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Come listen to another cozy Elder Scrolls reading~

I'm kinda pissed that this is the only dragon break that we have any real details about, honestly There are one or two more known ones, and they're super interesting phenomena, but there's hardly any writings on the matter

What Happens When Reality And Time Twist ~ [The Warp In The West]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0KViOMDcOU

For those who aren't familiar with the lore, this book essentially details the events at the end of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall from the perspective of various Blades agents who were in the area and experienced it. While magic exists in the world of The Elder Scrolls, events like The Warp In The West take incomprehensible amounts of it and are a truly rare sort of phenomenon

These accounts of the event were only accessible to very few, and only because of the existence of The Blades, a security and information organisation that answers to the emperor. Meanwhile, most people were either not privy to the details of the event or simply call it an act of the divines.

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@ninafelwitch omg that extremely makes sense. I guess I see my characters as abstract representations of fantasies that I want to have rather than actual characters that I roleplay as if that makes sense, so I don’t really get attached to them like that thankfully

I actually never even considered making a new account! if I made a new account every time I would probably have about 7 by now though lol, or maybe more. and I know myself and know that I would never go back to those old accounts so I might as well have deleted all of the characters in them anyway

and, I’m playing on Tauri! I haven’t tried too many other private servers but I love Tauri - it’s very very similar to Blizzard’s version of WoW but has higher XP rates (but not absurdly high or anything), and it also even has Legion! (among a few other expansions that you can play)

woof woof

@vivi ahh so the yinglet goes woof! that answers I question I never even thought to ask :P

I love the fedi, but I'm sorry- y'all got it just as bad as bluesky when it comes to dealing with ACTUAL people...and specifically BLACK PEOPLE.

I said this when I first came here, and ima say it again. You're not gonna have any good laughs, actionable change, and community building without making your space welcoming to black and marginalised folk.

Ima eco this~ get your heads out your asses and actually build a fun and safe fedi plzzzzzz.

If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.

Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.

#Privacy #AgeVerification

i have updated the block game site's FAQ with important new information

huge shoutout to CurseForge for keeping every version of every WoW addon and letting you sort by which WoW version they’re compatible with. AFAICT there is Absolutely No Reason why this would be helpful for a retail WoW player but it is a lifesaver for private server players like me

if I could make games I would make a game that does everything I love about WoW but better. it wouldn’t be hard because WoW is only accidentally doing most of the things that I love about it

@Shivaekul oohh I’m really glad that they did. I love a lot of what they did in more recent WoW expensions tbh - like level scaling is something that I have wanted for so long T_T trying to play multiplayer when you’re not at the level cap and there’s no level scaling sucks so much for my playstyle - it effectively means I have to consciously keep my character’s level in line with all of my friends’ at all times or playing with them is going to be Extremely Unfun

thankfully my private server has Legion which (I think?) finally added this

but yeah I want more games where I pick a class that has a very evocative fantasy associated with it and then the game facilitates that class fantasy with all of its mechanics. like even one game that does that other than WoW would be great

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

"this sucks. I am X years old and I should know how to do <seemingly basic thing> by now, I'm a failure!"

no little one, we are not born knowing these things and we do not evolve automatically like pokemon. someone has to guide and teach you or it takes *forever* to learn on your own.

you are not a failure. someone failed you.

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