I must be stopped.

[snarp]

Cataclysm is coming out soon. I cannot be permitted to restart my subscription to see what the lead-up events are like. I'm probably not high enough level to access most of them, but I will be sucked back in nonetheless. My heart will be broken by the Orgrimmar redesign. My nerves will be shattered anew by the ethnic stereotypes and poor storytelling decisions. Dudes will say stuff about my hat.

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[darkelf105]

But are you going to play as a goblin? Because if you are, despite all the things I have to say about WoW, none of them good, I feel that I shouldn't stop you. I want to play WoW so I can be a goblin, but I tend to project my desires on others, so maybe you don't?

[snarp]

If I were to play a goblin, I'd end up getting kicked off the RP server for playing a goblin from this dark AU where the orcs keep accusing my people of killing and eating their children and confiscating our property, and Varian Wrynn is a thinly-veiled representation of Hitler, and everyone thinks we caused the zombie plague by poisoning the wells, or something.

(I feel that the goblins are Jewish stereotypes. This means that I found the Fizzle Darkstorm quest unsettling, because I felt vaguely as if I was participating in the final scene of the blood libel narrative, where the wicked Jewish sorcerers are killed by righteous men, and their demonic associates banished.

It bugs me that this game has forced me to say, "I found Fizzle Darkstorm unsettling.")