Ooo, interesting worldbuilding for the Kingdom of Stormwind for once (they rarely actually get cultural lore like this) And even starts leaning into Dwarven culture too... Very nice

Ogre Trivia #268: Dustbelcher Wyrmhunters are ogre found in Classic WoW in the Badlands. Going by their name, these ogres are trained in hunting dragons, very likely the black dragons that are commonly found in the zone! Probably a reason why Deathwing scarred the area! #warcraft #ogre #blizzard

It's kind of crazy to me because they default to Quel'thalas when villages far more recently than that have been razed to the ground. Just look at elves laying claim to Tor'watha when the bodies that fell victim to the lightbloom aren't even cold yet.

Oh I love blizz story work emboldening and rewarding these people. absolutely great result that the most blatant anti indigenous and pro colonist/racist accounts are clapping 12.1 ending (But “don’t be mean to devs about their work“ is the top priority for some (yt) folk🙂)

Everytime Liadrin opens her mouth in Zul’aman, it’s the writers doing this shit. Zul’jara is written into that position with her contrived and artificial friendship with Liadrin and it’s the weakest part of what otherwise was/is a great zone and character.

It’s not subtle or accidental that Zul’jan is the only troll character to vocally and loudly remind the player of the trolls suffering at the hands of the elves and the fact the land around Zul’aman and Eversong belonged to the Amani. It’s blatantly anti indigenous villainising by liberal writers.

The sooner Israel gets treated as a pariah state, the better. They've chosen this path for themselves.

Anyone still defending Israel and saying it’s just Bibi that is a madman, and it’s a normal country, needs to let go of the illusion. The bloodlust is way deeper than just one man. How many children has the IDF killed, starved, maimed in the last decades? And how anyone can justify it, is beyond me.

I like that it's being framed as a current-day endeavor to bring An'she back into the festivities, rather than just "they've been doing it this whole time and you never saw it!" Sun blossom spell effects are very pretty, to boot.

New tauren lore about Midsummer too! I love the idea that, while the Tauren version originated specifically about An'she and offering tribute to him, the widespread version we've seen in WoW is an amalgamation of cultures thanks to the Earthen Ring.

Some neat bits of Quel'thalas worldbuilding, they had their own ancestral Midsummer festival called "Dawnsummer Festal", and their own modern holidays on Quel'danas. That capitalization of "Dawn" has interesting implications, in relation to Sunwell/Dawnwell Light worship.

Voidstorm has its own "Voidflame" themed MIndsummer camp that they convinced the domanaar to let them create with the pretense of ritual sacrifice, cute lol

Oh, they're haranir children for a reason it seems! There's no concept of summer or seasons down in Harandar, so the Amani and blood elves taught them about Midsummer. That's honestly really fun.

The Amani also have their own version of Midsummer! Centering it around Jan'alai makes sense, and it's neat to see the parallels between her and the phoenix-centric ideas for the blood elves.

Oh that's cute, the Ahune fight is now basically a 'campfire memory' you view instead of him actually coming back.

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

It amazes me that there hasn’t been any effort to rid our country of the scourge of the trump/vance cancer. it will take decades for us to repair the damage these idiots have caused. Getting rid of trump (the stupid one) is only half of the problem. Vance (the incredibly evil one) must happen too.

🚨Rubio Goes FOR KILL SHOT to GET VANCE FIRED!! MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Secretary of State Marco Rubio is working to throw JD Vance under the bus to get him fired. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9AQ...

The documented inability of this criminal to abide by any agreement or behavioral norm is a stark indictment of all Republicans who ride alongside. Cotton, Vance, etc. must not be allowed to whitewash their acquiescence, ever. They are disqualified from public office. Don't let their perfidy fade.

As JD Vance and his son in law are engaged in talks with the Iranians which violate the explicit terms of the MoU and indicate his intention not to honor it. Vance apparently told the Iranians to ignore Trump's statements which were geared to appeasing his MAGA base.

