It's discrimination if you don't want cancer...

[thistlechaser]

The county I live in is going to start to license stores that want to sell tobacco. $400 for the license, then $200 per year after that. The funds will be used to help keep minors from having access to tobacco.

The morning news did interviews with stores selling cigarettes. One said "This is discrimination! We're a minority! This is a hate crime!"

Persecution, ur doin it wrong.

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Also, a small MMO note. I realized something, WoW is mirroring FFXI when it comes to expansions. Both had their best one (FFXI's ToAU, WoW's WotLK), followed by one that changed the world (WotG, Cata). FFXI's went back in time to a war-destroyed world, WoW's went forward in time to a dragon-destroyed world.

I bet I was the only player sad to see the new login screen this morning. Come back, Arthas! You're much sexier than a silly dragon with an ugly jaw and an annoying voice!

It's really hard to take Deathwing seriously as a bad guy. He looks silly. He sounds like a whiny kid. Maybe once we kill him, the Lich King can raise him as a cool frost wyrm. :P

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ahh, huh! Interesting. And I seem to remember hearing that people killing (some bosses) basically caused this. The bosses were actually other gods, or some such.

SILLY GODS, STOP HOLDING GEAR THAT PEOPLE WANT AND THEY WON'T KILL YOU! You'd think gods would be smart enough to figure that out. ;)

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

The Old Gods are a bit interesting. The Titans (Who were the ones that gave the dragon aspects their powers) discovered them early on, and were going to remove them, but they found that if they did that, it'd destroy Azeroth.

Yet for some reason, we can kill them.

Hmm.

[sailor-arashi.livejournal.com]

I think it's more like "You can banish that one small facet of them". They're still all bound in the prisons the Titans made, and what we end up fighting is basically the finger they pushed through to poke things with.

They're kinda using the Tolkien method of immortality, they've so infused the world with their own power that so long as the world exists, so will they. Even if it appears they've been killed, they'll return eventually.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Nah, we're definitely not killing them, just cutting the tips of the fingers off that they're sticking out of their prisons. Yogg Saraon, for example, spreads from Zul'Drak to Sholazar for the east/west and southern portions of him, and as far north as the rest of the continent goes. That itty bitty sponge with mouths and tentacles? That wasn't him. That was a tiny part of him. Active and dangerous, sure, but pretty silly to think that killing that one little bit was enough to kill something as big as 2/3-3/4 the size of a /continent/. That's probably why the titans couldn't destroy them in the first place, because they're so large and entwined with Azeroth. If you were to destroy things that were so embedded in the earth and that large, it's pretty easy to so how that would destroy the world.