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Posted by: King.8096

King.8096

When I play my Asura thief in Caledon Forest, I have been tell “Leave this place rabbit” by another Sylvari player name “Shadedshot” if I remembered. I just want everyone to know that it is really unnecessary to call names and let everyone know who that was.

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Posted by: Vekthor.8914

Vekthor.8914

Just call him “salad” and be done with it.
Rabbit > Salad

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Posted by: WhiteChocolateWalrus.2396

WhiteChocolateWalrus.2396

Or veg-head I use that one alot

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Posted by: King.8096

King.8096

I didn’t know that so many people are harassing others.

Salad is pretty good one. Veg-head is not bad too.

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Posted by: MMOJumper.8504

MMOJumper.8504

It may or may not have been someone RPing who just doesn’t like Asura but if it was in tells rather than Say chat they were probably just being a jerk. I know in say chat I call Norn that aren’t as big as I am “Tiny” and will refer to Sylvari as various plants instead of their name or race. As in “Hey Fern, take root and talk to Hodgins while we do the heavy lifting.”

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Posted by: Zmilli.8906

Zmilli.8906

Tell em to go pollenate themselves

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Posted by: ZeftheWicked.3076

ZeftheWicked.3076

Oh come on, this is ridicilous. That’s hardly an insult. And remember races in tyria aren’t all lovey-dovey. He can be having some roleplaying fun. Any asura calling people “expandible”, “shrimps”, “skritt brained”, “temporary two legeed setbacks” or “best helper with 80 IQ he had” is either a jerk…or a npc;)

Just in case some don’t get sarcasm here, a little verbal thrashing between the races might be part of roleplaying fun and feeling into your race, as well being bit teritorial. A simple retort will do, no need to go all in tears and report his rear left and right.

When someone calls you real names, that’s when you report, beast of Caerbannog;)

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Posted by: GummiBear.2756

GummiBear.2756

Hell i even once had someone call my norn (in full TA armor set) for plant person xD

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Posted by: Singh.8206

Singh.8206

So far I haven’t had anyone insult my toon, unlike WOW whereas I played a gnome an was constantly harassed. Gnome punting puns! lol

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Posted by: Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981

“Why don’t you make like a tree… And get out of here.”

Grind Wars 2: Heart of Tears

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Posted by: Ryuujin.8236

Ryuujin.8236

I can understand RPing, I often Rp racial prejudices for laughs

Sadly one of our guild genuinely hates Asura and never stops nagging me over chat and has even blocked me from parties on the basis of my racial choice – he feels that all the “stupid gnome rip off” don’t belong in “his game” and feels they should never have been introduced in EotN

So he kittenes and moans and kicks Asura out his party so he doesn’t have to share the same space with them.

The Ashwalker – Ranger
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Posted by: Bullfrog.1324

Bullfrog.1324

My Charr once got called a “puppy” by an Asura :P

I’d rather regret something I’d done than regret doing nothing.
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Posted by: Rottaran Owain.6789

Rottaran Owain.6789

It’s always funny roaming around the Charr or Norn starting areas, and getting comments from the newer players like “OMG you’re so tiny!”

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Posted by: Dustfinger.9510

Dustfinger.9510

My Charr once got called a “puppy” by an Asura :P

That’s funny. I made two charr. One looks like hyena the other looks like a werewolf.

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Posted by: Bertrand.3057

Bertrand.3057

There’s this one long-legger who keeps calling us midgets. With that tiny head of his, I don’t think he understands the importance of allocating one’s energy budget appropriately. Having an elongated body with minimal insulation draws a lot of energy that might otherwise be used to fuel a large and powerful brain. Of course, they can’t comprehend what a superficial and replaceable advantage it is to have a greater stature.

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Posted by: TamarinNOR.3251

TamarinNOR.3251

If the player only said that with no context, I would take that for role playing. I can understand why the Asuras aren’t all that well liked among other races. And, if someone intended to insult you, they would not likely call you a rabbit, sounds like a clear insult to your Asura character, not you in person.

Even though I don’t do RP, I feel like I have a hard time justifying for being a helpfull Asura (even with visitors from non-Asuras) in the Rata Sum and Metrica Province areas :p

This might tell a little about the relationship between Sylvari and Asura:

Q: Rata Sum and the Pale Tree seem pretty close to one another geographically. Are there any conflicts between the asura and the sylvari? How is their relationship portrayed in-game?

Jeff: The sylvari met the asura soon after their awakening. Needless to say, the meeting did not go well as the asura were crafty and manipulative and the early sylvari were open and friendly. It was an important lesson for the sylvari – not all the other races are particularly nice. Since that time, the two races have gotten along better, but both races treat each other based on early assumptions – asura think of the sylvari as being frivolous and unsophisticated, while sylvari think of the asura as being poor, limited beings – grasping and calculating.

