Re:United Wizards of the Coast
by xienze on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:57PM
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That's all labor that can only be done "here and now." Can't just have Indians do it over the internet. And replacing the workers at a moment's notice is usually complicated by the striking workers harassing and attacking the replacements. Again, hard to do that when your replacement is on the other side of the globe.
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You cannot simply transfer Magic the Gathering to overseas workers and expect any kind of usable result. It will be from an entirely different cultural framework.
Re:United Wizards of the Coast
by satvikpendem on Monday April 27, 2026 @06:02PM
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Hard but not impossible, whereas with something like a longshoremen union, it is literally impossible to move the work elsewhere.
> You cannot simply transfer Magic the Gathering to overseas workers and expect any kind of usable result.
If you fed all the lore into an LLM and trained diffusion models on all the artwork I bet you could keep the train running from India until the end of time. The only thing that would derail it is if customers _knew_ it wasn't "authentic."