i dont hate them. they are just kind of goofy. goblins and fox people are kinda goofy too.
when we are in these enormous battles with dragons and space demons and old gods and whatever else, goofy characters just feel super out of place.
orcs. foresaken. angry humans. blood elves. dwarves. night elves. these are the kind of fantasy races i prefer.
having said that, I might very well roll a rolypoly brewmaster in the pandamonium thingy just because
I feel like us dragon people get more hate than even pandas.
… I don’t know what’s stranger here. Evoker commenting on a Panda thread, or one named Klariskrays…
sweats in PSO2
The Battleship Yamato theme is now playing in my head and I blame you.
Are you trying to say Party Rock is in the house tonight?
It’s the dance… everyone is shuffling.
Yeah, that’s me… I’m the bonehead…
Rather have goofy / comical characters than an internal monologing Hot Topic Gillette cosplaying mall rat on the battlefield. At least comical characters are drawing fire away from the main character(s) and get in some awesome attacks. Like a mini nuke rocket to the space god’s eye.
Your gifs always make my day. 
I don’t hate them. They’re great background characters.
gentle head pats
The thing is, this is actually quite avoidable if the characters associated with the race aren’t written like jokes. FFXIV takes great pains to make sure each race gets enough time in the spotlight to not just be written off as comic relief (Azeroth’s villains wish they could be as manipulative as Teledji and Lolorito). WoW’s addiction to pop-culture jokes and tropes leads them into narrative rakes that they keep walking into.
Teledji Adeledji… a name you will find is most reviled on that star.
Totally agreed. Female Pandaren, in particular, have the best idle animations in the game.
If I was the kinda guy who played female characters, I’d roll a lady pandaren in a heartbeat.
You got some kinda shaming kink?
Well, then, happy month-and-a-half-early birthday 
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Honestly, I think they’re ugly and I don’t like their walking animations. I loved MoP but Pandas are just not for me.
I have both 
A Horde DK that I made around the SL prepatch and an Alliance warlock that I made in DF after that race was unlocked for almost everyone.
At this point, I’d say that pandaren are in my most played races along with gnomes and draenei. Honestly, when warlocks were unlocked and draenei got eredar customization, I was torn between making a pandaren or eredar warlock before I settled on the former because pandaren combat animations are just that good.
Pandaren pass the Harkness Test. It’s all good.