some dude changes their legal name to Eric Dath just to troll blizzard.
Damn, thatâs pretty braveembarrassing.
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You may be unaware of this, but novels, especially the great ones, have many underlying themes. One such theme is how control and power can be expressed by the purging of undesirable truths by simply rewriting history. In a very small way, thatâs what is happening in the microcosm of this game with the constant drive to change names, delete phrases, and remove emotes.
Blizzard would be better off addressing actual in game issues rather than spending time on such pointless pursuits.
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Wait. So what happens to the voice lines? Is Velen gonna re-record them or something? Also changing this was so stupid when there is actual content still missing for years. Hello? Vashjir intro cinematic? Hello devs? Paging devs? You there???
Thatâs what the wikipedias are for.
Removing things that give honor to bad people is NOT erasing history.
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Whew! I bet all the refugees, hungry kids, and mental health consumers are stoked. Their problems are over.
Yeah no I understand. Itâs job was to replace fact with fiction to fabricate history.
I just donât inderstand why you would apply it in this case when 1) the setting is fictional not historical 2) the name was changed because it was named after a SA predator
This isnât âcensorshipâ fam. Itâs basic decency not to name a fictional zone after a sexual predator.
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I am aware of that.
Iâm also aware that this is Blizzardâs private property and they can add and remove as they wish and it has no impact on human society beyond the confines of WoW.
And they arenât deleting Jesse McCreeâs crimes from history, theyâre simply removing his name from a part of the game.
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âIf it doesnât solve the whole issue in one swoop itâs not worth doing a few small things at a time.â
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I donât take that argument seriously. Itâs so terrible. Are you telling me Blizzard isnât solving world hunger because theyâre too busy changing a name?
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More like: Care and attention are limited resources. Why waste time on the trivial while the world is burning around you?
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The guy skimming through text files usually isnât the guy with a fire truck.
They arenât very limited if youâre part of a team that can handle small problems like this.
You canât have it both ways - either itâs purely fictional or it tied to a real world event. In the former case, no one cares what the name is. In the latter case itâs scrubbing history of a dark event. The question becomes - is it better to make it easier for a predator to be forgotten or to never give him cover to escape what he did? Is it better to have a point of discussion about the evil that occurred, or to make sure no one remembers it?
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Iâm just tired of a culture that feels good about itself because of its social media and e-activism instead of actually putting some skin in the game.
Hey you wanna volunteer at this under privileged urban school or mow your elderly neighbors yard?
Nah dog, Iâm good. I posted a totally fire meme today about equality and changed my profile pic.
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Such a Joke! Rename it " ItsâHighnoon " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEecDF_JL4
Itâs Blizzardâs fictional world.
They can change itâs narrative to suit itâs values all they want. It literally has no affect on itâs viewers than a mild inconveniece of getting used to a new name.
The name wasnât even deeply rooted in lore. Itâs a name they made up in Legion.
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Whether he escapes is irrelevant to what the name is. Either the U.S. justice system does its job, or it doesnât.
Totally. Social shame that is assisted by remembering a past wrong doesnât exist.
Just ask Louis CK
Good thing we will still remember it regardless, since it will still be on Wowpedia, like I said.
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