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>>12662595
i do tho! the Americans have a unique gift: *everything must become sexy.* Chris Metzen turned the Orcs into Sexy Misunderstood Noble Savages, even the undead are sexy. everything becomes sexy in Blizzard studios. even the Xenomorph from Alien becomes sexy once Kerrigan gets involved.

there is something quite wonderful in this process, i think. i can't believe that they actually managed to get the Blood Elves in at all, honestly, they're basically White Privilege: The Faction. and yet it works, because Blizzard obviously wasn't so worried itself about looking good on Twitter that they couldn't allow themselves to make a faction like this in the first place. and it would be part of my own approach to these things as well: hey look, there it is, Elves Who Prefer Their Own. how about that. the downside of this is, of course, that everything dissolves into a soupy mess of rather forgettable pulp when it comes to the storylines. Blizzard Americanizes the Tolkien world. but said Americanization also i think prevents the Old World from returning in ways that are ultimately not good for us. if i played WoW today i would probably make a Blood Elf and have a grand old time pretending to be Making Silvermoon Great Again.

tribalism is a feature and not a bug of human civilization. it has to be a thing that doesn't turn us into moral hypochondriacs. our real problem is that we now expect reality to look like it does in the movies and in our games...because the polis, like ourselves, winds up becoming a pair of matched blank slates, to reflect our empty-headeness (and the awesome cosmetic power of capital in late postmodernity itself). and it is because of that very hyper-transactional world in which we live that we will have to get along, and the Brahmins of every political class who think they can regulate this in a top-down fashion are going to be bitterly disappointed. we need a much more rugged and robust way of conducting political life that allow for the triggers.

>>12662631
enjoy senpai

>>12662648
pretty much

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