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I posted one of these a year ago: time once again
NAME: Brian. I have no special attachment to it, but it's my name.
AGE: Thirty-six later this year.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Video games, Japanese language & literature, kagura, tea, reading, coding (just started), fashion (mostly monochrome, minimalist, or what gets called "goth ninja"), tabletop RPGs (especially Exalted, Shadowrun, and Call of Cthulhu), cooking and food in general, and occasionally anime (especially iyashikei slice-of-life stuff), work, Judaism, or my hopes, dreams, and fears.
FANDOMS: I don't know if anything applies, since I rarely post about anything fannish. The Legend of Zelda, I guess--I'm playing through all the games in Japanese in release order for practice. Warcraft. Exalted. Tolkien. Kirby (the pink puff, not the comics artist). Lovecraft. I keep most of my fandom stuff over on my Tumblr, though.
LOOKING FOR: The kind of long-form, daily-life-interested community I remember from LJ a decade ago. Twitter is all hot takes, Tumblr is all memes, and Facebook is mostly articles. I like hearing about people's lives--if you only post about your fandoms, I probably won't have much to say.
WHAT DO I POST ABOUT: Mostly about my daily life, Japanese and coding (I'm studying both), and video games (I write a long post every time I beat a game). Sometimes about religion.
ANYTHING ELSE: My journal is mostly (though not entirely) public. I lived in Japan for three years, in a mountain town northeast of Hiroshima City. The personal feature I'm most proud of changes between my hair (long and red) and my voice (I've been told I should do radio or read audiobooks).
AGE: Thirty-six later this year.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Video games, Japanese language & literature, kagura, tea, reading, coding (just started), fashion (mostly monochrome, minimalist, or what gets called "goth ninja"), tabletop RPGs (especially Exalted, Shadowrun, and Call of Cthulhu), cooking and food in general, and occasionally anime (especially iyashikei slice-of-life stuff), work, Judaism, or my hopes, dreams, and fears.
FANDOMS: I don't know if anything applies, since I rarely post about anything fannish. The Legend of Zelda, I guess--I'm playing through all the games in Japanese in release order for practice. Warcraft. Exalted. Tolkien. Kirby (the pink puff, not the comics artist). Lovecraft. I keep most of my fandom stuff over on my Tumblr, though.
LOOKING FOR: The kind of long-form, daily-life-interested community I remember from LJ a decade ago. Twitter is all hot takes, Tumblr is all memes, and Facebook is mostly articles. I like hearing about people's lives--if you only post about your fandoms, I probably won't have much to say.
WHAT DO I POST ABOUT: Mostly about my daily life, Japanese and coding (I'm studying both), and video games (I write a long post every time I beat a game). Sometimes about religion.
ANYTHING ELSE: My journal is mostly (though not entirely) public. I lived in Japan for three years, in a mountain town northeast of Hiroshima City. The personal feature I'm most proud of changes between my hair (long and red) and my voice (I've been told I should do radio or read audiobooks).
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I haven't played the tabletop game but I hear a lot of the material that's going into the next expansion was established in it (ex. Jaina's brother?).
Did you hear that they're bringing back Vanilla WoW?
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I haven't actually been paying much attention to Battle for Azeroth, other than hearing some friends who still play complain about going back to the Horde vs. Alliance well again. I do vaguely remember Tandred Proudmoore from the RPG, though...
How was Warlords? I remember when it was announced thinking that the time travel was dumb but the previews of old Draenor looked great, but I never really followed up on that.
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When I played Warlords everyone hated it. They had good reason to... There was a content drought so everyone at end game was bored out of their minds. And it was clear they have cut the middle of the story so there are some obvious continuity problems. They are picking up on the story in BfA, though: the Orcs from AU Draenor will become a playable race sometime during the next expansion.
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Oh, the Old Gods. I'm glad that with only playing half-way through Cata, I didn't have to deal with the Old Gods being the secret villains behind everything. I fought C'Thun and Yogg-Saron and that was enough for me.
Still a ton of "Oh, they went insane and now we have to kill them" bosses, it just wasn't because of the Old Gods.
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There's also the route where the players are threats. We're seeing some of that in the beta. On some of the new islands, players will be confronted by enemies who make a fair point that the player is killing Azeroth by picking at her scabs while she bleeds out.
I'm hoping they tie up the WoW story in maybe one more expansion, open legacy servers for the various expansions, and announce Warcraft 4 or something (a single player RPG would probably be too much to hope for...).
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I've wanted a Warcraft IV for a decade and a half! Whether I'll ever get it...I don't know. RTS games aren't very popular anymore.
I'd say they'd make a MOBA, but Heroes of the Storm already exists.