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.
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.
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.
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Re: WW status update
(Anonymous) 2022-09-03 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)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) 2022-09-03 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)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) 2022-09-03 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)Re: WW status update
(Anonymous) 2022-09-03 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)