Are any of you going to pay the subscription fee for Tabletop?

nah highrollers is better and free (if you want dnd)
other wise you can find that other shit else where with just as good production

They'd have to pay me to consider watching that tripe.

>>50211602
>protecting her drink from date rape drugs around Wil
Smart girl.

>>50211602
Fuck no

>>50211602
top kek they actually want money for that shit

fuck that

>>50211602
I watched a single episode of that tripe. The only way they're getting me to pay for anything is if they castrate Wil Wheaton live on stream.

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>>50211602
>paying for Shill Weaton acting like a braindamaged chimp along with the back attachments to his strap-on collection

>>50211602
>Go to check up that shit show
>They actually had the Fine Brothers on it

Lynch Wil Wheaton, it's the only way.

>>50213864
>Fine Brothers
Aren't those guys con artists? lol

>>50211602

>pay to watch fuckuglyday and a washed up child actor desperately cashing in on what little fame he has play /tg/ related games

Are you high? Why would you even watch this shit in the first place?

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>>50213811
>along with the back attachments to his strap-on collection

>>50211602
When I did watch it, I tuned in for the guests and the game than I did him. So I can't imagine wanting to pay money for what is essentially a celebrity advertisement of a boardgame.

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>>50212543
Hey now he's happily married to Mum-Ra with tits

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>>50211602
>paying to watch any singular internet show
>about people playing D-and-fucking-D no less

I'm hard-pressed to find a worse use for my money, and I started buying GW minis this week.

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I don't really understand the appeal of Wil Wheaton

Didn't he just play a really annoying character in Star Trek?

Why do nerds like him?

>>50211602
I used to. It helped when they brought in minor or even bonafide celebrities or people who are actually amusing.

But it feels like lately, it's just family members, their own network members, or internet/Youtube celebrities who really don't have a whole lot of charisma/comedic timing. So it's gotten super boring and/or annoying.

>>50214105
He's good at marketing himself, on top the novelty of "Hey look, it's that guy who played everyone's least favorite Star Trek character."

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>asking money for that shit
People make higher quality content for free, why the fuck would I pay them for this kind of garbage? Hell, I wouldn't even pay for a higher quality content, because it isn't really all that good.
>inb4 "they put effort into it"
Nigga, recording a game and cutting shit for 10 minutes in sony vegas isn't "effort", it's a hobbie, because those are fucking traditional games. That's like saying that making let's plays for vydia is effort.

>>50211602
No and no.

There's no way in hell I'd pay to watch that shit. It was okay to watch a few episodes to learn about some board games that I could play with my friends and family that aren't fucking Monopoly. Other than that, I would fucking rather not. I have never really liked any of the personalities they have on the show. And I really don't like Felicia Day. She's not enjoyable to watch.

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I find the show good DESPITE that douche, not because of him. He's forgotten he's the punchline for a joke and has gotten to taking himself far too seriously.

>>50211602
I only watched it to see how the games played. As soon as I found other alternatives I stopped. Wil Wheaton is obnoxious as hell.

Reminder that this was a thing https://youtube.com/watch?v=pHckKckhBYc

>>50214018
I'd watch a weekly run with extremely elaborate costumes and set design, and paid actors.

Kinda like a television sho-

Oh.

>>50211602
Never watched it to begin with. I'd ask for opinions and wheter I should consider checking it out, but I know I couldn't bring myself to watch something with Wheaton in it ever if everybody swore that it's the best thing since sliced bread.

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>>50214017
She looks like his mom. Now that's creepy.

Geek and Sundry seem to think that people are coming to their channel for the celebrities (as in Wheaton, Day, Mercer, and the guests they have on) which is why they think it's a good idea to put shit no one cares about behind a paywall. Geek and Sundry's real cash-cow is Critical Role, but they think it's because of the celebrity voice actors on that show that people are watching/listening to it. Also >>50211660 has the right idea. I have an inkling that Mark Hulmes comes here sometimes

>>50211602
No and barely, it's what really helped me and my friends get into boardgames form an mtg background but I know enough about current games and what I enjoy to not really need it anymore. I watched part of the lanterns episode, haven't watched the champions of midgard one.

Really sucks that they put it behind a paywall, and it's really not even their fault. They got bought by a parent company named Legendary that is doing all the bullshit like delaying Tabletop from July to fucking November and putting shit on a fucking subscriber website. People will go for shit like Critical, but the entire point of Tabletop is to showcase celebrities people might know having fun playing boardgames. It's not the best representation of rules or the game itself, but it shows normal or semi-normal people having fun doing shit people would otherwise think was Monopoly or Clue tier bullshit. Putting it behind a paywall is just going to kill the show.

>>50211602
Nah. Shut Up and Sit Down is infinitely better and more useful for my review/advertisement needs.

Not worth paying for.

I don't hate Tabletop. Some episodes were fun, although I couldn't watch any of the episodes where it was obvious some of the celebrity guests had no fucking clue what they were doing. Not even just 'new to games', but 'actively ignored the rules explanation and just fuck up'.

Karen Gillian was really disappointing in that respect. She's a great actress, but fuck was the episode with her in it bloody awful.

Felicia day getting bored and deciding to do cutesy random bullshit rather than actually playing the game is also annoying as fuck whenever it happens, like her whole stupid roleplay with a zombie in a game which contributed to her team fucking losing.

>>50216497
Ah yes, the good old Ghostbusters defence.

If it has a female protagonist in it then any criticism means you're sexist.

>>50211602
>pay to watch people i don't care about play games
Why?

>>50211602
I'll watch the episodes but I'm not going to pay to watch it early. We've already waited for years, do they really think two months will change anything?

>>50214018
They don't play DEEEENDEE

>>50217605
Haha it's terrible. Especially considering all the criticisms toward rogue one (which there are none so far, so wtf wheaton) and TFA are not that the main character is female.

But no, as soon as we say we don't like these movies, that means we are woman hating bigots who are trying to keep the female down in hollywood and support the wage gap.

>>50216898

That is one hot mom though!

>>50217472
>Any tabletop show featuring a woman
>Five seconds in she clings to some stupid NPC
>All of her in-game comments revolve around this like she's overly attached
>DM describes something about the NPC, female whines out " OH NO MR FLUFFLES" and disrupts play because not enough attention

I feel like this is a common thing. Anyone feel the same?

>>50214252
If I ever meet this guy in person, it will be a monumental feat for me to hold back the inevitable
"Shut up, Wesley!" that must come to my lips.

It seems to me that they are trying to recycle an old concept.

When the internet started and shit like this was rare, it was mostly found on pay-sites. But just imagine that the internet didn't occur, this would probably be the next step in VHS-home video rental series, where we as nerds could now not only read about our hobby, but also watch it on video!

>>50218043
It happens a lot in actual play podcasts.

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>>50218054

>>50211602

Wil Wheaton is a cunt. Felicia Day rubs me wrong for some reason, too.

I don't like geek and sundry as a whole, I wish Critical Role would break off and form their own thing.

Am I an enormous casual for liking critical role? Long time lurker, first post on this board.

