The 23 Best Comments of 2023 

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This is a good channel. I like Mike.

It depends on the game but usually link uses magic by playing music.

I think it's cool that you can still do this with your channel. In the grand scope of things, you're still manageably small. Thanks to that, your comment sections are still relatively small, vaguely well behaved, and it's still feasible to moderate and have meaningful interactions in here. Lets enjoy it for as long as it may last! Grand popularity spells the despoiling of every comment section on youtube, after all. I really love the general positivity and the sense that everyone is trying to row this boat of roleplaying, gaming, constructive inspections of our biases, and being the best humans we can as players and DMs, in (mostly) the same direction.

While there is some racial connotation to “uppity”, it is worth pointing out that it can be used to describe any person acting above their station and also it was first used in the Uncle Remus tales which was a collection of African American folktales compiled and printed to preserve their cultural heritage. These folktales had a mix of African and Native American influences, a big melting pot due to the way the slave trade intermixed people from all over the Old and New World. It gained popularity (replacing the previous version “uppish”) at the same time there was increased talk about former slaves wanting more rights so that’s the context it got used in most often, but it wasn’t coined specifically to refer to this one issue. I think it worthwhile to know the history of the word, but also I think it a mistake to excise it completely from your vocabulary.

"Doesnt Link play some music" Depends but yes music, magical music in paticular, is very much a staple in the Zelda franchise. So as a Zelda fan Link being lika a Valor or Swords bard makes a lot of sense.

I was surprised at how validated I felt when you made the offhand comment that you were behind on Campaign 3! I am also incredibly behind on Critical Role's Campaign 3, Dimension 20, and some other content that I really love and want to support. I didn't realize -- until you made your comment -- that there's this part of me that feels like a "bad fan" and a bit guilty when I'm behind on playing/watching/listening to the things that enjoy and want to support.

lots of love from brazil!

Wow. I can't believe you saw my message. It has been such an honor to follow this channel over the last year. Your advice has pushed me to be a better person and a better GM. Your love for others and hope for the future are awe inspiring. I can't wait to see what you create in the year to come. I will be watching with bated breath. Much love. Also I CANNOT BELIEVE I said Matt instead of Mike! Thank you for correcting me when you read it.

I think the comment about being a conduit for endless knowledge was talking about the Sphinx in the episode not you haha. Maybe you knew that already, and were just being silly and it just went over my head 😅

My brother actually did play Strahd as a foul mouth Australian when he ran CoS for one of my groups. We're not great at accents so most of our characters are foul mouth Aussies.

The thing I appreciate the most about your channel is how it does everything in such good faith, with a focus on growth for the individual, the community, and the platform as a whole. Especially with how negative focused things have become recently. Plus, I have made so much growth as a dungeon master because of your advice. Thank you for being on the platform

Every time Mike starts talking about excellent ways to organize your campaign, my mind goes "Oh god, it's another World Anvil ad!" (in a good way, much love, happy holidays!)

Genuinely love comment response videos, so nice to see you using the new year's celebrations as an excuse for doing one. ...As for Link and instruments - Off the top of my head, Link uses magical instruments, and casts what are basically spells with them, in Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask (The Ocarina), Spirit Tracks (Panpipes) and Skyward Sword (a harp, though it's... More narrative than within the gameplay there). He also has magical abilities linked to music in Windwaker and Phantom Hourglass (Where Link uses a conductor's baton), and the McGuffin in Link's Awakening is a set of magical musical instruments that acts as an alarm clock to the god who's dream you're within, though they play themselves. There's also Twilight Princess which I'm classing it separately because that's less 'magical musical abilities' and more 'wolf howl to call to the wolf embodiment of the Hero's Shade in order to get him - And, yeah, him, he's assumed to be the Link of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask) - to teach you advanced combat techniques.' I'm not sure Link ever does what I look to as the Bard's class fantasy, however, for, since his music tends to be less Bardy and more utility - He's not usually using them to manipulate people's emotions, or inspiring heroics in others, with them, or even a Zelda equivalent of Thunderbolt, Shatter, or Sleep, but instead tends to be doing things like teleporting, manipulating the flow of time, changing the direction of the wind, etc.

Another RU-vid channel I watch, Atomic Shrimp, isn't built around a single theme, but there are a number of subseries. One of them is a monthly-wrap-up of random stuff, including a "Comment Positivity" segment. I think that's really smart, because many viewers like the microfame of a shout-out, and the way to get acknowledged is by contributing in a kind and valuable way. Bozos will still send the equivalent of "bozo was here" by writing "first" or worse, but that scrolls away and the good stuff often gets responded to, and the best stuff gets read aloud. This is a great yearly version of the concept, but you might consider a monthly segment going forward as part of a variety video. Another thing I've noticed with some channels & podcasts which do a year-in-review is a "recency bias", so the 'best' includes more stuff from the last 3 months than the first 6. A monthly review tends to be more balanced.

