#Franchise Conflict

[monukumarefr]

Litigation vs. Arbitration: Optimal Dispute Resolution Mechanisms for Franchise Agreements in India

Resolving a dispute is always a complex task in any business model, as it involves taking numerous decisions, and if a single decision goes wrong, everything can go in vain. Thus, businesses always beforehand choose that if any dispute arises in the future, which way or method of resolution they would choose, which would be, if not completely beneficial, then at least the least difficult for them in every aspect. And under the franchise model also, the franchisors prefer to include a dispute resolution clause in their franchise agreement to ensure that if they get in trouble into future, which method would be best suited for them. The franchisor usually prefers to discuss the choice of mechanism to resolve disputes with the franchisee so that later on there’s no wastage of time in deciding the mechanism. However, if the franchisor wants, he can alone decide the mechanism and write it in the agreement clause, which has to be complied with by the franchisee to get the franchise.

[sskk-manifesto]

Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple and how “ability users” (opposite to “normal people”) learning to accept themselves through the acceptance of their own abilities is a queer metaphor of acceptance of own's sexual orientation and gender: an essay by me

[aroaceleovaldez]

do. you consider the graphic novels to be canon (in some way)? and if so, what do you make of sadie and carter wearing the chb and cj t-shirts respectively at the end of tot i think

I consider the graphic novels to be their own individual canon - they're an adaptation of the source material and follow a different series of events than book canon, so they're in the same category as like the movies, show, or musical to me (and DS game, lmao). They exist completely separate from the canon they're adapting from, so they're their own entities.

The material I consider strictly "canon" is the first series, so Percy Jackson And The Olympians only. Then HoO and TOA as extraneous canon on top of that - sort of a like "recommended but optional." TKC and MCGA also kind of operate as their own canons within themselves but can be linked to main PJO canon, so similar category. Published companion novels and similar material (so like Singer of Apollo) are also optional add-ons.

Stuff like Un Natale Mezzosangue and Nachos After The War where they weren't ever formally published are non-canon official material to me, kind of in the same vein as promotional material released alongside the books (the activity guides and such). The official art exists in the same sphere to me. I also personally consider CHB: Austin's lore to be semi-canon or non-canon official material, because they're actually affiliated with Rick Riordan (he has directly interacted with the camp's activities in the past) and I think it's just kind of cute.

The ReadRiordan articles are just straight up strictly non-canon. They just are. That is just an objective fact about them. I am slightly more lenient towards some of the old official Riordan website's media, like the interactive Argo II map descriptions, just since those descriptions were one-and-done and presumably had to have been approved versus a ton of articles with different anonymous unaffiliated authors. It's at best in the same category as the non-canon official promotional material.

As for Sadie and Carter wearing camp t-shirts - it's a cute cameo! And also kind of interesting in that they're technically one of first official published depictions we have of the camp shirts with any kind of details on them (the old official art doesn't count actually cause that was also bonus material).

[nattikay]

after the post from yesterday, thinking more about the folks who claim that the RDA are “actually the good guys” and the more I think about it the more baffled I am that this is an actual take people have.

First, I’m not sure where people are getting the idea that the RDA in A1 is trying to “save humanity” (most of the what arguments I see are regarding A1 so Bridgehead City and Ardmore’s “new home for humanity” thing in A2 are irrelevant and a topic for another day). As I already detailed in the previous post, A1 makes it pretty dang explicitly clear that the RDA is mining unobtainium for the money and the money only. Unobtainium is a convenience for humans, it’s desirable, but it’s not a necessity. They can use it to make some dang fancy technology, but they can survive without it.

But ok, let’s play devil’s advocate for a moment. For the sake of argument, let’s pretend that the RDA’s main goal is to protect humanity and that unobtainium is crucial to humanity’s survival. Does that justify their actions? The bombing of Hometree, the bulldozing of the Tree of Voices, the assault on the Well of Souls?

Starting with Hometree, it may be true that the unobtainium deposit underneath it was the richest in the local area, but that doesn’t mean it was the only possible deposit available anywhere. They’d just have to move their operation somewhere else. “They [the Na'vi] can move!”, Selfridge shouts? You can move too, buddy. Violently forcing the Omatikaya out of their home to take the resources you need (even if you really do need them, not just want them!) is not justified when you can just get said resources somewhere else. Sure, it would be a hassle to pack up and move the operation, but violence is not a proportional response to inconvenience.

But ok, let’s add another stipulation, let’s say that the deposit under Hometree was THE only one available absolutely anywhere. Combined with the idea that humanity needs unobtainium to survive (which again is not actually true, but for the sake of the argument), this is the closest you can come to possibly justifying the attack. Even with all these stipulations, though…bombing a village and killing innocent people in the process is still…not good. You can certainly argue that it’s a necessary evil in these specific circumstances—a desperate “either they die or we die, we can’t both live, so of course we’re gonna fight for ourselves to be the survivors” kind of thing—but still an evil nonetheless.

But even if you can kinda-sorta justify Hometree IF you pretend that 1.) humanity needs unobtainium for their survival and 2.) the unobtainium deposit under Hometree is the only one available on the whole moon, what about their other attacks?

What about bulldozing the Tree of Voices? That place didn’t have a special unobtainium deposit. What could bulldozing that area possibly do to “save humanity”? What would the point of that be?

