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Player Housing and Controversy

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With beta coming out on Tuesday I started to think about my Warcraft opinions. I’m still a little salty that Ion apparently thinks that all WoW players are brainwashed lemmings just repeating the takes of the ‘popular kids’ (aka parroting feedback from influencer videos). Anyway, I had a nice little rant about that and then started to wonder why it had got under my skin so much. I started to wonder if maybe that’s because I feel trapped? Constrained? Voiceless basically. I’m not on any of the ‘usual’ social media places (I’m on tumblr and I watch some videos on YT but that’s it). I’m not sure if discord counts as social media but I’m not in anything that the WoW devs are looking at.

The WoW forums scare me. When I’m really looking forward to something, I’m enthusiastic, eager etc. I’m not good at waiting and I try to still immerse myself in the thing. I’ll watch loads of videos on it for example, and I want to talk about it! This is usually when I make the mistake of checking out the forums and the relentless negativity and name calling upsets me everytime. Seriously looking at the ‘comment section’ on YT videos (or anywhere) is always such a mistake. It’s sad and it’s scary. If anybody expresses anything vaguely positive then they are a ‘shill’. It’s like the only acceptable thing is to ‘love to hate’ and that’s just so sad.

I don’t know what I’m going to do about beta because I desperately want to give feedback. Blizz are turning addons off and creating in house versions, and it probably won’t do any good but it’ll make me feel better if I can tell them what’s good, and what needs work.

Anyway! This post isn’t about beta feedback because that hasn’t started yet – it’s about something I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot bargepole, controversy.

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So I was wanting to share this little useless personal anecdote and couldn’t think where, and then it hit me – this is one reason for a tumblr. 😛

Anyway! I had to get new glasses (had my current ones 15 years adjusting is going to be a bitch). Now me being me I hate change and basically wanted to keep what I had which was impossible. Yes you can get new lenses fitted in old frames but 15 year old ones are much more likely to shatter.

(I have a point I swear).

I eventually found a pair that was quite similar and they felt ok on my face. They are kinda rectangular, half frame, with orange on what are apparently called the ‘temple arms’? My mum who was with me then pointed out the same frames but they had blue on the arms which she thought I’d like better. Ordinarily that would be true as I hate anything that is bright/stands out as I like to be invisible. Except

I was wearing my Star Wars Rebels sweater. The one that says “We make the impossible, possible”. And Rebels is orange with the Pheonix and I was just like “nope I want the Rebels glasses”. Nothing about these glasses says Star Wars, they are normal glasses from Vision Express, but it’s still a little touchstone to something I love 🙂

My beloved Ghost crew ❤️

Librarians: The Next Chapter

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So anyone that knows me knows how much I absolutely LOVE The Librarians. It’s my comfort show. I have no idea how many times I have rewatched it because it’s something I do constantly.

Anyway! I was apprehensive when they announced this sequel because how could it ever live up to the OG show?

I’ve seen the first two episodes now and I have thoughts. Spoilers under the cut 🙂

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Assassin’s Creed: An Overview – Shadows Update!

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Shadows has released and 107 hours later I have Platinuumed it.

Love the hideout so fun getting to place the buildings/some decor and then run around and see everything where I put it.

The game is so pretty. The level of foliage for the trees is insane. It’s so dense and the blossoms are gorgeous. The lighting, riding through the forest is just a real wow.

I think the combat is pretty deep. There’s lots of builds you can do with the gear, engravings and mastery points (I have seen some videos). I don’t understand the combo thing, and I wasn’t very good at anything ‘complex’ but I did manage to make the smoke bombs work a couple of times on Naoe. I never did manage the vault which was sad because it looks really cool. I did eventually managed to block (sometimes) which is better than at the start of the game haha.

I do find games like this addictive. I like collecting and finding all the things, completing it all etc. it feels good to get a clean sweep. I said that I wish Mirage had been longer and considering I paid about the same for it, as I did for Shadows, and I still have some things to finish up and there’s the free DLC coming Shadows is much better value.

Having both Yasuke and Naoe play so differently was fun. Evie and Jacob played basically the same in Syndicate. They had great personalities, I loved the banter between them (Naoe and Yasuke are much sweeter with each other). Yasuke isn’t an assassin, he’s a tank and his leaps of fail are funny. It’s a completely different combat style.

Anyway I have been obsessed with it since release (obviously) so how does the ranking go now?

But before I do I want to talk about Origins. I said in the previous update that I was pissed Steam had bricked the game and I refused to rebuy it as I was so mad. That’s been true for most of the time but just recently I have softened. I nearly got it on the last PS 85% off sale. Call it nostalgia I don’t know but I always have loved the Egypt setting. I’m not sure whether to include it in the ranking or not. I did have about 60 hours and finished the main campaign, but it’s been a while and Steam bricking it has made for complicated feelings.