>>50218946
Nah, people generally like it save for a few people on the show (the guy that played the dragon character for a while for instance)

>>50218970

I liked him while he was there, but I can understand why they gave him the boot, he argued with matt and other players alot about menial things and got real angry pretty often.

Apparently he's doing well now, but I don't keep up with it.

>>50216898
If only we could all look so good at her age

No.

I tried his show before and it was really bad. If I want to watch people play/talk tabletop, there's better choices out there.

>>50216898
I think it's real nice of him to refrain from reproducing.

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>>50216898
Do you think they roleplay Wesley and Beverly Crusher together in bed? I bet they do.

>>50213811
this tee bee haich

I have disowned Wheaton forever for his bringing his politics into gaming.

>>50218374
Good god yes.

>>50218374
It does. Not limited to one channel/group or girl either, it's a universal thing. It fucking pains me every time I try to see a playthrough of something and the token woman has to interrupt the GM to run her stale joke into the ground once more.

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>>50217365
Wait, is Critical Role going behind a paywall aswell?

Don't think so, it's just crap

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>>50211602
Nothing on this planet with Wil Wheaton or Felicia Day in it can ever be good again.

At best Wheaton is an SJW. At worst he is a white-guilt ridden self-hating cuck with oedipus-complex.
Felicia Day is even worse tho since she became a gold-digger and started shitting all over her fans and jumped on the FEMINISM bandwagon to prolong her 10 minutes of fame.

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>>50220630
That's fucking disturbing.

I have no adequate picture to display my feelings so have an insane Spider-Man.

>>50218813
Oh sweet jesus, that's amazing.

I don't know who those two are or what there is to pay for, so probably not

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>>50221719
One played the least popular character in Star Trek as a child actor and acted like a complete little shit behind stage. His only other acting job was as the least popular extra on the Nerd Blackface program. Went Full SJW.

The other is some youtube attention whore and 3rd wave feminist.

They have since set themselves up as the King and Queen of all things Nerd and honestly think they and they alone hold the keys to Nerdom.

I used to watch it back in the day. Every fucking week. Once he outed himself as the pathetic worm of a waste of skin he is I stopped.

I don't understand the fixation with watching other people play games, whether tabletop or vidya.

Like, I get it if it's a a tactical tutorial or something, but I don't get the desire to listen to someone like Markiplier screaming for hours.

It's also really pathetic how people start to think of these internet personalities as actual friends.

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>>50221898
I don't get it either. It holds zero appeal to me to watch other people play board games or RPGs.

>>50221898
Well, tabletop gaming is a collaborative storytelling experience, so I think for most people who follow people who play tabletop games its a matter of watching the kind of cool experience of seeing a collaborative story come to life in real-time.

>>50221849
One of them is hot though.

>>50221898
>>50221921

I guess what I find appealing to others playing vidya is to observe their skill and see a demonstration for a game that I can't buy anymore or am holding off from buying for myself until I see if it is any fun. There are some good let's players out there with actual commentary instead of going "AH FUCK WHAT IS THIS HAHAHAHAHAHA FUCKING KOJIMA" but they are unfortunately the minority.

With tabletop, it really needs to be carried by the players' personalities though. If they are a bunch of retarded memelords that act like spastics, I just go to a different video. If they are doing a consentrated effort to create an interesting story, I shall sit and observe.

After all, TTRPGs are about creating a story and if it's good, I don't need to be playing to get engaged.

>>50221898
>>50221921
I follow Hafu on twitch, she plays Hearthstone. I follow her because I like having her stream in the background because she has a chill voice, is competent, and she doesn't scream and spaz 24/7 like an absolute retard, and Hearthstone is a calm and comfy game. It sucks when she is co-streaming with another streamer that is annoying as shit, like Amaz for instance. I would follow Forsen as well, if it wasn't for the cancer.

>>50221849
Sounds like a good enough reason to keep ignoring them

>>50221898
I do it so I can learn how different systems play by watching people play them.

Except it seems most groups homebrew things heavily or just flat-out ignore the rules when they feel like it, so that's an exercise in frustration 9 times out of 10.

>>50221898
It's basically TV to me, but that's with vidya games

>>50221898
I like video games and tabletop games but I don't like playing them so I just engage the hobbies vicariously.

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>>50212543
he would just jerk it to other guys doing her.

>>50211602
PEOPLE PAY MONEY TO WATCH OTHER PEOPLE PLAY TABLETOP GAMES.
IM SORRY BUT WHAT?

>>50222184
Some people find amusement watching millionaires throw a handegg up and down a field, some people find amusement watching other play gaems.

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>>50222224
I don't enjoy watching sports either, it's really pointless.

Nice quints.

>>50222255
The point is people find some things amusing that you don't.
It's a single though.

>>50211602

Fuck naw. TT was okay and something for the background for s1 but then s2 rolls around, Wil's more of a dick and then he throws some production guy under the bus because they weren't always playing with the rules.

Who fucking cares? Nobody wants rules lawyers half of the time because it's supposed to be with friends. All this does is make me not want to watch the show and with it going pay2watch it's like 'hey thanks for making my decision for me!'

Also, the fact that Wil can be a real prick about losing angers me. Like it's not even just salt, it's fucking near-tantrums. S1 had this but S2 really amped up the 'wil's not only bad at games he's bad at losing them.'

>>50211660
is kim still a part of that? can't stand her or duncan

Literally what?

It has Felicia Day in it so it must be garbage.

Let me guess, it's about a bunch of people playing fake D&D and being oh so wacky, with occasional relationship stuff thrown in?

wait wait, this is subscription only now?

>>50222565
>>"You're walking on a road when suddenly two orcs appear from the bushes. They don't look overly hostile, but still have their hands resting on the handles of their weapons."
>>"Uh...I uh..."
>>Checks character sheet for five minutes.
>>"Uh..um I no, wait."
>>DM tries to maintain a straight face but you can see how painfully awkward this is because the girl didn't bother looking up rules, actions, etc.
>>"I throw my knife at him!"
>>Que forced laughter from white knight orbiters for five minutes.

>>50211660
I've never actually watched HighRollers, but Mark is a really cool friend, so yeah go watch him.

>>50221958
>Camelface
>hot

U w0t m8?
Also she gets plowed by some old rich guy for money.

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>>50222113

They did some writing for Mass Effect 1's planetary descriptions if memory serves.

Here's an old article of theirs regarding women in tabletop from around 2004?

>>50222315
>Also, the fact that Wil can be a real prick about losing angers me. Like it's not even just salt, it's fucking near-tantrums. S1 had this but S2 really amped up the 'wil's not only bad at games he's bad at losing them.'
Do you know any example episodes where this happens? Those are the only ones I would enjoy watching.

>>50220915
Develop your hypothesis

>>50223088
I too would like this. A few webms with him losing his shit would be great.

>>50222687
Does she really? Last time I checked she was making couple grand a week just attention whoring herself via various channels.

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>>50213767
>>50213968
>>50214192
>>50216378
>>50216497
>>50217365
>>50217472
>>50217660
>>50221865
>Acknowledging Wil Wheton
>PAYING to be subjected to him
I wish I could say I was surprised, /tg/

>>50223088
>>50223320
I'll third that. I hate the little fucker and his ilk.

