Critical Role - Tabletop RPGs is serious business, man.

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Dr. Pasquale dijo:
These niggas really putting that 9.6 millions dollar to use. This video was corporate as fuck, down to the use of canned lines like "This is going to be special, like something youd never see before, it will blow your mind" straight from one of those Disney featurettes. Anyone who still thinks this is just "nerdy friends hanging out having a good time" is got to be out of his fucking mind.
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There's money to be made from that. CR themselves proved it. And Look at The Big Bang Theory.
 
Random Internet Person dijo:
There's money to be made from that. CR themselves proved it. And Look at The Big Bang Theory.
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No shit theres money to be made.

I'm just wondering at what point does these people's illusion of "these are just friends having a good time being nerdy together" breaks. CR is raking in millions of dollars, WotC are all over them, they got a big hollywood set, a tv show and a shit ton of merchandising, its oficially big business now and has been for a while.

Back in CR2 people used to joke around that Matt's piss easy encounters were due to him not wanting any character to die as to not piss off the fanbase and drive away any significant slice of the viewership. Its also a long running joke, even amongst the players, that the show has secret writers that are there to ensure the campaign goes the way its intended. By this point its really not that hard to believe that all of this is completely true.

This shit is simply nothing like the avarage tabletop experience.
 
I've listened to the show as background noise at work for a while now. The first campaign is much more enjoyable to listen to than the second, for the simple fact that the show feels much less corporate and scripted in the earlier episodes. The entire cast are the epitome of the eternally online twitterati, but they are decent actors so the show is enjoyable as essentially being a book on tape.

The second campaign you can absolutely feel the twitter creeping into the show though with pronouns for an NPC and one of the PCs suddenly turning gay at the end of the campaign despite having a clear female love interest from their backstory that was prominent throughout the last quarter of episodes. I enjoy it as mild entertainment and a good way to kill a drive or a slow day in the office, but if the 3rd campaign goes full wokeshit all the time and not the minor annoyances it was previously I'll have to drop it.

UnKillShredDur dijo:
I watched about an hour of the first episode and came to the same conclusion you did from reading that wiki. They spent about half of that time clearly indulging in *somebody's* (If I had to guess, I would guess it was Mercer's) scat fetish, which ultimately noped me the fuck out of it.
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I made it about the same amount of time before jumping ship as well. The DM was shit and told a terrible story, the characters were all stereotypes of your average tumblr user at different levels of insanity. It was hot trash and I couldn't force myself to watch it. Hopefully they don't go this direction with the PCs in 3.

Just Some Other Guy dijo:
As if the world needed another example of why subs > dubs.
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Shitpost or not, I agree with you when it comes to weebshit, however the characters in this show are designed from the ground up to be voiced by the English VAs so it's more tolerable.
 
I listen to CR while I'm working and for the most part I enjoy it despite borderline hating most of the cast. Looking forward to see just how ridiculously gay their PCs look in campaign 3. It can't get worse than Caduceus, can it?
 
Campaign 3 just started. Taliesen's character is a he/they non binary faggot covered in tattoos, it begins

Edit: Already a non binary NPC, theyre speedrunning this shit

Edit 2: Sam's character is a robot who is also non binary :story:
 
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I can't fucking believe Sam and Taliesen started by announcing their fucking pronouns. No way in hell I'm listening to this campaign.
 
Dr. Pasquale dijo:
Campaign 3 just started. Taliesen's character is a he/they non binary faggot covered in tattoos, it begins

Edit: Already a non binary NPC, theyre speedrunning this shit

Edit 2: Sam's character is a robot who is also non binary :story:
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For Sam, aren't Robuts by default non binary? (I still don't know why the fuck he felt the need to tell us that though.)
Of course Taliesin played a faggot again. It would be more interesting if he actually went outside of his real life experience for once.

Anyway, it hasn't been mentioned yet, and it hasn't even been explicitly stated yet, but I'm pretty sure that Marisha and Laura are playing dykes. Mostly because Marisha ALWAYS plays a dyke.
I'll admit, I'm a little disappointed with Laura if she went along with it this time.

And eww.. they just brought in one of the actors from that scat fetish story.
 
Great decision, bring in three characters from the side campaign that a big segment of your audience hated. This is actually hilarious how quickly this is going down in flames for me.
 
Zync dijo:
Great decision, bring in three characters from the side campaign that a big segment of your audience hated. This is actually hilarious how quickly this is going down in flames for me.
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Why the fuck did they swap out Travis? (There isn't a space for him now with that reject from the side story, so I guess that was a bait and switch having him here earlier?) I actually think I'm in the same boat as you. What a shit show.
 
UnKillShredDur dijo:
Why the fuck did they swap out Travis? (There isn't a space for him now with that reject from the side story, so I guess that was a bait and switch having him here earlier?) I actually think I'm in the same boat as you. What a shit show.
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First call for initiative and Travis isn't there. I know Critical Role is now full on retarded with Twitter/Tumblr shit, but this is even beyond that. One of the original members is sitting out for a guest in the first episode. Fucking stupid decision.
 
You know, I genuinely enjoyed campaign 2 (I'll say it again, I haven't seen much of campaign 1. I might try again some day, but the fact that they start mid-story, and the many technical difficulties, turned me off of it when I last tried.)

I didn't even hate-watch Exandria Unlimited. I could tell that it was (literally) shit from like an hour in and stopped right there. I'm getting similar vibes from this shit right now. I'm going to finish this episode, but I doubt I'll watch another. None of these characters are even remotely interesting to me. Even Laura Bailey fucked up, and she's still my favorite voice actress.

No Travis Bailey on top of that is just insulting. If you're going to remove one of the white men out of the main critical role cast, just so you can replace him with a diversity hire (even though you literally could have kept them all) for fucks sake, remove Taliesin.
 
Oh shit, haha... I forgot that this was a thing until one of them mentioned it just now. Are movie theatres really playing this live right now? Is anybody actually watching this in a movie theatre? (and/or, did anybody watch this in a movie theatre?)

I couldn't imagine paying money to watch this shit... Haha after this is over, If you did, do you regret it?
 
Zync dijo:
Travis isn't even playing a permanent character since he's two levels higher. I don't get the rationale for having him play what seems to be an NPC. What the fuck is this shit?
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I didn't even notice that... I'm really trying though, I want to care about at least *one* of these characters. But I don't.
 
UnKillShredDur dijo:
I couldn't imagine paying money to watch this shit... Haha after this is over, If you did, do you regret it?
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I'm sure all the dipshits that went to a theater are thrilled. They are the same people that LOVED EXU, they physically can't comprehend Critical Role not being 100% amazing.

I'm wondering if Travis and the EXU rejects are temporary, but that'd be truly terrible storytelling. Having characters pop in and out would just be confusing for newcomers.
 
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