Entitlement, as defined by Google’s own dictionary, is as follows:

the fact of having a right to something.

The implicit meaning has to do with being granted rights, such as land, status, power or wealth from times when dukes and duchesses ruled. It also has nothing to do with believing you are owed something or a perception that you are owed something; I know the Google dictionary includes a definition based on belief, but across other dictionaries, this does not hold true, which is why I’m not considering it a valid definition nor pertinent to my following argument:

You do not deserve special treatment based on your personal beliefs.

Movements like modern feminism, Black Lives Matter, the Black Bloc, Antifa and social justice organizations are huge proponents of the idea that everyone’s flippant whim must be catered to. It’s why known personalities, especially those online, are busy screaming that women must be put in positions of power, irrespective of their qualifications, that white people are the only people who can be racist and that everyone should just give money, time and attention to ‘oppressed’ people. Heaven forbid we take a moment to think illogical this is from, well, any standpoint and how costly it would be to try and appease every single capricious thought of these avaristic busy-bodies.

The reason these modern socio-political movements and organizations believe they deserve special treatment is because they have no identity of their own, and while I can’t stand people pushing their views in an effort to proselytize others since that’s textbook facism and that shit has never worked out in practice anywhere it was employed, I hate the fact that they have no ‘face’. Having no set of beliefs means everything is fair play, which makes no sense since certain things are a specific thing and behave in a specific way. Under modern feminism, you could call physics ‘sexist’ because gravity is a force that weighs down on women, which means it oppresses them somehow and because of that, work should be done to make gravity not affect women. Clearly this is ridiculous, as gravity is a fundamental force of the universe that simply acts on things; it has no preference surrounding humans and their sexual dichotomy. Yet, because feminism and modern socio-political movements have no set ideals and thus no ‘face’, an argument like this would be completely possible and even plausible, if that recent ‘study’ on glacial sexualization showed us anything.

The worst part of these groups having no identity is that it makes it extremely easy to bring people into their ranks. Being a sizable brown man, it’s generally assumed that I’m a believer in HAES and that I ascribe to everything that people in these movements ascribe to because I’m a ‘person of color’. Of course, these morons are naturally upset when I tell them that fat people aren’t healthy, that unregulated immigration is retarded and that ‘person of color’ is stupidly racist. ‘My Mexican friend is against the wall, so why is this other Mexican disagreeing with him?! I thought all Mexicans would agree with my super liberal Mexican friend who comes from a very wealthy family and lives in a gated, predominantly white, community and who I keep calling ‘my Mexican friend’ to showcase that I, too, am socially aware and cultured! What a twist!’

And so, today we’re going to look at someone who fits the bill of a soul who was sucked into being politically correct after having been eaten by the amorphous blob that is social justice. Enter Orcish Army Knife, a long-standing World of Warcraft blog written by Rades, a hunter. I can’t remember how I exactly found this place, considering it’s not in my memory of WoW-focused blogs I used to visit, which is strange considering how many of the ones I distinctly recall have long since been ended whereas OAK is still going, nor does it really matter. What matters is that it houses one of the most ridiculous attempts I’ve seen at a heel-face-turn post with the express intent to ‘explain’ (read: whine loudly with intent to gain attention) why our majestic ‘hero’ Rades is quitting the game.

Is this LiveJournal?

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that I will never go one single post here without harping on grammar. I’m sure it’s getting old, but if people remembered what they learned in K-12, which the vast majority of is applicable to just about everything that is encountered in life, I wouldn’t have to keep going on about it. Hell, if people just proofed their work, I wouldn’t have to go on about it because then people would catch how jilted and fragmented their writing is and change it accordingly.

I also looked up the Rules of Thirds, as I was curious what diving trip planning had to do with photography, and naturally learned the photography usage of the term. I’m not sure what importance this guidelines plays in photography, as I personally don’t believe in the ‘power point’ or the idea that when its employed, it brings tension. I guess it’s mostly used to provide some sort of uniformity, but I honestly think that a good photograph will look good no matter how it’s cropped or if it adheres to this ‘rule’. That being said, the photograph Rades provides is nice, except for the fact an ugly Gnome is in it, which ruins the entire atmosphere of the evident chaos.

Well, no, that’s not really true at all.

