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Thats some good news.
Was expecting some sort in of departure announcement.
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This is literally the best news Iāve heard all year.
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Now this is a wonderfully proper Xmas miracle!
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Iām gonna state the obvious: Thrall is coming back.
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This is exciting news! Welcome back Chris!
Your characters and stories have life changing for me as a writer, a person and a gamer. Iāve long been a fan of yours and am glad that the āTolkienā of Warcraft is returning!
The future of the lore is in good hands.
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Examples??
Well by Thralls Christmas Jewels, welcome back Chris, we have missed you.
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I donāt think we should be condemning someone for simply existing during a specific time period.
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Retiring Thrall, mostly. And the lack of a cohesive vision for Garrosh.
It got boardā¦
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I donāt know how much of that I believe. Maybe itās true, maybe it is exaggerated. I donāt blame people like Chris for what others do. The upper end of the business world is a very seedy and dark place and avoiding morally disgusting people would be all but impossible.
I was the equivalent of a director in a much smaller company of under 500 people and I kept to myself as much as possible but even still I knew of the big scandals and suchā¦not only from the water cooler/grapevine but because of meetings where those topics came up and from internal emails and such that cascaded from it. Even if specific names werenāt spelled out, you could put 2 and 2 together. Oh so and so is taking a sudden leave of absence and someone else has been immediately terminated for cause and now we need to all have a refresher lesson on what is SA and how do we stop it, report it, and how are our policies changing? Well gee golly gumdrops, I bet all of this is completely unrelated.
Plus as socially dumb as I am, and I feel I truly am, even I got skeevy feelings from certain individuals and listening to them talk/interact with people who later got confirmed as being creepy/crossing lines. Like everyone can read body language to some capacity.
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Very cool, welcome back.
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METZEN!!!
(yes blizz that is what i meant to say, wth error messageā¦)
I dunno if heād get on stage at Blizzcon since he said it made him feel real anxious but itād be amazing if he did decide to step out for the return of it. Hasnāt been the same without out him.
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Agreed. We donāt demonize government workers that were around during the 1940s when Japanese citizens were placed into internment camps. Most had nothing to do with it, and couldnāt do anything about it. But itās that group-think that condemns a group of people for the actions of a few. Same with more recent historical acts. We have to get out of that mindset and blame the ones responsible.
Metzen wasnāt dudeās boss. The higher ups like Bobby knew about the appalling things going on and refused to terminate the problems. Blame the perpetrators and the ones that could have actually done something.
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Hail to the Warchief!
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Cool to see him back. He said the leadership stuff was giving him health issues so this should help since I feel like he wanted to stay in the world he created.
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But like you sayā¦ even if it wasnāt on paper, that kind of stuff was much more accepted by society in general. Frowned upon in polite company, but accepted nevertheless. To condemn someone going along with the status quo twenty years in the past is absolutely asinine.
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I think I literally said I donāt condemn him. So long as he didnāt do any SA himself or directly cover for those who did and/or actively sweep things under the rug, heās fine in my book.
I question whether he truly had no clue any of that was going on and/or is totally clueless about Alex and the sort.