The Anachronism comment made me chuckle. It often comes up in our sessions, that we discuss if it _feels_ fitting for the setting or not. Like: after winning a Battle in the Fighting-Pit, where the players showered with flowers and the occasional bra? This would rise a question like: "Did they have something like a bra 'back then'?" "yeah right... 'back then' when dragons and mages was a thing ^^" (PS: for those curious: bras did exist in medieval times.) (PPS: sorry for my bad grammar)

This is the best 2023 wrap up video I've seen 😊 Thank you for another year of great content. I hope your next year gives you more wonderful adventures!

12:07 That guy spoke for all of us latin american countries, i live in mexico very near to texas and have to correct the use of "America" word every time i talk to a US citizen

That last addendum feels like the opposite of that one bit from the hbomberguy video about tommy tallarico, rather than "you have no idea how racist I am!" its "you have no idea how progressive I am!"

it’s an honour to be here! as a younger dnd lover myself, it’s inspiring to watch these videos and learn about how to take dnd into the future; as a new-generation-player, if that makes sense. dnd is a beautiful means to connect and express when it allows for all people to feel welcomed and heard, and i think your channel is one of the driving forces for this ideology! thank you for everything you create!

Aw nertz. Didnt make the cut. Ill have to try harder next year.

The Cthulhu comment reading really got me.

Hi Mike, appreciate the shoutout! I'm glad my comment made the list. Looking forward to hearing you dunk on the haters, should be fun.

There's a great moment in part of campaign 2 of critical role where they talk about the height of the roof below deck on their ship. Matt said something about there are wizards throwing fireballs this is high fantasy and boats are just a little bit taller in this world. I feel like that's a great example of how d&d doesn't have to be accurate historical

4:23 short answer yes Link does play music using various magical instruments , really depends on the game though how important it is to each iteration of the character.

Love you Mike. Hope to see more from ya in time.

This is so wholesome, I really enjoyed this!

Thank you for a wonderful year full of videos, Mike! Can’t wait for Sunday! But looking forward to 2024 even more!

Mr Rogers of D&D - YES! Keep on keeping on, Mike

I love the positivity! Keep up the great work! 😄

Love this channel, it's the only tabletop content I rush to watch as soon as it drops. I hope 2024 brings plenty more kind, funny and helpful comments on your videos. :3

I started following your channel when there were only four videos and while I did enjoy your output last year, I did feel a couple times that it was hard to keep up with new releases. I think most of us understand that you still do this on your own and you will have a lot of other responsibilities. So take the time you need and take care.

What a pleasant idea! I love these kinds of videos, especially during difficult times worldwide.

Yay end of year bonus video! 🎉 This was a lot of fun (actually all ur vids r a lot of fun)

I love this kind of video! It really promotes positivity in the community and gives a fun little reward to the people who go out of their way to write kind and helpful comments, like "Hey look it's me!" lol Hope this becomes a yearly tradition! ..also when my attention started to dip at the end and I heard the "Check out this video where I get completely naked..", I almost choked on my coffee xD

You're channel was the best channel I found this past year!

Excited to see the vid you mentioned! 👀 Always love to hear your thoughts

I really enjoy this channel, mikes a good dood

Oh I can't wait for Sunday's video 😁

The comedic timing on that last bit was so good 😅 can't wait for Sunday!

THank you for including my comment in this video, as I said then, I love your work and rarely miss a video. You have inspired me to play better and are one of my fevorite youtubers :)

You rock Mike see yela next year

I didn't realize how small of a channel this is, it has so much effort and polish and the content is so great

Speaking of ad placements, this wasn't on your channel but when Vox Machina were in hell I had the perfect "And coming round the corner you see-" "-The all new chicken deluxe pizza from..."

This was so fun! I don't think I've seen anyone do this before!

What a great video! Can't wait for the dunk-a-thon 😈

I 2nd the Sorcery recommendation, one of my faves

13:27 amazing, caught me off guard 😂 Edit: I just got my dice in the mail! Thank you, they are super pretty!!!

I was looking forward to the negative comments. So I was pleasantly surprised to see a wholesome video. I do look forward to the bonus vid lol

I've always thought that 5e has missed out on so much potential inspiration when it comes to drawing on historical ideas of the bard and things like awen as almost a natural force of the universe. Awen as the source of inspiration for bards is there almost a natural force of the universe, the bard almost the lips of creation though which it speaks.

