This is the brick to the face you need to get Normies to wake the fuck up.
This is the smear-your-face-in-it incident, the Mask Off incident, that makes it clear that Wankers By The Beach is run by people that hate you. The rest can be dismissed as being aimed at Others, but this is aimed at the majority of the audience that actually buys and uses the products.
Note I said "buys and uses". This is not the Critical Role audience, who--like most such cohorts--talks a big game but never cracks open the wallet; they're in it to watch a show, not play a game.
Most actual users are gamers, and that's what this product directly insults and attacks via this NPC. It's a signalling manuever, and "It's not for you" is the signal; the folks behind it are using this to tell their fellow travellers that the actual audience is now utterly Fair Game for Narrative Warfare attacks, and the perceptive Death Cultists out there have not only gotten the memo but are already acting upon it. (Just check social media feeds and fake news sites.)
Tell your Normie friends what the deal is. Tell them that this means they're going to waste more time fixing bad shit to use in their home games, that they're going to waste more time avoiding people they don't want to deal with, etc. because the people they're supporting by buying this stuff are openly telling those bad actors to come after them via such a signalling.
Then tell them where the alternatives are, how easy they are to get, how cheap they can be, how much easier than Current Game they are to play, and point them to where they can get it. (You all know my go-to for this: Gonnerman's Basic Fantasy, PDFs here and POD at Amazon here. Free in PDF, cheap POD, Amazon Prime eligible, easier than D&D5 to learn and play- can't be beat.)
Wankers By The Beach hates Normies. This proves it. Give those Normies a cheaper and easier alternative, and watch them flock to it.
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