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Constructive criticism and in no way wanting to sound dismissive or mean: I have to say, I'd watch a lot more of your channel if the titles and thumbnails weren't always the same "the hobby is dead". I have stopped checking because smaller issues have taken enormous proportions in my mind through your titles. It gets hard to even show a video to a friend because they're all the same. I completely understand you have to play the UA-cam game because there's no way to make a living if it's not the way the damn algorithm wants, but you could make it at least a little more informative. A title like "investigate journalism on WoTC is dead!" Would work just as well imo. Sorry about saying it, but your channel has so much potential I feel like these little things are hindering your growth instead of helping it.
I don't pay too much attention to her videos but yeah, there's other ways to be specific while also having a catchy title. Otherwise it gets exausting seeing "THE END OF DND" after a few videos lol.
I’ve missed several videos due to overly generic something is DEAD titles. I know at this point it’s dramatic, and have no specifics to know if I care about it, so I just don’t watch anymore. I also miss you talking about other things like smaller games/companies
I feel the same. It's all very clickbait and overly dramatic and it's souring me on this channel.
Dude, I can't watch her. I just came to leave a similar comment. Ironically our comments still help her grow lol but jeebus christmas the rage baiting this woman indulges in.
100% the clickbait title shit is the worst
Look, don't buy the new edition. Don't comply, the TTRPG community never needed a mega corporation to print books or make anything for us to play. We can do that on our own.
And yet it will make millions. Unfortunately the great majority of people don't care about the Hasbro scandals or even know the OGL even exists.
@@MCRP-Games But they care about quality stuff and the few illustrations that have been shown... are downright terrible.
So unless the norm now is having terrible taste the new PHB is dead on arrival.
@@Xfushion2 "But they care about quality stuff" I think you overestimate where people will draw the line. Many people don't care about quality stuff and will just do what their overlords want. Think of all the people who buy what they are told to buy and hate who they are told to hate.
You're right we don't need them 100%. But they do need us and that's the problem
Discourse did a whole thing early in the OGL/One D&D vtt scandal when Hasbro was trying to get rid of Roll20 and Foundry as competition where leaked conversations showed that Hasbro was willing to lose 90% of their current customer/player base because they *knew* the remaining 10% would pay literally anything they asked, and my experience in the hobby space tells me they are 100% correct in that assumption. "Just don't buy it" means nothing to the mega-brands like D&D. They'll be fine because there are just enough people whose entire joy in life is nostalgia-- the ones who had the nostalgia glasses sewn into their faces like a cenobite. It's unfortunate, but Hasbro will be just fine. They'll exist as a zombie corporation just like, so, so many of their brethren in other industries. By all means, find other systems and other creators you feel good about supporting because they're not evil incarnate, but there's a reason Hasbro has the accounting department they do: it's to make calculations like that and act on them.
I ain't giving a single cent to the new edition. I will take to the high seas to get the information if I am forced to play the new stuff at conventions. Screw Hasbro and Wizards
This is the way...
DC20 is waiting for you :)
So just don't play the new stuff,it's not enough to boycott the whole product if you're "forced" to play it at conventions;if you don't like it enough to spend your money on it why would you even want to play it? Sick of this crap with D & D,turning good fantasy into a joke with proms and coffee shops and "Mexican orcs",they can keep this garbage,I'd much rather homebrew. 🤬👎👎
Yar har fiddle dee dee, being a pirate is alright with me!
Literally stop playing D&D, don't even pirate it and just play a different game
Corporations: Monopolies are indeed illegal, IF you’re not rich enough 😉
Monopolies are illegal, unless you’re a monopoly.
Government officials don't like monopolies not run by their relatives and golf buddies
@@weepingwalnut yeah, pretty much. its illegal, except when it happens
Monopolies are not illegal. Try learning about laws before claiming to. Know what your taking about. It is illegal for a company with a legal monopoly with one product to use that monopoly to gain a monopoly in another product.
