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[Wingnut]

I'm going to be mad if the joke is "Travis is a tightwad, and he just bought the dress because it was cheaper." (He never looked for cheaper men's clothing, he immediately went to the dress.) And that still doesn't make any sense at all with the character we've been presented with so far, or the story that they're trying to tell, that an elder lycanthropic male gnome would choose to wear a (dwarven) women's dress to a party, when they weren't trying to draw too much attention to themselves.

However true it might be, Chetney said later on he was going to wear the dress because it would be disarming. Travis saying a man in women's clothing is disarming/shocking is pretty funny given CR and their audience's woke Californian mentality.

Later on Robby's character asked "What are Dwarves like" and everyone immediately went "whoa, whoa" and other responses like "I think everyone's their own person" and were reacting like he just said something on par with a slur.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

However true it might be, Chetney said later on he was going to wear the dress because it would be disarming. Travis saying a man in women's clothing is disarming/shocking is pretty funny given CR and their audience's woke Californian mentality.

Later on Robby's character asked "What are Dwarves like" and everyone immediately went "whoa, whoa" and other responses like "I think everyone's their own person" and were reacting like he just said something on par with a slur.

You can't just ask Dwarves what they're like, Robbie you insensitive chud! But yeah, they're all short, portly, have beards and hate cats.

 

[Mega Black]

Critical Role because the fanbase is, in my opinion, one of the most toxic fanbases in fandom right now. Such is the case when you pander to the woke Twitter crowd and shippers

It's pretty shit. It's really funny to watch them constantly talk up how amazing, and wonderful, and kind, and beautiful, their shitty little fanbase is, all while shivering in fear that they might get fucking obliterated online for stepping out of line even once. Their own fanbase has threatened to eat them alive like, what, twice at least right? Once with killing the faggot tiefling that Taliesin totally didn't suicide on purpose and again for selling out to Wendy's. Recently it's been them 'glorifying' colonialism by wearing British explorer hats in the intro. Shit's ridiculous.

You reap what you sow I guess, it'll be funny to see them get ripped apart one day. Shame they had to take Wizards down with them I guess, I do enjoy 5E with my friends.

5e's business model is based on relying on biannual book-length campaign releases. As the content becomes ever more woke under the guidance of Jeremy Crawford, even though the people who buy those books tend to lean left, they'll cross a point where the stuff stops selling.

I guess. That doesn't mean they'll stop doubling down, though. The only answer they see to low sales and negative responses to woke shit is to keep shoving more in, over and over. Tabletop at least has options, you can always just throw out what you don't like.

This didn't just come entirely the fuck out of nowhere for the character in general... It came entirely the fuck out of nowhere from him in the same episode same episode even.

You know the only reason they let him play a racist gnome was if he made his character Trans. Get ready for the emotional forty-five minute campfire scene where Chetney says he's always felt like a female gnome deep inside while the table of dangerhairs, troons, and faggots all coo while Travis dies inside. Too texan, too manly, and much too based for this shit.

Later on Robby's character asked "What are Dwarves like" and everyone immediately went "whoa, whoa" and other responses like "I think everyone's their own person" and were reacting like he just said something on par with a slur.

None of them are going to shit all over the CEO of the company and the second most popular player at the table like that. Robbie is new, so he gets the dogpile so they can all signal boost their wokeness. I mean, God forbid you ask what a fantasy race is generally like, that's stereotyping. Nothing differentiates you from the horned devilspawn at your side except the color of your skin and whether you like shoving fat cocks up your ass. Yes, how amazing this fantasy world is.

 

[PaladinBoo]

It's pretty shit. It's really funny to watch them constantly talk up how amazing, and wonderful, and kind, and beautiful, their shitty little fanbase is, all while shivering in fear that they might get fucking obliterated online for stepping out of line even once. Their own fanbase has threatened to eat them alive like, what, twice at least right? Once with killing the faggot tiefling that Taliesin totally didn't suicide on purpose and again for selling out to Wendy's. Recently it's been them 'glorifying' colonialism by wearing British explorer hats in the intro. Shit's ridiculous.

That is pretty much what happened to the Steven Universe creators. They would talk about how kind, loving and tolerate their fanbase is when in reality their fanbase was extremely toxic. We all know the stories of them threatening death upon artists for drawing characters too skinny or for shipping the wrong characters. Even giving death threats to the creators when they told them to stop.
I have to say that the tard rage over Critical Role selling out to Wendy's is hilarious. I mean, Critical Role is pretty corporate themselves now. Of course they would take a corporate sponsor. That is how businesses work. No different than a sports team taking up a sponsorship from a corporation like Coke-Cola or Pepsi. Then again, you can't expect tankies to understand simple business.

