For WotC, "Truth" Means Something Else Than Normal
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2024
- WotC (and Wizkids) are full of people for whom the word "truth" means something totally different from what that word means to normal people.
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For wotc, truth means "give me your money"
For wotc, everything means "give me your money"
“In response to Mr. Elmore’s comments, WizKids and Wizards of the Coast issued a joint statement clarifying that Larry Elmore himself has also been a woman all this time.”
LOL
No he did not, you can clearly see it is a man. So get out of here with that crap.
WizKids insulted Larry Elmore.
Yup. Spread the word, share the video.
You know, I was going to buy the Gargantuan Tiamat mini...not anymore I wont!
Apparently wiz kids didn’t ask the creator of that pic.
Wotc probably didn’t tell them about that and wiz kids didn’t bother double checking!
@@Darkwintre They don’t care about truth or accuracy; they care about imposing a new “truth”.
True. However, even though Elmore clarified what we all knew (basically, that the character was a Conan clone), IIRC he did go on a longish postmodernish tangent, talking about how art in general was subjective and could be interpreted in any way by anyone, etc... which was like him straddling the fence to keep both camps happy. That disappointed me a little; maybe he didn't want to get canceled by Modern Audiences™. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Still, he should have just kept it terse, mentioning his original vision (thus de-fanging "The truth revealed at last" Newspeak propaganda), and that's it. :-/
They made a toy of this character over a decade ago called Formidable Fighter. It was very much a male.
They need to push the message no matter what - repeat the lie often enough until it becomes true.
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Why?
Never will be thanks to pdfs and the original box set!
The problem is so many goofballs who complain about WOTC still give them their money. "I don't like what you're doing but here's my money anyway because I'm too scared to change systems."
Becmi, 2nd ed AD&D, 3e, Pathfinder, basic fantasy, cairn, white box, Shadowdark, etc…
That is a massive problem. Too many spergy nerds can't tell the difference between the thing they loved, and a monster wearing the skinsuit of the thing they loved.
they suffer from battered wives syndrome.
Anyone too scared to change systems is a poser.
@@RPGPundit It’s about identity more than system. All of the attacks on popular nerd culture have been built on the assumption that we nerds will cling to our favorite brands out of a sense of identity. It’s been working well for a long time, but it does appear that the cracks are starting to form.
There is an action figure of that character called the "Formidable Fighter" from super7 its a man. I had always thought it was warlike myself.
More gaslight in Seattle than Victorian London!
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An artist i watch on Twitch thinks that the mini was a mistake by the sculptor and WotC decided to go with it instead of paying the sculptor to make another one!
I don't think that any of this was unintentional.
I do not believe that they did this accidently
It’s consistent with their incompetence, but I believe this is about the message.
The miniature is correct. It is also a man. His name is Robert Paulson
Now identifies as Roberta.
I have been blasting Hasbro and WoTC on all social media for their pandering and stupidity on this issue.
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Congrats on the success of BoF
Post Modernism is self-debunking nonsense. Adherents of this BS have no leg to stand on when another set of thugs comes along to impose "their" truth.
Thank you. Spread the word!
BOF is great - thank you so much!
Thank you. I really appreciate you saying so. Spread the word!
Ownership of Wizkids: Created in 2000. Bought in 2003 by Topps, Inc (baseball trading cards), and National Entertainment Collectibles Association in 2009.
It's been 20 years since Wizkids was last owned by RPG people.
There we go.
Huh. If so, that means they're owned by the same people who own _BattleTech_ these days. (Catalyst Game Labs works on _BattleTech_ under license from Topps.)
Shameful. I still have my red box on my shelf. The first D&D product I ever owned.
Me too.
I have mine from when I was in High School and I also got the box set that was before the Red Box set off the guy that I went to school with who has it that we played. The same box set I played for the first time, not a replacement but the exact same box that that got me started in D&D. I first played that box set in 1983 and I still have it to this day it is 41 years old.
@@blacrow7 very cool and same. Even have the crappy dice that came with it lol.
The Warrior was never the same after the Girdle of Femininity incident...
LOL
Huh they didn’t give a damn, that part I can believe.
Clearly.
I've had like 3 different ad for cat treats while watching this on my phone. I think we all know who makes the financial decisions in your household. The truth is finally revealed. It was Meatball all along.
Its not my household. It's Google. Meatball is controlling Google.
How I can believe people which are telling me they were lying for 40+ years?
The Ancient Red Dragon warrior was always a woman, Winston.
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Perfect. This is such a perfect comment.
I still snicker every time I hear "One D&D". Reminds of me Windows 10, the One True Windows to Rule Them All. The Last Version of Windows! Truly. Trust us. No more Windows versions. Ever.
Yup. That's why I always always use the special voice for it.
And then comes widows 11.
Makes you look at the ass of that dragon-killing warrior differently, i'll give them that.
The Dark Elves have always been Lawful-Good alligned.
