Brian W Packer

@thesmall001.bsky.social

ECAM Assoc. Lecturer & PhD Research for Games Tool UX @ Chichester Uni. Views not representative of employers. They/He.

The thing I wish all parents knew it's that being LGBTQIA+ isn't any child's choice. By the age of 3, if they've had more than 4 magical girl shows recommended to them, the algorithm has already decided that for them. My toddler just asked me why Usagi had to stand outside because of her 30 number.

*Open, BlizzCon. Metzen straddles a chair, flicks a white stick from a matchbox. "I am so tired." *Draws stick to lips. "You couldn't just let me cook? 14 years. 'Egg. Egg! Azeroth is an egg!' Egg. Yeah, I got you. Got you good. Egg?" *Crunches candy cigarette. "Azeroth is an onion." Run trailer.

Every spec in WoW should have 3 Mastery stats: 1 that is simple & passive (most, currently); 1 that accentuates a class-wide theme; and 1 which is conditional to effective play in a certain playstyle. Eg: Resto Shaman M1: Direct heals + X% & HP+N M2: Y% Echo Heal/DPS M3: Z⁰-Z⁵⁰% Deep Healing

Cannot stress how much the next WoW: Remix event needs to let people use or copy over their existing characters for it. However that can work, it needs to do so, I'm hitting the character cap and can't keep them all up.

Lor'themar Theron: "I am going to bait this dumb Amani brute so hard into punching me first." Furthermor'themar Therein: *throws the first punch* "Look what dumb this brutal Amani made me do."

Why is winning 10 Arena Skirmishes still a weekly that ever occurs? Why does it require Wins? Why does it require 10 of them? Why does it still reward only 110 Conquest instead of at least 1 item's worth of catch up? So many questions into the delusion vacuum that is WoW still having PvP.

The time has come. My Midnight launch content review thread, including both the leveling and max level campaigns. Buckle up, this will be very long. 🧵 (1 of 71) (I'm not kidding)

My only major complaint about the Midnight campaign is that every time Arator refers to the collective as "Elves of Azeorth" it just completely breaks my immersion. "Amir'dorei", that is "United Children", or something else, would've felt much less like they asked ChatGPT to script an elf unity arc.

WoW needs to re-up its cinematic one-liner writing. On Alleria, Xal missed a chance to clap back with "I was never aiming for you" and "You [x] just don't know when to lay down and die" should've been met with a taunting "So naïve to think that death would stop us", alluding Alleria & all fates.

Bolvar's Mum was the highest rank Cleric of Northshire who led the refugees from Stormwind to Lordaeron. There's no way she wasn't the unnamed Priestess who Calia and her husband, obviously Bolvar, beseeched to wed them. Jaina was all but Calia's sister, so their daughter was sent to Kul Tiras.