@@tombraider862 In other words, if you're rich enough.
I was just reading last night about a local newspaper (Herald I believe it was called, don't remember where it was from) that was acquired by a large media company that fired ten employees at once (which was over half of the staff iirc). The newspaper responded by running a story about it talking about who was fired and how it would affect coverage of news despite the company claiming subscribers wouldn't notice a difference (implying the remaining staff would be extremely overworked) even though they now had only one photographer instead of 3. I read the article from images in a tweet about how the digital version of the article was taken down, but it has since been restored (possibly due to the traction the tweet was gaining)
Here's a perspective y'all probably aren't seeing.
Google is killing hobby blogs, Dice Breaker is one of them. They lost a TON of search traffic, so they likely sold now before their traffic dried up entirely.
Sadly, our anti monopoly laws have been gutted, and it takes both house's of congress to do something, aaaand one party does not want to govern. So umm.. Yay Monopolies..? yay..
I've been saying this for several years now. We're already living in the lamest cyberpunk distopia.
Yay capitalism >_>
Right? We don't even get the kind of neat tech.
I guess we could always go back to Message Boards (I'm a vet from the inception of the internet). "Oh, a picture of a puppy. Nope. Another dick pick." :)
I too knew it was lame because even our fake breasts are small by comparison to what they would be in a truly glorious cyberpunk world. And those jubblies would have machine guns mounted in them.
UA-cam is garbage by blocking literally non offensive comments. Yay bots.
Ive been working on a publication-level homebrew world for over 5 years now, and I regret so, so, so much fashioning it around 5e’s system for these exact reasons.
Fortunately 5e doesn't belong to Hasbro. The system belongs to the public!
Websites are basically dead business wise. Google isn't redirecting outside of itself for alot of the time. So many websites are being shuttered because they are not profitable anymore.
Nor are they properly indexing independent forums where the most accurate and authentic information is disseminated. Fact is we are no longer paying to find information but to access it in the first place, often without being able to search it once we do. There’s just no way to meaningfully engage in such an environment.
Yeah, & services are degrading too.
Personal archives & federated communication, seem to be the way forward.
We are entering the Dark Forest of the Internet phase - and I'm really pleased by this.
The good thing about Pen & Paper RPGs is that they don't have a limit on how you can use them.
Even if tomorrow no one is reporting on new releases or Hasbro and all the other corps are going down, I still own a ton of books and can play my DnD or Pathfinder probably until I die.
New editions are important for the company, not for the players. And if you don't play the official campaigns you don't have that much to do with the publishers.
Will Hasbro screw us over with the new edition? For sure. Do I care? No, because I won't buy it anyway. I'm just starting looking at DnD 5 and I'm not impressed. So I guees I will continue to play other games and even if there will be some amazing content for the new edition... you can easily convert that back to an older edition, or even another game.
I'm sorry, for the guys at Dicebreaker, but to be fair, I never heard of the site before and it will in no way influence my RPG if they are gone.
Same, I completley skipped dnd 4th ed.
@@D-Dae Pretty much everyone skipped 4th Edition.
Yes, and over 100 OSR TTRPGs. So many options - there are always options and there will always be options.
I've been saying this for a while, but from all the possible futures we had we ended up chosing the cyberpunk one. The problem is that cyberpunk is fun as a fiction setting not as a reality.
Also, part of what make any dystopian fun in fiction is because you're seeing the story unfold by the eyes of someone who can do something to change things, someone who was chosen or have power, who is in the right place and know the right people, in reality, most of us have very little power as individuals.
@@bluester7177 Well, not 1984, Brave New World, Stranger in a Strange Land. Not even Blake's 7. Just the recent wish fulfilment Ya dystopias.
