Going by some of the quotes in the article, that’s the complaint: the inconsistency.

It’s not meant to be anything more than something to placate fans until Kart 9 arrives several years from now. That’s why they are making 48 classic tracks rather than 8 new and 8 retro that the last wave of DLC did.

You do realize that going whole hog on these tracks would make the DLC cost WAY more than $25, right?

This feels like one of those things that I wouldn’t have noticed otherwise. I’ve been around long enough to know what’s shown in trailers usually isn’t the final product. So when the first wave launches and we get to see it for ourselves it’ll be a different story. 

Not really so much an inequity of graphical polish as it is a difference in art direction and lighting.

Just 2 days ago Kotaku sister site AVClub took pleasure in piling on an Asian woman for speaking with a ‘blaccent.’ Everyone is starting to get splattered with this shit now.

You said it yourself - this might be a cynical, bad faith interpretation. That right there is an admission that you know there’s probably a perfectly reasonable counter-argument that you conveniently omitted from your article in an effort to steer the narrative one way: the click generating, socially inflaming way.

I understand people’s reticence to this, especially if you belong to the cultures this particular fantasy-inspired campaign exists in, but if your example boils down to them wearing some costumes in a silly promo piece that explorers used to wear, then that’s... not a lot.

“Even though they hired consultants to help build the world of Marquet, the consultants aren’t the people through whose eyes we’re seeing that world.”

This crap makes me wish D&D would go back to being something we all just kinda did in secret with our friends and the greater population shunned it.

Imagine a group of allies and progressives being like “hey we want to explore some other cultures in a fun and not appropriation way so let’s hire some people to guide us on that way and present it to people” and standing on the sidelines and being like NO YOU CAN’T DO THAT!!!!

Maybe they thought that dressing up in traditional attire of cultures that aren’t their own as white people would’ve been 10x worse.

No one is ‘so mad’, it’s just like 20 people on Twitter. I’ve seen just as many people be happy to be represented and feel seen by the campaign.

So....a solution? Sounds like you don’t want them to explore these cultural identifiers and the explorer-genre tropes. Should half the cast be fired and people you find “approved” be playing this game?

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

Your mileage may vary.

Also there is Allen in the header, who didn’t do anything wrong (in a criminal sense) but who regularly turns up in Jezebel/GMG articles who insinuate (after Hogan, no more big mouth) that he is a pedophile. Alternating with articles “Roman Polanski said” just to have the commenters baying for the Jewish child…

Good art comes from pain.

Hey Nick,

Has there been any responses to the Jezebel (or was it Splinternews) call for people to come forward about Louis CK? If not, there’s no proof. Why does the site keep condemning by association then? What’s your editorial justification?