WoW Griping: what the christ
May. 18th, 2012 02:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yukie1013Dear Richard 'grammarfail' Knaak,
Seeing as the Scourge were ready, willing and able to raise Galakrond (big papa protodrake) from the dead--and we know this because Alexstrasza is like 'kindly blow their shit up so's to prevent this'--why in the actual scintillating airborne rhinestone-studded waltzing plaid copacabana-dwelling mondo-fuck would a tiny bone chip offa Galakron's big toe or whatever do anything to protect your obnoxious Tauren-stu from a hacked-off Lich King?
More likely, chumpstick, our dear old undead monarch would be toying with Tauren-stu's bovine ass. Giving false hope so that yanking the rug out from under him is just that much more FUN. It's what he does. It's who he is. Learn it, live it, love it. Remember who Ner'zhul is, and remember who Arthas is, and remember that the unified duo is something like /b/1000 multiplied by The Ganker. If you can't keep that simple-ass babby-basics shit straight you shouldn't be trying to write Warcraft anything ya old piece of fail. This just takes the cake for stupid and borderline-disturbing fapping over the dragons.
Bow down and thank all the gods that be for Kim Jae Hwan, as he's the only reason any of your work has a glimmer of merit.
Nyah nyah,
-Y
P.S. YOU MAKE ME WANT TO DRAW ALL OVER MY SCREEN IN RED PEN IN A FIT OF RABID-PROOFREADER WRATH. YOUR LACK OF TECHNICAL SKILL IS PHANTASMAGORICAL.
P.P.S. Yes I know this post is the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel with the Mana Fortress's gigantimous fricking lay'zur cannon. XD
Seeing as the Scourge were ready, willing and able to raise Galakrond (big papa protodrake) from the dead--and we know this because Alexstrasza is like 'kindly blow their shit up so's to prevent this'--why in the actual scintillating airborne rhinestone-studded waltzing plaid copacabana-dwelling mondo-fuck would a tiny bone chip offa Galakron's big toe or whatever do anything to protect your obnoxious Tauren-stu from a hacked-off Lich King?
More likely, chumpstick, our dear old undead monarch would be toying with Tauren-stu's bovine ass. Giving false hope so that yanking the rug out from under him is just that much more FUN. It's what he does. It's who he is. Learn it, live it, love it. Remember who Ner'zhul is, and remember who Arthas is, and remember that the unified duo is something like /b/1000 multiplied by The Ganker. If you can't keep that simple-ass babby-basics shit straight you shouldn't be trying to write Warcraft anything ya old piece of fail. This just takes the cake for stupid and borderline-disturbing fapping over the dragons.
Bow down and thank all the gods that be for Kim Jae Hwan, as he's the only reason any of your work has a glimmer of merit.
Nyah nyah,
-Y
P.S. YOU MAKE ME WANT TO DRAW ALL OVER MY SCREEN IN RED PEN IN A FIT OF RABID-PROOFREADER WRATH. YOUR LACK OF TECHNICAL SKILL IS PHANTASMAGORICAL.
P.P.S. Yes I know this post is the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel with the Mana Fortress's gigantimous fricking lay'zur cannon. XD
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Date: 2012-05-18 12:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-18 01:53 pm (UTC)Probably XD
I'll admit the bit at the conclusion of the story (in which Arthas goes 'lol boring' and punts Trag off ICC) is kind of cute just for the "...um okay ow" and going off to hang out with the Taunka, instead of wanky contrived tragique demise--but I have an issue with that character because he is so damn problematic in the (pointless to the plot) second Sunwell manga (which is daft anyway). It's like Knaak you chumpwad the Tauren are quite openly based on a bunch of Native American clans. Having Trag acting as this well-to-to !Forsaken guy's humble butler or some shit and then having him trying to snuff it alongside said dude? Is really, really, really fucking stupid.
My opinion of Knaak hovers somewhere around the level of zero to negative ten--what with the woman-as-prize wish-wankery, inability to understand the tone and setting of Warcraft as a whole, embarrassing immature self-insert malarkey that doesn't consider the reader's enjoyment at all, clueless-old-white-man-brand racist shit, dumbass misunderstanding of just what addiction is and how it works and associated vilification of people dealing with addiction (I don't think Blizzard really knows how that works in general, most people aren't smart about it but Knaak is especially stupid), and most recently normalizing emotional and physical abuse (this is why I cannot deal with frantic whining stan-fans of canon-Varian, they're all snuffling delusional mindless enablers). He's so very fucking clueless and it aggravates me, lol.
IT's right in that he has some good concepts if you polish off the stupid, but his execution of just about any concept is lousy. The dragons ARE cool, but the way he handles them is dumb, and so on. This is why I shamelessly run away with concepts whilst laughing evilly, and !Rhonin in my work ended up as this bartender in one of the inns in Dalaran who is famous for his crazy Baron Munchausen style tales about this distant cousin of his who has all manner of ridiculous adventures, and in some of these stories he tags along as the Sancho Panza. Everyone knows they are complete malarkey and he doesn't pretend otherwise, but NIGHT OF THE MILLION ZILLION RAPTORS is awesome when you're drunk. XD
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Date: 2012-05-18 03:46 pm (UTC)Rhonin: No. Absolutely not. You're going to drag me into some stupid bullshit that's going to end up with me crippled or comatose. No. Fuck off.
Krasus: Oh, of course not, Rhonin. I would never do that.
Rhonin: ...so what is it this time?
Krasus: *Well*... there's this time anomality...
Rhonin: FUCK.
Vereesa: *ears twitch* You're swearing has taken on a particular pitch and tone, is Krasus here again, does he want tea?
Krasus: Yes, please.
Rhonin: NO. NO TEA.
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Date: 2012-05-18 06:36 pm (UTC)And Rhonin having a specialized 'fuck' for Krasus related ire is--yes XD tl;dr I love that you made them into likable people and not just tropes. And you made them make sense in relation to the universe as a whole. Knaak's books do not read like something that belongs in the WC-verse, the tone isn't right and his people aren't whole people and just kind of exist to be cool. Your crew are actually real people. Like i can easily imagine your Vereesa and Rhonin chasing hyper streaking toddlers who escaped the bathtub (I will never ever ever know how the hell toddlers reach warp speed doing this, says she who used to babysit a lot), or reading a favourite book over and over, or getting glasses of water, or dealing with a case of chicken pox and two crabby itchy kids.
Reading the Rhonin in-game as if he were your guy, I start to go 'omg, you are SO bad at making off the cuff speeches, that's fricking cute you nerd' after the Algalon-smite event in Dalaran rather than 'pretty sky, noisy dude.' ...And the mental image expands to Rhonin flailing briefly beforehand trying to get not-a-jerk Vereesa or Aethas (who is Kael dammit that is my headcanon XD) to say something instead because he's BAD at this and they're like *innocent blinking* 'Well you're the bossman right?'
And so he flails a little more! And then he does a speech and gets verklempt!
And then Ansirem is like 'that was cheese, kid, but good cheese.'
(Also, it occurs to me that since dragons are secretly cats and so are elves, Krasus is therefore cats2 since he's a dragon being an elf--Rhonin, dude, open the drapes, make a sunny spot, he'll fall asleep and then forget WTF he was on about when he wakes up XD)
In closing I'm so glad I'm not the only one whose elves have mobile ears. (They totally do in-game, male b'elves perk their ears forward just before doing the 'look over/WTF/ew no' animation.) And I bet Krasus puts all kinds of milk and sugar in his tea.