FFFF BLIZZ. WTF ... It's Warcraft. It's about WAR. It should have light-hearted things in it, but not be all it's about. That's why I loved BC and Wrath, because it had a lot of heavy, epic stuff. Also the lore wasn't as borked, but ohwell. The subject matter, at least, was way more interesting.
I know Blizz has a past of directly drawing on other cultures. Like with Ulduar being so Norse they didn't bother changing names sometimes, or Uldum being the same way about Egypt. But those didn't have playable races. There's something that doesn't sit with me very well about how they just went "Pandaria? LolChinastereotypes!" I know Pandaria is probably going to be visually beautiful and pull from as much of their folklore as possible to keep it somewhat respectful but the line of respectful is kind of crossed when all the inhabitants are PANDAS. I dunno. I don't even know if that makes sense, but it always bugs me when they do that. At least Kung Fu panda had all different species to represent people.
Beyond that, I think my RP toons would just kill themselves if someone told them that panda people were going to come hang out in their city and we ought to just accept that because these particular panda people are Horde panda people but some of their friends are totally Alliance and NOPE THESE ONES COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE SPYING MAYBE. And also they're panda people which is way worse than anything else that's shown up out of nowhere.
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Date: 2012-03-20 04:10 pm (UTC)I know Blizz has a past of directly drawing on other cultures. Like with Ulduar being so Norse they didn't bother changing names sometimes, or Uldum being the same way about Egypt. But those didn't have playable races. There's something that doesn't sit with me very well about how they just went "Pandaria? LolChinastereotypes!" I know Pandaria is probably going to be visually beautiful and pull from as much of their folklore as possible to keep it somewhat respectful but the line of respectful is kind of crossed when all the inhabitants are PANDAS. I dunno. I don't even know if that makes sense, but it always bugs me when they do that. At least Kung Fu panda had all different species to represent people.
Beyond that, I think my RP toons would just kill themselves if someone told them that panda people were going to come hang out in their city and we ought to just accept that because these particular panda people are Horde panda people but some of their friends are totally Alliance and NOPE THESE ONES COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE SPYING MAYBE. And also they're panda people which is way worse than anything else that's shown up out of nowhere.
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