This is so frustrating. It reminds me of my past experience as a gnome player: I used to roleplay a very serious gnome in a mostly serious fashion, and couldn’t escape the all-too-usual “gnomes are so cute, let me just ruffle your hair or pinch your cheek or pick you up without any consent whatsoever”. That behaviour is outlandish, I dare to say - never have I seen Anduin or Turalyon express that sort of sentiments toward the great Mekkatorque. Disgraceful.
More on topic, I don’t think I’ve seen anything particularly outlandish recently, actually. Un/fortunately I stick mostly to my own bubbles of roleplay. I tend to humour most of the characters I meet, and have even ‘mock-roleplayed’ with a fellow portraying Deadpool (which, though, I think, wasn’t truly a roleplayer character and thus doesn’t count).
It’s a great movie and I will fight anyone who disapproves.
I am trying to say this out of genuine interest Tehya, but I think your comments come across as very malicious most of the time. Maybe I am the one reading too much into it but it just feels… so toxic to read.
Like obviously we don’t see eye-to-eye, and you will disregard what I say, but I believe these edgy takes make the forums a worse place to be, to read, and above all I can’t imagine people having a good opinion about you when they meet you in-game.
This is exactly the mindset I went for with this guy (Kaytlinne alt, hello )
Trying to make them a well rounded character in their own right, and avoiding the edgey stereotypes while also making it quite clear that you are at perfect knee-cap-carving height, and that if you do that again you might yourself severely inconvenienced.
(Also finding a bone-armour mog was very satisfying ngl)
I actually did make a pandaren monk when MoP released because of Kung Fu Panda. No regrets. Those movies are among my favourite pieces of animated media, especially the second one.
“Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.”
I’ll give you that. Shoulda been a Pandaren only class.
If I were to go in a conversation about them, not in a negative sense mind you, I might end up summoning here a guy who is way into and knows way too much about Mogu and Zandalari Trolls.
I think my main gripe is actually less to do with ‘just’ Monks, and more a wider spread issue around animation homogeneity. There should absolutely be options and/or glyphs for Pandaren-trained monks, brawlers, Elven martial artists etc.
Along with Moon priestes/priestesses, Sunwalkers, Voodoo priests, Demoniacs, etc etc.
It’s on par with the half-demon half-night elf druid inspired by the latest shonen. In fact, it’s worse. Nothing genuinely turns me off and away from someone’s roleplay more than treating a server meme or any meme as canon; from punting gnomes to “sillyspoon” to regarding Goldshire as anything other as a sleepy crossroads hamlet.
People’s roleplay and concepts (usually) improve over time the more they roleplay. I’m not the same roleplayer that i was in late Wrath (thank god).
But so called “quality” roleplayers mouthing “lol all elves are women” to “haha shut up gnome you’re 3ft” or “love me a tauren burger” are an acidic bile in the back of my throat.
During any event which involves passing by it or around it, there is a chance there will be someone who will crack a joke about how “strange” the place is, and I feel my spirit leave the body behind.
I’ve kept making and then deleting Gnome characters over the years. I feel like I’ve run out of classes I want to play, but much like Rek my Vulpera, I also wanted a Gnome, or heck a Dwarf would do, who was leaning a lot more on the jaded side.
Gnomes and Dwarves have both seen the majority of the Wars on Azeroth, they’ve lost capitals and/or seen civil wars/issues and all sorts. But, har de har, funny and zany, right?
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and I’m being polite here.