Quote from: Snowman0147;742049Who watches Community?  No seriously that is a honest as god statement here.

Not many people. But far more than play D&D.

Quote from: Snowman0147;742049Who watches Community?  No seriously that is a honest as god statement here.  That show is a failure and I don't know anyone that watches it.  We can safely ignore him.

I watched it, I like it (not the last season, but oy vey). And honestly, every time such threads are posted on RPG forums, the smell of Why Wasn't I Consulted pain is sweet symphony of pleasure to my nose. This whole thing probably went like this.

"I'm a freelance journalist and could use a few more bucks this week. What to write, what to write...hey I know, let's write about RPGs! Now that's a lousy topic...but hey, Dan Harmon is pretty famous and  a huge nerd apparently, let's see if he'll talk about it!"

Fuck, I do not even use alcohol and I have no trouble with basically any level of drunkenness at my table. Drunk just peels away the outside so you can see the asshole hiding down below. If you are not an asshole, there is rarely a problem.
I have never had any problem gaming with stoners either. If someone is an easily distracted moron, pot isn't really going to change that; it is just going to make it easier to see.

What a bunch of fucking angry hothouse flowers you guys are. Filled with the rage of a thousand suns and equipped with the resilience of a fucking soap bubble.

Ooooooh potheads, help me.... I'm  wilting. Oh my goodness someone touched a beer, call the temperance police, my elf is fucking crying.

Praise Jesus and pass the hohos.

I've gamed for a decade with a group made up half of stoners, and it works just great for them.  It's definitely a different thing than gaming with drunk people.  Though I've gamed with drunk people before, and that can also be fun.

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It is not actually butt hurt though.  I don't even know this guy nor his tv show.  I ask my friends around last night and they never heard of it either.  What we do know is that it was once other than it got canceled.  Then I went to people I know in the internet and they didn't know what the show is.  The only thing I got to give out any impression is base solely on his shitty advice.

Quote from: Snowman0147;742121I don't even know this guy nor his tv show.  I ask my friends around last night and they never heard of it either.

Hard to argue with a rigorous objective standard like that.

I think that the polearm section was good thing.  Not every gamer is a historian or weaponphile and really doesn't know what some of these things  are or look like.  

One of my earliest memories of playing AD&D with the second group I ever played with was of my friend Scott and David.  David was the DM and Scott was playing a Thief.  We were in a standard dungeon hallway and we spotted a enemy up head in the hallway.  Scott announced that his Thief will sneak up on the enemy and backstab him with his awl pike!  David and I bust out in laughter and Scott didn't understand what was so funny until we explained that his weapon was 20-fricking-feet long!

Community is a great show.  And the two D&D episodes of that show are excellent, as are about a dozen other episodes at least.  Which is high praise - as excellent is a pretty high standard.

As for Community being canceled, that's not true - at least not yet. In fact, it just got upgraded to "Likely to be Renewed" this week. Which is awesome, because they've always said "5 Seasons and a Movie" since the very first season at the ComicCon panel, and that would be their 5th season.   Or was it "6 seasons and a movie"?

Anyway, it's a great show, Dan Harmon is doing great stuff to promote D&D on a national basis with his episodes where they play, and you guys should watch it if you get the chance.

That, and Annie's boobs (not the monkey).

Quote from: Black Vulmea;742124Hard to argue with a rigorous objective standard like that.

Okay it is not rigorous objective standard.  Still compared to the other names that been toss around in this thread Dan is pretty unknown.  Everyone heard of Steven Colbert, Alice Cooper, and the like.  Point is I don't know who Dan is.  It is kinda hard to be butt hurt over some one you don't even know.

Quote from: Snowman0147;742132. . . Alice Copper . . .

:rotfl:

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GOD DAMN MY SPELLING MISTAKES!!

Still you got me there.

TV I watch with some regularity (TV isn't a priority, so if something else comes up, yeah): The Walking Dead, Vikings, Continuum, Elementary, and Person of Interest. What is special about community? IMO, on screen D&D play, like on Eureka or Big Bang Theory, came off as fairly geeky.

Community is hit or miss.  About one out of three episodes hits, but they hit HUGE when they hit.

They try a lot of different things, which is why they are so swinging in quality.  Some new things work, others do not, but they apparently were given the freedom to try new things.

The show is about (at least initially) a study group at a community college.

Things that have worked: Episode based entirely around a paintball fight at a college (and a return to it in another season); episode based entirely around making the world's largest pillow/sheet fort at a college; a Halloween episode where most students are turned into zombies from an experimental gas leak; a "bottle episode" where the study group tries to solve the mystery of one member's stolen pen; a conspiracy thriller episode where one study group member makes up a class he's been supposedly taking, but the professor for that class mysteriously appears and backs up his story; the "clip show" episode showing flashback clips from prior episodes which were never actually episodes; the chaos theory "Groundhog Day" episode and the creation of the "Dark Community" timeline; the Doctor Who episode; and I could go on...

Here, this is the newest D&D episode, which you can legally watch for free.  It's 20 minutes...give it a shot.  It's not brilliant, but it's decent:

http://www.nbc.com/community/video/advanced-advanced-dungeons-dragons/2757725#i

Quote from: Gib;742119Fuck, I do not even use alcohol and I have no trouble with basically any level of drunkenness at my table. Drunk just peels away the outside so you can see the asshole hiding down below. If you are not an asshole, there is rarely a problem.
I have never had any problem gaming with stoners either. If someone is an easily distracted moron, pot isn't really going to change that; it is just going to make it easier to see.

What a bunch of fucking angry hothouse flowers you guys are. Filled with the rage of a thousand suns and equipped with the resilience of a fucking soap bubble.

Ooooooh potheads, help me.... I'm  wilting. Oh my goodness someone touched a beer, call the temperance police, my elf is fucking crying.

Praise Jesus and pass the hohos.

:rotfl:

Dan Harmon matters because he has a national TV show that has been renewed at least five times. He has chosen to promote D&D with two television episodes. As such, Dan Harmon and his show get national and possibly international press and publicity.

I have never seen the show, but you don't get renewed five times without an audience.

Quote from: Gib;742119my elf is fucking crying.

Awesome.