I'd argue Cyberpunk was never really a great fiction setting, though... Given that it largely exploded within the setting of the Sprawl trilogy and has spread since then to encapsulate the idea of a future run by corporations that make people make increasingly destructive decisions that grind them into worse and worse shells of themselves... It may be fun to read, but no dystopian setting is truly ever going to be fun as a reality... As Bradbury once remarked on someone asking if he or the other dystopian authors meant to predict the future "No, we weren't trying to write the future, we were trying to prevent it"
@@simontmnI didn't think of any of those because even though they are dystopic I would not say anyone thinks of them as fun, I started and abandoned at least two of these because it's just rage inducing and sad and I don't want to deal with the emotions.
@@bluester7177 *hugs* are you Gen Z? My son is 17, he loves the really grim dystopias.
The UA-cam censorship is fucking wild. I can't wrap my head around the idea that a hobby news channel has anything that any advertiser other than Hasbro could find offensive.
I mean... Her jokes pull no punches hahahahaha😅
Demonetization is in no way censorship. Removing her videos or channel would be censorship. UA-cam doesn't owe anyone a living. Period. That's why there is a Surfshark ad in the middle of this video.
@@0redbishop0
It is subtle demonitization though. In a sea of content they pay youtubers for they have made it clear as long as you make them money with views and ad revenue they WILL basically make it a job for you.
However it has become clear that they are increasingly getting more and both ideological and more corporatized to the point that ANYONE who aims criticism towards any company at all that has money in youtubes ad system gets demonitized because god forbid someone have their own thoughts or (Gasp) don't agree with big corp "consume product and then get excited for next product!"
Yeah, they don't owe you money. But they sure do like trying to shut down alternatives to their site then make you struggle to use there's if you don't parrot what they want.
@@Asgaardiangatekeeperdawg who cares
@@krispingle This is a massive point of contention globally. Many people care. This isn't healthy. It isn't normal, and it sure as shit shouldn't be endorsed or encouraged by any means.
Wait... how do we know that YOU aren't the evil twin?
No Van Dyke beard?
By their accent
It’s the one on the left, aka, the Sinister side. Check the scar
But doesn't the camera reverse the image?
No comment
We'll shit. Things aren't looking good.. I'm sorry to all those affected.. may you find homes at better companies
The problem is that with the consolidation of the industry is hard to find better.
Companies make terrible homes. They won’t even allow me to use the executive restroom to shower.
There's always VENGER CON III next month in Madison, WI.
"we are now witnessing the biggest theft in history. At least, one that wasn't committed by the British Empire" had me SHOOK 💀 you went for the jugular, someone check if the king is still alive or if he died from that sick burn
Dang, when did Irish folks start disliking the Brits? Lol
@@KaiHouston-m6j /s, I assume?
i doubt he noticed
Lol such an iconic line
To be fair the British get a bad rep, but they were not alone, people tend to forget the Spanish, the Portuguese, The French, The Dutch, all big c0loniser empires who done a lot of bad to the world.
You're 100% a journalist. Dont discount yourself discourse. You're a good journalist
If you get 100% of your information from other news sources and publications, and simply give opinion and commentary on it, that isn't journalism. Journalists go out and gather news from the sources directly, interviewing, investigating, etc.
No, those are both journalism.
Different kinds of journalists to be sure. But those are both journalists doing journalism.
Huzzah, 100% True.
>Good
>Journalist
Pick one.
@@nevisysbryd7450 We get it, your worldview is easily threatened by new information and you mask your cognitive dissonance as righteous indignation.
Now kindly take the Nazi arrows back to /pol/
"An open and universal internet is the most effective tool you have
To address the issues that afflict the world at hand
Therefore, protecting it is the most essential task that stands
Before your generation"
-George Torwell, Rap News 15
Oh, I hope that the site is thoroughly archived for future access when it eventually goes down
The Wayback Machine is your friend
Don't just hope, start working on doing it yourself. Any amount of help is valuable
Hasbro trying to paint over the cracks by revealing all the subclasses in the 24 PHB, except oh wait, the list is completely gutted and all of the interesting subclasses are gone, so they can't even do that right. But it's okay because the 24 phb is backwards compatible with the '14 subclasses except it's not, but it is, or maybe its not, or you have to own both phbs, or it is but only if you sacrifice your firstborn to daddy hasbro and if you try to get around it with homebrew they'll send in the pinkertons...? I dunno, that's what my uncle that worked at wotc told me anyway, trust me guys.
your stupidity is amazing.
