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How are orcs able to maintain themselves as a threat to regular races despite being so technologically backwards and evil (thus, everyone hates them)?
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>>97933210
>technologically backwards
depends on the setting
the LOTR orcs were mentioned in-story to be quite clever, and their tools are crude-looking but effective
warcraft orcs are fairly intelligent and are mostly on the level with most humans, their lack of blackpowder being made up for with potent shaman magic and the ability to ally with ogres, trolls, and tauren
in DnD, orcs have the same pseudo-medieval tech everyone else has, with higher ranks of orc having plate armor and the occasional +1 sword
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Look at what I can do!
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>>97933210
They're not always technologically backwards, really i think the bigger problem is the trope of them having a highly aggressive culture and nature (even compared to their contemporaries). Take Elder Scrolls and Lotr, all things considered, their Orcs are relatively advanced in their own way, especially in the smithing and warmaking category (Lotr Orcs are an industrialized war machine that can mass produce weapons and armor for thousands of warriors, ES Orcs are actually good castle makers and relatively quality smiths). Both these cultures are highly aggresive, and often screw each other and other factions over, Aragorn had to basically put the Orcs in a reservation so they could spend their time raiding and killing each other and there's actually a very good reason every iteration of Orsinium got razed like 4 times despite leaders working so hard to found the city (because they either raided other people or backstabbed each other).
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>puckee thread
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>>97933420
What's the lore here?
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Not nearly as interesting as I had hoped.
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>>97936625
Pretty such he only makes the threads and doesn't follow them through, so it doesn't take all that much time. Board is so slow bumping once a day can keep something in catalog forever (see also: the zombie of /tg/ drawthread), so maybe 10 minutes a day to keep whole bunch of people seething.
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>>97933526
Redditor whom gets ai generated commission's - yes, he pays for them, then spams them here and on several other sites. Even other redditors hate him which, if you know how much enforced toxic positivity there is over there, should tell you everything.
Unfortunately here the mods collude with and protect him, to the point that calling him out can result in a 3 day ban, and his actual user name on preddit is filtered.
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