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Bottom Liner posted:these rule what is wrong with you They did say it was their favorite. Personally mine is Mazes & Monsters, where the lesson is "RPGs will destroy your brain... if your brain was weirdly susceptible to destruction and was just waiting for a catalyst of any kind."
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theironjef posted:They did say it was their favorite. The more you learn about this hobby and/or industry the more you realize how accurate this actually is.
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Apr 12, 2022 06:45
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Power Puff Girls gets everything wrong about chemistry, you can't create three superpowered little girls from things like sugar and spice, did the writers consult ANYONE before they wrote this??? I sure hope someone got fired over that blunder!
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Apr 12, 2022 06:46
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I have a Master's degree in chemistry and I can confirm that you can create three superpowered little girls from things like sugar and spice
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Apr 12, 2022 06:59
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Kai Tave posted:The more you learn about this hobby and/or industry the more you realize how accurate this actually is. i mean. yes, if your brain is weirdly susceptible to outside influence and you're like the Dean from community then you should probably not be playing DnD
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Apr 12, 2022 07:20
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Andrast posted:I have a Master's degree in chemistry and I can confirm that you can create three superpowered little girls from things like sugar and spice Really? I took a 102 level course once and they said it took some pretty gnarly additives.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:not ones that are the size of a wal-mart Are you sure you're not thinking of Venture Bros
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Are you sure you're not thinking of Venture Bros Nah that reference was kind of lame since it mostly served as a punchline for the Soriyama revenge joke - revenge for giving him fake weed, loving his bitch or beating the poo poo out of him, but Rusty's cardinal sin was he cucked him in a game of DnD
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Startup culture with the hustleharder bros are all about grafting whatever buzzword is the new hotness onto their bullshit and waving it in the hope that a VC will see it. Here's hoping this jerk at least takes millions from suckers like Kissinger and Betsy Devos. theironjef posted:They did say it was their favorite. Ugh, my dad was a detective in the 80s and 90s and he expressly forbade me playing the game because of Satanic panic. He thought this movie was a documentary.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Nah that reference was kind of lame since it mostly served as a punchline for the Soriyama revenge joke - revenge for giving him fake weed, loving his bitch or beating the poo poo out of him, but Rusty's cardinal sin was he cucked him in a game of DnD See the difference is that the writers there clearly know what D&D is and more importantly the people who play it See also Dexter's Laboratory, which even shows how a power tripping adversarial DM sucks compared to one who wants everyone to have fun
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Startup culture with the hustleharder bros are all about grafting whatever buzzword is the new hotness onto their bullshit and waving it in the hope that a VC will see it. Here's hoping this jerk at least takes millions from suckers like Kissinger and Betsy Devos. My Jehovah's Witness neighbors gave my mom a bunch of pamphlets when they found out I was playing D&D, which were actually well-researched enough to have page citations in the books for things like playable assassins, demons, devils, etc. My mom asked me what the deal was, so I showed her how, like, the page that supposedly had human sacrifice rules actually had, IDK, rules for how much coins weigh and how to charter a ship, and she concluded the pamphlets were just weird religious hysteria... which of course they were, but I might have neglected to explain the difference between the 1e PHB and the 2e PHB. Years later she somehow stumbled on the infamous Dead Alewives "I'm attacking the darkness!" skit with the note "Please tell me this is not what you're doing when you play that game," so I think she realized it was all a bit silly.
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I got into the only face-to-face DnD group I've ever had because my sister watched the episodes of Community about DnD and got interested, so I agreed to run it for her and some friends and we ended up having an amazing time. So I am in favour of it being on TV. Though I think those Community episodes are pretty accurate to what DnD is like, at least filtered through the sitcom lens of everything being extreme.
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HopperUK posted:I got into the only face-to-face DnD group I've ever had because my sister watched the episodes of Community about DnD and got interested, so I agreed to run it for her and some friends and we ended up having an amazing time. So I am in favour of it being on TV. Though I think those Community episodes are pretty accurate to what DnD is like, at least filtered through the sitcom lens of everything being extreme. The uncomfortable Drow blackface is 100% accurate, at least.
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theironjef posted:Personally mine is Mazes & Monsters, where the lesson is "RPGs will destroy your brain... if your brain was weirdly susceptible to destruction and was just waiting for a catalyst of any kind." Mostly I remember the DM whose shtick was 'wore silly hats.' GimpInBlack posted:The uncomfortable Drow blackface is 100% accurate, at least. Every time I see a Drow now I think of Shirley saying "So we just going to ignore this hate crime?"
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:- grown men are scared their dnd characters will be killed by other DnD characters This was actually part of the oldest school D&D games. You built fortresses because the game ran In real time and the other party's could raid your loot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slBsxmHs070
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Dawgstar posted:Mostly I remember the DM whose shtick was 'wore silly hats.' A valued ancestor on the road to the professional DM's mask.
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HopperUK posted:I got into the only face-to-face DnD group I've ever had because my sister watched the episodes of Community about DnD and got interested, so I agreed to run it for her and some friends and we ended up having an amazing time. So I am in favour of it being on TV. Though I think those Community episodes are pretty accurate to what DnD is like, at least filtered through the sitcom lens of everything being extreme. The only episode of that show I ever saw was Chevy Chase powertripping over the players with a super OP antagonistic player character, and the others having to find a way to defeat him It was wild how realistic it was.
