Unions are a good thing. Police unions are not.

police unions specifically who actively prevent any sort of changes that might mitigate clear abuse.

I’m always surprised, though I guess I shouldn’t be, how easy it is to get cops to go HAM with so little provocation and with no check in place to prevent obvious abuse in unwarranted situations.

The police and politicians there seem to support these chuckle fucks.

Police are never powerless. If they aren't doing something, it's because they don't want to. 

I see that, but again, the people in CR have basically been the definition of good allies. They apologize almost instantly for any mistake made, and do their best to be inclusive and to help people.

Brilliant assessment! Glad I’m not the only one who saw the author’s hand-wringing over the success of the show and its creators.

Yup, the whole “Curse them if they do. Curse them if they don’t”.

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.

That would have been the complaint instead.

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.”

In North America, laws like this are basically bought.

It indeed is, but it is still better than places like Japan.

Copyright law is already better in the US. The problem is that in many countries (like Japan) there effectively no such thing as fair use. Owners have all the power.

Copyright law needs to be MASSIVELY rewritten.

“But with fair use so ill-respected in so many territories, and YouTube creators with no control over where their content will be shared once they upload there’s certainly a long way to go.”

I recommend PathofExile.com if you want your Diablo fix that badly without supporting ActiBliz. It’s a modernized, F2P “Diablo 2" with its own world and story, and mechanics.