Being a huge Warcraft lore nerd, I was pretty surprised that someone whose content consisted of role-play entries and lore, along with the occasional brag about doing better than other mediocre/outright poor quality players that Rades constantly grouped with, would’ve gotten this completely wrong. Not that anyone except WoW lore nerds will care, but the reason Westfall is in such disarray is, at least prior to the Cataclysm expansion and the proceeding elemental invasion, due to the criminal organization known as the Defias Brotherhood. Early on in the game’s history, the players are tasked with tearing apart the organization and its headquarters, which are located in the Deadmines. The players are obviously successful in doing so, and the group’s leader, Edwin VanCleef, who was once a well-known and influential mason in the city of Stormwind, is confirmed dead. Game-wise, the location and dungeon still exist until Cataclysm, but lore-wise, the Deadmines is just an empty mine.

It isn’t until the end of the Northrend campaign against Arthas that Westfall becomes a haven for transients and refugees, all who are leftovers from the Northrend wartime effort. This is important because while players don’t experience it, once Arthas dies and everyone returns to the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor, there’s a small period of peace before Deathwing, the main antagonist of Cataclysm, being rampaging over the planet. During that period, these war veterans, which have no discernible skills other than fighting, are left without work thanks to the respite of fighting, families & homes in some cases, and means to obtain work moved from Elywnn Forest, where the capital Stormwind is, to Westfall to become farmers thanks to the apparent death of the Defias Brotherhood. Unfortunately, while these soldiers were busy fighting, the land of Westfall was ruined thanks to the Defias to the point that the player’s efforts are essentially all for naught. Crops can’t grow, existing farmland is ruined and farmers who once were prosperous begin to turn into the kind of people that show up on those History Channel shows about aliens and superstitions, trying and believing just about anything if it means they can get corn to root once more. They cannot, and the lack of work coupled with the influx of people with no skills looking for work, leads the land and its people to become barren and destitute; a wonderful fantasy world take on what is essentially the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Now, the reason I’ve spent the last two paragraphs on story-time is to show you that Rades has no idea about why Westfall is in such horrible shape and the reason the Cataclysm story-line in Westfall plays out as it does. The region was essentially left for dead even after the Defias Brotherhood was essentially ended, and that was well before the end of the Northrend campaign. Not only that, but Rades conveniently forgets to include the fact that Varian Wrynn, who is the king of Stormwind in Cataclysm, recently reclaimed the throne at the start of Wrath of the Lich King after years of traveling across the planet due to him having been kidnapped, then ransomed off to fight in the orc gladiator arenas. The man shows up only to get bombarded by Arthas’ Scourge and the second he comes back from dealing with that, the entire Alliance is busy having political strife and pissing contests with each other instead of taking the short peace-time to rebuild their broken land. While I can commiserate on that it sucks that Westfall gets a hard deal, blaming the very people (Varian and Gryan Stoutmantle) who haven’t even been available to deal with the situation due to the Scourge and the second they get back and make attempts to fix the area, Varian is pulled away in political bullshit while Gryan is forced to deal with the new Defias uprising, means you’re a moron doesn’t even know the lore you claim you’re deeply interested in. I’m sure this seems like I’m just trying to alpha-nerd here, but the idea that Rades claims to know what he’s talking about is important for what he writes later on.

Aww, it’s getting unreasonably mad at nothing. How cute!

It is a wonder when you consider that Gryan Stoutmantle could have just said, ‘Well, I give up’ and left Sentinel Hill to decay. Instead, he comes back and immediately sets to work to help the down-trodden only to have Vanessa VanCleef steal the show with some excellent propaganda and lead the revolt of the people, which is actually a complete ruse that Vanessa uses to set about taking revenge on Stormwind for killing her father. You know, that same dad who took out his anger on poor fucking farmers in the middle of the nation’s bread basket because the people who were going to pay him (a loose bunch of nobles) were being controlled by the black dragon Onyxia’s human avatar and thus did not give him his rightful money. I’m obviously not saying it’s Edwin’s fault for being rightfully upset, just that murdering farmers, ruining the land, planning a coup, initiating a riot that led to the murder of Varian’s wife and the eventual kidnapping of Varian is not in any way a reasonable reaction to not getting some fucking coin and that Edwin VanCleef is a huge piece of shit, just like his daughter who takes advantage of the poor in order continue to ruin their land and hopefully use them as pawns against Stormwind in yet another coup attempt. Of course, Rades ignores all this because he has to tie this into his social justice narrative in the most ham-fisted way possible, as social justice cunts constantly have want to do.