Regarding anachronisms: our campaign is classic fantasy, and my players are not aware that my homebrew world is actually post apocalyptic.

Love your videos Mike! I thought that comment about you being a good father I think is especially true. Did you know you were going to be a dad when you recorded this? I always love a little irl foreshadowing! Keep up the great work ☺️

I was really hoping every single comment would be the “I like mike” guy

I've been bingeing all of your stuff since I found you a month or so ago, and I love your content, I wish you had started 2 or 3 years ago so I could have found you when you were halfway through campaign 2, so there'd be more to watch. My only critique would be that your Demystify videos end very suddenly most of the time. You do the normal RU-vid calls to action, but in the content portion, I'm always surprised when you hit the end of your commentary. I hope it's not just me, but a smoother slope to the end might help, it never stopped me from going to your next video but it has been jarring enough that I noticed multiple times. I understand there may not be super significant things happening to reference, maybe be you could do a summation of the things we could glean off that episode and include it on screen as a bullet point list.. It could even join your "it's initiative, so here's some of the highlights" as a catchphrase. I wish I had more of an idea for you but this is definitely not my forte. I wish you the best in 2024 and I hope you get to keep doing this full time if that's what you're after. And I look forward to what you can teach us in the future.

Do you think Talscorner may have been referring to the magic wise quest-giver in the CR episode? Not a dig, just that if this is the case they make a neat point too

Man if only this was made in December I definitely would have been top. Next time right guys

Am I one of those people who would be encouraged to comment more just from the vague promise of *maybe* having one of my comments featured in an end-of-year wrap-up video? Yes. Yes I am. Well played.

Nice way to encourage positive feetback.

Am I selfish for hoping one of my comments would be here? Yes. lol. On a serious note, this is a very cool to highlight good comments in the year-end-recap that so many channels do. I can't say I've seen a channel do that before. I quite like it.

eeeeyyyy! Foul Mouthed Australian shoutout to Dragon Friends!

The inspiration to leave nice comments hasn't ever been stronger. And also yes Link plays an instrument in almost every single Zelda game.

Canadian here. You can always tell who is American, because theyre the only ones who call the US 'America'

Swede here. I have never heard a complaint about playing a fat character. What an absurd thing to hate on.

How dare you not include any of my positive, uplifting, and supportive comments in this video! I am very actually for real, totally upset that you have so many people leaving you positive messages that mine didn’t make the list…. I am totally gonna unsubscribe because of this! How dare you…. lol jkjkjkjkjk I love seeing so much positivity in your comment section! You’ve done a great job cultivating a safe and welcoming place here! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! I’ll see you again in 2024!

The comment about Bard being the most basic fantasy hero archetype, fits well with my opinion that... MECHANICALLY the bard is a "generic mage" i genuinely, STRONGLY believe Bard should be renamed "mage" and have all the bard attributes drained from it.

I have to take a bit of a stand against one of the comments you highlighted. 13:10 anachronism does NOT imply historical fiction. Putting 2 things from different time periods together is still anachronistic even when its intentional and or fantastical. That can even be the intention like all the cowboy aesthetics in the mandolorian. Fantasy isnt a defense against any and all scrutiny and if an anachronism doesnt fit with the tone of a game it can still worsen the experience overall.

So many lovely comments. I kinda wonder do you have a vauge idea of repeat commenters like. Ah i kinda know you or is it bigger blobs? (I say since youve got a fairly sizeable channel and thats how it goes with so many people)

Hahaha Pathfinder a well stocked kitchen? More like a kitchen where the chef NEVER cleans anything or does the dishes.

12:21 but… it’s in south america, it literally is defined as being in south america and is in the carribean sea also people use America and United States interchangeably

I'M FAMOUS!! I will use this opportunity to encourage Mike to play Ocarina of Time

Interesting that the person from Colombia had an issue with using the word "America" to refer to the U.S. In my experience, most non-U.S. North and South America natives don't really have an issue with that.

