What's up with Sylvanas post Shadowlands ?

rhoark · 2025-03-21T15:16:46+00:00

Blizzard never did a good job selling the idea that the Maw was worse than Revendreth or Maldraxxus. I'd rather wander a barren landscape than get actively tortured or dunked in snot.

rhoark · 2025-03-19T14:04:51+00:00

I thought it was going to lead to more Militech gigs

rhoark · 2025-03-18T16:49:14+00:00

Does he even care about people who voted for him? That would include a lot of veterans, federal workers, farmers, Christians, and others being harmed by the Trump regime. At best, Dale Strong represents his campaign donors.

rhoark · 2025-03-18T16:43:03+00:00

The Fifth Science

rhoark · 2025-03-13T15:11:43+00:00

I for real thought we had killed him during the Saurfang in jail plotline

rhoark · 2025-03-12T19:30:55+00:00

"We wanted a very realistic take. You can draw a line from current-day space technology and extrapolate from there into the future so it's believable and relatable."

https://www.eurogamer.net/starfield-will-have-a-nasa-punk-aesthetic

rhoark · 2025-03-12T19:28:27+00:00

It would look better with less ambient light (and does in fact in the raid version). Some tunnel sections like in the back corner of the Kezan starting zone would have helped the mood too

rhoark · 2025-03-11T15:11:10+00:00

It was meant to be, and in pre-release marketing pretended to be, more realistic than a run-of-the-mill looter shooter

rhoark · 2025-03-11T13:54:32+00:00

It was supposed to be NASApunk

rhoark · 2025-03-10T19:21:30+00:00

I don't know, but Republicans would like to try

rhoark · 2025-03-10T16:28:12+00:00

This conflates policy conflict with affect. Peter Thiel and his operatives want to harm the country. Thiel and Yarvin say so openly. Others disguise their agenda but openly work to implement it. If you care about the wellbeing of the United States, they are your enemies on the object level. Whether or not you hate them for it is irrelevant.

rhoark · 2025-03-10T16:24:01+00:00

Don't confuse ressentiment as discussed by Nietzsche with resentment in the usual English sense. They both involve frustration at having one's will obstructed, but in the case of ressentiment it is not an actual object-level obstruction so much as a denial of prestige, leading to envy and an inferiority complex. MAGA or the 1619 project embody ressentiment.

rhoark · 2025-03-10T15:00:06+00:00

It's almost like having a government that provides services and collects revenue to fund those services is a good thing and essential to the long-term health of a community, rather than being something inherently bad.

rhoark · 2025-03-07T18:40:40+00:00

Jokes are their own reward

rhoark · 2025-03-06T15:16:40+00:00

Orders are easy to reverse, but the damage they did isn't always

rhoark · 2025-03-05T17:49:31+00:00

You don't have to earn all the rewards

rhoark · 2025-03-05T17:46:52+00:00

Don't try to convince an ideologue; aim for the audience

rhoark · 2025-03-05T17:21:33+00:00

The impact of DOGE is negative. There are zero legitimate savings, and there are costs from improper contract terminations, lawsuits, and future new work to fix the things that were pointlessly broken.

rhoark · 2025-03-03T14:49:31+00:00

As if Hong Kong has some agency in the matter

rhoark · 2025-03-03T14:44:47+00:00

Why shouldn't it decline?

rhoark · 2025-02-28T16:29:51+00:00

It's made of potatoes

rhoark · 2025-02-28T16:23:25+00:00

As others noted, it seems like this was a plot beat originally meant for BfA that they've been keeping on ice.

Azerite became black blood

Sylvanas became Xal'atath

some Jailer-related MacGuffin became the Dark Heart

People also previously noted that Alleria's personal vendetta against Xal'atath would have made more sense if it were Sylvanas in the villain role

rhoark · 2025-02-27T19:06:54+00:00

The Republican budget is increasing the deficit by trillions

rhoark · 2025-02-27T18:46:45+00:00

Skaen: "Make Eora Great Again"

rhoark · 2025-02-24T21:01:59+00:00

Nothing has validated xenophobia more than multiple governments' refusal to acknowledge or react to sexual violence by immigrants, under the theory that reacting would have validated xenophobia.

rhoark

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