I don't know if anyone is reading the thread for the April Fool's joke of Turbine, Pimp My Warforged.

You've got one contingent outraged that it's RACIST!

You've got another who is outraged that it's NOT FANTASY!

And then you've got the pinheads who think it's real and are threatening to cancel their accounts immediately.

I think it should be required that all of them post their character names so I never, EVER have to group with them in game...

I can kind of see the racist arguement.   Kind of.   I've thought of WF as big mean black dudes before so it wouldn't be a stretch.

As far as the rest...

There was a novel called "Wizards First Rule".  You find out that the rule was...

People are stupid

I think that says it all.

There's deffintely some idiots who play DDO.  The "racist" and "not fantasy" areguements are beyond doubt the most stupid thing I've seen from DDO community. 

I thought it was funny.  It would have been better if they included photoshopped pictures of the various upgrades in the main post.  I bevelie then it would have become clear it was a joke. 

Another thing, EVERY person I had grouped with thought it was funny.  Not a single person said they thought it was in bad taste.  Does this mean that the forums are nothing but a vocal minority who does not accurately represent the active gaming community?

Originally posted by mindspat

There's deffintely some idiots who play DDO.  The "racist" and "not fantasy" areguements are beyond doubt the most stupid thing I've seen from DDO community. 

I thought it was funny.  It would have been better if they included photoshopped pictures of the various upgrades in the main post.  I bevelie then it would have become clear it was a joke. 

Another thing, EVERY person I had grouped with thought it was funny.  Not a single person said they thought it was in bad taste.  Does this mean that the forums are nothing but a vocal minority who does not accurately represent the active gaming community?

 

It's obvious that you haven't had much of the diversity training that you get at most large companies these days.  It doesn't matter if _you_ think it's racist or not... it still could be.

I used to work for ma bell many years ago.   There was an article in the company newsletter which was titled something like "AT&T calls all over the world".    It was accompanied by a cute drawing of the world with various people around the world using telephones.   Except Africa.   In Africa there was a monkey using a telephone.   The person who drew that picture lost his job.   I'm sure he thought it was funny when he drew it.   I believe the editor also lost his job over it, but I'm not positive.

While I guess it could be considered borderline offensive, I took it for what is was supposed to be: an outrageous change to DDO that could never happen (or rather a change that would only happen if SOE acquired it - badum pssss!).

Originally posted by kb4blu

There was a novel called "Wizards First Rule".  You find out that the rule was...

People are stupid

I think that says it all.

 

Haha, never quite thought of it that way, but good call .

Originally posted by Riddikulus

 

Originally posted by mindspat

There's deffintely some idiots who play DDO.  The "racist" and "not fantasy" areguements are beyond doubt the most stupid thing I've seen from DDO community. 

 

It's obvious that you haven't had much of the diversity training that you get at most large companies these days.  It doesn't matter if _you_ think it's racist or not... it still could be.

 

I've been stereotyped due to my name and while it doesn't offend me I get a good laugh out of it at times even if I do feel sorry for the person I might be speaking with. What's truely racist is thinking "pimp" is racist in its self when it has absolutely NOTHING to do with race in today's society.

Regardless, better judgement could have been used.  My first thought on all of this was "Ooh, they didn't..." which was immediately followed by a good chuckle.

HOw's that old Sly and Family Stone song go...?

Personally I found it amusing, but yea there are a lot of idiots out there........

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Another thing, EVERY person I had grouped with thought it was funny.  Not a single person said they thought it was in bad taste.  Does this mean that the forums are nothing but a vocal minority who does not accurately represent the active gaming community?"

Wanna rethink your post?

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Nope, I would agree with mindspat that forums are the vocal minority. I sadly have several friends who play WoW and know they never check the WoW forums and a few of those would probably say, "WoW has forums?"

And Vincenz don't you think that MAYBE they were just April Fooling back acting like it was a big deal?

Originally posted by Sevenwind

And Vincenz don't you think that MAYBE they were just April Fooling back acting like it was a big deal?

I don't think you read them ;)

No doubt the forums are the vocal minority, if you read the forums you would get the idea that 90% of the gaming base (yea made up statistic but close enough to make a point) is power gamers, meanwhile my experience with the poeple I have run with points to most players not being power gamers.