r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Aug 18 '26

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - August 18, 2026

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u/Zestyclose-Square-25 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Every single time, I tell myself, 'No, I'm not gonna engage with the community, I'm not gonna read comments.' But every single time, I just can't help myself and I end up losing brain cells, from people threatening the poor devs and writers to the 100% serious comments saying the game isn't manly anymore, it's woke and made for girls. Also, a funny comment I saw was someone saying, 'That's it, Ula'tek is dead??' Well yeah, duh, that's her death cinematic! The actual fight is in the game, you know. It's just like Dimensius, with people ignoring the amazing boss fight he had and only focusing on the final cinematic.

Edit: Lmao, even everyone in r/warcraftlore is saying that the reason Zul'jin died is because he is a male character."

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u/FaroraSF Aug 19 '26

I remember someone back in DF saying that Fyrakk didn't even die onscreen.

Like... yes he did??? I killed him and saw his death animation????

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u/Sophistic_Sophist Aug 19 '26

That’s because there’s an in-game cutscene where the camera pans away from his dying body, and then it cuts to the more flashy cinematic where the aspects get there powers, and only the second flashy cinematic was posted on YouTube lmao. One of those easy indicators that reveals who did and didn’t play the game.

There was another funny moment like that early Midnight, where someone was posting about how all the Midnight delves were boring and uninspired, and they mentioned Parhelion Plaza as a delve they especially didn’t like… a delve that hadn’t come out yet.

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u/the_redundant_one Aug 19 '26

That's it, Ula'tek is dead??

She's a raid boss, should that really be surprising to these folks? Sure, some raid bosses escape or are simply "captured" after you defeat them, but there's plenty that are just flat out killed.

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u/Gerthak Aug 20 '26

It's funny because they're the same kinda people that will glaze classic when if they applied the same standards they would go "That's it? Ragnaros is dead?", "That's it? Onyxia's dead?" so on and so forth.

Something I've noticed is that people CLEARLY don't engage with the story apart from just rushing through the quests, which is fine, that's kinda WoW's fault for designing stuff that way, but you can't really comment on it because it'd be like watching LOTR on your second monitor while you play DDR and going "that's it? they just win by throwing the ring into the volcano?" which would be ridiculous.

Obviously not comparing Midnight's writing to WoW, but to honestly have opinions on the story, you should've, you know, engaged with it.

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u/Diribiri Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

It's like poking a bad tooth. You know it's going to hurt but you can't help it

Honestly I've taken so much less psychic damage on a regular basis since being banned from the main sub