# Blizzard Corp. caves to stupid people. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 14, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559 "2005-07-14T18:56:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/21 "2005-07-14T21:39:49Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Huh. And I’ve always wanted a Maine Coon cat because they’re so adorably huge. That’s the thing. A Maine Coon is just about the coolest cat there is. They’re enormous, smart, playful, and gorgeous with huge ruffs. Who wouldn’t want one? But a black tabby? Fills me with “meh”. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/22 "2005-07-14T21:44:37Z")
I just have to mention that Frisco, a quickly-growing suburb of Dallas, recently changed the name of their high school sports teams away from “The Fighting Coons.” They had a big racoon face painted on their watertower and everything. Good thing they didn’t by cheap paint when they painted over it, otherwise someone might have called them “[niggardly](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=133943&highlight=niggardly) .” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/23 "2005-07-14T22:32:38Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > idiot money spends as good as anyone else’s Better, actually. Idiots are more likely to hand it over so they can play an online video game while you, as creator of said game, can enjoy spending it without guilt because they’re, you know, idiots. 😃 (checking out the WoW site) Damn! Considering I’m running a dual processor on a T1 line if the lag people complain about is anything like the wait for that front page to load I can see why people complain. ---
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/24 "2005-07-14T22:36:09Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Aw, shit, that should say, “Don’t HIT me.” Jesus. > > :smack: **Jesus** : Are you saved yet? ::slap::, huh? Are ya? ::slap:: ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/25 "2005-07-14T22:45:15Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Instead of changing the name, they could’ve just responded to every complaint email with a [link like this.](http://www.fanciers.com/breed-faqs/maine-coon-faq.html) From that link, looks like they could have renamed them “Maine Shags”. Now _that_ couldn’t possibly offend anybody, could it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/26 "2005-07-14T23:31:57Z")
Shaggy? Nah, they’re medium length hair cats. [These are the true hippies of the cat world.](http://www.persian-cats.com/) ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/27 "2005-07-14T23:38:56Z")
It’s a little bewildering. How many people could have possibly complained? Really, I’d be curious to know. Your average WoW player is not one to be eaisly offended, especially by something as stupid as that. If they got more than 2 or 3 complaints I’d suspect that someone was farking with them. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/28 "2005-07-14T23:58:45Z")
I’m not sure how bewildering it is… victim politics are somewhat wide spread these days, and the offenderati are legion. In other news, racoons have now been renamed “that weird thing that always gets into the garbage.” ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/29 "2005-07-14T23:59:41Z")
or, maybe it came from alot of the europeans who hadn’t actually heard of a “maine coon”. the game is played outside America. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/30 "2005-07-15T00:10:44Z")
Was coon even a slur in non-english speaking European nations? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t in Britain… In any case, I don’t see why Europeans wouldn’t have heard about the breed. It’s not any rarer than other breeds, I wouldn’t think. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/31 "2005-07-15T00:14:43Z")
I don’t understand why “coon” is used as a racial slur anyway. I don’t think I even heard that one until relatively recently. ---
**Author:** ![Magdalena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Magdalena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magdalena)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/32 "2005-07-15T00:17:32Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > If I were the type to make a virus, I’d make one that patches the breed of the cat to “ChinkyKikeSpick McNiggerWop”. Give 'em something at least halfway valid to bitch about. > > (I suppose I need to make a disclaimer here so I’m not accused of “hate speech”. I do not hate the ethnic groups that are the targets of the racial epithets used above, at least one of which I belong to. It’s just an attempt at a humorous description of a hypothetical prank to piss off overly-PC people as descibed in the OP) Ok, this did it. After reading this I had to quit lurking and get a membership. I couldn’t stop laughing long enough to read it aloud. Maybe if I practice. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/33 "2005-07-15T00:27:25Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Huh. And I’ve always wanted a Maine Coon cat because they’re so adorably huge. They are adorable. We had one for a couple of years, but had to give her up when we moved to an apartment. But be warned: if you get a female, get her fixed quickly. Our went through one heat, and her yowls would peel wallpaper. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/34 "2005-07-15T00:29:37Z")
On reflection, the name does bother me, but not the “coon” part. It’s the “Maine” part. Where exactly in Azeroth does one locate the state of Maine? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/35 "2005-07-15T00:29:52Z")
[perhaps cat fanciers may have heard of it, but not your everyday populace. and english speaking countries woulde certainly have heard of “coon” as a racial slur. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/36 "2005-07-15T00:33:38Z")
**Miller** : top right tip of the continental states. **twist** : Perhaps, but, on the other note, there aren’t exactly a lot of English speaking countries in Europe. I’m still not convinced that it’s a slur in Britain. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/37 "2005-07-15T00:38:41Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > **Miller** : top right tip of the continental states. Heh. I know where to find it on [this map.](http://www.saveourshoreline.org/SOS_NorthAmerica1.gif) I’m having a little more trouble finding it on [this map.](http://www.shadowsedge.org/mapwowworld.html) ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/38 "2005-07-15T00:47:46Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > perhaps cat fanciers may have heard of it, but not your everyday populace. I don’t know. I’m not a cat fancier, particularly (we’s dog people around these parts, in case the user name didn’t give it away), but I’ve heard of (and met) Maine Coons. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/39 "2005-07-15T00:48:29Z")
D’oh! :smack: I thought you were using that word, like “where in hell…” Didn’t realize there was a real virtual world. So, um… yep. ~flees~ ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559/40 "2005-07-15T01:04:26Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > I’m still not convinced that it’s a slur in Britain. According to my English Fierra (and the Compact Oxford English Dictionary), it is. Also according to Fierra, it’s butthead stupid change for them to make in the game. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blizzard-corp-caves-to-stupid-people/312559.md?page=3)