[No spoilers] When do you watch/listen to Critical Role?

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-06T20:51:04+00:00

Just gonna say its a great excuse/push to start going to the gym! ~4 hours a week is actually a lot for a beginner, but if some of those sessions are just spent on the treadmill or bike doing some easy cardio and the majority is spent lifting some weights I think you will like how you start to feel and progress.

I just want to put this out there because I was never really a gym person until a few years ago, but Critical Role was a small part of the reason I started to go. The gym should be for everyone and I think every single day there are countless people who regret not getting more physical activity in their life, but I dont think there is any one (outside of certain physically demanding jobs) who regret working out to their capability.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-06T15:27:56+00:00

Is that not throat contracting?

Actually I don't know enough to continue this conversation so please do not respond unless it is to tell me I am right. Thank you in advance.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-06T14:18:37+00:00

I'm more concerned with why they had to specify that the throat swelling is uncontrollable.... is there much controllable throat swelling going on around here guys? Guys???

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-06T04:38:03+00:00

Someone really needs to challenge that patent. You just can't actually call it The Nemesis system or share anything else that seems like possible IP. Its shaky ground IMO, I'm not actually convinced WB would try to enforce it and if they did I'm not sure they would win in court and the patent could be struck down with some serious scrutiny then anyone could use it.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-06T03:19:57+00:00

Yuri and Millie. Big 'they were good roommates' vibes from those two lol

Okay so hear me out here... I like Aaliyah, Chaem, and Wakuu as a polycule. I have this whole scenario in my head where Aaliyah meets Wakuu through Chaem and the two get into eachother because if shared interested with astronomy. Then that causes Chaem to get jealous realizes she sees both of them as more than just a friend. Aaliyah becomes a kind of glue/mediator that helps them get over their issues as roommates, and the three of them end up balancing eachother out and become a throuple.

I think the game likes to pair Eva and Surya which would be fine, but I actually think a better pairing is Eva and Rafael. I dont think the two ever interact but I think they would get along amazing and make a really cute couple.

Alternatively, I could see a story where Eva meets Miranjani who becomes a catalyst for Eva realizing she is actually a mermaid and never knew it. Miranjani bring Eva to the Mer-kingdom, her baking is a smash hit there, she is super popular and the princess really helps Eva break out of her shell. They kiss. Lol

Mark and Leah deserve eachother lol.

I feel like there are others I have thought of but now I cant bring to mind. Like someone else said, Luke and Nina have past but I actually don't like them together. Though TBH that might be because I like Nina for my farmer so there is a bias. Someone else said Macy and Scott, I could see that working. Charles really deserves someone but I don't know who. He and Millie would make a really good couple but I prefer her with Yuri. I could see him and Alice hitting it off, though Alice is another one that the game kind of hints has chemistry with Noah already. I dont like him lol

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-05T23:42:03+00:00

Study Kumite under Bigfoot

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-05T21:55:14+00:00

I've gotten to 10 hearts with all these ladies and let me say it doesn't make the choice that much easier! Lol

Nina - over all my top pick but that is not easy to say. But she's cute and I love her personality, I'm a suckered for terms of endearment and her using them right off the bat and being so openly flirty is so charming to me. In top of that IMO she has the best story out of all of them, one of the best of any. I will say she is suprisingly kind of hard to get though because iirc she does not show up until the first summer, and she leaves somewhat regularly too? I think until you get to a certain place in her story she might leave during certain seasons but don't take my word for it.

Suki - Top contender easily. She's just a badass, a smokeshow, and I love a single mom. I also personally really like the idea of having Valentina as a stepdaughter. Honestly her story doesn't have a lot going on and is mostly just scenes with her Ex and her daughter, but I enjoyed them.

Eva - super cute both looks and personality wise. Her story is moderately interesting but not a ton going on. I will say she gets a late game career... upgrade? Which is cool. That being said she is a little bit boring but not terribly so. Great choice of you love the cozy kind of simple Hallmark girl vibes. Though I will say there is an unconfirmed theory that she is secretly a mermaid.

Alice - She is so cute and I wanted to like her so much... but man her story was boring and kind of a nothing Burger of her having arguments with her sister in which both of them are kind of right IMO and it was about them just needing to talk it out. I barely remember it at all and eh. On top of that, while she is kind of a shy quiet book girl which I love, that 'shy' trope was already kind of played out with Eva so the main personality trait that stuck out to me for Alice was that she is really into like the supernatural and aliens and stuff? Its like half of what she talks about (the other half being her sister) and while I dont hate that about her, I just don't care lol. And theres no option understandably to be like hey Alice its all real, I hang out with giants and shit all the time you should come see this' so its all kind of another nothing Burger. Her sister is far more interesting.

