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<blockquote data-quote="ParanoydStyle" data-source="post: 7777156" data-attributes="member: 6984451"><p>You know, it's really strange. Obviously I'm stoked on D&D, and I have been a rabid Penny Arcade fan since 2002, even if I've never been able to afford to go to a PAX. But I could scarcely be less interested in this book. The same's true with the <em>Rick & Morty</em> D&D tie-in. The same's true even moreso with the <em>Stranger Things</em> D&D tie-in since Stranger Things is either a rip off of my own game <em>Psionics</em> or coincidentally and independently plunged into the pretty much the same mix of tropes and ideas about two years after I published. Either way, ew. It's a show I would like if it didn't fill me with surging feelings of "BUT I DID THAT FIRST, JUST NO ONE PAID ANY ATTENTION". </p><p></p><p>Anyway after a moment or two of self analysis I think it is the expectation that I purchase these products that makes me want to not do just that. I'm the biggest Rick and Morty fan you'll ever find (expect a CR 30 5E Rick at some point, I already statted him in RIFTS). But Rick & Morty appear on so much merchandise, it's just really transparent that marketing people believe nerds will buy any old crap as long as it says Rick and Morty on it. I mean right now I'm within sight of a Prison Break Rick FuncoPop! that I bought for some insane reason, within range of my drug tray which is emblazoned with a far out Rick and Morty tableau, and there's an awesome metallic painting of Rick & Morty running through a portal on a wall that I bought from an independent artist. This last one is the only one I'm not ashamed of. The Acquisitions Inc. book might be <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ing great, for all I know. If Jerry wasn't too busy being rich and famous to write it himself, I might be interested in it. But the whole project just vaguely offends me, vaguely like the Rick & Morty tie-in D&D book. See, I already know that the marketing pukes are thinking "hah, these rubes will buy ANYTHING if we put this popular thing they love on it!"...and I don't like how D&D has become one of those possible ANYTHINGS. From a marketing perspective the quality of the product is almost totally irrelevant: we're being conditioned, like Pavlov's dogs. "Haha!If we put (POPULAR THING) on D&D, these nerds will definitely buy it in droves! The only thing nerds like better than (POPULAR THING) is D&D! So drink what we pour down your trough, losers". I guess it's my contrarian streak. "Devon, Rick and Mory is your favorite thing and D&D is your second favorite thing! You can't resist buying this merchandise!" to which another of the voices in my head replies "You just effing watch me resist, bub."</p><p></p><p>I feel mostly pretty much the same about Acq. Inc.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if this screed made any sense on any level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ParanoydStyle, post: 7777156, member: 6984451"] You know, it's really strange. Obviously I'm stoked on D&D, and I have been a rabid Penny Arcade fan since 2002, even if I've never been able to afford to go to a PAX. But I could scarcely be less interested in this book. The same's true with the [I]Rick & Morty[/I] D&D tie-in. The same's true even moreso with the [I]Stranger Things[/I] D&D tie-in since Stranger Things is either a rip off of my own game [I]Psionics[/I] or coincidentally and independently plunged into the pretty much the same mix of tropes and ideas about two years after I published. Either way, ew. It's a show I would like if it didn't fill me with surging feelings of "BUT I DID THAT FIRST, JUST NO ONE PAID ANY ATTENTION". Anyway after a moment or two of self analysis I think it is the expectation that I purchase these products that makes me want to not do just that. I'm the biggest Rick and Morty fan you'll ever find (expect a CR 30 5E Rick at some point, I already statted him in RIFTS). But Rick & Morty appear on so much merchandise, it's just really transparent that marketing people believe nerds will buy any old crap as long as it says Rick and Morty on it. I mean right now I'm within sight of a Prison Break Rick FuncoPop! that I bought for some insane reason, within range of my drug tray which is emblazoned with a far out Rick and Morty tableau, and there's an awesome metallic painting of Rick & Morty running through a portal on a wall that I bought from an independent artist. This last one is the only one I'm not ashamed of. The Acquisitions Inc. book might be :):):):)ing great, for all I know. If Jerry wasn't too busy being rich and famous to write it himself, I might be interested in it. But the whole project just vaguely offends me, vaguely like the Rick & Morty tie-in D&D book. See, I already know that the marketing pukes are thinking "hah, these rubes will buy ANYTHING if we put this popular thing they love on it!"...and I don't like how D&D has become one of those possible ANYTHINGS. From a marketing perspective the quality of the product is almost totally irrelevant: we're being conditioned, like Pavlov's dogs. "Haha!If we put (POPULAR THING) on D&D, these nerds will definitely buy it in droves! The only thing nerds like better than (POPULAR THING) is D&D! So drink what we pour down your trough, losers". I guess it's my contrarian streak. "Devon, Rick and Mory is your favorite thing and D&D is your second favorite thing! You can't resist buying this merchandise!" to which another of the voices in my head replies "You just effing watch me resist, bub." I feel mostly pretty much the same about Acq. Inc. I wonder if this screed made any sense on any level. [/QUOTE]
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