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The Haunted Facades and Liminal Spaces of Azeroth - A Tale of Home

Painticus

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Times change.

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The world of Azeroth has changed a lot over the last 20 years, and so have those who inhabit it. Today I'm showing some of the places that may be less well known, as well as some that mean a great deal to me personally. It's a bonus that they just happen to be mysterious, or in some cases, disturbing.

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More information on Hauntology: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/... - this article by Mark Fisher is one of the best jumping off points for the whole area of study. You'll find that definitions of hauntology differ from person to person - and even the person that coined the term, Jacques Derrida in Spectres of Marx, didn't write that much about its specifics. Mark Fisher's definition is the one I used in my dissertation, and it's the one that best fits the content of this video too. Rest in Peace, Mark, and thank you for your work.

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All video clips were used under the UK's 'fair dealing' laws (similar to the USA's 'fair use'), but if any of the listed channels wish for me to remove or change their inclusion, I will do so.

20 Comments

@Painticus Creator 2 years ago Pinned

Hey everyone - this is a little bit of a different video. I figured I'd make something a little more personal to celebrate 10k subscribers, and that just so happened to align perfectly with some events in WoW. I understand this may not be everyone's cup of tea, and I don't expect this video to get as many views as normal because of that - but that's all good. I really enjoyed making this, and I hope that it is at the very least comprehensible to everyone else.

If you want some more stuff from me, check out my streams over on Twitch. They're usually a strange time. You can see how truly illiterate and poorly spoken I am there.

More videos coming soon. Thanks all :)

@xqu1c 5 months ago

the little brother energy is immense I love it

@Sylviasserpentine 4 months ago

Ok dude! I was NOT expecting a humorous horror game reviewer to make me CRY with this!!!
I have played WoW since vanilla and played Warcraft 3 as a youngling before that (and watched my dad playing Warcraft and Warcraft 2 when I was too little to play it myself)
I literally grew up on this franchise and I still play it to this day. A significant portion of my life has been spent inside the World of Warcraft and it certainly carries some sentimentality for me as well. This video was really intriguing and beautiful and emotional. And I appreciate you putting it out!

@WarHero87 2 years ago

The whole video was the wind up. That final message plus music, was the blow to the gut. Damn well made.

@kabgon8638 2 years ago

"I skipped Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands (...)" - that is a sub form me

@velvetdraws3452 1 month ago (edited)

I have never played WoW ever but damn this was well made and kept me invested throughout

@joetheno87 2 years ago (edited)

"MMO just sounded like somebody fucking up the alphabet." Just brilliant.

@DrGoth 2 years ago (edited)

Oh this video brought me back! I remember being 12 yrs old playing this with my friend on my dads account and climbing up the cliffs, clipping through walls, glitching under Karazhan. Those were the days man, getting home from highschool, logging on and playing old school WoW. Thank you for this <3

Edit: Man that ending though, I made this original comment about half way through the video. God. I was 8 when I first started playing, my little brother was 2. My dad got me into it, we'd sit at the breakfast table talking about it so much my Mum ended up wanting to try it out. With three of us all wanting to play, dad caved and bought my first PC and a copy of WoW, shortly followed by Mum. Then I taught my brother to play. I still remember the day he came back from primary school, I'd spent the day off setting up his own PC, WoW account and transferred his favourite character, then sat and waited to see his little excited face. Now I'm 26, dad and I both have WoW tattoos, Mum has passed away, and the three of us still talk about this game. Thank you man, deeply. Keep up the good work on your videos. <3

@tikki2340 2 years ago

I remember the feeling of lagging out of bounds in toontown and wizard101, of suddenly being somewhere else when just moments ago you were in a party of friends. Like walking through a doorway into another part of the house and suddenly hearing all your friends voices stop all at once.

@C.S.Martin 2 years ago

Crazy how that little "hidden path" had the exact same effect on me and my siblings; from then on, we set out to explore the world as lvl 1 characters, RPing as beggars to scrounge up some gold for god knows what :p Anyway, great video, congrats on 10k :)

@jordivanos8181 2 years ago

This video is a masterpiece.
It single handedly captures the sense of nostalgia i have for the game.
Ending the whole video with the grizzly hills music really puts all of it together.

@cringefindergeneral 2 years ago

films and tv shows based on MMOs will talk about "forgotten, unused dungeons and rooms blocked off by the developers but are stiill in the game , full of developer secrets and powerful weapons!" when in real life theyre just barely working barren spaces with mispelled room names and confusing geometry

@casaroli 1 year ago

The fall in the crypt barely killing you is such great flavor.

@HarleyAMV 2 years ago

Is that "or m8, u can be a warriouh" a reference to preacher? 😂😂

@yecksd 1 year ago

thank you for introducing us to the term "hauntology". this was formerly very vague in my mind, but near and dear to my heart. i fucking love hauntology.

@thechugg4372 2 years ago

MMOs are so good for liminal spaces because of the wide empty spaces meant to be filled with players, or empty interiors with nothing in them, waiting for some players to roleplay in those environments.

@Merenor01 2 years ago

Using the "Totems of the Grizzlemaw" soundtrack for the ending monologue was an excellent choice. One of the soundtracks that now hits different for me is Eversong Woods when I was playing a blood elf years ago, I associated the soundtrack with mystique and wonder and nowadays, whenever I hear it, there is so much melancholy and lost nostalgia in there. Totems of the Grizzlemaw however, is still the same gut punch now, as it always was. Amazing video and you have a really relaxing voice!

@TheeGoober 2 years ago

When I was a retail RPer, a group used the Karazhan Crypts as a place for an RP group. Being able to experience this strange experience with other people as we walked around and RPed with one another was an amazing feeling. One of my core memories was when I was younger. But after that little group, I decided to go back alone. And going back alone into those Crypts really puts into perspective just how creepy and off-putting it is. It was wonderful. And then Legion came out and I remember doing the steps for the Lucid Nightmare and being brought back all the to the Crypts. And to explore them another time was wonderful. The Crypts serve as such a unique place like no other in WoW.
What a great video to jog the memory!

@peatudude4546 2 years ago

I've never played WoW. But this video has a very comfortable feeling to it. It may not perform as well as other videos as you said, but i am glad you made it anyways