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Critical Role cancelled by Kotaku because... reasons

Started by Reckall, February 09, 2022, 05:39:26 AM

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Reckall

February 09, 2022, 05:39:26 AM
Clownfish TV has the scoop:



Basically, the highly successful "Critical Role" series (D&D campaigns streamed on social media) isn't inclusivediverserepresentative enough. Kotaku wakes up to this after years of success for the streamed show saying and demands for a group of friends who broadcast their games over the internet to do what Kotaku wants - which is to woke up. Apparently, CR is too colonialistproblematicandwhite to be the face of modern D&D.

https://kotaku.com/critical-role-marquet-third-campaign-asian-cultures-col-1848500055

Interestingly enough, apparently this happened after it was revealed how Critical Role is financially very successful.

For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

RPGPundit

#1
February 09, 2022, 12:19:33 PM
While I appreciate that you may have avoided putting this in the main forum because Critical Role is not actually a roleplaying game or people actually playing a roleplaying game, I think it is close enough to the RPG hobby that it can be put in the main forum. So I'm moving it there.

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#2
February 09, 2022, 12:26:50 PM
For the love of god people: stop falling for clickbait. Youtube reports on clickbait are still clickbait.

Chris24601

#3
February 09, 2022, 12:38:48 PM
Proof that no matter how far left you move, you'll never be woke enough to avoid being canceled once they've run out targets further to the right in their never-ending quest to achieve drive past the event horizon of madness into the Leftist singularity.

The sooner you get off the roller coaster, be true to yourself, and find alternate funding/promotion than Leftists bastions the better off your rpg and rpg-adjacent products will be.

Fighterboy

#4
February 09, 2022, 12:57:16 PM
What's Kotaku and why should we care about them?

GeekyBugle

#5
February 09, 2022, 01:00:03 PM
Quote from: Shrieking Banshee on February 09, 2022, 12:26:50 PM
For the love of god people: stop falling for clickbait. Youtube reports on clickbait are still clickbait.

I agree, also never link to woke sites directly, use Archive dot is.
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Jam The MF

#6
February 09, 2022, 01:02:03 PM
Who, or what the hell is Kotaku? ;D
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Rob Necronomicon

#7
February 09, 2022, 01:06:45 PM
Quote from: Fighterboy on February 09, 2022, 12:57:16 PM
What's Kotaku and why should we care about them?

Wasn't it that little mutant shit bag in Total Recall?
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Trond

#8
February 09, 2022, 01:47:08 PM
Quote from: Rob Necronomicon on February 09, 2022, 01:06:45 PM
Quote from: Fighterboy on February 09, 2022, 12:57:16 PM
What's Kotaku and why should we care about them?

Wasn't it that little mutant shit bag in Total Recall?

That's where the name comes from?

I only know it as one of the gaming "journalism" sites that pissed off gamers enough to spark Gamergate

Rob Necronomicon

#9
February 09, 2022, 01:57:37 PM Last Edit: February 09, 2022, 02:04:31 PM by Rob Necronomicon
Quote from: Trond on February 09, 2022, 01:47:08 PM
Quote from: Rob Necronomicon on February 09, 2022, 01:06:45 PM
Quote from: Fighterboy on February 09, 2022, 12:57:16 PM
What's Kotaku and why should we care about them?

Wasn't it that little mutant shit bag in Total Recall?

That's where the name comes from?



Nah, I was just taking the piss out of them. The dude in Total Recall was called Kuato. :)

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oggsmash

#10
February 09, 2022, 02:03:20 PM
Quote from: Rob Necronomicon on February 09, 2022, 01:06:45 PM
Quote from: Fighterboy on February 09, 2022, 12:57:16 PM
What's Kotaku and why should we care about them?

Wasn't it that little mutant shit bag in Total Recall?

  No that was kuato. 

oggsmash

#11
February 09, 2022, 02:04:27 PM
Oops, late on that one.  It is interesting how the woke are not interested in you until you have a lot of reach or money, or both.   Then you draw like attention like flies to shit from them.

BoxCrayonTales

#12
February 09, 2022, 02:19:32 PM
The Vox Machina cartoon is hugely diverse and inclusive. Every other extra is a person of color.

S'mon

#13
February 09, 2022, 02:26:19 PM
Quote from: Reckall on February 09, 2022, 05:39:26 AM
Interestingly enough, apparently this happened after it was revealed how Critical Role is financially very successful.

heh heh heh  ;D

SHARK

#14
February 09, 2022, 02:43:19 PM
Greetings!

Geesus, the whining and absolute ridiculous mental gymnastics that Kotaku goes through in critiquing Critical Role. Responsibility to disavow the original Colonizers and explorers? God these people are fucking nuts. They are so drunk on their fucking Marxist ideology and victimhood that they can't even speak like a normal human being.

Edward Said? Fuck Edward Said and his fucking book. No one gives a fuck about his book except fucking Marxists.

Kotaku are a bunch of morons.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK
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