The Twin Consorts Ain’t The Twin Consorts No More
Around September 2021, World of Warcraft deployed a set of unnannounced changes to a variety of seemingly inconsequential things in the game. This included a change of the icon for a mount called the Big Love Rocket to look less like a penis and more like the actual mount, which, for all that it was a pink rocket didn’t actually look like a rounded dildo. A number of artworks in-game were changed, like little decals of ladies with their boobs out were turned into things like a ladies without her boobs out, and a bowl of fruit.
Amongst these changes was two raid bosses from Mists of Pandaria, a 2012 expansion to the game. They were renamed from the Twin Consorts, and are now known as the Twin Empyreans.
These changes, which occurred in the wake of the shocking news of the State of California’s lawsuit against Blizzard, were received by the audience in a serious, and composed manner.
I am of course, understating, for comedic effect.
People got mad. Most of those people who got mad were silly, and sucked. And I don’t want to just straight up rip the Evitel and Taliesen video on the subject, which is a shame, because their joke about Prince Phillip was really funny, but instead I want to talk about how you name things in games and what that implies.
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