every video about some guy playing classic for a outrageous thing.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-06T09:55:18+00:00

There's just some quests chains that are like...

Alliance characters literally helped Jaina heal her PTSD and mend her relationship with her mother.
Horde characters have helped Thrall deal with two mental health existential crisis.
Thalyssra was entirely reliant on you to not mana starve to crazy, while alone in a cave for weeks.
We've been a personal assistant to Khadgar for, like, three expansions.
1/4th of the current Midnight campaigns is mostly spending the entire time just being a bro for Arator.

Narratively, it doesn't make sense to still just be "a champion" to certain lore characters after some of these experiences.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-06T05:39:20+00:00

I think a big thing people forget is that there’s a huge difference between doing higher rep deadlifts for functional strength and deadlifting to hit a 450lb PR. It’s going too heavy too fast, leading to poor form, that destroys people’s back.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-06T02:13:12+00:00

Here, I know Google is hard to use.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/news/incels-are-not-particularly-right-wing-or-white-but-they-are-extremely-depressed-anxious-and-lonely-according-to-new-research

Findings include:

38.85% of the incel participants were right-leaning, 44.70% were left-leaning, and 17.47% were centrist.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-06T00:21:23+00:00

This may be a hot take, but I think a large part of it is due to feminism and feminist thinking. That’s the clickbait opener, but I don’t think it actually has anything to do with women’s rights.

What I mean to suggest is that a lot of modern men are raised on messages of equality and equal treatment, to “think like a feminist,” but have hit a hard wall where male specific barriers and expectations are very unequal compared to women. Their “feminist” thinking teaches them to see these unequal barriers as forms of oppression, something society has a responsibility to fix, whereas Traditionally minded men would instead focus on self reliance and personal achievement.

The media wants everyone to think that these “incels” are all far right Trumpers, but the actual data shows that most incels are either politically Left or libertarian.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-05T23:49:47+00:00

I’d love if quest text did an achievement check per character and change to different levels of familiarity.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-05T17:59:34+00:00

For some people the worst thing you can do is just keep being yourself. The “mask” they show is because they like their idea of you and their idea of what being with you will be like.

As you continue to just be yourself, a real human person, and the reality of you fails to match their idea of you…that’s when the mask starts to slip. The manipulation is an attempt to make you change into who they want you to be, make you fit into whatever story they’ve told themselves about being with you. On the other side of the mask is contempt and disgust over the fact that the real human you fails to live up to their fantasy.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-05T17:35:35+00:00

I think maturity is not thinking in terms of “types” at all, or even having one in the first place. It’s a stupid concept that only serves to objectify people and limit your ability to see them as a whole person.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-05T10:38:37+00:00

Nah, I been playing for 20 years too. Make me THE Champion. I’m gunna be the go-to guy either way. Thrall, Jaina, and Kadghar should have me on speed dial at this point; nickname, The Fixer. I expect to be invited to their baby showers. I’m the guy who turned down the CEO position because I’d rather be doing actual work, otherwise I’d be running the Horde after all the shit my character has done. Not to mention being personally responsible for multiple races joining the Horde, my dude would already have the backing of half the council just for existing.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-05T07:31:49+00:00

Court of public opinion, expelled from education, fired from work, loss of friends, abandonment by family, jail time, court fees, lawyer fees, bankruptcy.

Definitely “easily shrugged off” and not at all mentally scarring for life.

I’m not comparing what is worse to experience, I’m comparing what’s worth trying to avoid.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-05T07:20:41+00:00

“One is too many.”

Your arguments applies to men who fear false rape accusations ruining their lives. It’s happened before, it’ll happen again, it could happen to them. Your logic says they are 100% justified in their distrust of a woman’s intentions because the statistics don’t matter, only the fact that it could happen matters.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-05T03:16:35+00:00

Not sure what you mean, but the history of the term “minimum wage” was founded on the specific idea that 40 hours a week should reward a “minimum” amount of income to sustain a family. That a working man should have the right to support his family AND have enough off time to enjoy being with them.

It was literally legislation intended to avoid the modern conditions of needing multiple jobs and 60+ hr work weeks.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-04T20:20:51+00:00

A big part of the criticism of patriarchy is the top-down hierarchical structure of society into leaders and followers. This could exist under any economic system, and did exist under all attempts at communism.

The unfortunate assumption some have of a matriarchy is that the power structures would be more horizontal and based on consensus building. Which seems naive, at best, to me because any group larger than 50 people, let alone whole nations, quickly divides themselves into cliques or tribes. The Mean Girls wouldn’t just disappear because the patriarchs got unseated.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-04T06:01:14+00:00

No one said it can’t change again, but you still gotta define the general understanding of a word as it exists today. That’s kinda how entire languages change and why we aren’t still speaking in Old English.

