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All of the major plot points were retconned in SC2. They rewrote both zerg and protoss histories so they could insert a single big bad who was pulling the strings the whole time, rewrote the Overmind to be a mere puppet and by extension rewrote what Kerrigan's entire purpose was. Shit, they even meta retconned D.Va so she was no longer a starcraft pro.

That whole franchise was done dirty.
 
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This was a full on retcon. Brood Wars ended with him swearing to kill her some day no matter what it took.
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And the best part was the most obvious back stab in the history of story telling.
 
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Blizzard is a gift that keeps on giving:

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Most large charities are a scam. Take Choc as an example. healthcare for children sounds great, doesn't it. Well actually they don't do any of that shit, they are just a middle man that siphons 30% of the charitable donations before passing it on to other organizations which do the actual work. Well, we're told that they do, but since I didn't see who gets the money in their financial statements, I'm gonna assume there's tons of grift at the next level too.

Take their 2019 financial statement. They had 37m in expenditures. 1m of that was rent for their buildings and various supplies for fundraisers. 1.5m was for "services", which almost certainly means eating fancy on the charity's dime. And of course, since those things are usually the cheap part by far of running an honest to god charity, 7m was needed to pay the salaries of these hard working folk. All said and done, that 10m in expenses enabled them to get 26m out the door to well... somebody.

I've said this many times, but you should never ever donate to national charities. They're almost all a scam. Donate time before money, make sure a place is doing good.
 
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Even if it turns into a SJW story about a transexual just trying to make their way through an oppressive galaxy?
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"Task: Detain the man who misgendered you"
"Optional Task: Doxx his entire family first"
 
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So you're saying he was a piece of shit, but has good taste?
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I'm a great mmo friend! I roleplayed a transexual gnome who ended up in the first same sex (at character creation) marriage in EQ and potential any mmo... Furor could have been the other part to that... Imagine THAT timeline...
 
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If StarCraft II never became a thing, a Starcraft MMO would have blossomed into something beautiful.

I don't think it would have been successful as a traditional MMO with "raiding", but there would be a lot of success following an EVE sandbox approach with open world engagements, missions/rewards, etc. Could even incorporate SC RTS mini-games as engagements when running a campaign on a planet.

Would have loved to just hung out in a Cantina as a player, smoking a stogie, then friends call up to say they're going to run ghost ops on Tarsonis. Land, get raped by a rush of zerg, then go back to the Cantina, smoke some more.
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They could have went different ways with how it's an MMO. I personally would pull parts from Warframe, Eve, Star Wars etc. in order to make a complete MMO. By which all accounts would have been what Blizzard would have done 15 years ago if they had all that stuff to pull from.

As far as Raiding goes, they have plenty of lore and opportunity within Starcraft. Most of which isnt even "fleshed out" so they could bring in new threats at the drop of a dime w/o f'n up the established lore. There is more than just Zurvan out there for the zerg. So more looming threats in the Zerg's regard. But the overarching Xel'naga would likely be the real foe. They came from the "void" and thats where (imo) the crossover idea's came from in WoW. Thats just from my limited knowledge of the lore of Starcraft, and Im sure a real lore nerd in that universe could tell you a lot more.
 
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Would make sense since Warcraft was a rip off of Warhammer and Starcraft was a rip off of 40k.
 
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PLANET ZERG. Where the orcs....errr Indians....eer enlightened evolved noble savage bug horrors can teach you the circle of nature and you can pallet swap to being karagenner than before. Slay kween! defeat the burning legion, I mean the ctan/old ones, I mean the xelnaga.
 
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Planet zerg and the noble savaging of the zerg was the ultimate shark jump.
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Man it's hard to decide on the most retarded "reimagining" the new Blizzard did but maybe this is it. Zeratul death was super cringe and poorly done too.
 
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The Blizzard collapse is a clear failure of management, and doing some basic adult-ing. You can not drink at your workplace, if you drink at your workplace, you place your employer at the risk of being liable for monetary damages due to directly work issues, or simply driving from home and getting into a car crash.

