Broken Toys

I’m pretty sure this is a reference to Eddy Izzard. I think one of his most favorite skits involving talking about how great it is in America and Free Speech. Then it digressed down to being an artist and putting babies on spikes…. It’s a pretty damn funny skit.

Yeah, that’s an Eddie Izzard riff.

Man, Blizzard needs to do something about the patch screenshots getting leaked so easily….

Wait, this is a joke…?

Is it really, REALLY sad that I tried to click ‘accept’ on the image by instinct?

Also, Eddie Izzard is freaking hilarious, check him out if you get the chance!

That comic is absolute gold. The support groups one was brilliant.

So funny.

It’s the American Dream! “Hi! I’m Crazy Eddie! I put babies on spikes. Do you want a rack of babies? We’ve got babies on racks! Mmm, they taste of chicken!”

I for one am all for more Izzard-inspired quests! Just imagine it, a fetch quest involving a hoddodod vacuum cleaner, voiced by James Mason?

Arrrrgh!! I am so sick of that stupid “The Night Elves nearly destroyed the planet crap”. The other sad-ass attempts to make the Alliance seem evil were bad enough, but this new shit is just retarded.

The Blood Elves are the direct descendants, and in some cases the very same elves, who were responsible for that! Their only redeeming value is that they eventually defected from Azshara’s forces.

It’s bad enough when people cry that the orcs were “enslaved”, but now they’re outright re-writing history to convince themselves they are perfect?

…And yes, I realize I’m flipping out over a game. But I am a nerd. Don’t mock my illness!

Also, I hate those god-damned pussy Hordies and their whining about oppression. Seriously, the whole damned faction is an emo-magnet.

This a great strip. I never thought I’d say that about yet another screenshot-based webcomic.

I must admit though, I have a certain contemptuous regard for people who take the WoW lore as a “serious” fiction that demands respect and continuity. Blizzard’s backstories aren’t bad at all, but they’re all framing for their respective games, not “source material.”

I’m glad to hear you have contempt for me. What a grand way to engage in a conversation.

@interlocutron

I think you missed the part where it is a web comic. You know, to be funny. Not serious interpretative material. While I don’t hold you in “contemptuous regard”, I definitely think you are taking it too seriously.

As for the comic, I absolutely love this. I just caught up on all their material, and I’m hoping they come out with more. Very funny stuff.

This stuff is just funny. I normally prefer drawn comics, but the writer has one heck of a sense of humour.

Funny is funny. The medium will either detract or enhance it, but it’s gotta start out funny. In this case, I think the creator is really taking a neat and creative approach to the graphics. It’s like pseudo-machinima and works pretty damned well.

As for WOW LORE IS SERIOUS BUSINESS? Oy. Just OY. I can’t even frame a proper hyperbole for how large a train-wreck Azerothian lore has always been. You just didn’t notice when the depth of your exposure was a 30-second voice over and/or limited to “zug zug”.

The novels and such aren’t epic masterpieces destined to change the way we view the human condition or anything. Of the two novels I could actually finish reading neither impressed me beyond “heh, I ground level 55 there…” or similar. Dune these ain’t, yo.

Maybe it’s just my anti-sky-bully leanings, but I always enjoyed a good god-killing smack-down in EQ. So what if 30-some of my friends were able to bitch-slap Innoruuk every week with zero repercussions to my inkie cleric? Lewtz > lore, thanks.

I’m glad to hear you have contempt for me. What a grand way to engage in a conversation.

I was actually referring to the comic artist. Your posting just ahead of me was an unhappy accident. Carry on!

It’s bad enough when people cry that the orcs were “enslaved”, but now they’re outright re-writing history to convince themselves they are perfect?