You know the only reason they let him play a racist gnome was if he made his character Trans. Get ready for the emotional forty-five minute campfire scene where Chetney says he's always felt like a female gnome deep inside while the table of dangerhairs, troons, and faggots all coo while Travis dies inside. Too texan, too manly, and much too based for this shit.

Travis and Laura seem to be pretty decent people. Everyone else is insufferable. Especially Liam.

 

[Wingnut]

Travis and Laura seem to be pretty decent people. Everyone else is insufferable. Especially Liam.

He seems to really be a one trick pony when it comes to characters. Despite being a professional western VA, not that that's anything to brag about, every one of his characters has been relatively soft spoken and basically all have the same voice. Oh, and he has to shoehorn his bisexuality into every one of them, can't forget that.

 

[Random Internet Person]

 

[FreedomMussel]

I mean, God forbid you ask what a fantasy race is generally like, that's stereotyping. Nothing differentiates you from the horned devilspawn at your side except the color of your skin and whether you like shoving fat cocks up your ass. Yes, how amazing this fantasy world is.

Honestly, "how are non-humans different from humans?" never has a satisfying answer. It's easy to write radically inhuman aliens that don't think think or communicate like humans do, but when it comes to species very close to human but slight different then it becomes nigh-impossible to distinguish them in a nuanced manner from humans that feels genuinely biological and not a consequence of their cultural upbringing.

Humans can be fairly diverse physically and culturally, but our psychology is fundamentally the same. Take an infant from anywhere in the world, put them in another culture elsewhere in the world, then examine them as an adult and you won't find any measurable differences in how they act that can be accounted for by biology.

How do you distinguish other species from humans in a way that doesn't feel like a result of culture? I have yet to find satisfactory answers

 

[Wingnut]

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I've been wondering how long it was going to be after the twitch money leaks before people started to point out how everyone on CR was both rich and white.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Honestly, "how are non-humans different from humans?" never has a satisfying answer. It's easy to write radically inhuman aliens that don't think think or communicate like humans do, but when it comes to species very close to human but slight different then it becomes nigh-impossible to distinguish them in a nuanced manner from humans that feels genuinely biological and not a consequence of their cultural upbringing.

Humans can be fairly diverse physically and culturally, but our psychology is fundamentally the same. Take an infant from anywhere in the world, put them in another culture elsewhere in the world, then examine them as an adult and you won't find any measurable differences in how they act that can be accounted for by biology.

How do you distinguish other species from humans in a way that doesn't feel like a result of culture? I have yet to find satisfactory answers

The problem is that even if you look at other animals on the planet you'll find their social structure and behaviour to be highly reminiscent of humans. The only difference is bugs which is why they are a favourite inspiration for aliens.
Personally I think having a race act completely inhuman can only really happens when transhumanism starts. Up until then basic evolution will dictate behaving in a selfish/selfless manner every mammal does.

 

[SuiSui1]

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[Sinner's Sandwich]

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Looks like a way more sucessful Spoony

 

[Dr. Pasquale]

However true it might be, Chetney said later on he was going to wear the dress because it would be disarming. Travis saying a man in women's clothing is disarming/shocking is pretty funny given CR and their audience's woke Californian mentality.

Later on Robby's character asked "What are Dwarves like" and everyone immediately went "whoa, whoa" and other responses like "I think everyone's their own person" and were reacting like he just said something on par with a slur.

Kinda sad to see diversity hire man go, last week's session was his last as his character fucked off to help his brother. Overall Robbie and Dorian in general were pretty harmless, he was good at roleplaying, had good chemistry with most of the table and got the gist of the game pretty fast, specially compared to ppl like Ashley who has been playing this game for 10 godamn years and still doesnt know what to roll for attacks.

It seems the table will have a rotating cast of guest characters that will stick around for multiple sessions like Robbie did, this way they can get the diversity points without having to get rid of the 90% white cast. They also confirmed trashfire ExU will have a second season, so I'm looking forward to see if theyre bringing Aabria back, that bitch produced some good ass memes.

 

[Pargon]

Am I the only one I’m thinking Campaign Three has been chock fucking full of faffing about and the players having no interest in advancing the plot? I mean more than usual. A few episodes ago they had several story threads to pull on and they proceeded to ignore all of them. Since then the only one that’s been resolved is Cyrus’ bounty…resolved by the two characters involved ejecting themselves from the narrative.

