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

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Having played WoW for about 4 years now I can definitely say that the trend has been for constant improvement, though the road has definitely been bumpy along the way sometimes!

I'm sort of 'meh' about the Shattering, but I'm looking forward to new questing and leveling stuff -- and I'm not keen on leveling in general, so that says something. :)

I'd say just give it some time, see what you think. :)

And yes, you're the only one! I hated the Wrath logon screen after the first couple logins. I even downloaded a mod that shut that damn dragon up! Sindragosa's roar is so annoying, but that's fitting since the ICC encounter with her has the most annoying voice acting in the game. :)

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

It's really hard to take Deathwing seriously as a bad guy.

Arthas was a big ham. When asked if we would encounter Deathwing like we did Arthas, Chris Metzen said "You'll see him but it won't be as cartoony and over the top as Arthas. Basically every time you see Deathwing he'll kill you.Hey, his name ain't Socialwing."

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I can't take deathwing seriously for some reason either. Maybe it's just the convenience of the whole thing. It's probably the same reason I've had a hard time placing someone as the bad guy in WotG. I mean, he just decides to come up with the intent to destroy everything, so he bursts forth and starts fucking shit up. Which does what? Makes the zones changes, some new harder zones show up to help us level, and introduces 2 new races that can help to beat him. Then what does he do? Goes and chills out in his secret lair and waits for us to go get him.

Deathwing needs to get his hands on the evil overlords list (http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html) I think... World destruction, you're doing it wrong!

[sailor-arashi.livejournal.com]

How can you call any WoW character whiny after Illidan whined all the way through the TBC cinematic? :D Illidan is the end-all-be-all of whiny, everyone else is just a little melodramatic in comparison.

Deathwing is just a little emo. You'd be emo too if your jaw fell off, I bet!

Also, seconding the "Syndragosa is so freaking obnoxious" statements. She makes you want to kill her just by talking, which I guess is good, 'cause that's why you're there after all.

[itsbacon.livejournal.com]

E:

I think... I prefer Arthas (and Kael) because their lives (and thus character development/descent into badguyness) were more "recent". Even if a player hasn't played the earlier Warcraft games, we've felt their presence much more and longer than we have Neltharion's. For RPers, pretty much any character who isn't a draenei will have had their backstories heavily influenced by Arthas's actions. And the memory of the golden prince who ultimately turned against the living, and the wounds his betrayal caused, are still fresh.

And because their lifespans are closer to ours and the events of their lives have been more recent, I think it's a lot easier to empathize with Arthas, Kael, and even Illidan. Even if Arthas ended up TEH EVUL, he's human and thus relate-able, so his story evokes stronger feelings. At least for me, it's much harder to relate to an extremely ancient, powerful being like Neltharion; his life and problems are god-like, and as a human, I'm really more interested in human-like problems than god-like problems.

I think this feeling could be remedied by showing more of Deathwing's backstory, personality, and motivations in the game (which it seems they do not want to do) or by reading the novels... And the novels = nononodonotwant as far as I can see. D8

[kaelash.livejournal.com]

WoW's went forward in time to a dragon-destroyed world.

Aaaactually a Blue post said there's no timeskipping (MAYBE a week or two or something for places to get rebuilt, if insta-graphic-updates bug you), so it's just 'progressing along the timeline to a dragon-destroyed world'. :Dc