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Do you think this tweet comes across cute? Is now the time to be bragging about superior colonization skills? Nobody is safe from conservatives, bestie. Your trans population is in trouble and guess where this started here in America. I'll give you some time to connect the dots.
Warcraft is the most self-sabotaging IP in existence. Imagine writing a thirty year long story and then making every word of it meaningless for a weird sad bald dude named named Jared or something and ruining EVERYONE's immersion/in-character motivation.
@NyanSpam
It's really, really not. You have absolutely no idea how many possible returning players blizzard lost when they cancelled the promised format of Overwatch 2. But if you looked at the steam numbers, that might point you in the right direction.
Gonna say it one more time for the people in the back. Arthas was made to be a villain from the moment of his conception. Sylvanas was made into a harmful stereotype of female survivors by Alex Afrasiabi. They are -not- the same. Comparing them out of context is deplorable.
People who gatekeep cosmetic items in warcraft because they 'worked harder' for them are working under the same worldview as 'I paid my student loan debt all by myself and everyone else should have to, too' except they argue harder than people who paid $250k for their opinion.
Tizzy really deleted that tweet after blocking everyone on twitter who actually cared enough to question him about the damage he could've done/likely did by weaponizing his platform against a black woman so that tizzyent circle is about to be extra Not So Great for no reason.
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@tumblr
We very much need tumblr to stick around and be viable, actually. They have almost no revenue. They have no targeted marketing. They don't sell personal data because there is none to sell. And comparing this to what Elon has done is more than a little silly.
@Bensam123TV
@PlayOverwatch
Actually the reason Overwatch was initially so successful was because it was a lore-driven FPS game, and the reason so many people left is because it became clear that wasn't going to come to fruition. So it's odd that you have this take at all.
@rynodoesart
@OhReallyJared
Nah, some of us played during a years-long content drought and believed them when they told us the PVE would be worth the wait. You know. The people that cared enough about the game to keep it alive during that time.
1/ Sylvanas was always a hero. She entered into Warcraft III a hero. A defier of odds who stood between Arthas and Quel'Thalas until she had no life left to give. Until her very soul was torn from her. She was CREATED to be sympathized with.
@aceforspinaltap
So the thing about this is is that BG3 is actually leagues above almost every other game right now as far as graphics and optimization are concerned. The sheer scope of the game should make the quality impossible ten times over. It's a technical wonder.
1/ Sylvanas is a rape allegory and a trauma survivor. Her soul was torn from her after days of 'heroism' (torture porn, Steve, but go off). For many years, she has been a hero and a role model for survivors of these things. Myself, included.
They set up Elune and the Winter Queen in a possible wild gods reveal scenario and then made them both robots. They gave Tyrande THE most promising storyline I've seen from them in years (the Night Warrior) and then forgot what they were doing with it and bitched out entirely.
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Blizzard: we need you to write the Sylvanas novel
Christie Golden: finally! The Anduin novel! There weren't enough wow books about shitty boring white boys!
Blizzard: god ikr?
If you harbor incels and fascist extremists in your WoW community and encourage the harassment of people who call out their dangerous behavior I'm not sure you get to be surprised when vulnerable members of said community get kidnapped. In fact I'm quite sure you're complicit.
They disenfranchised the Forsaken and forced Lady Miracle Whip into their RP narrative and they just absolutely -despise- Nelf players. The utter vitriol with which they approach ANY Nelf storyline is akin to how Sylvanas has been approached since Legion.
The worst thing about this entire runaway train of a book is Anduin actively dismissing everything about her suicide. This is downright irresponsible and incredibly harmful.
Don't ever say this shit to me I stg. Like it's absolutely 100% free to not go on a thread-long rant about how Night Elves and Tauren are savages and Paladins should only be 'European'.
@UninspiredP
@that_kind_oforc
Typically Paladins and other “Holy Knight” archetypes ARE distinctly European, because that’s the source of inspiration. Divorcing a class from its themes basically renders it little more than gameplay mechanics. All that history and lore becomes irrelevant.
