If you can’t read between the lines of this story about a shitty celebrity coming into an unethically low-paying job and complaining about the location’s low sales numbers on his trash merch, then I’d argue that you’re more likely the person who’s never done retail work. That wouldn’t be fun for anyone but the largest…

Every single person he annoyed had something better to do than help him make more money.  Fuck this guy.

This is getting absolutely absurd. I’m a diehard leftist, and every single of these knee jerk reactionary articles makes us all look bad. This is exactly what the right wingers in our country think we are, and as whole, articles like this only serve to parody ourselves.

The term “colonizer” and “colonialist” is being…

Then maybe make your own comment that isn’t a reply to someone else?

I’m a little confused as to the conclusion here. If they had dressed/acted in way that would make you think “they were connected to this world,” that would have of course been castigated for appropriation. To treat it more or less like any other fantasy setting, they “they fail to present us with anything of…

Ah yes, the semi-annual hyperventilating article about how a group of real-life friends who started streaming their hobby should replace half of their friend group with random people to meet a diversity quota, and how white people are forbidden from exploring anything except “Generic European” cultures even when they…

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”

it is, yes.

i dunno, you’re entitled to your feelings but taking aim at well intentioned folks always struck me as misplaced bitterness.

I think i might be done with Kotaku now.
I remember I used to come here for Video Game news but all we get now is click-bait hate-posts and we’re lucky if there is any video game news that isn’t just crapping on a beloved franchise because a related party decided they might try an NFT out.

This is really lazy “journalism” because this article isn’t even about campaign 3 or Marquet. There are no examples cited as the “problem” from the actual campaign. They whole argument is based on the intro video and the cast members dressed up as “explorers”, which was shot with the intention of being spoiler free…

This is one of the worst takes I have ever seen.

In the same vein as the criticisms this article makes: Kotaku could have taken the opportunity to point out other live play streams or other games that in their view appropriately explore these themes or more prominently feature people with relevant backgrounds.

Kotaku chose not to do so.

In the instance of both…

I feel like there is a tough line to walk here for Mercer. He cannot control his main cast, as they weren’t “casted” so much as they took their home game and put it on Twitch at basically the perfect time.

If you title an article “The Problem with...” and fail to suggest a solution or a better example of handling “the problem” then you aren’t really doing anything helpful. You are disparaging people for trying their best without a perfect answer, without even an attempt to provide a better one.

A bunch of white people start streaming their home game 5 years ago, become wildly popular, and now they’re not allowed to do anything that anyone else playing D&D are allowed to do ever again.

This whole article’s purpose is extremely confusing to me. I am not a fan of critical role, but I have some friends who occasionally watch it, so I’ve been aware of most of the “discourse” around it.

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”

I’m Mesoamerican and I’ve never once been bothered by the ‘lack of representation’ in the show. I’ve never even thought about it until this article. If the content is good, it’s good. Why are we trying to find problems where their aren’t any. Would people write articles about CoCo or the new movie Enchanted and how…

*Sigh*

You really need to take a look at yourself and find out what is wrong if this is the take you get. The exact same thing could be said for the cultural inspirations used in the locations for the first and second campaign. You are literally just virtue signaling in hopes of getting some clicks from something popular. I…

This is overblown criticism, but consistent with how this site has been moving towards. It feels like most articles are just some variation of “Hey! Popular thing is actually bad!”