 

[Random Internet Person]

 

[A Useless Fish]

Am I the only one I’m thinking Campaign Three has been chock fucking full of faffing about and the players having no interest in advancing the plot? I mean more than usual. A few episodes ago they had several story threads to pull on and they proceeded to ignore all of them. Since then the only one that’s been resolved is Cyrus’ bounty…resolved by the two characters involved ejecting themselves from the narrative.

Yes. I am not watching it, so much as enjoying tg losing their shit over how boring the whole fucking thing is. I legitimately have no idea who is still watching this snorefest. Is there any way to find out what their numbers even are? I can't believe tens of thousands of people are watching a bar crawl that somehow goes on longer roleplayed, than it would in real life.

 

[PaladinBoo]

Looks like a way more sucessful Spoony

Bizarro Spoony. If Spoony actually had some kind of drive and ambition instead of being on Twitter all day and making a pity party for himself for being a lazy, entitled, washed up has-been. Also, Mercer was able to get his animated show made. Spoony never made his movie. LMAO!

 

[A Welsh Cake]

If this anything like the critical role threads on /tg/ I’m ready to make some hot cocoa, slip into my jammies and call Matt Mercer a soy filled bitch.

 

[Random Internet Person]

If this anything like the critical role threads on /tg/ I’m ready to make some hot cocoa, slip into my jammies and call Matt Mercer a soy filled bitch.

The fact you’re on this thread means you were already going to do that.

 

[Andthensomeguy]

Kinda sad to see diversity hire man go, last week's session was his last as his character fucked off to help his brother. Overall Robbie and Dorian in general were pretty harmless, he was good at roleplaying, had good chemistry with most of the table and got the gist of the game pretty fast, specially compared to ppl like Ashley who has been playing this game for 10 godamn years and still doesnt know what to roll for attacks.

It seems the table will have a rotating cast of guest characters that will stick around for multiple sessions like Robbie did, this way they can get the diversity points without having to get rid of the 90% white cast. They also confirmed trashfire ExU will have a second season, so I'm looking forward to see if theyre bringing Aabria back, that bitch produced some good ass memes.

Figures, a diversity hire actually turns out good and the company gets rid of them. Ain't that modern, corporate California in a nut shell.

Am I the only one I’m thinking Campaign Three has been chock fucking full of faffing about and the players having no interest in advancing the plot? I mean more than usual. A few episodes ago they had several story threads to pull on and they proceeded to ignore all of them. Since then the only one that’s been resolved is Cyrus’ bounty…resolved by the two characters involved ejecting themselves from the narrative.

This is when the DM (should) have a BBEG show up with a massive army, burn a few of the PC's home towns down, and threaten to bring upon a world ending apocalypse.

I get you need to cater to your players desires too, but the DM spent perhaps dozens of hours working on a campaign, you can at least grab a plot thread every now and again (you want to start a bar? Fine, I'll accommodate, but you better be ready to let the Druid Plain Shift you to the next plot point when it starts calling). This goes double for a show like Critical Role, yeah the downtime stuff is fun, I'll admit, but it looses a lot of its charm when it's not broken up by action, the occasional fight, or a looming and consistent threat in the background.

This is why I keep saying campaign 1 is my favorite, from pretty much the beginning it had a goal, an end game, a mad lich god threatening to tear the world asunder. Without a clear end goal, at least in a D&D game, all people are going to get is a bunch of dicking around.

 

[Dr. Pasquale]

Am I the only one I’m thinking Campaign Three has been chock fucking full of faffing about and the players having no interest in advancing the plot? I mean more than usual. A few episodes ago they had several story threads to pull on and they proceeded to ignore all of them. Since then the only one that’s been resolved is Cyrus’ bounty…resolved by the two characters involved ejecting themselves from the narrative.

Its almost impressive how fast C3 reached levels of Namek that took C2 70+ sessions to reach. Every session has at least 2-3 plot threads getting shoved in their faces and yet it feels like absolutely nothing is happening. Last session started with almost an hour of Taliesin's gay ass PC fist fighting some commander guy outside of a party and it was the most boring shit ever. Literally just him and Mercer rolling dice for 45 minutes trying to make it cool by giving tryhard anime descriptions of what their characters were doing.

If this anything like the critical role threads on /tg/ I’m ready to make some hot cocoa, slip into my jammies and call Matt Mercer a soy filled bitch.

The fact you’re on this thread means you were already going to do that.

The show is literally unwatchable without shitposting