That's literally what Wizards recently claimed
If you were to give a name to the real warrior on the cover of the red box D&D set, what would it be, RPGPundit?
No idea. It should be Elmore who answers that.
@@RPGPundit Render unto Elmore what is Elmore’s, and unto Pundit what is Pundit’s.
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Thank you very much! I appreciate it.
I think it’s hilarious but probably true that whoever the consultant was to declare this probably doesnt know who Larry Elmore is or that he is the #1 fan of babes
Thank you for the vid and the news.
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Book is in! Now to plot the campaign!!!
Awesome!
They want a Creative Commons where they can still your creations if you use DnD and then nobody can use it but Hasbro.
That was exactly what they wanted, but failed to get.
That is because WotC dose not have anyone anymore that are creative so now and now they have to figure out away to still other creative people's work and pass it of as their own.
This is the best thing I ever saw.
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@Kasimir Urbanski - RPGPundit, just got the BOF book like 30sec ago and was wondering what or if you have a magic plugin book for it or does it come with a magic system similar to Invisible College (the Brown on Brown OMFG causes server eye strain, but still great content in book)?
Edit I skimmed BOF and saw its similar and in a few ways better.
Yes. The magic system in BoF is the same as in Lion & Dragon, but with a few different magic styles.
An utterly and disgraceful disrespect to the memory of the game and the artist.
And tremendously stupid given that Elmore is still with us and was obviously going to say something.
I got your new book brother it is really good I can't wait to use the fish spell he he. Forgot to do rating I'll go back and do that .
Thanks I really appreciate it!
All I can think of is _Darths and Droids's_ spell, _summon bigger fish._
I have a question about Baptism of Fire and Polish way of life. It says that a grod (or fort) had a population of 400 people. Did people live inside the grod or in its surroundings? Also what are "manors" like? I think the book doesn't quite explain what manors are.
Thanks in advance
So in the book when I talk about the population of a Grod I mean the people living in it. "Grods" came in a wide variety of sizes: some were basically a single keep which held a relatively small population. Others (like Gniezno or Poznan) were basically cities, often with various neighborhoods surrounded by a series of walls (with the central keep being the ultimate line of defense). But you'll note that in the book I will also give the population of people living around the Grod, who would live in small unwalled villages or hamlets (or in the farmlands between these), all no more than a day's ride or so from the Grod. A "manor" would be the large home (usually in this time in the form of a fort or very small Grod) of some kind of local ruler (typically a Szlachta noble), who controlled an area of countryside. I hope that explains it.
tell me you haven't read Derrida or Foucault without telling me you haven't read Derrida or Foucault
I've read both.
@@RPGPundit then you know as well as I that they're both pretty complex thinkers who can't be boiled down to nonsense like "truth doesn't real and everything is a free-for-all so murder is OK!!!" regardless of how much you hate them, that's intellectually dishonest.
heck Foucault and Derrida hated each other half the time, and it got pretty personal; they spent a lot of time fighting over the very kinds of topics you're gesturing at (meaning, reason, identity, social responsibility...), to the extent that entire books have been written on their textual back-and-forths.*
they were probably the world's foremost experts on dunking on each other, and while you could make arguments about the level of good faith on either side, their interactions are a fascinating example of two philosophical frenemies who knew how to hit each other where it hurt--right in the fine details of the texts. if you want to really tear Foucault/Derrida a new one on these topics, you couldn't find a better teacher than Derrida/Foucault.
*"Foucault and Derrida: The Other Side of Reason" by Roy Boyne is one I read years ago and found interesting.
@@IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIl. There are differences between the two obviously, Derrida was much more openly relativistic, while Foucault tried to pretend he was not, but his entire position betrayed the fact that he was. The entire notion that authority equals illegitimacy equals Injustice is by definition relativistic.
They were both horrifically horrible human beings, literally monsters, and the intention behind their philosophy was to systemically destroy the Western liberal order, which is the most advanced social model ever created by any civilization, that has benefited and protected the most number of human beings.
@@RPGPundit that's a misleading caricature of what they wrote at best.
it doesn't seem like you've engaged with their texts very seriously. if your personal dislike for them precludes you doing that, that's OK, but don't misrepresent what they wrote about.
I would compare it to how I feel about Martin Heidegger. his political views were, to my mind, some of the worst a person could have. but it would be inaccurate for me to go around saying, "Heidegger's entire body of work was just an elaborate justification for (a certain ideology I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention)!"
now you could write whole books on the extent to which Heidegger's politics pervade his philosophy, and people have, but that statement on its own would be a complete mischaracterization of what one can expect from his books. someone who wasn't familiar with his work and took me at face value could read that and go "oh, apparently it's all just a bunch of bigoted screeds. guess I'll cross that off my reading list". which would be a shame, because that's not really what his books are like, and there's value in reading him, whether you like what he stands for or not.
