I really think people blow this crying about Orcs out of proportion, there was NEVER an actually interesting villain in this game whose reasons of being a villain boil down only to “I’m an Orc, Goblin, Drow or other evil race”. And saying a whole species is inherently evil effectively diminishes all evil they do because you are saying they never could choose not to do it, which reduces them to children who don’t know better. People should move on and stop flooding my yt feed with identical videos repeating the same points.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “Grug brings dishonor on family! Grug’s parents no want grug speak like this. Grug supposed go be cleric or wizard like brother or philosopher like sister!”

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Oh man, now there’s a take on Orks. They’re just a population that happens to suffer from higher-than-average rates of speech pathologies. They’re not evil. They just need speech therapy.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        See i was picturing a gangbanger whose siblings and parents have doctorates. This kid is talking like orcish Jrock while their parents are using perfect orcish and lamenting their kid having fallen in with a bad crowd.

      • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        They don’t even need speech disorders. They just aren’t native speakers, and orcish has wildly different gramatical structures to humanic (or “common” as humans call it). If you spoke orcish, they’d seem more like a race of poets.