Also Rades, no, a king or any ruler doesn’t actually need to listen to anyone during his rule. Most rulers who rule like this are eventually overthrown, but that’s not the point here. Paying money voluntarily to play a game, which is widely considered to be a first-class, first-world luxury across the world, versus being taxed so that the money can be used to help grow the country are completely different and the fact that you are trying to state that a purchase is the same as a tithe solidifies the fact you are a fucking moron. Not only that, but the whole notion of, ‘Well I bought the game so that means Blizzard has to listen to me’ is the exact fucking reason we got Warlords of Draenor. People begged, pleaded and outright threatened the company to make the game more single-player, and they did just that. Turns out that the game that is completely designed around playing with multiple people is dog shit as a single-player game. Additionally, the reasons you are angry is completely due to you. Blizzard doesn’t make decisions that are set out to outright screw their own paying customers, you loathsome turd. It just so happens that the community for World of Warcraft is full of flippant, capricious, toxic scum lords like you who get upset at the drop of a hat over fucking nothing. I mean, you have a guy who leaves a group simply based on solidarity to a guild mate, regardless of how poor that person might be doing, and copies in an old post he made in its entirety and calls it ‘recycling’ for ‘Earth Day’, despite all main blogging website offering archiving of past posts. It could just be me, but what a douche.

Wow, look at all that nagging.

People were hurt by the female Draenei April Fool’s Joke? You cannot be serious in any capacity because if you are, you have a goddamn spiky pearl lodged firmly in your man-gina. Blasting through them point by point:

• Aggra fucking sucks as a character; she was introduced out of nowhere, she’s boring, one-dimensional and lead to the neutering of Thrall, who is fucking iconic and objectively great. What I found hysterical about this is that these women want female characters to be deep, but when Blizzard doesn’t include one (for the specific purpose of showing that perhaps Thrall is being too over-protective of her and being a poor husband because of that) who isn’t deep at all, get the pitchforks ready!
• Mentioned above, but the girl who wrote this post is complaining about a female alien that is more akin to a goat than a human, and that because of an April Fool’s Day joke born out of the community going into a fucking rage about not hearing about one specific race model (rooted in the fact that the Draenei have large tits and a big ol’ booty, which most of the community loves and doesn’t want to lose), women were ‘mocked’. Then again, this girl has a ‘guide‘ to online ‘harassment’, which is just her excuse to write a bunch of shit down that annoys her, project it out so that she can say it’s related to feminism and ‘cyber-bullying’ (that thing that doesn’t exist)  and thus give it more weight than it has or deserves, and come across like that angry librarian from your childhood who was in desperate need of someone to go ham on her muff.
• Whinging about the one-dimension female characters like it’s a massive problem, completely ignoring that most of the male characters in the game’s are also one-dimensional. All these characters are insert characters, and how people haven’t noticed that after over two decades of this series blows my mind every single time I come across it. If you want better lore characters, write a story with a strong character and then see if you can get it published and then if Blizzard will acknowledge it as canon. Writing an online diatribe is far less productive than simply ‘fixing’ the ‘problem’ via the same exact action, you idiot.
• This is a fucking card game where you can play against elementals and other ridiculous stuff from Warcraft. These cards don’t even exist. What the fuck am I reading and who seriously fucking cares?
• Oh, Malfurion isn’t the faction leader for the night elves? Do five seconds of fucking searching next time, you troglodyte.
• You goddamned retard, the whole point of the line is to showcase that the Iron Horde is full of douches and that we shouldn’t like them. Play the fucking horde campaign, you tumblrina who spends time posting inane shit that nobody cares about, moronic shit that your fellow ‘queer’ tumblr-pals care about because it makes you look cool, or untrustworthy, questionable garbage that could do actual harm to others.
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun died for a reason, and that reason is because they stopped talking about games and started trying to push the very agenda present in that interview. For anyone following along, notice how fast the interview derails when the interviewer tries to get Browder to bite on his shitty social justice question and Browder outright tells him to fuck off and that there is no message that should be being looked for and people who do that kind of digging are morons. I laughed pretty hard at the following:
  No, Nate, games are not about ‘feeling empowered’, they’re about being played. You and your loser, liberal arts degree-having friends who spent most of your life making fun of gamers only to work in the gaming journalism industry because you couldn’t get a real job, thus forcing you all to collude with each other to ensure you succeeded since you still all suck at writing and likely made up all your backstories about being ‘gamers for lyfe’ and that garbage are the ones who want to ‘feel empowered’. Of course, the reason is because you’re fucking losers in real life and you subconsciously know this, so you want an out. However, Browder is a real dude and he’s not going to give you the out you want. Gaming is exclusionary by definition, in practice and on a historical basis; be good or get the fuck out. Perhaps if you shit-heels hadn’t spent the majority of your life ripping on people like me, I’d be more inclined to even think about entertaining your shitty power fantasies.

