Story Forum Community Lounge (Part 1)

Oof. Its so hard to tell.

Mines mainly how weird theyā€™re going to be about me pack bonding with pretty much everything small and fuzzy;

When I lived in WI I felt like a crazy person because Iā€™d feed the squirrels. And then theyā€™d follow me. So Iā€™d have the bizarre situation of being at a corner store with a girl and having to go

ā€œOh sorry thats Charles. You can tell from the gray streak on his head. He just wants a chipā€.

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I befriend so many wild animals, I may as well be a Disney Princess.

Iā€™m working on befriending a crow. I feel like they are peak wild friend.

Youā€™ve cracked the code though because my ideal man is Bob Ross.

ugh, how can anyone not fall in love at first sight with this man?

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My response to printers

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Iā€™ve been trying to preach the gospel of rats for awhile;

They are tiny babies. Oooh tiny babies. Essentially pocket puppies.

Only downside is they donā€™t live too long. And as theyā€™re intelligent enough to have personalities on par with cats or dogs itā€™s a big loss and one everyone will look screw eyed at you for feeling bereavement over.

And also while theyā€™re very good at cleaning themselves and having a litter box equivalent they do just kinda pee wherever. Because they are smol this isnā€™t as big of a deal as it sounds. But yeah you will get rat piss on you this is an inevitability.

Also youā€™ll need at least two. Otherwise they will inevitability escape, because they can and will outsmart you. And they can nibble through concrete so, hope theyā€™re not bored near anything expensive.

Upside is you can do this when youā€™re bored;

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Think Iā€™m going to avoid GD like for awhile

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So no one knows how Computers are supposed to work just that they do.

https://sciencing.com/wheels-move-car-6302814.html says how combustion moves the Wheels on a Car(and a Car Break is only as good as the materials itā€™s made of and capable of breaking off). Unfortunately there are multiple types of Engines so which ones actually work the way they are supposed to is a mess.

Printers are an even bigger mystery than the Computers! Infact I do believe the Printers taking Portraits of people are older than Computers are and are more mysterious the farther back you go!

If we had a Cartoon with Rats(aside from the nasty Sewer Rats of course) resembling & acting like Redwall Mice and the actual Mice(aside from the friendly Grasshopper Mice) resembling & acting like Redwall Rats I would be pleased.

what the heck is going on in here

Rats, duh.

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Whyā€™d you even go?

You should watch these documentaries on the subject

Well damn, Dragonflight has me speculating again, and I think Iā€™m onto another huge plot thread. For more lore research, Iā€™m going to be running the Sunwell Plateau Raid, because I think that will be relevant again in 9.2.5.

Thereā€™s always so much to unpack with this gameā€™s lore.

Sometimes I feel like following lore in this game is a fruitless endevor because no lore threads ever pan out. I make these lists of things I think may happen in a certain expansion based on plot threads and they never pan out. for example hereā€™s my list for Shadowlands:

  1. Tichondrius will be reveled as the leader of the Nathrezim in his quest to save Denatrius. This Dreadlords plot will have Uther face off against Tichondrius and get justice for Tichondrius manipulating Arthas leading up to Arthas becoming the Lich King. Uther will become aware that his own death was heavily manipulated by the dreadlord and this will allow him to place the correct blame on who is responsible for his death.

  2. Goldrinn can apparently break through the boundaries of the Shadowlands to come to the aid of his followers in need. I think this will be used to provide closure to Varianā€™s story showing that he lives on in Loā€™Gosh, the spirit he has a personal connection with, especially when it comes down to protecting his offspring (in this case itā€™s Anduin.)

  3. The Titans ordered the Shadowlands long before the Ancient War, this was part of their experimentation on Azeroth, trying to learn as much as they could about Old Gods, using Uldir as a titan facility. Lei-Shen was trying to continue the Titans research by experimenting on the Heart of Yā€™shaarj. Lei-Shen had connections to the Shadowlands. the Dark Mogu Kornue Clan created the Divine Bell, a stolen Kyrian Vesper (speculative) with the opposite power of the Kyrian Vespers. Instead of filling peopleā€™s ears with peace and harmony, it caused them rage and chaos. Lei Shen also had knowledge from Revendreth on how to make Blood Golems out of Anima, creating the Dark Animus.

  4. Connected to #2 above we are going to find out how the Twilightā€™s Hammer were able to create dark ā€œaspectsā€ by cutting off a Shadow of Goldrinn and creating Lycanthoth. This is possibly related to the artifact found in Korthia, a sword that can cut the shadows out of people. This shadow cutting lore could explain the nature of the duality between Light and Shadow.

Itā€™s always fun to go back and see how absolutely wrong I was at the end of the expansion. Somehow, this is ā€œfunā€ for me. Iā€™m absolutely addicted to being wrong about this game. This stuff usually stays in my draft folder, though. They cut so much from Shadowlands it seems, I will likely never know if there was supposed to be a much bigger story or not.

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Real fatrat hours who up

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Ben here in nelf drag.

Anywho can we talk about F Nelf animations?

Iā€™m really not trying to pretend Iā€™m offended by 7 foot tall women deciding to remind me of their boobs. Nor any woman, really.

But my character concept is more a rule 63ā€™d Judge Dredd. Yes I know I just described Maiev and her wildly dangerous hoolahoops. But Dredd has a surprising amount of character to him.

Cmon this but itā€™s a 7ft tall purple chick but with a magic unlimited knife glaive and she rides a dabre toothed panther isnā€™t rad as hell to you?!

And thatā€™s a difficult vibe to pull off when the animations behave in such a way where - like look my reaction would be less Heh well Iā€™ve her attention and more Oh, where is your caretaker?

Look Iā€™m not trying to rain on anyoneā€™s parade here itā€™s just - a lot. And it seems so distinctly off for the Kaldoreiā€™s semi feral vibe.

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What do you mean by this? Are you calling female Night Elves autistic?

Idk Iā€™d be concerned about anyone who claps their hands, bounces on their heels and leans in starring boggle eyed at you in response to basically any positive stimuli.

Idk what that disorder is. I think itā€™s called guy from 2004 with largely imaginary opinions on how women behave.

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Or 2016

See thatā€™s 200% a Forsaken woman. And Iā€™m not going to lie yeah being a weirdly sexy completely crazed amoral murderer is a fun fantasy. Mines just called Dracula.

But the Nelf F Animations just come off as weird to me.

The Belf ones are flirty and haughty but that fits. The Kaldorei women in lore at least come off more like this;

Just change the adjective to pretty and youā€™re golden

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Their leaders certainly can come across like that. Maieve and the wardens especially.

They donā€™t all come across that way. As a collective for me the night elves come across as very naieve and childlike. They have thousands of years isolation in idyllic settings with minimal responsibilities or demands. They are not worldy in the normal sense and look up to their leaders for guidance like children towards parents because only they know best.

They are kind of a race of bunny rabbits. Cute and cuddly, mostly harmless. Except bunny rabbits arenā€™t always what they seem. The holy grail had a vorpal bunny wipe out half their party. The rabbit in Donny Darko was spooky as hell. And sometimes as in watership down they can be full on fascists.

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Personally I hope I come off as just like this female icon.

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