Coincidentally, my character is an orc too and I also didn’t even have the foresight to roll the stealthy nightblade class and am stuck with a dragon knight. To top that off, she’s also a werewolf, so I basically made all the wrong choices on the road to her preferred career path.
Art imitates my reality.
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They need to stop touching it. Almost every change has been for the worse or annoying.
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Enjoy them. Love them. Appreciate them.
Do not stan.
And all of that for a trinket I already have. Ree
Time to eat
you’ll take your lootbox and like it!!!
Too late, we already stanning
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I throw the lootbox at your face : I
Stan Marsh cosplays everywhere
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Not a problem on my phone but the same update seems to have made the forum slower and removed the thing I’d click to mark a link.
I can still type that manually, though.
I blame kpop.
I forgot to hand in last time’s Timewalking item. SMHHHH
Finishing some more of the Vvardenfell quest and I am being reminded why I love Naryu so much
Dialogue if you have Persuade as a skill
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That animal is being wild today.
Despite blocking off access to under my bed, he managed to get under there and he’s been howling for 10 minutes straight.
The Mandalorian spoilers
This season wasn’t planned in advance, as it shows. There are some messy soft-retcons in there. Still, it has a satisfactory ending. The only problem is that it has nowhere to go from here.
And let’s be honest. Grogu is only back for marketing reasons.
They’ll likely tie something into Ashoka to cause it to advance.
Seeing Zeb made me happy a few episodes back.
Okay.
So when the Russian translators of WoW translated Black Rook Hold, they interpreted “rook” as the chess piece rather than the bird.
I’m not sure chess existed in the Kaldorei Empire, though its towers do resemble rooks (chess pieces) in-game, but with the name Kur’talos Ravencrest and all the black bird motifs in the fortress’ construction, I suspect Knaak meant the bird when he named it.
I was very confused to see Grogu and Mando travelling together at the start of season 3. Then I googled around a bit and realised there were quite a few things I missed out on by not watching Bobba Fett. A whole Luke and Grogu training arc, a whole episode of a show I have no interest in. It made me give up on the whole thing.
Looking forward to Ahsoka, though.
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It’s ironic because apparently the later episodes of Boba Fett (a show that I also have no interest in) focus on Din Djarin more than Boba Fett himself, while The Mandalorian season 3 focuses on Bo-Katan more than on Din Djarin, its supposed title character.
Oh boy. More like Bo-Ring. I don’t know. I like the Mandalore lore in theory and in SWTOR, as well as in the first season of Mando because there was some mystery to it. Now it just feels like a gimmick. I don’t know if I can explain this properly but there is a thing I’ll brand as “fantasy deep culture lore,” and it’s most often done quite poorly. Also a lot of the Mandalorians in later seasons look like they’re cosplayers. This was also my gripe with the Witcher show, how they portrayed Nilfgaard in literal garbage bags, and in the Warcraft movie with its literal toy store Alliance soldier armour.
Okay. Here’s a rant. WoW’s in-game aesthetic is an exaggeration of a vague real world medieval aesthetic (or it used to be in the time of its conception). It is cartoonish and exaggerated in the way that it’s exaggerated because SERIOUS real life looking graphics and design were impossible to make at the time. So, for a live action movie set in the WoW universe, what they should do is revert back to the original aesthetic - the real world one - and dye it in flavours of the WoW setting instead of trying to copy an exaggerated copy of the real thing.
Not convinced yet? Bear with me.
Anime has the same problem. In anime, there exist certain motifs that are essentially exaggerations of real life emotions/behaviours. Like the back-wave signifying the character is cool, or the squiggly lines over a purple background suddenly appearing on someone’s eyebrow to indicate sadness. These exist because reality can’t be transposed into 2D animation convincingly enough with the budget and time constraints they’re working under. Over time, these motifs became widely spread across all anime and became a foundation of the entire genre’s aesthetic.
But when they make live action adaptations of anime, they copy the exaggerated copy of reality instead of using the reality variant of the design. From hair colours and hair styles to the way characters dress to the DIALOGUE (could write an essay about this but I have no time atm). No. If you’re going to make a live action adaptation of the anime, the aesthetic needs to be rooted in the live action with the anime aesthetic as a flavour and not vice versa! Otherwise, what’s the point?
Deep breath. Exhale. Deep breath.
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Today I learned that a Lotr fan-fic writer(using this term loosely) is suing Amazon and the Tolkien estate for 250 million dollars. He claims they stole the narrative and plot from one of his books called “Fellowship of the King” which is part of his “War of the Rings” saga.
The author has previously allegedly harassed and stalked members of the Tolkien estate on numerous occasions, trying to force them to read and approve his manuscripts for purchase.
Edit:
Book transcript. It’s also on the amazon page for it.