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Posted by: Dyno.9467

Dyno.9467

Players always pick on the little guys (see gnomes in WoW) but for me Asuras are the best class you can work.
Deep down people are scared of them because they know its only a matter of time before Asuras RULE THE WORLD

“And now, to destroy you”

Asura – Desolation

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Posted by: Louveepine.7630

Louveepine.7630

In my guild, a lot of other breeds spend their life that my technology is nothing, etc …

I am regularly insulted, and sends Souvant we see somewhere else, or do not give us the words with what you are saying is stupid. "

Nothing of the game leaves them really see the side Role Play technology recognize that Asura is a common work gives better results.

Even non-rp players refuse to leave me alone and gratifies me bad name.

# Asura because I’m worth it!

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Posted by: Kiteisa.3189

Kiteisa.3189

It’s always funny roaming around the Charr or Norn starting areas, and getting comments from the newer players like “OMG you’re so tiny!”

My bf and I laugh at this ALL the time. I am the smallest Asura there is, and kitten cute if I do say so myself.

There’s this one long-legger who keeps calling us midgets. With that tiny head of his, I don’t think he understands the importance of allocating one’s energy budget appropriately. Having an elongated body with minimal insulation draws a lot of energy that might otherwise be used to fuel a large and powerful brain. Of course, they can’t comprehend what a superficial and replaceable advantage it is to have a greater stature.

K… LOVE this. So very Asura

My Bf and I, while not really disliking any specific race, make some of the greatest comments about other races. Only to each other, cos really we don’t want to hurt anyone, or to guildies and friends who will understand we are joking. Mainly it is at NORN omg you are huge. Get your butt out of my face Char or plant people, who are just… erm… salad fodder move on you compost pile For us, it is fun. We really fit in as Asura, it is who we are. But it is just in fun.

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Posted by: Orissa.1872

Orissa.1872

My boyfriend is calling me little kitten (a term for dark-skinned children) or little gypsy rogue, tho my skin is really pale. Guess he can’t see that because I’m tiny and he’s a huge ugly charr. Also everyone (non-rp players mostly) is rofling at huge ears (mine are the tiniest possible kind) and lack of boobies (body of 5-yo)
What can I do? Tell them they’re:

  • Stinky verminous charrs with twisted fangs, they don’t even know how real kitties look like. Many of them hate cats in real life, kitten hypocrites
  • Dull-faced common humans, they got no imagination and must play themselves, meaningless ant-like creatures. That’s what we’re coming to fantasy games for?
  • Square-shaped norns, they’re so huge that they’re covering my whole FoV, do they really want everyone to watch their huge kitten
  • Narrow-minded plants with anime voices, they’re just little soldiers meant to fight dragons, but almost every player thinks they’re so cool and so new (every of those players declares himself to be sensitive and like sylvari’s colorful zones, sounds like fa… kittenry to me)

The matter is that asura is a whole new race in the fantasy genre. We had hobbits and dwarves, which were very humanoid. We had gnomes and goblins, which were considered as some really low beings, due to their secrecy and awful appearance. Also both of those kinds were using classic technology, maintained the traditional craftsmanship. If it wasn’t be enough, their culture was usually poorly developed, humans and elves were considered as more (if not the most) civilized by default

Let’s look at fantasy and sci-fi hybrid games. Darkeden, Requiem: Bloodymare, Vampire: The Masquerade. They’re all considered as horrors, moved away from fantasy genre, far away from the Guild Wars universe. Some elements of this hybrid genre, like technology and sophisticated races are brought to Guild Wars 2 as a playable feature, not just some random curiosities players were facing in original Guild Wars. That means the average player will face asura almost everywhere, at any time, not just in specific locations. It’s taking the comfort zone away, risk of facing those asuran strangers is just huge

Asura are also completely misunderstood race. Very few people were learning the game lore, the most of random players on my way will think that asuran technology is Star Wars-like stuff, some of them were even calling me Wanna-Be-Yoda. They got no idea about magic powering all this stuff, it’s not the real sci-fi
Small body is making the others treat asura like children, tho even tiny progenies have more advanced minds than average humans. It might be positive, when team is taking special care because you’re so tiny and harmless, or end completely bad, when everyone is ignoring us because we’re too tiny to notice/not worth attention, or when asuran girl is considered as loli surrounded by pedo-bearscharrs (check on HotW medium helmet)