>>50211602
No, and yes. I'll keep watching whatever's free, but I see no reason to pay for what are basically fancy game reviews.

>>50223406
Honest question, I really do wonder this and will accept whatever answer I'm given: How do you stand anything with Wil Wheton in it? He just comes off so smug and off-putting to me. I knew guys who acted like him in college and everybody just avoided them like they had lice.

>>50223361
You do NOT need to be pretty to be successful (as a woman) at that.

>>50221898
I don't understand the fixation with watching poor people compete against each other to move balls around on television.

Like, I get if it's an exercise tutorial or something, but I don't get the desire to watch someone like Jackmerius Tacktheritrix throw a brown egg across a field for hours.

It's also really pathetic how people start to think of themselves as members of those teams.

>>50221898
There's only a few things I'll watch playing.

For board games, it's when I get a new game and the rules aren't teaching me how it works. I'll watch a few different videos of different groups of people playing the game to try and figure out an interpretation of the rules that would work for the people I'm going to be playing the game with. For example, I couldn't figure out Roll for the Future from the written rules. So, I watched a few videos of people playing and it was a lot easier to grasp.

For vidya, I'll watch Game Grumps in the background, but that's because I would listen to Arin and Dan talk about basically anything. There's a few other channels I'll watch because they're genuinely informative about games that I'm interested in. I think that Chuggaaconroy is a good example of that. He's a fun personality to watch, but I'm actually really impressed by how dedicated to imparting information about the games he's playing. I won't watch all his content, just the games that I'm interested in.

>>50222544
>is kim still a part of that?
Yep. Her role-play has improved slightly shame Jiutóu is a boring character now.
She even hosted two "horror" one-shots.
They weren't very good.

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>>50222933
>mfw reading through that

Oh hey its the old "THE REASON MORE WOMYN ARENT PLAYING TABLETOP IS BECAUSE YOU ARENT TREATING THEM LIKE THE SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES THEY ARE!"-Shit.

The sense of entitlement it takes to fucking say "You have to change the game for women to join" instead of "Adapt yourself to the rest of the game like all other players" is beyond rage-inducing.

>>50211660
If you want non-DnD stuff you could watch some of the Rollplay shows on itmeJP's channel, I'd recommend Mirrorshades, Swan Song until Piani crosses dimensions or turns into crystal or whatever the fuck happened & Dark Heresy. West Marches is kind of a mised bag due to the constantly swapping PCs, and I'm sick of D&D/PbtA so most of the newer shows are kinda crappy to me.

>>50224167
Silly anon, women can't be entitled. Especially middle class White women. Don't be racist.

>>50211602
Why? When I want to watch people play table top, I'll just go watch Acquisitions Incorporated. It's free, they make asses of themselves, and it's currently 100% Wheaton-free.

>>50220630
Holy shit that's creepy. I never noticed that.

>>50222933
>not playing a female character is wrong
>playing a strong female archetype, ala amazons, is wrong
... I'm not gonna play a cripple or some fat trigglepuff, you poofs. It's a fantasy, I want to imagine and play cool shit.

>>50224418
A genderfluid, otherkin trigglypuff with a slew of mental health issues is cool, you cis-scum!

>>50224463
I am not playing an tumblr shoggoth, damnit.

>>50222933
>13 pages of absolute swill
I'm so mad I didn't go into gender studies. Literally anyone can write this tripe.

>>50222113
>I wish games had a fast-forward button
Too bad the only game that lets you watch it like a movie is also massively anti-feminist.

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>>50224553
Here, read this. It's way more interesting.

>>50220630
Nigga they don't even look that similar besides the hair colour. Totally different eyes, mouth, cheeks...

>>50224653
>that fucking abstract
>24 pages
No thank you. Is this what passes for academic writing? Why do you have this?

>>50211602
I would rather kill myself

>>50224692
Chin, jaw shape, brows protrusion, brow spacing, nose shape and forehead dimensions look near identical.

Oddly I didn't even notice the hair until you pointed it out.

>>50224701
>Why do you have this?
I collect things like that. Odd manuals, outdated publications, and other things of that nature. I grabbed that one not too long ago.

>>50224353
>AI

Pigbald are just too spergy for me, man. How do you do it? Looking at Gabe's fucked up face is really distracting for me, and that's not even getting into the general cringiness.

>>50224553
Any qualification you achieved on such a course would be worthless.

>>50224740
I watch it for the cringe.

>>50224737
I read about 6 or 7 pages in, and it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but man that was physically painful to read. You have a neat hobby anon.

>>50224742
>this guy who just doesn't get it
Money anon. You write that garbage to make money with your fake degree in bullshit.

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>>50224758
>Money anon. You write that garbage to make money with your fake degree in bullshit.

Are you being serious or is this part of a Ruse Cruise you are trying to send me on?

>>50224787
You now realize that people are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to publish "gender studies" textbooks filled with literally nothing, and that gender studies is one of very few liberal arts fields people care about, because sjw bitch so much about gender and identity that corporations need to employ people specifically to incorporate their values in order to shut them up.

>>50224353
>endorsing PigBald

Kill yourself

>>50211602
> Are you going to pay?
No

> Do you even watch it anymore?
Not reaaaaly.

Honestly, W.W. is not the problem in the videos. The problem my wife and I had is that we watched the videos as a kind of preview/review of board games -- we've bought several that were featured there (of which Tsuro was by far the best as it's a great party-starter and good for icebreaking non-boardgamer types.

Then there was there was this long string of videos with squeaky-voiced, no-skill, bubbly-valley-girl bitches sitting at the table, and the videos would focus on them and their antics so much it made it a) impossible to follow the fucking game and b) just generally goddamn infuriating. I'm not just saying that because I have a penis; my wife thought so too even though her "background noise" videos of choice are squeaky-voiced bubbly-girls explaining how to make fancy arts & crafts. So we kinda got turned off even though I still have the channel in my feed, and my wife watched the hell out of The Guild. But we won't be looking forward weekday Tabletop episodes the way we used to.

It's got pretty good production values, so I can understand why they might want to paywall it but I think that defeats the point. If you're not watching it to see the board game out of consideration for picking it up, then why the fuck are you watching it, and why would you pay for a preview of a board game?

>>50224835
That's some Naked Lunch alternate history bullshit right there. I'm pretty impressed, maybe I'll take up this hobby as well. Thanks anon, have a good one!

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>>50224813
What the fuck went wrong?

>>50224728
The brows are totally different. And Bev's got a squarish forehead & kinda a manjaw going on. Wil's Wife even has a wider nose with a bigger tip.

I'll give you brow spacing.

>>50224758
Some of us have these things called "personal ethics" and "integrity".

Some things aren't worth doing just for the money.

>>50224881
It's called being a con artist.

>>50224915
Sounds like an unnecessary consideration between you and being happy. Have you tried nihilism? It's not just for edgy teens!

>>50224915
>implying that granscian amelioration of feminists into larger. less retarded, ideological systems isn't something that an ethical person would do
Pragmatic people make due with what they have, idealists bitch that things are slightly different than what they want, then throw their hands in the air and do nothing.