I must have missed the video where you talked about the bard fantasy, and maybe this comment more appropriately belongs there, but I decided to post it here anyway, partly because I'm easily distracted and will probably forget, and partly because there's a greater chance, I think, you will bump into it in a newer video. If I am mistaken feel free to delete this. Magic and music have had a connection in the minds of humanity since time immemorial. It is not a coincidence that many words we use for magic are derived from musical terms (incantation and enchantment are derivations of the Latin cantus, and charm is derived from the Latin carmen, both of these words mean song). In ancient Greek and Roman religion magic and prayer were often one and the same, and they believed that one of the ways to attract the attention of the Gods, or of spirits, natural or otherwise, was by applying song to it. One of the ways we see that is the Greco-Roman surviving prayers are almost always apply rhymes, while secular poetry (even those it itself was often sung - lyrical poetry literally means poetry accompanied by lyre) never rhymes. Music also features in many myths, Orpheus uses music to charm Hades into allowing his dead wife to return to life (an endeavor that ultimately fails), and several mythical monsters use music in order to lure people to their death. In other European mythologies magic and music are also intertwined - in the Finnish myth "Kalevala", the hero Väinämöinen is described as the Eternal Bard, and uses music to exert order over chaos, and uses his voice in song to hurt and even kill monsters. In Celtic myths the connection between music and magic is even more pronounced, with various druids described almost intermittently as bards and using music to evoke what can only be described as magical effects - Amergin Glúingel, one of the great heroes of Irish myth, uses magic to awaken the spirit of the Irish land itself, as well as to part storms and navigate ships to safety. The traditions of musicians as magic wielders persisted in several Medieval traditions, the most famous of which is the Pied Piper of Hamelin who uses music - first to lure the rats that infested Hamelin to their doom, and later, when the townspeople refuse to pay him, to steal away all the children of the town. In addition, the Pythagorean school of Greek philosophers developed the concept of 'Musica Universalis' (sometimes called Music of the Spheres, or Harmony of the Spheres) that attempted to apply mathematical principals to the movement of celestial bodies, and describing it as a gigantic musical symphony that cannot be heard audibly necessarily (a view that varied by specific philosopher) but can be felt in the soul, and that music is the harmonic basis for all life and the workings of nature. This doctrine persisted through the Middle Ages (where it adopted a Christian bend) and on until the end of the Renaissance, and has influenced many other schools of thought, including humanism. So, that fantasy of musical magic users is very ancient, and persists in many cultures, even if today some people wrongfully believe it originated in Tolkien's Silmarillion). It may not speak to everyone, but it speaks to many. Sorry for the long meandering post, hopefully someone finds it useful.

I don't remember who made the comment, but as a cis het white male US citizen, I have been pushing back at labeling US citzens as the only Americans. We are all from the same part of the world and all are Americans! Dent yhe colonizer mentality!

I didn't make it in the best comments, maybe I win in the worst comments. Joking aside, I always encourage taking into consideration only the good comments (including those that oppose you in a respectful way) and try to not let affect you those who try to attack and flame you. It's easy to say and most people from your audience might agree with me, but it's really important to be reminded of because that is the kind of tip we tend to forget because we always remember the bad stuff first.

As someone not from from North-South America, I will always find it funny when people from central and south america complain about the USA hogging the term 'America', maybe they should have named their country America as well, then they would have a leg to stand on.

For the "Mr. Rogers of D&D" comment, I am less familiar with his content compared to yours, but you might have some serious competition for that title in the form of JoCat... You still deserve at least a shot at that title though.

I've got to push back on that "American" comment. I'm a Canadian currently living in the US but I've also lived and worked all over the world, and in the 25 years I've been doing it I haven't heard anyone say "American" but refer to someone from outside the US. No one thinks it means the North or South American continents. In fact, many people from other countries in SA or NA would be needlessly insulted if called an American. I'm not telling you not to change how you speak, but this is definitely not an issue. Also, and let's be honest, because of the name, it's super hard to describe the US or a resident of the US if you are you aren't going to say "America" or "American", especially the latter. This really feels like a "some people will be offended by anything" type deal, and as your channel continues to grow literally everything you do will "upset" someone, and before you know it you'll be tying yourself up in knots trying to avoid offending that one person who is upset about everything.

0/10 didnt use any of my insightful comments smh... Jokes aside this is a really great idea for a yearly recap video and I'm gonna steal it for inevitable RU-vid stardom

4:22 - you’ve never played a Zelda game? Time to fix that methinks - easy content for you for the next couple of years, doing Let’s Plays of all the games. 😉

The comment about Strahd being a foul-mouthed Australian is pretty funny to me as in a D&D podcast I listen to, that's exactly what he is. Granted, "the dragon friends" is a game made up of Australian comedians, but Strahd is particularly foul-mouthed and occa

I’m really disappointed that you didn’t shout out the video that I commented “First” on 😢 Jk, I’ve never been first in my life 😉 Love all your content, keep up the great work!

You have never played zelda ??

do I need ot bring up the "good will toward man" I mean I'm sure I wont be the only person to bring up that not all of the people watch are "men" just saying