All those reasons are making asura something unwanted for a huge part of playerbase. This race will always be insulted for being something new, something different. We’re breaking the canon of classic fantasy creatures and magic, it’s out of the safety zone of modifications. Humankind was always afraid of novelty. Noone wants to admit it, but one of the worst nightmares is a race superior to our human race (yes, it’s a common opinion that we’re superior beings in this universe). That’s why in real life many fear aliens and in GW2 some fear asura. And the best way (known to us) to negate fear is sneer. Fear of the asura might be wrong term in many cases, asura are actually a known race (not as mysterious as the unseen aliens), living among the common races. So the fact of laughing at little known is left. What can we do about it? Nothing, no way to force others to educate themselves. We can just counter-laugh at them and be satisfied knowing how little they do know

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Posted by: Drunken Mad King.8193

Drunken Mad King.8193

When I play my Asura thief in Caledon Forest, I have been tell “Leave this place rabbit” by another Sylvari player name “Shadedshot” if I remembered. I just want everyone to know that it is really unnecessary to call names and let everyone know who that was.

Wow a bit sensitive. I would have laughed a bit by that comment and retorted;

“Feeling a bit threatened salad?”

It seemed very humorous and non malicious in nature.

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Posted by: whiran.1473

whiran.1473

King.8096, it’s just a game and people playing their characters.

I happen to play an Asura and I have called charr kittens and, once, a puppy. That was on Tarnished Coast and we were roleplaying.

We won’t talk about what I call the other races.

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Posted by: Silverstag.2517

Silverstag.2517

My boyfriend is calling me little kitten (a term for dark-skinned children) or little gypsy rogue

but almost every player thinks they’re so cool and so new (every of those players declares himself to be sensitive and like sylvari’s colorful zones, sounds like fa… kittenry to me)

You and your boyfriend sound like horrible hateful people. Also, learn the difference between in-lore reasons and out, thanks.

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Posted by: Orissa.1872

Orissa.1872

@Silverstag
Oh yeah, pretty much hateful, tho for fun among friends (black humor ftw), and fully offensively towards those who deserve
You’re not always hated/discrimined because of lore, sometimes it’s just appearance. There are huge differences in appearance of every race, asura and charr differ the most from so common humans and minorities tend to be hated. Of course lore explains those differences and states how every race is treating eachother, but it’s up to players how they will treat people on their way. Mind that just a tiny part of playerbase is roleplaying. Some people are doing so, but not according to GW universe, rather playing other games’/movies’ situations

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Posted by: Obfuscate.6430

Obfuscate.6430

Whether in character or out of character I get the “feels the urge to punt the asura” a lot when near a human. It doesn’t matter if I am being kind or not, they just feel the need to say it. I would only call it harassment if they continued to go on with it but as it is, they say it once and then promptly ignore me.
I do find asura hate to be common among the other races, whether for ooc reasons or ic ones. It’s kind of depressing.

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Posted by: Ravion Hawk.4736

Ravion Hawk.4736

Hmm… When I play my Asura I pretty much call everyone “Bookah.”

My Charr calls humans “Meat.” I call Sylvari “Catnip.”

Just run with the lore and have fun. You do know that there is an Asura in LA that tries to make a bad “salad joke” about the Sylvari right?

Head of the Order of the Iron Ravens [OoIR]
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Posted by: MMOJumper.8504

MMOJumper.8504

I can understand RPing, I often Rp racial prejudices for laughs

Sadly one of our guild genuinely hates Asura and never stops nagging me over chat and has even blocked me from parties on the basis of my racial choice – he feels that all the “stupid gnome rip off” don’t belong in “his game” and feels they should never have been introduced in EotN

So he kittenes and moans and kicks Asura out his party so he doesn’t have to share the same space with them.

That guy would be kicked from my guild in an instant. If you’re in one that puts up with that nonsense, perhaps find another, or talk to the leadership about him.

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Posted by: Vicarious.3047

Vicarious.3047

what is the point of this thread?

“he called me a name on the internet! DX”

if ANYTHING calling a player a name thats “offensive” to your player race by game lore is simply a way of having fun with you. my friends call me “kitty,” “fur ball,” “tony the tiger,” and so on cause im a charr and its rather humorous, for me i mean, ill respond with “meow” half the time.

lighten up OP, its not offensive to YOU and its not meant to be offensive.

most likely.

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Posted by: Xaaz.8472

Xaaz.8472

I really hope this thread is a joke. If you are that thin skinned, I feel really bad for you when you get to the “real world” work force.

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Posted by: Zappix.7928

Zappix.7928

Captain Cucumber, Madame Mango, Sergeant Salad, Commander Carrot and a few others to throw back at them.

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Posted by: Anakita Snakecharm.4360

Anakita Snakecharm.4360

I actually find that people tend to be more helpful to my Asura than to any of my other characters (whether I need it or not,) I think because she’s little and cute and thus looks potentially more endangered than she actually is when she fights.