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Re: WW status update

[(Anonymous)]

its dumb but I already done knew that fr staff make some wild decisions based solely on how many people complain about something.

Re: WW status update

[(Anonymous)]

Idk how many of you know this but in real life cock-fighting, they do actually put little knives on the roosters spurs. I can completely understand where the people who were complaining were coming from, if you know about the "sport" it would be a very disturbing reminder of it to see. I can also see where, if you didn't know about it, you wouldn't be able to see it. Or even if you did you might not see it, heck i knew about it and didn't make the connection until i saw the argument against it. I wasn't one of the ones arguing for a change but i'm not super upset about it either. Also it's a bit of a stretch to say "why not do that with battlemares". One is a bloodsport pitting animal against animal for the sake of human "entertainment" and money. The other is a tamed herd animal that has bonds with it's riders taking them into battle. You really can't compare them.

Re: WW status update

[(Anonymous)]

I've always known about the sport, I made the connection, I wasn't disturbed. I think its a little condescending to assume the only people who dislike the change just didn't know, you yourself even admit to not having been disturbed despite being familiar with the concept.

Re: WW status update

[(Anonymous)]

i get where you are coming from but you could say the exact same about many other parts of the site that nobody ever complains about. battlestones like "shred" and "eliminate" pretty explicitly reference violence and murder, and when used they're killing countless creatures in the coliseum, many of whom are directly inspired by IRL animals. meat and seafood items dropped in the coli sometimes depict severed limbs or hunks of meat and bone, meaning that these coliseum animals are actively being killed, butchered, then consumed much like in the real world.

why does the cockfighting reference go too far when nobody bats an eye at the vast majority of the coliseum? since its inception FR has taken aspects of the real world and added a fantasy element to them, which includes things with cartoon-ified violence.

Re: WW status update

[(Anonymous)]

DA
Agreed here. I would understand why there would be backlash if the familiars were an explicit reference or glorification of cockfighting, like if their flavor text involved them competing in any way, but they don't? And falconry hoods have nothing to do with cockfighting either. So there was no objective reason to perceive any more animal-harm than usual.

When the entire dragons VS beastclans lore is essentially just watered down colonial genocide, but we're all able to suspend our disbelief on that one, this just seems like the most pedantic shit to get up in arms about.

Re: WW status update

[(Anonymous)]

oh not this shit again

Re: WW status update

[(Anonymous)]

What shit? I'm saying they're both stupid things to get upset about. Its just as dumb to change some knife feet on roosters as it would be to try to sanitize the beastclans lore.