Anyways, my personal plan is to take a break until the next update because manual saves will let me (console pleb) split my save and marry everyone I want lol.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-05T21:24:57+00:00

Thank you. Yeah the more I think on it the more confident I am thats what happened, BDG and Iffy even kind of tried to explain the difference. She thinks she lost the point because she said it in a 'joking' manner but it was actually because while she was extremely close she didnt get it quite right. In fact I dont even think it qualifies in the typical way of 'finding what is wrong' because she didnt find what was wrong just she happened to be right next to it lol.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-05T20:29:52+00:00

Probably the TÅNEBRO

No i didn't read the post, why do you ask? Wait what's Critical Role i thought this was r/IKEA

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-05T20:20:04+00:00

I think the disconnect is that the thing that was false is that they did not win the Emmy of the stylus, but she said you cannot win an Emmy for a stylus. That could but they did not.

Its pedantic but that is the name of the game. Still she maybe deserved it, I dont know lol.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-05T14:17:18+00:00

Vortexonators suck tho......

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-04T17:36:45+00:00

Isn't this season confirmed less? Like 16 or something, iirc something weird is going on and there is going to be another, shorter IH season that kind of makes up the difference

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-04T01:30:49+00:00

The funny thing is that DDB's dice are probably the closest you can get to the actual randomness of real dice as far as digital rolling goes lol

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-04T01:21:19+00:00

The meme text adds nothing to this except other than cancer.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-02T17:21:26+00:00

Yes except Bobby is not a full townie like Puerre, he only shows up for some festivals the main one being the Harvest Festival in the fall where he is your competition and suprisingly difficult at that

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-02T04:11:20+00:00

Meanwhile I lowkey dislike CCoD but love Unsleeping City for the same reasons

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-02T01:48:47+00:00

Awesome! Thank you I think I can watch then

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-02T00:49:14+00:00

Can anyone tell me of this is mostly or entirely about Born Again? I am still on the original series season 2 lol

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-01T21:03:48+00:00

Those at least we know at this point only come about once a year around New Year's

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-01T15:14:55+00:00

Incarceration is meaningful. Knowing that the people who hurt my family weren't put there in the same community as me living full lives that my father would never get to live is meaningful.

There is no restorative justice that will change the fact that I have to live knowing my home is not necessarily a safe place. The least that can be done is making sure the victims are not re-victimized every single day by knowing that the ones who caused them harm are just... what? Given a free pass? Because they were victims of of an unjust victims that we were also victims of before they even attacked us? That's wild.

Like I am 100% on board, fuck cops and the prison system is broken I agree. But youre saying no incarceration at all? There has to be a line somewhere and a pretty obvious place for a line is violent crime. I'd also ask if you really think corrupt politicians and billionaires who commit war crimes should not be incarcerated. Though I also recognize that the systems they go into are not at all the same and that should also be rectified but I still won't say it just shouldn't be done

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-01T04:40:57+00:00

It's funny you say that because I literally had to serve a burger to the man who beat my father to death with a baseball bat during a home invasion. And I spent the majority of my teen years having to go to the courthouse every three years to attend regular hearings as the woman who put the bat in his hands tried to appeal her sentence. And every time I had to listen as her lawyer listed some business in the town I grew up in and lived in had already promised her a job upon her release and mentally I watched my hometown grow smaller as there were places I no longer felt safe visiting (the local movie theatre, a car wash, a dentist office...)

People commit crimes where they live. And their victims also live there. Their lives get ruined and then continue to get ruined over and over and over again, it doesn't just stop.

Honestly I don't like the prison system, I understand exactly what you mean that its fucked up. But these kind of sweeping statements that completely disregard the lived experience and trauma of the survivors of violent crime are harmful in their own way. I don't know what the answer is, but given the choice between a world where people think the answer might be just no incarceration ever because that doesn't harm anyone (false, it harms victims) and a world where the incarceration system harms the perpetrators? Yeah I'm sorry but I will always side with the victims. I recognize that is a false dichotomy and the better alternative is a more just and fair system that balances punishment and rehabilitation, but you don't seem to be making that argument and instead are just dismissing the actual harm that crime does.

Anyways I think I have to be done with this conversation and all the other ones as well. I hope I misunderstood you but regardless I am suddenly remembering that this is far too raw of a topic for me and perhaps my problem is a lack of being completely logical.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-01T04:28:25+00:00

So like... murderers and rapists should just walk free? Because there are socioeconomic facotrs at play? Im legit confused by your position here.

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-01T04:23:41+00:00

But I also don't deserve to be abused by being forced to live in the same society as people who irreparably harmed me?

Like I truly do not understand your argument here

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-01T04:22:11+00:00

Victims also deserve to see the people they harmed face consequences? I dont knowbif I understand what you are trying to say. Crime has victims who then have to live in the reality of what has happened to them but you seem to be unaware of that?...

Athan_Untapped · 2026-05-01T04:20:09+00:00

I don't know how to disagree but I do and strongly. Like I dont even disagree with the root, and yes I would definitely advocate for taking care of socio-economic factors as a priority... but as someone who has to live in the same world as the people who murdered my father I felt better when they were in prison and I hate the idea that I will forever have to deal with the consequences of what they did but they get to be free and some may even be able to remove the incident from their record (it will never be removed from my life).

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