Author: tevruden

velynea:

Dark Skinned Blood Elves

dinnasaurus:

velynea:

deathweaver:

velynea:

velynea:

Please people, stop the dark skinned blood elves. Can we stick to how the race is supposed to be. They are so pale due to magic usage people, staph, staph eeeeeeet! Don’t kick against the lore, how meh it may be at times, it would still be grand if we all followed it ;_; (or at least us ingame…

Uses logic and backs up with lore reasons > get lots of angry people at me! people, I was trying to make a more light hearted situation out of it. Why dark skinned blood elves are -not- possible in no particular order.

{A BUNCH OF STUPID BULLSHIT FOLLOWS}

ohhh my GOD 

there’s so much mess happening on this subject right now but your mess is by far the most far-ranging; your mess is polluting the fucking ocean

ALL OF YOUR ARGUMENTS BOIL DOWN TO ‘MAGIC USE MAKES YOU PALE’

literally every race in the game uses magic, so by that reasoning, every race should have pale skin.  this is just the stupidest fucking line of reasoning i’ve read yet; you are absolutely twisting yourself into a pretzel, you are breaking EVERY POSSIBLE BONE IN YOUR BODY so as to justify your distaste for any elf that goes beyond ‘healthy tan’.   

you have no logic here.  you have no lore.  you have a ridiculous attempt at an ‘argument’ based on a false fucking premise and that is it.

You know that Arcane users, even humans get paler right? Have you seen Jaina as of late? Just pointing it out! Arcane corrupts all. Blood and high elves ‘bathe’ in it as a society as a whole, not like humans or gnomes do for example.

Get your facts right before throwing a tantrum. Go read up on everything I’ve written down there on Wowpedia right now, and come back to me in a few hours with some more arguments then “You are wrong, I am right, nah nah nah”.

Welcome to Wowpedia!

The free World of Warcraft encyclopedia that anyone can edit!

That is why you check source linked underneath the wowpedia page it if you do not believe me 😉

Wiki 101. You are welcome!

mad-maddie:

the-shadow-master:

mad-maddie:

Okay seriously guys. If someone approached any Blizzard devs and asked, “Hey, can there be dark-skinned elves?” What do you think they would say. Would they say no and pull up a bunch of vague lore explaining why they can only be white, or would they go “Wow it’s 2014 these player skins are outdated and in a fantasy universe that should be fun for everyone despite our constant slip-ups in the past we can safely say that dark-skinned elves can be a thing because it has really uncomfortable racist overtones to let a human-looking human-coloured only be white, maybe one day we can patch in new skins for them and a whole bunch of other races, like for dark iron dwarves or white furred worgen or mag’har orcs”

Creative design aesthetics = “racist overtones”?

Also, the problem with this line of thinking is that if you find it “offensive” that someone is excluded, you then have to add literally EVERYONE.

All colors, genders/mixes, heights, weights, etc. You have to add piercings of every single sort, tattoos, every single eye color, every possible physical peculiarity, every ethnic trait, every ear shape, every finger length, all three body types (ectomorph, mesomorph, endomorph), etc. etc. etc.

Where does it end? How do you find the resources to do all that? Or are you saying that skin color is somehow special, while all other natural and acquired traits that people identify with are somehow inferior?

And what if someone is “offended” or can’t “have fun” because their character can’t wear flip-flops in-game? What then?

Being “offended” is entirely the “offended” party’s fault. You can’t seek to impose your personal desires on someone else’s creative efforts. Or rather, you can, but that makes you sound like a 5-year-old child who wants the entire world to conform to their desires.

And all that isn’t even mentioning that there are dark-skinned character options in-game, just not for elves, so the whole “racism by exclusion” argument is moot either way.

Bruh.

itsanidiom:

waywardwayland:

#the lightning bolt is his penis

shithowdy:

You’d think that having spent several years of my life around horses I’d be a lot better at drawing them

you’d think after spending most of my life consuming media with fantasy armor I’d be better at designing it

you would think a lot of things

i’m hitting this ancient WIP again after not touching it for months

kind of considering giving him a ridiculous beard because i’m 300% certain he had one in varying styles at several points in his life

Follow your dreams:

mad-maddie:

Okay seriously guys. If someone approached any Blizzard devs and asked, “Hey, can there be dark-skinned elves?” What do you think they would say. Would they say no and pull up a bunch of vague lore explaining why they can only be white, or would they go “Wow it’s 2014 these player skins are outdated and in a fantasy universe that should be fun for everyone despite our constant slip-ups in the past we can safely say that dark-skinned elves can be a thing because it has really uncomfortable racist overtones to let a human-looking human-coloured only be white, maybe one day we can patch in new skins for them and a whole bunch of other races, like for dark iron dwarves or white furred worgen or mag’har orcs”

I’m jaded and work in software dev so I’d think they’d give some sort of non-committal answer one way or the other, but that’s just how things work and it has nothing to do w/ Blizzards specific stance on POC in game. 

I’ve given non-committal answers on TBD features myself. 

gallifrey-feels:

Coming to the unwelcome realization that you are trapped in a Lovecraftian friendship like “You’re my best friend and I think you’re amazing but I’m pretty sure that if you started resurrecting corpses I would just shrug and help out”

lobstmourne:

In WoD Beta everyone has access to class-specific and intentionally overpowered items and buffs while in the outdoor PVP zone: Ashran.

Paladins gain the ability to instantly teleport an enemy player to the opposite faction’s prison once every 3min.

SEND THE HEALER TO JAIL

Gay baby jail?

itsanidiom:

waywardwayland:

#the lightning bolt is his penis