It truly revitalizes my faith in this forum to see blockheads get shut down after revealing their power level
on a more on-topic note, favs:
Illidan
Maiev
Grom
… and then the last ones are pretty hard to decide on. There’s a good cast of wicked cool orcs (Ner’zhul, Doomhammer, Blackhand, even most of Gul’dan) and Vol’jin in contention as well as my fav human, Lothar, and my favorite dwarf: Wildhammer Fact Checker. Tough choice!
Insofar as least favorite characters go, of course maybe Magni because he is a tad bit annoying, though then again the memes are funny. Not many others as, to be honest, by the standards at which Roleplayers tend to grade WoW characters on, they’re all pretty bad. Given that they’re written in the most part for a children’s computer game, of course they’d be heavily image-based rather than actually possess any character or soul, and their actions and storylines can’t be made much sense of or even guessed at by their thought processes and/or circumstances. Therefore, considering the unexceptionally flatlined and simple writing, I’m ambivalent toward even the worst out of those usually considered bad. At most, in the era of WoW, lore characters all pretty much represent one linear path of progress and one shallow incision into some idea or moral that the character is based on.
Or, in Illidan’s case: glowing tats, big horns, and the occasionally cool voice line. “Now mortals, follow me… into the abyss!” - yep, that’s pretty much why I like him.
Which was a good choice, imho. From all three movies I hated TLJ the most. Followed closely by TRoS and then The Phantom Menace D:
I think the last three movies are the only Star Wars movie I only watched once. I don’t care about them and they are the only three movies I won’t rewatch ever either D:
I mean most of the characters in the last three movies can’t even function on their own. They are just blobs without any charactarization in them. Its just Rey and the gang.
Atleast in the first six you have characters like Obi-wan, Yoda, Mace Windo, Anakin who can stand on their own feet as characters and don’t have to leech of a single main character to be able to add, well, something to the story… Thats how I saw it anyways.
Also I don’t like Rey cause she literally has everything; Chewie, Millenium Falcon, Red 5, Luke and Leia’s Lightsabers, the Skywalker name, the original Jedi texts, etc etc
If that was a serious comment, you either have no idea what a well written female character is, or have never met a woman in real life.
I find both unlikely.
How does “feminine traits” translate into girliness?
Why do I have to explain that a man and a woman is going to act different in average to one another? I criticize male characters that act like and are considered females in hte story just as much as I do the other way around.
It isn’t acting manly or acting girlish.
This is completely, objectively and 100% false. I did not, by any meaning or interpretation of my words state that a female character should be girly. You are making things up.
There is a, while very vague and flexible, but very much existing standard of how a member of each gender should generally be acting. If this is lacking from a character (these are, again, very little things that aren’t noticed generally unless one pays attention) then that is, indeed poor writing.
Lol is all I have to say to that, and yeah it was a serious comment.
But that is exactly it. You are proclaiming the entire book+the character to be some “poorly written feminism agenda” soley because YOU think a character who is reffered to as a woman doesnt act the way you think a woman should.
You are coming across as very stone age thinking right now, just saying.
A woman can act any way they both like & in any way really. There is no “preset” standard how every single woman every in any fiction, let alone a fantasy one diffrent from Earth, should and do act. We’re not robots with “woman” programming.
I think this is the same guy who argued on the RP discord that “women can’t be warchief because they’re not big and strong like Grom”, after numerous examples of high-ranking orcish women throughout Draenor history (leading the Burning Blades, Laughing Skull) so pay his backwards misogyny no heed.
No, it is not. Not by a long shot. You’re being butthurt because I do not support the character archetype that is a woman acting and being treated as a man. It’s a poor attempt to represent feminism in modern media that should not exist. Things like that should be adding to a character, not taking away from it.
And you come across as a SJW that’s “offended” personally by someone not sharing their opinion.
I don’t think you’re reading what you yourself are actually saying, since you are stating that if a woman isnt actitng the way you think is “like a woman” then therefore they are acting like a man and thus=Bad.
Anyone using “SJW” is just omegalol and kinda telling what your view on women is
Also find it amusing that you’re telling a woman she is wrong in how she herself think women can act(IE like however they like) and doesnt need to follow a preset standard dictated by yourself in order to be qualified as a woman.
So you are telling me no character should ever be written with a specific gender in mind, otherwise it is offensive and the author hates women.
Not only this does not compute, but do remember this is by Knaak, who’s famous for writing crap female characters in general.
I’m saying that generally, character comes first. Or otherwise it depends on the story. If you full on intending on writing your character as a woman or a man, there is no problem with that. Nor is it to just write a character first and then decide their gender later.
Nor is there an issue with a character’s gender simply ending up being how they are reffered to, and having little no impact on them otherwise. Because that’s also how real people work most of the time.
No, but it is a little cringe that you are infact saying that characters are automatically written poorly if they dont follow a trope/act like a “standard” for their gender(whatever that is).
I don’t question that, and I did say that considering it’s a Knaak book, its probably a badly written character in general, and you’re completly fine with having your opinion & dissliking a character. But it gives off some massive red flags and warning signs when your central criticque is that she isnt acting enough like a woman.
Much how you unironically call people(or well me) “SJW” for not agreeing with you.
They can also be dull.
Courtesy of Richard A. Knaak.
And for the record, my main criticism wasn’t that she doesn’t act like a woman, it was that the fact that it adds nothing to her character. Nor does it take away, because there’s basically no character to talk about. It’s just “Me uncle was Broxigar. Me stronk. Me has his axe. Me smash things.”
ed that up.
