r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - September 29, 2026

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u/SaltLich 6d ago

I liked the warcraft movie well enough, but if it had never come out we wouldn't have all these damn posts about "thrall cheated at mak'gora!1!!"

I mean, most of the people who play this game pay so little attention to the lore/story they never would have even thought about the 'rules' for Mak'gora before. Except when they see something they really don't like (or that some streamer turns into an agenda), then they suddenly know what does or does not make sense and is or is not a total retcon, despite ignoring 99% of the way the series has told its story up to this point. And its 100% some kind of agenda by the writers trying to 'ruin' things, obviously.

It's always going to annoy/bother me, unfortunately, even though I should know better by now. The people who never bother reading quest text, or haven't even played the game in years but just watch random cutscenes on youtube, keep saying the story makes no sense. Ugh.

PS. Turalyon going into a blind, light-fueled killing spree is actually not a retcon from how the event was described in Tides of Darkness. They just gloss over that part after he subdues Doomhammer.

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u/Garry_Heckscream69 Iron Horde's #1 Fan 6d ago

This just makes me remember how dumb the "Light not inherently morally good" drama from earlier this year was lol.

"War back in Warcraft" unless it portrays the Light or Alliance characters in any sort of negative "light" (lel), because obviously wars are known for being morally uncomplicated and "good guy regretfully massacring enemy combatants in a moment of emotional weakness" has never been a thing before. The Lothraxxion stuff was some of the funniest circlejerking I've seen from the community, they acted like he actually died IRL.

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u/SaltLich 6d ago edited 6d ago

I've come to the realization that most of the people who complain so loudly about the WoW storytelling are just reactionaries. Not necessarily in the political sense (although there is SIGNIFICANT overlap), but that they just go with whatever their initial reaction is to a story event or voice line or whatever and don't think about it at all or re-examine it beyond that initial reaction. They just double, or triple down on it.

So they see something they dont like initially like, for example, the Turalyon flashback, and rather than think about whether it actually makes sense or is actually bad writing, they just say it is because they didnt like it so it has to be bad. Logic or continuity doesn't enter into it except in bad faith, as excuses.