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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court privately voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade case that has guaranteed the right to abortion for nearly a half-century, according to a leaked draft opinion from February published online Monday night by Politico.

TSR signaled its move into new markets at the start of the year with a revised corporate logo, one that no longer depicted wizards or lizards but instead just the stylized outline of the letters “TSR” in a diagonal descent that only hinted at a dungeon map's geometry. On the back of their annual dealer catalog, Kevin Blume—in his capacity as president of the TSR Service Group—announced that the company had chosen as its motto for the year
“New Directions For a Proven Leader.” He stressed diversification measures like the craft products of Greenfield Needlewomen, concluding, “Let us together make 1983 a banner year for games, toys, hobbies, and crafts.”

With Gygax scarce around the office, it would be Kevin Blume, wielding the title of chief operating officer, who would steer the company to adopt a more professional identity through the imposition of unfamiliar discipline. Harken-
ing back to the 1976 employee handbook, staffers who failed to use the time-
clock properly would be given demerit points for a “major offense.” Blume’s primary concession to softening the tone of his internal communication was by festooning his memos with clip art from the Peanuts comic strip. Under his direction, significant staff turnover began to change the face of TSR.

Over 50,000 machines were made, jump-starting the arcade pinball field; it spawned a home version in 1932 called Baffle Ball Senior.[1]

- But Twitter doesn't care if you leave!
Actually, Twitter does care if I leave. Twitter thinks of me as an asset to their network.
I know this because they let me use it for free! I mean free free. I don't see ads; I don't see promoted tweets; I don't even see "trending topics". Twitter can't track my browser use. I make them zero money. I must be good loss leader for them.
I've talked about this before. The only reason Twitter allows third-party clients is that they're favored by the kind of user Twitter needs to stay relevant: interesting, net-literate people who entertain their followers. I bring in eyeballs for the ad traffic.
Of course, there's a lot of us loss leaders, and I'm a very minor example. Twitter doesn't care about me personally. But I am an example. I will be a Kantian example and do what I think is right.

“They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say ‘Can he name a kitten?’ And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.”