• Not reading that garbage because nearly everything written by Polygon is horrible. However, I will comment on Todd Harper, since I know of him and the dude is a tool. Just like Grayson and his cronies, he claims to be a ‘gamer’ and part of the ‘gaming community’, but the fool is an academic whose background is in Media Arts/Mass Communication. In other words, yet another person who is virtue signalling because his actual field of work is saturated to the brim of air-headed morons like my roommate. I was surprised, though, to learn that the university where he studied considers his entire academic degree track as a ‘science’ field when it clearly is not. I only bring this up because, anecdotally speaking, people with bachelor’s of science are viewed more favorably than those with a bachelor’s of arts simply because the B.S. is viewed as being more rigorous and containing more technical study, which is generally the case since a B.S. is historically tied to fields like engineering, physics, chemistry, etc. Seriously, just look at the undergrad degree plan; does any of that scream ‘technical’?

To round this all out, World of Warcraft was entering its fifth expansion at this point. This mystical ‘single offense’ that Rades claims would’ve been ‘ignored’ (it would not have been) would’ve been impossible since the game is far too large to not have points of mediocre writing and characterization, something that has been a staple of the game since its RTS days. Second, Blizzard has outright stated that they do not pander to anyone and are aiming to create the best game they can make, not how many politically correct pandering points they can accrue. Third, even if Blizzard bent over backwards to meet the demands of these capricious blowhards, these fools would’ve just moved the goal-posts as they are constantly want to do, thus forever damning Blizzard to waste time on shit that doesn’t matter. Finally, none of the blog squad that Rades included has a post prior to late Wrath of the Lich King, which is the time when the game became very easy and newbie friendly. This tells me they very likely never played prior to this, because the game was objectively worse about involving female characters at all, meaning these dips aren’t as ‘knowledgeable’ about the game as they claim to be. A knowledgeable person would’ve seen the mediocre writing and, if that person was a modern harpy feminist, they would have likely ignored the game outright on that basis alone.

None of these ‘feminists’ do that; they instead keep coming back after railing the game over and over, which tells me they aren’t feminists, they’re losers who are probably bad at the game, something which is also hinted at with how much collective bragging these bloggers practice, and are virtue signalling as a means to e-peen over the community that cast them out for being poor players. As a former terri-bad player and person who would’ve likely become a social justice crusader had things gone differently, it saddens me to see people double-down on being stupid rather than admit they have a problem and then try and fix that. Though it’s anecdotal evidence, I’ve never met a good-to-excellent player who gave a shit about whether or not there was sexism in WoW, whereas I’ve met countless terrible players who flap their gums about it. I’m sure there is a person who exists out there who is great at the game and whines about this nonsense, but that person may as well be Bigfoot because I haven’t seen him/her and I’ve been playing forever.

Just hysterical.

This is why I wanted to write this. All the blustering, the waxing poetic, the stage-setting that Rades did was all for this moment. For those who don’t play subscription-based games like WoW or aren’t involved with gaming at all, this is what I call the ‘Becky Leaves the Party’ moment. I named it after a girl I had run into at several parties during my early college days who would always leave a party and attempt to make a huge scene about it. Nobody naturally cared and it inevitably always ended up with her huffing and puffing to her friends and calling the people at the party ‘morons’ and ‘how dare they ignore me’. Of course, Becky would show up at the next big party, ready to beer pong like nothing happened.

People who aren’t getting the attention they want/feel they deserve always use this specific moment as some sort of ultimatum, completely ignoring how much dust they’ve kicked up and into the faces of everyone surrounding them prior to the moment. I’ve read so many ‘IM QUITTING’ posts, articles and stories over my entire life that I’ve gone full-circle from being numb to them to actively hunting them out since they always produce the most delicious tears. There is never any good criticism of the medium being left by the person leaving, never any good explanation, the reasons listed generally involve the person blowing some minor annoyance way out of proportion because that’s the real reason they are leaving: they’re an irrational attention whore and need to make mountains out of molehills to validate themselves around their peers. Just like Becky, though, nobody gives a shit, and people who play WoW are typically happy to see mental children like this leave; go browse the main game forums or a big fan site like MMO-Champion and you’ll see first-hand that nobody cares that you leave. Hell, the ‘can I have your stuff’ joke originated from people making ‘Becky Leaves the Party’ posts and others not giving a damn about their made-up problems.

