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okay so the RPG Community just got some
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insane Dungeons and Dragons news and it
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is terrifying and as a result it has
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dominated every single conversation I've
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had with anyone about Dungeons and
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Dragons since seriously even my
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therapist brought it up but here's the
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thing this news wasn't posted on a D and
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D Beyond blog or in a snazzy marketing
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video it was never intended to be in the
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Zeitgeist rather it was surreptitiously
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leaked out into the night from hbro
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orifice like uh okay I really don't want
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to be demonetized again so what leaks
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what leaks got it like I ooze in the hit
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1995 sensation Mighty Morphin Power
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Rangers the movie but now that Ivan ooze
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discharge this major leak is out there
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in the wild and the D andd Community
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have found out all about it and they
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have gone into a major Melton reacting
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to it with all the Vigor of a nun
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beating an orphan already there are
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calls to boycott Hasbro the owners of
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Dungeons and Dragons please for
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subscribers to cancel their D and D
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Beyond subs and ultimately the community
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are discussing whether or not to reject
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entirely the new edition of Dungeons and
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Dragons 2024 in a major protest and this
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is all happening just as the new edition
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of Dungeons and Dragons has literally
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launched and this is all because many in
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the Dungeons and Dragons Spears want to
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avoid this terrifying fat that looks
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like it's about to befall us but and I
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hate to say say this but alas I must put
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on my executioner mask become ostracized
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from the community embrace the burakumin
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lifestyle because the extreme fears of
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the DN Community don't go far enough
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this leak is actually much worse than
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people think there is so much more going
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on here and it really really does suck
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for Dungeons and Dragons and the RPG
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scene seriously this Scandal has just
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started and all already it is one of the
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gnarliest DN news I've ever heard maybe
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since the ogl Scandal and that's
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probably because the news was never
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meant to be public at all but now it is
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so we have to talk about it for context
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this all started last month well it
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really started in 1926 when big papa
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hbro took mother Coast under the oak
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tree but that's by the by see last month
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husbro finally decided to bust out of
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their Rock with the biggest news reveal
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about the future of Dungeons and Dragons
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that they've ever done and they
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delivered this news in a mass of all
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singing all Dunson show the DND D
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2024 direct show now this was pumped
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outed in a video on YouTube and it was
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fairly controversial from the outset it
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pretty much got picked apart by the
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internet faster than an Irish gve robber
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and that's not a r thing we've just had
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a lot of practice so you know please
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subscribe to the channel so I don't have
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to Rob any more Graves people people
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don't bury valuables anymore now those
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Anglo Saxons they knew how to make a gve
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now most of the show was pretty
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non-controversial showing some good
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stuff like new content coming to D and D
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from third parties reveals about a new
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starter set there was talk about a
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players guy to the Forgotten Realms this
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is all really cool stuff good but tucked
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away into this show was also a bucket
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load of tie-in nightmares because this
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was our first really really good look at
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the new DND virtual ual tabletop sigil
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and Hasbro chose to announce this new
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virtual tabletop with the shadow of a
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transformer miniature making it very
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clear that we should be expecting
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Dungeons and Dragons fortnite going
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forward in fact Chris Cal the head of D
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andd sigil was really explicit in an
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interview last month saying that he
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wants the D and D VT to be Dungeons and
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Dragons fortnite he wants it to be
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monetized like a live service game he
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wants to attract video Gamers and keep
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them trapped inside Hasbro's new digital
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SP presumably all of this grown D
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between pumps so this whole D and D
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direct show had folk kind of worried and
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overall the reception from the community
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was about broadly similar as the
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reception to that advert for jumpers
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that featured the pope Kine Ahmed Al T
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Sheik of the Alazar mosque which
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actually was an advert for jumpers I I
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didn't make that up and that's kind of
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weird so this all caused speculation
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about the future of Dungeons and Dragons
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to begin to run rampant but before
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anyone could even get really a grip on
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things an explosive new leak slipped out
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onto the bed sheets and it blew
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everything up so I guess I won't be
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signing up to D and D Beyond to buy the
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digital version of DnD D 2024 n which
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also by the way I just discovered did
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you know that Hasbro ask for your name
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country and date of birth when you sign
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up the D and D Beyond that's kind of
