Whats up with redguards?

Post » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:08 am

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So, what? We make every race automatically have max level and skills and the best equipment, and be like holograms so when you turn in-game they change from white to brown to black (or black to brown to white, or brown to black to white, or brown to white to black, etc.)?

Believe it or not, you can have different skin colours in something, be it a game, a film, or anything else, without it being there to simply satisfy the overzealous political correctness crowd or to provote slavery.

So let's move on.
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Laura Ellaby
 
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:38 pm

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Yeah, but you can't please everybody:
  • There is no race equivalent to Asians, even if Akaviri architecture is similar.
  • There are TWO "white people" races! They're holding Caucasians in higher regard than others!
  • Bethesda can't make up their mind on what's cooler, French Bretons or English Bretons. Microcosm of the "England vs France" debate?
  • For some reason, the city of Sentinel is full of Bretons, unlike every other town in Hammerfell.
  • Crassius Curio has given me a fear of all middle-aged people of Mediterranean descent.
  • If I want to be a http://antispore.com/, I could claim that the Nords stereotype my Nordic and Celtic ancestors as being muscle-bound idiots who can't hold onto their clothes for more than one video game.
  • Altmer used to have golden skin, but in Morrowind they had yellow skin in order to throw jabs at the Oriental ethnicities.
  • The Khajiiti have led me to believe that all furries are not only furries but also drug addicts.
  • It is perfectly acceptable to walk around naked in any civilized culture, because my permanently glued-on underpants will circumvent any taboo.

Disclaimer: The above list was entirely satirical and I hope I don't get attacked by nuclear swordfighting for it.
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Hazel Sian ogden
 
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Post » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:08 am

If I want to be a troll, I could claim that the Nords stereotype my Nordic and Celtic ancestors as being muscle-bound idiots who can't hold onto their clothes for more than one video game.


Why didn't I think of that...now none of it makes sense! :D
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Antonio Gigliotta
 
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:36 pm

  • There are TWO "white people" races! They're holding Caucasians in higher regard than others!


Three. At least.
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Sharra Llenos
 
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:22 am

Noob.

Anyone who was introduced to The Elder Scrolls before Morrowind would have seen Imperials and called them "white Redguards". :rofl:

Or thickset Bretons.

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If I want to be a http://antispore.com/, I could claim that the Nords stereotype my Nordic and Celtic ancestors as being muscle-bound idiots who can't hold onto their clothes for more than one video game.

I dunno, if my family is anything to go by, that's about right...
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:24 pm

Yeah but, still they're supposed to be based of the Romans! Just beause Cyrodiil was supposed ot be a jungle in LORE doesn't mean that the Imperial race itself is Aztec...


Yeah, but the city on the water was almost entirely taken from the Ayleids...and anything else built was just based off the surrounding architecture so it didn't look strange.
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Prisca Lacour
 
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:41 pm

The Ra'Gada are the BEST swordsmen EVAR. They have a blade move that can split the magical equivalent of an atom. Someone did it once. Now Yokuda is gone. Samurai? They're the ULTIMATE Samurai!


They did it on purpose to sink their own continent because they were angry. Presumably they were left on the continent as it was sinking, and they were lit on fire. And stabbed a lot. In the legs so they couldn't move, because it's sort of a dike move just because you lost. It would be like if in the Gunpowder plot they instead decided to blow up the entirety of Europe.
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Michelle Smith
 
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:52 pm

We are not going anywhere with discussions of real-world racism, real-world racial stereotyping, and Redguards. Posts will be deleted, and members posting further on the subject will be suspended for the order of the forums.
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:55 pm

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Yeah, but you can't please everybody:
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[*]If I want to be a http://antispore.com/, I could claim that the Nords stereotype my Nordic and Celtic ancestors as being muscle-bound idiots who can't hold onto their clothes for more than one video game.

Disclaimer: The above list was entirely satirical and I hope I don't get attacked by nuclear swordfighting for it.


That website made me laugh SO HARD. And anyways I recall reading a book that mentions in various tests that Nords are actually SLIGHTLY (caps lock for emphasis) smarter than Imperials. Imperials just have a much, much better grasp on social and political issues, probably because they're first leader turned into a god and was extremely racist towards Orcs.
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Justin Bywater
 
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:29 pm

If you think of Redguards as "black Imperials" you might as well call African-Americans "black Caucasians"
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JLG
 
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:14 am

If you think of Redguards as "black Imperials" you might as well call African-Americans "black Caucasians"

:facepalm:
Bad troll! Bad! And that is completely wrong too!
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Post » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:07 pm

That's enough. Flouting moderator warnings against slinging bull about real-world races is out of order. There being nothing of substance said in 5 days, this thread is over.
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