Ngl the only way imaginable to possibly make WoW discourse dumber is to put it on Social Media or Reddit.
I only use Facebook because I’ve had ‘possibly drunk substitute history teacher vibes’ since I was 11, and even on that cardboard platform I had someone messaging me hatred over a joke about Teldrassil.
All I said was this was a great reminder to throw out Christmas trees as they’re weirdly flammable over some fanart the official post threw up.
And they looked pretty much exactly how you’d expect. Crappy photoshop effects over a ‘threatening’ picture and all. At least they throw out some people in these parts.
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I wonder if they think they “got” me. Like… You think they are like “Yeah… Lets put this rando on blast and call them a homophobe because they think shipping minors is cringe. That’ll show them, obviously we are the cool kids in this situation.”
Like… Alright bro…
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I’m dissapointed we got nothing at any of this seasons game cons. It’s con season and nothing WoW related. I imagined we would have the animated shorts to analyze by now. There’s another big one coming up in mid August, I hope they release then.
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Far as I’m concerned this is the only update in gaming worth celebrating;
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That situation reminds me of when the WoW Popup book was announced. A preview of Teldrassil was shown and NEFPAs went into a rage about how a tab could be pulled to show the tree on fire. As if that was made to mock them. It was a page with a neat gimmick showing great artwork. I’m baffled at how any depiction of Teldrassil being burned is some great insult to them, to the point that depicting or mentioning it in any way is some great taboo for them.
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Tbh that was kinda insulting.
Because Teldrassil was this extremely depressing story beat. And more to the point this is a decades old MMORPG, so not only is it a place in people’s minds but they might’ve met someone in say Darnassus.
Hell this is a wonderful way to meet newly divorced 50 something mothers who want to feel girlish and adventurous again in a futile attempt to reclaim their youth. I’d probably not have seen Cincinnati otherwise. I didn’t need to see it, really, but it was nice to say I did. And all of that would’ve been impossible if not for a chance encounter in Orgrimmar.
Setting fire to these things is obviously going to bother people.
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I get being bothered by Teldrassil being burned, but there comes a point where the outrage is ridiculous. Obviously that event was thought of as a cinematic setpiece first, which works better in an artbook instead of the story beat it is. It’s an event that happened and people shouldn’t get mad about Blizzard acknowledging it.
Yeah the people acting like Blizzard personally murdered their dog at their wedding recital was a bit much.
But it was an extraordinarily dour moment that completely went at odds with the marketing of BFA. It did nothing but make most of the playerbase feel like crap. Seriously who TF opens there fun Dinosaur Pirate High Seas adventure story with a duck mothering genocide?
That wasn’t tone deaf if it was tone schizophrenia. And then after dragging us all through this miserable story about mass slaughter, malice and trauma they give us the weirdest possibly ending where the faerie queen tells The Revengeancer to chill and then Darth Skullkill was actually really sad about it so it’s fine.
They could’ve at least had them makeout. It wouldn’t have made less sense and would’ve been a billion times more interesting.
This is an outright hostile relationship to have with your audience.
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I think Wind Waker did this.
Ive never seen any of Canada
I disagree. No part of the WoW community is more toxic than the official forums. You just don’t visit anywhere but the Story Forums.
Seen any what?
You didn’t see anything Benny.
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I mean yeah. There’s a lot of places that I’m sure seem crap if you insist on swimming in the sewage runoff.
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Seriously though Doness a word of advice; there are no wholesome internet ‘communities’. Anymore than there’s a wholesome stone and street community. Everything has a dark underbelly.
It’s all road rage on the internet. Everyone’s in different moods going nowhere at different paces. Difference is with traffic sometimes youre about ready to kill someone but then see it’s just a confused kid or elder with goggle glasses. And you see that human face and feel a pang of shame for letting something like a mild inconvenience get you that mad.
But theres never that humanizing moment on the internet. Never a chance to see a human face behind the PFPs and their hurt expression, to feel like youve overreacted. No capacity to lock eyes and feel sympathetic.
I probably sound like a Boomer but seriously. Toss this ish out if you can. The internet is nothing but a dopamine drip that turns toxic quick.
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You make it sound like the internet is the strip club on the bad side of town. But there are wholesome spaces, but that requires personal accountability and people not viewing anonymity as an excuse to be rude. But asking anyone on the internet to take personal accountability is like trying to bathe a cat.
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By the by I haven’t downloaded Discord on my new phone and haven’t been using my personal PC so completely inaccessible on that at time of writing.
Because I really think it’s only decent for DMs and small groups or communities. Anytime I’ve been @ on that platform I only notice hours later. And at that point it feels like trying to have a conversation from opposite ends of a crowded party. Whereupon I suggest DMing which again highlights the bizarre format.
As a voice chat system it’s vastly superior to Vent of old. But it should be a paid feature to remove push to talk. Because I’ll turn it off when reaching for another button is one less split second I need to win a match. But otherwise it’s been the hottest tool to hear other people’s domestic drama.
Seriously you used to have to bug houses to learn that much about someones living situation.
Ventrillo? now you are really sounding like a boomer.
Everything was better back then. Free Healthcare. No taxes. All your friends were free all the time. Homecooked dinners.
God I miss being 13.
Of course the early 90s was peak. I was frequently so messed up I couldnt talk or walk. Id just outright soil myself. But sure enough I had the sort of cache that had someone make sure I woke up in a soft bed - everytime.
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Ventrillo Harassment vids are still classics
