You said “all the Horde players.”
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There are no sides here, people. We’re all humans with poor postures who are staring blankly at our screens as we type out posts. I mean, hell, some of you hOrDe posters swapped to Horde like… a week ago. Don’t pretend otherwise, I’ve seen you hanging out in MG Cath Square the same as me.
I may have a blue background but I know more about Horde lore than 90% of you, don’t even test me. You all sound dumb as hell and you’re arguing over lore written by people who are terrified of worldbuilding. At least argue over competent writing.
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I mean, that is what it felt like. It was so many, far more than any number of Horde players I saw condemning it.
And that makes sense. The trolls were going out of their way to make themselves noticed by people like me. I get that.
“All the” was an expression from my experience. I didn’t think I needed to explain that I am not omnipresent.
I get that. “All the Horde players” could’ve also meant all the ones on the forum. It’s still a generalization, though I admittedly can’t prove nor disprove it.
Somebody triggered by the fact that said hordie is on the faction he knows and loves 
Get over yourself
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No I just find it hilarious at how quickly people try and cling to ‘their team’ because they dropped the cash for a faction swap.
Edit: OMG they added dracthyr emotes to the forums.
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I always been team horde. Not my problem you’re triggered by that
I’m not getting your point here, sorry.
Feels like we’re going in circles here. As I already said, I think you’re partially right with this, as there is indeed a disconnect between this description and what the Horde actually does in the narratives. The difference is that you make it sound like this description is a fantasy of mine, something that only exists in my head, when I am trying really hard to make you realize that this is what the Horde is supposed to be according to the writers themselves. Which is why it is so irritating to me : writers don’t stick to their own writing.
Another, more recent interesting bit about Horde identity is how Thalyssra justifies her interest in joining the faction :
I can see that the Horde has allowed you to uphold your traditions–something that is very important to us.
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The Horde embodies strength. Determination. Individuality. Traits we shal’dorei value as well.
Neither did I. Just like you, I loved Sylvanas but never had no disillusions for what she was. Hence why her doing obviously evil stuff didn’t drive me away from siding with her.
And I completely agree with that.
What, that’s what you want me to say ? I can say it as much as you want since it is exactly what I think. I literally have no idea where you got the idea that I believe Sylvanas was justified in doing what she did in BfA.
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Are you trying to farm likes or something?
Why would I farm likes because your triggered by the fact that I swapped BACK to the horde?
Why are y’all alliance posters OBSESSED by who gives likes to who? It’s really weird
Your posting style changed drastically when you swapped your character to Horde, it’s odd.
poe’s law is a hell of a mug.
It’s weird that they said that, since I only liked your first post responding to them, and I’m so far the only one who liked it. I’m not exactly a Horde partisan either.
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I was poking fun at their suddenly confrontational posting style with blatant attempts to get ‘Alliance posters’ angry, right down to asking if I’m triggered.
Guess there’s no point discussing WoW lore at all, following that logic.
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no, they could still be telling the truth and just be a manipulative sociopath.
See, this is why at one point I thought you were part of a bigger Alliance group of forum posters, you only care what ppls backgrounds are. Blue stick with blue, red with red. It’s segregation/clique mindset.
If some red has a good point, do you not give them a like? Do you only give other blue posters likes?
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It really hasn’t. I’ve always had hated the alliance. Why is it when I was going on the whole Pro Worgen, kill ‘em all rants none of y’all had a issue, but now that I dropped the pretense of caring about the alliance, all of a sudden I’m Too dogmatic.
Why is that?
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World of Warcraft is inherently based upon racism and prejudice. The entire story is a parable on how the Horde and the Alliance are stronger together; united and fighting foes, but are regularly separated. Far too often allowing themselves to believe in half-truths and easily held lies than make actual concessions and compromises to build a concordat with one another. This has been shown multiple times. Predominantly in Legion where the main focus of the story was both Horde and Alliance members coming together under unaffiliated, third-party banners to create the Legionfall entity and successfully push and destroy the current stronghold of the Burning Legion on Azeroth.
Contextualizing racism in-game as something attributable to cultures that they draw inspiration from IRL is something horrendously wrong. Though you are right in that Zappy Boy should’ve been able to read and write because Trolls actually know how to do so, and have some semblance of civilization. It speaks more that the author either made a mistake, or more egregiously overlooked their own lore to purport things that have been established in lore. Another big criticism of the book is that it looked down on Night Elves and their campaign, uncaring for the current armistice, but that can be handwaved as being from the perspective of Zappy Boy.
World of Warcraft’s writing is in its world building and not its characterization. Because of this focus most, if not all, of the races within World of Warcraft exhibit a dissonant uniformity to them that those whom we interact with are more the notable exceptions instead of the norm. Comparatively, Final Fantasy’s writing is built upon an arc that has been carried through for… 4, 5 if you count the recreation of 1.0, to showcase a living and breathing world. Elder Scrolls Online, though not as developed in its storylines, also makes a majority of characters be voice acted and presentable enough to have such versmilitude.
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