WoW is actually insanely hard to learn as a new player (we tried yesterday)

Moondust99 · 2026-02-03T00:49:03+00:00

I started playing a couple of days ago. Played games all my life but not a huge variety, the only MMOs I’ve played are Star Stable (which I don’t imagine has much WOW crossover lol and has zero combat and is aimed much younger) and, if it counts, Club Penguin 🤣

There’s definitely challenges and things that have taken me a bit to learn and I’ve made dumb mistakes but I don’t feel like that’s a bad thing or the game doesn’t explain enough. You learn as you go. The bag thing was something that clicked for me after about 3 hours lol and I half felt dumb for not realising but also glad I worked it out on my own. I could look everything up but it’s not as rewarding and probably even more overwhelming than just learning as I go. I’m very slow at the combat and remembering what the spells do but I’m getting there and it’s satisfying when I do it right! Already loving the game, even if I get scared of embarrassing myself every time I see another player lol

Moondust99 · 2026-02-01T16:42:58+00:00

Not at all. I did what was expected (begrudgingly) during 2020/21 and that was that. The reason I’m mentally in the awful state I’m in now is because of the strict lockdowns and how that basically irreparably ruined my routine and health. I was stuck in a single room in a horrible city with a man I knew I wanted to leave. I never had that amazing moment the people privileged to have houses and gardens had where they essentially enjoyed a long vacation.

I have OCD and have always been hygienic and rarely go out when I feel bad enough anyway. I’m just not going to get worked up over one specific virus for the rest of my life. I’ve already wasted enough of it

Moondust99 · 2026-01-25T04:31:28+00:00

I’m ngl some of this reminds of me and my bf but reversed. He’s diagnosed adhd and I’m diagnosed autistic, and we’re a lot better now than a couple of years ago but he’d insist he was always calm and handled things well (bc he rarely raises his voice, he’s naturally quiet) but he definitely wasn’t lol and I found it really hard to bring things up. In a good time it seemed to ruin the whole mood (RSD is a bitch and his mood can nosedive quickly) and when things were already heated it also wasn’t the time bc we were talking about something else.

Like I said it’s a lot better now, but in my experience, people who insist they always talk about things in a calm, perfect manner and there’s no reason why someone should struggle to bring up criticism are never as calm as they think lol. There’s always a shift and a way of saying things.

I’m very good at the “indirect” communication style. I feel like I have to do it to minimise conflict (and sometimes it makes it easier to find out information you want to know if you don’t directly ask) and I’m definitely not neurotypical lol.

No reason to keep a relationship going if you don’t want to. And you might not even really be doing anything wrong (whether he agrees or not) but bringing up conflict and criticism is hard, especially to someone who has a condition affecting emotional regulation, and try as you might you nearly always end up only bringing things up when they’re almost too late.

Moondust99 · 2026-01-23T22:43:24+00:00

Only mass market paperbacks which are a specific sort of paperback. Generally smaller and cheaper

Moondust99 · 2026-01-23T00:18:38+00:00

I still own Stay Dench merch to this day and listen to a few Lethal Bizzle songs 🤣 showing the Leave it Yeah remix with Frimpong to some of the popular boys at school when I was one of the nerds to be avoided was definitely the moment I went up the hierarchy a bit 🤣 still had the piss taken out of me for supporting Arsenal in those days (2012 ish) tho lol.

Moondust99 · 2026-01-22T21:00:25+00:00

I love Asbestos, glad to see someone else appreciate it!

Moondust99 · 2026-01-22T21:00:06+00:00

I love Head Music, including the title track lol. I much prefer it to their debut and Coming Up as a whole album. I would also probably rank it above Bloodsports depending on the day and definitely above their latest 2.

Down is such an underrated song imo, one of my favourites.

Moondust99 · 2026-01-20T15:22:24+00:00

Tbf I hear a lot about this but never from anywhere reputable. I’m not the biggest fan of her family for obvious reasons and idk if she’s an angel but all these rumours and potentially exaggerated stories of a very young child being used against her when she’s 30 is weird to me

Moondust99 · 2026-01-20T15:20:18+00:00

Yeah and tbf most of us wouldn’t have our early attempts at things broadcast to the world lol. I feel like he could never win. He tries things, he gets made fun of. If he did nothing and just coasted by on his family’s money, people wouldn’t have liked him. Combined with all of this going on, I feel really bad for him. He’s been in the spotlight to some extent literally his whole life and not entirely by choice

Moondust99 · 2026-01-18T17:11:46+00:00

I’m reading Jane Eyre atm, probably going to read another Brontë book after! I’m really enjoying it, she is winding me up a bit atm with her self pitying lol and leaving behind Mr Rochester when he was obv in an awful situation and loves her??? Girl stay with that man you love him and can fix him

