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What is true is that WoW has gone through some dips and high points in the storytelling. And that with an aging audience, absolutely no new story can ever measure up to whatever happened to be the high point you experienced when you were still young.

If old wow cared so much about its own lore, Blood Elves wouldn't be Horde for a start. Kael'thas Sunstrider wouldn't randomly be a villain. Illidan wouldn't have had a harem full of concubines for no apparent reason other than the devs were horny.

I'm sorry but portions of the wow community seeing the word "rainbow" and losing their tiny minds because they've been so poisoned by brainrot they immediately assume that must refer to something woke is absolutely hilarious

I built a Dragon on my front yard in WoW! It consists out of a 100 PILLOWS exactly amongst other things! 🐉

I have a video going into a bit more detail on how I built it: youtu.be/yYHlntenz2k

I hate that I used to praise WoW by saying how you don't need to pay money for outfit slots, where other games could cost 10$+ like in ESO, and now Blizzard is also getting the predstory Microsoft microtransactions ESO got

That said, not exactly looking forward to becoming a gold farmer so I can buy virtual Battle.net balance with virtual WoW tokens to buy the virtual Hearthsteel currency to buy virtual furniture.

Developer Insight: Hearthsteel Virtual Currency and Housing in Midnight - WoW In Midnight, we’re introducing a new virtual currency to purchase select Housing items. In this article, we take you into the philosophy surrounding this addition to the game while sharing some furthe...

I THINK ONE OF MY BIGGEST CONCERNS IS HOW WARCRAFT HOUSING WORKS.

LETS SAY YOU WANT A SET OF 20 CHAIRS BUT THE SET ONLY HAS 5. SO YOU HAVE TO BUY THE DIGITAL GOOD 4 TIMES.

AND YEAH IN REAL LIFE YOU DO THE SAME BUT THIS IS A DIGITAL GOOD.

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Damn WoW gonna sell housing shit in the shop as INDIVIDUAL ITEMS and not one time purchase

"Smaller Housing items in the shop are often low cost and players will want to purchase multiples of them to complete a set. As an example, you may want a full set of chairs to place around a dining table..."

Very thoughtful of Blizzard to add a new currency so I don't have to verify a purchase with my bank every time I want a new window in my pink bonsai house.

But... why am I purchasing in-game store housing items individually in the first place?

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Developer Insight: Hearthsteel Virtual Currency and Housing in Midnight - WoW In Midnight, we’re introducing a new virtual currency to purchase select Housing items. In this article, we take you into the philosophy surrounding this addition to the game while sharing some furthe...

Ugh. Hearthsteel confirmed as a premium currency. Way to put a sour taste on housing from the get-go.

We already pay a monthly sub. We already pay for expansions.

This whole thing feels really greedy and unnecessary.

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I will spare you a link to the original article. I'm just going to say this:

My PhD focused on fandom and copyright. I have read more about fandom than 99% percent of the human population. Many of the things written, including some written by learned scholars, have ben dumb.

None as dumb as this.

You know that story about a frog in a pot that doesn't get out if you heat up the water gradually, and so ends up cooked? Apparently frogs are actually smarter than that and will hop out. A lot of people are still on Twitter. So you know, cool that frogs outsmart us.

a baby is walking on a wooden floor with a piece of toilet paper . ALT: a baby is walking on a wooden floor with a piece of toilet paper .

Me constantly running into the guard detection radius on heroic in Suramar #warcraft #worldofwarcraft

Feel like it’s time to once again let people know that not for one moment in my life have I ever been A) “the main writer for WoW” or B) even on the WoW team. I worked for an entirely different dept. in a different building whose main focus was writing external content like cinematics, comics, etc.

Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects

SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Also, how many gnome can you fit on one section of the Deeprun Tram? #GnomeRun #GnomeRun2025 #Warcraft

Another year of the Gnome Run. This time I ran for my friend and colleague who just lost her 5 year battle a couple of weeks ago. F**K Cancer! If you have the chance to do the #GnomeRun2025 do it. It is a blast and for a good cause.

I can't believe I got this achievement in a group of thousands of lvl 1-10 gnomes. So cool. #RunningoftheGnomes2025

Gnomes, pink gnomes, more gnomes, rainbows, umbrellas

Finish line was pretty packed as the server struggled to display all the pink hair.

#Warcraft #GnomeRun #GnomeRun2025

"You are Depeche Mode's rightful heir"

I mean, yes, mass marketing email, I think you are correct, and yet I despair at ever being able to wear a leather skirt as well as Martin Gore

As someone pointed out using a service like YouTube TV to watch a network show gets credited to the local affiliate. Straight streaming is the way to go

This. I haven't watched my local Sinclair owned ABC affiliate in years. Didn't really even notice since all network TV mostly sucks now. They aren't giving any real reasons to start watching again.

The evil that men do lives after them

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

Hey Firefox users.

Digital painting in a realistic style of a Crimson-Headed Partridge, a very round black bird with a red head, a yellow beak, and red markings on its chest. It is standing against a painterly backdrop of blurry tan and blue.

I saw pictures of a very round bird with a very red head (Crimson-Headed Partridge!) and had to try and paint it. #Art #SciArt

A digital painting of a man facing away with a piece of cloth holding off his arms, the main focus of this piece is the mans back and back muscles. He has long whitish hair and grey skin, it was inspired by marble statues

A study with Ledger 🌿

#Art | #Gravehearts

Maybe also a trip to GazLowe's.