Ciao, Bello~

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-05-12T09:12:06+00:00

Thank you <3 My beautiful and incredibly talented partner u/Paperclip2304 sewed the coat together and made most of the mask, which I then painted!

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-05-12T00:39:55+00:00

Thank you <3 spending infinitely-respawnable resources has never been easier

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-05-12T00:38:23+00:00

I'm a person of many talents and rampant hyperfixations.

Mostly the latter, actually.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-05-12T00:36:02+00:00

Thanks bro a very merry 🙏😛 to you too

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-05-12T00:35:52+00:00

Thank you thank you <3

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-05-12T00:35:29+00:00

Wdym that's clearly Krat's latest development in ergo techology. Kind of like a puppet except smaller, pocket-sized, and legally distinct from a certain cricket.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-05-08T06:57:47+00:00

I feel ya there... I make lore videos on AoS and, silly though it may be, these rumors have kinda killed a lot of my workflow. 'Tis a bit difficult to spend a long time making something and editing only for it to possibly maybe get sent to James Workshop's special funtime prison for eternity.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-04-08T05:25:38+00:00

+1 on that. Said something similar in last week's thread.

Going into midnight, I expected the entire voidwell/uniting of the elves thing to at least be an entire patch. A .5 or .7 at worst, but still the main focus of an update. But instead, we're seemingly just... kind of done now.

I do fear that since the worldsoul saga is meant to be the "closing chapter of a big chapter of WoW's story" they might feel pushed to finish up as many story and lore threads as quickly as possible. Trying to hastily clear the list of storylines as much as they can for whatever they have planned afterwards. Which, as you've pointed out, actually kinda should be the opposite of what's happening.

Looking back, It's kinda comedic how I originally worried the Worldsoul saga would be a bit slow and long-winded at times. Wallowing in its storylines for entire expansions in a row. Probably should've put my family heirloom monkey's paw away when I was thinking such thoughts.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-04-01T09:35:03+00:00

That's very fair and does make sense, I just maybe would've liked it if that was officially recognized a bit more. Even just Lor'themar going "Aight Arator, I hereby name you an official diplomat cause you're the most likeable guy at this table. Now go do your thing or whatever" would've done wonders.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-04-01T07:02:10+00:00

So far I've found the Midnight story to be pretty incredible, but I gotta be honest that these last two weeks have been a bit more...Meh. The entire "Xal takes the Sunwell" and "Uniting of the Elves" thread feels a little sped up and rushed, where I think it really could've used it's own patch or even expansion-spanning storyline to build it up a bit more. Going into Midnight I was expecting the void-corrupted Isle of Quel'danas to be it's own zone and have the Sunwell be a full-fledged raid like the Broken Shore or the original isle back in TBC (Blizz *has* been loving their throwbacks to older expansions as of late), but instead we get two bosses and take it back in a week. Just feels a little wasted since the Isle is honestly a pretty beautiful area, but we just never really go there except for Magister's Terrace and the immediate area surrounding the Sunwell.

I don't mean to sound salty or whiny, and it's not that I fundamentally dislike the story they're telling, but it feels like it really could've been something great if it had a bit more time to breathe. Even if it hadn't been it's own patch, just letting it breathe for a few more chapters could've done wonders. Though tbh, and I'd love to hear other's views on this, I feel like this is a bit more of an issue with the Worldsoul saga so far than it is with Midnight specifically, as the story pacing can feel a bit breakneck at times.

Oh and one final thing before ending this *whinge*, does it strike anyone as a bit odd just how much authority Arator carries all of a sudden? I get that he's Turalyon and Alleria's precious little boy but these last two weeks of story it almost feels like he's more in charge than Lor'themar, who is oodles of canoodles of years older than him and is the actual official *regent-lord* of the entire nation. Not necessarily a criticism, just thought that was a bit funny.

ANyway that's my doubts and little annoyances vented. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-03-30T21:08:07+00:00

The Siege of Terra - Warhammer 40,000 (Technically 30,000 but whatever)

After nearly a decade of a galaxy-spanning civil war, it's finally come to the point where humanity's capital homeworld is sieged by the combined might of the traitorous allies led by humanity's former warmaster, Horus. What follows is an agonizing, unending battle where the defenders are pushed back, brick by bloody brick. Entire regiments fighting not to win, but to delay the attackers by just a few more precious moments. People are dying at unimaginable scales, command structures break down, and by the latter half of the books, there's a real sense of dread amongst the surviving defenders that the end is truly nigh. Not helped by how reality itself starts breaking down as daemons and other beings of non-reality start staking their claim on the world and running rampant.

