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Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: Kraxton on April 15, 2004, 08:22:15 am
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Has anybody else noticed the problem with the Kran race? Maybe people from other nations wouldn\'t be so quick to notice, but I live in the USA, and I have a real problem with a race of tall, pale-colored, pointy-headed creatures called the Kran. For reference, take a look here: http:// http://www.kraxton.com/images/oxford.jpg .
I am seriously recommending to the developers that we change the name of this race to something else; preferrably something that does not begin with the letter \"K.\" Here are a few of my own suggestions (feel free to suggest some of your own):
*Dolomite
*Granidian
*Slagg
Heh...I almost suggested \"Bouldarian,\" but that sounds and looks too much like \"bold aryan.\"
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Originally posted by Kraxton
Has anybody else noticed the problem with the Kran race? Maybe people from other nations wouldn\'t be so quick to notice, but I live in the USA, and I have a real problem with a race of tall, pale-colored, pointy-headed creatures called the Kran. For reference, take a look here: http:// [URL]http://www.kraxton.com/images/oxford.jpg [/url].
I am seriously recommending to the developers that we change the name of this race to something else; preferrably something that does not begin with the letter \"K.\" Here are a few of my own suggestions (feel free to suggest some of your own):
*Dolomite
*Granidian
*Slagg
Heh...I almost suggested \"Bouldarian,\" but that sounds and looks too much like \"bold aryan.\"
I dunno... they are multicolored, and sexless... live underground... nope, not much like any groups I know. If it was a guild or something, maybe, but people aren\'t choicing it based on a set of values.
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You\'ve got a \"clan\" of pale, pointy-headed critters called \"The Kran.\" It sounds and looks too much like \"The Klan\" (as in the KKK) for me.
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im gonna start a clan now KKK :P Kinky Kran Kids
just because you are n00b
dont u have anything else to do like things that people
vind amuzing or usefull
dont u think ur self that its really really sad to try and
find really really really farfetched things?
no-offence but... GET A LIVE
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oooooooooh, and your name sounds a bit like Crack ...so you surely *must* be a drug-addicted hacker!!! ...aaaaaarrrrggghhh!!!
note the sarcasm... please.
anyhoo, i never thought that the Kran looked like KKK ...the KKK looked more like monks to me usually ...and i don\'t see monks banned in the US (let alone in other places of the world, just because some idiots in america decided to take similar clothes and be total asses to non-white inhabitants)
...so if there was a vote: i\'d definetly say \"hell, no!\"
...oh, just to be sure:
- hairy cat-human crossovers don\'t bother you
- scaley dragon-human crossovers don\'t bother you
- midgets, whose wives wear long beards don\'t bother you
- pale alien-looking guys with fins don\'t bother you
- a race that sounds and looks a bit like the Devil, doesn\'t bother you
- but for some wierd reason, a golem-ish creature bothers you, because they have pointy heads?!? O_o
...i remember this stupid hollywood movie once, where some strangely human-like, but pointy-headed friendly aliens went to earth, and i don\'t recall anyone to bitching about their pointy heads making him think about the KKK
another thing that freaks me out is why these idiots (=KKK)
1) still exist (AFAIK)
2) and if they don\'t, why are you guys still afraid of them?
well, that was my daily dose of ranting :]
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Don\'t you people have enough to complain about?
Quit trying to stir up controversy.
Look, I promise the multicolored Kran\'s will not go around burning crosses and committing hate crimes. Ok? Better now?
This thread should be deleted immediately.
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Originally posted by Abemore
Look, I promise the *multicolored* Kran\'s will not go around burning crosses and committing hate crimes. Ok? Better now?
*imagines a _black_ \"KKK-looking badass\" Kran walking the streets and burning houses* ...lol :D
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That a bit far fetched, matie...
So can i buy some Crack from you...I seen your name and it\'s liek Crack ON! Like big signpost saying the Crack is here...whats the price....eh? Do you have licence? I can report you to police or...to some of my friends...
Blah blah...etc etc...
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Nice...real nice. Why do I feel like I just stepped into a room full of eleven-year-olds?
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PLEASE end this thread now. It\'s useless.
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I didn\'t realize there were so many Klan supporters posting to this forum.
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Originally posted by Entamis
PLEASE end this thread now. It\'s useless.
agreed... this is getting nowhere.... except for the funny people that want to make kraxton look like a fool. (tough he is a fool a bit if you ask me by starting this topic)
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sincere aplologies, if i offended anyone ...that wasn\'t my intention, i admit that i have gone a bit too far
but i didn\'t know i\'m, or anyone else is when we\'re at it, a KKK supporter just because a sylicone-based humanesque race doesn\'t remind me of the KKK.
i agree that this thread leads to nowhere ...from the begining on
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Well, I suppose you could argue that it leads nowhere (obviously, for you did)...but I would hope that everyone would try to be socially, culturally, and ethnically conscious. In a perfect world, I suppose they would.
Personally, if I were a black person, I would be offended by it even more than I already am. What happens when the developers start to introduce PC clothing? A Kran puts on a white robe, and what do you have? A walking, moving, playable image of a KKK member.
Throw in some burnable crosses and some nooses while you\'re at it. Let\'s go for that total immersion everyone is always talking about.
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I don\'t see the problem...
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Kraxton, what about leaving if you\'re not happy ?
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hmmm ...next, we\'ll bad the diaboli, since they asociate religios people with the devil and ban hammers and scythicles because they were the symbols of communism ...and capes of all kinds, because they can be associated with monks, which can be associated with the inquisition ...blablabla ...i can find you thousands of links form something completely everyday to something terrible that happened in the past, but i seriously doubt that people get thraumas from the sight of WV Beetles.
...all i\'m saying is that i think your reaction to the kran\'s form of the head is \"a bit\" too extreme. - when someone actually will get thraumas from looking at a Kran or a Diaboli then i think could be the time for such actions. but i seriously doubt that anyone, be him/her black or not, would experience such KKKran-traumas
but if there is absolutely no way for you not to see Kran as the spawn of the KKK ...then at least smile on the fact that your KKKran don\'t have any balls :D
while we\'re at the socially, ethically, pollitically-correct shit:
so, later on you\'ll be aksing GMs to ban players for their beliefs, nationality, religion because you\'re offended to buy weapons from an Iraqi player? ...i say, cut out the shit and let Kran be Kran and ban people (and cancel out races!) only WHEN they do something wrong.
...there\'s people who are offended if you look at them, or have a massive fobia of cats, dogs, or even more stupid stuff (like their own shit ...yes, that exists! and it isn\'t pretty!), but CAN we make the world perfect for them ALL? you just claimed yourself that the world isn\'t perfect, didn\'t you?
i mean if we tried to take out everything that could possibly entimidate or offend someone in the end there\'d be only a while empty space - and even then you\'d find someone that would be scared of white empty spaces...
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uhh... maybe \'tis some kind of obsession... I don\'t see any other possibility of someone connecting \'kran\' with \'the klan\'...
now since we\'re criticizing krans... (that\'s racism by the way :P) I think they should get some clothes... I mean they run around naked for Talad\'s sake :O
:P ;)
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hook just about summed up anything I could say about this thread. :) And with that, it shall be buried. ^^