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20
Feb

17:29

Stupid Forum Posts: Misconceptions about Draenei

I blog, therefor I don’t flame.

This time I’d like to bring an example of somebody writing a guide, but simply being too conservative.

This is my reply to his post, which I won’t put on the official forums out of fear of offending him directly, but merely express my opinion:

Barvradl’s guide really is great, except for a tiny little flaw.
[quote]Yes, but we aren’t talking about a nationality here, we are talking about a race, a race that is highly subsceptible to changes in its enviroment.[/quote]
True, African Americans did become white. And I suppose the reason for environment change really is religious views.
[quote]The Draenei are more than a ‘group’ of Eredar now, the Draenei are their own race, they differ from what they used to look like by quite a great deal now due to the amount of special racial abilities the Light has given them, such as the Gift of the Naaru.[/quote]
Absolutely, all native Americans are still animists, none of them have converted to Christianity (not even one) since Europeans (inherently all of them were good Christians, of course) were responsible for the annihilation of most of them (directly and indirectly). (Jared Diamond, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”)
[quote]Draenei society is based on integrity and unity, notice that there are literally no rebels amongst their own people? Draenei view eachother as equal and respect the opinions of others.[/quote]
Well, yeah, believing in the light or not isn’t an “opinion”, it must be genetic or something, the same way Judaism is genetic.
[quote]Also, Draenei are not humans, so you cannot apply human morality and human behaviour to a race that is incredibly different to ours. [/quote]
[quote]It just isn’t plausible for a race, such as the Draenei, a race that is based on integrity and honour to suddenly revoke the teachings of the Light after it is directly responsible for their own existence.[/quote]
As I see you are not reasoning this with your human morality, I can see your point. Indeed, and it isn’t possible for a child to turn against their parent(s). (as we don’t see in King Lear of course) Patricide never happened in history, and people have never left the Holy Light in the Lore and have never done anything “evil” to anyone else (as we all know Arthas never left the Holy Light)

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28
Jan

16:25

Why We’re Politically Correct

Tags annoying, forums, internet, society

With all my bitching about political correctess, you may ask yourself, why do we need to be more politically correct online than we are in, suppose, face to face conversations.

This is of course, for a multitude of reasons, I’ll try to describe them, hopefully it will start making sense.

1. The more people out there the more likely you are to offend one of them.

This is very true and very real. If you’re talking to just one person, you’re not likely to offend them, as you’re talking to just one person. Talk to ten people, and the chances of you offending one of them is greater, as we introduce diversity. Introduce more diversity and more people, we become more and more politically correct out of necessity as we increase the scale.

2. Replying is as easy as typing an address to begin with.

“lol u suk im offended” takes less keystrokes than blogging about it, typing up an article or heaven knows what. Thus, feedback is immediate, and quite often stupid.

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25
Jan

08:38

Being Diplomatic = Hell

Tags annoying, forums, internet

I’m very sick of trying to be diplomatic.

Basically forums are horrible things, yes, I’ve said it before. I’ve been trying to be diplomatic for a while, and it didn’t quite work out as a great option. Why? People take the internet way too seriously for their own good.

1. Don’t count on people’s sarcasm detectors, they’re always broken.

Sorry, everybody takes sarcasm seriously. Suppose there was a thread about ice-cream, and you said that this thread promotes weight-control, somebody will be kind enough to let you know you’re a retard. Somehow, somebody will take your post seriously, and start hating you.

Yippie.

2. The best response is no response.

The best thing you can do to yourself, if your posts are taken out of context, is just not reply. At most, reply only to the stuff you like and ignore the rest (i.e. filter their post). The problem is, occasionally, people are stupid. Unfortunately, somebody has to tell them, no? WRONG, you’ll be starting flame wars and just making their stupidity more obvious.

3. Everybody thinks you’re flaming them or trolling their threads.

In a forum, every single user thinks their way is not merely correct, but is the manifestation of pure truth. Their posts are infallible, therefor, if you post something that seems to contradict them it can’t possibly be true, it must be a troll.

4. Trolls will be fed.

The old “do not feed the troll” motto is a great one. Unfortunately, nobody besides you gets it. Trolls will receive more replies than they could possibly imagine.

5. The more successful users are the ones who say nothing but yell “BACON!” with all their might

This is an interesting one. Those who understand the forums know that there’s no use in expressing opinions, instead, they just say crap, post drunk, and make stupid “jokes.” They’re the same conservative bitch who’d support a WWII style killing machine.

6. The less successful users have something to say, they just do it wrong.

Opinions! Less-than-successful users have those, that’s WHY they’re “less than successful”. Nobody likes them because they say what’s right, but by the mighty gods, they know a thing or two.

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