do, but this isn't how you get there.

Honestly, I would just ban it entirely at this point. I'd rather see the abolition of marriage entirely than have the government dictate who can and cannot participate (outside of consent issues, obviously).

I mean, go forth. Be fruitful. Multiply.

Eat, drink, be merry with each other.

Just leave the government out of it.

I like your ideas, but have you considered that this one:

All natural resources, be it harvested (e.g. ores, oil) or otherwise (e.g. land, air), are property of everyone. If any individual is to monopolise and/or utilise some of these resources, they are to compensate everyone else for doing so.

Effectively makes literally everything free? Not that this would be a bad thing. It just makes so many of the other things irrelevant.

Once they have enough market share, they will start making all D&D releases "exclusive" to their horrible walled garden. And that means if you want to play modern D&D, your only option is to put up with their abusive business practices.

Due to the nature of DND and the way VTTs work, that's just but going to be possible. D&d is always going to be maps and encounters and these are always going to be replicable with little to no effort. The sooner WotC accepts the fact that the best source of profits they have are the intellectual properties they actually own. Specifically Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Greyhawk, Spelljammer and the like, the better off they'll be.

Instead of trying to gate keep the rules of the game which neither logistically nor legally can actually be restricted in the way they want, they ought to be focusing on creating a better source of DND material. One needs look no further than YouTube to find the model that WotC needs to follow to encourage growth and sustainable profits. YouTube doesn't own the process of making videos nor can it prevent content creators from releasing their videos on other platforms. All they've done is create an environment where it's easier and more profitable for creators to publish in.

Wizards doesn't even need to own the VTT to control the marketplace. There really isn't any good reason for them to create a VTT and they aren't going to make one anytime soon that's going to compare with the products that are already available. They'd serve themselves and their customers far better if they just fostered a marketplace where user content can easily be shared and published to any VTT available.

To be fair, it's already pretty uninteresting.