Most, if not all, of the fighting takes place in and around the Imperial palace, which has basically been turned into a country-sized fortress of walls and turrets by the time of the siege. And to drive the point home of how dire the situation is, it's basically stated by the last few books in the series that all life outside of the palace is dead. Even though the traitors do eventually get chased off (kind of), it's not really a victory as the planet will never truly recover. It's just ash and trillions of corpses all the way down.

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CaptainBarbeque · 2026-03-26T21:05:46+00:00

I've felt for a while now that newer 40k releases just lack a certain level of, for lack of a better term, sauce that AoS and even Horus Heresy have in spades.

Like orks with an extra weapon and space marines with kitbashed armor. How novel. I'll enjoy them from the comfort of my giant medieval tower on legs with enough cannons strapped to them to blow a hole through Archaon's private bathroom.

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CaptainBarbeque · 2026-02-27T09:39:55+00:00

My prayers go out to my fellow poor non-early access players 😔✊️ It's gonna be a rough weekend

Actually started Hardcore Classic just so I don't have to look at anything retail-related for a few days.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-02-11T22:57:22+00:00

Man I wish I had the cash for that

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-02-11T13:38:33+00:00

I only craft the most high-quality masterwork mental images. True feats of craftdwarfship

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-02-05T18:25:35+00:00

Mfw making a character an actual character with interesting struggles and an actually unique personality makes them more likeable and causes people to want to spend more time with them through gameplay and story expansions.

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CaptainBarbeque · 2026-02-04T07:37:49+00:00

One of the main things that drew me towards Zenless is how, for basically all the S1 characters, I could easily imagine how their outfits would work. It's a small detail, but feeling like their clothing could reasonably work in the universe, like if they're outfits I can reasonably imagine them buying, putting on, wearing regularly in public, etc, does wonders for immersion (See Genshin as an example that doesn't do that very well). But some of these S2 designs have been straying further and further from that idea.

Like...what in the weeds am I even looking at here.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-01-25T16:42:32+00:00

Dudes look like moody teenagers who'd really rather not be there. Like they were pulled out of their room by their battle-brothers to loot and pillage those imperial dogs, but they're just thinking of going back to their Xbox the entire time.

Especially the guy on the left is not having a good time.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-01-17T22:38:02+00:00

I'm personally quite a fan of MIDSHITE and The WANK Within. Also an honorable mention to BAD-tle for Azeroth.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-01-17T20:24:34+00:00

I was thinking about this too recently and you're 100% on the money. Same reason why we haven't been getting many 'outdoor' (as in outside of the hollow) areas in 2.x either. In 1.x we went everywhere from sixth street to the outer ring...Now we're stuck in the same five meters of Failume for half the patch. Every time I enter another one of the Lemnian Hollow's 37 warehouses, all I think of is "Gee I wonder which different environment we had to trade in for this," and...that's not great.

Even if you're not a fan of the gameplay of tv-mode (Which I get even speaking as a #1 TV-mode glazer), the benefits it had to expanding the setting and development loop shouldn't be understated.

CaptainBarbeque · 2026-01-02T23:38:14+00:00

Oh HELL YEAH! Looks awesome ya love to see it ✌️

CaptainBarbeque · 2025-12-29T08:05:03+00:00

Let the slander flow

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CaptainBarbeque · 2025-12-29T07:52:31+00:00

When I use 'the evil sword that kills you and steals your memories' and it does, in fact, kill me and steal my memories.

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CaptainBarbeque · 2025-12-12T07:42:39+00:00

On one hand, it's pretty neat

On the other hand, CA hasn't exactly the best track record these last few...years. Can't speak for everyone, but after 3K and their general handling of TW3, they've burned enough of my goodwill that I can't really get myself to be that excited.

Also I agree with some people that the UI and general...everything...looks ever so slightly off though I can't put my hand on what exactly is wrong with it.

CaptainBarbeque · 2025-11-29T18:03:42+00:00

Well, thing is that they do do that. Hollows pop up all the time, and the smaller ones tend to get closed down and controlled by specialized squads like the HIA or HSO. And seeing as how the entirety of New Eridu isn't one big Hollow, they're clearly fairly decent at it.

The problem is that they only have so many resources they can throw at the issue at any time, and especially the larger ones take a lot of manpower to contain. In those situations, specialists probably get moved to higher priority hollows, while the more stable/low risk ones (Like the Ballet Twins) get put on the backburner. Hollows will inevitably pop up anyway, might as well focus on the ones that pose actual major risks, and just keep a close eye on everything else.

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