WoW: Because Koltira that's why. XD

[yukie]

So as you start to do the Matthias Lehner questchains, you get a dialogue option when you turn stuff in to cranky Sir Deathweaver.

"Koltira...this might sound strange...but i keep seeing some kid's ghost. Matthias Lehner... Does the name mean anything to you?"

His reply?

"All this fighting is finally getting to you. Don't worry, I won't divulge your little secret--lest the others think you're mad. Get some rest. it'll do you good."



This is one of a fucktillion reasons why I love this guy and why I'm so annoyed that he likely got written out on account of homophobic little stank-baby douchechildren. While he's snarking you into next week, he's also looking out for you, and does give a fuck in his own cantankerous way. You're a comrade--an annoying one, but still.

KOLTIRA IS AWESOME-SAUCE KTHXBAI and I'm sure Thassarian concurs XD XD

Als, my god, Icecrown is so damn much more atmospheric and scary than Twilight Highlands. I'll gush about why when I'm not ridonkulous from Benadryl. XD

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[yukie]

Oh yes. I mean, yes they probably used up all the blue pixels ever in that zone, but that overall made it looks darker and added to the sense of foreboding.

COLOUR SCIENCE NERDTIME: As the sun goes down and our pitiful human vision gets wussier, the colour we stop seeing first is red. Long wavelengths go first. (This may be why red light doesn't pwn night vision.) Blue vanishes last. That's part of why it always looks so gloomy around ICC--we have no sun to give us those longer light wavelengths. Sure we see them on robes and armour and things, but even then they're usually muted and dulled down. My two main guys are Blood Elves--pally Aerionn has bright red hair and DK Ishandarr's got the mahogany brown hair. I fly around ICC and both of them lose their mad bright hair--the blue light dulls it waaaay down. Everything just gets swallowed up in the gloam.

And--well, there's a very lizard-brain reaction we have to that. Human night vision is overall ASS as compared to, say, cats' or elfpires'. We know damn well that things can hide from us in the dark if we got no flashlight. There's a LOT working together design wise in Icecrown to make you feel small and vulnerable and liable to be ganked at any moment by Azeroth's biggest troll (and I'm not talking about Gan'zulah).

And HEE that wedding sounds epic forever, now I want to level my allyside characters so's I can see it. (And see how hard Valanar trolls everyone in Northrend. And hug Thassarian.)

[silverr]

yup.

(And yeah, that color-sucking is of course what's always mades Baron Sliver look so garish to me, since I extrapolate from the muddy colors all the way back to gaudy for some reason.

Yet another under-appreciated NPC.

[yukie]

More colour bollocks is at work with Baron Sliver (and he IS under-appreciated dangit)! The Baron has brrrright orange hair and blue and orange are complements, so his hair in goodish light is--startling. XD

...Man, I really want to know why in hell's restroom Blizzard apparently forgot how the fcuk colour theory and colour science works in Firelands. I really want to choke the team that designed it, because it is honestly a visual DISASTER, and I don't mean graphics-wise. To sum up: making everything warm colours pushes it all forward in the picture plane, and so firelands looks kind of flat and I have this annoying 'where the FCUK is this supposed to goddamn BE!?' effect hitting me all the time when I'm trying to determine what's where. My friends who raid have it even WORSE--some of them get motion sick because of the crappy visual effect, and some get eye strain! Seirously if I ever meet the nincompoop who thought Beth'tilac's arena was a good idea, I'm slapping them into next year. EVERYTHING IS RED AND YOU DID THAT STUPID DIFFUSE GLOW BLOOMY DEATH THING ALL OVER SO IT ALL BLENDS TOGETHER WHAT WERE YOU EVEN THINKING HOW THE HELL IS ANYONE SUPPOSED TO SEE WHERE THE SPIDER EVEN IS YOU SDHGJDJYLdfgNhdfgklaf.

*delicate cough*

[silverr]

"Noted."

* pat pat pat *

[silverr]

heh, yeah, TwiHi is kinda fun ally side. Among other things, you get to chose if Russell Browerdorf (who himself looks quite dwarf-like, who knew?) will write a bawdy, romantic, or humorous song for the ceremony.

[yukie]

oh dude I saw a beta run of that on youtube and cried laughing XD