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Guess Who WotC "Thanked" For D&D?

Started by RPGPundit, February 14, 2024, 10:32:33 PM

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RPGPundit

February 14, 2024, 10:32:33 PM
You won't be able to guess who the official D&D Youtube channel decided to say "thank you" to for D&D. Though you probably will be able to guess which names they completely erased from the official history...
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#1
February 14, 2024, 10:50:29 PM
Karl Marx. He only invented LARPing, but it's a related hobby.
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#3
February 15, 2024, 03:58:05 AM
Quote from: Grognard GM on February 14, 2024, 10:50:29 PM
Karl Marx. He only invented LARPing, but it's a related hobby.

Hah, please expand on this statement  ;D
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February 15, 2024, 04:33:02 AM
Quote from: Grognard GM on February 14, 2024, 10:50:29 PM
Karl Marx. He only invented LARPing, but it's a related hobby.
You know, I used to think that Karl Marx was a hypocrite, but then I realized he was a sincere communist when I read that several of his children starved to death.  So it's been Real Communism ™ all along.

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#5
February 15, 2024, 07:14:11 AM
Watch the video to find out. The actual answer is in some ways even worse than any of the guesses here.
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#6
February 15, 2024, 12:29:11 PM
Link to the D&D video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t29yNXBq-g

I feel like it's just a bog standard "Large Corporation Video #80". Also, why would they thank specific individuals if "the community" might dig up a picture of Gary doing a line of coke off a super model and then it's a PR disaster. I'm sure there's a 20 year old HR handbook that was the template for this "safe, unoffensive, inclusive PR video".

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February 15, 2024, 03:07:54 PM Last Edit: February 15, 2024, 03:09:29 PM by RPGPundit
Quote from: Dracones on February 15, 2024, 12:29:11 PM
Link to the D&D video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t29yNXBq-g

I feel like it's just a bog standard "Large Corporation Video #80". Also, why would they thank specific individuals if "the community" might dig up a picture of Gary doing a line of coke off a super model and then it's a PR disaster. I'm sure there's a 20 year old HR handbook that was the template for this "safe, unoffensive, inclusive PR video".

It's pretty clearly more than that. This is like thanking Jeff Bezos and the Amazon DEI division for Lord of the Rings, and not mentioning Tolkien. It's a Replacement Strategy: D&D wasn't invented by a pair of Evil Straight Cis WHITEMALES! It was "created", by the "community", which the right people very strictly police for anything problematic, like whiteness or straightness or not wanting to buy a book that pretends to be D&D but actually just wants to lecture you about gender.
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yosemitemike

#8
February 16, 2024, 01:34:03 PM
Well, I'm sure I can guess who they didn't think to mention.  I am guessing Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson weren't mentioned.  Who the fuck is "the community" anyway?   
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February 16, 2024, 02:53:33 PM
Quote from: yosemitemike on February 16, 2024, 01:34:03 PM
Well, I'm sure I can guess who they didn't think to mention.  I am guessing Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson weren't mentioned.  Who the fuck is "the community" anyway?   

You know who they're talking about...
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#10
February 16, 2024, 05:31:31 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit on February 15, 2024, 03:07:54 PM
Quote from: Dracones on February 15, 2024, 12:29:11 PM
Link to the D&D video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t29yNXBq-g

I feel like it's just a bog standard "Large Corporation Video #80". Also, why would they thank specific individuals if "the community" might dig up a picture of Gary doing a line of coke off a super model and then it's a PR disaster. I'm sure there's a 20 year old HR handbook that was the template for this "safe, unoffensive, inclusive PR video".

It's pretty clearly more than that. This is like thanking Jeff Bezos and the Amazon DEI division for Lord of the Rings, and not mentioning Tolkien. It's a Replacement Strategy: D&D wasn't invented by a pair of Evil Straight Cis WHITEMALES! It was "created", by the "community", which the right people very strictly police for anything problematic, like whiteness or straightness or not wanting to buy a book that pretends to be D&D but actually just wants to lecture you about gender.

Revisionists don't give credit to the actual creators, because they weren't flying rainbow flags back in 1974.
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#11
February 16, 2024, 05:33:51 PM
Quote from: Dracones on February 15, 2024, 12:29:11 PM
...a picture of Gary doing a line of coke off a super model...

I'd like to see that picture...  8)

Brad

#12
February 16, 2024, 08:25:02 PM
Quote from: Baron on February 16, 2024, 05:33:51 PM
Quote from: Dracones on February 15, 2024, 12:29:11 PM
...a picture of Gary doing a line of coke off a super model...

I'd like to see that picture...  8)

I heard a first hand account of it in a bar a few years back from someone who was there and was drunk with no reason to lie, so it probably really happened. D&D money was real, and an actual cultural phenomenon. Gary seems to have run full blast with that 15 minutes.
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#13
February 16, 2024, 09:14:18 PM
  I guess it was Crawford and the rest of the gay prom committee to thank then. 

Exploderwizard

#14
February 16, 2024, 10:40:00 PM
Quote from: yosemitemike on February 16, 2024, 01:34:03 PM
Well, I'm sure I can guess who they didn't think to mention.  I am guessing Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson weren't mentioned.  Who the fuck is "the community" anyway?   

The blue haired DEI community of course. Never mind that were not even born in 1974. They are special enough to have time traveled right?
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