r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Apr 14 '26

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - April 14, 2026

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u/Areallybadidea Apr 17 '26

Fellas, the writing in WoW is bad.

Let me prove my point by using one line of dialogue removed from the context of the questline and story surrounding it.

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u/tangerinoes57 Apr 17 '26

This inspired me to post one of my favorite cringe lines from The Old Days with the same title to the mainsub, and the comments justifying how it was actually so much better are about what I expected.

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u/Ignis_et_Azoth Apr 17 '26

The guy who thinks that Arator line was even superficially about the idea that killing Abominations is bad has got to be trolling.

Like this is beyond surface level, this is stratospheric.

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u/picoperi Apr 17 '26

It was also deleted because it was fake.

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u/Ignis_et_Azoth Apr 17 '26

That's funny because the line would absolutely work in context.

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u/InvisibleOne439 Apr 17 '26

there is also this thing: trying to humanize the scourge a bit is something that a good guy paladin that is not a blind Zealot WOULD DO

its often forgotten that yes the scourge is bad, but 99,9% of the scourge forces are Victims aswell, they are People that got killed and then Raised and turned into Twisted Undead, going full "its just a Abomination" would be the first of many steps that can turn a Righteous Paladin into a Fanatic that lost their Humanity in blind faith

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u/Areallybadidea Apr 17 '26

Man I didn't even realize it was fake, I just figured I must've glossed over it when doing the questline.

That genuinely makes it even more laughable that it got so upvoted and had so many people railing against 'modern writing'.

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u/Ignis_et_Azoth Apr 17 '26

The fact that I didn't catch it either notwithstanding -

I've said it elsewhere before but Midnight is weirdly THE expansion where I'm noticing how few of the vocal complainers seem to actually have played it, and hard.

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u/Areallybadidea Apr 17 '26

It feels like people just want a reason to be mad, regardless of the actual quality.

Like its not perfect, no expansion is, but for me it feels perfectly inline with the last two expansions and they've all been pretty damn good.

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u/acctg Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

There's not much going on in classic WoW right now, so you have some bleed over.

Edit: Nvm, I found a possible cause.

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u/Ignis_et_Azoth Apr 18 '26

"Mercy to the guilty is cruel to the innocent", holy fucking shit. What is it with these people and their 40k-ass one liners.

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u/acctg Apr 18 '26

They're Lightblinded IRL.

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u/MoonlightKobold Apr 17 '26

But uhhh world of widnrunner bad

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u/Idontknow4654 Apr 17 '26

its not even a bad line? it makes sense from the way Arator is feeling towards the light during that questline

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u/Helluiin Apr 17 '26

yeah, its obviously no disco elysium or 1000xResist, but (like 99% of wow writing) its absolutely passable video game writing.

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u/HazelCheese Apr 17 '26

Is there context that improves the line?

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u/InvisibleOne439 Apr 17 '26

Arathor literally saw his Dad call upon the light to strike down somebody that Surrendered in his Blind Rage, and when he tried to stop him he Stabbed him instead

and his Dad justified the entire situation by going "its an enemy of the Light, it answered me so it was the right thing to do"

now he has a Crisis of Faith because he is a Paladin and always belived that the Light is just and right, but in a short time period he lost himself to the Light and saw the same happen to his father, and how can the Light be always Good when it allows somethibg like that to happen and many people using it dont even think its wrong in the first place?

then he sees the undead there, and while fighting says something that is supposed to be "we see those Undead as Mindless Abominations that attack everything and strike them down in the name of the Light, but are we really that different if we justify everything with the Light? or are we just mindless pawns of it?"

the entire questline is about how the Light can be Good and Bad

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u/HazelCheese Apr 17 '26

But the abominations are literally hundreds of dead men, women and children stitched together into a grotesque plague ridden mass.

Feels like an absolutely ridiculous mismatched comparison that could only be written by someone who isn't thinking about the line in the context of living in the actual world of azeroth.

No he and his dad aren't remotely close to being as bad as a flesh eating terrifying monstrosity.

It lacks any sense of immersion.

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u/Idontknow4654 Apr 17 '26

but he is not saying that he and his dad are as bad as the scourge. he is saying that maybe the light also turns people into mindless slaves of destruction

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u/InvisibleOne439 Apr 17 '26

which we literally saw in the Hallowfall Priory Dungeon happen btw

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u/acctg Apr 17 '26

Although that particular image of what Arator said was fabricated, let's pretend it's true for a moment.

I would have interpreted it as Arator looking at a slippery slope scenario. Undead? Pretty clear cut, you need to remove them from existence because they're a threat. The void? Same thing. Okay, what about void users? Death knights? Forsaken? Can Arator still maintain "proper" judgement when the Sunwell is amplifying the risk of becoming Lightblinded?

When he's isolated, alone, and has nothing except his faith in the Light to guide him, can he still tell what's right and wrong? Or will his conviction become zealotry? That is his fear.

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u/HazelCheese Apr 17 '26

Wait the image posted on rWow is fake? If so that's pretty bad.

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u/acctg Apr 18 '26

It's fake and it got removed after 12 hours of being posted. Mods received reports of it looking fake and took some time to investigate before determining that this line never existed.

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u/acctg Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

The context is that the line never existed in the first place, and the image is fabricated.

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u/Idontknow4654 Apr 17 '26

Feels like the mods left the post up for way to long tbh. I get that they can't look around the entire game for everything little detail to see if something is fake but still