"Or what? You'll release the dogs, or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead! Do your worst!"

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d ago

Name a quote from The Simpsons.

As the cishet roommate of an NB person who came out 5 years ago, we often discuss what a moving target the right moment to come out can be for LGBTQIA+ in a world that can’t decide if it wants to protect you or not. Happy national coming out day to every valid soul on either side of the closet door.

It just occurred to me that #FFXIV, which I sampled at ARR’s launch and had my definitive run from SHB to EW, was the last numerically sequential FF game I played and enjoyed. XV and XVI just could not grab me. IV is my all time favorite. XIV’s “community issues” sadly tainted my parting impression.

Omedon@omedon.bsky.social · yesterday

I started up the demo for Final Fantasy Resonance and got choked up a lot. I have such a storied and (thanks to #FFXIV) complicated, bittersweet relationship with the Final Fantasy franchise, dating back to its inception. I hope I can eventually enjoy the whole game, as it looks lovely!

I started up the demo for Final Fantasy Resonance and got choked up a lot. I have such a storied and (thanks to #FFXIV) complicated, bittersweet relationship with the Final Fantasy franchise, dating back to its inception. I hope I can eventually enjoy the whole game, as it looks lovely!

The music in the #WorldOfWarcraft housing neighborhood is really nice. I don’t know if the horde area has its own music as I generally only use my ally house, but I really enjoy the themes heard there!

I kinda lost hope for humanity when people on mass decided to stay on X.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d ago

no seriously, if the only reason you use a website is "everyone else is there" then what you need to do is log off and ask your parents what to do because you're not old enough to be making your own decisions

Don't sleep on the idea that Xal'atath only called upon the Void (as a priestess of the light can likely always decide to do) because the Titans had already decided to "originate" her world. Perhaps she chose the darkness to survive. It is, after all, her thing! #Warcraft #WorldOfWarcraft

DiscordianKitty⭐@discordiankitty.bsky.social · 3d ago

Who destroyed Xal'atath's world...?

I read this and immediately pictured President jazzhands showing up to whine and complain while Sylvanas and Bolvar were fighting. They momentarily turned their attention to laughing at him and making him a hammer-smashed arrow pincushion. 🏰🫲👱‍♂️🫱🔨🎯 #Warcraft #WorldOfWarcraft

Here's a trade offer: I receive: news headline "Asmongold is banned from the game and can't make new accounts to circumvent it and every time he tries to log in he gets banned on new accounts" You (Blizzard) receive: my money and praise for banning nazis and people who harass your devs and players

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#Warcraft forever could perhaps benefit from taking its recent, ambassadorial “find your people” idea and extending it to observe that with great communal organization comes great responsibility, and if one is the inverse of a good, mass influence on the game, concede a need for mass counteraction.

I’d bet there are #Warcraft staff on bluesky aware of “the climate” regarding the roach motel that #WorldOfWarcraft forever feels destined to be, perhaps thinking “come on guys we have a narrow window for hype, please trust us,” and I’m sure some will grant that grace. I can’t fault those who won’t.

Heeeey who wants to get in voice chat with Olympus randos? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🔫 #Warcraft #WorldOfWarcraft (Honestly this feature would be much more palatable, if still kinda naive, if Blizzard would enforce their TOS/Social Contract and curate their “serendipitous” community game)

Sixsten@sixsten.quillsworn.com · 4d ago

Very curious what's going on here in the Forever patch notes 👀

You expect this from a roach but it's only allowed to continue because every day Blizzard makes the decision to allow it. But I'm sure if they just hide enough "ban asmongold" replies the provlem will eventually go away on its own

💙 Zakami@zakami-arts.bsky.social · 5d ago

why is this still happening, what the 🦆

I mean i also note the panel of five white guys. Not something that would have necessarily bothered me but hey after repeatedly reading Asmongold's misogyny and knowing Blizzard doesn't consider that to be even a little bit of a problem is making me a bit sensitive

My guild is making a whole entire event out of doing nothing but this, they're all so excited to sit on the beach and multitask IRL haha! #Warcraft #WorldOfWarcraft

This is pretty horrifying. Unkikely but it'd also be hella funny if blizzard is collating all these reports to do a simultaneous mass ban as if they were bots.