Totally miss the days of things like GeoCities, where there were countless fan RPG web pages.
I remember having one of those pages. So much has changed. Now it's all cold and corporate.
Isn't the buying of Dicebreaker a Monopoly issue that can be denounced?
It can be denounced, but there's nothing substantial to stop it.
Big failing business buys smaller failing business.
Ultimately this.
I'm happy that the Boardgame community, I'm part of, we have still our big community site up and alive, hope BGG will survive all this shit
NEVER BUY wotc PRODUCT!
- Proud and vocal boycotter since 2007.
My money goes to Paizo (Pathfinder) and a few other non-wotc companies.
"You know this company"
... I have never heard of this company.
Okay gonna be honest with you, I've been playing board games and rpgs for over a decade now, and this is the first time I've heard of Dicebreaker. I guess it's more an UK thing?
I have heard of them and they sucked. Basically a milder version of Kotaku.
@@nevisysbryd7450Oh, so "independent" in this case actually just means woke. It all makes sense now. Get woke, go broke.
@@1Bearsfan One way of putting it. Another is that their articles were often poorly researched or considered with a moderate amount of unrelated political bias (yes, of the persuasion that term alludes to). Not as egregious as Kotaku, though definitely noticeable.
@@nevisysbryd7450 Yeah, even the best journalist has bias, but it's been so bad for the better part of a decade now. Truth seems to matter less than virtue signaling.
Never even heard of Dicebreaker
Cue the opening scene of Ghost in a Shell, except it's Discourse jumping off the building and shooting that dude.
as someone whos been in the hobby for over 3 decades, ive never heard of Dicebreaker. Personally im hopping the entire industry crashes, to be reborn a decade later without any of the trash thats wormed its way in this last decade
Dicebreaker was a great initiative that started up relatively recently. A breath of fresh air, covering D&D and other RPGs (other publishers & indie publications). They covered story games and OSR stuff and more.
Will miss it.
(Gaming since late 70s)
same here.
yes it is our job the anti woke to create the renascentism of RPG
@@jexsnake I'm what I suppose you would call woke but I've been playing since the early '80s and I want this to come to an end. I remember saying to friends I was really concerned when WotC took over DnD and at the risk of being seen as a Cassandra I think I was semi right.
@@jexsnake
Hate to brake it to you, but the rpg crowd was always more woke and left than average people.
Mrs. Bates was a corpse in the basement, not the attic. And sometimes she was put in a chair in an upstairs bedroom. : )
Not the end as long as you have pen and paper. They digitized your analog hobby so that they can take it away. Take the analog back and give them the finger.
UA-cam sucks... Dungeons & Discourse is awesome! I always enjoy watching your videos. I even watch your other channel and I never play nor do I like Warhammer.
surprise, you are a journalist, you do just as much work, if not more, in researching. "legitimacy" is in how trustworthy the report is in laying things out honestly and understandably, and guess what? you do far better than many of the old "legitimate" places.
Not a journalist? There's no rubber stamp for it. If you're someone who earnestly seeks the truth and cohesively relates it to others to spread the word... you're a journalist.
I'm an old New Englander, and I remember decades ago when Hasbro was the local toy/game company. They used to be so cool and promoted other local game businesses. They really went the way of Google.
"I actually put a ton of effort and thought into these videos. It takes me about a week to write, record, research, edit, and produce them." Hopefully, the steps you go through to make a video aren't in that order. I actually love watching your videos, whether you research them before or after you record them (lol :p). You're extremely entertaining, thoughtful, and informative. I don't even play ttrpg's but I haven't missed one of your videos since I found your channel.
