Are Orcs faster/more athletic?

Fuzzbutt-zuljin · February 24, 2023, 5:26pm

I like turtles.

Rigatoní-area-52 · February 24, 2023, 5:29pm

This might sound weird, but I personally believe the smaller races run a bit faster than the bigger races. I don’t know why.

Vaeradis-argent-dawn · February 24, 2023, 5:30pm

Orcs can’t compete with the big buff Tauren ladies and Highmountain Tauren ladies when it comes to power.

Lìvía-moon-guard · February 24, 2023, 5:30pm

Prime example being strongmen vs body-builders.

At first glance it would appear that the body-builder would be somewhat stronger than a strongman due to much more defined muscles… Only for strongmen to have about the same if not more, as well as being properly padded with fat.

Ilidaria-anetheron · February 24, 2023, 5:30pm

They eat rocks, just saying.

Lìvía-moon-guard · February 24, 2023, 5:32pm

It’s purely a visual thing since everyone have to run the same speed due to balance. Which makes it so that larger races will have a shorter gait/jog while smaller races have to have a longer gait/sprint.

Had it been more realistic there would be no way a gnome could outrun a tauren.

Shreds-wyrmrest-accord · February 24, 2023, 5:35pm

Genes associated with the autism spectrum were naturally selected and represent the adaptive benefits of being cognitively suited for solitary foraging. People on the autism spectrum are ecologically competent individuals that were adept at learning and implementing hunting and gathering skills in the ancestral environment. Upon independence from their mothers, individuals on the autism spectrum may have been psychologically predisposed toward a different life-history strategy, common among mammals and even some primates, to hunt and gather primarily on their own. Many of the behavioral and cognitive tendencies that autistic individuals exhibit are adaptations that would have complemented a solitary lifestyle. For example, the obsessive, repetitive and systemizing tendencies in autism, which can be mistakenly applied toward activities such as block stacking today, may have been focused by hunger and thirst toward successful food procurement in the ancestral past. Both solitary mammals and autistic individuals are low on measures of gregariousness, socialization, direct gazing, eye contact, facial expression, facial recognition, emotional engagement, affiliative need and other social behaviors. The evolution of the neurological tendencies in solitary species that predispose them toward being introverted and reclusive may hold important clues for the evolution of the autism spectrum and the natural selection of autism genes. Solitary animals are thought to eschew unnecessary social contact as part of a foraging strategy often due to scarcity and wide dispersal of food in their native environments. It is thought that the human ancestral environment was often nutritionally sparse as well, and this may have driven human parties to periodically disband. Inconsistencies in group size must have led to inconsistencies in the manner in which natural selection fashioned the social minds of humans, which in turn may well be responsible for the large variation in social abilities seen in human populations.

That’s not a disorder.

Snowpine-ghostlands · February 24, 2023, 5:35pm

Where did my response go

Shreds-wyrmrest-accord · February 24, 2023, 5:36pm

Me, a realist: “That’s urine.”

Wariya-stormrage · February 24, 2023, 5:36pm

Maybe , but they are definitely dumber

Stabmcstabby-aegwynn · February 24, 2023, 5:37pm

uh oh, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! REPORT GOON SQUAD ARE AT IT AGAIN!!!

Vanishes and sprints out of the thread

Laeuko-draenor · February 24, 2023, 5:37pm

I like turtles too!

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Lìvía-moon-guard · February 24, 2023, 5:38pm

“Spectrum”. At certain levels an individual can unfortunately be a danger to those around them as well as a detriment to their own survival. Something that isn’t exactly that desirable of a trait when it comes to prolonging a species.

Snowpine-ghostlands · February 24, 2023, 5:38pm

It just… vanished. I’m so confused.

Anyway, the issue with Autism being called a “mental illness” isn’t the mental part. It’s the illness part. Or disorder, if you prefer that terminology, though they’re interchangeable.

Fuzzbutt-zuljin · February 24, 2023, 5:39pm

Claps hands excitingly

Yay all the turtles!

Fluffyglinda-stormrage · February 24, 2023, 5:39pm

Any posts connected to the first reply in the thread got nuked.

Paladina-kargath · February 24, 2023, 5:40pm

Long distance = skinny

Short distance = muscles

Glykon-zuljin · February 24, 2023, 5:40pm

Maybe we need to give the Humans and Orcs a Mensa test LOL!!!

Snowpine-ghostlands · February 24, 2023, 5:40pm

Ah, I see. Thanks, Discourse forums. Very cool.

Lìvía-moon-guard · February 24, 2023, 5:42pm

Like human vs lion.

We are built for stamina, and at the same time our muscles wane on inactivity.

Meanwhile lions are built for ambush, but can sleep all day and still be ruthlessly muscular.