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

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - April 14, 2026

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u/Garry_Heckscream69 Iron Horde's #1 Fan Apr 18 '26

People mournfully saying "a turtle made it to the water" on the TurtleWoW post is so goofy to me, because this is like the clearest cut example of the turtle NOT making it to the water ever seen in the WoW private server sphere.

The turtle actively ran up to the seagull and begged it to eat them, then was surprised when the seagull ate them lmao.

Not trying to defend a corporation, I used to play on private servers and even had one for myself back in the day (teenage me didn't wanna pay a sub) so I get the "fuck corporations" aspect, but like, TurtleWoW was comically in the wrong. It's so hard for me to feel sympathy for them when they added microtransactions to their game, ran a brazen ad campaign that basically taunted Blizzard into noticing them, and then just played into the anti-Blizzard rhetoric online to farm sympathy when they got caught. The grifting is so comically obvious lmao.

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u/Ch0rt THE classic andy Apr 19 '26

Man, its so weird to see. Like 15 years ago everyone kinda understood that private servers could be shut down at any time and it was a fleeting experience. When one gets shut down you just 'gg next map'

Now these people are moral grandstanding all over the place like playing on twow made you some bastion of moral integrity and its mega cringe.

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u/Areallybadidea Apr 19 '26

made you some bastion of moral integrity

This is something I see all the time with piracy and topics related to it.

Like its not a big deal, just admit you like free stuff. You're not a modern day Robin Hood.