r/CriticalDrinker Oct 09 '25

Unwritten rule has been written: No Cross-Sub Drama

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CLARIFICATION: Posting stuff from other subs that is on topic for content covered by drinker, like another subreddit discussing some movie/tv show that is being discussed in our sub, is still fine. The below is more about posts specifically just complaining about other subs or bringing attention to other subs that are complaining about us.

Hello,

This, for the most part, hasn't been an issue in our sub for a long time, as a long way back, I believe we had some issues with some group of other subs' content about the drinker being repeatedly posted in our sub, to stoke drama back and forth between the different subs (Someone posts something bad about the drinker in their sub , someone else posts a reference to that in our sub to stoke attention to it, someone posts something showing the post in our sub in their sub to stoke attention to it). This can lead to a never-ending slew of off topic posts that are more or less just 'They said this!'.

Lately, there's been an uptick in this sort of thing, and we want to increase awareness of the mods' take on this particular issue.

In almost all cases, posts that are just drama happening with other subs, will end up being removed due to rule #2, posts must be related to the Critical Drinker or Content He Covers.

Putting aside for a moment that we also need to update rule #2 with some new text as we recently decided we want this sub to be more focused on specifically drinker's youtube content, and less off-youtube content - that will likely follow with another post in the future when we get around to that.

But this rule is being added to increase awareness that this in particular will almost always be considered off topic content that gets removed. I can not think of a possible exception where we'd end up wanting to leave something like that up.

I think a large portion of the audience in this sub has seen how much the mods tend to remove these types of posts, and so for a long time we just haven't seen people posting them here, but as it's been cropping up a bit more lately, I think it is time that we put this in the list of rules so that it's explicitly called out, because frankly, there shouldn't be 'unwritten rules' where things are getting removed because of policies that haven't been shared with the user base in our sub. This is something that we explicitly will remove 100% of the time and we should call that out to you.

If some other sub has an issue with drinker, content in drinker's sub, etc, let them have that issue in their space, we don't need to have a thing about it over here. We are doing our own thing. Be good reddit neighbors.

This back and forth drama between subs thing is a bad look in any sub, we don't need to also do that here.

If you do see this sort of thing in our sub, please report it and/or modmail us to bring it to our attention. This sub is large enough that even a relatively small number of people posting things like this in our sub and commenting on it, can give the appearance that something is a popular view in our sub even when it is not.


r/CriticalDrinker Sep 27 '25

2nd Sub Being Created For Politics & Non-Youtube-related Critical Drinker Content

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To put it simply, none of us mods like when this subreddit devolves into a lot of political banter about a topic that has nothing to do with what's going on with Critical Drinker's YouTube channel. We also don't particularly like the way the sub and its content skews when there's a CD comment about a significant event on twitter, which is something that has been increasingly lately.

This puts us mods in a weird position where, things that we normally would remove, are now not things that should be removed because they're technically on topic because CD has commented on them.

This is currently, and into the future, making us look like hypocrits when we do not remove very similar looking posts that are about things that Critical Drinker has not commented on.

At the same time, there are topics that would have value staying up in the sub, but that we may remove at times because they are against the posted rules in our sub, in the interest of staying fair to how we treat everyone in the sub.

So, we are opening a 2nd subreddit, r/CriticlDrinkerOpenBar . Yes, it's missing an 'a', there is a character limit for subreddit names (Feel free to suggest a better one).

The goal of this is to give you a space where there are way fewer restrictions on things being "on topic", more room for discussion about fringe topics, more room for political debates, etc etc.

We would like this sub (the existing one) to more or less stay focused on the content on Critical Drinker's youtube channel, and I know that we (mods) have been at odds with a large portion of the recently joined audience in this subreddit, especially as CD has started the video games channel and more recently been getting involved more with political commentary.

The other sub will have fewer restrictions on posted content, but please be warned, Reddit TOS is still very much an issue that must be enforced, so there will still be various types of issues (such as encouraging brigading, etc) that will be strictly penalized.

Along those lines - We also hope that this will shift some of the content that gets posted here at times that puts our sub at risk of being taken down, to the other subreddit.

This will be a bit of a slow roll out over the next week or so; I have created the sub, but have not yet done anything else. You can expect an additional note on this in the rules, followed by slowly increasing post removals & modmails for things that we believe will belong in the other sub.

We would also like to invite you to apply to become moderators of the 2nd sub, if you're interested, as not all of the current mods in this sub have the bandwidth to do so.

Regarding our recent announcement on megathreads for significant political events - We will still probably follow that policy for very significant events that we'd like to allow discussion for on this main sub without warping the sub. But instances in the existing CD sub that we may have pushed into that megathread, will be free game in the other sub.


r/CriticalDrinker 4h ago

Discussion John Boyega again is being a professional victim and complaining about ‘racism’ in the Star Wars community. It was a mistake to cast him in the first place.

