Viking Torbjorn skin is inappropriate

As 1/10 scandinavian i am offended! The Vikings never had these helmets, this is a stereotype, and Blizzard spreads it!

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i demand reparations for the pillaging your ancestors did to my ancestors village a thousand years ago.

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Torb is inappropriate.

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I meanā€¦ youā€™re not wrong

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Please get new material

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Honestly the winged ones are almost worse.

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You guys are trying way too hard at this point.

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Itā€™s true though, historically the Vikings never wore horned (or winged) helmets.

They were more likely to wear an entire bearā€™s head on their head.

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The Romans did horrible things!

I demand all their statues be taken down!

(happy to see people in this forum have senses of humor, too much dour seriousness in the world right now)

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It was a parody on new material ā€œSigma asylym skin is inappropriateā€

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Its halloween costume torb made for himselfā€¦
Skins like that dont need to be acurate
Just like reaper skins, i dont think headless horeseman had 2 shotguns

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Yeah, my friend (who is ā€¦ I dunno, some percent Scandinavian :sweat_smile: ) was telling me about that. He was raging hard over Skyrim back in the day. Lol

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I know. It just wasnā€™t funny. We see these like every week.

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you could maybe try to empathize and understand why some people are offended by something? you know, try to act like an adult? or just make childish ā€œparodyā€ threads instead, i guess.

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Oh, sorry, i canā€™t understand this childish behaviour to be offended by pixels

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Except this really isnā€™t a parody, why is he invalid for being angry over the misrepresentation of his ancestors! :crazy_face: :crazy_face:

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Unfortunately, itā€™s hip to not have empathy. Like people are proud of it now. Lmao

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I didnā€™t mind them so much in Skyrim since the Nords arenā€™t actually Vikings and are just based on them.

Iā€™m a Norse Pagan with a vast majority of Scandinavian blood (mostly Norwegian and Swedish), but I understand that fantasy realms take aā€¦ fantastical look at things, so under some circumstances it doesnā€™t bother me.

Iā€™d like to see an actual Viking skin put in though. Briggiteā€™s shieldmaiden skin is pretty close. Iā€™d love to see Torb get a berserker skin though where heā€™s wearing an entire bear :smiley:

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Normalizing mental fragility makes people weaker.

The goal should be to empower people to the point they arenā€™t easily offended and ā€˜triggeredā€™ by multiple things.

The less seriously we take ourselves the more we can enjoy things without taking constant offense.

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multiple people who tried to voice their concerns over a character ridden with crappy tropes are downvoted and ridiculed without even getting into a discussion, a plethora of fUnNy PaRoDy ThReAdS are flooding the forumsā€¦ you might be on to something.

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