The idea that this is the fault of going woke, is ridiculous. They just had incompetent's people and people without a spine, at all levels of management all the way to the CEO. Whoever turned a blind eye to people drinking at work, should be fired right on the spot as failing completely as a manager.

There is a difference between banter with female and even flirting at work, and getting drunk at the company events and start soliciting females employees for sex in an overt manner.

The industry needs to change and employees and management need to treat women differently. This does not mean that you should not approach them or throw out flirty things here and there. But you have to understand that if they are not reciprocated, then you should move on and don't hold that against the person. Also telling someone "their ass looks great on those shorts" is retarded. You tell them instead "those shorts were a good fashion choice". There is plenty of ways you can flirt at work and still have legal/common sense cover, but most important is to know if the person is not interested, and just drop it.
 
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The Blizzard collapse is a clear failure of management, and doing some basic adult-ing. You can not drink at your workplace, if you drink at your workplace, you place your employer at the risk of being liable for monetary damages due to directly work issues, or simply driving from home and getting into a car crash.

The idea that this is the fault of going woke, is ridiculous. They just had incompetent's people and people without a spine, at all levels of management all the way to the CEO. Whoever turned a blind eye to people drinking at work, should be fired right on the spot as failing completely as a manager.

There is a difference between banter with female and even flirting at work, and getting drunk at the company events and start soliciting females employees for sex in an overt manner.

The industry needs to change and employees and management need to treat women differently. This does not mean that you should not approach them or throw out flirty things here and there. But you have to understand that if they are not reciprocated, then you should move on and don't hold that against the person. Also telling someone "their ass looks great on those shorts" is retarded. You tell them instead "those shorts were a good fashion choice". There is plenty of ways you can flirt at work and still have legal/common sense cover, but most important is to know if the person is not interested, and just drop it.
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So all of this happened because of drinking on the job...got it, makes total sense now.
 
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So all of this happened because of drinking on the job...got it, makes total sense now.
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That there was drinking (edit: drunkenness) on the job is a symptom of stupid, short-sighted management that apparently thought that replicating Mad Men's office culture was a good idea. There are some obvious lines you just can't walk over these days for both ethical and business reasons, and these guys had a party all over them.
 
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The Blizzard collapse is a clear failure of management, and doing some basic adult-ing. You can not drink at your workplace, if you drink at your workplace, you place your employer at the risk of being liable for monetary damages due to directly work issues, or simply driving from home and getting into a car crash.

The idea that this is the fault of going woke, is ridiculous. They just had incompetent's people and people without a spine, at all levels of management all the way to the CEO. Whoever turned a blind eye to people drinking at work, should be fired right on the spot as failing completely as a manager.

There is a difference between banter with female and even flirting at work, and getting drunk at the company events and start soliciting females employees for sex in an overt manner.

The industry needs to change and employees and management need to treat women differently. This does not mean that you should not approach them or throw out flirty things here and there. But you have to understand that if they are not reciprocated, then you should move on and don't hold that against the person. Also telling someone "their ass looks great on those shorts" is retarded. You tell them instead "those shorts were a good fashion choice". There is plenty of ways you can flirt at work and still have legal/common sense cover, but most important is to know if the person is not interested, and just drop it.
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This is so wrong it is laughable. Blizzard is collapsing for the same reason that any small, agile company with an innovative product that gets swallowed by a gigantic multinational does; bureaucracy and the need to self-perpetuate. Briefly, the small company is purchased because it is doing things that cannot be done in large corporations because they are afraid to innovate and risk the marginal rewards or success when the downside to failure is monumental. Once the bigger company subsumes the smaller one it leeches all of that innovation for short term gains but cannot continue the cycle because the innovativeness and agility of the small company is now subject to the red tape and consistent profit demands that made the large company so inflexible in the first place. Once those short term gains become expected quarterly results the now even bigger company needs to find a new small company to target for innovation because it needs short term gains and cannot produce them by itself because it takes too long and is too risky. Hakuna Matata.
 
