Should this quest be renamed?
Want to just call each other racial slurs and get it over with?
We murder suicide our way to freedom
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FREEDOM!!
i did get a month ban once for saying you canāt read. The mods were really harsh about that one. I tried to tell them you were my friend and I was joking but they did not agree. Plus I get more forum action for the stupid things I say, rather than the things i say to other people.
I donāt think the mods get our humor.
the longest and funniest ban Iāve ever gotten was for liking my own post with my alts, that was a one time learning curve, they do not like that.
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They sure do sound power crazyā¦
Iāve honestly been banned pretty rarely. Used to get it constantly because Iād just censor my vulgarity in the same way WoWās own profanity filter did.
I thought it was because I was maybe being a bit too mean. Which - yeah I can do thatād actually be a good reason to smack my hand with a wooden spoon over.
But then I realized after getting it over RP stories it was because of the self censored swearing. Beyond that I got one for extrapolation on the nature of a certain wing of Black Temple. And some for coded language, and that charge bothers me, because it makes it sound like I was using dog whistles. When I was using day time television style word replacement like duck mothering.
I think everyone here agrees that moderation reform would benefit this forum. The mods care more about report infractions then they care about racism or homophobia or other offensive issues.
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Well, I g2g, Iāll be in Florida for a week starting tomorrow, so if Iām not super active at least you guys will know why. Ren, Doness and others who know they are, love ya guys. Donāt get into too much trouble without me 
Also, gonna leave this here, because Legends never die 
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stay safe Micah
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I donāt think Iāve ever been banned.
But Iām a pretty boring poster, and Iām adverse to drama on the high internet most of the time. Every now and then, Iāll go for a fight if itās genuinely something worth it, but generally at the point where I decide itās worth using my extremely limited zots of effort to scold someone seriously, theyāve already crossed a line that shouldnāt be crossed.
Like whatās the best Alaskan beer?
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The best beer is the one you have right now.
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The beer she makes herself duh.
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Iām sorry for going off on you Benny.
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Itās okay I was also being rude <3
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So Iām not exactly impressed with this trailer as it really comes off like a discount Guardians of the Galaxy and those movies only work because James Gunn is very talented at balancing wacky violent humor with legitimately compelling character drama. But hopefully itāll be dumb fun.
I bring it up though because I believe a WoW movie should have a similar adventuring plot. Seriously the Warcraft movie failed mainly because the deep lore of any fantasy setting is only ever interesting to fans of that setting. Try to explain it to a newcomer and youāll sound like this;
Iām of the firm belief a WoW movie should follow your Hero of 1,000 Faces archetypical outline with a young Human Warrior and older Dwarf Paladin. And in the process of going on the adventure we expand the party to include an Undead Warlock, Orc Shaman and Night Elf Druid.
We can have cameos from the other races but for the first story we keep it to the races a complete newcomer can understand just by looking at them.
We do that because we will not be stopping to explain the lore. Stuff like the tensions between the Horde & Alliance, the various Dwarf Clans, the War of the Ancients - stuff like that might be referenced. But we do not stop to explain it because you wouldnāt stop to explain WW2 IRL - everybody knows what it is.
And moreover because we live in the digital age, someone could just google those things if theyre curious. We give them a taste of the lore we donāt jam it down their throats. And we keep it to a fairly straightforward D&D module adventure that can be easily translated across demographics and countries. Held up mainly by the interactions between the disparate cast of characters and the exciting fantasy worlds they will adventure through.
Then if thats successful you can start getting into the more esoteric stuff because now that the audience is invested.
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I felt this way as well.
I thought a WoW movie should be a simple adventure in the setting. Make it a leveling dungeon, or a night of dungeon spamming. It did not have to be a rote narrative retelling of major plot points, in movie format.
It could have been anything - Orc Warrior, Troll Rogue, Night Elven Huntress, Gnome Engineer, Pandaren cookā¦ looking for a key or a recipe or a transmog, even.
I am looking forward to this DND movie, but it could be because I am not a DND fan. I know nothing about DND. This movie looks bad and overly cheesy - but it also looks like a step in the right direction of fantasy genre movies. It looks like what a Warcraft movie should have been.
Michelle Rodriguez is always nice to look at. And I like that she takes roles in video game fantasy stuff. She seems like a cool lady.
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Looks like a fun movie, doesnt take itself too seriously and it shouldnāt.
I just wish the tiefling was red or some other color.
But this works tooā¦ if that human lady was a half orc or a halfling. This would have been perfection 
I think the most important detail to stories like this is world building. And I think the platinum standard for that is the original Star Wars.
Weāre shown all sorts of weird aliens and robots without explanation. Refernces to stuff like the Kessel Run, Corellian Freighters and Star Destroyers are made but nobody elaborates because why would they? About the only thing that gets any explanation is the Force and itās not more complicated than āemotional space magic that can be good or evilā.
Otherwise youāre thrown into this world just in the middle of a war and keeping up isnāt really a concern. Because the story is about these cool characters going on an adventure. And theyāre all pretty basic; young farmboy, old wizard, rogue with a heart of gold, the big muscle, warrior princess, evil wizard.
You donāt need anyone to explain ehat those are because youāve presumably heard a story before.
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And I get thatās not what some fans might not want. But who cares? This is an adaptation and one that would be aimed at a general audience.
Nothing tells me a movie is going to suck more than āWell itās made for the fansā. Oh? So people who already like it will like it? Okay? Well this was an opportunity to make more fans and you failed.
Seriously the D&D fans are already nitpicking that trailer and itās pretty funny to me. As the Druid seems to be a tiefling who typically have primary colored skin; red, blue, purple, etc. And that made me laugh because I think this is the first time Iāve seen sanctimonious nerds upset that a character is white.
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I guess the nerds are just upset over accuracies and world building. Similar complaints existed when they made the entire cast of Avatar the Last air bender white except 1 kid.
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