Well, they tell you in the movie. Grace comments on the situation, “they bulldozed a sacred place on purpose to trigger a response”. Jake concurs, “when people are sitting on s*** that you want, you make them your enemy, and then you’re justified in taking it.”

The RDA bulldozed the Tree of Voices specifically to anger the Na'vi, to provoke them into retaliation so that the RDA has a better excuse to attack Hometree. I’m sorry but you cannot justify that with “but they’re just trying to save humanity guys!!1!”

And the attack on the Well of Souls? Even worse. Bombing the Well of Souls was not meant to “help humanity”, it was meant explicitly to harm the Na'vi. Quaritch says during his briefing, “we will blast a crater in their racial memory so deep that they will never come within a thousand klicks of this place ever again”. I cannot fathom how anyone can hear a brief like that and not recognize it as straight-up literal terrorism.

…and then, of course, you remember that canonically the RDA is not doing any of this to “save humanity”, they’re doing it for MONEY. They’re doing it to protect their bottom line. Any shred of justification they might have been able to scrape as “defenders of humanity” evaporates there.

And that’s only the stuff they do in A1! They have a plethora of other sins under their belt, such as the massacre of the Sarentu clan in AFoP. I don’t even wanna know how the RDA defenders attempt to justify that.

so um. Yeah. Believe it or not the very clear and very obvious bad guys are in fact the bad guys. Again it absolutely baffles me that this has to be stated but apparently it does.

[hopeslastkiss]

started an elf mourn watch!Rook playthrough and it's occurred to me that maybe an orphan with unknown origins might want to seek out their kin and to connect to a heritage they were denied by circumstance. and on that journey of self-discovery they learn about a people defeated, impoverished and enslaved and vilified; scraps of history sewn together with hope and resilience but so much lost, so much destroyed and taken. who else could understand Rook's grief and horror and isolation but an ancient elf recently awoken to confront the same reality? the same oppression he fought against for millennia? once again, much to think about.

[steelthroat]

I like happy endings, I love the absence of conflict, I adore when everything is good and everyone is happy living a mundane funny adventurous life but not too much...

Then why the fuck did I have to like transformers????

I love all the characters and I wish for nothing more than them just living their life on Cybertron and interacting w each other and being all cozy and fluffy, feel good story about alien robots doing their stuff but no fucking civil war.

Transformers One will actually destroy me, alright? Because you start w Megatron being all cute and young w bright eyes, FRIENDS with Optimus and then... then... *whine*

[fansplaining]

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[white-weasel]

If the Saw XI delay rumors (postponed to 2026) are true, I’ll start pitching spin offs to Twisted Pictures myself idec

[rintinningvt]

Started watching the Bayverse movies with my besties and... Are we just too gay for these movies??? Admittedly we only finished the first two and got through a quarter of the third, but the second one was such a drag to sit through at times and it probably doesn't help that we do NOT care about Sam that much. I hope that there is a character arc for him in the rest of the third movie. Because so far he has not been fun to watch in that one. He just comes off as a slight manchild to me, like... I can see why he would be frustrated with where he is in life but the way he acts with others and lashes out does not help him in the slightest. I do have to admit though that seeing him go to Cybertronian Heaven in the second movie was the funniest part for me and my besties lol.

I'll just hope that the other guy in the next movies will be at least a bit more interesting. Doesn't even have to be a good guy, just an interesting guy for me lol

[saxandviolins77]

Ok, last post got me thinking...

Are there people who are Victorion fans?

Not just liking her; I'm talking about actually having her and the Torchbearers as favorites above all the other combiners.

I think what makes the Torchbearers such a weak team conceptually is the fact that they don't have a uniting theme tied to their alt modes.

For instance, the Protectobots all turn into rescue vehicles, the Terrorcons all turn into monsters, and the Technobots all turn into sci-fi vehicles.

The Torchbearers? They're Camien peacekeepers and turn into... A motorcycle, two helicopters, two square cars, and a fire engine? No theme tying them. (Do NOT even imply their theme is being women.)

Also, their personalities aren't very captivating; sure, they have them, but most of the time they're busy being Victorion, who... Is a very boring combiner just by her nature of being OP as fuck; she has gravity powers and is one of the most stable combiners in the franchise... When she appears, I already know she's dominating the fight, so... Bor-ing.

[parasitoidism]

how is this not like a connecting art card look he's even by the water wheres the matching kyogre :( where is it :(

[eastonapologist]

erickson/halloran. for your consideration.

[beastsovrevelation]

Please tell me Damien's twin in The First Omen is Kate Reynolds in The Final Conflict. And, she's the mother of Delia and Alexander in The Omen IV.

[reiverreturns]

two glasses of wine in and i'm prepared to say with gusto that if you locked me in a room with the writers i could fix every problem the twisters script has within half an hour

[bi-force-1]

Mulling over the comedic and eyebrow raising potential of Erron Black in MK11 had NRS not completely changed him from the ground up and left him a greasy little freak that hasn't seen Earthrealm for over a hundred years. Past Erron Black comes through the Time Quake and he looks exactly like Current Erron Black because of his slowed aging from Shang Tsung. Causing confusion on which one is which. And it also infuriates me on some level the missed potential to use Erron Black in the story of MK11. You have Past Erron Black on the bad side and Current Erron Black on the good side. Why the fuck was no one immediately asking him to figure out if he was getting memories from the past him?

[fansplaining]

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