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weird right like why do they want that
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is it to impersonate me online is it to
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send the pinkertons after me is it so
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Chris Cox see of Hasbro can find out
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where I personally live and hang around
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outside my house in a running car while
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smoking cigarettes at 3:00 a.m and then
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go through my trash to find strands of
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hair for his love doll I genuinely want
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to know why Chris feels like he needs
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that information especially considering
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a show about high Transformers are
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coming to D and D hi husbro are going to
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get video Gamers into the role playing
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game hobby via new digital world Garden
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we know about the massive monetization
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schemes for players and the genuine
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attempts at recreating Dungeons and
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Dragons fortnite hi could husb have
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possibly made all of this worse well you
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see like any normal gingerbread man that
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miraculously sprang to life but lost a
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gun drop button in the process and is
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therefore doomed to consume everything
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it finds just to fill that deep missing
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void within themselves Chris Cox CEO at
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Hasbro finally decided that n was the
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time to drop the charid and Munch down
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hard on every single Le chocolate bunny
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that he could find sorry this candy
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anology thing really got away from me
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see Chris has presumably been on a mad
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best of the it sci-fi binge and learned
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absolutely zero lessons from any of them
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he probably thinks that Burning Down the
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Amazon Allah rubocop 2 is pretty cool
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and if you don't believe me well okay
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get this Chris Cox is a normal human
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being you can't prove otherwise unlike
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any normal human being he was at a
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Goldman Sachs investment banking conab
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do you know what a confab is I sure
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don't I assume it's a convention but the
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kind that you can only get into if
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you've ever non-sexually used human
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being as furniture and you come dressed
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only in the coat of a homeless man that
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you won in the blood pits or rather paid
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someone to win for you in the blood pits
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and at this little conob Chris made a
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pretty big speech and the speech got
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leaked out into the peasant Villages oh
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no that's me and you by the way and
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you'll never guess it but Lord Cox said
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something extremely wild something a
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little bit out of touch something pretty
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terrifying quote inside of Hasbro
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development we've already been using AI
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it's mostly machine learning pie or
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proprietary AI as opposed to chat GPT we
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at hasb deployed significantly and
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liberally internally has both a
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knowledge worker and as a development ID
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though I'm probably more excited about
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the playful elements of AI like using AI
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for emergent storytelling you're going
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to see that not just in our hardcore
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Brands like D and D but also multiple of
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Our Brands uh guys where's the brick
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glass in case of emergency button I
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think we press that now right this is
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one of the gnarliest statements I've
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ever heard from a CEO and I have a
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microphone in Zuckerberg's bathroom
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don't ask so just to emphasize this
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Chris Cox said he wants a playful use of
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AI for emergent storytelling and you
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know what this means right Chris is
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saying here that AI is not only being
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used at husbro already but it is going
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to be used in Dungeons and Dragons
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the game going forward and also that
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it's going to be playful no to me
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playful only means one thing sticking on
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a giant animal suit and going raar with
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your paw and therefore making people
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question their sexuality okay I guess
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playful can mean two things because it
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also means that all those rumors and
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leaks about aidm were true yeah it turns
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out Aid DMS are just happening n but
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even more Chris is suggesting that we
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should also be looking forward to things
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like AI portraits for D and D Beyond art
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integration of AI databases generative
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texts for the D and D game possibly in
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sigil and wildest of all possibly even
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the regurgitation of famous dungeon
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master personalities and an aidm format
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goodbye Matt Mercer Brandon Lee Mulligan
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and Johnny D I mean you probably don't
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know Johnny D but he's the best dungeon
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master in my local bulling alley you
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guys will no longer be needed because no
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husbro are probably downloading the
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millions of hours of of all those DMS
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and getting ready to simulate them in
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anticipation of our new distopian
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cyberpunk future where we all get on our
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VR headsets and play Dungeons and
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Dragons like we're having sex and
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Demolition Man God I'm really worried
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about Johnny D Matt Mercer too I guess I
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okay I get it there should be a lot of
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skepticism around this but the
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inevitability of radical AI integration
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into Dungeons and Dragons by Hasbro is
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not just beasted on this latest leak
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we've also been getting tons of evidence
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that Hasbro were up to this over the
