Lerios [hy/hym]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • eh, they update things often enough that it doesn’t get stale to me and i was never actually much good anyway, so its not like i see endgame content enough to get tired of it. tbh i’m a little disquieted by how much things have changed in the past 2/3 expansions that i missed, but i get that thats just me being a boomer.

    having played wow (sometimes obsessively) for 15 fucking years from launch when i was 6 years old, azeroth just feels like home to me. its a comfort and anxiety thing i guess. i hear the stormwind or teldrassil ambient music and i could fucking cry. i have no idea whether its a healthy coping mechanism, but being able to go to azeroth (nice, i know whats going on, people like me) after a day of real life (terrifying and depressing) is what got me through school and my home situation. a video game thats designed so that people can comfortably spend 12 hours a day in it doesn’t necessarily have to be good, it just has to be better than the alternative of dealing with real life. very comfort blanket vibes ig, and i probably should have outgrown it. after covid isolation i thought i had outgrown it but evidently not