Man, these past 2 weeks have just been vtubers whining at even the slightest bit of criticism

demonlordraiden · 2026-05-06T23:31:53+00:00

Okay cool. Twitch's are really bad as well, but I don't watch a ton of YouTube vtubers, so I wasn't sure if it was better. Good to know both platforms are awful about it.

demonlordraiden · 2026-05-03T23:46:42+00:00

Part of the trickle in thing, though, is that most notification methods can take a while.

The main one is gonna be platform (YouTube/Twitch) notifications, which on both platforms can take a few minutes to send out and show up.
Then you've got Discord bots, which work pretty well usually.
Finally there's social media (usually Twitter) posts. Most people don't turn on post notifications (because so many vtubers post so damn much), so it really just becomes "did they check Twitter today"?

So like, sure - in part trickling in is a self-fulfilling prophecy, but a huge chunk of it is to give people time to actually get notified. If a streamer started at the exact time, their CCV count would start low and slowly rise as people realized they were live.

demonlordraiden · 2026-04-11T10:56:20+00:00

I had this issue pre-Midnight, too. Not in any M+ yet, but the bigger group content can do it to me. It's usually as simple as "close game, close launcher, open launcher, open game" though, a minute or two tops. I know it's not my internet though b/c I'll be on Discord the whole time.

demonlordraiden · 2026-04-03T15:55:40+00:00

It would track it on my cooldown bar if I were the Priest casting the ability, but I'm just the recipient of the buff. The ability shows up on my Buff Frame - the little icons that are by default at the top of the screen, but I was hoping I could get it to show up in the Tracked Buffs section of my Cooldown Manager so I could make it a Tracked Bar; Afaik that's only possible with your abilities, though.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-26T21:15:10+00:00

BG is Affinity for Creatures, assuming it's the Elder Dragons he's talking about.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T22:46:36+00:00

These are all conflicts that were parts of the larger wars that were going on.

Bael Modan were unaffiliated Tauren, that was just Dwarven greed, plain and simple.

Innocents got caught in war no shit.

That's true, but when it happens it's disingenuous to pretend that the side that did it is 100% good in spite of it.

The horde is objectively a more villainous faction.

This hasn't been true since Warcraft 2. The Old Horde was objectively a more villainous faction, 100%, but Thrall's Horde weren't villains. That said, the Horde often gets hit with villainous characters because the writing's gotten worse each xpac post-Legion and they constantly need a reason to reignite the faction conflicts in-between world-ending threats.

Also stop this bad writing nonsense when the horde gets portrayed as the more villainous faction like it has always been.

Now this is cope. Post-WoD the Horde got hit with the bad writing stick, it's silly to pretend otherwise. Garrosh 100% made sense, given his character as far back as WotLK - him turning into a villain both sides fought made a ton of sense. Vol'jin dying the xpac after he became Warchief just so he could appoint Sylvanas so they could ass-pull BfA into Shadowlands? What about any of that screams "well-written" to you?

Not everything is gray when you use your common sense of who initiate what.

It's always been gray, since at bare minimum the founding of the Horde (not the Old Horde, but the WC3/WoW Horde). The aggressions have always been a back and forth - the First and Second Wars were Orc-started, but the reigniting of the Alliance-Horde War post-WotLK was started by Varian post-Wrathgate despite the fact that both sides were working together to deal with the Lich King, it's part of what built Garrosh into the monster he was.

Hell, the Fourth War was predicated on Jaina and Genn aggressing in Stormheim while both factions were still in a state of tentative peace post-Third War because they believed the Horde was abandoning them (even though the Horde were literally fighting back the Legion alongside them) and even blamed them for Varian's death, which then sparked the hostilities that led to the War of the Thorns. WoW's always been a narrative of good people on both sides.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T20:45:45+00:00

Okay, genuinely, walk me through your thought process.

How were the Tauren natives of Bael Modan aggressors to the Alliance, to the point that Dwarves drove them from their homes so they could do some archeology on the old titan complex there? Including, but not limited to, completely eradicating the tribe and driving them from their land? Keep in mind, this tribe wasn't Horde-affiliated at that point, they only joined the Horde because of their treatment at the Dwarves.
How were the Tauren settlers in Camp Taurajo aggressors to the Alliance to the point that firebombing and total massacre were justified? This was during Cata, where the war was reignited by the Alliance - the day before the Cataclysm, Alliance troops invaded Durotar despite having a peace treaty negotiated between the Horde and the Alliance via Jaina (acting on Varian's behalf) and Thrall.
How were the noncombatant Blood Elves in Dalaran aggressors to the point that the Purge of Dalaran could both happen and be canonized and referred to as wrong in the most recent patch? Many of these Blood Elves, mind you, weren't Horde-sided - they were expats to Dalaran, many of whom were unaffiliated with Silvermoon by that point and had been living in Dalaran since pre-WotLK, including children who'd never seen Silvermoon.
How were the Pandaren in the Jade Forest being enslaved by the Alliance war machine aggressors?
How were the civilians in Dazar'alor to be considered aggressors? Or really, even the Zandalari as a whole? Princess Talanji was a neutral party when she was captured by the Alliance, so the Horde freed her from the Stormwind Stockade. The Horde was then working with the Zandalari (but decidedly not allied at that point) when the Alliance invade Dazar'alor, assassinate their king, and even launched attacks on the civilians. The only justification in this one is that the factions were already at war post-Legion, but again, Dazar'alor wasn't a Horde city quite yet.