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last year and I've willfully not wanted
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to believe it but between husbro
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partnering with the Italian AI company
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explored for their board Gams hiring
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senior AI engineers and another one this
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week and Chris Cox openly saying that
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Dungeons and Dragons has 50 years of
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content to mind for generative AI boy it
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sure seems like the evidence is really
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starting to pile up it's clear that hasb
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see AI as the future of Dungeons and
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Dragons and that this likely includes
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Aid DMs see while it's true that right
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and I Hasbro make most of their dungeons
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dragons money from dungeon Masters the
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the the fleshy kind that is after all
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they're the ones who typically buy all
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the D and D books for the table or
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invest in the easy wipe Services Hasbro
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have spent the last few years trying to
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change that because the Dungeons and
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Dragons population is relatively small
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it's only about 20% of the overall D and
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D population and that's why the sigil
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virtual tabletop is so focused on
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monetizing the other 80% of the player
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audience this is why Chris Cy recently
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made it clear that sigil would have a
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free toplay element an exwy president
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Cynthia Williams said they want to
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unlock recurrent spending for Dungeons
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and Dragons players like in video games
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because the brand is under monetized
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Hasbro are trying to make the player
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Market as lucrative for them as the
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dungeon master Market by selling skins
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virtual dice special tokens subscription
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face basically anything that they can
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think of but here's a suggestion Chris
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human milk very lucrative in specialty
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markets yet the only way that free to
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play Live service video game recurrent
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spending like this works is if you threw
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a wide enough net to catch a few Wheels
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hbw really want to maximize The Dungeons
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of dragons player base available for
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exploitation that makes sense but they
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have a major problem there because the
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size of that player Bas will always be
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bottlenecked by the availability of
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Hardcore dungeon Masters yeah it's a
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symbiotic relationship players need
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dungeon Masters and dungeon Masters need
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players or else they're just unpublished
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fantasy writers so Hasbro's revenue from
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players will always be limited by the
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amount of DMS it can only grow as fast
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as new dungeon Masters are popped up by
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Mom and Dad or grown in a vat this is a
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problem that is unique to RPGs it is not
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something that video games like fortnite
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have to deal with so then what are hasb
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going to do how can they grow the PO
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population of players independent of the
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availability of dungeon Masters well
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it's simple you just automate the
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dungeon master rule you remove the
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dungeon master barrier for player growth
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you remove the biology you embrace the
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machine heal Mars heal the machine
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spirit and that's what investors want
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they want more ceiling for growth and
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that's why he made this mad statement
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out of Goldman Sachs dinner presumably
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between bites of ortelan and if that
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wasn't enough Chris went on he went on
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to say this quote if you look at a
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typical DND player there's not a single
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person who doesn't use AI somehow for
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either comp development or character
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development or even story ideas that's a
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clear signal that we need to be essing
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it so this really is the future at least
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as Chris Cox and the hbw executives are
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concerned Chris Cox and the hbw
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executives God that sounds like the
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worst Prague rock band ever exist but
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here's the thing about that AI dungeon
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Masters AI integration into D and D
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Beyond that's not the worst of this this
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story gets way way worse see I'm pretty
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neutral overall on the idea of AI
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dungeon Masters you know replacing Matt
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Mercer or God forbid Johnny D the Sultan
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of strikes with a Chucky doll DM
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excluded that that I'm not a fun of I
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don't think that AI dungeon Masters will
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ever be as good as a human being DM
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which is a really weird sentence to have
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to say but there's lots of people out
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there who just genuinely don't have a
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dungeon master that can run a game of
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Dungeons and Dragons for them and those
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people want to play Dungeons and Dragons
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even if they happen to live in a small
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town who are trapped currently in the
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blood pits so having an AI to run the
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game for them is like the Sci-Fi
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equivalent of playing a fighting fantasy
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book except you aren't allow to keep
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your thumb on the previous page so you
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can't guarantee Victory every time which
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kind of blows but I can deal ultimately
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AI dungeon Masters are a tool they're a
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tool I don't trust in the hands of an
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evil gorilla never mind Hasbro but a
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tool nonetheless make mistakes there are
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bad things about that tool there are bad
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things that Hasbro can do with that tool
