D&D General Thaco the angry clown... really?

[Jack Daniel]

Look, when you get right down to it, this isn't important. Harmless joke or mean-spirited dig, none of that really matters. Grognard and newbie, Viking Hat and Critter, thespian and Munchkin, boomer and zoomer, all of us together can set aside the acrimony and be unified on at least one issue:

It's pronounced thay-ko with a long a, and anyone who says thack-o like they're trying to invent a fourth Warner Sibling needs to burn on the bottom layer of the Abyss like the foul heretic they are.

 

[Mistwell]

Look, when you get right down to it, this isn't important. Harmless joke or mean-spirited dig, none of that really matters. Grognard and newbie, Viking Hat and Critter, thespian and Munchkin, boomer and zoomer, all of us together can set aside the acrimony and be unified on at least one issue:

It's pronounced thay-ko with a long a, and anyone who says thack-o like they're trying to invent a fourth Warner Sibling needs to burn on the bottom layer of the Abyss like the foul heretic they are.

It's OK that you're so terribly awfully miserably wrong. I accept you along with all your deep levels of wrongness just as you are. Even though you're so broken from drinking from the poisonous well of wrongitude.

 

[darjr]

The 0 is silent

 

[Tazawa]

Good for you and anyone else that shares your attitude. As I said in the post you quoted, there was no need to remind me of that.
Other people in this very thread, some of them probably of "your" generation, didn't seem amused by Wotc calling people clowns.

I’m of that generation, and I am most certainly amused.

I’m even more amused by the people getting offended by the mildest of dad jokes.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

The 0 is silent

That's because it's not an O, it's a 0.

(Aah, I see what you did there.)

 

[Bedrockgames]

It’s pronounced Thayk-zero guys

 

[J.Quondam]

Thaknaught.

 

[Justice and Rule]

So no one uses "Tay-ko"?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

So no one uses "Tay-ko"?

It‘s “take-naught” from the old British game of “you lose, now drink a pint.”

 

[Justice and Rule]

It‘s “take-naught” from the old British game of “you lose, now drink a pint.”

That sounds more like a drunken dwarf making a threat as I reach for the bar nuts.