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Old 05-20-2012, 10:10 AM
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Man fuck pokedex that thing is pretty much Grimdark
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Old 05-20-2012, 10:22 AM
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It remembers every dream it eats. It rarely eats the dreams of adults because children's are much tastier.

If your nose becomes itchy while you are sleeping, it's a sure sign that a Drowzee is standing above your pillow and trying to eat your dream through your nostrils.
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Bah you're just lucky i can't find the one that eats children right now
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Old 05-20-2012, 10:24 AM
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Dark Phoenix Hatchling: "Fire Hatchlings are born from the ashes of a phoenix. Dark hatchlings emerge from their shadows."

Great Horned Owl: "Night elf children are given an owl feather on their first birthday as a token of good luck"

Hawk Owl: "This dark-feathered bird of prey is often seen as a harbringer of doom amongst the druids of Teldrassil."

Hyacinth Macaw: "The jungle trolls train these birds to mimic calls for help in order to lure unsuspecting travelers into traps."
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What the Forsaken are is the dark magic that fueled the Lich King's army personified.
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So technically he doesn't feed them to the shark, he accidentally drops them when the Horde player attacks them.
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Old 05-20-2012, 10:35 AM
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Bah you're just lucky i can't find the one that eats children right now
They are 'scary' in the saccharine atmosphere of Pokemon World, but Warcraft has much more disgusting and frightening things.
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Old 05-20-2012, 10:46 AM
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Screw whales. The creature who caused the ''Bloop'' is horrifying.
Just WOW at that picture, the Archelon was as large as a small car. The largest fish on this picture must be REALLY big in reality!!!

It's only a shame that there isn't a whaleshark (from WoW) on this picture.

EDIT: found it, the leedsichtys was around 25 meters. Not as big as the largest whale, but still very large.

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Old 05-20-2012, 10:51 AM
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Want moar! Want moar WoW Petdex!
I'd convert the file all the info is in but Blizzard used DB2 files for some reason for the pet stuff instead of DBC files. And I can't find a program that can open DB2 files that is still hosted or doesn't cost me money.

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Old 05-20-2012, 11:41 AM
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Screw whales. The creature who caused the ''Bloop'' is horrifying.
Is that...an eye


(excuse, I'm having a fridge horror moment)
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Old 05-20-2012, 11:43 AM
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Is that...an eye


(excuse, I'm having a fridge horror moment)
Yes it supposed the eye of the hypothetical creature that made the Bloop sound back in 1997
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Old 05-20-2012, 11:55 AM
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"The roughly-triangulated origin of the Bloop is approximately 950 nautical miles (1,760 km) from the more precisely-described location of R'lyeh, a sunken extra-dimensional city written of by H. P. Lovecraft in his famous short story The Call of Cthulhu."

Did H.P. Lovecraft know something we didn't?
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Old 05-20-2012, 11:57 AM
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"The roughly-triangulated origin of the Bloop is approximately 950 nautical miles (1,760 km) from the more precisely-described location of R'lyeh, a sunken extra-dimensional city written of by H. P. Lovecraft in his famous short story The Call of Cthulhu."

Did H.P. Lovecraft know something we didn't?
they were based off his nightmares,and as they say,dreams can come true....
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Blizzard says both factions are morally grey, yet they neuter the worgen while the forsaken start raising dead humans, they give the Tauren a far more military presence while they forget about the Draenei, Metzen even says he wants Varian to be that super hero good guy like Uther, they add terrible commanders like Joanna Blueheart to command Alliance military warzones and they forget about the Alliance leaders as a whole this expansion.

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Old 05-20-2012, 11:57 AM
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HP Lovecraft was incredibly racist.
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:05 PM
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Not only that, but we have the naga- reptilian race, with great hulking Myrmidons and sinister, cunning sea witches, lead by Aszhara, so powerful that even the great lords of the burning legion were impressed...

And they're afraid of a bunch of little turtles? Seriously? I know superstitions are meant to be daft, but that just goes beyond plain superstition and into silly. It's going to be harder to take the naga seriously if they're that afraid of turtles. It's like having the average army in the middle ages being terrified of rats or mice to the point of avoiding them. You just wouldn't take them seriously, and it'd be hard be afraid of somebody so terrified of something so small.

