WoW in-game pride event similar to other games?

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But he did state it lol.

And yes.

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He didn’t.

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I mean he clearly did.

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Saying “you don’t understand” isn’t an insult…

Infact, you kind of insulted yourself by confusing the two mate. :laughing:

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Well, there aren’t in-game drag shows run by MAPs. So, obviously the game is homophobic and racist and sexist and every other ist and ic… because, why think about things when we can insult other people and impugn the moral character of 8,000 employees of a video game company?

How about this, if there’s an example of homophobia, then show it. But, if you can’t find an example, then you have to admit that it doesn’t exist.

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No kidding. I think Rudly is pushing an agenda here.

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You can keep deluding yourself. Someone acknowledging the existence of something doesn’t mean it something else doesn’t exist. Until you’ve shown me that Steve Danuser has explicitly stated “Yeah, homophobia doesn’t exist”, then you will continue to be wrong.

Cope.

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I’m going to put all of the Warcraft books I have in one text file and then use a regular expression in Sublime Text to find all matches of (non-whitespace substring)s husband and (non-whitespace substring)s wife and (non-whitespace substring)s boyfriend and (non-whitespace substring)s girlfriend.

I count 53 results for “his wife,” 2 results for “Rhonin’s wife,” 1 result for “Wyll’s wife” (idk who that is but it sounds like a dude)

I count 41 results for “her husband”

0 results for “his husband,” 0 results for “her wife”

The word “boyfriend” is never used. The word “girlfriend” appears once, when Flynn Fairwind asks Mathias Shaw, “That from your girlfriend?”

That proves that there is a taboo against homosexuality in the WoW universe and therefore Blizzard must add pride parades into the game immediately!

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Not sure how I could continue to be wrong when I’m not wrong lol.

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So you have no evidence to back up anything you’ve been saying with your “Nuh-uh! he didn’t say that! It’s not explictly in the lore!!” because you haven’t been paying attention clearly and just resorts to insults like you said.

Your Hetrophobia or strong hatred against straight relationships doesn’t count. :clown_face:

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Because he didn’t, and the whole argument stemmed from someone saying that the lore explicitly stated homophobia doesn’t exist.

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That’s so crazy it MUST be true!

:crazy_face:

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You’ve never pointed out where he didn’t say it or that homophobia does exist. That burden of proof is on you.

Because homophobia doesn’t exist. Also, somebody have asked you to link some examples. :point_down:

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I never said homophobia does exist. I only ever said there’s nothing in the game that states it doesn’t.

There is no burden of proof on me because I never claimed homophobia exists.

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You disagreeing with Steve saying “Homophobia doesn’t exist” is you saying “No it does exist”, but you have yet to show me one example of homophobia. Can we not do this roundabout way thing here, because homophobia only exists in 2 binary states? Either it exists or it doesn’t.

So what is the point of you saying Steve never said it then?

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Clearly they want someone in game to talk about something that never happened so that people know it never happened, even though they shouldn’t know about something that never happened. It would be like having an NPC Priest talk about how Jesus never came to Azeroth and so that’s why we go to the shadowlands and not heaven.

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lol… yeah, that’s a good point.

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Lol no it doesn’t. I have equally said nothing in the game states homophobia does exist and that homophobia doesn’t exist.

I understand that, in your perspective, I have to take a side here, but all I have ever argued was the idea that this game’s lore has some sort of explicit statement against homophobia.

Obviously, yes, a developer writing a story that is LGBTQ+ positive infers that they are against homophobia, and so naturally they wouldn’t do anything to harm LGBTQ+ communities.

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But if something doesn’t exist why would the game’s history mention it at all?

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I think the thing you’re getting tripped up by, perhaps, is that WoW, whether intentionally or by happy accident, happened to achieve this ideal of ‘normalcy’ that LGBT+ folks are striving to achieve in real life - normalcy to the point that nobody in the game’s world makes a note or point of it, and that it just exists with no further comments needed. In other words, the silent implication ends up being that ‘explicit confirmation’ as well. Nobody acknowledges it, nobody talks about it, but everyone just accepts it as the truth. The way it should be and hopefully eventually will be IRL as well.

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