Quote Originally Posted by Ftail View Post
Do you people think it's inappropriate to tease lalafell players for playing a lalafell? I'll give some examples.

"Hey guys have you seen the tank? I think he dc'd I don't see him. Oh wait, there you are I didn't see you down there."

"Oh no, we have a lalafell in the group."

"What are you going to do bite my ankles?"

"Did you guys hear something? I thought I heard something. Oh my god! It's a talking potato."

I was told by my lalafell friend to stop behaving like that to strangers I pug with. She was saying that my prejudiced towards lalafells was actually hidden prejudice I want to do in real life but can't. It's not like I'm abusing votekick to remove lalafells or anything. I think it's just a bit of harmless fun, she thinks otherwise.

I also go up to miqotes and poke them asking random strangers in dungeons, "Excuse me ma'am are you aware you are a cat?"
I can joke with friends, but saying this to random people..? Dunno, it's kind of rude imo. As much as it can be said with no ill intent, if you're hearing these jokes every day every second time you enter a dungeon or just stay next to marketboard minding your own business - it will become boring and annoying very fast, and I can understand why some players stop liking it or don't like it in the first place. Making jokes is good and all, but there's time and place for them.

Imagine hearing some harmless stereotype about your ethnicity every single day. You can find it cute at first, maybe will laugh with those who joke, but after 100500th time you probably will be just... smiling politely while thinking to yourself "yeah you're 10th to say this today, how very original of you. Next one please". It's not really the perfect example, but it's the one that goes the closest (said by somebody who's very tired of getting typical "vodka" or "su** bl***" comment the second people hear I'm from Russia. Is it harmless? Sure, it is, there's no ill intent in these messages. But is it funny? Stopped being so good 15 years ago and became a facepalm material since then).