chances are 99% of people talking about dragons aren’t in a biology lecture and are talking colloquially
tomato’s a fruit
peanuts are legumes
and dragons are reptiles 
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Checkmate… but I still hate it and it’s still an improper use of the term.
And lesser tenrecs are hedgehogs
and dolphins are fish
Pretty fun for a first day! The catch-up gear going up to 395 is nice and the story is quite heartfelt
Also gives me lots of reason to baselessly believe that evokers will get a bronze/black tank spec
but dinosaurs are NOT.
They be birbs.
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I’m sad.
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Getting your furbolg language maxed out takes like 30-60 mins or so, pretty unintrusive, then it looks like a half dozen or so individual quests to get to exalted.
They’ve definitely done worse grinds.
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Alas, sometimes we just can’t have nice things
Well, it has gotten easier on me both due to pre-emptively gathering some of the stuff when I passed through, aswell as loading times that don’t allow me to grab a book and read a few pages before it’s loaded in ( my old pc still had HDD which allowed me this.)
Out of curiosity, can you elaborate?
The next raid has too many good looking sets.
I can’t decide what to play based on what transmog I want because I want almost everything.
Help.
I’ll write you a sick note
Buying dinosaur nuggets because they’re objectively correct
on ps4 you can start the game up and then go make yourself an elaborate sandwich and once you get back to your ps4 you can watch the last photo fade and Arthur lean on something while you eat
I’ve tested this
repeatedly
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Last night, playing with one of my friends who stream and one of her other viewers;
screaming in chat about the entity sending me to RPD
The Michael nopes out because he hates RPD almost as much as I do
the viewer brings RPD offering
Me in friend’s stream chat - “[name here], baby, darling, prince of princes… did you just send us to RPD?”
He did, because streamer’s friend Dmed him to do it.
I think I bullied him too hard because he stopped playing with us after though.
Also if I was playing with one of my other friend groups, I would’ve crashed my game on loading screen the minute i saw an RPD offering (all 3 of us do this for various offerings)
I guess snakes, worms and legless lizards are fake then, alongside jellyfish.
Oh! I almost forgot the almost all invertebrates as well, as they tend to have 6 or more legs!
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Sadly resets the clock on ‘zaphius is Loud and Wrong on the internet’
Anyway, dragons are lizards as evidenced by both the komodo and bearded variants thank you no further questions
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The last episode of Majirevo was fine but ultimately just a bit disappointing, it felt extremely hamstrung by what I can only assume was the knowledge they were going to get only one season, since it wrapped up very fast.
Still fine, but my 7 or 8/10 didn’t get the opportunity to climb higher.
Tolkien’s world is ultimately grounded in (fantasy reinterpretation of) Christian theology, which includes the Fall of Man narrative, which, as a secular humanist, I find a disgusting guilt-trip. Tolkien stresses this in his letters and supplemental materials. He describes his elves as Man Unfallen — basically kind of what humans would be like if they weren’t tainted by the original sin — and describes elf-blooded humans with language that evokes borderline eugenics.
Then there’s Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, a dialogue about the ultimate fate of elves, humans, and the world itself where one of the characters basically logically predicts the coming of Jesus, which is by far the most shining example of Tolkien’s real-world religion bleeding into his fictional world.
And this is an even harder pill to swallow than the overall idea that the world is doomed to get worse and wear down over time, and there’s absolutely nothing anyone can do about it except Trust that God Has a Plan.
None of this is evident from The Hobbit and LOTR alone, little of this is evident from The Silmarillion, but the deeper you delve into the extended lore and Tolkien’s letters, the more evident the author’s underlying worldview becomes.
Suddenly wearing those pointy ears for a convention costume doesn’t look like such harmless fun anymore.
Later fantasy, including Warcraft, thankfully borrowed Tolkien’s concepts in a shallow and superficial way divorced from the depressing and misanthropic cosmology of Arda. In doing so, elves kind of became a free-floating concept with no single defining trait that would be universally true for every setting (longevity, attunement to nature, having had a majestic ancient civilization, and penchant for archery and/or magic are common, but none of these traits are truly universal). Nonetheless delving into Tolkien’s motivation for creating them colors my enjoyment of what his archetype spawned as well.
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It’s worth pointing out that you can enjoy the works of Tolkien without subscribing to his religious/theological beliefs. The man passed away fifty years ago and it’s always been common knowledge among fans of his writing that the Lord of the Rings (and the Silmarillion especially) were informed by his Catholic faith.
As someone who is queer, can be described as a secular humanist, and enjoys the Lord of the Rings and the broader setting, I don’t feel like my experience has been negatively impacted by these considerations.
I also think that the elf of popular fantasy has long since left behind much of its roots in Tolkien’s work. It would be like saying, “I can’t get into cosmic horror as a genre” simply because Lovecraft was a massive weirdo — and let’s be real, Tolkien was nowhere near as problematic as Lovecraft, if we even consider him problematic at all.
The fantasy elf is totally secular and divorced from Tolkien’s personal beliefs in any modern context. His works provide the inspiration and bedrock of fantasy, but nothing’s tainted by it unless you allow it to be.
Additionally, I’d honestly say that a lot of what Tolkien wrote comes across more as proto-environmentalism. Elves live harmoniously with nature, but so do the Hobbits. He valued the rustic nature of Samwise extremely highly and industrialism and its impact on the living world is presented as some of the greatest evils perpetuated by Sauron and his servants.
Tolkien wasn’t a bad person. He was an author who penned his work a century ago and held a number of views that we could hold up as moral today. Not everything he wrote or believed aged well, but the same could be said for just about anyone who lived that long ago.
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Thank you. I mean it.
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I like CS Lewis’ Narnia books, they’re great literature for young adults, and that literally has Jesus-But-A-Talking-Lion.
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do not cite the deep literature to me, witch
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I think Loras has the right of this one. I’ve read the Hobbit, Lotr, Silmarillion and Children of Hurin and that’s about it. I dont know much of the extended lore and letters other than “Oh yes, also Eru Iluvatar intervened and essentially booped Gollum into Mount Doom cause no mortal, not even Frodo, would’ve been able to destroy the Ring on their own without divine intervention.” Which… I can understand from Tolkien’s viewpoint, but I personally like the way it was brought in the Peter Jackon movies better. There it seemed much more like the Ring became it’s own undoing for trying to corrupt both Frodo and Gollum at the same time in order to try and save itself.
That said… I lately tend to feel as though almost every writer or creator these days will have something that ultimately turns us off from their work. Dig deep enough and we -always- find something about either they themselves, or their work, that we dont like. But, as Loras said, that should not always have to taint your own enjoyment of the work.
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I’ve never seen any proof he put his shopping trolley back after using it though, so frankly I think it’s too soon to say conclusively one way or the other.
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