firstly, i'm in complete protest of my thread lock. completely bogus and i'll go to the mat on it. the disgusting mod completely misused a rule (no racism bigotry blah blah blah) to completely absolve himself for locking my thread about ddo's own racist nonsense. If someone has to drop a letter to a judge and/or southern poverty law center etc just to openly post condemnations of it, so be it. lock it one more time. i dare you.
ddo and dnd have a problem understanding basic zoology. Besides that zoology is a obsolete pseudoscience long since replaced by genetics, ddo cant even follow it's basic tenets. This causes it to come off as intentionally racist. while most if not all ddo players are often racist, i dont think racism should persist in a conspicuously nerftacular sponge bob atrocity. Totally left coast. Just plain shameless in that perspective. Anyone else even notice there aren't any female giants? know wonder the giant population died off.... they forgot females ffs. Next time you got a giant's smelly junk(intentionally placed right in yer face as you melee) in your face, wonder not why peders-of-the-coast saw fit to make it this way.
I know dnd is old and it's past cant be held to today's standards but it's not even being held to standards of the time it was created and endorsed by Anton LaVee(aka mordenkainen). it's bent over like a pretzel for the catholics and removed "angles" and other religious type fixtures so why the intransigence on cleaning up the racism? Now i personally knew Anton, we share a birthday as it happens, and yes, he was a little racist but not much more than most people of the time, but why cling to racism even now? Dude is dead, I've seen all three founders die, Anton personally. there's little reason to continue an ancient reified equivocation fallacy that was always meant for war and justifying military actions with slanted judicial privilege's. Anton LaVey
Note, Warforge are wood and metal so decidedly not another so-said "race" but rather a whole separate phylum all it's own and with no corporeal relatives what-so-ever.. Elves also are decidedly not related to humans. Theoretically completely inhuman, gnomes, exactly what way shape or form is ddo's interpretation of gnome-mythology different from halflings or dwarf mythology? Gnomes are just a little uglier and in no way shape or form connected to the rest of the world as to what a gnome should be. A giant gnome should be ~2ft tall. here's some rl citations. cite. Note: 'primordial dwarfism' is decidedly shorter in many cases than simple 'midget' types(where concepts of dwarves and halflings are from) citation.
I don't support the lower-life-form stooges that bought the mordenkainen character and supplemental publicity agency from the surviving Anton LaVey family. such incredible lazyness that they don't bother to base anything on existing concepts while thoughtlessly stealing fame.
A feeble argument was once brought that Darwin often used race and species interchangeably. My counterpoint follows that I've already pointed out zoology is a subjective pseudoscience created by overprivileged theists conducting psychological warfare operations by literally teaching ignorance(reified equivocation fallacy) and who in no way shape or form deserve the canonization they posthumously enjoy.
If you're going to use trash science terms, at least use the correctly applicable ones. k thx.
note. all the deflectionist pushback in the previous thread really does just prove my point. before anyone can make a counterpoint you first have to successfully counterpoint my assertion that the word "race" is nothing more than a "reified equivocation fallacy."