It’s more the fantastic comment in global that ensues when they have to drop them to move since you can only drop one feces at a time and it’s not in the wrapped box.
“Omg, it’s like the world’s worst popcorn in here.”
I also try not to be malicious about things i do to people in ARK. I rarely ever had to level bases in response to actions, but my favorite tactic for it was to let -them- do it for me.
By that, I mean “Oooh look. You tamed a giga. It would be a shame of a few people with high power weapons were to shoot it and send it into rage in your base so it kills everything.”
Then we’d usually role in on our own giga and finish it, then use explosives to demolish the rest if they well and truly angered us.
I’ve never felt more like a serial killer than when I was talking about what my characters would maybe do in the Shadowlands. I said, “well, visit their deceased loved ones.”
Then, I started listing off, and realized that like… Damn, I kill a lot of people in my character’s backstories. Mostly family members. And, the weird thing is, I don’t even have names for most of them. They’re just ambiguous shadows that lurk within my character’s subconscious, constantly aggravating them in generic, unspecified ways. I recently named my rogue’s mother, after having RPed him in some way, shape, or form for over a decade. Even written her in short stories, but she was just “mother”.
It definitely feels like an area where I could improve my writing. Like, fleshing out the key players in the backstory and understanding their relationships with my characters.
I don’t remember where I heard it said, but I suddenly had a great appreciation for the phrase, “that’s more dangerous than being a family member in a backstory.”
EDIT: In fairness to me, this is Warcraft, and most of the lore behind any region is, “They were fine, then X happened, and suddenly lots of people died.”
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Dear Blizzard,
Stop putting Ret/Prot Paladins and Feral/Guard Druids into Ashran until you let them have Frontline buff.
Even though I know it would be doomed to flicker out from the very start like the wave of Zandalari guilds that popped up during BfA, playing through the intro to Shadowlands has given me an obsessive urge to level up my own Death Knight and start an Ebon Blade guild. 
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I’m going to gloat a little bit because I never get to. I know it’s frowned upon and I usually don’t like it. But! I did my first Mythic dungeon today and was dealing almost twice as much damage as others overall. I effectively used Tremor Totem which is something I’m always worried about. Had 16 more interrupts than the next person. Got an achievement for dodging everything.
Didn’t get any loot. I told myself I would get back into instanced content in Shadowlands. Forced myself to join a Mythic group, was super nervous to the point I was sweating (gross), and ended up performing well in my opinion. I’m not saying I’m good at the game. But, that I think it’s something I can actually enjoy doing!
I’m done, ha. Sorry! I don’t have any WoW friends to talk to this about and was excited enough to want to tell someone.
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I confess I am specifically doing PvP this season to make a go at getting that snazzy conquest plate gear for a mog.
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I confess that I’m enjoying Shadowlands, but I have a few major gripes.
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Somehow they took the mission table and made a WORSE version of the Mission Table.
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The Maw is atrocious and I hate it. Why can’t we mount? Why must it be so annoying to navigate? Ugh. People complained about Nazjatar but this is ten times worse.
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They got rid of the quick and easy world quests. Like the Tortollan ones, and the single-target ones. We have to do the world quests that actually take effort. Ugh.
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They took our flight master’s whistle away from us! The fiends! 
Overall, controversially enough, I think I preferred BFA’s endgame.
That said, I think all this has potential and I’m enjoying Shadowlands so far.
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I actually have a second confession too! Posting on Alliance Sarestha because it won’t let me post on Horde twice.
So a close RL friend of mine is interested in playing WoW for the first time since MoP. Which is cool! Should be fun to play with him. BUT
If I’m playing WoW with IRL friends I have to admit my secret shame.
That I like to RP.
I dunno I feel kinda cringe about it and I’ve always had RP as my secret hobby. I worry friends will laugh at me for my nerdy hobby! It’s probably an unfounded fear, and I’m sure I’d be able to explain that I RP as a means to experiencing and telling stories from the point of view of someone else. I don’t even ERP after all. But there’s a stigma that RP is a big thirst session and I sorta don’t want people to accuse me of RPing Sarestha as some weird necro philiac fetish or some crap like that.
What do? Lmao
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I compare it to D&D and most responses from non-internet folks is, “Ah, so you’re a nerd.” and it usually resolves itself like that.
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If anyone thinks that RP is shameful or whatever just remind them that they’re about to start playing World of Warcraft.
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I generally tell my friends I play fake DnD in WoW and then go on to explain dicemaster and then it’s usually met with an “oh okay” or “neat” response.
I get it thow, I was at first a little embarrass to tell my friends way back when because the reputation Goldshire and Moon Guard have with people that don’t even play WoW. They think it’s like that Deeprun Tram ERP incident from way back when and I do sometimes have to explain that stuff does happen but there’s also a lot of just dice based groups that are closer to a tabletop DnD/pathfinder group.
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I pretty much never play the same main twice in a row.
I get bummed out by having really good gear, and then replacing it the next expansion 2/3rds through questing, so I tend to just not level them for a while and focus on my other characters.
Keelhaul will probably sit at level 50 with the BiS weapon for a while longer.
Typically, I have 3-6 characters I play with loose dedication, all of them created in either Cataclysm or MoP. I race changed all except the druid to Goblins because I found I like Rocket Jump too much to play without. That said, right now I’m playing my Death Knight blacksmith. It’s missing the quality of life that a Hunter with engineering has, but I’m enjoying it.
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I got recognized in chat today as a forum poster… I confess that I never thought that would happen in a million years, but it was nice to see someone who used to post here and chat with them briefly.
(You know who you are!)
I have the opposite reaction because people would just randomly walk up to Krenk and Gentarn and just start chatting with me and talking about stuff and I’m like “WHO ARE YOU AND HOW DO YOU KNOW ME?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBgLytbB-uE
MFW I learn I have fans.
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Hot take: this expansion is better than WotLK 
Yeah I’ve been posting here for so long that I have people sending me gold and gear and love letters. To all my fans… I love you.
Sometimes people roll up on me in game with stuff for < Azeroth Archives > as well, I love you all, too.
then you may like to know that i’ve seen you on my not-otielle characters before but i dont bother anyone on them, typically.
i also remember a certian night elf sending me a /kiss as i was venturing through the maw on day 1 and that was nice.
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I see forum posters from time to time, but never approach them or even emote at them. At most I will point them out to my partner and be like “Hey! This is x from the forum!” before moving on.
I don’t really approach others and most of the time I figure they wouldn’t recognize or want to talk to me about much, anyway.
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I play with names off and am usually a bit distracted, so if I ever pass anyone by don’t take offense!!
I got called cute and /hugged by a Gnome in the last five minutes of my tongues pot, while semi-afk in Sinfall. Instead of responding in any meaningful way aside from a /hug back, I just jumped into the Ember Court introduction quest which put me in a different shard.
I don’t remember your name, but I’m sorry Gnome! 