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remember that Hasbro will own the rights
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to anything created by their proprietary
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AI as Chris Cox called it that includes
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anything that has a little bit of World
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building done that includes any stats or
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items or weapons created in humu that
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includes your characters this could
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potentially result in a world where
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Dungeons and Dragons couldn't exist
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outside of Hasbro and that is an exist
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IAL threat to Dungeons and Dragons I
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mean I don't know where we go from there
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but it probably ends up with robots
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launching nooks and everything not to
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mention that if hbw ever collapsed which
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to be honest doesn't look unlikely we'll
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lose access to all of that Homebrew like
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I have no longer access to my Yahoo
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music hell last month we were having to
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deal with the fact that hasb were trying
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to literally wipe out all the 2014
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content from people's character sheets I
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mean jeez Osama Bin Laden knew what was
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up everything he owned was in disc form
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boy I sure hope that's sentence doesn't
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ever get taken out of context but even
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worse than that this statement from
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Chris the implication that he is
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painting here is horrifying for the
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actual current employees of Wizards of
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the Coast and Hasbro the people who you
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know actually create Dungeons and
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Dragons they do the art they design the
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game they write the Books the creators
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the people who actually make the game
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possible because regardless of what you
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think about AI the Dark Truth is that
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Executives and husw are desperate to
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begin replacing employees with AI at
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every single level except for the
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executive level of course after all AI
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could never do an Executives job they
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could never attend whiskey brunches with
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shareholders or make arbitrary gut
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reaction decisions that determine the
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fate of millions based only on The Vibes
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and look this might sound outlandish but
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hbw already routinely fired designers
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and employees at every opportunity we
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had a huge C lit last year just before
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Christmas they have no respect at all
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for their employees hbro are desperate
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to take jobs away from people and give
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it to nothing just a slave bot I mean
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ultimately slave Bots are the perfect
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employee right no sleep no family no
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existence outside of the office and they
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don't even need a cubicle though hot tip
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you can't just kidnap people and if you
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don't give them access to the outside
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world no one will try to stop you I'm
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sure okay husbro and waly have flatly
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denied that they're using AI over and
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over and over again they flatly denied
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it a bunch and they have claimed that AI
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will never come to Dungeons and Dragons
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it's just that every single time husbro
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make an official statement saying that
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they are definitely not building the
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Terminator a leaked speech comes out of
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a husbro executive talking about hi all
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that thick skin is coming along real
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well so who are we going to believe then
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the marketing department or Chris Cox
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the guy who pays the marketing
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department to lie for him because hbu's
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marketing team know that AI will go down
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very badly in the hardcore Dungeons and
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Dragons Community But ultimately that
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doesn't really matter to the exec Ives
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they're still going to do it this latest
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Scandal is not husb saying that they are
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testing the waters with AI it's not them
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saying that they're going to dip a two
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into the turgid Waters of trapping the
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RPG community in a wall off digital
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fortnite G with sigil no no they have
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already made a plan they are committed
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to doing it right in front of us and
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they are pushing an attritional War hbro
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are pushing the limits over and over and
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over again hoping that by Scandal number
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307 people will finally stop carrying
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weathered done by the endless outrages
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and just cash in please they want
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everybody to stop caring well guess what
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I won't stop I [ __ ] love this game I
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love RPGs and I do not want to see it
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transformed into something monstrous if
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hbw keep [ __ ] around I will keep
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making sure that they fine died but to
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do that I need your help my videos keep
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getting demonetized and that's partly
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because I'm flashing up grotesque and
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sexualized imagery between frames every
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so often that are subliminally impacting
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you but also just like the enire content
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I make isn't very Advertiser friendly
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according to Google so if you want to
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help me keep on top of all this check
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out my patreon patreon.com discourse
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minis or simply subscribe to the channel
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and give it a like to help me stay
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relevant within the evil YouTube
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algorithm yeah stuff like that keep them
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me ey I I want to give a mass of thanks
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to my current patrons especially crypto
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cave thank you so much I could not do
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this without you and I'll catch you all
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next time bye-bye
