Very late post but this is the discussion thread for The Legends of Vox Machina Season 4

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkqIXFztj6Q

Everything To Know About Season 4 (Recap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjxC5iDmi60

Inside The Legend of Vox Machina: Season 4, Episodes 1-6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lziQkb_-Rg

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46006412

It’s a brand NEW Darrington Brigade One-Shot run by a sleep-deprived Sam Riegel!

Join Game Master Sam Riegel as he reunites the Darrington Brigade adventuring party for another heroic adventure in Exandria. Though this is stand alone one-shot, you can watch the original Darrington Brigade adventure right here!

• Airs Thursday, April 23rd LIVE at 7pm Pacific on Beacon, Twitch, and YouTube
• The VOD will be available immediately after the stream ends.

This thread is for the Darrington Brigade One-Shot that will air after the 24-hour charity stream

It’s an all night fight for a cause!!!

eBay live is partnering with the Critical Role Foundation for the “Shirts Off Sam’s Back Charity Stream – An All Night Fight Against Cancer”.

Hosted by Sam Riegel himself, this 24-hour live stream will feature auctions of his well-known shirts and costumes from throughout the years of Critical Role. All proceeds will benefit Critical Role Foundation partners — The HNC Living Foundation and The Pablove Foundation.

• This 24 hour LIVE stream starts on Wednesday, April 22nd at 7pm Pacific on eBay Live, Twitch, and YouTube and ends on Thursday, April 23rd at 7pm Pacific.
• You can only bid on items using eBay Live during the live event. Auctions are in the US only.
• Each segment from the Shirts off Sam’s Back livestream will be released on Beacon for viewing shortly after they complete.
• The VOD will be available immediately after the stream ends on Twitch, and YouTube.

This is the discussion thread for the 24 hour live stream. The stream will be followed by a Darrington Brigade one-shot DMed by Sam Riegel.

Trailer will be released during the 24 hour charity stream!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45263694

In less than one month, eBay live is partnering with the Critical Role Foundation for the “Shirts Off Sam’s Back Charity Stream: An All Night Fight Against Cancer”!

This live stream kicks off at 7pm PT on Wednesday, April 22nd and will be hosted by Sam Riegel himself, FOR ALL 24-HOURS. During the stream many of his well-known shirts and costumes from throughout the years of Critical Role will be auctioned off to benefit Critical Role Foundation partners: The HNC Living Foundation and the Pablove Foundation.

All of this culminates with a NEW Darrington Brigade One-Shot starting at 7pm PM on Thursday, April 23rd through the rest of the evening, also run by a sleep-deprived Sam Riegel!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/46434237

How often do you wash your towels? And how often do you completely change them with brand new towels?

I wash them weekly and was just wondering recently if I should be buying new towels to replace my 8+ year old towels.

Edit to add: I wash towels by themselves so it's a separate load to my regular laundry. I don't know why but the different materials seem to clean better separately. But I also have a separate towels load for dirty/oily towels (kitchen towels, cleaning rags)

Please don’t post spoilers from the campaign in OP as they haven’t watched it. Mark as spoilers in this community if talking about campaign

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40628196

Last episode of the season came out early, FYI. Think I'm a day late in fact.

Never watched the Critical Role campaigns myself, just watched most of Vox Mach and now this. (No spoilers for S2 if you've watched the campaign I'm presuming this is based off of, please.)

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Overall I'd say that while many of my opinions are mixed I still really enjoyed it. (Keep that in mind as you continue if you loved it, I dig into it a fair bit. But it was a good ride.)

I'd say I liked this more than what I've seen of Vox Machina, the characters had greater nuance. Albeit they had a formulaic feel to them. Each has a specific kind of conflict within themselves and a disadvantage of some type to overcome. (Like a phobia.)

It makes for good characterization but they all have "one of each" which makes them a bit too much of the same for me. I like variation in that regard. Particularly when they're all models of comparison to the others it starts to get a bit obvious and as I said, formulaic. Characters don't need a predetermined conflict for character-development.

As if the GM gave them character notes they had to fill in, rather than making a character themselves.

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Animation was at times stellar and gorgeous, but there were some inconsistencies. The sickle moon having stars in its dark portion in one scene, then being portrayed as a full sphere with no stars visible in it in another is a notable example. (Something I've learned to keep an eye out for in general when gauging animated shows. Sort of an easy "litmus test".)

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Some of the voice acting, particularly outside the main cast was amazing. I couldn't tell who many of them were. Mark Strong in particular didn't sound like Mark Strong at all to me. Had no clue Felicia Day was in there either until I looked it up.

Nathan Fillion however, was immediately recognizable lol. So was Ming-Na Wen. Felt like a missed opportunity for them to get a bit out-there, oh well.

The party VAs did a pretty good job but there were definitely some, "I am listening to Slightly-Not-Vox-Machina" moments as well. Still, very good voice acting in there. Nott notably.