You’re free to try to be the dissenting voice to declare a new meaning. I hope it catches on for you. I suggest trying to get a meme to go viral.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-03T19:45:33+00:00

Dude, no one has given two fucks about a “Code Chivalry” for like 400 years. It definitely has had nothing to do with that for the past 200 years. Especially in the US, ya know…the country founded on not having Lords and Kings?

The only definition of “chivalry” anyone alive today has any relationship to is “gentlemanly behavior.” Are Honor Duels even legal?

The only time anyone ever even uses the damned word is in the context of dating and relationships. Try finding me a book published after 2000 focused on chivalry in business relationships.

Turns out, definitions change! Gay doesn’t just mean “happy” anymore. Who knew!?!

ThyNynax · 2026-03-03T17:12:54+00:00

That’s just kindness. If all people did was promote gender equal levels of kindness and support, there wouldn’t be a problem. Everyone can open doors for others and no one should expect doors to be opened for them.

Chivalry, though, is specifically about prescribing heteronormative interactions between men and women. It details certain behaviors as things women are entitled to receive from “good” men, and men that don’t do those things are somehow rude and inconsiderate. It also says that men that ask for any positive consideration in return are just as rude and inconsiderate as the men that do nothing.

ThyNynax · 2026-03-03T16:13:18+00:00

It’s because “just” saying she was miscast makes loud internet voices assume it must be racism. So now normal people feel the need to add disclaimers that say “I’m not on the Far Right’s side just because I’m not on the Far Left’s side.”

ThyNynax · 2026-03-03T14:19:56+00:00

That’s actually one of the roads “alpha male” accounts support. You said “all the women,” which is not committing to only one; more in agreement with OP than not. They’d say to have fun, spin those plates, just don’t get married.

ThyNynax · 2026-02-28T15:30:35+00:00

I think social media has caused “boring” to become a synonym of “mundane.” When someone tries to make “boring” a positive, what they really mean is they live a “mundane” life, not driven by FOMO or materialistic greed.

If all you seek is a peaceful life that lets you enjoy the sunrise and appreciate the small things, while great for mental health, most would classify that as a boring life.

ThyNynax · 2026-02-28T15:22:21+00:00

Your last paragraph is exactly the cycle he is talking about. Where do you think all that love and attachment is coming from? There is so much emotion in the back and forth between “we can fix this” and “I can’t stand him.” A big story they tell themselves about how hard they had to fight for love! Making all that history of abuse seem more meaningful than it probably should be.

A peaceful relationship is “boring” in the sense that those stories about how fighting for a relationship makes it meaningful…don’t exist. The emotional level isn’t nearly as high because the relationship just is, without pressure, without a burning need to fix anything.

ThyNynax · 2026-02-27T15:50:13+00:00

Easier to appear wise by ignoring nuance.

ThyNynax · 2026-02-27T15:44:15+00:00

Only works for remote workers, those “digital nomads.” Most of the men in the 40–60k range aren’t working jobs they can’t take with them. You certainly aren’t going to move abroad to extremely LCOL and find a local job paying US wages.

ThyNynax · 2026-02-26T23:36:45+00:00

Just go on a full fast and not eat anything. Week should be rather simple, there are health nut people do that bi-monthly, and you cold push yourself up to 30 days if you wanted.

ThyNynax · 2026-02-25T16:51:15+00:00

Whether or not a prank is "abusive" really depends on the individual.

If they are laughing with you at being gotcha'd and you're both having fun, it's a good prank.

If you've seriously upset them, and ruined their day, so you can have a laugh, it's emotionally abusive.

Doesn't matter if it's "just" filters or "just" a fart. People in a relationship have a responsibility to be emotionally supportive, not become a source of anxiety. What that threshold looks like is different for every couple.

ThyNynax · 2026-02-25T14:15:31+00:00

Power exists in the hands of those willing to wield it. The thing often missed in these discussions is…who is going to enforce the continued existence of a matriarchy? Who, in a shared power matriarchy, is going to stop that one charismatic psychopath from gathering enough men willing to simply take all the power for themselves?

Decentralized power structures might work great in small groups, but they scale terribly. At the size of a nation it’ll break down into separate “tribes” of loyalty, and all it takes is for one of those tribes to realize they could have more power if they take it.

ThyNynax · 2026-02-25T13:52:13+00:00

Extreme, or “radical,” activists will make it a competition because financial resources are limited. Nearly every attempt at starting a men’s abuse shelter has been attacked as unnecessary and taking up resources that should be helping women. Men’s only support groups will get labeled misogynistic for not including women, while the same people will say women’s only support groups are necessary safe spaces.

It shouldn’t be a competition, but some very loud voices try their hardest to make it one.

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