💙 Zakami@zakami-arts.bsky.social · 5d ago

why is this still happening, what the 🦆

Observing this schedule calms my modern #Warcraft doomerism a bit, because we will be pretty much into TLT by the time WoWF is likely to mention more (dangerous) race or class exclusivity. “Letting WoWF have” its understandably intense unveil-to-release hype & infodump window is more palatable now.

Soul@soulsobreezy.bsky.social · 6d ago

I anticipate a lot of uh, *lively* classic v modern conversations once we get an idea of patch cycle cadence and the new offerings, seeing as how Forever has committed (subject to change) to a schedule

There are two songs that the YouTube hivemind have currently decided to use for shorts that I absolutely cannot stand. This happens from time to time, but it’s never been two at once before. App currently unusable.

"If I throw my sandwich in the bin I can be done with lunch in under 10 seconds" is maybe the best description of AI I've ever heard

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 7d ago

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

The best way #Warcraft can calm this latest front of tribalism will likely have to wait until at least mid-TLT, but that’d be confirmation that these disparate WoWs will share features and compliment, not cannibalize each other. Until then, forever-exclusive races or classes are kinda scary, IMO.

Soul@soulsobreezy.bsky.social · 6d ago

Love seeing the excitement and hype but it also comes with a lot of this

Holy fuck, #Warcraft forever is like “soulstone bag and ammunition” level classic? Yeah I have zero interest in returning to that and I hope the hype kinda blows over after launch. That’s before we get into the Olympus-rot of it all.

As a rather verbose person, it's not often that I can point at someone else's well crafted wall of text and say "this," but while I am more the Modern #Warcraft Loyalist (I need my own time respected and WoWF intentionally cannot do that) than Sixsten seems wide eyed for Forever, basically: "this."

Sixsten@sixsten.quillsworn.com · 7d ago

On the flight home from blizzcon I wrote up my thoughts on the subject, if you're curious, here's a link! dingos-hammer-oc6.craft.me/MSSoO4SUBWrEOb

another AI addon has hit the housing communities (it's HearthHome)

I may have actually cracked the #Warcraft Forever code of "who is this for," and if I'm even remotely right, it's all quite vulnerable to bad actors. I'd say "I hope they know what they're doing," but I doubt it will impact me. I'm not gonna do a "make friends or fail" game at this point in my life.

Omedon@omedon.bsky.social · last wk.

I legitimately think they want people to assemble groups of 5 actual friends and treat Forever like their D&D campaign where no one has to DM. The grouping element seemingly requires a real loyalty and actual bonds. They want us to meet people that will be people to each other. Big ask in 2026.

My Mute addon is now able to be tested on Forever (and maybe mainline but i didn't test that as much), and you can get it at places like these CF: www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/m... Wago: addons.wago.io/addons/mute WoWi: www.wowinterface.com/downloads/in...

These two accounts are either trolls or the Roach's cronies. Immediate block on site. I saw sympathetic replies about him. No thanks.

It occurs to me that #Warcraft are kinda committed now to a remix every expansion, for as long as expansions flow like they do now, because if ever they stop, and don't occupy that space with a repeat of one, that's kind of a betrayal of understandable expectations on two fronts now.

Man, remember heirlooms? This was my pet #Warcraft issue for the longest time, but I just remembered them for the first time since the launch of Midnight. They're... just done, I guess. Present for those that own them, no longer supported. They'll get you to TWW levels. They'll bring you to the WSS.

Olympus stuff aside, I really question who #Warcraft Forever "is for." This article made me think that the vision really is "play alone, play with friends, or hope you meet some people with thick 2004 glasses about online gaming feeling new or novel." Good luck? www.icy-veins.com/wow-forever/...

WoW Forever Players Are Leveling Solo Because Grouping Slows Quests Down - Icy Veins

Quest drops aren't shared and zones are packed, so grouping in WoW Forever feels like a penalty. Here's what pushes players to level solo.

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