The Queue: Keep off the internet day’s Eve

Yeah, tomorrow is that day.

Today, however, we’re still operating under normal internet rules… so really, nothing much changes? Sorry, don’t mean to be cynical, just very aware that the internet is often a scary place.

It’s the Queue. I’m listening to Celldweller’s End of an Empire and thinking about the next session of the D&D game I’m co-running for the Tavern Watch crew.

The Jailer’s entire plan hinged on his remaking the universe so that pineapple could no longer exist on pizza. And we stopped him. Muse on that. Who’s the real monster?

I am of the impression that Sylvanas explained what she knew of the plan and where the Jailer was going.

I’m kind of in a weird situation here. I mean, you are too. It’s our jobs to know stuff about World of Warcraft and other games, so by default, we kind of have to be conversant in what is out there. But I generally view almost any leak as being BS until it’s confirmed. The only big leak I can remember that turned out to be true was the one for Warlords of Draenor that basically spelled out the entire plot of the expansion and the time travel aspect of it.

That wasn’t what created Murozond, that was what Murozond created.

Remember, from their first appearance, the Infinite Dragonflight has been all about ‘shattering this clockwork universe’ and breaking the shackles of orderly progression of time. They want to make a universe which doesn’t follow any rules or bend to the whims of any beings save their own terrifying masters.

My personal opinion is that ‘what is to come’ is the unraveling of existence. People describing it as a seventh force aren’t wrong, it’s just that it’s a ‘force’ the same way cold is a thing. Technically speaking, cold is the absence of heat — we certainly can be damaged by it, and we absolutely feel it, but it’s not like electricity or fire or poisoning, it’s not the addition of something. It’s the subtraction of it.

The six fundamental forces of the Warcraft cosmology, even Void, have a tangible existence to them. The Void is the thousand truths, the personification of the unknown and the possible. If it can happen, the Void revels in it, and despises the Light for revealing what is and therefore closing off all of what could be. Light reveals, Shadow conceals.

But this new ‘7th force’ isn’t that. It’s literal cosmic annihilation. It’s the imbalance that threatens to disrupt the creation of the cosmos via the six forces interplaying, the way we’ve seen them interplay in the plane where Azeroth, Argus, Draenor and other worlds exist within. If the proper alignment of the six is harmonious, what is to come is discordant. It’s the destruction of what makes being itself possible.

I haven’t checked but if you can you might as well vendor them.

I have seen a lot of Tyrande thirst on my timeline since that cinematic. Her feral stance, more hench physique and barely contained disdain seems to do it for a lot of people.

Okay, that’s the Queue for today. It’s the last day of March, which is a weird month for me. Tomorrow is keep off the internet day, so I have no idea what I’ll be doing with myself.