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Gnome + Soap Dropping Joke = Just Plain Wrong
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Post by
vincistis
A Gnome, a Worgen, and a Rabi walk into a bar...
That's a pretty low bar if a Gnome walked into it.
As to the original post, I'd just like to say: After surveying the six people in my office that play WoW, none of us equated Gnomes with children.
Pure, adulterated evil (because anything that small and adorable
has
to be demonic) maybe, but not children.
You saying children are demonic?
Post by
Quesac
A Gnome, a Worgen, and a Rabi walk into a bar...
That's a pretty low bar if a Gnome walked into it.
As to the original post, I'd just like to say: After surveying the six people in my office that play WoW, none of us equated Gnomes with children.
Pure, adulterated evil (because anything that small and adorable
has
to be demonic) maybe, but not children.
You saying children are demonic?
Mine were at times...
Post by
Hubbs
Just a few minutes ago I was doing the Stonecore for the first time. When Millhouse Manastorm made his "Dropping the soap in prison joke", I was so disgusted I left group and stopped playing. It's even more disturbing when you realize gnomes are supposed to be child-like.
How did Blizzard come to the conclusion this would be appropriate? Did the people who write the dialogue for this game have to stoop so low as to make what is basically a highly vulgar gay joke? I am just debating whether or not to take this to the official customer service forums and really letting them have it.
I am not against Blizzard making jokes in their game, but this was just plain wrong.
Your actually kidding right ? Please tell me your doing this to troll ? Are you f-ing kidding me ? People are dieing all over the world from such horrible, horrible things, and yet, you, Mr. I'm offended by the smallest thing, are able to come on here and !@#$% about some small little thing?
People like you are whats wrong with the word, and i hope this offends you, so much so, i hope you respond to this
What scares me the most, is people like you are sometimes acullay voted into a position of power within the U.S. and given authority and a meaningful voice to spew this kind of nonsence
I hope one day you find yourself in a 3rd world country , and as you look at all the beggers, all the people in pain , i hope you remember how 'offended' you got by this small little joke.
Post by
kindofabuzz
Something is wrong with you if you find that offensive. Or you were actually raped in prison after dropping the soap.
Post by
Quesac
Guys, it's not dropping the soap that is bad, it's bending over to pick it up. Hell, Gnomes are so short they don't have to bend over...
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Post by
Adamsm
Guys, it's not dropping the soap that is bad, it's bending over to pick it up. Hell, Gnomes are so short they don't have to bend over...
Which brings up the physics of this: it's acutally impossible for Millhouse to have been the butt of this joke (or at least, extremely hard) if there wasn't another gnome/goblin/equally short thing involved. Surprise! simply wouldn't cut it.
Would be a surprise when a larger race's hand comes down and lifts up Milhouse.....
Post by
Quesac
Guys, it's not dropping the soap that is bad, it's bending over to pick it up. Hell, Gnomes are so short they don't have to bend over...
Which brings up the physics of this: it's acutally impossible for Millhouse to have been the butt of this joke (or at least, extremely hard) if there wasn't another gnome/goblin/equally short thing involved. Surprise! simply wouldn't cut it.
Would be a surprise when a larger race's hand comes down and lifts up Milhouse.....
Larger race hell, have you seen the size of a Goblin's hands? Those things belong on an Orc!
Post by
xaratherus
Which brings up the physics of this: it's acutally impossible for Millhouse to have been the
butt
of this joke (or at least, extremely
hard
) if there wasn't another gnome/goblin/equally short thing involved. Surprise! simply wouldn't cut it.
I'm going to guess that the puns in this sentence were intentional. If so: Well played. ;)
Well, despite his fears of dropping the soap, it seems that in Stonecore, Millhouse still got it in the end...
YEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Post by
Arikan
I think we've all lost sight here, and that is the basic fact that a sexually charged statement about non-politically correct subject matter that is extremely common in popular culture, especially in the also sexually charged dialogue of adolescents, was used in a game designed for adolescents which also features many other
highly sexually charged references
and has for years.
This is inappropriate and is not something our children should be interacting with. Now that we have that straightened out you'll have to excuse me, I need to head to Stonetalon and
help a frolicking little girl commit genocide
.
Post by
Orranis
I wondered where Elaus went.
highly sexually charged references
I always thought it was just the regular old Portable Hole from DnD, but that works too. There's so many better ones you could've used.
Post by
Murrdurr
I wondered where Elaus went.
highly sexually charged references
I always thought it was just the regular old Portable Hole from DnD, but that works too. There's so many better ones you could've used.
