>Previously, EA Maxis decided not to release the pack in Russia due to the >expansion’s inclusion of same-sex weddings

*Male Tomb Raider: Female Indiana Jones: The Video Game: The Movie: The Videogame: The Movie

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.

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.

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’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…

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.

So no matter how sensitive or respectful they might be, white people should never explore anything outside of their own culture and heritage? It is WILD how the far left is swinging all the way back around to the idea that segregation might be a good idea

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.

That pretty much somes up 99% of the “outrage” reported by the news thjese days.  Its a handful of people on Twitter bitching.

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…

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!!!!

I really dislike the articles of Rift in Sankaku Complex, especially since he posts tweets of people actually saying the hate and anger of issues. But at least I know where the smoke is coming from. Sorry miss Yow, but in this particular subject, maybe its just you?

Yikes

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!”

Wow you sound like the fun police. Crap article 

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