Bury My Heart in Booty Bay

World of Warcraft is a lot. I'm staring at this screen unable to write. I'll let the video do most of the talking.

Everyone has a different World of Warcraft story. At some point, anyone who played the game, played for the first time. I think almost anyone who played it young remembers it in vivid colors. It looks blocky, even uncanny now, but on release it was vibrant, inviting, genuinely beautiful. Skyscraping trees and teeming fields. And whatever zone you started it, whatever your particular race or class, it was magical.

This is an examination of the destructive side of magic, the addictive and undermining influence of cozy nostalgia. World of Warcraft is a lot - a lot to remove from a person without tearing and scarring.

This was weird and experimental for me - I used 4 new pieces of tech and learned a ton making it. Feels good for a solo effort, but I want to make good on my commitment to improving my skillset as I go. See you soon for God of War part 2!

*not changing my videos in the long term, by the way. Just doing something different before writing another set of reviews

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it's difficult to list the tracks in order, because the bulk were pulled from a complete vanilla world of warcraft OST video and certain Cataclysm OST revamps, but some standouts:
The Elemental Stars - REMASTERED (min 1:58:00)
Chaos Shrine Arranged (min 2:01:04)

0:00 storytime
7:58 elwynn summer
22:12 LFG westfall
30:22 stranglethorn aesthetics
45:55 a hunter's tale
1:00:19 warcraft
1:25:51 paying 15 dollars a month to play a computer game
1:47:51 WoW Classic
1:52:42 so what

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