As for the topic at hand, anti-monopoly laws aren't strict enough and when they *are* applied it seems haphazard. It's maddening and saddening to see good companies/sites/products thrown away in huge acquisitions because their bottom line isn't big enough, or the new owners don't want to put any effort/$ into that portion of the company, or they compete with something else the company already owns. On the other hand, it would be a great time to start up a ttrpg webzine or blog site, or, push promoting the ones that still exist (like you did here).
WotC and D&D is not the industry... they lost the REAL massive RPG community a long time ago after dividing their base over and over and over again.
If it was ran by decent human beings, they would have 10x the players
Had you ever saw "I, Claudius"? Remember that moment in which Sejanus is arrested at the Roman senate? This does feel like that scene but with Hasbro playing the role of Macro and Dicebreaker that of Sejanus.
Now that's a deep cut I can respect!
Discourse, I like your vids. They might be downers right now, but it seems important to you, so I’ll keep watching them. I do hope you find a way to create a positive video soonish. Started watching earlier vids from you as a break from what’s releasing, but I’m starting to feel that I’ve watched the video before I click on it since all of them have been negative for a bit. I just need to check when the video was uploaded so I know to watch the new one. While negative, they do shed necessary light on issues I haven’t heard about in the hobby I find myself in. As someone with D&D and Warhammer friends, it’s been rough to support my friends while we play games from companies I’m not a fan of. I wish you luck and I’ll see you when you post the next video.
This shits getting really annoying, I’ll say it again: I really liked your videos for a while but please just chill with all this clickbait, repetitive, rage bait titles, a lot of people enjoy actually entertaining videos rather than constant negativity “dnd is dead”, “wotc messed up”, “it’s over”, etc.
I don’t even bother watching the videos anymore 😢
Unlike the latest D&D book, it is highly unlikely that dilophosaurus spit venom. They were much larger than the movie portrayed and apex predators of their time. Venom would have been redundant. We also have no evidence of neck frills.
This monopoly of news own by only group of interest make me think of my country , France, not during the ORTF area in the 60 but now where 90% of press and media are own by 3 billionaire 2are neo liberal conservative the last one is a christofascist😢. Yes I am a bit stress by monopoly
That's just the state of the world everywhere, it's the inevitable capitalism path, I'm Brazilian and we are the same 3 major families own most of média, one of them is an evangelical who is trying to turn this country into Afghanistan but Christian.
If any other channel had this video title. I'd be thinking, "uh oh, someone's retiring."
With this channel, I assume Hasbro did something.
Maybe the video has some usefull and important information, but the clickbait title, argument\information sections blown up like a balloon with theather dramatic exposition are exhauting to watch and also harder to understand. What the feeling is while watching many of your videos: it takes like 2-3 time longer to watch than they really are.
Obviously dice breaker wasn't doing well if they felt they had to sell, and if it was a stock acquisition they could have filed to block it or shouldn't have been publicly traded. I don't buy it's not their fault for a second. Now yeah they didn't see there parent company selling which sucks but is always a possibility so wahhh. Cry me a river.
Why are people still using wotc stuff? Pathfinder and the new dc20 are brilliant. Warhammer 4e is an excellent system too!
its amazing how many videos on this channel have names like "its over" "the end" "they killed it" etc.
ikd, im not saying that the content of this very vid isnt disastrous, im just sayin, it somewhat lessens the impact when everything seems to be the apocalypse
She knows her audience niche and caters to them. If Wizard of the Coast isn't doing something next week she'll dig up some made up controversy about Critical Role. Or anything else she can find on reddit. But it will always be something. It's what this channel exists for. And if this niche ever becomes unprofitable for her she'll just reboot to a new topic that offers as much outrage clickbait as possible. She knows what makes money.
Which if you think about it makes her no different than Wizards of the Coast. They both take advantage of D&D fans for profit.