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This is so wrong it is laughable. Blizzard is collapsing for the same reason that any small, agile company with an innovative product that gets swallowed by a gigantic multinational does; bureaucracy and the need to self-perpetuate. Briefly, the small company is purchased because it is doing things that cannot be done in large corporations because they are afraid to innovate and risk the marginal rewards or success when the downside to failure is monumental. Once the bigger company subsumes the smaller one it leeches all of that innovation for short term gains but cannot continue the cycle because the innovativeness and agility of the small company is now subject to the red tape and consistent profit demands that made the large company so inflexible in the first place. Once those short term gains become expected quarterly results the now even bigger company needs to find a new small company to target for innovation because it needs short term gains and cannot produce them by itself because it takes too long and is too risky. Hakuna Matata.
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This is why people who know how to actually get shit done in groups become serial entrepreneurs.

You're absolutely correct, but I don't think it's exclusive to the idea that they also horrifically mismanaged their culture. Plenty of companies stagnate into oblivion post-acquisition without also having scandals.
 
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This is so wrong it is laughable. Blizzard is collapsing for the same reason that any small, agile company with an innovative product that gets swallowed by a gigantic multinational does; bureaucracy and the need to self-perpetuate. Briefly, the small company is purchased because it is doing things that cannot be done in large corporations because they are afraid to innovate and risk the marginal rewards or success when the downside to failure is monumental. Once the bigger company subsumes the smaller one it leeches all of that innovation for short term gains but cannot continue the cycle because the innovativeness and agility of the small company is now subject to the red tape and consistent profit demands that made the large company so inflexible in the first place. Once those short term gains become expected quarterly results the now even bigger company needs to find a new small company to target for innovation because it needs short term gains and cannot produce them by itself because it takes too long and is too risky. Hakuna Matata.
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what? Blizzard's downfall has nothing to do with the product they are providing. They are still the leader on the MMO field a ton of people will buy their product as soon as it comes out.
Their are still making money of their products and if they even need more money, all they have to do is reskin some of their old stuff, make it 4k, call it remastered edition and boom, money printer goes brrrrrrrrr.

This lawsuit will cost them a lot of money, because once the state finishes settling with them, every single ambulance chaser in America is going to get involved trying to get a class action lawsuit going against them, and when they lose they will have to declare bankruptcy.
 
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8 years later and this is the first time I've ever heard anyone complain that Zerus 'noble savaged' the Zerg.
 
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The Blizzard collapse is a clear failure of management, and doing some basic adult-ing. You can not drink at your workplace, if you drink at your workplace, you place your employer at the risk of being liable for monetary damages due to directly work issues, or simply driving from home and getting into a car crash.

The idea that this is the fault of going woke, is ridiculous. They just had incompetent's people and people without a spine, at all levels of management all the way to the CEO. Whoever turned a blind eye to people drinking at work, should be fired right on the spot as failing completely as a manager.

There is a difference between banter with female and even flirting at work, and getting drunk at the company events and start soliciting females employees for sex in an overt manner.

The industry needs to change and employees and management need to treat women differently. This does not mean that you should not approach them or throw out flirty things here and there. But you have to understand that if they are not reciprocated, then you should move on and don't hold that against the person. Also telling someone "their ass looks great on those shorts" is retarded. You tell them instead "those shorts were a good fashion choice". There is plenty of ways you can flirt at work and still have legal/common sense cover, but most important is to know if the person is not interested, and just drop it.
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Everything about your post is wrong and not real life.

You can not drink at your workplace, if you drink at your workplace, you place your employer at the risk of being liable for monetary damages due to directly work issues, or simply driving from home and getting into a car crash.
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^ Lol. The naïveté of this is dripping.

This does not mean that you should not approach them or throw out flirty things here and there.
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^ Oh yes it does. In this environment, I would not throw out flirty anything and you are a fool if you do. Flirt? WTF is wrong with you.


Also telling someone "their ass looks great on those shorts" is retarded. You tell them instead "those shorts were a good fashion choice".
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You don't say either. Both are a minefield.
 
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