I don't really get your point with the cultural appropriations, the dwemer for instance are based on old babylonian art, the orcs are just your typical fantasy orcs for the time. You seem to be trying to build up some kind of drama, where it's not really the case. How taking inspiration from exctinct civilisations and other cultures and mixing them together problematic ? I don't get how dwemers looking like babylonians is racist

oh shut up with your moral claims little man... if you want to show someone is evil, why not mention rape, y'all need to toughen up a bit

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this video is really toxic while pretending not to be. "Be kind" while basically slandering a writer's entire career als 'problematic' and 'transphobic' (as if the latter is a thing).

Why even give woke peoples complaints the time of day? Everything is racist sexist and transphobic to them. It’s all garbage. There’s none of that in the games.

What an extremely petty current year video. As a whole it moralistically tries to cast Michael Kirkbride and Morrowind in a suspicious, 'problematic' or 'controversial' light. While pretending to be a fan of the game just arguing in good faith, for some reason gender-ideology runs through this 35 minute video. As if the developers of Morrowind 20+years ago, were (or should be) concerned with gender-ideology and pronouns. The video is also a thinly veiled accusation of Kirkbride of 'cultural appropriation' and racist stereotypes because 'Orcs look like Asian men'. More likely KZbinr is the raycist here for making that association. That 20+ years later a video has to be filled with useless "tw" (trigger warnings) shows how sensitive this KZbinr has become, as opposed to anything actually 'problematic' in Morrowind's writing or by Kirkbride.

As someone who has experiences with substances and especially those of an 'enlightening' nature, my feeling is honestly that in a lot of ways Vivec was a hyperbolised self-insert. The unfortunate reality is that many who seek out spiritual paths are simply mentally ill, and though you can attain profound insight that most will not meet in their lifetime, depending on your character a lot of it may simply be chasing your own tail. That is the tricky nature of the ego, you cannot escape it, least of all by some reach-aroundesque modality of trying to affirm it, and I think a closer inspection of Kirkbride's writings display that fact. That being said, it is so often the nature of being genius or highly creative that it is marred by an internal struggle with oneself, and I feel this is all exemplary of that fact. On a lesser note I find it silly to accuse a man who understands and acknowledges the ancient and esoteric reflections of gender ambiguity of transphobia when the reality is that he was simply an addict being an asshole, but I digress. Ultimately, the man is why we are all here right now, I don't believe he has hatred in his heart for others, but only himself, I know what that's like and I'm sure we all do if only in a small way. I wish him continued health and wellbeing, and express my gratitude for the foundation he created, and though many of you may doubt me I suspect a lot more of his work will go into the nect installment that most of you anticipate. Here's hoping at least 🤞

6:00 I had a feeling that the tribunal were inspired by Hinduism

Anyone who genuinely hates on someone's works just because they dislike the writer's personal opinions and actions is an idiot. I have been a fan of TES for over a decade now, and never even cared about who the main writer was or much less what he did on his personal life because that does not matter when it comes to his works. I don't need to know him or care about him to appreciate the amazing creativity he had when creating TES lore. The man could kick my dog right now and I would hate him for it, but I would still love all he did for the TES series so far, because it is amazing and to this day I am still reading and thinking about it, learning new interesting pieces with each video I watch. People need to learn to separate the artists from their works. In all honesty, I think less of Kirk now since apparently he used drugs while writing the lore, which I personally consider pathetic if true, but it doesn't change the fact I still love the result. TES lore is not perfect but it is deeper, better, and more unique than every other western rpg lore out there. While it was clearly inspired by Tolkien lore like every other fantasy series, Kirk and whoever else helped him made TES lore it's own thing to the point there's no other universe like it, and for that the man deserves nothing bu respect.

Exotic is the secret 11/10 don’t let this faker try to trick you, Crimson gang rise up

I am fully convinced that ideas are independent things that actually find people instead of people discovering them. My evidence comes from the fact Iv designed a worldbuilding project almost identical to this genius’s world. It’s like when you’re in class and someone steals your answer lol. Maybe I stole his without knowing😳 Crazy

Very shallow analysis.

bro fell off

what a weird interpterion of Vivec. You might be hitting the same drugs as MK lol

(From Ted): I’m a fan.

its vaRdenfel not vaNderfel

The beginning chunk and gender ideology around Vivec were honestly pretty solid, but the attempt at labeling cultural controversies in his writting regarding the races along with complaining about the things wrote about in a graphic nature are about as solid as your pronunciation of Vvardenfell tbh

You respect trans people, made one of the best videos on Micheal Kirkbride ever, and are a big destiny player. You may be one of my new favorite channels!

