No one except for a couple woke californians noticed it and got triggered.
I think its a great set and hope they dont change to much.
The example he should have used was Draka. And the Devs already explained even if a soul is severed that doesn't make it two separate entities. Souls are quantum entangled. The Jailer having a piece of your soul only gives him a tether to it. And losing a piece of your soul only means you are stuck in the emotional state you were when you died. IE Sylvanas & Uther. The point is they've been acting out of hurt & betrayal.
Fel magic didn't undo Varian's soul, it undid his body AND essence.
Essence as described by the devs, because it wasn't in the game, is essentially your Shadowlands body. Essence is the result of residue accumulating around your soul as anima passes through it. A lot of residue gives you a strong, material body, while just a little residue gives you that wispy, ethereal form you see on souls: Without Essence, souls are invisible. You can destroy Essence but you can't destroy a soul. If you essence is destroyed your soul still exists but its returned to the Twisting Nether like the canon said before shadowlands: This is what happened to Garrosh & Varian.
You know I'm still surprised they haven't removed Auschwitz yet:
Oh wait... right... world revamp
The Void. A force of infinite hunger. Its whispers have broken the will of dragons... and lured even the titans' own children into madness. Sages and scholars fear the Void. But we understand a truth they do not. That the Void is a power to be harnessed... to be bent by a will strong enough to command it. The Void has shaped us... changed us. But you will become its master. Wield the shadows as a weapon to save our world... and defend the Alliance!
I mean you say that, but really, why is it there at all? It's horribly bleak even by Forsaken standards in Vanilla, and the game makes no effort to acknowledge how immesnely fucked up it actually is.
I mean, it isnt even used to parody The Great Escape or somesuch, it's just massively evil for no better reason than to show new Forsaken players that they are definitively the evil ones. That is, before you start going further into the Horde stuff and learn that you are actually just misunderstood or something.
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You generally do not hear about people who are traumatized by their beloved treehouse being burned and their entire family being killed. You do however hear stories about kids being harassed by men in white hoods.
Context matters here. The hoods looking like the ones used by the KKK is far more damning on the company than the genocide stuff. No reputable journalist is going to claim that Blizzard supports the bombing of a town because such a quest exists in the game, they might however argue that Blizzard are idiots for making white robes with pointy hats that looks eerily similar to the KKK.
The world revamp dream will never die!
Then that's just evidence of intellectual dishonesty and inconsistency. If one has issues with representations of repugnant ideologies and horrific acts, then they should take issue with all of them, and not go about and cherry pick whatever suits them to make their tweet at that moment.
If you don't see how "damn, those forsaken pretty much have concentration camps, that is really fucked up and reprehensible" and "oh yeah, the new tier set that you really really want looks like a KKK outfit" isn't comparable in any way, then I feel like you are kinda being dishonest.
Yes, the game has war crimes and war and death in it. But it's never portrayed in a positive way. It's about the context, not just what is being displayed.
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Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
I think the set looks awesome but I understand why they would change it. I just hope they keep the cool faceplate part of the hood.
No, this isn't about the context. This is about certain individuals' subjective interpretations of a given object and excessively problematising, to the point that it's almost satire like. Hell, it wouldn't even surprise me at this point that some of the people that were fooling around about the resemblance, they did so just to see if Blizzard would actually fall into the same trap again.
The game doesn't portray war and death in a positive way? We have had whole races and characters whose whole schtick is to acquire fame and glory in battle.
Damn, Zereth Mortis plate set looks sick:
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.