love watching terrible people out themselves as actually terrible
destr replied to your post “destr replied to your post: I actually worked it out, and based on… …”
i meant time spent playing the content. if you raid a raid for 6 months straight it doesn’t mean it’s 50% of the expansion
Oh, I’m merely talking about how every time someone asks about content Blizzard says “OMG LESS RAID TIERS"
They were putting out new content at steady 6 month intervals until SoO, and we’re currently at… 314 days. So if the expac comes out after august, that’s two raid tiers.
destr replied to your post: I actually worked it out, and based on…
length == content
Assuming the metric that the dev time to make half an expansion is equivalent to the dev time needed to make half an expansion is shitty, yes.
But so is saying “Yeah we could have that content, or we could have another raid tier.”
I actually worked it out, and based on the length of time of final-expansion raid tiers (ICC, DS, SoO)
One Raid Tier = 0.5 of the content of a new expansion.
People are making the argument that night elves are darker because they live in moonlight/nighttime and blood elves are lighter because they live in sunlight/daytime.
You can make that argument if you really want, you can say Azeroth is a fantasy and doesn’t follow real world biology, but know that ALL aspects of WoW (in fact all fantasy worlds) are rooted in the real world.
World building does not happen in a vacuum.
So ok, there are pinkish, lighter skinned night elves. Why couldn’t there also be darker, deeper colored blood elves? This is magical biology we’re talking about here – we’re already making shit up. Why limit ourselves?
And blood elves can apparently tan so their skin DOES react to sunlight by getting darker. 10000 years in the sun without anyone getting more than a light tan? I dunno.
It just seems to me that if a night elf can have really light skin, a blood elf can have really dark skin.
Uncomfortable how eager people are to exclude others even in imaginationland.
That is literally the opposite of the way it works with skin color in the real world anyway.
The solution to “It doesn’t make sense according to the lore”:
Write some more lore.
But that takes eeeeffort! The blizzard employees are too busy making vanity pets and writing tidbits about my hawkstrider to make more stooooory! Abloobloobloo!
Oh. right. shit.
I forgot that Blizzard isn’t a normal company with separate departments that work on separate parts of the game.
Fuck, how many raid tiers do you think new lore would cost us, benchy?
The solution to “It doesn’t make sense according to the lore”:
Write some more lore.
“Dwarves and elves and dragons are appropriate for my fictional fantasy but god forbid non-white coded people exist as anything other than orcs and trolls”
I wouldn’t bother with that regalswag person. I’m 99% sure I saw them call someone racist and say they cared more about fantasy cultures than real ones because they complained about their friends asking for fel tattoos on non-belves.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
But I’ve also valor capped for the week.
And I don’t think you can really use the “insensitive white person” tactic as I am at present being called an Uncle Tom by your compeer for stating that I think black elves rank pretty damn low on the scale of representation.
Hey look, it’s not my fault you decided to try and use race to dismiss someone like that.
But just so you know, it just makes you look bad when the person you’re talking to isn’t white.