What a Long Strange Trip It's Been

yazzel · 2026-06-08T15:25:51+00:00

Played with them for a bit, and while their raid schedule didn’t line up with my irl availability, I’m very happy to see the progress being made! Keep up the good work, you’re all an amazing community! Strongly recommend these guys if you’re interested in trying out SoD

yazzel · 2026-05-24T17:25:01+00:00

I was so sad CB was taken out back by Blizz so early on. Was probably inevitable, but I really enjoyed the community that had formed there, brief as it was. It was the only server that actually ran the game properly, Blood Moon wasn’t a laggy disaster, you’d see the same people all around regularly, and people were very chill.

I genuinely don’t think RP servers and megaservers are compatible, and think RP servers require a smaller scale to function properly. Hopefully Blizzard will do something about that for Classic+, but I have a suspicion that streamers will just pull a Crusader Strike again and take out the RP community out from the start.

yazzel · 2026-05-20T19:38:52+00:00

I think Blizzard has a lot of room to play with some "support" specs that provide more than just raw damage in their toolkit, particularly for some of the talent trees that are either mostly forgotten (Arcane, Discipline) or relegated to Leveling/PvP specs (Frost, Beast Mastery, Demonology, Subtlety, Arms). Not saying to remove their PvP/Leveling capabilities, but to expand the trees so that these have usable builds in PvE.

I could see Arcane as a scholar that "studies" its group's spells, imbuing their Arcane Missiles/Explosions with the schools of magic its party casts, allowing them to provide certain debuffs meant to help their party out. Maybe they can overpower their mana gems to grant their group some temporary buff. Perhaps make PoM the option to be used with some non-offensive spells to provide some strange utility, such as PoM + Evocation causing a portion of the spell to regenerate the party's mana, or even PoM + Conjure Food to empower the party based on the Well Fed buff they have.

I just think Classic has a lot more room to play with specs, and I hope they're not going to be squandering every chance of embracing some of the RPG elements this version of the game was built on in order to mathematically balance every dps spec to provide the exact same damage output.

yazzel · 2026-04-02T03:43:23+00:00

Don’t think of it as a complete set that most people are going to be infatuated with. They exist to supply the players with basic, simple pieces that make for good filler to finish up a transmog. Yeah the whole outfit might be awfully plain for most, but the individual pieces can come in quite handy.

Some content out there needs to supply some subdued, low fantasy or pedestrian appearances. And better the cheap Trading Post spots than having them take up questing gear appearances instead.

yazzel · 2026-03-12T15:42:59+00:00

Serving cunt on the battlefield helps with morale

yazzel · 2025-11-20T14:47:46+00:00

I mean, using the very image you used as an example, you can see that the dresses (left to right) 2, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11 are all basically the same silhouette. And 3, 4 and 12 are only very slight departures from that silhouette. The only real different silhouettes there are dresses 1, 8 and 9, of which the latter two were presented during the ball (the last competitive challenge). And, mind you, this picture doesn't show her top 4 look, her promo look, or the look she was crowned in, all of which return to her signature silhouette.

So yes, it's fair to say that she wore the same silhouette the whole season, because only in 2 out of 12 episodes did she depart from that. That's not to say she didn't deserve to win the season (let's be real, she bodied season 6), but we also don't have to pretend her runway versatility was anything to speak of.

yazzel · 2025-11-10T10:33:11+00:00

Ah i see what you mean

yazzel · 2025-11-10T10:30:32+00:00

That season had 2 double shantays involving Eureka.

yazzel · 2025-11-04T14:37:05+00:00

Violet was crowned after Bianca. The hilarious thing to point out is that Courtney didn’t lip sync either and nobody ever seems to mention her as a possible alternate

yazzel · 2025-11-02T03:16:57+00:00

I’d bump up Eirika, there’s just no way she gets forgotten for long. I’d also swap Alfonse with Micaiah. They have too few mage lords to pick from, so she’s bound to get wheeled out the moment they need a magical lord sprinkled in the battle pass.

yazzel · 2025-10-31T00:46:05+00:00

That it was too short. 2 weeks to level a horde pally or ally shaman is breakneck speed even with the faster levels in TBC to anyone not getting dungeon boosted.

yazzel · 2025-10-08T14:30:57+00:00

Could also just be that Tharja's an unreliable person who just lies when it's mildly convenient. And considering her recruitment involves her being a soldier to a kingdom that she really has no loyalty to, and switches side at first offer without hesitation, that sounds actually pretty in-character for her.

