Glytch

I’d say you’re wrong there too. It’s about the players and DM collaborating, improvising, and creating the adventure we all want to have. We’re all in this to have fun and tell interesting stories. It works best when everyone is bought-in and affecting the story.

Okay, but isn’t he also more likely to put a bullet through another human being than anything?

No they don’t, they just add a greater number of misinterpretable rules.

It’s an improvised melee weapon when you smack someone with it because you aren’t using the weapon as designed.

Alaka-BLAM!

This is why you make friends with an artificer.

Commentary doesn’t need to be parody and, intentional or not, this is commentary and therefore protected.

The joke is that Doom, specifically, will run on anything.

Who cares if his estate agreed to it? HE didn’t. His estate shouldn’t have the right to make money off of things he never actually did.

Let the dead stay dead, it’s just an excuse to not pay new, living artists.

It could do that, but its writing would be hollow because those stories are meaningful due to the lived experiences behind them. For example anyone who’s read The Diary of a Young Girl could write something similar in Anne Frank’s style, but it wouldn’t be nearly as impactful because learning about an event is very different from living through it.