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Ian Bates πŸ’™

@TheRedShirtGuy

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The Red Shirt Guy from Blizzcon 2010 through 2019; check out my writing at Blizzplanet and https://t.co/zQFX9qfYBl

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@TheRedShirtGuy
Ian Bates πŸ’™
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Thanks to @Portergauge I have an invite to a place without clouds (based on other tweets I don't think we're supposed to say the real name, for some reason?). If the X nonsense kills twitter for good (or maybe if I just like it more) you can find me at @theredshirtguy.bsky.social
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@Portergauge
Portergauge πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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Which brings us to The War Within, where all the progress made in Dragonflight... regresses. Romance is still plenty present across the game, with MSQ cutscenes and side stories alike prominently featuring loving relationships... and every single one is straight.
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@Restore_NJ
Restore New Jersey
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Mikie Sherrill’s radical energy plan will only make New Jersey utility prices go UP UP UP! πŸ“ˆ On Nov. 4, say NO to Sherrill. She’s more of the same…but WORSE.
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@MarioBrothBlog
Supper Mario Broth
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In Mario Kart World, NPCs will park their cars, exit them, and walk around. However, the game does not actually keep track who each car belongs to. As such, a different NPC than the owner may drive away with a car, seemingly stealing it.
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@TheRedShirtGuy
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So what would the fourth zone of Midnight have been? A more fleshed out K'aresh? Something else? My theory is maybe Eversong and the Ghostlands would have stayed separate zones instead of being merged into one. Source for the haranir quote image:
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@TheRedShirtGuy
Ian Bates πŸ’™
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So now that we can factually say the haranir were cut from TWW, what did the original version of Midnight look like? 11.2 would have almost certainly been Harandar, and K'aresh being made mostly of assets from Shadowlands and Voidstorm suggest it wasn't planned (1)
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@boundless_xyz
Boundless
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Boundless Mainnet is Live. Together, we're making blockchains internet-scale.
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@skunkape
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Twenty years ago this week, Telltale announced that they'd signed a deal with Steve Purcell to make episodic Sam & Max games. Time flies! In honor of this occasion, all three remasters are on sale on Steam, PlayStation, and Switch. (Sorry Xbox peeps, we'll get you next time!)
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@MarioBrothBlog
Supper Mario Broth
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In Donkey Kong Bananza, if Pauline sings for long enough on the Resort Layer, an underground beach, birds gather. However, no birds gather on DK Island, even though parrots can be seen flying around. It appears that the birds on DK Island simply do not enjoy Pauline's singing.
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@Gooompy
gooompy
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this is almost the exact opposite of Legends Arceus introducing the link cable item to get trade evos without going online lmao
@VGCVictoryRoad
Victory Road VGC
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The Mega Stones for Chesnaught, Delphox and Greninja will be available as rewards in the online Z-A Battle Club πŸ₯· S1 Greninja (starts launch day, 16th October) πŸ”₯ S2 Delphox 🌰 S3 Chesnaught The stones cannot be obtained through normal gameplay and will be redistributed later
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@Portergauge
Portergauge πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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Dimensius is possibly the first WoW fight I'm never mad about wiping on, just because it is *such* a good fight. From the environment to the encounter design to the music, I really think it might be my favorite boss in the game.
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@SerebiiNet
Serebii.net
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Serebii Note: For clarification, Mega Chesnaught, Mega Delphox and Mega Greninja cannot be obtained in normal gameplay. Their Mega Stones are obtained as rank up rewards in the first 3 Z-A Battle Club Ranked Seasons https://t.co/NWlAdn57aQ
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@Skoll_Shorties
Khono Chronos ⏳Ban'orak
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It's almost staggering at how much customizations in WoW's Files are still not something handed to the players. I know it's not as easy as a "press of a button and bam they're in." But I do hope these customizations are given to the player base one day.
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@Portergauge
Portergauge πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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They must have done a *lot* of work during the timeskip to have the Dead Scar go from *this* to a fully healed, unblemished land in Midnight lol
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@Portergauge
Portergauge πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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I'm sure this won't age poorly at all
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@TheRedShirtGuy
Ian Bates πŸ’™
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The dead scar is such an iconic location and cool concept, I am a little disappointed it’s been fully healed and completely off screen too. I’d rather it be there and maybe at the end of the MSQ it gets healed in a big cinematic with phasing. That would be the best of both.
@Portergauge
Portergauge πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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@RamavataramaArt @lepidopterrors Oh I fully expect it will, and I'm actually really excited to see that story. Just a shame that it seems there's not even an *imprint* of the Dead Scar still there anymore.
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@Portergauge
Portergauge πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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I'm genuinely shocked they didn't add the field of poppies outside of Silvermoon in the new version, or at least a small section somewhere to signify where Sylvanas died. You'd figure that would be an easy way to still go "hey the scars remain" while having most of it healed.
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@Portergauge
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I have to assume this means the blood elf heritage will be replayable by *all* races for the Quel'thalas lorewalking questline that got datamined, I can't see why else Cho would have this line lol
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@Portergauge
Portergauge πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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Cho... this is NOT your story time lmao what are you doing here
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@TheRedShirtGuy
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I don’t get why they swapped portals for conveniences’ sake for SL and DF but didn’t for TWW. That should be a regularly rotating thing.
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Khono Chronos ⏳Ban'orak
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I would be okay with them moving the old SMC portal to the basement. And having the new updated SMC for Midnight up top. ...Honestly, the Horde Portal room needs to swap around a lot of portals from the upstairs to downstairs. (Dalaran-WotLK, SMC-TBC, Shadowlands to below)
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@RamavataramaArt
Ramavatarama *Commission Status: CLOSED*
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Petition for Bayard Wu to make new Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor Loading Screens πŸ™πŸ™
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@SkjaegArt
Mippard
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Sinkhole is even worse, it's just a generic grey-brown cave now
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@OfficialRushUSA
Official Rush Limbaugh
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Our hearts and continual prayers are with the Kirk family in this terribly tragic time. God bless you Charlie.
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@SkjaegArt
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The difference in feel doesn't quite come across in still pics but like look at this in comparison, so much nicer
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@SkjaegArt
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I guess I'll concede that they could be a little annoying, but removing the water from the underwater delves have really removed a lot their charm imo. I don't feel like they were bad enough to warrant that
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@bayard_wu
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