Journal/Meme - "Unpopular Opinions and WoW Speak."

[leskuh]

Stolen from poisonivory:

If anyone would like to give me a fandom that you'd like me to share three of my unpopular (or "likely to piss off someone somewhere") opinions about, feel free to comment.

I like this meme because I get to be bitchy! Maybe!




I made a Tauren Hunter today on WoW and THEY ARE SO MUCH FUN TO PLAY. I don't even have a pet yet and I'm totes digging having such an awesome range to fight. Also, if Calvin (from Ternion) played WoW he'd totally be a female Tauren Hunter and he'd be AWESOME. AWESOME LIKE ME.

Still undecided about whether to keep playing or not. Tomorrow's the last day of my trial. :\

I hate that only Blood Elves can be Paladins on the Horde side. I was basically born to be a Paladin. Defense/Healing? Yeah. That's me. ALL THE WAY. But you have to pay moooore for Blood Elves and they are not the race I'd want to be anyway. Whatever.

The undead are my favorites, but I don't really mesh with the classes that they have under them. I love my Undead Warrior chick, but the Warrior class doesn't completely appeal to me? I do like being able to take a beating though. And when you're Undead you get to EAT CORPSES. It's awesome.

Um, sorry for being so boring and talking 'bout WoW. I will move on from this game soon enough (especially if I cheap out and don't buy it.....).

Anyway, GIMME FANDOMS SO I CAN TELL YOU WHAT I THINK ABOUT THEM.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's like I said... it's not really a traditional fandom in that sense. You seem to have come into this with more of a fannish viewpoint than most other people I know in the community. Aside from simgaroop, I think you were one of the only people I knew that even used "canon" as a term to talk about the premade backstories.

I'm also obviously a big fan of the canon and playing around with it in that sort of fannish way (that's what brought me here, afterall), but I also like that it's a bit more open-ended too. Though sometimes I'm not sure. :P I mean, we can even argue over petty details like "Tank wouldn't do that because he has 0 playful points" and then someone else says "but in MY GAME he's always ventrilo-farting, blah, blah, blah..."

(The first opinion being RIGHT, of course. XD)

For all I've said about liking the idea of original sim stuff (and I do), I don't really get into a lot of them either. And maybe that's because most of them DO take themselves pretty seriously and tend to use the same poses from the OFB animation box over and over again.

I like the wacky animations and it seems like a waste no to use them. I like drama (very much so), but I'd rather see all sort of zany melodramatic sim behaviour than an update that consists solely of pensive poses between two characters sitting in a cafe (usually with either coffee or a can of Guinness).

But the potential is there to use all the typical game animations. You could have an original sim story that was still very "sim" in its execution. If it was me, I'd still make reference to the premade stories and all that in an original story, even, so yeah... I'm pretty into the canon too.

At the same time, using the game to make any sort of machinima is also cool, even if you just want the environments and use the sims as dolls, completely out of context. To each their own, and all that. It's cheaper/easier than using animation software.

But yeah...

The sims fandom can be crazy. When I feel myself getting sucked into the bitchy, catty side of it, I try to back off for the sake of my mental health. It can be draining and unhealthy. Though sometimes it's fun to get taken along for the ride, like with the babby roaster. Those were good times. :P

Interesting discussion. I'm always sort of interested in the whole question of "why the fuck do we even do this?" For me, and I suspect others, escapism plays a role in it. It's pretty immersive.