I think you're doing that with Derrida and Foucault. even assuming you're totally correct about their agendas, you're not painting an accurate picture of what they wrote. if someone learned about Derrida from you and cracked open Of Grammatology they'd be like, "huh? what's all this philosophy of language stuff?! where's the part where he says he wants to destroy the Western liberal order?!?!"
basically, I think you're presenting philosophers you don't like in ways that encourage your audience to dismiss them entirely. I'm not a CZcamsr or an academic, just a person who's passionate about philosophy and has a lot of opinions, but I'm careful not to express myself in a dismissive or disingenuous way that could put someone off a potential learning experience, even when discussing writers and books I hate. as someone with more of a platform, I think you should do the same.
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Thank you!
Think you were right about Elmore is right
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They do not ask permission from parents to change gender of their kids, why would the bother to ask about a fictional character?
Touche!
Ugh, now I’m wondering about the drugs and surgeries they subjected that poor character to.
Nobody can ever change gender, obviously.
I have a question about, "proprietary materials:" What is and what isn't and how do I know the difference? Certainly a character class called, "paladin," can't be proprietary since the term has been around a lot longer than D&D has. But a race called, "halflings?" Hobbit sure seems to be owned... They can't claim that a race of evil creatures called goblins is something they own or a weapon called a sword but... How do you know what you can and cannot use?
If its source is somewhere other than TSR/WotC, they don't own it.
Pundit, has your city experienced floods and disruption? I assume you're safe 'cause you're making videos as normal but I was kinda worried, old man
No. The flooding was in the northern area of the country, far from Montevideo. There's been times when parts of Montevideo have been flooded by powerful storms, but my neighborhood (Cordon Soho) is pretty elevated, and doesn't flood (if it did, the whole city would be underwater, pretty much).
@@RPGPundit good to hear, that, man. Stay safe
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Thanks, I appreciate it.
The concept of canon has become so broken. Real canon can only operate in one direction. Backwards. She is canonically that person in their (fan)fiction, but that is it.
Real canon only operates backwards? Or is that something made up to force the agenda?
The idea that it's "canonical" is just another part of what I was talking about their definition of "truth". Which is to say, an ideological weapon.
It is obviously a woman, no man would be so dumb to charge that dragon by himself.
Here's a question.
Since things like OSRIC,
OSE, White box,
For Gold And Glory,
And your stuff.
Have all been going strong for years without a OGL, SRD, or CC.
Then what exactly would be the point. Where's the benefit for them doing it?
I am asking not from their perspective? But from ours.
Do you mean what would be the point for the OGL existing? For us? It's the real reason Dancey created it in the first place: to preserve D&D in a way that no company could just mothball D&D and still sue anyone who tries to make a D&D-based game. Game mechanics are not copyrightable, but having the OGL adds ANOTHER huge stumbling block to a megacorp that might have sued anyways on the plan that they could outspend their target.
They're marketing the new minis with controversy. Very few people would know these things existed if not for this nonsense.
True, but its a stupid tactic. Wokists won't buy the minis, they will applaud it on social media, but won't pay for it. And fans will be massively turned off.
Plot Twist.. The female warrior found an enchanted Savinelli pipe in the Dragon's hoard, but the Pundit still hated it. ;)
Not to be that guy but you're exaggerating on this. "verbal violence, cancel culture violence, and if they had the power physical violence" like that's like when the left goes on about micro aggressions. Like if I said the same thing but "Right wingers will start with verbal violence..." And so on. Like at the end of the day all the issues go away if you turn off social media and CZcams. Just enjoy the games you enjoy and as long as you dont stalk places you know people dont want you youre fine.
Are you kidding? You could maybe have pretended that this argument of yours was valid around 2019 or so (though even there you'd be ignoring leftists having beaten people into a coma and shot people in anti-free-speech riots in California, Portland and Seattle), but there's no way you can claim this in 2024. Not after dozens of people dead and billions in damage during BLM riots, and violent assaults on Jews happening right now.
@@RPGPundit except it is. If you turned off Twitter nobody would care what some nobody journalist or bottom tier employees say online. You still are saying words are violence just like leftists do. It seems like an issue if you are looking for that stuff online but turn off the computer and head outside nobody is doing anything to you or anyone. It's polarizing rhetoric that will only cause more issues. That rhetoric CAUSED the BLM riots and Antifa. Don't do the same.
What a ridiculous comment. You're either confused or you're simply lying. Yes, the left-wing extremists are not just happy to use violence they're eager to. They've stated that their goal is the destruction of all of western civilization. These aren't people hoping to create a better future. They're violent psychopaths.
These issues exist outside your head, turning off social media does not make them not exist
It's pretty bizarre that someone watching you videos actually clicked the 'like' button on that guy's comment, @@RPGPundit.
Oh, wait... He's probably 'like-ing' his own comments because no sane person is going to.
Looks like a woman on the cover art
Nope and you don’t think so.