okay I’m actually going to try something different this time. I deleted every character until I only had Alliance characters, and only one character per class (the highest-level character) and I’m going to see if I can figure them out instead of making new characters. I’m going to pretend that professions don’t exist for now but I might deal with that later because at the moment I just want to focus on figuring out combat again and getting all of my combat-related addons set up

any time I play a non-WoW MMO it feels to me like they completely missed the point of what makes a WoW-style MMO fun in the first place and just did random confusing things instead. but I think what’s really happened is that they’ve catered the MMO to every player’s taste except mine because I’m the only one who likes WoW as a singleplayer class fantasy crafting-and-combat experience

I don’t think even Blizzard could understand why I love this game or what I get out of playing it. there is no other MMO in the world that caters to my taste and I’m increasingly suspecting that WoW caters to my taste so well completely by accident

I think at the very least, all WoW characters on the same faction should have a shared bank and a shared gold pool. that would help a lot. like, an enormous amount

I’ve been getting back into my private WoW server lately (I do this about once per year for 2 weeks and then get bored again lol) and it’s reminding me why I always delete all of my characters and start from scratch: WoW characters are extremely fucking complicated and there’s no way to take notes that are stored on the server about how to play them or what I was doing with them, or really anything about them at all

which character was my auction house character? why is my character in this zone in particular? what items are stored in which character’s bank and why? how do I make sense of the enormous complexity of their abilities? etc. it’s way easier to just start from scratch than figure out wtf was going on with each one

so yeah I have about 10 characters and I’m going to delete all of them and start from scratch. I feel like the average WoW player would be screaming at me right now lol but genuinely, it’s this or not play the game at all

@mioontje oohh I am really looking forward to seeing the pics that you took

@Shivaekul oohh… I might give this a read - thank you for the recommendation! it definitely sounds promising

Here’s a three month old screenshot of a tweet that tickled me

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@tryst oohh that concept sounds really cool to explore

dystopian fiction doesn’t work because no matter how much you confront the average person with the flaws in our current system, they still won’t understand that alternative systems are possible or what those would look like, so they either descend into doomerism about it or learn how to turn off their empathy for others

we need fiction with a proactive message - like fiction that juxtaposes two societies, one better than the other - or fiction that shows how to fight for a better world and how/why that works. or hell how about you just show people a society that they would prefer to live in and show them how it’s possible to create that

but you can’t just be like “capitalism bad” because everybody already knows that homeless people and starvation exist

also they taught me that if I ever try to analyze a piece of art I will be subjected to extreme criticism and scrutiny so it’s better to just never engage with art beyond the surface level

the best way to teach kids anything is to take away all of their rights and herd them like cattle in a heavily oppressive authoritarian system where their every movement and action is monitored and controlled and they have no choice over what subjects they learn or engage with or even how they learn or engage with those things. also their knowledge is repeatedly tested and monitored in a high-stress high-stakes environment so that they can be shamed over and over for their lack of understanding

“so you see kas, the spinning top is symbolic of-“

me, flashing back to The Canterbury Tales: never speak to me again

my high school classes may not have taught me anything of value whatsoever but they did give me a lifelong deep-seated hatred for the entire field of math, the English language, symbolism, poetry, the entire field of literary analysis, anything considered “high art”, and anything involving American history

@bflipp @zombiegamercat

Was gonna suggest the same thing, vanilla Doom is certainly something that requires a bit of tempered expectations for those unaware of the limitations of the original engine. Limitations which I personally can appreciate given that it's almost as old as I am! Having said that, I can't play the game without free look, and while I respect map devs to not jump/crouch in order to break progression, I do enjoy being able to do them.

Having said that, while I enjoy Duke Nukem 3D, nothing will replace Doom and its legacy for me.

I'm playing "Doom 2" for the first time after not touching the first game in roughly 8 years, and MAN does playing this game make me appreciate "Duke Nukem 3D" even more. I can't tell you how many times I just wanted to be able to jump or to look up and down; things we take for granted in gaming these days. It's almost crazy to think HOW MUCH Duke changed FPSs, adding these now "simple" plus also adding more precise aiming vs in "Doom" where you kinda just aim in the general area of an enemy and bullets just find their way to nearby enemies. Hail to the king baby.

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