He either thinks his trolling was accomplished or he realizes how big of a pansy he is for making this thread and is staying far away from it heh
Post by
Sweetscot
I don't think it has anything to do with sex, but I do think rape jokes are in poor taste, and therefore this is in poor tastes. That said, I wouldn't go making a thread about it, and I'm not offended perse, but yea, they could have skipped this.
Post by
Orranis
I wondered where Elaus went.
highly sexually charged references
I always thought it was just the regular old Portable Hole from DnD, but that works too. There's so many better ones you could've used.
He either thinks his trolling was accomplished or he realizes how big of a pansy he is for making this thread and is staying far away from it heh
Not sure if you were active at the time but a while back he went on a HUGE posting spree and made about 100 topics in the course of like a week, didn't respond except for maybe one post to any of them, then he kind of died down and actually participated in discussion a little with occasional new threads, then sort of vanished.
Post by
Arikan
I always thought it was just the regular old Portable Hole from DnD, but that works too. There's so many better ones you could've used.
Considering who is selling it is what makes teh lulz.
"It's a portable hole!" Ok, sounds reasonable.
"It's sold by Haris Pilton." Tee hee.
Yeah there's a ton more and probably better, that was literally the first one that popped in my head as I thought, "what should I reference" is all.
I don't think it has anything to do with sex, but I do think rape jokes are in poor taste, and therefore this is in poor tastes.
Again there are a lot of things in poor taste, when you're making a game not designed specifically for small children you're going to be spending a lot of time in the grey areas and going a bit too far is bound to happen. I'm sure somewhere in the game there is something that bothers almost everyone (there is one thing that really really upset me) but, especially with 12 million players, offending someone somewhere is unavoidable. Unfortunately the only "solution" is to make everything as bland and tame as possible and that, frankly, generally makes a pretty unappealing product.
Sometimes we just gotta bite the bullet, get upset about something to ourselves for a minute, and then get over it and move on.
Edit: Brain no work rawr!
Post by
Quilan
There are now dozens of quests with sexual refrences (The Rear is Clear, Protecting our Rear, Take their Rear, In the Rear with the Gear, Rear Guard Duty i.e), Garrosh calls Sylvanas a "!@#$%", there are items with sexual refrences (Protable Hole item), there are quests where we throw BEAR CUBS out of trees and can throw them into fire, and in Uldum theres a comment about "Half-assed mouth" to Budd... and your complaining about a joke about soap refering to Prison rape? I can't seem to peace it together....
Post by
xaratherus
There are now dozens of quests with sexual refrences (The Rear is Clear, Protecting our Rear, Take their Rear, In the Rear with the Gear, Rear Guard Duty i.e), Garrosh calls Sylvanas a "!@#$%", there are items with sexual refrences (Protable Hole item), there are quests where we through BEAR CUBS out of trees and can throw them into fire, and in Uldum theres a comment about "Half-assed mouth" to Budd... and your complaining about a joke about soap refering to Prison rape? I can't seem to peace it together....
Heck, if you read the quest text, one of the quests in Vashj'ir pokes fun at sexually-transmitted diseases (Adarrah mentioning that you gave her "a case of crabs").
The trollish OP is long gone. Once we've milked the last of our discussion out of this thread, we can drive a hard piece of wood into it and call it a day.
Post by
vincistis
There are now dozens of quests with sexual refrences (The Rear is Clear, Protecting our Rear, Take their Rear, In the Rear with the Gear, Rear Guard Duty i.e), Garrosh calls Sylvanas a "!@#$%", there are items with sexual refrences (Protable Hole item), there are quests where we through BEAR CUBS out of trees and can throw them into fire, and in Uldum theres a comment about "Half-assed mouth" to Budd... and your complaining about a joke about soap refering to Prison rape? I can't seem to peace it together....
Heck, if you read the quest text, one of the quests in Vashj'ir pokes fun at sexually-transmitted diseases (Adarrah mentioning that you gave her "a case of crabs").
The trollish OP is long gone. Once we've milked the last of our discussion out of this thread, we can drive a hard piece of wood into it and call it a day.
LOL
Post by
ElhonnaDS
I wondered where Elaus went.
highly sexually charged references
I always thought it was just the regular old Portable Hole from DnD, but that works too. There's so many better ones you could've used.
He either thinks his trolling was accomplished or he realizes how big of a pansy he is for making this thread and is staying far away from it heh
Not sure if you were active at the time but a while back he went on a HUGE posting spree and made about 100 topics in the course of like a week, didn't respond except for maybe one post to any of them, then he kind of died down and actually participated in discussion a little with occasional new threads, then sort of vanished.
If he disappeared for a while, maybe he was doing time? It would explain his reaction.
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