Ahem, what I was talking about is the Lich King vs a banshee, which has got nothing to do with sex, muscles, brains (yes, that too — look at chess, for example) or whatever (actually, they both were obviously using magic) — the former is just a higher and more powerful being in the undead hierarchy, so to speak, and that’s it.
Sure, they cobbled up a story to justify it — retconning much of the previous lore and arguably devalueing a substantial part of the character development in it, although it’s a different matter — but it surely looked like ‘fanservice’ of the crudest sort, catering for the ‘yas, kween’ type of audience, if you know what I mean, to me, which I’d find cringeworthy, to put it in your terms.
Mind you, not even in WoW would ‘no-names’ with extreme power fantasies punch out big bosses all by themselves (indeed, would you really like to see Arthas, Deathwing or Sargeras casually taken down like a lout by… ahem… some guy named Scrotie McB or similar?), so there used to be at least some modicum of respect for the latter — and, more importantly, for storytelling that is actually more or less fun. That’s something to think about, thanks for stimulating me to formulate this thought.
Oh, and one more thing: I’ve nothing against indulging in a bit of power fantasy or whatever, it’s just the ‘Mary Sue’ kind of narrative that I’d find distasteful, that’s all.
Actually, I think powergaming or Mary-Sueing would be frowned upon in the RPG world (speaking of D&D and the like), since it’s supposed to be about having fun by role-playing, not being a so-called ‘munchkin’… unless that’s the kind of game you wanna play, of course.
It would’ve been a nice try, but no, take a look at this, for instance. Once again, no narcissism intended — just to show how this forum does get repetitive and how I’m perfectly familiar with the ridiculousness of the behaviour that you allude to, which wasn’t my intention. To continue with your analogy, my attempt would be more like engaging in a theological debate — perhaps a provocative one, yes — according to their dogmas and tenets.
To be fair, he said nothing about her in particular — it was me who provided this particular example of her taking out many guys, a burly orc included, with her newfound Mary Sue powers, as a grotesque illustration to a general picture in the post above, with the intent and by means of poking a bit of fun at it all. The main point here is that we don’t misattribute or put words in someone’s mouth.
Yep, hence different prices, which is more or less a standard practice for them. 1000 or 1200 (don’t rightly remember all instances) gold for basic skins, 1500 for those with special trays and animations, 1800 for those including also a card back, unless there’s a special discount — something like that.
(A few minor edits made; my apologies for wording that’s turned out rather clumsy)