>>50224701
The more hilarious thing is that the author inserted actual quotes and then credited them with 'Anonymous' without a hint of irony.

It just goes to show exactly how little they understand anonymous culture.

>>50224950
>>50224958
I bet you suck dicks behind your LGS

>>50225001
Nah, but I would if you paid me enough.

People who say money doesn't buy happiness are either uncreative or don't have enough money.

>>50211602
no and no

>>50224881
Society.

Nuke it all, we need to start again because we fucked up somewhere along the line, or more accurately, everywhere along the line, and now this trainwreck can't be salvaged.

>>50225001
>posts pseudo-intellectual nonsense about integrity and ethics without understanding how either concept works
>"Hmm, maybe if I call people I disagree with gay on the internet, it will all go away."
Like I said, idealists are just people too stupid to enact change, but pretentious enough to bitch about why things aren't the way they like. You proved my point very well.

>>50223504
Eh, people exaggerate his traits. He's a little smug, and has a habit of sulking when he loses, but he's not nearly as bad as people act. It's just popular to hate on anything popular these days, plus Wil has some personal views that a lot of the 4chan crowd doesn't like.

But this is /tg/, where we hate everything and everything is shit, so everybody acts like he's the anti-Christ come to kick over their sandcastle or something.

>>50225013
Money can't buy happiness.
But it can make unhappiness a lot more enjoyable.

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>>50225029
Okay, so he's 'A bit' of a tosser. Why would I pay to watch him. Explain it to me.

>>50211602
Nope.

I don't HATE it, I just don't find it that funny.

I thought Harmonquest was worth a watch, mainly because of pic related.

>>50225033
This is actually not just a meme. As someone who never felt right with more organized systems of belief, discovering actual nihilism came as a huge relief.

Of course, I can't really take credit for it, considering that we don't have free will :^)

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>>50225072
Forgot pic like a faggot

>>50225054
I never advocated paying to watch him, and I'm certainly not going to. All I'm saying is that I don't mind watching his show for free (I've been turned on to a lot of cool games through it, after all), and that he's not nearly as bad as the tantrum-throwers around here like to pretend, it's just the usual /tg/ over-exaggerated hate showing through.

>>50211602
I thought I'd give Will a chance after hearing him on the Penny Arcade stuff some years prior.

I even got his signature on an Aeofel sketch I did. I was happy. For a time.

Then he started getting full SJW, making fun of soem gamers, couldn't take a fucking joke with Scott Kurtz and left like a whimpering bitch.

I plan on lighting that sketch on fire some day.

Oh and Felicia Day has always been an attention whore who seemed very disingenuous, so I try not to support her. So Geek and Sundry is a dead to me.

>>50225113
If you do set the sketch on fire, make sure that you take a picture and tweet it at him. That should be amusing.

>>50225089
He was the best part about it but still I kind of lost interest, even if I came to like Harmons wife over time the guests were way too hit or miss,.

So is Critical Role worth a watch or what?

>>50224277

Balance of Power is also really nice, though I don't much care for JP's murderhoboing.

>>50225468
It's pretty good. There's a bajillion hours, so clear your schedule if you want to get caught up.

>>50225468
I'm ambivalent. there are flashes of brilliance, but half the players annoy me to the point where I end up skipping through sections. the gimmick that they're all voice actors is diminished slightly by the fact that all but one of them play 1 character each, and most of them have chosen a really bland fake english accent for their characters.
but there's still some neat stuff, mercer's enthusiasm is pretty infectious, and all of them are really quick/improv trained, so for a largely unedited show it's impressive how often funny things happen

in terms of GM/player tips it's not much use either, since these people are emotionally mature and know/trust each other so much that another group is unlikely to have the same dynamic where a lot of shit can slide and other weird shit can get attention (sometimes literally)

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So, because there's talk about Critical Role and G&S: I love to watch CR, but cannot abide giving any support to Felicia "self-proclaimed queen of nerds who crosses the street to avoid gamers" Day and Wil "i misrepresented a teenager's suicide to try to convince people to end online anonymity" Wheaton. This has caused some conflicts.

Does anyone know of a way to get the VoD of a twitch stream without having a subscription to a channel?

>>50225028
Unlike you, who's far too clever to believe in anything right?

>>50211602
I really enjoy it but this is the first I'm hearing of paying to see it. I guess they're taking it off youtube then? I'm sure it'll pop up somewhere for free.

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>>50213811
>the back attachments to his strap-on collection

>>50211602
Is that a tranny on the left? That jawline is masculine as fuck.

>>50226087
>Is that a tranny on the left
Jury's out.

Google shills for Wheaton.

>>50221849
Nigga he was also in Stand By Me.

People are still gonna pay for it, thats the worst part

>>50226259
If people want to waste their money, that's their right. But when it comes to SJW pandering it's not a lot of money.

Matt Mercer is a pretty cool guy
eh dms well and doesnt afraid of anything

>>50226281
Its the same kind of people who pay camwhores

>>50226288
His characterization is fantastic. Which I guess is to be expected, but still otherwise refreshing.

Scanlan best pc.

>>50224641
what game is that?

>>50226360
Honestly Vax,Scanlan and Grog are three way tie for me

>>50226437
>Vax
he doesn't make you want to commit violence on your computer screen?
maybe I'm missing something. scanlan/grog/matt are the only reasons I watch though, they're miles ahead of everyone else in my opinion

>>50226460
I feel the same, I used to like Percy but hes gotten terrible recently. Keyleth is by far the worst though.

>>50211602
>Are any of you going to pay the subscription fee for Tabletop?
What subscription?

>Do you even watch it anymore?
I tried to, but Will has been more obnoxious than usual this season.

>>50225885
Just wait half a week and it goes on youtube accessible from the G&S website. If you're so heavily opposed to giving them any support then using any ad-block on youtube will prevent them getting any ad revenue and will technically cost them money because you're using bandwidth on the website.

But honestly I'm really not a fan of the idea of being opposed to a person tangentially involved in a production (or even directly involved) means you refuse to support the production. Any possible form of produced media will have SOMEONE involved you think is an utter dicknugget, it's just the way it is. And if absolutely everyone ever involved in it is a person you morally oppose, even then I dislike the idea of boycotting payment of a form of media you enjoy.

>>50216497
>As soon as I found other alternatives I stopped.
What are the good alternatives? I watch Watch it Played, and I'm not a fan of Rahdo. Are there any good ones?

>>50211602
That's a stupid fucking question. Of course nobody from /tg/ is going to pay for it, or at least admit to it.

I think the fact that they even feel the need to ask for subscribers points to some ridiculous mismanagement somewhere in the production. The latest episode has more than 300,000 views in four days. Those numbers should add up to decent ad revenue. For comparison, a middling Major League Baseball team might average 80,000 viewers for prime time games, and most MLB teams pay three or more broadcasters plus all the video and sound engineers needed for a live broadcast, plus several camera operators.

On top of that, every episode is effectively a ~40-minute infomercial for a product available for sale. If they aren't getting sponsorship money from either game companies or distributors, that's fucking stupid.

