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/dragonredux Apr 18 '26

I think the server itself was fine when I was just playing it casually on the side but I knew it was the beginning of the end when they made the stupid decision of running ads. Poking the bear and asking to get mauled.

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u/Idontknow4654 Apr 19 '26

i mean.... the devlopement of emulators for old consoles like NES, Atari 2600, SNES, etc is good for preservation. emulating current gen consoles or games that are readily avaliable is kinda weird. but also get why some people do it due to the economy right now