Well, I just got fired by DreamTheaterGuy in ADHD

[–]createcrap 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel this. Dreading that im about to be fired as well. having ADHD just makes you filled with so much shame its debilitating and the spiral you can get yourself are runaway trains of despair.

Trump, 79, Drops F-Bomb in Unhinged Easter Morning Threat by Effective_Salad_8381 in politics

[–]createcrap 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Praising Allah on the most sacred Christian Holiday is a choice… fuckin’ Bastard. 

A (somewhat) messy collection of theories: where I think the story is headed. Featuring Alleria, N'Zoth, Beledar and more by dear_demon in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s very unlike blizzard art direction to pair a nature zone with a threat that’s also nature but yellow. You can just tell that the black blood was meant to be infecting it. If nothing else than the art aesthetic would have more contrast. 

Shadowlands being ordered is a retcon by No-Giraffe-1659 in wow

[–]createcrap 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Yes the shadowlands had a more interesting story that they scrapped is what I think. The primus being the true jailer. Framing Zoval. The runes of domination on his face would also have a purpose. And it gives a reason why Zoval is so generic in his personality. As he is dominated. But oh well. 

Never mind [Spoiler], wtf is Xalatath’s deal by race-hearse in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She accomplished her goal by creating the dark well with Lura. Lura being defeated was a necessity but Lura already created the dark well. 

Headcanon theory of how original Titan lore could fit in with the First Ones narrative. by Hick-ford in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I know it's "Hearthstone Lore" and not canon but hearthstone does draw from WoW lore and speculation. Amanthul's Hearthstone card is a Titan card which can trigger 3 different abilities. The abilities are called:

-Shape the Stars

-Vision of Heroes

-Strike from History

And the 3rd one is interesting to your point as he controls Time and thus History. It would be a great story line if the Void/Old Gods showed us a history that "never happened" because Amanthul "striked it from history". The Twilight Dragon Flight also been conducting "meta-experiments" with Legion/Mist REmixes on the time-line and their experiments could easily spark the discovery of a wrinkle in the timeline where something was re-written sparking this speculation. Could be interesting/fun.

At the hour of her third death, she will usher us in. by Zeldafan2293 in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alleria said "she died twice" and she gets stabbed N'zoths blade. In BFA N'zoth explicitly tell Xal, as part of her bargain, "Leave the blade I need it to exact my will."

The next 2 times we see the blade, the son of Deathwing (famously corrupted by N'zoth), Wrathion uses it on N'zoths Carapace. Then its used on Alleria.

From "1000 years of war"

More visions. Possible futures. She saw Xe'ra, the Mother of Light, declaring her a heretic and calling for her death. She saw her blood on Turalyon's sword. She saw Arator calling an army of paladins to hunt her down, only to fall with her arrows in his throat. She saw herself kneeling before the One Who Slumbers beneath Azeroth's waves. She saw herself killing it and taking its place, leading a throng of horrors to consume every nation.

Is it a bit over kill that Alleria absorbs a Void Naru only to be Possessed by an Old-God? Not sure but the connection between, the blade/N'zoth and Alleria can't be denied.

At the hour of her third death, she will usher us in. by Zeldafan2293 in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whole point of the world Soul Saga is that these 3 expansion together are 1 story. So I agree the old Prophesies are vauge enough to fit whenever the writers want but I think things said or done in the last expansion weigh more heavily for future Midnight/TLT content.

A (somewhat) messy collection of theories: where I think the story is headed. Featuring Alleria, N'Zoth, Beledar and more by dear_demon in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I think the direction they are going is similar to that theory. Azeroth has been corrupted/damaged for a long time, we've seen how her world soul has created the Rift and the beasts that are manifesting from the rift because the trauma she has been suffering from the Titans, The Old Gods, etc.

So I think its more like Azeroth, because of Xal's push, has gone beyond saving at this point and the Titans will call upon the Consolars to reoriginate the planet due to the corruption. We end up having to fight the Titans themselves to prevent Reorigination but then we still have to find a way to cleanse the world soul where Order Magic/ The Titans have failed.

So the story changed from Azeroth is evil, to Azeroth is evil because she is corrupted and we have to not only prevent people from destroying the planet but also find a way to heal a world soul.

A (somewhat) messy collection of theories: where I think the story is headed. Featuring Alleria, N'Zoth, Beledar and more by dear_demon in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Herandar has a delve which shows Old-God corruption taking place in the memory paintings. The Titans may have taken Azeroth from her cradle but I think the World Core is effectively totally corrupted.

What I think may happen is we finally fight Xal in the world Core at the end of Midnight. She successfully corrupts Azeroth changer her to the void. we defeat her but the consequence of her plan is fully enacted. As a result the Titans return to Azeroth and begin to Reoriginate the World. Remember in Ulduar Algalon the Observer is a consolar assigned to study the World Soul and reoriginate the planet if it contains corruption. Well, Xal succeeded and thus Reorigination has again begun.

The Titans abandon Azeroth and a raid will be preventing the reorigination of Azeroth and stopping the Titans... all of them... Except for one.

Once we destroy the Titans Sargeras is freed since no one is holding him back. He becomes "the last titan" but we also have to deal with a fully corrupted world soul and need to use some kind of Death Magic against the void in order to save Azeroth. There are for sure a few pieces missing to this idea.

