You tell him in no uncertain terms that he is unwelcome, and if the group sticks with him you cut your losses and leave.
Sad to say that’s really all you can do, really sorry about that it’s never good to have a gaming group collapse, especially when it’s not your fault
Still have not forgiven Skyrim for simplifying the nordic pantheon as if people were too stupid to understand ‘people in different places have different names for things and views on them’.
The original Gorehowl is still out there too I think, after Garrosh left it in the Vault of Y’shaarj. Either Jaina or Lor’themar took it, logically, or it’s still there to this day.
Yet another weapon they kinda forgot about cough Shadowmourne cough.
It’s always easier to tell others what to do but… yeah, I do think you’d be best off stating your discomfort with his statements. And depending on how the others react, you can decide if you wish to continue playing with them or not.
I mean if you all disagree with him (good) then he’s just not in the social group anymore. It should be that simple.
It’s a bad example but if a kid keeps hitting other kids, eventually the other kids just don’t sit with him.
Course then we get involved and make them all get along because as we grow up we all forget how a basic social contract works for some reason and nothing is learned but still.
Boot him out.
Yeah, there’s a big difference between someone saying something off-colour where you might chew them out but let them stay around if they acknowledge and apologise (and, importantly, do better in the future) and whatever the hell that was - like that’s just a guy trying to get a rise by being the worst person possible and you don’t need that in your life
I know the host (who owns the game) finds these views reprehensible, but it’s ultimately his decision whether he’ll allow the problematic guy to play with the rest of us.
Then I think it is completely fair of you to bring that up directly to him and that the guy shouldn’t be welcome.
Yeah when we’re going n word and apes we’re a bit past ‘have a rethink’ and straight into ‘throw them in the pond with the rest of the scum’ tbh.
At least if they grew up in a culture where that’s clearly unacceptable, like there are some people from places where you do have to give a ‘we don’t do that here’ talk to. But generally? In the pond.
They did try that again recently in ESO. Not with Jyggalag but another prince that Hermaeous Mora tried to wipe from all existance and memory across time and space, Ithelia the Prince of Fates. It was an…experience.
i fully agree however that gods in fantasy are best when their just left as more unknown than known.
For your own sake perhaps find what friends you can who dont agree and leave for your own group. That kind of behaviour shouldnt have to be tolerated and its telling of the people who do
Seeing an old RP friend, whom I haven’t seen online for years, back in game again…
“Zone: Bel’ameth”
“Region: N. America”
Inject it into my veins:
Please stop injecting into my veins:
Naaru only communicating in chimes that you sometimes resonate with and understand the feeling it’s attempting to convey was soulful
(that being said I did enjoy Rejection Of The Gift)
What did they simplify out of curiosity? I dont recall much of nord lore prior to skyrim
You WILL enjoy having your agency stripped from you. You WILL enjoy watching your characters beliefs relegated to atheism in real time.
They were a good example of inserting something divine and keeping it aloof. I miss the draenei/naaru lore of yesteryear
How did we go so wrong
“A’dal says: Fear not, young one, for this crusader shall not taste death.
A’dal says: In life, Bridenbrad was the bearer of great deeds. Now, in passing, he shall taste only paradise.
A’dal says: The light does not abandon its champions.”
I also hate Danuser’s interview implication that A’dal actually did this malevolently to make the cancer-tribute character into a Light slave. I truly hope an upturned british plug socket always finds itself beneath Danuser at the most inconvenient time possible.
Doubly so for confessing that Xe’ra was made entirely to be a contrarian character.
Being a Fantasy God and Theology enjoyer in this time period where everything is written as self-aggrandizing atheism is so exhausting. Suffering builds character, I tell myself. . .
in my Pathfinder game my Oracle is possessed by a Naaru-like entity and as soon as combat starts their eyes start glowing and they can only communicate in chimes and start Purging The Unclean
was very funny having to ask ‘hey, weird question but are you good people? it’s important because otherwise my Holy Smite hurts’ to the party
So the Nords had a separate - but similar pantheon. A lot of it was that they worshiped the divines + Shor but the divines were fairly different - they straight worshipped Alduin as Akatosh in a relatively negative light. There’s still a little bit of it in Skyrim with people talking about “Kyne’s breath” but it was a fairly different vibe to the imperial versions of those gods.
Notably - nords did not tend to worship Talos - because Talos occupies the ‘missing god’ spot in the Pantheon which is already occupied by Shor in the Nord pantheon.
Ask why he feels that way. Have a constructive dialogue with them. Maybe he can change his mind.
Wait, what?
That questline was dedicated to a Blizzard employee’s brother who died of cancer.
Is nothing sacred?
Ah, but that would be selfish of us Lintian, because Danuser believes that such things are intended for inane moral quandry built upon his weirdly nihilistic world views regarding anything that isn’t the “idk I think everyone is kind of ambiguous and evil, guys” enlightened centrist viewpoint.
A nice questline using the closest thing WoW has to Catholicism and Heaven to memorialise someone of great importance to the Devs clearly matters less than this.
I don’t know what it is but every character from BfA onward has just been written to have this weird, apathetic, amoral lense to their world views where we have to constantly forcefully drag them along like they’re in a constant state of lethargy; only able to sulk about issues rather than actually act to handle them. It just feels so weird when you recall that Thrall used to be the type of person who would just cave your skull in with Doomhammer on the spot if he didn’t like your vibe, or would sick Saurfang on you as his “Hand That Quells The Recalcitrant”.
I cannot stress enough how sickend this makes me. Like genuinely. That is downright malice if ever ive seen it. I didnt know he was tribute to someone that died of cancer. Danuser may actually be one of the worst people I’ve heard of.
You can guess my opinion of a certain FF raid in endwalker. I also love fantasy theology. I get deeply invested in that kind of lore. It was also a great point of interest for me in gw2 with the gods of humanity. Then certain revelations came…
I love this actually. Love when me light just indiscriminately smites civilians coz they weren’t actually good people