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: How Blizzard's new lizard broke a 10 year old loot system, started an in-game genocide, and sparked a player war in their first 48 hours of release
u/TheMentelgen from Reddit is the original author of this post. Original post here.
“Unto you is charged the great task of keeping the purity of time. Know that there is only one true timeline, though there are those who would have it otherwise. You must protect it. Without the truth of time as it is meant to unfold, more will be lost than you can possibly imagine.”
-Nozdormu, Dragon Aspect of Time
On November 28, Dragonflight, the ninth expansion in the popular video game (and frequent Hobby Drama subject) World of Warcraft, released. Our story follows the calamitous ramifications that came from the overlooking of one line of code in the weeks before this expansion's launch. But in the words of Nozdormu there is only one true timeline, and the events which will eventually set this story into motion begin more than
The Saga of Star Citizen and Chris Roberts. Part 1
One of my favorite hobbies is following a game development project called Star Citizen. Why would this be interesting, I don’t care about some Vidya games you ask? Let me paint the complete picture of this exhilarating decades long saga. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself beco...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58639571
One of my favorite hobbies is following a game development project called Star Citizen.
Why would this be interesting, I don't care about some Vidya games you ask? Let me paint the complete picture of this exhilarating decades long saga.You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
To understand the full picture we must go back 30 years ago to the year 1990 when nerds of all continents stared at the little screens of their eye destroying cathode-ray monitors frantically shooting enemy ships in a game called Wing Commander.
This was the Mecca of your dads and various weird uncles that turned out to diddle little children in community kindergartens.This space flight title released on MS DOS in the good old days before anyone had heard of COVID or Kanye West. It has garnered much praise and attention from the so-called video game critics. Awarded by them titles such as "1
The rise of EMPRESS
I didn't write this, u/Rumbleskim on Reddit did. Their account was suspended so I can't link their profile. Original post here.
Most of us have torrented something at some point, whether it’s a game, movie, book, song or TV show, but just for those who haven’t, I’ll explain the basics.
When you go to a site like The Pirate Bay or Kick Ass Torrents, and click ‘Download Torrent’, all you’re really getting is a link. Programmes like Bittorrent or Vuze are able to open those links, and will let you download almost any file, legal or not. But you’re no
Heroes and Villains: the Beach Boys in the Trump Administration
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
So, to my knowledge, no one has done a write-up on the batshit insane history of the Beach Boys and the various inter-politics of band-members that extends to their fanbase, which is why I'm doing this now. I don't really use Reddit so excuse any formatting errors, I'm not entirely sure how to use italics on this thing, but I feel this story is worth sharing anyways.
Okay, let's start with the basics, the Beach Boys are a classic rock band most famous for being pioneers of surf-rock. They didn't invent the genre but they were one of the earliest commercially successful surf-rock bands to have vocals, basically cementing the vocal-jazz/doo-wop sound vocal style that's all over the genre. The band was formed by the three Wilson brothers (Brian, Carl and Dennis), their cousin Mike Love and their childhood friend Al Jardine. Brian Wilson was the group's leader,
Casual Hobby Talk Week of August 28th 2023
Weekly Hobby Round Up
This is a weekly catch-all post for casual hobby talk for the community. This post is for breaking drama (the 14 day rule will not apply to this post), news, chat, drama that may not fit the rules or is too short for a post write-up, etc. Bring your own popcorn!
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Happy hobby drama-ing!
People paid $10k to be kings and queens in a failed crowdfunded game; lead dev still pretending he’s ‘working on the game’ after closing the studio and laying off all staff.
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
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I am surprised there aren’t any posts about Chronicles of Elyria on HobbyDrama yet! The community was so rife with drama from start to finish that I don’t even know where to begin.
Throwaway because I will probably be doxxed if I post on my main.
Chronicles of Elyria was pitched as a Kickstarter in May 2016 as a dynamic MMORPG with procedurally-generated quests, a fully destructible environment, closed economy, finite resources, and survival elements. The goal was $900k, but they made about $1.3 million in the initial campaign, and through their subsequent crowdfunding efforts made close to $8 million total over t
Casual Hobby Talk Week of August 7th 2023
Weekly Hobby Round Up
This is a weekly catch-all post for casual hobby talk for the community. This post is for breaking drama (the 14 day rule will not apply to this post), news, chat, drama that may not fit the rules or is too short for a post write-up, etc. Bring your own popcorn!
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Happy hobby drama-ing!
A Small Cheesemaker in Australia vs The Consortium for the Protection of Grana Padano Cheese
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
G'day Curd Nerds! I'd like to tell you about a bit of hobby drama that is not so much a tempest in a teapot as it is a bit of a ripple in a teacup. It's drama that's so small, in such a peaceful little corner of the internet that I almost hesitate to bring it here- except, the resolution has such a unique blend of petty and wholesome that I thought perhaps others might find the story diverting.
First, the Cheeseman: On youtube, there is a man whose entire channel revolves around cheese. His name is Gavin, and telling you this is not doxxing because that is literally his channel name. You can find his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/GavinWebber/featured However, in the spirit of not using real names (even ones so thoroughly public), I will be referring to him here as The Cheese
A Homophobic Gay Legend Comes to an End, or how the Supernatural Finale Made Game of Thrones Look Good
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
Supernatural just ended its 15 year run. To catch up, you can read about the recent Destiel love confession; an actor who appeared in 4 episodes and harassed fans; a comprehensive writeup of the fandom in general, especially "tinhatting"; more general fandom drama; or a racist Haiti AU fic. Supernatural provided no shortage of drama.
