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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7983671" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Sure, I can see people being intimidated. I'm also seeing the other side of people being inspired. </p><p></p><p>And, I guess I'm missing your point since you seem to be focusing entirely on the negative aspects of what impact Mercer could be having on the community. There are also people who saw famous, successful, bad-ass actor Vin Diesel goofing around and playing DnD because of Mercer. How about the impact that might have had to show people ashamed of their love of fantasy games that there is nothing to be ashamed of.</p><p></p><p>You know, one of my memories from Middle School was doing a computer project for Dungeons and Dragons, one of the first links I found was to Dark Dungeons by Jack Chic. It was one of the first five links.</p><p></p><p>It isn't even in the first three pages anymore. Neither is Critical Role, but I don't doubt they had an impact in making the game so popular and changing this aspect.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I disagree, not only do I think it is less intimidating, I can guarantee more people are trying it than used to. Maybe that means more people are falling short too, but they never would have tried before CR, so that is still a net gain.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And those one or two didn't make it look easy? </p><p></p><p>The fact that I can watch a game with dozens of athletes makes it seem like it is pretty easy. I mean, there are literally hundreds of professional athletes and they make it look easy.</p><p></p><p>We know that it isn't the case, so why is it different for Matt? Because no DM has ever been famous before?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I took a break. Yeah, I was discouraged. Hell, I thought I was a failure as a person.</p><p></p><p>Do you think seeing Matt being successful would have somehow made it worse? I was in a gaming club. We had dozens of successful games going. I knew people ran campaigns that lasted years and I had failed to run for two sessions. </p><p></p><p>Think about that for a second. I knew that "other people" could run for years at a time with "no problems" but I didn't know how they did it. With CR, you can literally watch and see how he does it. You can see him get caught off-guard, you can see his plans fall apart around him and he laughs about it in joy. </p><p></p><p>Isn't that better than having some imaginary bar that I can never see, some perfect ideal in my head that has no form except "better than me"?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you feel the need to assign blame, then who else should we blame?</p><p></p><p>You said Matt isn't to blame, so who is? Who should stop doing what they are doing so that these people aren't feeling bad about themselves?</p><p></p><p>And if it is no one's fault, why turn around and say "Mercer is having a negative impact because this is happening."?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't disagree with either of these statements. I agree with both of them actually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7983671, member: 6801228"] Sure, I can see people being intimidated. I'm also seeing the other side of people being inspired. And, I guess I'm missing your point since you seem to be focusing entirely on the negative aspects of what impact Mercer could be having on the community. There are also people who saw famous, successful, bad-ass actor Vin Diesel goofing around and playing DnD because of Mercer. How about the impact that might have had to show people ashamed of their love of fantasy games that there is nothing to be ashamed of. You know, one of my memories from Middle School was doing a computer project for Dungeons and Dragons, one of the first links I found was to Dark Dungeons by Jack Chic. It was one of the first five links. It isn't even in the first three pages anymore. Neither is Critical Role, but I don't doubt they had an impact in making the game so popular and changing this aspect. I disagree, not only do I think it is less intimidating, I can guarantee more people are trying it than used to. Maybe that means more people are falling short too, but they never would have tried before CR, so that is still a net gain. And those one or two didn't make it look easy? The fact that I can watch a game with dozens of athletes makes it seem like it is pretty easy. I mean, there are literally hundreds of professional athletes and they make it look easy. We know that it isn't the case, so why is it different for Matt? Because no DM has ever been famous before? Yeah, I took a break. Yeah, I was discouraged. Hell, I thought I was a failure as a person. Do you think seeing Matt being successful would have somehow made it worse? I was in a gaming club. We had dozens of successful games going. I knew people ran campaigns that lasted years and I had failed to run for two sessions. Think about that for a second. I knew that "other people" could run for years at a time with "no problems" but I didn't know how they did it. With CR, you can literally watch and see how he does it. You can see him get caught off-guard, you can see his plans fall apart around him and he laughs about it in joy. Isn't that better than having some imaginary bar that I can never see, some perfect ideal in my head that has no form except "better than me"? If you feel the need to assign blame, then who else should we blame? You said Matt isn't to blame, so who is? Who should stop doing what they are doing so that these people aren't feeling bad about themselves? And if it is no one's fault, why turn around and say "Mercer is having a negative impact because this is happening."? I don't disagree with either of these statements. I agree with both of them actually. [/QUOTE]
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