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Critical Role... and other stuff.
Jun. 10th, 2021 02:59 pmAs of last night, I'm up to the start of episode 18 of Critical Role (campaign 1), so far. Yeah... I've actually watched two episodes per day on some of the days when I had time available to do so (sometimes staying up way later than I probably should have to do so), in lieu of, like, playing video games or whatever, but definitely at least one ep per day so far. It does go by a little faster than it seems like it would, watching on 1.25x speed (bumped up to 1.5x for the after-session stuff) and skipping the 10-20+ minutes worth of breaks at the start and in the middle.
I've said in the past that I don't give a fuck about sports and I don't give a fuck about (fak)e-sports either, but... this, this right here, watching these guys play D&D... I'm going to have to say this is my "sports," now.
Counter Monkey was kind of the gateway drug, I guess, though that only involved Spoony talking about playing, not actually playing (I haven't watched his Pathfinder stuff). That, along with reading things like Old Man Henderson, The Ballad of Edgardo, and That Guy Destroys Psionics (though those, funny as they are to read about after the fact, would be more like reasons not to play tabletop games, honestly). And there was stuff like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, and, of course, Planescape: Torment (also Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, and Torment: Tides of Numenera, though I haven't completed a full playthrough of those as of yet). However, aside from when I watched Wil Wheaton DM Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana a few years ago, this is the first time I've seen actual Dungeons & Dragons (since, well, Titansgrave technically wasn't actually using D&D in the first place).
Still don't know if I'll ever get involved in actually playing this stuff myself... but then, I'll never play in the Super Bowl, either. *shrug* I'd watch a million hours of these guys playing D&D before I'd willingly watch another fucking football game, though (and would actively seek out a game of D&D or whatever to play before I'd ever willing play a game of football, either). ¬_¬
I've said in the past that I don't give a fuck about sports and I don't give a fuck about (fak)e-sports either, but... this, this right here, watching these guys play D&D... I'm going to have to say this is my "sports," now.
Counter Monkey was kind of the gateway drug, I guess, though that only involved Spoony talking about playing, not actually playing (I haven't watched his Pathfinder stuff). That, along with reading things like Old Man Henderson, The Ballad of Edgardo, and That Guy Destroys Psionics (though those, funny as they are to read about after the fact, would be more like reasons not to play tabletop games, honestly). And there was stuff like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, and, of course, Planescape: Torment (also Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, and Torment: Tides of Numenera, though I haven't completed a full playthrough of those as of yet). However, aside from when I watched Wil Wheaton DM Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana a few years ago, this is the first time I've seen actual Dungeons & Dragons (since, well, Titansgrave technically wasn't actually using D&D in the first place).
Still don't know if I'll ever get involved in actually playing this stuff myself... but then, I'll never play in the Super Bowl, either. *shrug* I'd watch a million hours of these guys playing D&D before I'd willingly watch another fucking football game, though (and would actively seek out a game of D&D or whatever to play before I'd ever willing play a game of football, either). ¬_¬