But if you don't
How Destiel Made Everyone On Tumblr and Twitter Regress 6 Years and Go Fucking Bonkers
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
Background
Supernatural is a CW show about two brothers, Dean and Sam, running around fighting monsters and having a lot of angst and drama with each other. It was goofy some episodes, serious in others, and tried to tackle complicated issues within the episodes. It also featured two conventionally attractive white guys. So you can see why it got popular pretty fast.
It got especially popular on Tumblr, which was the hotbed of all fandom discourse for the longest time on the internet. It was so popular on there, that it became one of the Big Three: Supernatural, Dr. Who, and Sherlock. It was one of the biggest shows on the entire internet, and it was very popular with teenage girls.
The Rise of Destiel
When it first came out, the shipping community of tumblr, a.k.a all of Tumblr, was kind of a mess, because there weren't many non-heterosexual sh
Adam Driver Makes Fun of a Fan's Gift in the New Yorker
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
I quite enjoyed writing and receiving feedback on my Halsey post, so I thought I'd do another post about a different fandom. This time, we're delving into the extremely chaotic Adam Driver standom.
PLEASE NOTE: SEVERAL COMMENTS, USERNAMES, ETC. ARE LINKED AND SCREENSHOTTED HERE FOR EVIDENCE'S SAKE. DO NOT HARASS ANYONE INVOLVED. DO NOT DOXX ANYONE OR ATTEMPT TO CHASE THEM DOWN.
TL;DR: The Adam Driver fandom is split down the middle. Things came to a head when a fan from one side of the fandom gave Adam a wooden carving of his dog and he called them out in a New Yorker article months later. It turned out the person who made the wood carving is associated with fans who are convinced he is divorced from (or in the process of divorcing) his wife after Adam had an affair with Daisy Ridley. Wank ensued.
I'm going to start with the event and work backward
That Time a Female Chess Player was Accused of Hiding a Supercomputer in a Tube of Lipbalm
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
This is a really old piece of drama, but I only discovered it recently after getting into Anna Rudolf’s Twitch channel (note: I don't think this breaks the rules because she wasn't a Twitch streamer at the time, and she's still primarily a chess analyst).
Warning: I don’t play a lot of chess, I’ve never followed chess competitively, and when this happened the only thing I really cared about in life was Webkinz. Even so, it’s pretty clear that this was screwed up.
Anna Rudolf is a Hungarian chess player. At the time this happened, in 2007, she was 20 years old. Since then she’s become an International Master, a Woman Grandmaster, and a member of the Hungarian Olympic Chess Team. She no longer plays competitively, but instead works as a commentator and analyst, and since the pandemic has been streaming through Twitch (her channel is [here](https://www.twitc
Casual Hobby Talk Week of July 24th 2023
Weekly Hobby Round Up
This is a weekly catch-all post for casual hobby talk for the community. This post is for breaking drama (the 14 day rule will not apply to this post), news, chat, drama that may not fit the rules or is too short for a post write-up, etc. Bring your own popcorn!
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Happy hobby drama-ing!
How a decade of teen obsession with an incel created a thrilling horror mystery plot
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
Introduction
Most people floating around the fandom areas of the Internet have probably heard of Warrior Cats. This past post about some of the franchise's drama does a fantastic job of explaining how the series and its fandom work, but I'll provide another summary for those of you who don't enjoy clicking links.
Warrior Cats (or simply "Warriors" depending on where you live) is a nearly two-decade old children's fantasy series about "Clans" of dozens of wild cats who live according to a code of honor. Originally just a single six-book plot, its success spawned countless sequels, prequels, and standalone stories. There are over 80 books in the series now, including six full main story arcs of six books each—and they're not slowing down any time soon,
The fight for the world's blackest black paint that results in the world's pinkest pink available to all but one person.
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
The story I am going to be telling you today involves a lot of jealousy, some drama and most importantly, lots of pettiness. I'm going to talk about the drama surrounding the infamous Vantablack, which, at the time, was the blackest substance in the world.
It was created in 2014 by a nanotechnology lab to be used in engineering projects, particularly regarding space (it can help telescopes and cameras by absorbing stray light, among other things). Here's some pictures of how stuff painted with this substance actually lo
A not-so-heavenly design - or, what happens when you ignore customer feedback for two years
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
Background: Cross stitching is a hobby that I'm sure many of you are familiar with, but if you're not, it's the art of making tiny little crosses in fabric to create a pretty picture. Cross stitching has many different styles, from the more traditional to the less traditional.
As with any crafting hobby, there tend to be multitudes of mini ongoing dramas (is DMC really the best thread maker around, it is rude to cross stitch swear words, is it cultural appropriation to stitch sugar skulls, is it disrespectful to stitch Jesus smoking a joint, why do metallic threads exist anyway), but this situation has blown up in the past few weeks and it's quite significant in terms of fallout, both monetarily
The new Animal Crossing has developed a black market based on real money
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out a couple of months ago, and (as you are almost certainly aware) it was a massive hit. It's a life simulator where you live on an initially deserted island and slowly build a community of cartoon animals, with several hundred to choose from. It's designed to be a peaceful, calm experience where you do nothing but hang out, so of course people have built a greedy, brutally efficient underground economy.
Getting new villagers can be difficult, since your island can only have ten of them at any one time. There are only two ways to replace them once you've hit that limit: the first is to wait until a visitor arrives at your island, then invite them to stay, at which point you can replace one of your current villagers with the new one. The second way is to wait until one of your villagers randomly decides to leave on their ow
World of Warcraft (Part 7: Classic and Legion) - How an illegal server birthed a protest that forced Blizzard to remake WoW, the new age of nostalgia, grinding, toxicity, and spit
Original post by Rumbleskim on /r/hobbydrama.
This is the seventh part of my write-up. You can read the other parts here.
Classic was a separate game created to emulate early WoW. Legion was the sixth expansion for retail WoW, coming
