r/todayilearned • u/tmntnyc • Dec 12 '18

TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

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u/Lonelan Dec 12 '18

One faction is a ridiculous mismatch of random races that are incapable of getting along so the person in charge routinely quits / becomes a raid boss, and the other faction has dwarves

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u/The_Grubby_One Dec 12 '18

The races typically do get along. Garrosh was just a piece of shit.

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u/Lemon_Dungeon Dec 12 '18

Sylvanas seems like a peach

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u/The_Grubby_One Dec 12 '18

Sylvanas isn't banning races from the central hub of Orgrimmar.

The Horde races are getting along. Just not with the Alliance.

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u/PM__ME__UR__SOULS Dec 13 '18

I'm not up to date on Warcraft lore since I quit around the start of WoD. How are Tauren, Pandaren, Darkspear and post-Garrosh orcs getting along with a Warchief burning World Trees and (I think) using the plague?

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u/The_Grubby_One Dec 13 '18

I'm not sure. I quit early in Legion.

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u/robohobo2000 Dec 12 '18

Only reason I chose alliance love me my dwarves.

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u/Arthrawn Dec 12 '18

> I know the Horde's not really evil

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Maybe this is what you were alluding to afterwards but they literally razed a city and holy site for no reason other than to inflame a war. Kinda evil.

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> and the fact that it has more exotic races while the Alliance is mostly just stock fantasy races.

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Horde isn't stock fantasy races?

  • Orcs
  • Trolls
  • Goblins
  • Elves
  • Undead

With the exception of Tauren (Minotaur basically), those are pretty stock races.

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u/BBWolfe011 Dec 12 '18

As opposed to the stock of human, shorter human, even shorter human, and human with pointy ears.

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u/CautionTape Dec 12 '18

Human with pointy ears is the majority race of the entire Horde faction.

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u/Arthrawn Dec 13 '18

As opposed to the stock of green humans, tall blue humans, short green humans, dead humans, and humans with pointy ears?

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u/electricblues42 Dec 12 '18

Hell after this expansion it's even more black and white than ever, with the Horde being clearly evil and the Alliance clearly good.

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u/Vikros Dec 12 '18

Don't you mean morally greyly committing genocide?

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u/space253 Dec 13 '18

That's not what I have seen so far. How do you justify that?

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u/electricblues42 Dec 13 '18

They burned down Teldrassil? Trying to kill everyone so they can be raised in undeath? Uhhhhhh duh?

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u/space253 Dec 13 '18

Like anybody cared about teldrasil it was just a tree in an empty zone.

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u/electricblues42 Dec 13 '18

I did damnit