>>50226288
Oh, so he's the DM? That's why sperglords were ruining the voice actor signage line for Heroes of the Storm flipping through their players handbooks with him.

8 voice actors, and everyone has to tell their goddamn life story to every actor, meaning a lot of waited two hours to get cut off. I also blame Steve Blum, because fuck that guy.

Yeah, I'm salty about it.

>>50226541
Keyleth is over-emotional shit. It's like she's stuck on her time of the month. Or maybe half elves just have longer periods and she's role playing the shit out of it.

Y'all should all get onto Dice, Camera, Action to avoid all of this bullshit.

>>50226944
She engages in exactly the kind of tedious scenery chewing you'd expect someone with acting training not to

>>50221215
I believe on Tuesdays they're going to have a Talking Dead-style show on Alpha, but Critical Role itself will never be pay-to-watch. Matt would never allow shit like that.

>>50221849
I actually know Wil specifically from Acquisitions, Inc., where he was an occasionally funny, but progressively annoying twat until he left.

>>50211602
>subscribing to kike and sundry

no thank you

>>50227143
What happened?

>>50227176
Why did he leave? Him and Scott Kurtz had a falling on. Supposedly Scott was mean to one of Wil's friends and Wil got his twat in a bundle over it.

In a recent game, Perkins revealed an NPC that stabbed them in the back was Wil's old character (the fact they didn't see it coming was pretty sad). After this, you could see Scott looking around and was kinda' misty-eyed, like he was nervous that Wil was actually there, so I guess whatever falling out they had was genuine.

But honestly, you could tell they all found him pretty annoying, even if all but Scott maintains good relations with him.

>>50224701
It's academic feminism, pick a topic then explain in as many words as possible how women are the victim of it.

>>50221898
its better than most things on TV these days

>>50227201
That's pretty sad. Imagine his personality.
Wil trying to defend his friend was good though, but he should've let the others sort it out.

>>50227176
Not that guy, but from Will's essay, he got his feelings hurt by Scott.

Apparently jokes were off limits to a pro actor unless it's his fucking show.

>>50227261
What an utter tool.

>>50211602
Nah, I'll wait til January. It's a very good show and I've been waiting for it for quite some time, I can wait some more.

Smart move on showing 2 episodes first though, ignite desire for more asap hnghhh fuck you wil

>>50226963
Sell me on it, anon.

>>50225030
name me a problem enough money can't solve.

>>50227494
micropenis

>>50227494
travel the world until you find a woman with a small penis fetish. Or invest bajillions into penis-enlargement technology.

Next.

>>50227566
Being crushed both physically and emotionally under your own money.

>>50227566
the us election :^)

>>50226409
Metroid - Other M

>>50227494
Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Terminal stage cancer.
Angela Merkel.

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>>50211602
no. Wil is human trash. i wonder what else he's going to hide behind that paywall though...

ps: huh. even the same pillows.

>>50227891
I....what? That's fucking hilarious! Shared stage / rented coop space?

>>50225451
Harmon himself was the weak link for me. I enjoyed the neckbeardyness of the DM. But yeah the guests were seriously hit and miss. I love the Fillion but he wasn't funny in it at all. And the episode with whats her face from Parks and Recreation was fucking awful.

>Everything bores me thats the joke and I run it into the fucking ground in everything bit of comedy I do

But overall I enjoyed it, I loved the cliffhanger. Dump Harmon and make it Boneweevilquest.

>>50228060
i dont know man. all i know is which of the productions includes more massive cunts.

>>50227891
So after, that bulge, that pool, and that gay blowjob.
We have apparently reached the point of
>Hey, I recognize that sofa.

>>50225028
Pretty mouthy for a whore.

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>>50227891
That is amusing.

>>50226667
I like BGG's game night and the dice tower.

>>50225033
That's Absurdism, anon.

>>50228513
Dicetower rarely do playthroughs. I've checked out some Game night and it's okay. I might watch it more if it was its own channel, but since it's part of BGGTV it's hard to watch without filling my feed with crap or remembering to search for it all the time.

>>50227494
entropy

>>50226724

Also, Youtube Red; no doubt they've gotten good money from that with their sub count + red pays for longer content more, too.

It's gotta be either mismanagement or a failure on Wil's part.

>>50228513
I do really like game night as long as it's the core group. their alternate people are really hit or miss

>>50228588
and I agree, that's the biggest problem with game night. I have to remember to check for new episodes every few weeks

>>50218981
He said making critical role fanfiction.
No really, Draconian Knights is an audio drama featuring his PC Tiberius Stormwind, except since it's scripted he has complete control. Fanfiction because Tiberius got murked and his entire civilization got blown the fuck out offscreen by an ancient white dragon

>>50227494
death.

aging.

>>50221898
With let's plays, its about the commentary. I never watch solo LPs because who wants to hear one guy trying to be funny/interesting who clearly isn't?

>>50228815

I'm both sad and glad that draconia got BTFO off-screen as opposed to on-screen

Not seeing the disaster directly, just bits and pieces, really makes the area you explore that much more interesting and spooky.

I wish matt would kinda commission concept art for the locations, though. would be awesome.

Would anyone else think after a few years critical role would make a good (albeit poorly paced) TV show? The story is actually really interesting, and we'd see more of their past pre-stream.

>>50211602
i hope wil has a stroke and dies slowly

>>50227115
Considering they approached him to put an already-existing campaign on camera, he could literally take his ball and go home, and he'd lose nothing. Then he'd restart i on his own because he loves charity

>>50221898

I watch a minecraft let's-player despite rarely playing minecraft now, because when I was playing he was creating groundbreaking redstone machines and putting out really original ideas regularly and it felt really fun to push the limits of the game like he did

Now he builds houses and chooses color palates for 90% of his episodes, redstone contraptions and games and shit have fallen by the wayside in favor of catering to a crowd of interior decorators, for some reason

>>50227891
Wait is that the robot girl I wanted o stick my dick into for years

>>50228948
Sethbling makes minecraft houses now? or is this someone else?

>>50228974

sethbling makes nothing now, that channel is dead as fuck

it's someone more autistic

too ashamed to say.

>>50228902
Wil Wheaton is 44 years old.

I hope he lives to the ripe old age of 85, because you know that he's never going to stop doing exactly what he's doing right now, and it's only going to get more embarrassing for him with each passing year. How do you think "I was a child star in the late eighties who grew up to be an arrogant prick" is going to play in the 2030s?

>>50228588
>>50228772
yup, I concur about the guest players. also I usually just head for the game night season playlists on BGG to skip all the other garbage.

dice tower gaming marathons have moments of sheer hilarity, but you're right, it's not playthroughs by and large. still, I find their top 10 lists entertaining and informative.

>>50228891
I'm waiting for Tiberius to return as a lich. Mercer is pure evil, he'd totally do it
>they don't recognize him
>so he introduces himself
Fuuuuiuxk I want it

>>50228999
Don't get me wrong, I like the Dicetower, I was just saying they aren't really what I was looking for.

>>50229003

I don't think you can be reanimated as a lich if you actually die

You have to die in a lichdom ceremony, don't you?

