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** JP may be a rabid contrarian with delusions of grandeur, but he's not completely incapable of feeling shame. Plus, even if he weren't, he's still smart enough to be aware of the vitriol he'd justifiably get from the Internet if he did something that blatantly problematic.
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** Them all being [[BigBad Big Bads]] of Fantasy stories may be an unfortunate by-product of such villains embodying most of the bad writing tropes discussed in the video (OrcusOnHisThrone, having no motivation, AMillionIsAStatistic, etc). Having just one of them would serve the same purpose, but make the myopic focus even more obvious, and leave them with no one to talk to without bringing in Mooks, a topic for a different video, or villainous archetypes who are generally motivated, active, or personally hateable.
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** Maybe the idea is that writers using those tropes can deconstruct or avoid the implications. That's not really possible when using a racial stereotype as a punchline.
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** It would clutter the video if more villains appeared.
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* Why does [=McStabbypants=] only give StronglyWordedLetter[=s=] when he was introduced as the person who tried to kill the leader of the ancient conspiracy?conspiracy?
** Perhaps he concluded that violence was useless after said attempt and restricted himself to letters.
** Perhaps he concluded that violence was useless after said attempt and restricted himself to letters.
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** Having watched the video again, and coincidently seen a different video about the Satanic Panic, if you listen closely you can hear JP say "the fundies" assure him that'll happen, so he's presumably referring to the MoralGuardians who claimed that D&D is Satanic, and some of whom claimed it grants players real dark magic powers. A rather odd TakeThat to have in this series about writing, and somewhat esoteric, but what're you gonna do?
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** Having watched the video again, and coincidently seen a different video about the Satanic Panic, if you listen closely you can hear JP say "the fundies" assure him that'll happen, so he's presumably referring to the MoralGuardians who claimed that D&D is Satanic, and some of whom claimed it grants players real dark magic powers. A rather odd TakeThat to have in this series about writing, and somewhat esoteric, but what're I suppose [[ObligatoryJoke you gonna do?can't make comedy surrounding D&D without the Satanic Panic coming into it somehow.]]
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** Having watched the video again, and coincidently seen a different video about the Satanic Panic, if you listen closely you can hear JP say "the fundies" assure him that'll happen, so he's presumably referring to the MoralGuardians who claimed that D&D is Satanic, and some of whom claimed it grants players real dark magic powers. A rather odd TakeThat to have in this series about writing, and somewhat esoteric, but what're you gonna do?
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* Towards the end of ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' JP claims he expects to get real magic powers from DM'ing. Is that a joke about how some people take DM'ing too seriously? Are there really people who believe that?
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* Towards the end of ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' JP claims he expects to get real magic powers from DM'ing. Is that a joke about how some people take DM'ing too seriously? Are there really people who believe that?that?
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* Why does the Villains episode only include the EvilEmperor, [[TheEmperor Evil Emperor]], Dark Lord and [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron?]] JP's made many different kind of villainous characters before, which makes sense because fictional villains are varied lot, so why only have three characters who'd fulfill the [[BigBad same general role]] in the same general genre of Fantasy to discuss all tropes related to villains?
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* Why does the Villains episode only include the EvilEmporer, EvilEmperor, Dark Lord and [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron?]] JP's made many different kind of villainous characters before, which makes sense because fictional villains are varied lot, so why only have three characters who'd fulfill the [[BigBad same general role]] in the same general genre of Fantasy to discuss all tropes related to villains?
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* Why does JP, in character, tell his audience [[EvenEvilHasStandards not to make racist jokes]] in ''Humor Writing''? It's not like he hasn't told people to use tropes laden with UnfortunateImplications in the past, or like not making them is taken as a given because [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy there are popular, modern works that make them.]] Seems like racist jokes could use the same [[SarcasmMode sarcasm-laden]] discussion and deconstruction he generally gives to bad tropes just as much, if not more in today's day and age.
* Why does the Villains episode only include the EvilEmporer, Dark Lord and [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron?]] JP's made many different kind of villainous characters before, which makes sense because fictional villains are varied lot, so why only have three characters who'd fulfill the [[BigBad same general role]] in the same general genre of Fantasy to discuss all tropes related to villains?
* Why does the Villains episode only include the EvilEmporer, Dark Lord and [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron?]] JP's made many different kind of villainous characters before, which makes sense because fictional villains are varied lot, so why only have three characters who'd fulfill the [[BigBad same general role]] in the same general genre of Fantasy to discuss all tropes related to villains?
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* Why does JP, in character, tell his audience [[EvenEvilHasStandards not to make racist jokes]] in ''Humor Writing''? It's not like he hasn't told people to use tropes laden with UnfortunateImplications in the past, or like not making them is taken as a given because [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy there are popular, modern works that make them.]] Seems like racist jokes could use the same [[SarcasmMode sarcasm-laden]] discussion and deconstruction he generally gives to bad tropes just as much, if not more in today's day and age.
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* Why does the Villains episode only include the EvilEmporer, Dark Lord and [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron?]] JP's made many different kind of villainous characters before, which makes sense because fictional villains are varied lot, so why only have three characters who'd fulfill the [[BigBad same general role]] in the same general genre of Fantasy to discuss all tropes related tovillains?villains?
* Towards the end of ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' JP claims he expects to get real magic powers from DM'ing. Is that a joke about how some people take DM'ing too seriously? Are there really people who believe that?
* Why does the Villains episode only include the EvilEmporer, Dark Lord and [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron?]] JP's made many different kind of villainous characters before, which makes sense because fictional villains are varied lot, so why only have three characters who'd fulfill the [[BigBad same general role]] in the same general genre of Fantasy to discuss all tropes related to
* Towards the end of ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' JP claims he expects to get real magic powers from DM'ing. Is that a joke about how some people take DM'ing too seriously? Are there really people who believe that?
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* Why does the Villains episode only include the EvilEmporer, Dark Lord and [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron?]] JP's made many different kind of villainous characters before, which makes sense because fictional villains are varied lot, so why only have three characters who'd fulfill the [[BigBad same general role]] in the same general genre of Fantasy to discuss all tropes related to villains?
* Why does the Villains episode only include the EvilEmporer, Dark Lord and [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron?]] JP's made many different kind of villainous characters before, which makes sense because fictional villains are varied lot, so why only have three characters who'd fulfill the [[BigBad same general role]] in the same general genre of Fantasy to discuss all tropes related to villains?
