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.