The Post-Fourth War World

Amadis-draka · December 13, 2019, 3:20am

I posted this in the other thread as response to people’s response to the Autumn party:

Night Elf Player Hate

As bad as the Burning of Teldrassil is in universe, it does need to be taken into perspective.

The Burning of Teldrassil was not the Armenian genocide or Hiroshima bombing. It’s the Snappening. It’s the Death Star blowing up Alderaan. It’s the fall of Reach. It’s a moment played for darkness in drama in a franchise where having 90% of your species being wiped out is better known as Tuesday.

So yeah, I can totally see how you can acknowledge the Alliance is totally justified in being ticked off at the Horde while still making jokes about Teldrassil… because at the end of the day, it is just a game and nobody seriously thinks the folks at Blizzard promote actual genocide, right?

Right?

This was me eleven years ago at a midnight release party in San Francisco for Wrath of the Lich King. Blizzard had commissioned an ice carving of a literal Frozen Throne (and yes, it was cold, even with that seat cover they had).

I think your Death Star blowing up Alderaan analogy is correct. As people didn’t think Blizzard was promoting tyranny and genocide and personal violation by celebrating the throne Arthas sat on at this party. It is just people celebrating the video game they created.

Yes, it is dark humor of having a fire going under what’s supposed to be Teldrassil. But if you think about it hard enough, the humor is just as dark in the photo above for what Arthas did to Lordaeron and Quel’Thalas.

Also this: