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https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/sug/3067236/

enjoy it while it lasts

best quote of the topic - 'It is also very disrespectful to compare Irish and Italian American "Struggles" to the struggles of colored people. The Irish and Italian Americans didn't go through as much as Blacks, Mexicans, and Asians did.'

AnyaKnees, 2021

how did this get to 6 pages without getting blasted into orbit by mods

best thread of 2021

It's gone now, but it's on the Wayback Machine if anyone still wants to see it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211018020949/https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/sug/3067236/1

TIL the Black Squirrel item's description got changed.

I love how the last comment available via the wayback machine points out that the White Squirrel's item description is a reference to a movie (compared to a reference to systemic racism) lmao. Thanks for the popcorn

btw it looks like the wayback machine captured part of page 6 too, you just have to manually change the URL to get to it!

on a side note, big fucking yikes at one of the supporters (who seems to have recently friended the OP, at that) literally being named GermanicNordic and having a lair tab called "My Culture"... like, how transparent can you get?? lmao

Speaking as someone whose flight does dom, I really think you guys need to step back a touch. You went from a 1 to 11 with no gearing up or preparations. Do some profit pushes, fundraise in those pushes, and build the foundation you need. Especially if you just burned the bank with this push.

But well done. For being inexperienced with conquest battles, you guys made water fight for the win. Your team just needs a bit of practice.

GermanicNordic has given me insanely bad vibes the last few days. They hit all the spots of your go-to "I'm an Odinist, strong viking, white people"-bullshit while keeping it neatly wrapped for a dragon browsergame.
The random german being thrown in, the tab for Skyrim making me think they played that game and now want to "celebrate their heritage" because "vikings cool". It's so fucking weird and I wish they would stop, look at their actions and think about the implications.

I shall block Koshka71 (announcing this just because they announced they are blocking someone at least twice in that thread, but the reason is that in a thread about possibly racist item description where they claim to have noticed the racism, they were probably the most racist-adjacent person posting).

lbr you don't need the "adjacent" here, they're just racist, full stop

Can tell you right now, they probably ignore the fact that 99% of the Aesir were disabled, queer, gender fluid and intermarried/bred with non-Aesir (even animals in Loki's case) because they hype on that Neo-Nazi Asatru appropriating white pride train.

There are no bigots in Valhalla. Hel has a special place for them, and it's not one of honour.

(These same idiots usually think MCU Odin is what Odin is really like, when Odin is a grifting, cross dressing, disabled conman who'll give you a lift anywhere you like, but you'll be dropped off before your destination with no memory, no wallet, and one hell of a hangover.)

I was literally thinking that, lol.

Nothing makes me more pissed than how norse mythology was appropriated by complete fucking assholes, and then distilled into something it isn't to keep it "epic" and "consume-able" for the market.

AYRT

YEP. My grandpa is a first generation immigrant from Iceland, and his family has worshipped the Aesir for generations. (There's even a running joke about how every single man in the family has had three daughters before having a son is the result of someone way back in the day insulting Frigg, and she made sure the family had three daughters before having a son, to MAKE SURE the family drank their Respect Women Juice)

He fought in WWII, and when I was young, I heard him kvetching about how Neo-Nazis were just Nazis pretending to be followers of the Aesir and ruining the term Asatru. Can't imagine how he'd feel about the MCU and how the dumb kids are getting up in arms about the Loki tv and shipping wars.

I am so glad someone else is getting red flags from that person.
Their lair+posts about "their heritage" gives me the heebie jeebies and just shows they only know the 1930s Germany version of what norse culture and heritage was like.

As someone pointed out down below, a lot of us were or are queer, there's quite abit of interracial stuff too (like they found burial mounds with bones of peacocks and what matches more with asian physiology at the time!).
Not to mention norse folk (and I guess vikings, raiders) were known as 2 things: pale light haired folk or darker skinned black/dark haired folk.

But keep saying its your heritage and culture, GermanicNordic, when I very much doubt you can go very far back before it's definetly not norse™ (:

i'm adopting a kitten soon! but the adoption center is taking forever to get back to us (they've told us we're approved, it's just a matter of various paperwork stuff) aaaa. i want... to see my baby.

Given that they seem to be active around american times, looking at the time stamps of their posts, "my culture" + nordic stuff gives such a bad taste in the mouth in that usual "I'm irish\french\german\norwegian\polish\native american"-way as well.

came here to also comment on this lmao like...... yikes.

... Why did a discussion of a stupid joke of questionable taste turn into a debate of whether or not it's possible to be racist against white people? I read that and I still don't understand. (Please don't bring the debate here, however. The mods don't need that.)

because flight rising's userbase works in mysterious ways

Because the OP of said thread is a youngling who never heard of the movie White Men Can't Jump, and is like every Fragile White Redditor I've ever come across, so they got upset and and said it was racist against white people.

Guarantee you they're under 18.

Make sure to pay the cat tax once you get them home :D

(I am allergic to cats so live vicariously through folks who are not.)

"Skin ID #30686
Hi there, everyone! I was browsing the Game Database when I happened upon this absolutely gorgeous skin titled "Queen Glory", created by Vipera. When I looked at it, I was amazed at just how well the colors and design fit together, though something looked a bit too familiar about it. I could have sworn that this was based on the character Queen Glory the Rainwing from the popular book series "Wings of Fire", written by Tui T. Sutherland, and sure enough, it was >see picture below for a picture of Glory<.
https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9780545349253_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg
Now I know this is a DRAGON site, so it's fitting that a DRAGON skin from a DRAGON book series would be on here, though I am pretty sure that it's not allowed for a skin/accent to be based on a copyrighted character/object? Thank you all very much and I hope you have a lovely day! Feel free to share your thoughts as well as other copyrighted designs you've seen on here!"
User SweetNSpicyLemon ID588174

didn't they say they weren't going to participate it Riot of Rot, or am I thinking of someone else. Now they're saying they're excited for it

Justifiably nuked. Especially as it had discussion of the two festival skins removed for violations and a player call-out. And was inviting more folks to do the same to others.

It is an older skin that only has like 5 copies in existence that is inspired by the art in question. I think the site has bigger fish to fry.

In comparison to the removed festival accents brought up in thread, the plague of madness skin had a very particular eye marking from the episode, and static cling had a character from the game on the wing, as well as being chosen as site skins.

At best, tattletaling on something harmless. At worst, spite reporting to hurt others.

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