But you make a good point, a lich with a lair in Vorugol's roost would make a good challenge, and if it were him it'd be a pretty big plot twist. I don't see it happening though, because by the time Thordak is defeated, they'll be around level 18, and a 6 person party with DMPC's (basically fighting NPC's that are nearly as strong as the players)

and that's when shit gets crazy for those who haven't multiclassed

level 9 spells, endgame abilities, a six person party vs a lich would be child's play, even if it was an old friend. Matt could soup him up, maybe make him a vessel for Orcus, but why not just fight Orcus directly in the nine hells or his pocket dimension or wherever at that point?

>>50225885
Until a few months ago, i was able to use this sketchy site that bypassed any need to login, it would scoop out the video portions behind the scenes, and then i'd recombine them. Sadly, they altered something on twitches end, so the site, which hadn't been updated or touched in years, doesn't work now.
http://videotools.12pings.net/#!form/getvideo
If your curious.

>>50229003
He'd already have to have been a Lich when it happened, so he'd be recuperating via phylactery. Which is possible, it's not like they tried to raise him, or communed with him any way.

>>50221215
>>50227115
I opened this thread to find the answer to this question.

Thank you, lads.

>>50228145
>not liking Hawaiian Coffee
Aubrey Plaza was one of the few guests who was clearly enjoying the stupidity of it all the whole way through. She comes across like when your little sister wanted to play and you had to let her, and she just did stupid stuff but it was all right because aside from fucking over the rogue she didn't do much wrong.

But yeah. Harmon was the weakest link because his story wasn't really interesting and he himself wasn't really funny. Boneweevil was fucking great because his player clearly liked playing and was doing his own thing.

Favorite guest would be either the Bard, due to the dead babies, or the Kobold just because he was a huge dick. Dildo was adequate, Hon Jodgeman was watchable. Sword-lady was fun only because of how awkward the DM was with her.

Black Pirate Captain was easily the worst because he got maybe two lines throughout the whole episode. No real chance to do anything.

>>50224653

>Introduction: the adoption of 'cumdumpster'

I fucking kek'd. Something about the placement of this immediately after that excessively verbose academic wankery is hilarious.

>>50227891

Someone please send this to him on Twitter. I hope it makes him mildly uncomfortable.

>>50227891
>Being so arrogant you own a version of The Last Supper with yourself as Jesus

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>>50230519
Holy shit, I never even noticed that. Great catch.
...You think Trump has one?
You think he plans on putting it in the White House?

>>50227407

Not that anon but it's a Curse of Strahd D&D5e game run by Chris Perkins for Commande Holly, Natewantstobattle, Anna Prosser, and ProJared which they play using webcams and stream live over twitch.

I've been enjoying it so far. Because it's played online over voice and webcams, it's a good show to listen to while doing other stuff, as it relies heavily on theatre of the mind. Plus you can't go wrong with Ravenloft. Perkins does a good job with the gothic horror theme.

As far as the players go, some of them can be a bit hit-and-miss but overall the party is interesting.

>>50227635
put your money into a bank, buy world's best therapist

>>50227810
buy a new country

>>50227859
offer 50 gorillion dollars to whomever can solve this.
same as above
not sure what the going rate for assassinations is, but it's less than infinity money.

>>50230766
Not being born in the year 1206.

>>50227407
I like it. The players have good dynamics and banter. I think the earlier sessions were stronger, mostly because they were dealing with creepy townsfolk problems, and now they're mostly dealing with upper tier stuff.

Holly is playing a Tiefling from Sigil who is a filthy trash-throwing warlock. Nate plays an alcoholic bard who has ties to the main plot. Jared plays a knife rogue who has a good arc and is sort of a lovable dickass. Anna is playing what is essentially a Southern Baptist Paladin of Lathander who is the Team Mom and tends to get on Holly's characters nerves in a Mom/Edgy Teenager way.

Perkins is the GM, he's solid.

Guest characters include a Were-raven, Van Richten's peg-legged Vistani Apprentice, a carny girl with huge muscles who is into the Paladin, and a Vistani girl from a violent group. They're pretty hit or miss but they all have their moments.

I'd say my favor part has to be how the group reacted to Perkins after he was at PAX. They chide him for giving the Acquisitions Inc people all sorts of bullshit "yeah you can OF COURSE roll for that" stuff while they're in grimdark crapsack land. Its all in good fun and kind of funny to watch a GM get called out for playing favorites on groups.

I listen to them in the background. Good hiking podcast material. Helped me get use to Holly's voice, she's a very chill lets player and her stuff is pretty good ambient background conversation.

>>50211602

Nah, fuck Legendary Digital Networks. It's entirely their fault, not Felicia or Wil or anyone else who doesn't own it anymore.

>>50227494
Being a President

>>50228994
Is it Sjin or some shit.

>>50230619
I like ProJared, regardless of what people say about his content. Sure he may be discount JonTron and his pen and paper knowledge is pretty weak. But he genuinely seems like a nice and funny guy, and his passion for D&D makes up for his shortcomings roleplaying.

>>50221663
>insane Spider-Man
wat?

>>50227494
not being in love
not having friends
not being happy

>>50231872
It's a picture of Spider-Man and he is acting insane, obviously.

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>>50227032
Maybe that's why she barely is in anything?

I mean, she's the only (current) player without even a wikipedia page?

Just saiyan.

Nah, I'm an avid fan of Beer & Board Games and trying to watch Tabletop or god forbid even that Gamegrumps but with traditional games shit makes me slightly die inside, they just seem really fake and like they're not having much fun most of the times.

>>50231961
Is Scanlan or Percy in anything because they seem literal who's

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>>50228938
Then he'd restart it on his own because he loves charity
>>50227115
>Matt would never allow shit like that

How can one man be so based?

>>50231969
Taliesin is in barely anything, but Sam is actually in a lot of stuff, especially anime and vidya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Riegel

>>50231880
Money can solve the first two of those

Notch proves it cannot solve the last though

>>50230617
He got elected on the platform of being a confident self aggrandizing guy who will talk mad shit about people and gives no fucks. Far as I'm concerned, that's the go ahead on putting your face on as many things as you can get away with.

I used to watch this, it was a good show, but that was before I knew how much of a cunt sjw Wheaton and Felicia are, so they can go fuck themselves

>>50214105
Me either honestly, he strikes me as an asshat from what I've seen and heard about him.

>>50211602
>Do you even watch it anymore?
>anymore
>implying anyone who regularly browses /tg/ is dumb enough to watch that shitshow

I mean, I don't want to go "NORMIES REEEE" and all that, but actual hardcore tabletop gamers has never been that show's audience.

>>50214105
>Why do nerds like him?
Nerds don't like him. Facebook "nerds" do.

>>50220630
>>50221663
>>50224382
>>50224692
How is this creepy? They weren't actually related in any way, it's like having a crush on an older coworker. I really don't get you all sometimes.

Are thee any good shows about people playing board games that aren't RPGs.

>>50223379
Nobody stated any intent of paying for their service.
People only acknowledge Wil in the sense that they watch his show. Nobody hear is

>>50221958
Neither are hot. Wil hides his lack of jaw and chin behind his beard and felicia looks like a camel. Both have very pasty skinny fat bodies.