At the risk of getting way too deep here in a hurry, I’d like to respond to this. I never enjoyed playing the orcs in WarCraft I or II, because I don’t enjoy playing evil races. However, I found the orc storyline in Warcraft III extremely compelling because I believe in redemption (and I’m not even talking about religion here), and I think we need more stories about it in whatever medium. I really enjoyed playing an orc in WoW because they were about trying to get away from their old evil ways in a world where they had already screwed up their relationship with the indigenous people so badly that trust was going to be nigh impossible to come by. I don’t see the modern Horde as “perfect” by any stretch of the imagination, but neither is the Alliance.

I’m not sure how “Redeemed” the Orcs actually are. After all, they’re basically treating Kalimdor like the European Settlers treated the Americas, complete with a Rhetoric about a manifest destiny that gives them the right to take over the “vast wildernesses” of Kalimdor in the name of the Horde, assimilating or destroy any native races that resist.

Finally a worthy replacement for Flintlocke. I will, however, forever miss the macro-licious adventures of Loping, the ninja looting Chinese gnome-bot. Pants!

Interlocutron, Keep telling yourself that buddy! Try to assuage your guilt over almost destroying the planet! We noble Horde will be there to rescue your people, then get betrayed and blamed for all your ills again!

Jobrill, where did you get that idea? Have you read anything about Orc Shaman and their beliefs? It completely contradicts your point. The Venture Co. certainly does whatever it wants to the environment and wants to destroy everything. But they are not the Horde nor do they represent the orcs that live under Thrall. You may be confusing them, that is ok, it is common for Night Elves to get confused about orcs, and well just confused in general.

See this is why we prefer to negotiate with our clubs. It’s not that we are savages and can’t, it’s just easier to deal with racism by bonking them on the head than engaging in futile argument. Since the humans will pretend to argue then hit you from behind.

…then hit you from behind.

Strictly speaking, that’s the safest way, no?

I’ll make you a deal. Get Blizzard to put good swords in the game between SSC and KZ that aren’t dramatically inferior to daggers and I’ll be happy to kill you from the front.

Haven’t liked a screenshot comic that much since Bon3D3wd

Babies taste of chicken.

Yunk, I’m getting from the fact that the Orcs talk about taking over Kalimdor for the Horde, including describing Ashenvale as a “Vast Untamed Wilderness” that they must assert their political and spiritual dominance upon (Even if it means killing off the natives), and have claimed (Back in quests that have now been taken out of the game) that the Night Elves were keeping them from what is *rightfully* their’s. The part of Ashenvale that’s been taken over by the Warsong looks like it’s well on it’s way to mirroring what the Venture co has done in Stonetalon.

Really, the Rhetoric is pretty obvious if you level a Horde character in the Barrens and Ashenvale and pay attention to the quest text.

We are tryin ta reel in da Warsong some. Deys gone a little off, not enough Shaman among dem, due ta Hellscream gettin involved wit dem demons. But dey be changin. We got his son helpin out now. But dey jus be one clan among all da orcs.

As fer everytin else, ya criticize da orcs want ta use da land, but is the land “rightfully” the elves? No one else can use it? bah! dat’s racism!

Da elves certainly cut down trees an use em in buidings. I’m sure back when dey were buildin dere towns Ashenvale didn’t look so pretty. Dere are plenty of wide open spaces without trees there, but it’s so old the stumps are gone. How we know the elves didn’t raze that land fer dere buildins?

Ashenvale IS a vast untamed wilderness. Have ya seen it? No tamin, except where da elves live. It’s ok fer da elves ta tame Ashenvale where dey want ta live, but not da orcs? Da elves only want Ashenvale fer demselves ta use an no one else. All else is jus propaganda. Are we gonna blame da orcs fer havin babies and needin room?

An da warsong area looks NOTINK like where da venture co works. Look at the Venture Co. just to da south of Ashenvale: poison pools of fetid water, smog, garbage everywhere. Jus because you see a lot of cut down trees is NOT da same. One is called poisoning da environment, da udder is called lumberin. Geez.

Oh and don’t forget, it was the Night Elves that brought Worgen into da world. Tanks fer dat!