Scott_Rouse
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Aww man! Where's the kids sizes?! Wanted to buy one for my three-year-old.
Good point in fact I mentioned this very thing to the Jinx guys this week. Coming soon kids sizes.
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Good point in fact I mentioned this very thing to the Jinx guys this week. Coming soon kids sizes.
Vyvyan Basterd
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That rocks! Can't wait to order one.
StreamOfTheSky
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Seen this and the gnome/tiefling one now, and neither made me laugh once. There was a little "ho-hum" internal humor with me on this one, like when the dragon was flaming the orphanage. Kind of like classic Black Mage. That's probably why i found it funny, thinking of 8-bit.
What happened to the reporter not only wasn't humorous, it's alsopretty disturbing tat some people did fing it funny. Reporter holds a stick as asked, gets fried, then eaten. There is nothing of humor inherently in that sequence of events. The only thing I can see possibly being a subject for laughter from that is just the fact of the reporter dying (gruesomely). Which really shouldn't be something to laugh at. "Oh, look! The dragon charred the flesh right off his bones! Tee hee!!" Would you laugh if the reporter was slowly burning to death, as an act of torture, too?
What happened to the reporter not only wasn't humorous, it's alsopretty disturbing tat some people did fing it funny. Reporter holds a stick as asked, gets fried, then eaten. There is nothing of humor inherently in that sequence of events. The only thing I can see possibly being a subject for laughter from that is just the fact of the reporter dying (gruesomely). Which really shouldn't be something to laugh at. "Oh, look! The dragon charred the flesh right off his bones! Tee hee!!" Would you laugh if the reporter was slowly burning to death, as an act of torture, too?
With this cartoon I think I realized a few things.
The interviewer has always been representing Gamer_zer0.
The kobolds are those WotC followers that think they can do no wrong.
The troll is those that think WotC has made a mistake with 4th edition.
The red dragon is Lorraine Williams/WotC itself. Lorraine had this type of feeling towards gamers. Didn't WotC have a huge one at GenCon this year? I thought I saw it in a video behiind Randy in that interview about DDI.
The one answering the questions is probably Randy, Dave, Mike (Mearls), or Scott representitively.
The adventurers are those who just like D&D in some fashion and wish to discuss it.
The pile of gold is the money grubbing the trol was tlaking about.
I think all the elements are part of something recent, maybe with their forums, or WotC attitude and gamers attitudes.
I think it was in very bad taste from the priemere gaming company with its ESRB all over its website to be making fecal matter jokes. What are the age ranges for D&D and other WotC products?
Add this to the recent Goldfarb incedent and does WotC really have a leg to stand on with what was said there and what was implied in this video? Yet WotC/HASBRO still sent out a letter to Goldfarb about his comment shortly before this video.
I am also interested in how, if this is part of the Dragon content, they will get this into the magazine being a flash animation when subscriptions start.
All in al, I think this was an attack on gamers no different than the one made by Goldfarb, or those made by Lorraine Williams, and is not something that will further the industry, but cause another fit in it.
And DDI was supposed to be bringing D&D gamers together, but this type of thing comes from DDI.
Has D&D just come to fecal matter jokes now, and that is all that it is worth?
The interviewer has always been representing Gamer_zer0.
The kobolds are those WotC followers that think they can do no wrong.
The troll is those that think WotC has made a mistake with 4th edition.
The red dragon is Lorraine Williams/WotC itself. Lorraine had this type of feeling towards gamers. Didn't WotC have a huge one at GenCon this year? I thought I saw it in a video behiind Randy in that interview about DDI.
The one answering the questions is probably Randy, Dave, Mike (Mearls), or Scott representitively.
The adventurers are those who just like D&D in some fashion and wish to discuss it.
The pile of gold is the money grubbing the trol was tlaking about.
I think all the elements are part of something recent, maybe with their forums, or WotC attitude and gamers attitudes.
I think it was in very bad taste from the priemere gaming company with its ESRB all over its website to be making fecal matter jokes. What are the age ranges for D&D and other WotC products?
Add this to the recent Goldfarb incedent and does WotC really have a leg to stand on with what was said there and what was implied in this video? Yet WotC/HASBRO still sent out a letter to Goldfarb about his comment shortly before this video.
I am also interested in how, if this is part of the Dragon content, they will get this into the magazine being a flash animation when subscriptions start.
All in al, I think this was an attack on gamers no different than the one made by Goldfarb, or those made by Lorraine Williams, and is not something that will further the industry, but cause another fit in it.
And DDI was supposed to be bringing D&D gamers together, but this type of thing comes from DDI.
Has D&D just come to fecal matter jokes now, and that is all that it is worth?
blargney the second
blargney the minute's son
I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
Fecal matter is worth its weight in gold!
That dragon was throwing away MILLIONS OF GP worth of fertilizer!
That troll is going to be rich! RICH, I TELLS YA!
(and no, this joke is not an allegory for how 3e is actually amazingly valuable and everyone at WotC just treats it like dragon poo, and how by treating it like dragon poo, it has given an unintentional gift to the trolls who berate 4e....I promise.)
Obryn
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Vyvyan Basterd
Adventurer
So eating cartoon orphans had a minor bit of humor for you but eating the interviewer is torture?
Have you ever watched the timeless classic cartoons like Tom & Jerry or their wildly popular modern-day equivalents Itchy & Scratchy? Violence against cartoon characters is funny to many people. Heck, the Three Stooges weren't even cartoons and look how popular they were.
Our world seems to be losing its sense of humor and I hate that. Can't make a joke nowadays without offending someone. I applaud anyone that make a comedic effort to push the envelope and not play it safe with lame, non-offensive humor.
I mean really! Do you all want to end up watching rehashes of The Good Life?!?!
"No! No! NO! We're not watching the bloody Good Life! Bloody bloody bloody! I hate it! It's so bloody nice! Felicity "Treacle" Kendall and Richard "Sugar-Flavored-Snot" Briars! What do they do now? Chocolate bloody Button ads, that's what! They're just a couple of reactionary stereotypes, confirming the myth that everyone in Britain is a lovable, middle-class eccentric - and I - HATE - THEM!" - Vyvyan Basterd, The Young Ones (1984)
StreamOfTheSky
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My problem was that it wasn't even cartoonish, but it was supposed to be funny. Say it was Wile E. Coyote getting hit with flames, that'd be depicted with him charred black around the edges, maybe shaking it off, eyes blinking in surprise amidst a solid mass of dust. This was just him getting flamed, a gory more "realistic" vision of what that'd look like (still as a cartoon, of course), and...dead.
The orphans thing was funny not because killing orphans is funny, but because of how it was done (the lead in of the spokesperson stating, "well, sort of...").
I'm all for not taking things too seriously, but I still have limits, and that just wasn't funny. And this is all proving rather difficult to articulate over text.
EDIT: Part of my issue may be that I'm assuming this ad is aimed at younger audiences, cause I really hope no adult saw the poop drop and thought, "Wow, it's poo! Frickin' awesome!"
The orphans thing was funny not because killing orphans is funny, but because of how it was done (the lead in of the spokesperson stating, "well, sort of...").
I'm all for not taking things too seriously, but I still have limits, and that just wasn't funny. And this is all proving rather difficult to articulate over text.
EDIT: Part of my issue may be that I'm assuming this ad is aimed at younger audiences, cause I really hope no adult saw the poop drop and thought, "Wow, it's poo! Frickin' awesome!"
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