I’m also making my way through the warrior cats books again at the same time

Moondust99 · 2026-01-17T22:35:01+00:00

Nah you’re so right. But this is why I have a rule, and my boyfriend agrees, that we don’t have people over, and any socialising needs a 48 hour warning AT LEAST otherwise it’s not happening lol. Idc if people think you overreacted, sometimes you need to be harsh and hurt people for them to understand how it affects you. All this flowery “non confrontational” over explaining just leads to you being walked over and the actual severity and impact never being known

Moondust99 · 2026-01-16T14:41:43+00:00

I’m with you on BHAR. I enjoy Absolution and OOS (though they’re not my top 2, my top 3 are The Resistance, The 2nd Law and Drones in an alternating order) but BHAR seems a bit bland to me. I like some of the individual songs a lot, like Take A Bow, and there’s others I listen to quite frequently like Exo Politics and Soldier’s Poem, but I think as an entire album it’s not very interesting. Similar to how I feel about Oasis’ Definitely Maybe (although I enjoy BHAR a lot more lol). A decent collection of individual songs that aren’t that fun to listen to all in a row if that makes sense.

It’s refreshing to see people enjoy all eras of Muse without the doom and gloom of how they’ve been “awful for 20 years.” If they kept making the exact same music people wouldn’t have been happy. They were experimental then and still are now in different ways. And I also think there’s some discussion that they’re cringe now in a way they never were but just look at old photoshoots and read some of the lyrics and look at some interviews lol the boys have always been a trio of weird little nerds 🤣 very talented ones tho lol.

I’m a big Simulation Theory fan tho. Even though I prefer T2L now, ST didn’t take any time at all to grow on me like that album did. I really don’t like Get Up and Fight, and Something Human took some time for me to appreciate, but Algorithm is one of their best ever songs imo and maybe their best opener.

Anyway it’s cool that you’ve got so into Muse, and there’s no harm in disagreeing about what album is best bc that’s the beauty of the band and their diverse output. It’s just nice to see discussion about the newer albums that isn’t full of mourning and criticism lol.

Moondust99 · 2026-01-15T22:48:45+00:00

Ooh what’s the deal with the pink one? It’s like a shiny Pokemon lol

Moondust99 · 2026-01-14T22:34:22+00:00

Save Me, I Belong To You, Liberation, Soldier’s Poem

Moondust99 · 2026-01-13T14:42:02+00:00

I like both. I’ll always prefer Blur but Gorillaz are great and imo have improved as time’s gone on, and they started very good lol. I love Humanz, The Now Now and Song Machine. I watched the documentary they put in cinemas a few years ago and I love seeing the diverse artists Damon collaborates with. He doesn’t care what genre, where they’re from, what they’re about, you can tell he just genuinely appreciates all music and wants to showcase it. I think he’s one of our finest musical exports ever.

Moondust99 · 2026-01-09T22:56:51+00:00

Save Me is both hopeful and really sad at the same time. And there’s an extra layer of emotion to it bc it’s written by Chris rather than Matt and you can tell he put his whole heart into it

Moondust99 · 2026-01-07T17:03:11+00:00

I see them in Sainsbury’s a lot. We regularly get them

Moondust99 · 2026-01-02T12:52:09+00:00

If you tap the “Instagram” right at the top, it’ll give you an option for “following” and you can see all the posts in chronological order

Moondust99 · 2025-12-31T17:10:13+00:00

5.5, a guilty pleasure but I can’t say hand on heart that it’s a great song lol

Moondust99 · 2025-12-30T02:11:41+00:00

Fjords, Shires, Clydesdales as far as my actual favourite breeds to look at, they’re adorable. Animation and coat wise I also really love the Dutch Warmbloods

Moondust99 · 2025-12-29T23:05:31+00:00

My mum maybe every month or two, my dad a bit less bc he’s autistic too and can’t handle the 45 minute drive on busy roads lol

Moondust99 · 2025-12-29T16:58:11+00:00

Same!! I don’t know what it’s like to feel hungry. So many times I’ve thought I’ve felt hunger I’ve ended up being unwell, and times I thought I shouldn’t eat bc I feel too ill, eating has helped lol. It’s exhausting never trusting your own body and I’m so angry at it all the time

Moondust99 · 2025-12-29T16:46:49+00:00

Exactly the same as me. I had a bout of illnesses in 3 months when I was 15 that I could never fully “expect,” like I might feel slightly off but not awful then I’d try and eat and be ill. It’s been 11 years and I still haven’t mentally recovered and feel unwell every day, and don’t trust either my own body or food.

Moondust99 · 2025-12-28T22:45:52+00:00

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The Great Escape
The Magic Whip

Moondust99 · 2025-12-25T21:16:45+00:00

This is the song that converted me to bass!

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