Who wrote Jaina at 40 years old being 'conflicted' about Arthas like any 40 year old woman in her right fucking mind would give a damn about the shitty highschool boyfriend that dumped her the morning after prom but also that boyfriend was a genocidal power hungry evil maniac
Every WoW content creator who dogwhistled their way into a career should be deplatformed immediately. Every WoW streamer who, upon experiencing their first speck of social influence, used it to become the bully that bullied them, should be deplatformed immediately.
If you harbor incels and fascist extremists in your WoW community and encourage the harassment of people who call out their dangerous behavior I'm not sure you get to be surprised when vulnerable members of said community get kidnapped. In fact I'm quite sure you're complicit.
The body files were compiled into virtual textures in patch 5 and I unpacked them and changed them and re-packed them and I still have not succeeded in giving minthara abs and nice shoulders what is even the point anymore 🥺 but look at her anyway
Why are people saying Sylvanas is the only WoW character with merch I feel like I woke up in the twilight zone people who hate Sylvanas will say the most outlandish shit like you can't just go to the blizzard store right now and buy forty variants of illidan's titties
Anyway, at least nothing about the broken afterlife has changed & when you die you just go to eternal work/never see anyone you love again & find out that whatever gods you were devoted to are fake. Which is definitely a fantasy I want to escape to and not at all like real life.
@nickeldoodle
@moonsmoothie
"Misleading and unfair"
You could've killed this person. You came very close to killing this person. The fact that you don't understand that is terrifying.
Comparing Astarion's scars to a Holocaust tattoo is the most idiotic ignorant chronically online shit you could possibly conceive of doing and I sincerely hope you fuck off forever.
3/ You can't retcon that. It's something that lives in people's hearts. Shame on you for thinking so lowly of your playerbase. Shame on you for sacrificing one of Warcraft's greatest heroes, and certainly its greatest survivor, for your pitiful egos.
2/ She was a liberator, both of herself and of the Forsaken. Even 'broken', as you put it, she protected Qual'Thalas. She stood between her people, who no longer wanted her, and the Alliance until the ruination of Lordaeron.
The 'I'm not racist, I just specifically seek out black people to disagree with them about equality in the workplace' to 'unhinged maniac' pipeline is very short in the WoW community. Just know exactly what you're harboring by keeping them in your spaces.
Mostly I just want someone to address why they hate their own player-base so much and do absolutely nothing to hide the fact that they do. They should probably just release a new MMO called 'World of White Cishet Male Humans' and be done with it tbh.
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“This is New York,” Ashe said, exhaling a puff of smoke as she shut her eyes against the pounding in her head. “When is there not a murder?”
"Sylvanas stans" this "Sylvanas stans" that. Yeah, and? I'm sorry, but this isn't about Sylvanas Windrunner, the Pixels. This is about what got us/her character here. The deep-seated abuse and misogyny. The story doesn't make enough sense to even be entertained as an argument.
If this Chromie quest were written by someone with one iota of common sense or lived experience they would have known a trans woman would've actually been like you know what fuck the rules. Get in bitch, we're killing the entire dragonmaw clan and saving Alexstrasza.
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@ask_aubry
Because what he wants is his perfect wife back after he had an affair for months that was apparently the type of arrangement that now has his wife asking him to use protection when they sleep together. Even his own implications are horrendous.
The amount of people who don't realize we're upset because this, since her inception, has been Sylvanas Windrunner's canon characterization is...not surprising. People hate to see a victim winning. Especially a woman.
The bottom line regarding Alexstrasza:
My reaction upon reading the quest text was immediate, visceral, and very very real. Victims of SA don't deserve to have to feel this way playing a video game. And that is more important than any argument in favor of keeping this quest.
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Jaheira and Minthara are actually perfect for each other they have so much in common like they both probably have 800 credit scores and they can both cast wild shape see
2/ The level of tone-deaf disrespect and cruelty you've displayed in having this woman compare herself to her own abuser TO HER ABUSER in the first moment she has been allowed to truly confront him since he escaped her 20 years ago is more astonishing than I thought it would be.
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