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

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I actually JUST did this quest on my mage yesterday. It starts with the quest that you ignite the bomb that sends you under Icecrown Citadel and find Arthas's Frozen Heart.

The final part of that chain (Tirion's Gambit) ends with Tirion destroying the heart after he officially decides that Arthas has no humanity left.

I'm inclined to disagree though, at the end of the Fall of the Lich King video, I think that with Frostmourne broken and the Helm of Domination removed, that he became a bit more human. He seemed happy that it was over, in my opinion.

Or maybe it's just because he was dying.

[sailor-arashi.livejournal.com]

Definitely open to interpretation. I read him in the Fall cinematic as being a bit bitter about the whole thing ("I see only darkness before me"), but he does also seem somewhat relieved.

But yeah, it was the whole "tore out his own heart" quest that tries to cement him as wholly evil. It goes with the premise of maybe he got rid of the heart because it contains his conscience or whatever, but finally ends up with "No, he tore it out because getting stabbed in the heart just sucks, and thus removing it means they can't stab it."

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

It's funny because when Tirion destroyed it, it hurt him. XD He had like 28M health when he enters the Cathedral of Darkness, and the destruction of the heart took him to like 8M.

Fun fact: If you don't escape through the gate at the end of that quest, you will die. The combat log will say "The Lich King's Fury instantly kills (character)."

Fun fact #2: Ice Block totally absorbs it. It still says you were instantly killed, but you aren't.

[sailor-arashi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I lagged and got smited before I could get to the portal :D

See, Arthas was right, getting stabbed in the heart does suck pretty bad. He just didn't hide it very well. I just thought it was an amusing subversion of expectations that finding the Lich King's discarded heart eventually ended up being basically pointless ;)