Month: September 2017

lightandwinged:

shithowdy:

vyvienne:

A shame you aren’t brave enough to put your name to this Anon. The information was from Mr. Metzen’s tumblr and Mr. Metzen has a history of saying lore damaging things so in the spirit of writing my response I addressed it directly to him as a writer may do for fluidity sake. For many of us who cherish lore, his comments are a sore spot and it makes perfect sense to do so. Moving on. I believe I made my own feelings clear on how I personally bend my own lore needs to rp with a large majority of the WrA community because as a general rule other people do not *appear* to hold the same standards. I like our community in the main and enjoy the RP shenanigans that we get up to. If I did not then I obviously wouldn’t do it. If my post appeared angry then you placed feelings that aren’t there and since I have a large portion of people on this Tumblr who have never RP’d with me, do not know me personally and you didn’t put your name I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you don’t actually know me. Annoyance would be more accurate which in fact is not anger. I get angry at people who do mean things like call Ms. Gampre fat. Or cause bad things to happen in the WrA community for no reason. You read shame into a message that is a personal opinion. Perhaps you’re the half blue half black half bronze half…you get the idea. I don’t shame, I would simply choose not to interact. Which I have done and is my right as an RPer. Just like I choose not to interact with certain characters because they’re complete and total assholes and RPing with them is just too frustrating to deal with. The whole point here is that when someone like Metzen who has on many, many, many occasions in public made disparaging comments concerning lore it gives the game base, those new people you mentioned, the idea that there *isn’t* any which simply is not true. And that is personally frustrating to someone like me who has a serious love of said lore. So there is no anger nor shame. Only a general disgust at a man like Metzen for jacking things he shouldn’t, especially when he no longer works for Blizzard and a personal (read that one again Anon) love of something and desire to incorporate it into my own RP which is difficult due to things just like this. So please sign your post next time so I can actually know who I’m taking to and we can really have a chat because I love lore, love to learn more of it and would happily talk about it. But don’t put emotion into my post please and thank you. 

@susan-gampre (for mention)

this is the funniest fucking thing i have ever read

Holy shit.

I know, I’ve read their blog header.

I’ve already annoyed the real chris metzen once I don’t need to bother any of the fake ones.

xinsey:

i’m about to tell you the actual funniest thing i’ve ever heard.

i’m training to become a sign language interpreter, and today i asked my mentor about weird jobs she’s been on. like has there ever been one that when she left she was like “what the actual fuck just happened to me?” and i swear her soul transcended this plane of existence for a few minutes while she told me this story.

a few years back she and a colleague got an interpreting assignment from the agency that said “spice party”. so it was like a tupperware party where someone works for a company that sells a product, and they invite people into their home to show them the product and then the guests can place an order and buy the products and in this case it was spices.

they get there, and ring the doorbell. the host opens the door and tells them that the guests haven’t arrived yet but that they’re welcome to go into the other room to look at the products so they’ll know what will be discussed during the night.

so these two interpreters were like pfft spices?? lmao we don’t
need to look this up, there’s salt pepper and chilli like how hard can it
be. so they walk up to the door. open it. look into the room where this spice party is supposed to take place. and stop dead in their tracks.

flashback to when the interpreting agency got the order from the host of the party. apparently it said “it’s a party where they can order products from a company called something something spicy”. so this old little lady that handles the orders just thinks “hey, it says spicy, so that must mean spices right?” she rewords the order and sends it to the interpreters.

fun fact. that company did NOT sell spices. these two interpreters open the door expecting oregano or some shit and they get dildos. just. everywhere. dildos. lube. vibrators. condoms in 75 different sizes. it was a sex toy party.

the guests arrive. this is a small ass town. the interpreters know everybody at this party. throughout the night the guests can go into a private room with the host to place an order, and the interpreters have to come along because the host is the one who is deaf. to this day they see these people on the street and have to be like “hey :)” because it’s a small town, everyone knows everyone, and they have to say hi to people knowing that they have a two foot dildo and licorice flavoured lube at home.

anyway what i got from that story is that i picked the right profession.

lychgate:

all i said is the skin color options are virtually the same

Ahhh  yess “evidence” in a game where people come back from the dead by writer fiat

vyvienne:

officialchrismetzen:

Lore is MALLEABLE. Have you seen this game? we got motorcycles, space goats, a moon god that fucked a stag, talking pandas, coffee shops, zombie apocalypses, capitalist goblins, a dragon toddler made out of three dead baby dragons and a titanic relic, TIME TRAVEL, a king split into two separate versions of himself then fused back together, elune fucked a deer, an orc went back 10k years in time and wounded sargeras, selfie cameras, SPACE TRAVEL, auction house raves, vogue runway transmog shows, a giant floating city, and ELUNE HAD A CHILD WITH MALORNE, A STAG

there aren’t rules. rules are broken every day in this game. there are talking monkeys. murlocs. arguing why something can’t work in this universe is like sticking your head in a toaster. your head doesn’t fit, you think it will, but you’re burning yourself you idiot. stop it.

Prepare to be disagreed with Mr. Metzen. Anyone who knows your career and your influence in the Blizzard gaming industry knows what you’ve done with World of Warcraft lore. And if you are lore lover such as myself we really don’t enjoy it very much. There is non malleable cannon lore. You worked on the books that finally, much to lore lovers satisfactions and delight, put it down. They’re called The World of Warcraft Chronicles Volumes 1 & 2. There are also numerous books and short stories that fall under the area of cannon lore, for those of us who happen to VALUE said thing. You can find them here, right here, at this link. https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/story

Now here’s the thing Mr. Metzen. You’re the problem with people who have NO clue that there’s even a base set of lore in this game to begin with. And who wail and scream and kick their feet about paying their bloody $15 and damn well can make a half blue half black half green half broanze half elf half mage if they want. This isn’t Dungeons and Dragons. There are precedents and then there’s just stupid foolish. I do not demand my fellow rpers on WrA to bend to my rather strict ideas of lore. But it doesn’t mean that I don’t wish to the Wow Gods that people didn’t pick up a bloody book when I read a few Trps and curse you when I do it.

I like how the hill you want to die on is a story with lore where a moon goddess shagged a stag.

(FYI the lore in those books didn’t even make it through an entire expac.)

louisthesixteenth:

louisthesixteenth:

louisthesixteenth:

which is the worst: americans on tumblr that think that they’re the only country that matters or canadians that act like canada is the perfect country

this is a trick question because the real answer is europeans that brag about how much better europe is than the united states for “not having a big racism problem” despite the fact that europeans are the ones that started the slave trade and era of colonization that led to the genocide of indigenous people throughout north america and eventually led to the creation of the united states of america

i cant copy and paste their tags because im on mobile but @confusedlucifer brought up a point about how white europeans think that racism and xenophobia are the same thing and use it as a ‘gotcha’ or to make themselves act like they’re. not white