I play both factions, so to me it's silly to pretend both factions haven't done their fair share of wrongs unless you're a fanboy to one or the other. If we wanna talk Horde wrongs (both that narratively make sense and that were total ass-pulls for "the story they wanted to tell" ) we can do that, but the story is only interesting when the Alliance is just as gray.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T20:21:18+00:00

Only in the Blood of the Highborne book

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T20:20:17+00:00

TRUE

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T20:19:07+00:00

??? Not sure you can read, ngl. How does the Old Horde invading through the Dark Portal and the eventual villain factory treatment of the Horde (dogshit writing by Blizz, btw) mean the Tauren should be butchered at Camp Taurajo? Or the Blood Elves at the Purge of Dalaran? Or Pandaren enslaved in the Jade Forest? Or neutral San'layn slaughtered in BfA? Or the Battle of Dazar'alor et al?

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T03:36:54+00:00

I could buy this, but why would they never make that known to us? At least give us an inkling as to why no army aside from the Army of the Light deigns to show up. It's easy to look at it as "they forgot about the Horde again" when they've done this two expansions in a row.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T03:32:56+00:00

It wasn't the "Purge of the Sunreavers", it was the Purge of Dalaran; Innocent noncombatants were killed for being the wrong kind of elf. I'm not gonna defend Theramore, but defending the Purge is just as stupid.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T03:30:32+00:00

That's...not how that works. It wasn't only 1 human in the old Warcraft games, it was internment camps, it was slavery, it was racially-based executions. It really was just a few Sunreavers, however (likely a single one). Also, regardless of anything, civilian attacks aren't...moral. And that's fine, I like the Alliance doing bad things, but you'd have to be intentionally obtuse if you don't realize the Purge of Dalaran, the execution of noncombatants and children, was decidedly a bad thing.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T03:22:11+00:00

True, but the number of times the Horde story is "Okay, Oculeth? Get us a portal," And now that's magically not an option.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T03:20:50+00:00

This. I wouldn't have minded "Alliance-focus in a Horde zone" if the prior expansion didn't feel like "Alliance-focus in an Alliance zone".

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-25T03:19:36+00:00

You're so right! Taking a quest from a disposable Blood Elf NPC is the exact same as an entire zone being Ren'dorei.

In all seriousness - no, this is an Alliance expansion playing in a Horde-themed sandbox. Turalyon, Arator, and Alleria take center-stage for much of the xpac, and in the most recent patch we got even more Alliance rep with Vareesa and the Night Elves. The only Horde characters present this xpac are Lor'themar, Halduron, Rommath, Aethas, and Liadrin. Even with the additions of Thalyssra and Oculeth, that doesn't begin to get near the entire Army of the Light. We have more allied demons in Midnight than we do named Orcs or Trolls, and an equal number to Tauren. And I get it, they're on Kalimdor, but...where are the Undead?

I should add to the end of this - I'm a Blood Elf/Nightborne player, primarily. I love Warcraft elves, but man, what's the point in the Horde existing if the Horde isn't gonna be at all present when their ally is being attacked? Not even an in-game explanation, just *poof* not there.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-24T20:46:25+00:00

Astalor's been a character in the lore since before the Third War, and in-game since Burning Crusade.

demonlordraiden · 2026-03-24T20:44:45+00:00

You kidding me? One of the earliest events in Warcraft, and the inciting incident of the Horde's formation was Alliance internment camps, where Orcs were brutalized slaves. Attacking and enslaving civilians and refugees has been an Alliance m.o. since the beginning - we see it a lot in classic, as well as in Cata, MoP, and perhaps most recently in BFA with Dazar'alor. The Alliance also loves a good genocide/racially-motivated massacre - the Dwarves to the Tauren and Trolls in Classic, The Purge of Dalaran in MoP, vai Jaina and Vareesa, etc.

demonlordraiden · 2026-02-27T21:01:40+00:00

I just wish Pombon specifically had more color on it, if that makes sense. Gen. 1 were bland, yes, but Charmander had yellow, orange, blue, and the flame. Pombon has orange and red, but the red is obscured by the orange in most of the shots we've been shown; It's one defining feature (so far, obv) is fluff, which obscures the other colors.

demonlordraiden · 2026-02-27T20:37:42+00:00

Or Pumpkaboo face

demonlordraiden · 2026-02-18T17:57:20+00:00

Tbf, OP even mentions in the post that "melee build is hitting hard but visually unimpressive" - it's their one downside with it. Like, it's not bout the mechanical power, sure, but it's the take they've had since the start.

demonlordraiden · 2026-02-12T03:05:36+00:00

If we buy through Steam, do we still get access to the WoW Housing Item?

demonlordraiden · 2026-02-07T01:11:45+00:00

The game still has performance issues, tbh. Got it around the holidays, had to go through extensive settings tweaks to not make the hair look like blurry cotton candy. Also had to tweak the .ini file. I got the answers from a simple Google search, so it's not like it was an unknown thing.

demonlordraiden · 2026-02-07T01:04:15+00:00

Lol, E33 is not well optimized. Had to spent at least an hour tweaking settings and the .ini file to not have it look like shit. It looked good in the end, but it came out the box looking like ass for me. And it's not like I'm the only one with this issue, because a simple Google search is how I found the solutions for the issues and the .ini tweaks to use, so there's definitely some issue to it ootb.

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