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D&D General Bob World Builder Recreates WOTC's "Do You Like Me?" Survey!

Iosue

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SlyFlourish said:
I have certainly not seen that to be the case. He was one of the people Kyle Brink talked to back then and I can't think of a video where he's bashed WOTC since then. Going through his videos now, I see like three negative videos out of dozens?

I love his channel because it's so positive about the hobby and doesn't delve into weekly RPG drama.
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My point is not that BWB is an overall negative channel. It’s that he’s specifically negative and critical about WotC. Of those three negative videos, how many were about Hasbro/WotC, versus some other company or happening in the industry?

Even with his other content, BWB made his YouTube bones with helpful guides through Wizards material. He’s ceased such videos in favor of WotC-agnostic content pushing house-rules/homebrew and alternative systems instead of official material.

Which, I should note, I have absolutely no problem with. It just means I don’t consider him some neutral party just asking questions.
 
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Zardnaar

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DarkCrisis said:
It's scary to realize that a lot of people now-a-days get the majority of their news off randos on TikTok and Youtube.

"I totally trust Youtuber PoliticsGetMeHard69 to give me the truth about world events."
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I use actual news on YouTube for stuff live world events.
Pop culture stuff like Politicsgetmehard69 treat as opinion unless they're referencing something.
 
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mamba

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Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Because the people you're probably referring to are commentators, not their anchors. They've made this explicit in lawsuits -- those folks aren't journalists.
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so unless I call that person a news anchor, they can say whatever they want? If it were a news anchor saying the same thing they would lose, but since it is a commentator they can just keep on saying the exact same thing with impunity?

At that point your ‘it is so easy to win lawsuits’ goes out the window as far as I am concerned…

I agree, Fox does not call them news anchors, they use that defense in court, but their viewers treat them as such despite Fox saying ‘no reasonable person would consider the show news’ as a defense (your viewers do however, so what does that tell us about your viewers….)
 

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mamba said:
so unless I call that person a news anchor, they can say whatever they want? If it were a news anchor saying the same thing they would lose, but since it is a commentator they can just keep on saying the exact same thing with impunity?

At that point your ‘it is so easy to win lawsuits’ goes out the window as far as I am concerned…

I agree, Fox does not call them news anchors, they use that defense in court, but their viewers treat them as such despite Fox saying ‘no reasonable person would consider the show news’ as a defense (your viewers do however, so what does that tell us about your viewers….)
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It's also a freedom of speech type issue. USA has a very high threshold for slander for example.

Even a few reputable news sources are still big on talking heads. Essentially I can't watch any American news sources consistently. And that's the reliable ones not Fox.

Go watch an old broadcast from the 60s or early 70s. Very dry by modern standards.
 

Whizbang Dustyboots

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mamba said:
so unless I call that person a news anchor, they can say whatever they want? If it were a news anchor saying the same thing they would lose, but since it is a commentator they can just keep on saying the exact same thing with impunity?
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I'm not sure why I'm being put in the position of defending people I think are pretty harmful -- on all sides of the political aisle -- to political culture in this country.

It's completely shady that the various cable networks (other than Comedy Central) try to have it both ways with the commentators. I'm not in favor of it and I wish the FCC and Congress would reestablish the rules in place through the 1980s, but that seems unlikely to ever happen.

Short answer: Don't get your news from YouTube, TikTok, Twitch or cable news.
 
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Zardnaar

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Whizbang Dustyboots said:
I'm not sure why I'm being put in the position of defending people I think are pretty harmful -- on all sides of the political aisle -- to political culture in this country.

It's completely shady that the various cable networks (other than Comedy Central) try to have it both ways with the commentators. I'm not in favor of it and I wish the FCC and Congress would reestablish the rules in place through the 1980s, but that seems unlikely to ever happen.

Short answer: Don't get your news from YouTube, TikTok, Twitch or cable news.
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I use DW and France 24 occasionally on YouTube. Bit more tolerable than MSNBC or CNN;). And they're some of the "better" American news network.
 


mamba

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Whizbang Dustyboots said:
I'm not sure why I'm being put in the position of defending people I think are pretty harmful
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no one is asking you to defend them, I just feel the fact that they get away with all of this contradicts your claim that 'Contrary to what politicians and celebrities say, it's extraordinarily easy to sue (and win) against the media when they get stuff wrong.' ;)
 



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