Rades, I know you won’t read this because you don’t read high quality material, nor do you probably play the game anymore, but if you’re going to quit, just quit. Doing shit like this proves my assumptions from earlier that you aren’t good at the game and that you spend your time virtue signalling and white knighting because of that. Good players quit because they’ve stomped the content they’ve wanted to stomp and have gotten their ego-boost from that and thus don’t need the community to validate them as they’ve already been validated through their in-game progress. They don’t write walls of text or screenshot themselves unsubbing, they just do it and they stick to it, unlike a large swath of the ‘IM QUITTIN’ crowd who simply makes posts to get attention with zero plans of quitting. I mention this last part specifically because, while you quit here, you came back for WoD, meaning you only ‘took a break’ for five months. So much for that fucking solidarity, you sniveling bastard. If I were a more cynical man, I’d say that you only did this to get some brownie points with someone and actually regretted quitting, considering you rejoined for the ‘boys only’ expansion, but I can’t prove that or at least make logical connections to it, so it’s just a guess. Also, not that I haven’t completely proved you’re a moron, but the whole ‘re: insert thing here’ that you social justice idiots keep doing has a purpose; it’s used in email chains and denotes the word ‘Reply’. You aren’t making a reply here and I can only assume you mean the short-hand for the word ‘reference’, which would still make it wrong since the short-hand for ‘reference’ is i.e. or e.g. It’s just amazing how social justice crusaders grand-stand and claim to be smart yet can’t even write properly.

Side tangent: I didn’t even notice this until now, but the exit interview indicates a ‘second account’, which I don’t believe even existed when I had a second account eons ago. That’s hysterical on its own since it tells me that Rades owns at least two accounts and if he’s quitting actively on this one, he’s still got another one to play on. In other words, the fools is absolutely virtue signalling for brownie points and probably still played on his main account up until the expansion and possibly still to this day. Not one of his commenters caught this, presumably because they were too busy virtually fellating him for being a ‘good boy’. As President Trump would say, #Sad!

You can almost hear the withdrawal settling in.

To anyone reading: if you have a friend who says ‘dudebro’ unironically, as in the definition used by Shakesville that is meant to shit on everyone who is not an ugly, harpy feminist social justice crusader, especially guys who are not part of Dude/Lad culture but are just guys who hang out with each other and call each other ‘dude’ and ‘bro’, then tender your friendship with them immediately. People who say ‘dudebro’ unironically like Rades and Melissa McEwan are people who cannot look past their shitty ideologies and will sell you for socks the second they believe you to be a detriment to their cause, regardless of what you’re actually doing. Don’t keep paranoia in your life.

I like how Rades has completely confirmed my idea that he wanted to play WoD and, judging by his last line, immediately regrets shutting down his account (even if it is a secondary one) and being now stuck in this state to show solidarity to his moronic peers. As for Warcraft ‘being much better than this’, it already is, Rades. It’s one of the best goddamn games out there and one of the most lucrative and quality series imaginable. You’re only ‘pissed’ because all your cancerous feminist blogger friends and cancerous feminist friends in real life have told you to be pissed and you are doing it because you are a confirmed spineless loon who would white-knight a cherry tree just because the blossoms are pink. Unlike you, I was hyped for WoD because player housing was finally being implemented in some form, we were going to get to see Outland before it was blown up, and the whole ‘alternate timeline’ idea was a great way for Blizzard to invent new story lines while still staying in a familiar wheelhouse. It sucks that it didn’t turn out as well as they intended, but that’s how the cookie crumbles sometimes. I had intended on including some of the comments that follow the article, but I’d be rehashing what I’ve put here and at nearly five-thousand words deep, I think it’s fair to say I’ve rutted the wheel on this hard enough.

 

I don’t have a good way to end this one. I guess telling y’all to just not be egotistical dickheads and be useful in the world and society, because that’s a much better way of getting an actual entitlement rather than sitting online and saying you deserve one for your unimportant beliefs and then crying about it later when you don’t get it.

Yeah, that’s good.