I'm torn between continuing to play WoW Forever's beta and just... not, and waiting for full release so I won't lose the characters/resent having to do everything again. Then again, I'm also not sure if I want to resubscribe to WoW, remembering how badly it took over my life, and Blizzard's various unfriendly customer service practices, so the beta might be the only time I intend to play.

All the hype around WoW Forever is making me want to play Guild Wars 2 again and wish I could recommend it to friends because of how well it nailed just adventuring in the world. But I cannot forgive what was taken from us 12 years ago, and cannot stand the direction they took the endgame.

At that point, Sylvanas' cynicism had won out with all the betrayals from the Horde she had been trying to save and preserve, and from her perspective, life really WAS nothing compared to the horrors that awaited in the death that everyone was so eager to send each other to, and she was running out of options. Her project to save her people from the fucked up afterlife was ruined by Genn crippling her ability to create new Forsaken. She also believed Zovaal was a person similar to herself. The Banshee Queen doesn't WANT to be Lord of the Undead, living in blight and wielding shadow and decay. She'd rather be living in the beautiful glades of Eversong. But that's the fate that's been forced onto her, and she's using her dark powers to save who she can and fix a system she sees as broken, and assumed Zovaal was doing the same with the Domination Powers the Primus forced on him.

I definitely agree that you should be able to camp in a dungeon. All the camp buffs should be available in towns as well - or at least most of them as fitting for the settlement. To me, a big part of WoW's world appeal is the exploration loop of going out from town, across the wilderness of passive and sparse hostile mobs, into enemy camps/strongholds, then returning to the distinct safety of town for maintenance.

The solution to this is to pay the artist for the rights to their work, not rob them of their copyright without compensation. The artist, not the school, created the work.

Goddamn Leonid feels so redundant with Garryk in Forsaken Kingdom. I already have an invulnerable wall of a hero after Act 1 that is far more mobile, damaging, and effective, and the new guy doesn't have a full act worth of stat enhancements to keep up with the other two. So far, the Siege mission from the prologue remains the best mission out of everything I've played so far.

Finally! THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!

Playing through FFXIV, it's actually kinda jarring just how much the behaviors, animations, and city layouts scream they want to be a 2D Pixel game like 1-6, yet are rendered in full over-the-shoulder 3D.

... damn, my game's really washed out in screenshots. Might be an HDR thing

Just got all my classes to level 70 and completed their Job Quests. Finally, I can move onto Shadowbringers.

A Job questline so bad and nonsensical they completely abandon it in favor of Gladiator for 60-80. How the fuck they screwed up the Holy Knight questline in the Holy Knight Expansion so badly will always be one of the mysteries of the ages.

Paladin level 50 to 60 questline done. I think these pictures mostly sum it up

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Iceborne SHOULD have made the endgame weapons: Silver Rathalos - Fire Gold Rathian - Poison Nergigante/Alatreon - Dragon Raging Brachydios - Blast Frostfang Barioth/Velkhana- Ice Furious Rajang - Paralysis (Change from Thunder) Namielle - Water (Superpowered endgame variant) Zinogre - Thunder Shara Ishvalda - Raw/Defense

This game managed to make ME hate a muscular lion-woman. That's how bad she is.

And we have the cherry trees to prove it!

I really should write out all my thoughts on the He-man movie. Talk about its themes, and what it got right, what it got wrong, and what would have been cool if they did.

He was really well done as the secondary antagonist for Duncan's arc. Being a walking arsenal let him have a cool gadget-off battle with Man-at-Arms, while the battle with He-man really sold "The Most Powerful Man in the Universe" angle of the transformation.