Becoming her first true children, taking on the noble titanic aspect.
They certainly do seem to be precious prizes every godlike force wants to claim.
My tongue was firmly in my cheek for that one
Are we inventing a new level of Warcraft canon?
Is this like the Rodenberry Canon of Star Trek, where some Trekkies refuse to accept anything that Gene Rodenberry didnât have a hand in as âtrue canon?â
Is âMetzen Canonâ now a thing, where nothing is canon unless itâs explicitly canonised by the big man Metz himself?
God if only that were reality, alas it isnât and we have to take Danuser talking about Cosmic Rope Theory and mindcontrolling fluoride in the water seriously.
So far weâre 3-for-3 on consecutive disaster xpacs that have torn down WoWâs identity with Metzenâs absence. He returns and we get Season of Discovery which he is narratively involved in and has been nothing but fantastic thus far and feels like Warcraft.
Iâd gladly confine Metzen to the garbage heap if I had my way. Not because (in my opinion) heâs really no better than what followed him, but because I donât believe for one second he was ignorant to what was going on at the company/studio with all its gross practices. Even if he wasnât personally involved he did nothing noteworthy to stop it.
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Be careful what you wish for.
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'Twas a grand, glorious dream etc. etc.
In truth, The Hero is sitting in a chair drooling to this day, their mind broken irreversibly by the combined trauma of Wrathion having them endure Nâzothâs madness and Magni using them as an anchor to channel the entire worldsoul power through the poor sodâs body.
All things that have followed is a funny dream, the three year timeskip actually being a prolonged seizure as our dear Champyunâs perceptions warp and twist in their continuous and degenerative brain trauma.
The weekly vault reward is really the spoonful of applesauce keeping them going.
I could go on but itâs frankly depressing.
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Somehow, Zovaal returned.
Absolutely not wishing for it.
Iâm a bit of a centrist when it comes to Metzen. I acknowledge that a lot of Warcraftâs DNA comes from him but at the same time, heâs also responsible for some of the worst mistakes and lore additions in Warcraftâs history, in my opinion, some of which are worse than a lot of the controversial stuff in Dragonflight, such as Elemental Bonds and the origins of the Eredar fiasco.
Also a bit of a centrist when it comes to Dragonflight, I guess, since I accept that it has a lot of problems, but I do think it has produced a lot of good Warcraft quests and stories, many of which are a lot better than stuff that has come out of the Metzen era.
So I donât see him as a messiah who will rescue Warcraft from the doldrums of despair, since I honestly donât think Dragonflight was that bad, but I am interested in seeing what direction War Within will go in.
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Some awkward storylines aside and a meandering story, it does the job better than shadowlands and doesnât stretch itself thin by trying to cram several expansions into one ĂĄ la BfA.
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Think this is doing some lifting in terms of narrative. Having flavourless goop is great after a starter of 
with sugar sprinkled on top.
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Personally I think a lot more good than bad came out of Dragonflight. The worst I can say about it is that the main story was kind of bland, but otherwise itâs easily in my top three expansions along with Wrath and MoP.
As for Metzen, yours is a good balanced view, and I welcome it. I think Metzen is good at pitching high-level ideas, but is better off leaving small-scale details to others, and he needs others to keep his runaway imagination in check.
I think most people are probably just happy that someone who has a proven track record to give a damn about Warcraft as a setting for others and not their own egomaniacal storytelling is calling shots in the writers room again. Even at its most Thrall-centric I donât think many peopleâs issue with the story was that it didnât feel like Warcraft.
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Well said!
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So one trip to the sorcerers sundries and the sorcerous vault and Gale is pretty much a wizardchad now
I wonder if other companions get similar themeatic âpowerupsâ as it were (I know Wyll gets a sick rapier and Shadowheart⌠was I supposed to get a legendary weapon for completing her big choice? I got a goody two shoes weapon but its rare/blue) 
Iâll be awake until Iâm not haha.
Most companions get a tune up - Shadowheartâs come from the gauntlet of Shar in the form of her dark justiciar armour.
It gets souped up if you make a particular choice but even the base version is strong enough to carry her through act 3. Base spear is strong but will not beat out the blood of lathander
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100% agree, and the thing is as well, thatâŚeither option is tremendously bad. If he did not know at all, then it showcases that he absolutely had next to zero presence in the company, to the point that any of his work can be heavily scrutinized and put into question, as can his complete lack of leadership in that case.
Or the more likely, he was fully aware but did not step in. Either out of apathy/lack of care or because of approving of it.
With what happened under him/when he was present, it was a situation in which no matter his knowledge or lack of, or involvement or lack if, it will paint a really bad image of him as a person. Itâs just that one part is slightly worse. And itâs the one that is more likely.
Somerton released an apology video. Its about as expected and quite a bit manipulative.
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The video starts with him crying and opens with that heâs tried to hurt himself because of what happened and heâs been in hospital. It continues talking about how upset heâs been, his friends left him and he risks being homeless.
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He apologises for accidental plagiarism. None of it was intentional, it just happened. Things âslipped inâ.
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Simultaneously he says he is not misogynistic, those comments were plagiarised and not his own.
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He thanks hbomb for setting up a fund for those he stole from.
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He wants to reupload all videos again but send the revenue to hbomb to add to the fund. He also wishes to return with new videos âproperly citedâ and become the face of âproper source citingâ on youtube. He wants to reactivate his patreon.
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He claims he did cite sources, but not enough and is sorry for doing it wrong.
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Repeats talking about his emotions and how hurt he is by losing everyones trust. Cries more.
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Never brings up anything else, including his own harassment of others who tried to expose him previously or who asked to be credited.
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