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Man oh man I just watched that Recess bit. Pretty standard Eddie Deezen nerd voice, has all the hoary tropes of game nerds (other nerds afraid of the main nerd because his character is high level, nerds never going outdoors, etc) but can we all agree that the bullies calling the nerds "The pale kids" and "Those pale-y pale-y pale ones over there" rings out real weird when there's a Black nerd in the group? The 90s, dang. Also I love how they have to crank the dial of nerdery up to like "You have to wear a robot hat" to get past the fact that half the original Recess gang are already stereotypical D&D nerds.
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theironjef posted:Personally mine is Mazes & Monsters, where the lesson is "RPGs will destroy your brain... if your brain was weirdly susceptible to destruction and was just waiting for a catalyst of any kind." I remember watching it with my parents and assuring them that D&D was not actually like that. Aside from seeing Tom Hanks in a role that will surprise and touch you, it was based on a book that was based on a true story of a mentally ill kid who went to Michigan State University at age 16 and made his first of several suicide attempts in the steam tunnels there. He didn't even live to see age 18 but he had played D&D once so avast, moral panic off the starboard bow! homullus fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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That's probably how liches feel about us just breaking into their houses and getting ourselves killed.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Power Puff Girls gets everything wrong about chemistry, you can't create three superpowered little girls from things like sugar and spice, did the writers consult ANYONE before they wrote this??? If you actually paid attention you'd know it was Chemical X with gave them their super powers, which as we all know DOES give things super powers, SMH. Honestly, the real failure of chemistry was the dude just having a big glass jug of it hanging over his chemistry cookpot.
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Omnicrom posted:If you actually paid attention you'd know it was Chemical X with gave them their super powers, which as we all know DOES give things super powers, SMH. Honestly, the real failure of chemistry was the dude just having a big glass jug of it hanging over his chemistry cookpot. Ah, but if you watch the show you realise it was really the fault of the Professor's pet monkey, who happened to be named Mojo
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Ah, but if you watch the show you realise it was really the fault of the Professor's pet monkey, who happened to be named Mojo Really it was a cascade of poor safety choices that lead to this happening, him doing SCIENCE at home in an unregulated laboratory, him putting the container of Chemical X in a glass flask, him keeping said glass flask suspended from the ceiling above his work area, him doing SCIENCE underneath that same flask, him having a poorly trained monkey in the laboratory, him having the poorly trained and rambunctious monkey in the room with him when he did SCIENCE... At any one of those points Professor Utonium could have avoided a laboratory accident by simply working within accepted safety standards. This is why we have OSHA people.
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My parents played D&D together while they were dating. I even found the loving badass dragon poster my mom drew for their campaign last time I visited. 
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https://twitter.com/AdiraSlattery/status/1513941487909670912 hahahahahahahaa
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They should have sent a poet.
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He's 100% the kind of marketing shitbird who is probably wishing he thought of it first.
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I am not surprised in the slightest but this still hit me like a smack in the face. loving Daniel Fox. Of course.
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dwarf74 posted:He's 100% the kind of marketing shitbird who is probably wishing he thought of it first.
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https://twitter.com/martindubu/status/1513944297606889472
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I suspect that Mr Fox would find that tremendously flattering.
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Apr 12, 2022 20:01
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This is not surprising, really, but I did not expect it.
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DressCodeBlue posted:My parents played D&D together while they were dating. I even found the loving badass dragon poster my mom drew for their campaign last time I visited. Can we see the dragon poster?
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Man, that really is fitting. The only thing he's ever done with a claim to fame was a game that had already been done and with maybe an improvement here or there (I don't know, I own Zweihander because it just turned up in my DTRPG library one day but I sure didn't buy it) but mostly just tries to be loud and important about the field he is ostensibly working in.
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Apparently he's made public comments about how dumb NFTs are. So this would be surprising if you ever thought he had a sincere belief about anything other than whatever gets him the most clicks, votes, or fame at the exact moment to his specific audience.
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LaSquida posted:Can we see the dragon poster? 
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I guess it's possible he's just trolling them and/or gathering research for some kind of expose, but I don't give enough of poo poo to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Dawgstar posted:Man, that really is fitting. The only thing he's ever done with a claim to fame was a game that had already been done and with maybe an improvement here or there (I don't know, I own Zweihander because it just turned up in my DTRPG library one day but I sure didn't buy it) but mostly just tries to be loud and important about the field he is ostensibly working in. He managed to make Warhammer more racist and gross, which is pretty impressive.
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Dawgstar posted:Man, that really is fitting. The only thing he's ever done with a claim to fame was a game that had already been done and with maybe an improvement here or there (I don't know, I own Zweihander because it just turned up in my DTRPG library one day but I sure didn't buy it) but mostly just tries to be loud and important about the field he is ostensibly working in. Me too. From hazy old memories, I think there was basically a time when you couldn't touch anything RPG related online without him offerring a free copy of Zweihander and picked it up then.
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Mors Rattus posted:He managed to make Warhammer more racist and gross, which is pretty impressive. really? can you give any examples? i have a copy of warhammer fantasy 4th ed and a friend just bought zwiehander, i'd like any ammunition to bring to the table to use my books over his.... oh wait, i read that as he made a more racist warhammer....
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