Vance is in so far over his head

can't remember if I posted my doodle of venusaur with a tiny ass on here but here ya go :v

The red Prey Crystals are coming as decor in 12.1!! AHHHHH #warcraft #housing #midnight

TLDR: Put Zul'jan in a coma. Seriously. Do it. They probably already have that death cinematic finished. That's okay. Add some voiceover and some text afterwards. It'll look goofy. People will laugh, but long-term it'll be the right call. Have him come out of it around the end of the expansion.

i AM equipped to deal with the intersection of race and gender regarding troll males and it stems from racism! Thoug obviously World of Warcraft is its own story devised of its own races - Trolls are heavily, HEAVILY relying on Cultures within the African Diaspora and indigenous global South.

i don't think i can super consider myself a warcraft fan much anymore but warcraft will never stop being so interesting to analyze lmao i even think about it from a fandom perspective a lot where i think criticism against WoW is taken so seriously and personally because it is a third space

Sadiq Khan: ‘Brexit has cost Britain billions. It’s imperative we rejoin the EU’ Polls show that the number of people in favour of rejoining the European Union is growing. The mayor of London sees no sense in delaying the inevitable observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

I just don't understand why people keep insisting NYT is a leftist outlet

Mainline dems have got to come to the realization that the NYT is a far right outlet that exists to defend and boost conservatives. If they are offering "advice" its because they want liberals to lose and fascists to win.

I love how toturtured and obscurantist this language is in the pains the NYT takes here to attempt to give some ground to the racists mad at the depiction of an actual historic Black figure depicted with no poorer fidelity to history and fact than anything else in the game series.

this seems like standard NYT stuff until you realize it’s in an *obituary*

I do not understand how anyone still takes the NYT seriously as a newspaper with shit like this, to say nothing of the sane-washing of Trump and his lickspittles.

What’s bad about the “oil and water than blood and kin” metaphor is that it kinda of reinforces the theme that blood family is more important than found family for belves, which absolutely sucks.

Oh thats like super lame. A sideling the horde, with something like they had their own army to battle with. Would have been better, then we were here all along, you just didnt see us.

This expansion has been a complete mess. 3/4ths of Silvermoon was made neutral explicitly for Alliance players... Guards express disdain. We're both welcome and unwelcome. I don't know what the target audience is. Horde isn't happy. Alliance isn't happy. WHO. WAS. THIS. FOR?

Really cool environmental detail for the entrance to the new Lair/World Boss

In Istanbul, Turkey, a statue was erected in honour of Tombili, a beloved stray cat known for his unique habit of sitting in a relaxed posture, watching the movement of the street.

Looks like they finally added some NPC lines in Silvermoon for Alliance priest characters specced into Holy/Disc. These ones are post-campaign, but I wonder if any leveling ones also got added.

Another NPC in the city, this time an Alliance character with Kelsey! She's using her old outfit instead of her BfA one, for whatever reason. These all feel like oddly cookie-cutter "three-paragraph response" answers, but this at least sounds like she arrived *after* 12.0.

Also hey, as someone who has had less than good times working for indie projects before: Ive worked with Bigg multiple times now on Monsterous Liberation and the entire time he was professional, patient, and paid me well [the 3 P's!]. You should check out his games, theyre real good stuff.

The shocking thing to me is that their reaction isn't wonder and appreciation that a story made them learn something new, it's anger and annoyance that it did that.

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I think what it means is that a haranir painted those memories from a vision, and they got that vision because of the biological connection between haranir and trolls.

Here’s my thing too, especially with how blizz writers individually actually DO do their craft quite well It can be a bad idea, with a bad premise- but still told well and justifiable and be a story that flows well But it’s still a bad idea. These two things coexist and it’s v frustrating

its the weird way experiencing wow story blind or via ptr spoilers can work and sometimes not work I DIDNT know about post voidspire and played 12.0 blind, so i wasnt prepped for how bad it was, but going in w eyes open into THIS means I wouldnt be devestated by the ending daring to hope through it

Sorry I was thinking about how Zul'jarra's girlfriend wasn't added to the game so she can maybe possibly stand near Liadrin sometimes so they won't get in trouble anywhere by adding a queer character for real and was reminded of this.

Wait wait wait better joke Blizz devs to Jan: “You wanna stay? You stay here forever. We gonna bury you here”