Sunday, February 8, 2009

Go back to Pornshire you pesky Nelf!

The other day I was mining for gold in the Borean Tundra and this Night Elf hunter tried to ninja my ore, she failed. Then later I saw two allies camp the same spawn and not team to get it. One of them was a night elf hunter. First the gnome mage took the spawn then she ran off before the monster could spawn again, so I got the spawn but I was so irritated that I yelled "Go back to Pornshire you pesky Nelf!" at her. Since Allies and Horde cannot communicate with each other I doubt that she understood me but everybody in the zone heard me. I'm not really embarassed by what I said, people had said way worse and meant it but I guess the incident is still in my memory. I told my guildies and they laughed about it, I heard about how on PvP servers professions like mining and herbalism can become really dangerous as everybody will kill for access to the nodes and I heard about ninja mining (which is really just a little rude but occasionally necessary or warranted).

For those of you who don't know it, Goldshire is a town in Elwynn Forest (one of the beginner zones) and on a few servers it is also a spot for ERP (erotic role play). On some servers Goldshire is so seedy (naked people runnign around, people having cybersex in the streets) that it's called Pornshire. In the more seedy Goldshires you can find females (mostly night elves) dancing naked on tables, they are strippers and in some cases you can pay a little extra to get other services. All of these exchanges happen in WoW currency so there is no actual money being passed around but still... in any event Night Elf females are the most popular strippers because of their racial dance. Human females dance the Macarena ( not a very sexy dance) and we will not talk about gnomes, dwarves or Horde (Goldshire is Alliance territory, I hear that Silvermoon City can be as seedy though). Dranei females have a nice dance but the horns, hooves and tail make them less popular I think. In any event since I don't spend any time in the Goldshire of my server I can't really talk about it much.

When I came on to this server, my friend who was playing on it at the time told me that Goldshire was a pit. I had thought that he meant only on this server but reading WoWgossip I realize I may have been wrong about that.

http://wowgossip.livejournal.com/

I think her blog is hilarious, that she's clever and that she has something to say...

Back to what started this post, my comment was childish and somewhat chauvinistic but also funny and interesting. When people annoy others it's easy to fall back on stereotypes to insult or dismiss them, perhaps I am a little unsettled to find that I do this as easily as others. It's like in one of my guilds there are two members I don't like andI am unhappy to realize that part of my annoyance now is the simple will not to like them. Disliking others makes me feel childish...

still I can't like everybody and not everybody can like me.

3 comments:

  1. Im interested on your thoughts about the following:

    Do you ever wonder how blatant racism within the discourse of world of warcraft?

    Do you find it odd that people will have cybersex on non-role playing servers?

    Do Alliance have an equivalent to "Barrens Chat" ?

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  2. I'm not sure about cybersex in Non-RP servers, I find it a little odd that people do it in WoW at all since I don't the environment conducive for that myself.

    I think that when we talk about racism in WoW we have to be very careful abut distinguishing between WoW races and world lore and real world identity politics. I'm not saying that the lines between the two are absolute and that lines don't blur but that there are both in game and out of game identity politics that need to be distinguished.

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  3. As for Barrens chat, I have found that general chat in Elwynn Forest can be pretty terrible at times and the Trade channel is always a place where people say stupid things.

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