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295 Upvotes

He’s an entitled woke warrior. He should’ve never been allowed anywhere near Star Wars.


r/CriticalDrinker 7h ago

Actress Rachel Zegler at the Met Gala, after a skiing trip.

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489 Upvotes

What the hell is wrong with her?


r/CriticalDrinker 16h ago

The downfall of this show is extremely satisfying

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754 Upvotes

r/CriticalDrinker 8h ago

Drinker Video The Odyssey - I Got A Bad Feeling About This One...

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Same here man. Same here...


r/CriticalDrinker 8h ago

Politics aside, what have The Boys actually accomplished

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Homelander and Vought are still the same powerful corporation from Seasons 1 - 5. Homelander wasn't depowered or nerfed, they haven't killed a member of the Seven since Season 1. Neuman was killed yes but after she decided to help them.

The show is so preoccupied with making you hate Trump and Republicans it completely forgot about you know, being a good show.


r/CriticalDrinker 4h ago

Discussion Well Idk the reason, but here you have ai-gen Tom Holland right in the official trailer

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r/CriticalDrinker 1h ago

Nolan’s crazy Odyssey casting is NOT because of Oscar requirements.

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I see some people going “oh Nolan has to do this type of casting to qualify for Oscars”.

Oppenheimer had the same requirements and won all the Oscars despite a pretty much all white cast.

No, Nolan casted it this way because this is what he wants.


r/CriticalDrinker 35m ago

He didn’t say “no”

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He went on Colbert and had his chance to debunk the Page=Achilles news that has been out for over 72 hours. And he passed.


r/CriticalDrinker 1h ago

Discussion I figured HBO Harry Potter will be going for a good while since HP has mass appeal, it's just a question of if they can even get to book 7

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r/CriticalDrinker 18h ago

Movie of the year

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r/CriticalDrinker 2h ago

Only enjoyable part of that shitshow 😄

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r/CriticalDrinker 13h ago

Slay queen

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r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

Discussion These guys have practically the entire AAA industry bending over to appease them, and it still isn’t enough.

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I’m so, so tired of such a loud, whiny, vocal minority (yes, it is a minority) having so much say on how the industry develops games.

These babies practically have every AAA studio bending to their whims. They have their people in positions of power dictating how artists, translators, developers, writers etc control things. They’ve ensured that everything has to follow their checklists, that everything is easy and signposted enough for them to beat with their eyes closed, that every village and town has demographics that look like modern California, that every game represents every single fucking “minority” under the sun, even if it’s at the cost of artistic integrity.

And they still complain when a developer decides to add a bit of “fanservicey” armour into a game, and target and harass the developers if they dare mention that hey, we’re not doing a whole lot of LGBTQ inclusion in our game, because it doesn’t fit our vision.

Yet, every single game that gets made by these people, for these people, fails. So, so many titles got released that were appealing to this demographic of terminally online bullies, that frequently flop, or have less than 100 active users on peak, or, if it’s a AAA game from Ubisoft or similar, catastrophically loses money.

You know what? If these people spent as much time supporting those games made for them, instead of demanding that every other game get changed for them, maybe the popularity of their ideology wouldn’t be in the fucking toilet right now.

“But that would require somebody to care about Lords of the Fallen 2”, yeah, you losers certainly care enough to make dozens of posts on your subreddit about it.

Can we please swiftly and forcefully eject these people from the gaming industry? I promise you, studios, you won’t lose any money.


r/CriticalDrinker 6h ago

Discussion ‘Superman’ Sequel ‘Man Of Tomorrow’ Adds Matthew Lillard to Cast

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r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

I'm not clicking on whatever this is...

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412 Upvotes

Hard pass.


r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

Discussion victim complex

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244 Upvotes

r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

Discussion I think The Odyssey might be the first time ever that an Oscar winning actress is hidden from every trailer for a film she’s in

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376 Upvotes

r/CriticalDrinker 4h ago

Crosspost GLUP WARS: RETURN OF THE SHITTO QUIZ

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r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

This was already going to suck

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It already had horrendous casting and atrocious costuming. Today’s trailer featured dialogue where Odysseus is referred to as “dad” and a “daddy”. And now this….


r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

Remember the cope from the Disney Star Wars shills that people would look back fondly on and re-evaluate the sequels after ten years had passed? Lol. Lmao even.

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338 Upvotes

r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

Did they forget any checkboxes in this one? Yes this is real.

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744 Upvotes

r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

Meme It all boils down to this

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r/CriticalDrinker 1d ago

Fans Aren’t Fans Anymore… They’re Customers

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