GW reveals from Adepticon tonight - well, 3am in the morning.
Which is ostensibly fine, as I’m on night shift anyway, but given the Absolute State of last night where I wasn’t home til 3am I really, really hope tonight is a bit less Cow Muck.
It’s fine. New zone is neat enough but storywise you’re done in a few hours, double that if you do the heritage quests. After that it’s just a place to grind stuff for catchup gear, rep, or currency stuff.
For a .7 patch it’s a decent amount of content though. It’s mostly a setup for the next big patch but that makes sense, really.
Still not sure whether to go to that LARP game. If it was Warcraft, I’d go right away, but the Warcraft game is only in July.
As for Middle-earth, I’m finding my interest in that setting wane the deeper I dig into it and discover its ugly foundations in Tolkien’s devout Catholic worldview. It has even poisoned my perception of elves as a fantasy archetype, and by extension, my enjoyment of roleplaying Lintian.
Convergent evolution is about similar features, but not about the biological class.
Ie. Reptiles are all meant to have four limbs, whereas dragons are meant to have six: four legs and a pair of wings.
Since all birds/reptiles/mammals animals descend from a common fish ancestor, all IRL animals have four limbs.
This clearly doesn’t apply in the case of WoW (see: crocolisk), but it’s noteworthy that since the idea of dragon was invented, they were never meant to be reptiles.