Eh was a dumb response even for me. I rather not get into what is and isnt constitutional at this point.
Then we can conclude that Khadgars wheelchair is forced representation.
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The falsest of equivalences.
Video gaming in general has a huge male population. You need to appeal to the demographic you have and not the one you want to have.
Just watch any Blizzcon videos on Youtube. Most of the audience is male in their 40’s wearing Horde shirts and sandals with white socks. That is your main audience in WoW.
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The last time they did a good expansions cinematic was in WoD. It was absolute cinema during blizzcon. it was speaking to my soul compared to what we have now.
Now most cinematics are just boring and feel disneyish…
The Dragonflight opening cinematic was just bad it didn’t tell us anything about the expansion. It just show gnomes riding on dragons.
Even the TWW cinematic has to be the most boring of them all. Just anduin watching over a giant sword with PTSD and thats it
There is a reason. You just don’t like the reason.
Are you saying that she can only be her best self if she has two functional arms? I hope not because that would be incredibly ableist.
Likely true.
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And yet the reason she gave is absurd and doesn’t make sense.
Any sane person would accept the upgrade
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You’re right actually, since Pride doesn’t exalt the suffering of others.
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Statements like yours will always be the most worthless, nonsensical thing to say in any discussion about fantasy settings.
Fantasy settings should still be grounded within their own rules. When you have a human species in the setting that seems relatively 1:1 with real life humans and the setting hasn’t explained why they might be different, it is to be expected that they are subject to similar limitations. A human missing an arm cannot and should not be able to manipulate things quite as well as a non-crippled human. Unless they do something to restore such ability, which Faerin hasn’t.
If you ignore that, it shatters the suspension of disbelief just as much as if any of these fantastical aspects of the setting suddenly stopped working as they had been previously established to. “Fantasy” doesn’t and never has meant that nothing has to make sense.
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So the answer is yes, we’re going to ignore that this is a fantasy setting that is grounded with it’s own rules (that routinely change as time goes on; Stormwind was originally just a city in the nation of Azeroth).
And to be blunt, nothing about Farin shatters the lore and if anything it reinforces it; she rejected a possible upgrade to her prosthetic because she recognized that their community had limited resources at that time and that doing so would have come at the cost of others.
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Yes because it’s a stupid reason.
She objectively, inarguably cannot be as functional as a non-crippled soldier on the battlefield without two functional arms. Objective fact isn’t “ableist.”
The blacksmith already had the thing made lmao. The whole conversation where Faerin refused it was the blacksmith trying to convince her the new tweaks made to the arm would make her want it finally. It was a stupid “disability as a fashion statement” thing from the writers, nothing more.
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I feel like she’s a check box character just like Pelagos. Its a trend that game companies do just so them activists don’t go mad, but activists will still be mad anyways; so it really doesn’t matter what a game company adds in or removes.
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No, it was Her prioritizing the needs of the people of Meredil. She straight up states it and like… you may think that’s dumb but it’s not breaking the setting.
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It’s pathetic that this is still at thing with anyone.
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Killing innocent people, stealing the infinity stones is nothing?
Again, the arm was already tailor-made for her specifically.
Her refusal of the prosthetic is even worse if that’s her reasoning. If the resources situation is so dire that she’d actually have reason to pass it up for someone else then she should’ve told the blacksmith as such long before we ever arrived on the scene. She instead caused extra work for the blacksmith before finally outright refusing the arm, which now means extra unnecessary work for her to re-tweak it for whoever’s next in line for the arm.
Not to mention the “people’s needs” are better served by her being able to fight at full capacity. That’s her job after all.
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But it is kind of dumb… She’s a Lamplighter. Meredil’s defense… Only the writers would think that not having a prosthetic for combat is somehow uplifting the disabled…
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The arm can concievably be broken down for parts thus I fail to see the issue with her rejecting it.
Parts that could have potentially been used for anything from weapons to pipes to airship components… All of which could be construed as being more valuable then an arm which she apparently doesn’t need.