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>>50218813

>questionablecontent artist drew fanart
>he uses it as his twitter pic

Nigga what

>>50227407
The other anons are doing an excellent job. I'll just link you to their Youtubes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfS8QgUdeGYo8F3RPUQ2Wsi2mZLPcaU6X

>>50232596
Probably the only piece of fanart he's ever gotten.

>>50220630
>>50216898
Does someone remember exactly what the Buzz Lightyear story was? I remember it was something to do with the first night Wil and his future wife spent together, and he was more excited about a stuffed Buzz Lightyear than about her.

>>50223088
Fourth'd

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>>50224653
this shit is bullshit. not to say the opposite narrative is true either but 4chan IS full of people seeking narcisistic and self agrandizing systems. It's just not done in the typical way. instead, people build up their own group, which agrandizes them by proxy. and are specially prone to over buy on their groups cohesiveness, because anonymity replaces a persons ability to discern if the opinions they share with a person they are posting with that they are commending are in conflict on some other issue, creating the confirmation bias and presumption that anything you don't like or hate is from some other group, either new fags, autists, or whatever else, but certainly not your clandestine and rightful in group.

add onto this the fact that anonymous culture assumes male gender and a number of references to identity by default and it becomes clear that the anger and trolling is not in any way only used as a method to ostricise non conformists nor solely to degrade women or autists or whoever else. It instead represents the base sexism and other bigotrys that pervade human behavior as a habitual communal experiance. You see this shit all the time in school, seniors get the right to cut in line, people brutally haze others just for being new. No one person would ever call these things good in most circumstances, and yet its hard to catch anyone whos not playing that game. We don't talk about the growing rise of opression of freshmen along side misogyny because we understand that descrimination against others for specifically their age is not at work here, instead its a rationalization to obtain something, weather convinience or the right to hurt and put yourself above others, two very powerful human instincts. human victimization is also a powerful desire, everyone wants to paint themselves as the martryr or sufferer of others. <c>

>>50234216
People bitch about feminists now but honestly given how tired people are of racial and feminist issues you'd think they would be surprised to hear that in a few decades people will be fed up with whites playing victim as well, and you can go down into any shade you want, weather its politics of republitards and demacucks, or the fags who like the wrong waifu or football team.

4chans bigotry is real in the sense that it is malicious and not just a social tool, and there are probably people who believe it. but by far it exists the way it does because social pressure causes it. 4chans economy is based on being offensive as we know. that will draw people with maybe a bit of an axe to grind and a bit of a bigoted attitude and dial it up to 11, but the more important thing is that these few and nearly blameless seeds can grow into soil that is completely blameless and still result in the reputation for misogyny we see today. This is as simple as the habit of a group of kids deciding to pick on one kid becuase a more popular kid shows up. This is the kind of unconscious discrimination that happens all the time, someone with less social standing is ridiculed to show loyalty and gain favor of the newer popular kid. Only as 4chan works in groups, whats being appealed to in this sense as the authority is not any individual person but a target group or community as a whole (depending on the person and the issue being demonized, example, misogynistic targeting will be more widespread than people who will demonize say, 4th edition D&D.).

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>>50234464
Even if they gain no personal popularity through these acts, it's irrelevant. What is being aggrandized is their opinions, and their side, and their emotions. The participant in this bigotry gets all these things, they get the approval of their peers, which because of the aformentioned anonymity, are all extremely valued since they appear to them homoginous. they get the vindication that they belong to such a group in the first place, since the extra appearance of coheasiveness to your own world view despite it being nearly completely untrue makes it very enticing to want to belong. And they get the sense that they are right, which even if it doesn't directly increase their personal prestige due to anonymity, works anyway in the same way leveling up a character emulates the joy of improving at a task or ability. The fantasy for that last one has replaced the reality.

If you combine these factors with the unconcious sexism of making the in group entirely male (rather than genderless as truer anonymity would require) it becomes obvious that 4chan is bigoted as a behavioral habit that is self sustaining because we are willing more than we want to realize to sell out our morals for the metaphysical pat on the head. All of us. I'm not exempt any more than you are. 4chan is a recreational activity and represents our greater baser wants. To say feminist radicals are on target with real hatred of women would be laughably off target, ostensibly all of you have mothers or relatives or other relations that are women, women whom you don't hate. even if outliers exist, the majority will take that situation.

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>>50234477
This is classic in group behavior. Your family and friends (including women) are part of your in group as males are part of your in group (excluding males who are obviously not part of your in group due to diverging from your values or methods in some way). This obvious "unconscious" bigotry is made clear when you factor in the identifying factors listed in the full paper. these are terms that seperate individuals from you, the base person looking out. Rather than acknowledge that white people commit crimes for someone who is accused of being racist, they are instead filtering out these white criminals that they do not condone through different lenses. It's not, for example, 'white people stealing everyones shit' its 'politicians'. This, before you roll off a bridge in autism anger, is 100% applicable to the reverse, which is why there are so many radical sjws, feminists, black rights groups, etc. All of this shit is normal human behavior. Your in group is your in group, and you define what is your in group most of the time by who isn't in your in group, no need to pay attention to similarities when you are looking for differences. While all of the aformentioned groups can seem incredibly hostile the simple solution for 4chan being as even more hostile as it is is then made clear; 4chan is a website that fascilitates the in group in a more pervasive and agressive way, and that fascilitation results in more biggoted behavior as a natural result.

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>>50234503
This doesn't make 4chan bad or even flawed, but it does represent an obvious blind spot most humans have to their own behavior habits. Like most creations, criticism lobbed at it tends to be worthless as most problems with an organization or group can be reduced down occums razor style to one fact; they are run by people and people are flawed. Most other analysises of a particular group being especially bad is simply a lack of examination for environmental differences, rather than anything having changed with the people or their values.

Take modern feminism. What has changed? communication through the internet to help connect and organize people who might not have had any social confirmation of their views. The same could be said about other bigotry like racism and sexism. External factors are incredibly complicated (at least when you talk science) and involve giving the out group the benefit of the doubt. It's no wonder that they are often ignored for the instant gratification of demonization and trolling.

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>>50234526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
This little video is a nice post script to this blog post review of mine to the study. It deals with the most obvious target for hatred; political figures.

>>50218813
Captain, we have breaches on Anon's port and starboard!

We don't need to have these threads anymore. They always go the same way.

>"Hey, /tg/, does anyone like Wil Wheaton?
>unanimous "no"

Don't force them to make it a sticky.

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>>50211671
Amen!

>>50230619
>Natewantstobattle
Great, now I'm afraid to watch it and find out that he sucks. I like his music too much for that.

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>>50221849
Doesn't Wil Wheaton appear on Big Bang Theory sometimes as Bazingaman's arch nemesis? I guess that could be counted as him trying to be the King of Nerds though since he plays himself.

>>50225510
That series got me into that system, though I've kinda peetered out on that due to the light-party having a minimal grasp on the rules and Pokket'
s stupid punchable face.
>>50231016
Not him, but I do sometimes watch his videos. Honestly, I think the background guests are honestly more entertaining than the the main guys because at this point they've all just become stupid caricatures of themselves.

