May 4, 2021

Early Access - Chapter Nine

Hello,

Here's the next one for those that wanna watch it early or whatever.

Chapter Ten is a long one.  I'm working on it currently and it's a lot of dialogue and a lot of things.  lol.  This book is a real bloody paradox - The chapters seem to be getting longer and yet that seems mathematically impossible considering we're over halfway through (pages wise) and not halfway through (story wise).

In other news - I've been playing WoW a lot again.  I think it's cos the wider community conversation seems to be "this game is the worst it's ever been" and my brain was like... "OBJECTION".  So I started levelling a BM Hunter.  Never touched that class before because I always assumed it would be too complicated and too much 'need this pet for this situation and need that pet for that situation'.  

And now i'm like... why the bloody hell have I never played Hunter before.  It's ridiculous.  The difference between my Havoc DH and the Hunter in things like Torghast is Night and Day.  To the extent that I genuinely feel like people who play hunter have absolutely no right to tell anyone else to "Get Gud".  I don't even have to worry about boss mechanics.  I can literally just stand there, do my rotation, pop Mend Pet whenever it's off Cooldown and that's it.  The Clefthoof pet has a leech passive anyway so I barely have to engage brain.

So I guess I'm a Hunter now.  lol.  I have heard that BM is utter shite at PvP but I don't PvP so that doesn't bother me.  Only problems are - AoE kinda sucks and I originally was only doing it to unlock Void Elf heritage armour so... guess my main is a Void Elf now.  Whoops.

Anywho - Thanks, as always, for your support.  And I'll see ya in the next Early Access post on Friday.  Cheers mates!

Warcraft [Rise of the Horde] - Chapter Nine (YouTube)

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Emily Kaliah · May 4, 2021

Taliesin talked about him a fair amount last year and always said (in a more polite manner than I would) that Bell's passion is the business aspect, and growing the business, etc. Bellular doesn't go to blizzcons because he can make more videos from home, for example, even though he could otherwise go with ease. If I recall correctly, the way Tali puts it is that he's more business oriented than a lot of creators. The way I think of Bell is that he's a greedy motherfucker lmao

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Flying Buttress · May 4, 2021

Yeah I got that impression. Its little things as well though; I remember him tweeting that a particular video was performing less well than usual and it must be an issue with YouTube. And I remember thinking... "he hasn't even considered the possibility that the vid might just be shit". It's the first thing I think. I always look inward rather than looking for external reasons. So I guess theres bound to be people who constantly do the opposite of that.

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Emily Kaliah · May 4, 2021

(also sorry the reply button doesn't exist on mobile so I can only comment replies in a whole new comment branch)

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Flying Buttress · May 4, 2021

No probs. Lol. I really try to not make assumptions about people I've never met. But yeah - there is something about Bell that rubs me the wrong way. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt if I ever met him but I have a feeling my instincts would be confirmed within a matter of minutes.

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Emily Kaliah · May 4, 2021

Bellular is also one of the most arrogant things I've seen in my life

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Emily Kaliah · May 4, 2021

well if you like proving people wrong about wow, most seem to think Survival is the worst spec there's ever been 😜

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Flying Buttress · May 4, 2021

lol. I've not tried it so I dunno. I feel like a lot of people just seem to have forgotten there was / still is a global pandemic going on that's caused the devs to have to work from home / in a completely different way to what theyre used to. And as a result... the patch cycle is taking longer. It's not rocket science. But I also kinda agree with the point Tali made the other day. It doesn't help that for the past several years... a number of folks have capitalised on creating an extremely negative and critical attitude towards the game. Yes; we love it and we're passionate about it. But we don't have to be critical of everything. It's a game. This may come back to bite me in the ass but the fact that Bellular has uploaded multiple videos recently telling Blizzard how to 'fix their game' is literally one of the most arrogant things I've seen in my life.