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Sheldon makes no sense

posted 3 years ago by avortac4 (3754)
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"Sheldor, Level 85 Blood Elf, hero of Eastern Kingdoms"

.. err, does anyone else see the fault in that?

Eastern Kingdoms is the ALLIANCE island. It's the default Alliance world. Horde side is called 'Kalimdor'.

Alliance has no BLOOD ELVEN! Alliance only has NIGHT ELVEN.

Bloof Elf = HORDE
Night Elf = ALLIANCE

Eastern Kingdoms = ALLIANCE
Kalimdor = HORDE

You can't be both Blood Elf AND 'hero of Eastern Kingdoms', how the heck did Sheldon, supposedly super INTELLIGENT man, not realize this?! Why would he say that? WHAT WoWplayer could _EVER_ make that mistake?!

That's like mistaking a bicycle with Lamborghini and not noticing your error. What the heck?! How can this be explained? This makes no sense!

[–] Kowalski (77019) 3 years ago

WOW...JUST WOW...I AM GOING TO SLOWLY BACK OUT OF THIS THREAD NOW.😶

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 3 years ago

To be fair to the OP, the show did go to great lengths to get the science, math and nerd culture right.

As a grammarian, I appreciated the lack of and criticism of overcorrection, e.g., Sheldon correcting someone saying, "between you and I," when it should be, "between you and me."

So it IS a little odd that they'd get something wrong in a pop culture phenomenon like WoW.

[–] strntz (12733) 3 years ago

I think the appeal of this show is more to people who recognize geekdom, but don't participate in it. I know just enough about gaming to understand his reference, but I couldn't argue one way or the other.

[–] JoeBlow88 (571) 3 years ago

Very true. The show focuses on multi-billion dollar franchises and portrays them as very niche and nerdy. They almost never mention good sci-fi books or any product that Hollywood hasn't over exploited over and over.

The show is designed to be very self promoting for the mainstream media's franchises. Those franchises are not popular with the guys in my circle - we watch it but I wouldn't call us paying customers, we know how to Torrent unlike the big bang theory "nerds".

[–] Iffy762 (1334) 3 years ago

I have no idea what you are talking about but I love that you noticed it.

[–] Seperatrix (1308) 2 months ago

I never understood the writing for the Sheldon character in an episode that opened with Leonard, Penny & Sheldon watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Sheldon is uncharacteristically praising the Grinch, who is a blatant thief.

To add insult to injury, the writers have Sheldon in the very next moment objecting to the "Frosty the Snowman" character exactly because he is a thief (i.e., wearing a stolen hat if I recall).

whatever . . but very sloppy writing.

[–] strntz (12733) 2 months ago

Sheldon is on the spectrum (much like the OP in this thread) and reacts to things differently than folks that are wired more "conventionally". I wouldn't be surprised at all that he would take what would appear to be irrational and contradictory stances on anything.