And stay out!
good 2 see p much everyone’s on the same frequency on this topic though.
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Someone roleplaying an LGBT character?
Love to see it; live your best life, gay gamers.
Someone referring to European history from the 5th to the 15th Century as the Dark Ages?
It’s beatdown time…
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regarding western Europe during the early medieval it’s reasonable to make reference to a Dark Age in terms of the technological and scientific understanding lost with the fall of the Roman Empire and the deurbanisation that followed!!
although in terms of the dark ages encompassing the entirety of the medieval period (500-1500) is big dumb and i will fist-fight the judge for your right to stay and ramble incoherently about the middle ages
but the medicine!!! They used to bleed you to death with leeches because of the Church!!!
The only reason medical science stagnated historically is because of a dude called Galen.
Long story short, medical knowledge in real life only stagnated due to the cult of personality that grew around Galen and medieval laws banning the necessary autopsies and dissections /that were later conducted by Vesalius anyway) in order to advance it once again after a millennia of Galen's in some parts incorrect theories dominating the field of medicine, because of the scientific community of the time period believing the cultures of the antiquity had reached the pinnacle of medicine.
Galen was a Roman physician during the imperial era and he was one of the most talented physicians of his time. A genuinely bright mind who pioneered medical knowledge of the time period from scratch on account of Alexandria burning down and having to start from square 1. But Galen was restricted by laws of the time which prohibited dissection of human cadavers, so he instead worked on monkeys until he got freaked out by their similarity to humanity so he moved on to pigs.
Pig biology is not compatible with human biology. The things he was right about are true to this day, but there were a lot of things he just was plain wrong about. And that’s fine; he was dissecting pigs.
But Galen became something of a cult icon among medieval physicians who took his research as law and again church banning human autopsies so they kind of had to take his word as law, though it reached some really ridiculous moments where even though they could see with their own eyes that what Galen described is not true, they insisted that Galen is right. Because who are they to doubt Galen and be ostracised from their community?
It took till 1543 when Andreas Vesalius went “hol up, something’s not right. Why are you spreading misinformation?” and when he got heckled by the scientific community of the time, man went and proved Galen’s writings wrong himself by demonstrating first hand human autopsies to discover the truth about human biology. His writings were controversial at the time and he got targeted by the Catholic church because of his work on account of the illegal autopsies he pulled off, but he took the bullet for the team so to speak and began the age of medical advancement once more in the renaissance period.
That famous renaissance painting of doctors performing a human autopsy? The book in the painting they follow as a manual is attributed as being Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica.
Also the Catholic church advocated pretty consistently that the Earth is round. The disagreement with Galileo was about the way he published his findings and its place in the cosmos. The church had nothing to do with the Christopher Columbus bit, nor was that disagreement about the shape of the Earth, but its size.
The Catholic church also advocated for the Big Bang Theory pretty early on. It was the scientific community that heckled the church for supporting such an outlandish concept at the time.
Dark Age? More like Dork Age.
Gottem.
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And I’m gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause!
Your honour, if I may recommend an amendment to the proceedings-!
Whilst it’s totally true that much of Western Europe did experience political turmoil/de-urbanisation after the fall of Rome, the term ‘Dark Ages’ -
Aaauuggghhh!
I’m unable to finish my sentence because such powerful ownage destroys me on a cosmic level
https://blizzardwatch.com/2020/07/07/fairshaw/
Just putting this out here @ everyone who’s trying to excuse homophobia is a “normal thing” in Warcraft (it isn’t).
Fairshaw is confirmed. \o/
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Not a fan of the pairing(Flynnshaw that is), but the gay farmed complaining to Anduin about loosing his Husband was already proof enough
It’s a good start.
Now it needs to be in the game.
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Wait. Did I miss a chapter or two in the story? W-what happened to Flynn having a crush on Taelia?
Bisexuality exists, as does developing a crush on someone new that you’ve met
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Yeah, I’m not saying it’s anything weird. But the crush on Taelia was hinted to be Flynn’s motivation to join the Alliance (or atleast so I figured). A huge deal, in other words.
I feel like his Jack Sparrow-like personality fits well a bi person, I’m good with that, but I was really looking forward a love triangle story with Anduin, Taelia and Flynn. Why on earth would you ditch someone like Taelia for someone like Shaw? The guy is so… dry.
edit. Guess I’ll have to read the book.
Flynn just have too much awesome & love in him to just be straight.
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To be honest this might explain why Harlan Sweete was so mad with Flynn. Nothing can quench the rage of a pirate’s broken heart.
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Harlan Shortstacks wouldnt find anyone better if he scoured the seas.
Now if only he also had an interesting character somewhere in there.
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Flynn/Taelia were probably the nicest characters introduced in BFA. Prove me wrong.
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I found him kinda charming and fun when questing.
But it might also be cus Alliance questing didnt have many compelling or memorable characters, so its easy to stand out?
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It’s basically these two and then the guys who speak about the tides all the time. And some forgettable huntsmen/nobles along the way.
The questing experience in Drustvar is nice however. What’s the protagonist in that storyline, lady Waycrest’s daughter? I don’t remember the name - but the order of embers as a whole was a nice story (on the other hand it’s a bit of a “ancient order rising from the dust” - something we have seen many times).
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Drustvar was pretty nice and, but the characters still didnt stand out much to be memorable as individuals outside of that zone.
Where as the Horde got several diffrent characters for BfA that were all really interesting.
From my personal opinion, the Alliance got the better deal of the War Campaign(even if it was bad) but the Horde got the better BfA zone questlines.