It really doesn't matter what fandom you go to. All outrage clickbait channels are the same.
I'm not saying one shouldn't make videos about the bad things these corporations are doing. But if you don't have videos about any other topic, not a single positive video about your hobby, then you're not actually a fan. You're just a grifter who is using the fan base because you know they're easy marks.
Of course Wizards of the Coast makes it easy. So you really can't fault her TOO much. Except everyone else is doing it too and UA-cam has become a cesspool as a result. Remember when fandom was a fun thing? Back before every "content creator" realized outrage got a lot more clicks? I sure do. I miss when people made UA-cam videos because they were passionate about their interests. Back before it was a vehicle for those who just desperately don't want to have to get a real job.
@@TheDragonWhimsy damn, shots fired. i cant find anything wrong with what youre saying though. sadly.
Just come to Paizo. We have... Different enough names for the same thing! But with more crunch and less, satanic rituals to increase profit.
Unfortunately this is the last video for me. The click bait dissonance between the content and the title/thumbnail just causes too much whiplash for me. I literally said "oh, what nothing crisis is this one going to be about?" And I was right to be so exhausted because it was nearly nothing about the gaming space minus some hyper niche nonsense.
Ahem. More Glory Hole jokes please..... Just saying
This is tough news to swallow... more sad times in the future. This is the time for all of the D&D competitors to get spotlight and to do that they need sights like dice breaker to talk about them. I doubt many places will be willing to cover anything that is not D&D
What may SEEM small and insignificant does infact point to much greater issues . . .
I've been interested in wargaming etc. for 20 years and have never heard of this website. Guess not much has changed for me.
PS: 3D Printer and one page rules goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Imagine thinking that we need a corporation to play D&D 😂😂😂 Gary be laughing his ass off if he heard that.
Man. That's sucks. I really loved Dice breakers
I gotta admit, I haven't checked a blog/article site for news or information for like a decade. Video format, whether it be streaming or curated and prepared content such as youtube, is more or less replaced it entirely. Websites like Dicebreaker and a ton of other video game sites/ttrpg sites are going to be flushed over the next five years as they become little vehicles for AD splashes and click farming.
Was not a fan of the DiceBreaker UA-cam channel, but more options are always better than less.
Boycott Hasbro. Play Pathfinder instead.
I’ve slowly watched UA-cam creators that were covering and supporting non D&D products cave in, and start to cover D&D related content almost exclusively. It’s truly sad. I’ve migrated completely off D&D in favor of a variety of other systems, in part due to these inspired creators. Now I feel like they’ve abandoned me. I get why (thank you UA-cam search algorithms) but it’s still sad.
People go back to D&D because you can't find people to play the other games and this is because most (not all) of them just suck.
@@1Bearsfan I completely disagree. I’ve played every version of D&D since it’s boxed set, and dozens of other systems from Tunnels and Trolls and GDW and Mongoose Traveller to Cypher System, Cyberpunk Red, Year Zero Engine, OSE and specially built ones like Vaesen and Dragonbane. All have their advantages and disadvantages. I have zero problem getting players. I’m running two Numenera campaigns, an Old Gods of Appalachia Campaign, a Blade Runner Campaign, and am starting up a Vaesen Campaign. I’ve got players lined up for more non D&D games. Both Campaigns and One Shots.
@@mohnkern Hey, good for you. Also, Traveller was the best space rpg by far.
@@1Bearsfan it depends on what your objective is. For players that like heavy mechanics in a Space Opera Theme, absolutely. But for players looking for less heavy mechanics I might Go Battlestations 2nd edition, Core Space, or Cypher Systems with the sci fi Genre white book.
@@mohnkern I like lots of mechanics. If I just want to shoot the shit and tell stories I don't need any rules at all. If I'm playing a game, I want good, in depth mechanics. "Loosey-goosey" is not for me.
