The mere thought of the “oldest crowd” at Blizzard using a word like based to describe Asmongold is so fundamentally upsetting to me that my brain outright rejects it. If that is real, I refuse to accept it and will live in blissful denial for the rest of my days.
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Based post
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I can see people saying Asmon calls it as it is, but yeah, “Based,” is something else that makes this, ‘Leak,’ feel fake.
I have no idea what “based” even means. The lingo of the Gen Zs has left me behind.
I used to be with it.
But then it changed.
It became strange and scary to me.
It will happen to yooooooooooou.
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I heard someone in Korthia say they got a transmog item was “that Sylvanas swag Torghast drip” and I’ve never felt so out of touch with the youth that I wanted to vote conservative until then.
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The youths can start speaking Latin and it’ll still be a cold day in hell before I ever vote Conservative.
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how many Hail Marys do you get until it starts actually hailing marys
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“Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger.”
That’s what Google says.
Wh-what? Uh… swag… uh… well that’s had a few different meanings. Sometimes it’s used to describe merchandise, like the goodie bags you used to get going to Blizzcon. I’ve also heard it’s been an acronym for, “Secretly We Are Gay,” back in the 60s or 70s to announce gay parties or something.
As for, “Drip,” well, assuming, ‘That Sylvanas Swag,’ means merchandise (items) related to Sylvanas somehow, maybe, “drip,” means, “dripfed,” and they mean something like they got a tiny amount of currency from Torghast or something?
I tried.
gamer and twitch culture should never have been allowed near aave
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Oh.
So being a 
head.
Because in my experience anyone who has to say “I don’t care what others think, I’m just me!” is a head.
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This entire post just reminds me of that time Jesse Cox had to explain to Totalbiscuit what “hit a lick on some bricks and go ham on it” meant, and now I need to rewatch them play Terraria together.
(RIP Totalbiscuit you will forever be missed)
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teens these days are always based this or based that when they should be learning to BASTE a TURKEY 
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i thought shadowlands was supposed to be a hail mary and look how that one turned out
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i feel really called out rn
good thing i don’t care what you think of me!!!
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what’s funny is they tried to do a hailmary and were shown they need more short yard runs to rebuild suspense.
(for the non-sportsball people. short yard runs means a run long enough to make progress but not long enough to be a huge risk.)
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linguistic colonialism.
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I think the fact that the same people who are basically allergic to seeing minorities in anything they like also steal those minorities’ cultures constantly is psychologically revealing, but I’m not sure what, exactly, it reveals.
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Ye best start believin’ in maintenance mode MMO Cashgrabs, Mr Solarion. Yer in one.
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Aside from the Sylvanas absurdity, SL could have been fun as hell. It would have cost more to make but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have been profitable.
What I wish they did:
- Oribos a better environment, the new mythic would have been better as a city.
- Set the covenants and their zones up as pillars of the infinite Shadowlands. These aren’t the actual afterlives, more like the foundation/in-between place.
- Have some scenarios showing the actual afterlives. Mix in a bit of the Visions of Org/SW timed mechanics; you can only go there for brief moments. Give a sense of the infinite.
- Make the brokers part of a greater species of Ethereals that includes – wait for it – the Ethereals.
- Which, of course, leads in to: make Ethereals playable. Of all the WoW species that would be in this place that bridges life and death, it’s them.
- Push the customisation. This was the perfect expac for class skins. Yes, this would be significant in terms of cost but if it was something to unlock per spec e.g. Mage Tower style, it would have provided so much retention/sticky factor.
- In terms of the above, make them all Death/SL themed per spec. Make a covenant themed one per class. Make more later!
- Add more customisation to the races with each patch.
If you think of how this feels as a consumer compared to nearly all the other expansions, it’s really hollow.
And it’s just money. None of those ideas are dynamic at all. They’re basic ideas that would work on their engine.
It feels like half an expansion – they’re really going to need to turn this around after BfA + SL as back-to-back experiences.
Even if they’re in squeeze the whales mode. I know because I used to throw money at Blizzard and it didn’t feel anywhere near as dirty and wasteful as it does when the state of the game is bad.
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My biggest concern is the WoW team lacks both the experience and manpower now in order to really give a punchy, return to form Expansion. Especially not with Diablo 4’s development and Overwatch 2 also in the wings. That’s not even remarking on the “Squeeze the Whales” strategy the company most definitely has. (StarCraft 2 lasted five years, Diablo 4 is being built from the ground up with micro transactions, and WoW’s big push has been “Keep people online for as long as possible” since Legion)
In some ways this was inevitable. “Only WoW can kill WoW” was a refrain of mine for a long time, and I often said if WoD was WoW putting the knife to its throat, BfA was it dragging it raggedly across its neck. SL seems to be the bleed out while we longtime fans look on in horror.
I might not be playing any more, I might have passed on Shadowlands entirely, but I still love this game. And it hurts to know that Azeroth’s twilight might actually finally be upon us. Because I’ve already lost one MMO “home” in City of Heroes (Homecoming is nice, but it lost me the minute they started developing homebrew content. Also the fact NCSoft at any time could be a pack of absolute bastards again and just decide to C&D the whole thing), I really don’t want to see WoW suffer that same fate.
But outside supporting content I have zero interest in and feel are bad design decisions (ie Shadowlands), there’s nothing I can do to stop WoW from dying at this point unless the game offers me a reason to open my wallet again.
And I just don’t know if a game this old or this “tapped out” of talent can get the support it needs, especially not with Blizzard as a developer not exactly being the gold star standard of the Industry they used to be.
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