(I mean, yes rats were a major nuiscance, but you just got on with it, you didn't just cower from them... Right?)
Turtles are fucking badass.

As are rabbits. [Insert Monty Python joke here]
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Because if a storyteller is doing his job, he makes you care. And if that storyteller then says "I dunno, then they stopped fighting, I guess," without any explanation or clarification, his audience has every right to be pissed off. Because they were given reason to stay interested, reason to keep up with his tale, only to be shut down just as things were getting good. A waste of time, a waste of emotional tension, a waste, if you fail to grasp the significance of narrative, of money.
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:09 PM
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HP Lovecraft was incredibly racist.
For the era he lived he was as racist as almost everyone else.
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:10 PM
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HP Lovecraft was incredibly racist.
He was born in the 19th century though
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:13 PM
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Nah.
Yes.
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Because if a storyteller is doing his job, he makes you care. And if that storyteller then says "I dunno, then they stopped fighting, I guess," without any explanation or clarification, his audience has every right to be pissed off. Because they were given reason to stay interested, reason to keep up with his tale, only to be shut down just as things were getting good. A waste of time, a waste of emotional tension, a waste, if you fail to grasp the significance of narrative, of money.
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:14 PM
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I like the subtlety of the Horde balloons description. Affixing an anti war song reference to something belonging to the more aggressive faction. Nicely done.

Or, I'm reading too much into it and Blizz just did it cuz it's a red balloon and weren't even thinking about 99 Luftballoons being an anti war protest song.
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:19 PM
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For the era he lived he was as racist as almost everyone else.
He was actually significantly more racist than was the norm at the time.
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:24 PM
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:27 PM
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He was actually significantly more racist than was the norm at the time.
Maybe he was raped by a black man as a kid





Now seriously, I think that in this one, you can blame the parents (The Mother), specially if Wikipedia is right and he had those issues when young
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:30 PM
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He was actually significantly more racist than was the norm at the time.
Ya know... based on his works and what I know of his personal life I'd say he was more misanthropic than anything. He disliked the religious, he disliked men of industry, he disliked land owners, he disliked african americans, he disliked natives and orientals. In reality, I honestly don't think he was more racist than others of the time, looking at the big pool of history of Massachusetts during that period and America in general suggesting that folks were less racist is pretty naive. He wasn't exactly forming lynch mobs but certainly harbored the same resentment that has been and still is indoctrinated into American society. It's really only the last 70 years or so that we have really softened up and become sensitive to the ideal of racism. Have you ever talked to the currently elderly? I mean... god damn, thats some awkward racist stuff and we are talking about people born in the 40s...
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:31 PM
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Hey, at least he married a Jew.

.... and then ranted about Jews in front of her, and she was like "you do know I'm a Jew, right?", and then he probably said she was one of the good ones or something.

Then again, as long as the artists are dead, what does it matter if they were racist? If you go back far enough, you'll find all sorts of unsavory characters, so might as well enjoy their good points. It's not like you're going to make them rich by buying their stuff now.
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Because if a storyteller is doing his job, he makes you care. And if that storyteller then says "I dunno, then they stopped fighting, I guess," without any explanation or clarification, his audience has every right to be pissed off. Because they were given reason to stay interested, reason to keep up with his tale, only to be shut down just as things were getting good. A waste of time, a waste of emotional tension, a waste, if you fail to grasp the significance of narrative, of money.
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:35 PM
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Millenia has a point. I'm proud of you, delusional person
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:41 PM
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Millenia has a point. I'm proud of you, delusional person
Your approval fills me with shame, Nazi.

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Because if a storyteller is doing his job, he makes you care. And if that storyteller then says "I dunno, then they stopped fighting, I guess," without any explanation or clarification, his audience has every right to be pissed off. Because they were given reason to stay interested, reason to keep up with his tale, only to be shut down just as things were getting good. A waste of time, a waste of emotional tension, a waste, if you fail to grasp the significance of narrative, of money.
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:47 PM
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Old 05-20-2012, 12:48 PM
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Then again, as long as the artists are dead, what does it matter if they were racist?
Oh, it doesn't, it's just fun to look at his stories with that in mind and seeing how thinly veiled the racist sentiment he wrote into them was. Like the Shadow over Innsmouth is basically a tale about how interracial breeding is bad.
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