I really hate small talk and meaningless gossip. But each time I see that thumbnail I make tea and wait for you to spill it xD cause THATS my kind of drama xD
Dish dish!
Preach!
A sad loss of independence in a corporate worl.
They weren't independent. they were owned by Gamer Network. That is the opposite of independent.
Gamers when IGN buys up its competitors only to shut the down: I sleep
Gamers when a game staring a women gets good reviews: ETHICS IN JOURNALISM!! I CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT ETHICS!! WE MUST PROTEST AND FIGHT AGAINST THIS!!!
Gamers when IGN defamed the Chinese developer of Black Myth Wukong, a game based on Chinese mythology, after mistranslating their statement, which was written in Chinese…
Nevermind, it’s obvious you only pay attention when it validates what you want to believe.
@@AnonAdderlan half my family is Chinese and speaks Chinese, and from what I can tell the translation is mostly accurate. Not all of it is perfect, and there’s one particularly awful translation, but it generally seems incredibly likely that the overall sentiment about Wukong’s workplace issues is correct, especially given the general issues with that in China as a whole.
It’s wild to me that gamers are ravenous for this game/cause. I mean there are so many valid things about IGN to criticise. It’s not like this game is “the little guy.” It’s been shown at every damn showcase, hasn’t been removed from any storefront, has large amounts of wish lists and preorders, and has predominantly positive buzz about it.
Thank you for always keeping me vigilant
Great. As if it was not already hard enough to get eyes on my system. I am offering one of the biggest TTRPGs that ever exited for free, and barely anybody knows it. You want war, WotC? Fine! I will get my game out there, even if I have to work ten times as hard as anybody else. 🔥
Not trained as a journalist ≠ not a journalist.
Oh old internet, I remember newsgroups via BBS, the TTRPG and other fandom newsgroups reminded me of a siege of constantinople, a bay full of (relation)ship(er)s, all on fire!
I mean, c'mon...if nothing else, at least slit yer potato on half, and microwave-bake it! And if ye can afford it, toss some cheese and green onions on there to give it a little flavor. It REALLY doesn't take much to make a potato *less bland*.
😜
wait you guys have microwaves?
Cant spell ignorant without IGN
Really playing those text ITS OVER thumbnails again I would prefer less of that your videos are fine without them
:)
Ahh didn't know you lived in Ireland. I love the GW store in Belfast.
Yup I pick up paint there often lol
@dungeonsanddiscourse nice. Well hello from America. I hope to be back there soon
Pathfinder 2 is a much superior system!
+1 for cyber-Disco robo-arm
There is a need to get the horses in front of the carts. The reason the internet is “three websites” is not because they’ve engaged in nefarious monopolistic tactics, but because those are the sites EVERYONE goes to. This indie news site didn’t get bought out because IGN sent Guido and Vinne to “make them an offer they can’t refuse”. The sold out to IGN because they couldn’t get enough people to subscribe or enough views to sell advertising. (Probably because most of their audience goes to YuTubers reading their articles instead of going to their site to read it themselves.
In short, they couldn’t make enough money to cover their expenses. They had a choice: go bankrupt and everyone lose their jobs, or sell out to a “corporate news conglomerate” who would most likely lay most everyone off, but drop a ton of money in their bank accounts. Either way most of the folks there weren’t likely to keep their jobs, because the audience who need the “important news about indie games” aren’t willing to PAY for that news or take the TIME to check out a half dozen websites and read three or four stories each (with their ad blockers turned off).
Yeah, this is the most basic, standard market outcome for a business that is apparently not worth the cost of operations to the public. Evidently there was not enough monetizable value in the services they were offering to justify their existence and the firm exited the industry.
@@nevisysbryd7450 And the little tidbit she forgot: IGN as a whole is going bankrupt because nobody reads any of IGN's various "news" (a word which here means "clickbait") sites that they bought hoping to gather enough of an audience by bringing together all of these small, indie sites. Apparently consolidating a bunch of little news sites nobody reads just leaves you with a BIG "news" site that nobody reads.
