{"id":10355,"date":"2011-01-12T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2011-01-12T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T18:40:47","slug":"shamus-plays-wow-12-hogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10355","title":{"rendered":"Shamus Plays: WoW #12: Hogger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><a href='http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/8535-Shamus-Plays-WoW-12-Hogger'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/splash_worgen.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='splash_worgen.jpg' title='splash_worgen.jpg'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I was going to skip this quest, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/8535-Shamus-Plays-WoW-12-Hogger\">the people demanded it<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->People have pointed out in the comments at the Escapist that Gnolls are hyena-men, not pig-men. I had no idea.  <em>Quillboars<\/em> are pig-men.  Murlocs are fish-men. What are kobolds? Rat-men?  Then there are those serpent \/ mermaid guys that hang out along the coast.  Are they snake-men? Or snake-mermen? Are centaurs considered horse-men, or does something have to be bipedal before it can be considered a *-man hybrid? Tauren are clearly cow-men, but unlike other hybrids they are &#8220;human&#8221; sized. (Although, I guess it&#8217;s because cows are already pretty big.) Certainly Worgen are wolf-men, but they&#8217;re not a proper species, being the result of a curse.  (Can worgen have babies? With humans? Or each other? And would the babies be humans or &#8220;pure&#8221; worgen?  Actually, let&#8217;s not answer this, I don&#8217;t want to encourage the roleplayers in Goldshire.) <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll note that WoW doesn&#8217;t seem to have cat-people or fox-people yet, which seems like an obvious omission for a playable race. Maybe a few more spaceships will crash on Azeroth and we&#8217;ll get the full lineup of popular furry breeds. <\/p>\n<p>I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/shamusyoung\/status\/23473469752610816\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Playing as Worgen Druid in #WoW. I&#8217;m a human that turns into a dog that rides a tiger and turns into a bear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not actually true, I haven&#8217;t scored the tiger mount yet.  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/cantfakethefunk\">John Funk<\/a> pointed out that it was a shame you couldn&#8217;t use Horde-side mounts, because then you could roll a roll a worgen hunter and be a wolf that rides a wolf and has a wolf companion. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve recently added the archeologist profession to the game. I think they should add zoologist to the next expansion.  That should keep people busy for a while. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to skip this quest, but the people demanded it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}