This rant is a continuation or perhaps more specific application of this other rant from a few years back.
Relevant YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPteHoaMNMc
I would say not to give this guy views but he's a tiny tuber so it won't matter one way or the other.
I watched this video for exactly 30 minutes, which is most of it. I came away with two thoughts:
1: The game session was completely fine. No notes. It looked to be relatively harmless fun, they slowed down for the new player, but that's expected and encouraged. Overall good DMing, good playing, nothing to write home about and also nothing to admonish*.
2: The critic/YouTuber is a fucking dillhole. Now I can smell these fucking 4D cultist tubers based on their criticisms of other people's play. While I've rallied against both the game being played and 4D in the past, I want to say they are equally bad. The game is only worse because it has more influence in the hobby overall, having curb-stomped proper OSR creators like Chubby Funster into kowtowing for relevancy. If 4D was as popular, this hobby would be dead.
Why do I say this? Because the only thing that seems more fragile than woke Millennials' sense of humor are fanatic Gen-X cultists' "immersion".
If your immersion requires a rigid adherence to a form of group decorum and maintenance of a social contract, it's not worth having. Not only that, if you have to modify your language to maintain it, you're actively breaking "immersion" to do so. Because immersion doesn't happen in the voice or manner of speaking, it happens in the mind. So speak naturally and get immersed like a normal person, you pussy.
As long as players aren't being actively disruptive, talking about out-of-game things or playing with a phone or laptop, or cross-talking over others, there's no issue. The game session presented in the video has no issue*.
*Other than the game. The game being played is fucking shit, and not OSR. As I've stated plainly in the past, 5E lites and games more minimalist than Microlite20 are excommunicado. They are awful and should die horribly.