Ranking:

1. Syndicate

2. Origins

3. Shadows

4. Rogue

5. Black Flag

6. Mirage

Anyway this is what I am thinking. I said I still had AC3 and Liberation on the list but ehhh, I also said that they were free so I wasn’t going to stress it. I got Freedom Cry the DLC addon to Black Flag and I want to play that. I also still want to play Odyssey and Valhalla. I don’t know where the time goes. So I still don’t know where they will rank but I suspect Odysssy will go high.

However! With how Mirage and Black Flag are sliding down the list I am feeling a bit weird about it. I just like these games and the whole franchise has the same aspects (which is why I like it) and so it’s hard to say X is better than Y. They are all good.

That just leaves Unity as the only game post-Black Flag that I haven’t played and I’m starting to get tempted by that as well. I have always dismissed it as unplayable due to the bugs and reports vary. Some say it’s been fixed now and others say it’s still bad. I don’t know maybe I will try it.

Until next time – hopefully not another year or two or I will be having to talk about Hexe! 🙂

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Ok I’m only on the edge of the fandom because I’ve not followed anyone for it specifically, but I’ve not seen this theory cross my dash. Maybe it’s a known thing I don’t know. It slapped me in the face the moment I watched the episode but (again) because I’m only on the periphery I didn’t think about posting it.

THE THEORY

Agatha killed witches.

The day she did not kill witches because Nicky wrecked the play and “mama we can kill witches tomorrow” was the day Rio came and got him.

What if Agatha was killing witches to buy more time? – “I can offer only time”. Nicky was what nine years old? Why that age? Why not four? Or seven? Or sixteen? Rio is death and deaths payment is – death. Agatha killed and killed to pay death off and keep Nicky.

So when she woke up and Nicky was gone, Agatha blames herself because if she’d killed the witch as intended, she’d have bought another day.

Just a thought 🙂

Goals for 2025

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So I did the ‘year in review’ and then forgot to come back and set out my goals. That doesn’t mean I forgot to set out my goals (I set up my progress thread on WriYe) but it’s helpful to record them here. I often add extra context (aka rambles) and that’s helpful when it comes to write the year in review – not that I want to think about the end of the year!! Honestly years disappear far faster than I am comfortable with already.

In my ‘year in review’ post I said I would come back to two topics:
– Readers
– A side project
I’m not going to address these directly but I haven’t forgotten and they will be included in this post.

So what do I want in 2025?

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I hate it when I am on mobile and I spot a typo in tags (this is why I so very rarely reblog on mobile just like and reblog later).

I’ll fix it tomorrow (famous last words. Although… it’s probably going to bug me so much it will be the first thing I think about when I wake up).

No I don’t know why I am like this either 🙂

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Five year plans are dangerous.

I got whacked with a bat and fell to my knees, my lungs wheezing, when I realised in five years I will be FORTY!

Like nooooo thank you.

I don’t even feel twenty yet thank you very much.

I think my brain got frozen at 19 and part of me is still stuck there. Being forty is just impossible. My mum is forty – not me!

Honestly the shit the new year makes us think about.

WriYe 2024: Year in Review

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So this was a quick year, huh?

Seriously how it got to be end of December is mystifying. I feel like it was just last month it was January. Anyway, it is the end of the year which means it’s time for a retrospective, time for the usual introspection. I bring up in tabs the review I did last year, and then the goals post (which I actually made this year). I quote myself and go over how it went.

How did it go?

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Gear as a ‘Reward’ in Warcraft

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So I don’t usually comment on stuff but SoulSoBreezy posted a YouTube video about the datamined ‘18 gilded cap’ from delves for season two. He invited comments and I had thoughts.

My first argument was basically that I don’t think there should be a cap at all.

NO delve specific cap. That’s what I think. I mean I started the season running 8x delves every week to max vault. I did that for like a month on my main and then I didn’t need to anymore. I did it sometimes on an alt but truthfully I didn’t have time. For someone that just does delves? Let them play! Equality. Fun for everyone.

I raid. My guild gets Ahead of the Curve every tier. In The War Within I switched classes (from Prot Paladin —-> Prot Warrior) and tried M+ for the first ever time. I’ll only run guild groups and we don’t have a regular M+ time slot like we do for raids, so I will go weeks in between runs. Currently sitting at about 2.2k score.

I say all this to establish my ‘bonafides’ because I feel like the argument for “cap of 18” is to somehow ‘pacify’ players that raid/M+ and that feels like absolute nonsense to me.

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