I’ve been playing Hardcore addon Classic WoW the past few days and this is legit some of the most fun I’ve had with a game in a long time. Also just extremely funny overall, fantastic comedic design
Essentially it’s just vanilla WoW with some extra rules to make it more difficult / punishing:
Ironman. Your character has one life, and if they die, you delete them or you can keep them around as a ghost.
You cannot use the auction house.
You cannot trade with other players.
You can group with players to do an instance. Each instance can only be done once, whether you succeed in finishing it or not.
You cannot group with other players under any other circumstance.
You cannot ask other players for help or buffs, but you and others are free to buff / help each other of your own volition.
The real fun is joining a hardcore (HC) guild, which is linked up to the other HC guilds on your faction with a universal guild chat. You can talk to other HC players, ask questions, brag about a cool BoE you found, and most importantly, get access to death announcements.
Any time someone in one of the guilds dies, a big raid warning pop-up springs up on the screen with a eulogy in guild chat, announcing the dead character’s name, class, level, zone they died in, enemy that killed them, and their final words (which seems to pull from guild, party, say, or yell, whichever they used last).
I’m extremely tempted to make a masterpost or two of eulogies, there’s some really great ones
As a former zookeeper we would hear this a lot. “If you don’t study hard you’ll end up cleaning poop for a living.” It’s the one time we’re allowed to go off on the visitors. I once heard my boss rant for five minutes at a lady, in front of her kids, about how he had a Master’s degree, how people literally worked there for free, and how dare she judge people without bothering to know anything about them. Later that day his boss came by and said, roughly, “She told us what happened. Thanks for not throwing anything this time.”
I can count on one hand the amount of times I have gone off on people, but employment snobbery gives me the rage. I was showing the new kid how to use the fry scoop at McDonald’s “.. like this, and then just sort of hold it perpendicular and give it one tap..”
And the new kid sniggered “isn’t perpendicular a bit of a big word for McDonald’s?”
Something in me was just so annoyed by this 16yr old who was learning to work right next to me and somehow felt above us? Fuck that shit. I pointed at the people just on the floor and went off, “she’s a 4th year law student, she’s the primary career for her terminally ill daughter, he raises 100,000 for charity every year, she manages 3 stores and more than £16mil in turnover a year. What the fuck do you do?”
He just sort of mumbled “I didn’t know”
“you shouldn’t have to know, you’re not better than us. So. You tap it once and then move it here to release…”
“I didn’t know.”
“You shouldn’t have to know,”
yes to all this because workers can be educated and intelligent, but also, even if workers are formally uneducated or dont know big words that doesnt mean they arent equally deserving of respect
Zookeepers bust their asses shoveling shit and feeding apex predators so you can stare at an elephant without flying to Asia or Africa.
Fast food workers bust their asses surrounded by hot ovens and boiling oil so you can get food quickly without having to make it yourself or even learn how.
Janitors bust their asses cleaning up the most vile things humans can do to a public room so you don’t have to tiptoe around human waste everywhere you go.
Mail carriers bust their asses going door to door in near-fatal heat/cold and have to deal with the possibility of getting attacked by your poorly-trained pets so you don’t have to drive to the post office every single day.
Warehouse workers bust their asses making sure YOUR latest Amazon crap doesn’t just disappear into thin air.
And retail workers bust their asses coddling and picking up after you like your parents because none of you know how to read a price tag or stop deliberately miss-shelving things you never wanted.
But sure, go ahead and act like you wouldn’t be dead in a week without these people.