They're laying off people across the whole board of their various "departments" or "tabs" or whatever, because they still can't get enough page views to pay the guy using AI prompts to write all their listicles.
You can manipulate the flow of a river until the river just ends up going in that direction on it's own.
Does this person post anything other than ragebait?
Well maybe it will be so worthless that people who care and are talented enough can buy up the defunct IP's for nothing and resurrect them.
except that IGN buys and sits on IPs the way Disney does so no one else can use them.
The entire purpose of holding a dead IP is to kill competition, and it costs a corporation nothing to do so.
Discourse has truly perfected the exclamation: BOOSHAKALA! A subtle fusion of Ali-G's "Booyakasha" and Shaq's "BOOMSHAKALAKA" with original Chadwickian notes.
I love ALL Dungeons & Discourse videos!
I remember being on a livestream and asking WebDM in 2018 if folks were concerned about WOTC creating a hegemony/monopoly through walled garden techniques and controlling the signal about RPGs in general. I was laughed at.
Good video but needs more glory hole jokes
Fucking Wild that they’re finding your videos “not suitable for all advertisers” because I sure as hell am still getting ads on them
To quote Harry Vanderspeigle: "This is some bullshit." Godspeed Dicebreaker clan, may you land on warmer, gentler shores. Eat the Reich! More gloryhole jokes!
Can I request more glory hole jokes?
you've got the absolutely most clickable video titles and thumbnails
DiceBreaker has the initials DB. Big Dunks has the initials BD. That feels like a subtle ARG style "Anti DiceBreaker" message against IGN.
We don't have a cyberpunk dystopia, sadly. Cyberpunk dystopias built city-sized structures where employees were forced to live, work, play, and to stay at their job. Our dystopia has unaffordable housing and a gig economy that replaced job security. So, yeah, I'd kind of like the other dystopia.
Constructively, we still have ENWorld. ENWorld also runs their own Mastodon server, and Dice Camp is a second Mastodon resource away from the corporate grid. Lin Codega is still around doing their thing.
Even you cover things from more critical angles than 99% of my UA-cam feed. You're already a big part of the change that you're asking to see, and we appreciate your efforts. Thank you.
There is absolutely no way in hell I would buy anything from wotc at this point. Not only have they killed themselves. they stopped another baldurs gate game from happening. And that is absolutely unforgivable.
well shit, sorry for those that lost their jobs
Thanks for the update
Less glory hole jokes, please.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support!!
The best way to protect yourself from being “organically cancelled” is to never allow your virtue to be publicly traded.
There was supposed to be some kind of protection in place from a single company systematically just eliminating all of its competition, but I can't quite recall...
Discourse is yummy. Me like.
Sounds like the journalists from Dicebreaker need to start their own Substacks.
glad my whole group is moving to pathfinder
I watched Dicebreaker at first, nothing against them but they aren't part of my RPG or gaming hobby, they almost never covered games I played, so I won't miss thrm
I am more worried about Eurogamer, even though I do more TTRPG stuff than videogames. Dicebreaker was part of a stable, including video games
And yeah, the clickbait titles are getting out of flipping hand
THIS IS GOODBYE
HASBRO ENDED D&D FOREVER
HASBRO JUST KILLED D&D
THE (INSERT BUZZWORD) SCANDAL JUST GOT WORSE
AARGGH IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD!
PANIC MORE!
BE ANGRY!
AARGGGHHHH!
HORROR HORROR HORROR!
You've got good content but your titles and thumbnails are embarrassing. They're Daily Mail Headlines. I know the algorithm encourages this lunacy but have some self-respect.
Welcome to Capitalism and corporate media.... make sure to add there (IGN) domains to your pi hole blocklist.
6:43 Now that's a crossover I'd like to see. The House of the Dragon vs. the House of Vought. I wonder if Homelander could defeat Balerion the Black Dread in a face-to-face battle.