Explain moral ambiguity in interstellar invasion, evil titan avatar summoning, and murdering women and children and eating their faces.

Not totally, but that's why I said collective.

He was still a total asshole, and yes, Gul'dan manipulated him,
but that wasn't super hard.

That may be true, but it still supports my statement of a massive retcon.

Azshara begs to differ.

Given his choices at the time - I assume you're referring to Stratholme - I don't really blame him for what he did there.

However, getting consumed by revenge and getting baited into merging with Ner'zhul... that's his fault.

But at least we got to kill Arthas, unlike a certain Orc who the writers conveniently hooked…

It's an explanation, but it doesn't excuse what they did.

I played both storylines, and I actually principally played Horde in
competitive ladder play years ago - I was so into it I freaking practically memorized
the manuals cover-to-cover. I know the lore.

But what happened to them doesn't excuse what they did. Just…

I'm not spouting bullshit. It is poorly developed, especially when everything evil they do is excused away with victim crap. It's an easy out for a writer. And anyone who stands against them is basically called racist. Look what happened to Jaina when she seized control of Dalaran - and rightly so, being betrayed!

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I don't see anything to be empathetic about with the particular situation I described.

As I said, if it were you whose family was being murdered, you'd fucking kill whoever was doing it, unless you're a pacifist, in which case, you'd die and they would die anyway.

I'm a Warlock, so, I don't need the blood.

I do know my material. I've been playing the games since the first one came out.

Yeah, I find it hard to support alien invaders as the victims.

Sorry, but you completely forgot The Last Remnant.

Really? They want us to see the Orcs' side? In a storyline that has them as the clear villians, marching through an interstellar portal to commit genocide in the name of their bloodlust and Gul'dan's, Ner'zhul's, and Doomhammer's collective insanity?

They're even going to retcon the original story to fit their mary-sue…

I'm really disappointed. I thought it would at least go into the Twisting Nether.

Instead, it's another Pollyanna expansion where the "totally innocent" orcs are deified and the Alliance is vilified for trying to stop them. I'm just waiting for a new accusation of racism, that's what makes a Thrall/Horde storyline…

So, they're copying SAGA's city mechanics.....

It was about bandwidth.

I actually liked the fact that they asked me, instead of just installing it.

Choice is a good thing - even if it annoys you.

Very true, but I'm saying from a security standpoint, addons are more secure than browser bars, and having back-end code that can install them from anywhere is a recipe for trouble.

Speaking of fundies and crackpots, I'll bet Anita Sarkeesian is foaming at the mouth about this.

Office Space already did it.