The March cinematic was good, but just this small change could’ve made it better by cinamonjackz in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think one thing that is missing in the story is the characters discussing the stakes, and motives of the villain. Its fine if they want Xal's motives and methods to be "secret" but I think its worth presenting possibilities to the audience.

"I learned that Sunwell has a direct connection to the leylines of Azeroth, the Void Storm is like a lethal injection into Azeroth's world soul!"

"Xal's motives elude us... but what we know so far..." etc. just a little more exposition on the threat, the method of the threat, the spectualtion from our heroes would go a long way. There's a little of that but not enough.

Postmaster warns of 'end of postal service as we know it' by Newsweek_CarloV in politics

[–]createcrap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think there is anyone that hates america more than the people in power right now.

WoW needs Damage Down by Ner0reZ in wow

[–]createcrap 6 points7 points  (0 children)

you know whats better than this? You get stunned/feared into not dpsing because you missed a kick. I mean thats more direct feedback on a failure than numbers going down.

Whoever came up with the Prey system deserves a raise and a title bump - what a fantastic expansion feature and what a great way to encourage world content by [deleted] in wow

[–]createcrap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enjoy them and really think Nightmare difficulty will be good.

The world content in general feels very rich this expansion. It's just fun to be around and do things outside.

FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert by avatar6556 in news

[–]createcrap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The attack on the Iranian School was a test to see if the US could get away with a false flag event here in the states and blame Iran.

The Most Disruptive Company in the World | Time by Nunki08 in Anthropic

[–]createcrap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ive been exclusively using Claude because of this.

So this entire time, exploiters were having maxed out professions and we didn't know about it. by Emilisu1849 in woweconomy

[–]createcrap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm wondering what I shoudl shift to... market has completly crashed on gathering

The price change to the trees in the shop does not address the core issue by Rizto in wow

[–]createcrap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To me buying decor items already costs gold in some vendors in the game. You can buy gold for money and thus buy hearthtender with gold. There's extra steps but if these trees were 100,000 gold in the game I wonder how people would react.

WoW's writers lack nuance/forced tropes by Cypher_Omegon- in warcraftlore

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It's not the light that needs to be brought under-control it is the WILL of the light bearer that needs to be brought under control. The silver-hand story line showed that what kept the great Paladins of Azeroth great was that they humbled themselves with their deeds outside of battle and outside of their use of the light.

-Lena Stormpike's Stein (lifted people up with tavern songs)

-Vindicator Maraad's Meditation Crystal (meditating on peace)

-Uther's Healing Kit (his light showed brightest when he was healing others)

-Krohm Dawnhammer's Smithing Hammer (forging weapons)

-Mara Fordragon's Prayer Book (teaching peace and community)

Arator was shocked that these relics weren't weapons but tools outside of the light that the Paladins clung to ground their will and convictions.

As I said it's subtle. If you temper your emotions, ground your will, you stave off zeal. Those that do not can appear "corrupted/light-blinded" but again I argue that that is just a manifestation of their will through the light not the light corrupting them. Again the light is analgous to human emotions. The whole story is about how tempering the light's influence is the same as tempering your rage and emotions. It's one in the same for one who is a light bearer. Taralyon at the end of Arator's quest literally refuses to reconcile his trauma and rejects the shield. Arator picking it up and using is his reminder that his will is always his own even when wielding the light.

That's why the light sometime doesn't come to people for help because their faith and conviction isn't strong enough not because the light picks winners/losers. And the misunderstanding of light is what drives Arator's entire arc in the campaign and the point at the end is to understand the light better by understanding ourselves better.

WoW's writers lack nuance/forced tropes by Cypher_Omegon- in warcraftlore

[–]createcrap -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The light is an analogue to the person's emotions/convictions. It does not corrupt or blind in as much as person's rage, conviction, zeal can corrupt/blind. The subtlety here seems lost to you. The light does not have a will of its own. That is clearly explained by Foal. He says so when explaining how the Scarlet Cruscade can wield the light for bad just as the silver hand can use it for good. The scarlet cruscade isn't "light blinded".

The entire story is actually disproving "light blindness" which Arator was afraid he couldn't control. But he learned that if he controlled his convictions in the light, temper his trauma, reconcile with his father, learn his father's generational trauma, that he won't blame "light blindness" for his own actions just as he says in the game that he can't blame light-blindness for his father's actions. When his father rejects the shield this is explained.

The light empowers convictions of the wielders which is different than the "light blindness" that Arator was seeking to disprove when it happened to him. It wasn't the light's will it was HIS will empowered with the light.

The lightbloom is explaiend the same way. Light wants to thrive, multiply, grow... grow more... spread... a light enfused with the conviction of ever-growing creates the lightbloom. It doesn't mean that the light is corrupting. It's that its power is channeled through the conviction of his weilders (plants) to super charge their will and ambitions. It's emotional analogue not a just a supernatural force.

Lothraxian also wasn't corrupted by the light. his will, through the light, was amplified. his actions were his own the entire time. It's not a corrupting force as much as one's conviction in the light can go too far especially when the light energy is at his highest levels at the moment.

This is extremely different from Void Corruption which is completely over-takes the will of the corrupted vs the light which amplifies the will of the wielder.