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bedpan posted:yep. anyone getting mad enough to boycott over this will not in fact stop buying any of the products or consuming the media nor would they be the type to leave the house to go see a movie
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there’s three big reasons nerds want to boycott dnd. 1) The open games license (ogl) enables extremely problematic content into the hobby. This is evil 2) wizards was changing to ogl so they have some sort of way to prevent 1. this is evil 3) rangers are not badass enough. more buffs for rangers. this is the real reason to be mad
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Also of course 4. everyone should actually play my favorite game system, which has a 20 page rule book that mostly focuses on the yes and style of improvisation but also in two sentences describes an extremely complicated and also somehow contradictory set of dice rules for resolving skill checks. (All that said dnd also sucks. They all have downsides)
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If you say any of this in the TG forum they hunt you down. Like a dog.
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You guys are doing a great job of reminding me why I could never get into D&D into the first place. I just couldn't get past the mechanics enough to have fun.
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Twigand Berries posted:I read disc world books too long ago to remember much, but Pratchett wrote this delightful story about a time he was waiting for a train and he accidentally ate a stranger's snacks on a shared table thinking they were his and both of them were quietly (Britishly) outraged and said nothing the entire time. I watched some comedy a year or so ago, can't for the life of me remember which one, but I remember it blatantly stole that story. This is a story that Douglas Adams told as well, also saying that it happened to him. And it's not original to him or Pratchett, it's an old urban legend. Disappointing.
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Eric Cantonese posted:You guys are doing a great job of reminding me why I could never get into D&D into the first place. I just couldn't get past the mechanics enough to have fun. Its called Baldur's Gate III you can even play it with friends if you have any
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Eric Cantonese posted:You guys are doing a great job of reminding me why I could never get into D&D into the first place. I just couldn't get past the mechanics enough to have fun. It's markedly improved through the editions but is still a horrendous overly mechanical mess - newcomers would be dumbstruck that they're playing the streamlined and cleaned up edition. But the old-timers will always insist on more rules and exceptions and edge cases so they can continue to abuse the rules.
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Best Friends posted:there’s three big reasons nerds want to boycott dnd. this is why I only play FATAL
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Best Friends posted:there’s three big reasons nerds want to boycott dnd.  I thought it was about wizards revoking the ogl and replacing it to fleece more money out of 3rd party publishers. they had to backtrack so hard they put it back under a creative commons license
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https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/1742324477323833546
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let them fight
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indigi posted:let them fight
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Bro Dad posted:
this could easily be their motivation in part or in full but tightening the ogl would be required to prevent Race Wars: Excalibur from being published under ogl as well and internally (so I’ve been told by knowers) that was the stated reason
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drake no trad games drake yes trad wife
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D&D deserves to die and it’s fans deserve to be left gameless after they rejected 4E. You have shown yourselves to be a sinful people. Unworthy of salvation.
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https://x.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1742331441609150488?s=20 keith is gonna destroy jimmy kimmel 
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Eric Cantonese posted:You guys are doing a great job of reminding me why I could never get into D&D into the first place. I just couldn't get past the mechanics enough to have fun. we always ignore mechanics in the name of fun when my buddies and I play. it's a choice.
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There's a new version of Mean Girls coming out. If you thought it could be a thoughtful update written with the experiences of Generation Tik-Tok in mind, or even with some zoomers in the writers room... You must still think we're in The Good Place. It's a movie ersion of the 2013 Broadway musical version of the 2004 movie.
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Greg12 posted:There's a new version of Mean Girls coming out. If you thought it could be a thoughtful update written with the experiences of Generation Tik-Tok in mind, or even with some zoomers in the writers room... You must still think we're in The Good Place. oh good but i think i'll wait for the novelization
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Greg12 posted:There's a new version of Mean Girls coming out. If you thought it could be a thoughtful update written with the experiences of Generation Tik-Tok in mind, or even with some zoomers in the writers room... You must still think we're in The Good Place. We just got a new The Color Purple movie based on the broadway musical and that turned out pretty deece so heck,
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nonathlon posted:This is a story that Douglas Adams told as well, also saying that it happened to him. And it's not original to him or Pratchett, it's an old urban legend. Disappointing. Terry Prachett and Douglas Adams did this to each other. Both are too British to ever name names. Best Friends posted:If you say any of this in the TG forum they hunt you down. Like a dog. Lol yeah it kinda owns. Anyways I found out a long time ago that I don't actually want to play a campaign, I just wanna do a book club with math problems and dice rolling.
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Somehow missed The Butterfly Effect until it just appeared on Netflix and it’s borderline experimental 20 mins in and Eric Stoltz is turbo molesting kids immediately after they get dropped off, Michael Biehn is kicking young Ashton’s rear end, little kid dropping F bombs at a showing of Se7en, girl gets smoked by a log and a dog is on fire. This is amazing. e: slut goth! e2: they blew up a BABY Durf has issued a correction as of 03:45 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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That was it, yes, it was close to the Unity thing where the wording was vague enough it seemed like they'd intend to retroactively seek royalties from third party books and pull previously freely distributed books from circulation. And similarly it basically instantly burned all of their bridges with third party publishers who went on to make their own OGL trust with blackjack and hookers, even Critical Role made their own system to distance themselves from D&D. Best Friends posted:this could easily be their motivation in part or in full but tightening the ogl would be required to prevent Race Wars: Excalibur from being published under ogl as well and internally (so I’ve been told by knowers) that was the stated reason No one believed them. Especially since they already hired on all the loudest racists and rapists as consultants for 5e, only hastily removing them from the credits after the uproar and Mike Mearls handling it in the worst possible way.
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an egg posted:wonka is a particularly insidious superhero movie go on
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watch the boy and the heron (rpatz dub), great flick
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Best Friends posted:The boycott dnd movement is one million percent online and also primarily composed of people who will absolutely continue buying wizards products and at a high rate. Wasn't baldurs gate the hottest poo poo of the year in the video game industry. Maybe they should rerelease the movie with BG branding.
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Some Guy TT posted:go on he stole the last of a people's precious natural resources but it's okay because they can work for him now to get his product in the hands of the market, he must fight a secret alliance between industry and the police force (both of which are represented by corrupt brown men) his victory hinges on his enemies keeping a literal mycrimes.txt, and also on reporting the corrupt police force to itself he has no humanitarian intentions besides making money from chocolate, but he semi-accidentally helps an orphan of colour so it's a happy ending he says he hates stealing but then flagrantly steals a big bunch of balloons and also the milk of a cgi giraffe the chocolate is an analogy for drugs
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i see so what youre saying is that willy wonka is to capitalism what paul atreides is to colonialism
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I'm glad all my Wonka dune jokes have been vindicated
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Some Guy TT posted:i see so what youre saying is that willy wonka is to capitalism what paul atreides is to colonialism
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furthermore, for the giraffe to be in milk, she must have recently given birth. where is the baby giraffe??
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Yeah where the gently caress is it, baby giraffes are loving adorable
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I’m sure the baby giraffe is like, stirring the fudge cauldron with a comically long ladle, juuust offscreen over there.
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