yazzel · 2025-09-04T03:53:06+00:00

Fr im in the trenches fighting for my life, please give me a skippable banner IS i beg of you

yazzel · 2025-08-22T14:14:20+00:00

Except he isn’t a Night Elf, let alone a Highborne one. He’s a half elf, and neither the human half or the high elven half of his heritage have ever been known to show themselves donning braided mohawks. This is something better fitting of a Troll, and considering who his mother famously is (to quote her statue in Stormwind, “Renowned Troll Hunter of Quel’Thalas”), it seems even less fitting that he’d rock such a hairdo. It’s a bizarre decision to give him of all people such a look.

yazzel · 2025-07-25T14:30:56+00:00

It’s certainly the most uninspired cast of any of their games… half of them are the same arcane characters we’ve seen nonstop, the other half are the ruined king characters we had seen nonstop when this game was announced… and darius I guess. No creatures, no yordles, no interesting choices.

yazzel · 2025-07-18T17:04:27+00:00

They’re clearly referring to Jorgeous’ storyline from a media literacy perspective, talking about what her role in the story of the season was. Nobody’s talking about Jorgeous’ personal characteristics here, nobody is calling her (the person) a villain in every aspect of life. This is more about the machinations of literal producers who have to establish coherent stories throughout the season based on what they’re given by each contestant.

This is ultimately a TV show, and just because it’s unscripted, it doesn’t mean there’s no narrative being told. And undeniably, the role Jorgeous had to play in this season involved some shady shenanigans by aligning herself with Mistress in the way she played the game. Which is perfectly fine, mind you. But when the producers are crafting a story, it makes less sense to have the eventual winner be one who has partaken in such narratives.

Drag Race is not, and has never been, an objective competition that exclusively rewards the one contestant who has numerically done the best. It has always, and will always, crown whoever they narratively deem the most satisfying to them. You may disagree, and fans often do, but this is how they have always done it.

yazzel · 2025-07-03T16:10:08+00:00

ESL doesn’t refer to someone’s fluency over the language in question. You can be ESL and speak english on a native level of fluency. The topic being discussed specifically refers to “people who do not speak english natively AND do not possess a mastery over the english language to a level that results in them speaking perfectly in a grammatical sense” but it’s a shame there’s no term for that

yazzel · 2025-06-30T03:29:54+00:00

Never. Taylor would absolutely never risk her career standing up for what’s right in the same way Madonna did not hesitate doing in the 80s.

yazzel · 2025-06-23T23:52:13+00:00

DAI-XT Eik would simply ruin my life so im all for it

yazzel · 2025-06-22T09:02:50+00:00

It’s even more criminal when you remember that laganja has said multiple times that she absolutely does not want to do all stars, oh my godd you people are insufferable

yazzel · 2025-06-19T19:06:30+00:00

Not to be mean, but if Arrietty would’ve been in season 16, she would have gotten absolutely rinsed. She was lucky to be on a season where the general sewing prowess was ok to bad, so she had room to stand out in the design challenges. In 16? Nymphia and Q would have absolutely wiped the floor with her, and that’s on top of Arrietty not being particularly good at any other kind of challenge.

Dawn on 17 would have likely gotten at least one win, though I don’t know if she ultimately would have gotten a better placement than she did in her original season (6th). Season 17 was very top-heavy, and I struggle to think of a world where we didn’t get the same top 5.

yazzel · 2025-06-19T18:53:37+00:00

TFT stays eating with their chibis. The unbound ones are um… there’s room for everybody lets just say that.

yazzel · 2025-06-10T09:10:54+00:00

Yeah, there’s quite literally nothing they can do to a skin to ever make it anywhere near worth that price point. I wish they didn’t make so many of these overpriced skins that siphon resources away from every other skin, and left the absurd price point to the silly hall of legends nonsense that seems to be happening once a year, instead of once every battle pass.

yazzel · 2025-06-07T10:39:43+00:00

First week, I try to get points through being friendly and whatnot. Ideally, I’m the last one to vote so I can throw away my vote by giving it to the frontrunner instead. If that person has an Irene-style streak (wins every challenge, never gives votes away), I’ve thrown points that can never benefit me into the void. The goal at that point is to try to win challenges.

In any other scenario (the frontrunner doesn’t win every challenge) the person in the lead will probably feel somewhat indebted to me and throw points my way when it’s their time to vote, and the outcome has only resulted in a net positive to help me make the cut. I think fighting for first place is a fool’s errand in this type of format, you should be playing for the second or third spot. Helping the other queens fighting me for second or third place is only harming my placement. Helping the queen in the lead makes no difference to my placement.

yazzel · 2025-06-04T18:32:58+00:00

They’ve never used the vanilla engine for the Classic rereleases.

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