Presented here, for Bored Princess and part-time Melissa Clarke impersonator Shufflejoy’s convenient reading. This was kicked off by reading about Rob Pardo dismissing representation and gender issues in game as ‘Serious Stuff‘ that he ‘didn’t want in his game.’
Rob Pardo doesn’t want Serious Stuff in his game, which is why he’s been part of a game about the long-term brutality of war for years.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) May 24, 2014
Rob Pardo doesn’t want Serious Stuff in his game about dehumanising soldiers and shadowy government conspiracies kidnapping children.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) May 24, 2014
Rob Pardo doesn’t want Serious Stuff in his game which is why there’s a level in Warcraft 3 about the destructive effects of overfarming.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) May 24, 2014
Rob Pardo doesn’t want Serious Stuff in his game which is why there’s a whole race in Warcraft defined by supernatural drug addiction.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) May 24, 2014
Rob Pardo doesn’t want Serious Stuff in his game, which is why Algalon gives a speech about the meaningfulness of humanity striving.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) May 24, 2014
Rob Pardo doesn’t want Serious Stuff in his game which is why there’s a ghetto of poor goblins being racially oppressed under Garrosh.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) May 24, 2014
Rob Pardo doesn’t want Serious Stuff in his game which is why Jaina Proudmoore is suffering from PTSD after seeing a WMD flatten her city.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) May 24, 2014
I can keep doing this *all fucking day*.
— Talen Lee (@Talen_Lee) May 24, 2014