Wow, I didn't expect this discussion to be resurrected after a month of obscurity. For those of you who read the title and not the full discussion, this is not about ERP or perversion. I would suggest reading through the full discussion before jumping to conclusions about the scope of this thread, as that horse has already been beaten around page five and six.
The Chinese culture you're referring to was actually brought up in another thread. Their name is Mosuo if I remember correctly. You can find that thread with a very interesting video and some good discussion here.
To give a little perspective on the question of why this post was created, I wrote it in the weeks of downtime between beta phases 3 and 4, when many of the points I made were questions being repeated on multiple threads every few days. I decided it would be nice to gather all the ideas into one comprehensive thread to encourage discussion during a period when we had more questions than answers, no recourse to play the game and seek out actual lore, and a lot of people were trying to figure out the backstory for their Miqo'te characters.
I wrote this about Miqo'te for two reasons. First, that's where all the questions and discussion were at the time. Roughly 33% of the population planned to play Miqo'te versus 10% playing Roegadyn, so that's where most of the discussion/conjecture/information-seeking was. Second, I'm playing a Miqo'te, and that's my only character. Others are welcome to start posts about their own character's race or culture, and I'm happy to join in on those discussions.
As for the quest option for grand companies to eat babies, that seems to have been a writer's quirk of beta phase three. It was gone when I did my grand company quest a few days after the official launch. They apparently changed the options to be less offensive/controversial, as writers often do when phasing from beta fill-in text to official release.
Roughly fifteen reputation boosts for the original post, a handful of very appreciative PMs, three friends requests, and eight pages of generally constructive discussion indicate that this thread was useful and informative to quite a few people.
All I can say for this is creeps will be creeps. Part of my goal in writing this thread was to encourage intellectual discussion to make the discussion deeper than just "oh he's a nunh, so he must be a creep." The creeps who are playing nunh to creep on girls would find another means to creep on girls even if the nunh category didn't exist, because that's part of their personality. I would be one of the first people to rebuff them for this behavior and blacklist if necessary, as I find it disturbing, disrespectful, and unwarranted. This thread was partly to encourage people who wanted to play nunh but in a respectful and informed manner.
The Chinese culture you're referring to was actually brought up in another thread. Their name is Mosuo if I remember correctly. You can find that thread with a very interesting video and some good discussion here.
To give a little perspective on the question of why this post was created, I wrote it in the weeks of downtime between beta phases 3 and 4, when many of the points I made were questions being repeated on multiple threads every few days. I decided it would be nice to gather all the ideas into one comprehensive thread to encourage discussion during a period when we had more questions than answers, no recourse to play the game and seek out actual lore, and a lot of people were trying to figure out the backstory for their Miqo'te characters.
(09-01-2013, 01:18 PM)Velkyron Wrote: I see this thread for no other race in this forum: only the Mi'quote. Why? Are us Roegadyn players not good enough? Would Lallafel be considered too weird? Hyur too mundane and elezen be having too much of the pointy ears?
While some of the conjecture is interesting, I really don't see the point of it.
Also:
Quote:Upon joining a grand company, one of the options a player can take when asked if he’s sure about his choice is "I'll kill all of our enemies and eat their babies!" For the other races, this could be interpreted as the character being a bloodthirsty barbarian, but for Seekers of the Sun, it may just be a fact of life.
W-What?
I wrote this about Miqo'te for two reasons. First, that's where all the questions and discussion were at the time. Roughly 33% of the population planned to play Miqo'te versus 10% playing Roegadyn, so that's where most of the discussion/conjecture/information-seeking was. Second, I'm playing a Miqo'te, and that's my only character. Others are welcome to start posts about their own character's race or culture, and I'm happy to join in on those discussions.
As for the quest option for grand companies to eat babies, that seems to have been a writer's quirk of beta phase three. It was gone when I did my grand company quest a few days after the official launch. They apparently changed the options to be less offensive/controversial, as writers often do when phasing from beta fill-in text to official release.
(09-01-2013, 01:36 PM)Uther Wrote:(09-01-2013, 01:18 PM)Velkyron Wrote: While some of the conjecture is interesting, I really don't see the point of it.First of all, +1'ing this.
Roughly fifteen reputation boosts for the original post, a handful of very appreciative PMs, three friends requests, and eight pages of generally constructive discussion indicate that this thread was useful and informative to quite a few people.
(09-01-2013, 02:15 PM)Theodric Brandt Wrote:(09-01-2013, 01:50 PM)Jules Wrote:
(09-01-2013, 01:36 PM)Uther Wrote: Yeah, the obsession with miqo'te doing it is a little weird to me. You might be putting way more thought into it than Square intended, and while I'm all for exploring different aspects of cultures and whatnot, it's strange to me that this one is by far the most popular.
As a Miqo'te roleplayer I'm inclined to agree. Why is this there such a huge focus on this? It's bordering creepy, in my most humble of opinions.
Yeah, 'creepy' sums it up rather nicely. I'm not going to point fingers but it's no coincidence that some of the folk getting really into this discussion are the same role-players trying to mate with any and every female miqo'te comes their way.
One of my close friends has already given up trying to role-play a miqo'te because not one, but three different 'nunh' characters sent her messages asking if she wanted to bed them. Perhaps it's unfair of me to stereotype but I'm beginning to think the majority of 'nunh' role-players are simply embracing the role purely to get their rocks off.
All I can say for this is creeps will be creeps. Part of my goal in writing this thread was to encourage intellectual discussion to make the discussion deeper than just "oh he's a nunh, so he must be a creep." The creeps who are playing nunh to creep on girls would find another means to creep on girls even if the nunh category didn't exist, because that's part of their personality. I would be one of the first people to rebuff them for this behavior and blacklist if necessary, as I find it disturbing, disrespectful, and unwarranted. This thread was partly to encourage people who wanted to play nunh but in a respectful and informed manner.
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