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Ask game: unpopular opinion edition <3

❤: Which character do you think is the most egregiously mischaracterized by the fandom?

🧡: What is a popular (serious) theory you disagree with?

💛: What is a popular ship you just can't get behind, and why?

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

💙: Which character is not as hot as everyone else seems to think?

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

🤍: Which character is not as morally bad as everyone else seems to think?

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

💕: What is an unpopular ship that you like?

📖: If you had to remove one book from the series, which would you choose?

🏳️‍🌈: Which character who is commonly headcanoned as queer doesn't seem queer to you?

💀: If you had to choose one major character to die, who would you choose?

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We did already know this based on the fact that he bagged both Lark and Harry, but the latest appendix really is just rubbing it in our faces that if there’s one thing Sherman’s got in abundance it’s game. He incurred caenum for getting too much pussy + dick. they needed to take his ego down a peg. He sold out Lark because he was tired of being the most sought after person on Midst. The sex appeal of the Black Candle Cabaret? That was all him baby. And he even cares lovingly for his daughter and braids her hair? Absolutely unfuckwithable. Where do I sign up.

#midst #midst spoilers #midst podcast #sherman guthrie

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I’ll be honest normally Josh Ruben’s comedy style just doesn’t really do it for me, however I’ve never seen a guy more perfectly fitted to playing a sad off putting evil clown. Legit just make him do that for every single game changer episode I’d be overjoyed.

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#game changer #dropout #dropout tv

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Literally WHAT did I say???

My absolute dream Game Changer episode would be a riff on an episode of Taskmaster. Maybe have Little Alex Horne as a guest celebrity cameo. Taskmaster already drives contestants to the point of dabbing hot sauce in their eyes and hiding in the host’s closet to video him while he sleeps (though that might just be a Rhod thing), so I’m sure whatever extra twist Sam would put on the formula would drive players to the point of partial mental collapse or a felony. I think watching both Alex and Sam standing in chipper manner together in their evil little suits delightedly watching comedians drive themselves completely insane over mundane and useless tasks for content would be pretty special.

#game changer

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Sometimes I’m watching a Game Changer episode and I can’t help but think “damn Kafka would’ve loved this”

#dropout tv #dropout #game changer

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me when I’m a reiloran and it’s time to get crop circle beamed down to the heaven-esque place I only see through abstract interpretation in my dreams for roughly half an hour because the shitty kid of one of the evil empire’s top dogs wants me to to unlock a door or maybe punch someone before I get teleported back to my 9-5 as a Bone Smith.

#sorry I just can’t stop thinking about this #bells hells #critical role #imogen temult

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Otohan Thull think they Elon Musk. Elon Musk think he Ludinus Daleth. Ludinus Daleth think he Moc Weepe. Moc Weepe think he the hamburglar.

#critical role #midst #now THIS is wisdom

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https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3007

#non European 100% #I live to confront tiktokers who do street interviews about geography #I will bite their heads off

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Everyone else has already made great posts about all the other reasons why they hope FCG’s death is permanent, which I agree with, but here’s my additional two cents. I hope their death is permanent because you loose all semblance of stakes if you never have any permanent deaths. Dnd is designed for people to come back from the dead sometimes, but there are mechanisms to make sure that sometimes is not all the time. Death as a possibility anchors the stakes of the game, the risk that it *could* happen, even if there’s a bigger chance it won’t, is necessary for anything else to feel real. If there’s no worry of permanent death, why are we doing anything at all? Where are the walls of this story, what’s at stake, why do we even care about rushing into danger anymore if we can all just come back? There’s no emotional weight. We’ve already had Laudna come back even though by many accounts she should’ve permanently died in that situation, and while I don’t think it was bad she was able to be brought back, I think there was narrative groundwork that made her coming back make sense (and I think a permanent death from that specific fight would’ve been… not a very fun move from a DMing perspective but that’s a different post). But if FCG comes back too, it means the precedent is now that there is always a way to skirt death. I think that precedent would make the story a lot less fun, and I think Sam understands that, and I don’t think FCG will or should come back. That death was really emotionally weighty and I don’t want to lose that, or the chance of that in the future.

#critical role #cr spoilers #Fcg #fresh cut grass

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Otohan died as she lived: being overshadowed by the more emotionally resonant and interesting beats of the story.

#critical role #cr spoilers

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#cannot ride a bike CAN ride horse #I’m not GOOD at it per say #but I can and I have in the past #i didn’t work on a ranch for nothing #but no I can’t ride a bike

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The thing that I keep getting stuck on is that Lilianna believed Imogen when she suggested she didn't know about the assassination attempt. Is she swayed because she's had a change of heart, or is she swayed because this deception means she can still believe in the uncomplicated innocence of her daughter? And if the latter, what happens if that image of Imogen is broken again?

#cr spoilers #critical role #yeepppp

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It’s important to note the really significant difference between FCG’s failed attempts at self sacrifice earlier in the campaign, and their successful self sacrifice now. Before they were looking for the act of self sacrifice to grant them some sort of purpose or meaning they didn’t feel as a living being. But Sam made it very clear that at the end, FCG had found meaning and purpose in life, and now the goal if his self sacrifice was purely to save his friends. Not because his “purpose” as a robot was to protect others, but because he loved his friends, and he wanted them to live.

#critical role #cr spoilers #fresh cut grass #fcg

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matt ruling that the technical damage from the explosion was irrelevant due to the power and weight of fcg’s sacrifice is what really got me. even if sam rolled the max possible number on the dice, it wouldn’t have even brought otohan to below where she was before she took the health potion. mechanically speaking, she should have survived that blast by a LOT of hit points. but this was a player willingly killing their own character, beyond reviving and even potentially beyond resurrection, to give the rest of the party any advantage they could, and he rewarded that with the death of a character that has haunted this campaign from the very beginning. unreal fucking plays by both matt and sam tonight.

#cr spoilers #critical role

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I especially like that FCG cast his guiding bolt through the Changebringer's coin, the symbol of chance and choices and (for him) asking for direction, at a time when the Changebringer had previously bowed out of input (should we run? the coin lands on its side) and when it came to that final moment FCG made the choice himself. They self-actualized not just in believing their personhood but in believing their agency. FCG, today you were the bringer of change.

#critical role #cr spoilers #fcg

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As much as I am genuinely sad to lose FCG, who was a really fantastic character, I am really really interested to see how they deal with such a late in the game (but not finale) PC perma death, it’s unique in the big campaigns and I think it could yield some super fascinating results.

#critical role #cr spoilers