I pit DrDeth

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game

– Joni Mitchell, “the circle game”

[MrDibble]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

It’s kind of weird to pull a YOU DON’T KNOW ME I MEAN THEM about WOTC employees.

I mean, he already did it about Gygax in that thread, so it’s all downhill from there.

[Skywatcher]

@mordecaiB

Also, the way he always calls himself a “fed - but not law enforcement.” When people say fed they specifically mean federal law enforcement. Nobody says fed when talking about the guy down at the social security office.

Now he’s not even bothering with a distinction.

[Babale]

@DrDeth

All the excitement about the Hadozee being racist as they are monkeys (and monkeys have been used by bigots as a racist thing in the past) and capering like Minstrels- I finally read the actual new WotC book where that illustration was from. Hadozee are descended from flying squirrels, not monkeys. They are rodents, not primates.

@DrDeth

All the excitement about the Hadozee being racist as they are monkeys (and monkeys have been used by bigots as a racist thing in the past) and capering like Minstrels- I finally read the actual new WotC book where that illustration was from. Hadozee are descended from flying squirrels, not monkeys. They are rodents, not primates.

Holy shit you can’t make this stuff up

[crowmanyclouds]

To be fair, the good doctor isn’t offended by duck minstrels either,

@DrDeth

I concur.

[ASL_v2.0]

@crowmanyclouds

duck minstrels

Duckstrels?

[Babale]

It’s not even that he doesn’t see that it’s racist, it’s that he’s unironically trying to “well, acktshualy” racism. “No, see, I know it SOUNDS like the N word, but tbe etymologies are unrelated!”

[MrDibble]

I don’t see it in Ducky Lucky, the way it’s screamingly obvious in the Hadozee.

And as my detractors will happily tell you, I see racism everywhere.

[Babale]

@MrDibble

I don’t see it in Ducky Lucky, the way it’s screamingly obvious in the Hadozee.

BuT hOw CaN a FlYiNg SqUiRrEl Be RaCiSt?1?1?

[Alessan]

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[Pleonast]

Are people still reading those posts? My time and thoughts are too valuable to waste.

[Skywatcher]

@MrDibble

the way it’s screamingly obvious in the Hadozee.

Now he says they still kinda look like squirrels because he had a pet squirrel once.

My mom took in a baby squirrel that had been blown out of a tree by a hurricane and raised it. They’re really good at holding on to branches, trees, the reed-like wallpaper in our house, etc. Picking up and holding objects, not so much.

[MrDibble]

@Skywatcher

Now he says they still kinda look like squirrels because he had a pet squirrel once

I’m only surprised it wasn’t a squirrel he inherited from Gary Gygax…

[Babale]

@Skywatcher

Now he says they still kinda look like squirrels because he had a pet squirrel once.

Don’t be silly @MrDibble, It was a Prevost’s Squirrel from southeast Asia, his dad brought it back for him after his time advising McArthur during the war.

[MrDibble]

The dumb motherfucker doubled down on the insanity. This almost feels cruel.

D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer))

Do Hippopotamuses have opposable digits? Cats? Wolves? Lizards? Come now, you claim you play D&D, you have to know all the anthropomorphic animal PC races have opposable digits. Your point here invalidates your arguments. Yes they are. And it is a BARD, not a minstrel. You should know that. Calling it a “minstrel” is poisoning the well, and a poor debating trick. Now it is an ape, not a monkey? How many apes have wing flaps? They are meant to be a descendant from a race of flying squ…

[naita]

@Skywatcher

Now he says they still kinda look like squirrels because he had a pet squirrel once.

I’m not unignoring him to see if this is genuinely true, as I assume, or a joke based on his patterns of behavior, which seems possible since it’s so bonkers, but it is effing hilarious.

[MrDibble]

Oh, it’s genuine all right.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

Yeah–as near as I can tell, he noticed that the game’s text mentioned mammals with wing-flaps used for gliding, decided they must mean flying squirrels, decided the artist was trying to draw flying squirrels, and concluded not only that the artist therefore wasn’t racist, but that a condescending, snide lecture on Occam’s Razor was called for. It’s damn near performance art.

@DrDeth

I concur they are weird, but actually those hind feet do look somewhat like squirrel feet (I had a pet squirrel once).

[Kron]

There aren’t many posters that I feel are so utterly useless that they actually make it to my ignore list; the good Dr is one of the only two extant posters on my list.

[ASL_v2.0]

Really? I have an expansive ignore list, but he hasn’t made it onto it yet.