You seriously associated Elder scrolls lore with gender ideology?

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Sexual assault or abuse can be beneficial for creating lore with depth and realism having. If you look at the Greek myths for instance Zeus pretty much was a serial rapist, also unfortunately history is full of it. Having such awful things in a fantasy world can make us believe in it, feel for the characters, and make us doubt how good somebody like Vivek is. An example of rape allowing for a character to be more fleshed out is Serana and her mother, it can help you empathize with her struggles and can make you despise her father for subjecting her to that. What I'm trying to say is the unsavory stuff in life can be used as a narrative device quite effectively to emotionally involve the viewer.

Is the worst rating I’ve ever seen on Destiny exotics 😂

Considering what Bethesda is now, TES6 will be a very big and ugly piece of s***. You can hate me, but I am just bringing the message. Modders are just better.

Sigh yeah focus half the content on gender pronouns and other Very Important Topics

Telesto break the video😂

Michael Kirkbride is the unhinged schizo writer who’s really fucking good, but also really fucking unhinged.

It hears like sort of a corporate defamation against ex-workers.

I swear I can’t wait for Skywind

for the community interaction section, i think you could have mentioned how MK has co-operated with TES fans for different works of headcanon/c0da/whatever. stuff like the Uutak Mythos and the PGE 2nd Edition are some amazing works, even if the latter is unfinished.

"Be weird, be strange, but most of all, be kind." is a hell of a note to end on.

Interesting fact. It is implied vivec was born a hermaphrodite iirc, the son of a netchiman. Also vivec, though a hermaphrodite and both genders at once, is in most instances pronouned as "he." It's like how the judeo-christian God is a "he" even though God is the exact same way, both and neither at once. Almalexia was the wife of Indoril Nerevar, and was complicit in his murder.

Imagine if Kirkbride was writing all of Bethesda's games instead of Emil

This is the second video I've seen to call Vvardenfell "Vvanderfell". It doesn't get said much in the games maybe...but shouldn't youtubers know things like this?

Nice. I wish he was still the main writer. Elder Scrolls needs to be weird, not some bland ass disney MMO.

Amazing as usual bestie; I love the mic quality too!! So happy to see you back in your element <3

Damn, somehow I knew most of what you said. I'm not that surprised considering I wrote my thesis on TES and like, Morrowind is def my fav, but still, I was a bit scared I would learn more awful shit about him - glad to know he's gotten better. Thanks for the video, definitely super important!

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as the person who knows nothing about skyrim and never played the game - quite an interesting perspective on videogame writing as a whole and what sometimes happens behind the scenes also your mic quality sounds soo good! keep up the good work, glad to have you back! :>

Great vid man ❤ glad to see ur making vids again

Back but not really. Kindly do note that this video is not supposed to be a call-out or re-stirring old drama, but simply an analysis of Michael's highs, lows and overall progress. Also I'm a bit sick so disregard if I sound strange at any point of time. Fun fact: the inspiration for the thumbnail came from his TV tropes page. I highly recommend to check out the original sources linked in the description of the video. Oh and I will feel no guilt or remorse over deleting comments that justify racism or SA at all in any way

Your videos are such high quality, I genuinely cannot comprehend what happened to this world, that people are so offended by one honest take, and constantly dislike bomb you videos just because you said some uncomfortable truth people don't want to hear about. I'm not a player of destiny but I've watched your videos anyway, none of them deserve the dislike ratios they have and especially the Iron Heart one. Just wanted to write a comment cause you haven't uploaded in a while, and people haven't gotten any wiser, this is literally how critical thought dies. One person is confident to stand out and point out how our conformity and ignorance benefits totalitarian regimes and everyone shits on them, just so they won't have to change their lifestyle and what the enjoy. I hope you're doing well Harenko, and your vids are a pleasure

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Merciless 3 sweet business 7. Acrius and wishender 2 This is a troll video.

THAT FORSAKEN IS A SPY 16:00

I only need the Bane ship from Pit of Heresy to get the title and I wanna die

Came across this video in my own journey of getting every title... can confirm, it's too much effort to justify the reward. Not only do you have to have reliable raid groups, and a nasty solo dungeon build, but you also have to rely on people to give a sht and help you do things like master nightmare hunts and the wellspring

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