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Speaking of Nott, Nott (no comma) the Brave was my favourite by a considerable margin, really loved her. Great character, phenomenal voice acting. And I liked the duo of Caleb/Bren and Nott's friendship. She was a real highlight of the show for me.

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Bren as a character was alright but only alright. His involvement as a bit of a backbone to the story was more interesting than his characterization to me though. Voice acting was good but not great. (Meant literally, it was good. It just didn't hit "greatness" to me like Nott's did. But entirely alright.)

Thought I'd add here that I found his Volstrucker friends/former-lovers Astrid and Eadwulf great secondary antagonists. They did a lot using fairly little. Weren't over-the-top evil, having some shades of grey to them. As an example, I appreciated that they gave a quick shot of Astrid taking Beauregard's flirtatious compliments to heart in the last ep. Their characters could've been considerably shallower.

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Fjord, kind of "meh" towards his characterization with his weird squiggly-eyed-Cthulhu providing most of the interest. Didn't have many feelings towards the early Fjord+Jester romance either.

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Jester: infectious optimism was nice but a bit too much at times.

Traveler mystery was okay as an idea but I mean, she got her powers from somewhere, no? The "imaginary friend" bit felt a tad forced at times as a result.

Jester's literal "leap of faith" in the last ep was great though.

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The Tiefling Circus performer (of apparently many names) Molly, fun character but having no memory felt a bit too "hand-wavy" at times. Nice tool to use for the GM but, eh... not my personal cup of tea in a character.

Still curious to see where it goes.

Liked him as a character though, it should be said. (Aside from the macguffin.)

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Beauregard: Eh, not much to say here really. Alright, moved the plot forward a couple times earlier on. Just, pretty basic. Not bad, but not much to say. /shrug

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Essek and Orphan Maker, both kinda weak to me.

Essek, mommy issues. Meh. Sad you had to kill her, bit odd you had to in the first place. Hoping for more next season but as it stands, low expectations.

Orphan Maker. More curious about the god/being behind her than the character herself so far.

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S1 as a whole, pretty good. Mind, I'm a bit disinterested in the Beacon as this end-all-be-all overpowered contrivance. Hoping there is indeed more to it than seems. Bit of allusion that it could be so, we'll see?

I thought the Beacon was actually a fake in the last ep there. The one in the glass Nott melted I mean. I noticed it was in a glass-housing instead of on that elaborate tri-bar pedestal and got pretty suspicious that Ikithon had made a dupe. (Until he ordered his Volstrucker duo to capture it. Then when Orphan-maker got zapped it seemed pretty obvious it's the real deal.)

Glad there seems to be an S2 slated albeit doesn't seem confirmed yet?

Quite the bloody cliffhanger.

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Join the cast of The Mighty Nein as they dive into episodes 1-5 of the premiere season! Show creators Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, and Liam O'Brien sit down with showrunner Tasha Huo and voice of The Ruby of the Sea, Anika Noni Rose, to discuss the making of the show.

Find the 90-minute extended edition of Inside The Mighty Nein exclusively on Beacon.tv! New members can use the code MightyPrime for a one-month free trial.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38801649

The first episode of The Mighty Nein is available to watch on Prime Video's YouTube channel

The first episode of The Mighty Nein is available to watch on Prime Video's YouTube channel

Daredevil: Born Again indeed is getting a third season on Disney+. Marvel Head of TV, Streaming & Animation Brad Winderbaum revealed the news to IGN in an interview.

Stars Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio differed publicly on whether there would be a Season 3. Cox, who plays the titular character, didn’t believe it to be so, while D’Onofrio who plays villain Wilson Fisk said on X there was a good chance for a third go-round.

Following the Season 1 finale in April, showrunner Dario Scardapane revealed that Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again is scheduled to premiere in March 2026.

The Punisher EP Scardapane is credited with rescuing the revival of Daredevil coming out of the 2023 writers strike.

Season 1 of Daredevil: Born Again follows Fisk who goes from being a gangster to a NYC autocrat mayor. Matt Murdock falls in love with therapist Heather Glenn (Margarita Levieva), but she winds up becoming an ally in the Fisk administration. Season 2 will see the return of Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones character. Also in the Season 1 ender, Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle/Punisher returned and, in the very end, broke out of Fisk’s Red Hook prestige jail.

There’s also a Punisher special that’s in the works from Marvel Studios, which Bernthal is co-writing alongside director Reinaldo Marcus Green.

Debuting on March 4, Daredevil: Born Again racked up the best series premiere on Disney+ for 2025 to date with 7.5 million viewers worldwide in its first five days.

Tickets here: https://www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/critical-role-live-indianapolis

Dangerous forces gather as members of Bells Hells deal with their dark bargains and deadly debts mounting to be collected.

Featuring the founding cast of Critical Role, Robbie Daymond, and led by Game Master Matthew Mercer; this show will be our very first one-shot set in the world of Exandria and powered by Darrington Press’s roleplaying game: Daggerheart.

Captured live from the Fishers Event Center in Indianapolis on August 2, 2025.