Oct. 7th, 2009

acroyear: (weirdos...)
Steve Jackson Games Daily Illuminator - October 7, 2009:
Are your games safe? We thought they were, but back in 2007 there were a series of product recalls that led the U.S. government to give us a new law (Public Law No: 110-314), commonly known as the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. The CPSIA is a source of personal stress for me at the moment because I'm dealing with trying to cover safety testing costs without increasing the MSRP on our games. And these costs aren't minor; for a game like Munchkin Quest we're looking at somewhere around $3,000 to $4,000 for the CPSIA testing. That's a significant increase in our production costs, and is a lot for us to absorb, but for the moment we're going to try to cover these costs without passing the increase on to the players.
At least they can afford it, but only by having their big successes (Munchkin) pay for the ones that might run at a loss. A much smaller company, in business to make games, not to make millions (not that SJ's a millionaire by any stretch) might not have those resources.

hear hear

Oct. 7th, 2009 12:54 pm
acroyear: (fof good book)
Worldnutdaily Hates Gay Sex : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:
[...] neither heterosexual sex nor homosexual sex is a moral issue at all. As long as the sex is between consenting adults, it simply isn't a moral question in my view. And if it's not consenting, then it's the lack of consent that is the moral issue, not the sexual act itself.

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