I happen to think gnomes are pretty neat. I even unironically love mechagnomes!
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Because I’m big buff and extremely handsome IRL. So I want to be a funny lil f’er in game ez
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I assume it has something to do with Children. If you want to be little you could be a goblin. Never grew up, has a role play parent in the game, thinks gnomes are too cute and adorable and can’t help themselves but to play one like a baby doll and also can’t help themselves but to talk to every baby they see in real life as well, doesn’t love themselves, I really have no idea.
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Smol and cute, and not furry for those who insist on being mostly hairless. (Sad, truly.) Also, they were the only pastel pink hair option in game for a long time.
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Prove it. Trying to see the Handsome.
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gnomes are awesome, trying to be all badass in video games is weird
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Idk. I play lalafell in FFXIV and when I play alliance, I’ll play gnome. I don’t necessarily like short, I just like the look of the models 
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I thought about it, and I just don’t get it.
What about playing WoW makes it easy to resist trying to be or look like the word I can’t say in the event someone reports us both for saying it.
What’s weird about it? Sometimes I want to look that way, other times I’ll have another idea in mind. I play Blood Elves because they are the only race that I look most like in real life and I can use transmog for whatever look I feel like having.
People play undeads for reasons like that.
I find it weird to create a character in WoW and want to look like a midget, and then not play a Dwarf but go for the toddler option instead.
Ouch.
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Because a gnome isn’t a “toddler”, is a small intelligent humanoid race, nothing more, nothing less. The hangup on viewing it as a '“toddler” is on the viewer that views it as such, instead of what it is.
And there are many that play a video game to be something different the average humdrum human like (elves) or humans, of which we all are outside of games. Just as on the other foot there are many that like to play a character that is similar to themselves to envision themselves as the character, and neither way of viewing it is wrong.
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The concept of Gnomes and engineering goes back a long way.
“They go together like peas and carrots”
Gnomes are just Tolkien’s hobbits that like to tinker and make machines. Memories of old cartoons like The Smurfs or David the Gnome come to mind when I see Gnomish Engineers like High Tinker Mechatorque or Prince Erazmin. Smurfs are just gnomes that have blue skin.
Gnomes and engineering…
It’s just a beautiful thing.
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Gnomes always got the short end of the stick. lol
Even with cinematics they were never featured until Arclight Rumble.
I don’t judge people for playing gnomes or think it’s weird. The race has just as much as a place as any other.
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I was using words like “toddler” in a response to something based on what an image would be. Said I can’t see what is weird about the initial statement and said what I find weirder.
The transmogs look great on Gnomes. Dwarfs, they have a tiny head compared to the rest of them causing the transmog to look stupid.
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I dont like shaggy beards of dwarves… whadduyagunnado?
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in fact they are the Furrie version of a goblin, but the problem is not due to their race, but their lore.
Gnomes are mighty, steadfast, loyal and dedicated warriors of the Alliance.
Cross not the Gnomes lest you risk the wrath of Sloth Ninjas.
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I… I’m gonna…
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Ok? I’m confused how that has anything whatsoever to do with what was discussed, which is gnomes, and there being other small races to call Pipsqueak, which was mainly a joke with said Pipsqueak.
The tired trite of calling a race that is a race entirely on their own, just a ‘furry goblin’, despite being visually entirely their own race, more than any other allied race except possibly Kul Tiran (which some could argue using that logic can look like a furless pandoran) aside.
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It’s OK whenever I start to grow a beard, my face feels itchy and I feel gross.
Also I tend to have very dry skin where I have a lot of facial hair. So now I associate that with itch
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