Not like you actually care as you seem to genuinely believe majority of the playerbase are Not Fash so here we are 
You’d undoubtedly fall back on “net sum of social media isn’t valid because it’s vocal minority” so moot point
I wouldn’t call them fascist, but exhibiting fascist tendencies as morally justifiable things in wow.
I don’t believe the ‘majority’ of the playerbase is anything. If you can prove with proper statistical analysis that the ‘majority’ of the playerbase is fascist like you claim, then I would agree with you. Otherwise I naturally have to be against it. As that is the null hypothesis.
Note that the sample also has to be without bias. So you can’t just cherry pick a certain subset of the playerbase and claim that it represents the majority. Which is what you are doing right now.
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More likely it’s based on overwhelming personal observations, without factoring in observer bias. Baal attracts certain types of players; those who believe like he believes, and those who hate people who believes like he believes.
I go on my WoW-specific Twitter account? I’m innundated with pictures of transmog, people excited about the rare mount they got to drop, FF14 posts (but why tho? I never even finished the MSQ!!) and dracadactyl evokationers.
Twitter’s algorythm feeds you what you’re hungry for. I’m clearly hungry for pretties, dracadactyl evokationers and… FF14?
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All social media platorms do that. It is how they keep you glued to the screen. Youtube (recommended videos), facebook (things your friends like, pages you might like) etc etc. It is also why it is very easy to fall into certain extreme rabbit holes. You might like a video done by a center right (or left) person and you get recommended videos from people who progressively go to the extremes.
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He is a not a good guy. He is the guy who was chosen because he falls in line with the peace politics of Thrall and Baine.
And when that’s all you see, it’s easy to fall into the belief that it represents a majority.
If I based my opinions on the WoW playerbase, it’s going to be based on what I observe. Social media algorythms (I just cannot spell that dang word) control what you observe.
Baal thinks the average WoW player is alt-right or alt-right leaning because his feed shows him that, or people like him opposing that.
If I also used social media as my litmus test for the WoW majority, I’d assume the majority of WoW players dress better than me in-game, have all the mounts I’ve been wanting for years, finished FF14’s MSQ, and make great puns for me to steal (I forgot, WoW puns are also a big thing in my feed).
And while all of that is definitely true, I’m not going to use social media to gauge what the majority want and don’t want when I can just follow the money.
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So you’ll not call them fascist but try to get in meaningless version. Who cares?
Nice job of turning yet another thread into a absolute dumpster fire, and y’all know who you are
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I am not going to call someone an actual fascist for something said in a fantasy setting but I will call out their behavior for parallels. If its wrong in real life then its wrong in the story too, this would lend a level of consistency and logic to an otherwise illogical world… like this dumb short story that Golden has written.
If you care about the story, its consistency and internal logic then it would be something you care about.
Did you miss how many of the Sylvanas supporters were loudly proclaiming that they were doing it out of spite?
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I didn’t take a survey no.
I can’t confidently say their intention for why they said what they said but only that they said it.
For what purpose? What’s the point?
Naw, the story and characters shouldn’t have to mirror real world morals.
The story can be internally consistent without caring about the same stuff we do.
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I already explained this.
They should.
It cannot. Unless your point is they are consistent in their inconsistency.
If you ever think you explained something, you can actually quote what you said instead of claiming you explained it. Otherwise it comes off that you are trying to dodge and goes nowhere.
Naw, that’s really boring.
It can, that’s why it is internal consistency.
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Sure it can, because not everyone cares about the same stuff
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Ignoring the inconsistency doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
It only varies the degree of which is so bad that even people that don’t even care about the lore joke about it.
See the jailer storyline that Danuser doubled down on as good and seemingly shared more lore tidbits that are not even in the game or books.
So yeah its inconsistent.
Which Blizzard doesn’t have.
See jailer storyline as exhibit A.
We work with what we’re given, and the last four years were given BFA and Shadowlands, and their creators, who turned out to be the real villains after all.
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The Jailer story was amazing. The stakes were high, the cosmic war was all over the wall and the mystery of the afterlife was dismantled. Now we have a dragon that will be easily defeated in the first raid fight. I haven’t felt that let down by an opening for an expansion since WoD.
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