Narrative Warfare: A Letter Of Marque & Reprisal Is Issued

A detail came out that heretofore got missed.

Blackrock bought into Fanatics, the company that now owns Catalyst Game Labs. Yes, that Blackrock- the folks behind EGS, the corporate Social Credit Score and thus the force pushing Death Cult dogma from the top-down.

That means that Catalyst has access to the Money Printer, which means that not only do they have no excuse to do crowdfunding, but that "Get Woke, Go Broke" is not an option unless you convince either Blackrock or Fanatics that this is more bothersome than it's worth.

Yes, part of that is making a huge mess of their official channels. Yes, part of that is making a huge amount of noise in public. Yes, part of that is not giving money to companies that hate you--and Catalyst proved that it hates you, which means that its partners likely also hate you (looking at you, Harebrained)--so not buying CGL-branded product is still on the table.

The overall strategy is to do these two things simultaneously: reroute the hobby activity away from CGL and deny CGL revenue by any means necessary.

This means not only contiuing to play the games, but to make it piss-easy to play by giving away copies or buying them used, and be seen doing it. Then start curating the canon at the hobbyist level, taking care to cut away and purge all converged crap pushed; this is where our best friend and greatest ally comes into the fight.

Quoting the Shiba of Color: "Piracy is not a crime. It is a moral duty. You are under no obligation to fund your enemies because of IP law. That's bullshit."

So transcribe those manuals, strip that DRM and spread those ebooks in all the formats (and get yourself an omnireader like Calibre), set up guerilla POD links and spread those around, and so on. The company is not the hobby. We, the hobbyists, define what it is and what is acceptable- not these would-be priests.

And yes, this means that you are free and clear to outright clone the game. Strip the trade dress, rewrite and reword some things, and go. If D6 Star Wars can have a full edition floating around there to enjoy, you can clone BattleTech and keep it alive and out of enemy hands.

The same can be, and should be, done for any and every game in the hands of the enemy.