Today I defend Hasbro/WOTC, D&D, and diversity in the hobby against fascist Elon Musk #dnd #elonmusk #hasbro #wotc youtu.be/UyfOQ64P_lU - ThreadSky

ruleslawyer.bsky.social • 90 days ago

Today I defend Hasbro/WOTC, D&D, and diversity in the hobby against fascist Elon Musk
#dnd #elonmusk #hasbro #wotc
https://youtu.be/UyfOQ64P_lU

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katie.bzky.team•81 days ago

great video as always and glad to have you here on bsky now but a little funny to me referring to grummz as "someone on twitter" when he's a pretty notorious gamergater and etc lol

tribe303.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thanks for all the great work you do!
Greetings from Canada! 🇨🇦

cowboy-chris.bsky.social•88 days ago

I knew Ronald was cool, smart, and handsome but I didn’t know he also had good political opinions as well.

neil-before-zod.bsky.social•86 days ago

All this so he can finally "win D&D".

Great video on a complex issue.
Supporting bad companies vs an even worse person.

wuhu-island.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thank you for speaking on this, we need more people shutting toxic behavior like this down. I've been watching your content ever since I got into pf2e, and I'll continue to do so.

sirhcwarrior.bsky.social•90 days ago

found you because of SuperGeekMike, who decided not to get political. but i'm a girl, in gaming, and healthcare, and i understand that every damn thing is political now.

hoverfrog.bsky.social•89 days ago

Hasbro only cares about making a profit. WotC, as a subsidiary company, makes money by selling products and services, books, games, etc, to people. It does not serve them to see products that upset their customers. This is not even a story worth paying attention to except that Musk is now involved.

hoverfrog.bsky.social•89 days ago

I'm going to continue not buying from Hasbro and not buying from Musk's companies. My opinion of that weak, self aggrandising man, has somehow been lowered by this whole thing. I didn't think that was possible.

I hope Musk does buy WoTC. He'll destroy D&D like he has Twitter. Good riddance.

hoverfrog.bsky.social•89 days ago

Maybe someone else will pick it up in a yard sale in a decade or so and make something of the game that I grew up playing. In the meantime, I'll keep playing Pathfinder, Pathfinder 2, and other games where the makers aren't such dicks.

csiga.bsky.social•88 days ago

I don't like what WOTC and Hasbro did to DnD but Elon Musk getting DnD would be a disaster!
He would mishandle it even worse than Hasbro AND insert his questionable worldviews into DnD which would drive away most players and kill the franchise for good.

itsvox.bsky.social•90 days ago

Very Awesome to see you over here! Sharing this video, You had me nodding along the entire time. Love your stuff, but try not to burn out with everything you have on your plate!

ruleslawyer.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thanks!

shanwolf.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thank you for this. Occasionally need to see that someone is as angry about this all as I am.

randallpatton.bsky.social•90 days ago

Good video and nice summary of the problematic history of early D&D.

Musk and his followers are tourists to the TTRPG and do not know/care about its origins, let alone play and enjoy the game. If they did, they might not be so dang upset all the time.

christophergr.bsky.social•90 days ago

Something seems wrong defending Hasbro.
The Authors and the Hobby? Absolutely.
But Hasbro hasn't been much better then Elon. Is this just on the hope of future improvement?

Or are you at the "ally with the Mafia to keep shipping save in WW2" level of deseperation already?

detdenver.bsky.social•90 days ago

I think you might be under estimating how bad an Elon hasbro would be. His goal isn't to make money like hasbros is, but to spread the culture war and infect the ttrpg community with reactionary politics.

christophergr.bsky.social•89 days ago

How would owning Hasbro add to his ability to do that?

detdenver.bsky.social•89 days ago

Imagine he makes a new rulebook where the rules are explicitly antiwoke. Like female characters are restricted to certain classes, certain ancestries are restricted to certain alignments and whatnot.

christophergr.bsky.social•89 days ago

Then nobody plays that dated shit and he just wasted a lot of money.

detdenver.bsky.social•89 days ago

I think the goal is attracting his crowd to infiltrate and ruin the space. It's what he had been trying to do with video games for years. It's also to legitimize those views and spread them as far as he can.

christophergr.bsky.social•89 days ago

The people that wanted to play that way already could. Not like the rules Police would bust down your door.
The rest just doesn't care for such crappy 1960s mechanics.

magicswords.bsky.social•89 days ago

Love your videos, stoked to see you here on Bluesky! Also, switched to Pathfinder last year because of your videos. Such a superior system!!

ruleslawyer.bsky.social•89 days ago

important to speak the plain truth to the millions of people who are being duped and manipulated by fascists.
It's telling that no one in the comments back Musk's belief that Hasbro is "erasing and slandering" Gygax etc: this was never about his legacy and was only about the "right" to be bigoted.

roled.bsky.social•89 days ago

I want to sue the Illinois public school system for turning me into an addict
They got me hooked in phonics,and it's been a downhill slide ever since

urbaneblobfish.bsky.social•89 days ago

People’s obsession with defending every single thing said by people like gygax seems downright cultish.

mirriky.bsky.social•89 days ago

It's blatant attention seeking too, he had no intention of buying twitter (he was forced to follow through when he tried to back out), and he has no intention of buying Hasbro.

lordtopius.bsky.social•89 days ago

I can't understand how those millions could turn into obedient little guard dogs, when someone above their reach say: I have a lot of money.

It's surreal and sad

liketraveller.bsky.social•89 days ago

If we give them the chance these goons will march their jackboots across everything we love, even our silly little make-believe games!

ruleslawyer.bsky.social•89 days ago

opposing Musk's culture war emboldening (mostly) white men to feel they can be openly bigoted, and defending the right to exist of nonwhite, LGBT+, women, and others in this hobby and in this society.
To the concern that I'm being too blunt: note that I only call Trump and Musk fascists. It's

ruleslawyer.bsky.social•89 days ago

good reasons to boycott), that is a decision to support unequivocally and strongly. We don't want a situation where WOTC quietly demotes/doesn't give more projects to Tondro and Peterson to appease the haters. And that means neutralizing Musk.
This video isn't about who should own D&D; it's about

ruleslawyer.bsky.social•89 days ago

what standing on principle requires.
So long as Hasbro and WOTC don't retract anything, they're officially standing by the statements defending the right of me and other LGBT, minority, and other discriminated-against people to be in the hobby. As shitty as many things WOTC has done (and all the

ruleslawyer.bsky.social•89 days ago

and which they continue to stand by, while also continuing to call on people to boycott WOTC and remain the most vocal creator on this front. A corporation can be evil, and do things you defend. Allying with your enemies in politics and in real life against third parties happens all the time. That's

ruleslawyer.bsky.social•89 days ago

I speak as a gay Asian man who sees with horror Musk's attempt to whip up prejudice against minorities, LGBT+, women, etc. (One racist comment just blamed me for Pearl Harbor.) My own existence and survival are at stake, so hell yeah I'll defend statements Hasbro/WOTC made supporting inclusiveness

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