>>50237778
>Extra on Nerd Blackface

>>50238027
I'm stupid for not immediately recognizing that term, sorry anon.

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>>50234526
>>50234503
>>50234477
>>50234464
>>50234216
Dude are you okay? I'm not reading this shit but I'm worried about you getting so upset over some bullshit article and writing this huge text. Calm down, anon.

>>50237647
Nah, he's pretty good in it. He does play music earlier on in the sessions because he is the bard, but he gets an all right arc and he's part of the main plot as it were; and he makes some darker choices because his character is petty and really wants out of Ravenloft.

I'd say my biggest issue with him is that he misses a good couple sessions in a row when he's sick and the GM has to control him because he's plot relevant. But that's not really a mark against him, just an observation that lessened the overall product a tinsy bit.

>>50222544
Dont mind dunc, but kim is fucking dreadful they should honestly just do another full campaign with the non shit-tier people

>>50230403

He knows, and has mentioned it on Tabletop before.

>>50218813
Patrick stewart is too based

>>50211602
I don't watch anything with will wheaton in it for religious reasons.

>>50238326
Why all the hate on Kim?

>>50239014
Yeah, my religion says prostitution is wrong too

>>50241016
Does your religion say that watching shit shows by failed celebrities condemns you to being infinately reborn as an abortion?

>>50241154
I was saying that Wil Wheaton is a whore but I'll bite the bait
Only if you haven't ritually cleansed yourself by walking down a path of d4s.
Never again.

>>50241209

that sounds like there'd be blood

I know they're not sharp the the touch or anything but that much pressure on that small a surface area...

>>50218946
Critical Role is fucking trash.

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>>50234216
>>50234464
>>50234477
>>50234503
>>50234526

>>50218813

Captain, I detect massive amounts of #rekt in this sector.

>>50221849
I really hate proclaimed kings/queens of nerd-dom. I only play wargames, why should I be expected to kiss the ass of some celebrity who plays D&D? I could kiss Gygax's ass, or Sandy Petersen's, but not people who's claim to fame is starring in shows I never watched and who happened to be into some of the things that fall under the "nerd hobby" umbrella.

>>50224992
Academic study of anonymous imageboard culture must be hard to do because of that. At least they have archives now.

>>50224758
"4channers’ apparent misogyny is largely—though not wholly—designed to maintain
the cultural exclusivity of a transgressive, anonymous space"

I think he's spot on right here.

>>50221526
What does Felicia Day do these days? The last thing I remember of her was the "whenever I see male gamers, I try to go walk on the other side of the street" comment.

>>50244173
>lemme go ahead and treat this class of people like people used to and still do treat black people
Hope that backfired

>>50231961
well it makes sense
but regardless, she is nominally a real voice actor, she has an imdb page and has clearly been hired to do stuff

>>50244200
I mean, her relevance as "Queen of the Nerds" only lasts as long her looks do, and as long as the neo-PC Police does. And both are approaching their expiration date.

>>50244534
She's only been doing VA stuff for the past couple years. The rest are basically veterans of the business. I'm pretty sure Liam O'Brien was the one who would have made the decision to go with "believe it" to cover-up the dattebayo-less lipflap in Naruto.

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>>50238145
>>50242586
It's just a blog post review. If anything I get some small ammount of joy blogposting good information about anonymity and human behavior.

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>>50238509
>Based

>>50222933
That all female party sounds kinda based DESU. I'd kill for a party that actually cooperates efficiently in combat instead of trying to do their own thing all the time.

>>50221865
Yup. Looked forward to every episode.

Then #GG happened and Will's true colours were revealed.

Fuck. That. Guy.

>>50247139
Oh shit. Gamer Gate.

It's like holding up a mirror in a room of vampires.

>>50247157
It's sad when someone you found entertaining turns out to be a raging SJW mega-cunt.

Same thing happened with Matt Lees.

>>50247139
the best part was when he got slammed by shills for being a bernie supporter, him complaining about how he's being unfairly labeled as a muhsoggyknist and that people should stick to the facts instead of blindly throwing labels out. unfortunately I don't think he learned from the irony of his words and deeds since he's so deep into the numale scene.

>>50247201
Same thing happened to me with Movie Bob. I just liked his movie reviews on the Escapist website.

Only realized how much of an insufferable turd nugget he was after they booted him off the site and I had to dig around to find out why.

>>50244173
She's apparently going to be the Mad on the new season of MST3K.

>>50221982
>FUCKING KOJIMA
ph-phil...?

>>50225033
I've seen that image used for existentialism instead, I think it makes more sense.

>>50247593
What happened?

>>50248367
All of the bullshit happened.

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Moviebob

This is one of those rarest of rare occasion that an ED article, whilst exaggerating, does not outright lie.

>>50248524
christ, I don't think I've been on ED since 2009 or so... and it looks like for the most part, neither has anyone else.

>>50248524
MovieBob is the kinda guy who is competent at his chosen profession, but really should just stick to that like an autistic child to avoid creating too many waves.

Too bad he wasn't autistic. He was just an asshole.

>>50249720

It's a pity. His movie reviews were moderately entertaining to listen to. I didn't share his views on films and shit but they were nice to listen to.

Then he lost his fucking mind.

>>50250391
Perhaps he had already lost his mind to the extreme political views he ascribed to long before the Gamer-Gate debacle, and that's what it took to bring it out full force. The guy made it painfully clear in his side videos he did on the escapist (before they gave him the boot) and on Youtube made it not so subtly clear that if you didn't agree with him, you were obviously evil and stupid and needed to be gassed cause you were a menace to society.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, probably best if he was just forgotten now.

>>50211602
literally what

>>50225029
I worked at local convention for 10 years and met WW 3 times, every time he was an absolute cunt. He's one of those people that is super nice to his date, but rude to the waiter.

>>50211602
I don't know why they'd bother, they're both going to die within the week in the Trumpenreich.

>>50224641
One of the Metal Gear games had a mode that let you watch the older games like a movie.

>>50211602

>Are any of you going to pay the subscription fee for Tabletop?

Fuck no. Almost nobody doing new media really understands this type of shill-shit, or the big companies who throw them lots money at them to do this. It's not gonna work, nobody wants these shows that badly that you're gonna make a profit, and all it does is piss off all the people you exclude. It's fucking retarded, and if you can't make these productions not just off adsense or simple shit, it's not gonna work, you'll fall off and die because motherfuckers in their basement will release content quicker and cheaper than you.

>Do you even watch it anymore?

I've watched most of it, including the newest ones. People overblow how bad Wil is on camera, and nobody should watch it for him, it's for the games and sometimes the people he has on as guests. Alas, he does occasionally call too many of his "friends" from the con scene or just TV stuff who are clueless because they're "in" right now and it makes a weak episode.

Day isn't that bad either, she's taken her lumps, but people resent her success because she's a neurotic math nerd under her "cute nerd girl" appearance and she's tuned into the social media echo box which means double-marginalization and just general human psychology is against her.