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WCDT: 2357-2361 (7-11 January 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Loki:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 08 Jan 2013, 00:39 ---Yeah, Horde vs. Alliance is probably what J is talking about.
The thing is that tribalism can be a LOT of fun, and can be very satisfying. However I find that there are many pitfalls it contains, many traps that are easy to fall into. It's almost hard to believe sometimes the amount of stress and uh..we'll say 'silliness'...that I saw that simple division in a game could cause when people got a little too caught up in it.
You see it in a lot of things though: hobbyists vs. other hobbyists, political adherents, sports team fans, etc. etc. I don't really have any answer other than trying really hard to remember that other people are just people too, probably pretty similar to you.
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Have you heard of the Robber's cave experiment?
de_la_Nae:
Nice. Seems to hold up so far as I've observed. Not that that's a scientific way to do things. Using my anecdotal observations to make decisions, I mean.
Border Reiver:
Not that I play Warcraft, but this seems awfully similar to the "Dwarf-Elf" antipathy that seems to pervade much of fantasy. (It's all the fault of the skinny, pointy eared b*stards though).
Thrudd:
Well the Dwarf Elf antipathy easily boils down to a clash between two cultures and life styles, not to mention one side easily taking insult and the other easily giving it plus arrows in the back.
Dwarves - Earth Dwellers, hard workers, hard party'ers, stoic Fighters, Strong Family bonds and traditions and history and lastly trusting of those who earn it.
Elves - Surface/forest/sky Dwellers (always above everyone else), flighty, haughty, ancient, strong sense of honor and tradition, sense of history, racist with a rabid superiority complex.
So all in all very similar but with differences in the right/wrong places to have them at each others throats within moments.
Yeah Elves are cool but as a people they are a bunch of jerks.
Bluesummers:
I foresee Hanners educating MarBear about proper social etiquette beyond the realm of WoW...and after the epiphany hits Marigold, she'll actually find some sort of attraction to Dale...to be drawn out, slowly, with intensifying infatuation...only to finally discover that Dale is, in fact, dating Pizza Girl.
Poor Marigold.
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 08 Jan 2013, 06:17 ---Yeah Elves are cool but as a people they are a bunch of jerks.
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God damn elves, hording all those chocolate-covered cookies to themselves, trying to fiddle with the baked goods economy...I'll have the FTC on your little tree-dwelling asses, you bastards!
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