let me tell you what you can do with your "lore column"...

[sodzilla]

http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/12/beginner-roleplay-choosing-sides/#continued Anne Stickney is at it again. This time, she's making a choose-your-race guide for RPers that is, shall we say, not up to my exacting standards.

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[yukie1013]

Blizz seems to be very adept at taking the chickenwuss easy way out with storytelling and thus writing themselves into corners a lot. They needed a full-out war so they wrote Varian and Garrosh as pants-on-the-head stupid jerkasses. And the only people I know who like them that way are Billy Badasses or poor-woobie enablers (who usually trigger me out the ears so bad I have to shut a window before I drive them to despair)--or star-struck OMG HAWT!!!1! teenyboops of various gender when it comes to Varian (even though his in-game model is terrible). The business with the Forsaken? Strikes me as entirely "OH PANIC PANIC PANIC WE DON'T HAVE AN UNDEAD SCARY FACTION NOW, DO SOMETHING!" So now you've thrown a race down the moral slip 'n slide and...now what? Are you planning redemption? IS there some percolating plot with the Thing Under Tirisfal? Or do you even know what the hell you're doing besides pissing me off with your implications that women are unstable and mental illness is synonymous with immorality and outright sociopathy? And frantically trying to hide teh ghey?

This is why I ignore canon--the writing gets offensively poor on account of lazy hackery and bad attitudes.

Anyway! Word in re: Kul Tiras. WTF is that about? Bringing Kul Tiras closer to the Alliance at the same time as they did Gilneas would've set up a very interesting dynamic and given lots of crunchy plot material. Varian and Genn might grinch about Jaina's pacifism but I doubt either of them can deny she gets shit done and she's the superior tactician by far. Varian is the WAAUUUGH type (yes I put it that way on purpose lol) and Genn turtles. Those tactics have their time and place but you can't rely on either exclusively. Staying in Jaina's good books means her mind is working FOR you. I would really not want to be the poor sap who has to play chess as it were against Jaina. Considering she helped out-maneuver ARCHIMONDE, who's easily 30 000 years old at least? (One would think that would come up more in WoW. She kind of helped save the world.)

Plus I have to admit the idea of Jaina calling out her water elemental to drench Varian and Genn after they come to blows over something is really funny.

Bleh. I don't know. They seem to be just determined to use the Idiot Ball as the principal means of advancing plot. The bit in The Shattering with the Twilight's Hammer attacking the N'elves to start shit--I would think that after ALL THIS TIME and after getting to know one another via the Earthen Ring and the Tauren, the N'elves would know that Orcs to not think well AT ALL of desecrating the dead. Gul'dan is kind of REVILED for that, among lots of other shit. I would think the response'd be, "...Aw hell, is the Legion making another push!?" or at worst "Flossing fuck, did someone drink demon blood up in here because SERIOUSLY--"