Why is this so relateable 
High on painkiller Ben is going to be an absolute treat I can tell.
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I have a knee I need to treat with extra care.
Slammed a snowhook into it running the Junior iditarod as a teen and was teenage dumb enough to finish the race (though at least I was smart enough to swap to the zip up overalls so I didnât lose a pair of snowpants cutting them off). Finished with a knee like a balloon and walked with a cane for a week, and ever since, Olâ Lefty is NOT the most cheerful of campers. Especially if itâs raining or if I have to sit with it bent for too long.
Anyway, if you can get ahold of it, devilâs club salve is great for dicey muscles and joints and relieving inflammation. Arnica is pretty decent if you donât have the good stuff, and almost universally available.
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Googled what a snow hook is and youch. This isnt too bad. When my grandma passed I kept the cane and wheel walker for just such an occasion.
Worst by far was pinching a nerve in my neck at the gym. Iâd never been athletic until somewhat recently so I didnât know to fear something like that. Woke up with what felt like a weird headache and in the worst mistake of my life thus far tried to tough it out.
Stressed it in a McDonaldâs bathroom of all places and it felt like someone was trying to tear the back of my skull down through my throat. I was in the sort of pain where I couldnât even speak straight and after terrifying the baffled employees I abruptly cancelled all my showings and abandoned my car in the parking lot for an Uber as I couldnât drive.
Then spent the week lying flat on my back on a wooden floor with a hole cut into a box I put over my head to watch crap on my phone. As luck would have it my mom was doing in home physical therapy for a surgery about the same time so I went over there and the doc hooked me up to some machine that shocks your muscles. I dont think Iâve ever felt such an immediate pain relief.
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I blew my back out onceâŚ
no I will not elaborate 
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You elaborated didnât you? Then you deleted it. 
gotta keep things mysterious lol
I was gunna suggest removing that Ren. It could have brought Doness levels of drama and punishment.
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maybe if he cared enough to bring the drama.
Started working on my AU again
Still at an impasse regarding what to do with demons and chaos
Kinda wanna go Full Lesser Key of Solomon but maybe thatâs too corny
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Yeah, a game that glorifies torture and colonialism has a bigot problem for some reason.
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Itâs a game that was written by mostly racist and sexist dudebros, who catered to the worst parts of the WoW community. It shouldnât be shocking that our community is toxic as it is
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I mean pretty much all fantasy is a bit problematic. Itâs not like you can address the socioeconomic problems in Skyrim that are leading people to a life of banditry. No, you just kill them all.
As you should. Because if Iâm being honest Iâm trying to kill people with swords and sorcerery out here. Not open Skooma rehab clinics and work as a crisis counseling cleric.
That actually sounds like it could be a fun or at least interesting game in itâs own right. But itâd be a different genre to your typical fantasy action adventure.
Undertale springs to mind. As you can have a completely non violent playthrough of that. And thatâs a good game but itâs not what Iâm looking for when I pick up WoW.
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Obviously we should systematically be wary of corporate activism. What big corporations want is your money ; I think it is always more reasonable to assume that what occupies their mind when theyâre doing that sort of choice is selling merchs or improving their image (which is something Blizzard desperately needs to do for reasons known to all) rather than a genuine wish to positively impact society. Letâs not turn big corps into the heroes they definitely are not.
That body type 1 and 2 is all good though. At worst it is harmless ; at best it is a good signal. LGBT+ people have always existed in the real world, and Warcraft being directly inspired by real world cultures, itâs just perfectly sensical that they should be represented.
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Killing actively hostile bandits is nowhere near the same as trying to rip off a tribe of Centaurs and steal their oil, in 2012 during the Iraq War.
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I think what Doness is saying is, you can have all the violence and such you want in game, but it shouldnât be glorified as a good thing.
And thatâs wows problem. The mostly all white euro centric faction, i.e the Alliance is seen as the pure, wholesome good guys, while the monster faction, with a lot of African and Native American symbolism are seen as the ignorant monsters who just cant help themselves by being mass murders.
Thatâs the issue I think. And we all talked about this numerous times
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Didnât they actively try to eradicate the Tauren though? They seem pretty actively hostile to me.
Likewise I donât bat an eye at using Blight. Does that suggest I secretly think chemical weapons are okay? No. It means I think the spooky faction using goofy green goo that drafts people into the skeleton war is fun. Because itâs pretend. Hillsbrad Farmer #364 isnât a person. Ya can kill them by the bushel and they just keep popping back into reality through the aether. Grown and fully armed and trained soldiers spring fully formed from the womb of unit buildings. Also thereâs a verifiable afterlife so itâs fine. If they ate their terminally ill husband they get to frolick forever in a sea of fire.
Iâll certainly agree WoW has a tone problem and doing ish like firebombing a population center is extraordinarily dark. And it wants to be extraordinarily dark. But that becomes a problem when youâre asked to completely depopulate ogre and murloc villages not ten minutes later without a hint of irony.
The tones the problem. Because Iâm fine with just not thinking about it too hard because this is a cartoony game. But then all of a sudden it gets all maudlin about the horrors of war. But then wants me to have a fun adventure through said horrors of war.
Nothing was funnier to me than seeing that cutscene about how this brutal war of attrition is about to leave ghost towns across Elwyn. And then Iâm immediately directed to go to Tirisgarde and run over these farmer conscripts with a MagâHar warcrime hamster ball.
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And I hear you there.
Itâs actually kinda surreal how Alliance wrong doing is never addressed. Because donât get me wrong Iâve enjoyed the Dwarf questing partly because theyâre such unrepentant bastards.
But it remains funny to me people talk about the Sludgefields like theyâre a prosecutor at the Hauge. But weâre all thumbs up for just shooting Frostmane children in the face.
And thats probably because the game yells at you in Hillsbrad for having too much fun. DrekâThar whinges about the Forsaken which is rich coming from a guy who helped pave a road with skulls. And the shovel will silently judge you if you decide to play whackamole with the humans.
Meanwhile in Dun Morogh you do have some Dwarves whoâve a warrior to warrior respect for their foes. But taking advantage of a natural disaster to kill their leadership and displace them because they might be a problem later is seen as a perfectly reasonable way to spend a Tuesday afternoon.
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Youâre playing a Death Knight and 90% of your abilities contain the words âDeathâ, âBloodâ and âAgonyâ. Youâre RPing the ultimate evil fantasy, slaughtering innocent civilians, so I call bs and call you a hypocrite.
Lol, I donât take you seriously at all, dude. Take your whataboutism and shove it. Death Knights are an edgelord class, and youâre under the control of the Lich King for most of your starting zone. I never said this game should be Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
Try not getting mad over the fact that the game has a lot of racist and sexist problems in it. And that certain actions are indeed glorified, when they really shouldnât be.
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