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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 5h

Well, warlocks seem to get their power from demon contracts, but nothing stops them from ALSO worshiping demons like Sargeras as gods.

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 6h

... they're making deals with demons.

But it might be a distinction without a difference. If Sargeras tells someone "worship me, and I shall give you great power," and that person doesn't know that all they really need is a contract, and they worship Sargeras, is there a difference?

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 6h

This is a distinction that D&D also seems to have trouble with. Do warlocks get their power by worshiping a patron, or through a contract that is not necessarily religious devotion? In D&D it's the latter. WoW seems to lean in the same direction; warlock characters aren't engaged in religion...

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 6h

I thought the Twisting Nether was supposed to be a warp and weft of Light and Void, while fel and arcane are different approaches to manipulating the energy of chaos and order? But I'm not an expert on this, I am just a recent contributor who did not make this stuff in the first place. :)

Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 6h

But remember, it was political suicide to call them "deplorables"

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This is who they are when they think nobody else is watching.

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Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO keep in mind that old lore is getting recontextualized all the time, so how things "used to be" isn't always "how they are now."

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 1d

Well, first off, I would take anything that I write here with a grain of salt. I'm not a lore master for WoW. :)

My reading is that necrolytes are practicing their own brand of Void magic, but that many of the early orc necrolytes were novice warlocks retrained by Kil'jaeden.

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 1d

Well, the WC2 manual suggests that the necrolytes were trained by Kil'jaeden, at least. Not sure why my opinion has anything to do with it, I am not one of the old-time Warcraft devs who built the early lore. :)

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 1d

484-0388, and if you used an area code, you were making a long-distance call, which meant your parents paid extra and you probably got whatever kind of disciplinary measures they used.

Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 1d

I actually started with Player of Games, but Excession is a banger!

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 2d

It's... ok

They had a lot of trouble stitching together two mythologies, and the uncanny valley was in full effect

Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

It's like a mid film but part of what sells it is, like its predecessor, it's just so damn weird and aesthetic.

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

Final shot is a weird reversal of the first movie, in which our world becomes more and more like the computer world. Instead this one is introducing the naive waif to the beauty of nature, beyond programs and city lights, to trees and sunrises.

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

In a switcheroo, instead of the sun being sacrificed to save everyone, it's the father. Then the son ascends to Heaven and he takes the entire world and keeps it as his identity disk

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

And Tron falls into the Sea of Simulation and he transforms back to his true self, because immersion is diving in the subconscious, he must wake up cleansed, baptized

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

"Made it"
Lots of duality in this movie, it is after all about two worlds and is movie#2

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

Clucifer can't make new programs, he can only repurpose them, aka Lucifer can't make devils, he can only convert angels

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

A nice twist might've been Clu discovering that Flynn's disk is incomprehensible to him. Humanity can't be so easily decided and reduced to numbers

He can still use it to open the door, but the creator remains an enigma

But, I'm not the one writing this movie

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

Comparing Quorra to Sam's rescue pooch is supposed to give them a connection, but comparing Olivia Wilde to a dog was... well, another poor choice

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

Castos is a crummy character, feels like he exists just to move things along

The story of the Purge and the isos feels more relevant today, eh? The state arbitrarily scooping people up off the street and genociding them?

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

(Re: The Apple: The silver surface reflection is for the FX team to show off, and also editing that famous art piece of the artist looking at the orb, AND literally going "on reflection" to intro a flashback)

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

Since they committed to doing Paradise Lost, using the apple (of Eden, of course) to open the flashback to the creation of Clucifer is smart

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

I miss the echoing vibrato of the digital floors from the first movie. Sounds like clogs on wooden floor. Boring choice there.

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

A nice bit of worldbuilding would be to explain the organic food at the dinner table, alas

Costume design is great tho, esp. For K. Flynn. Barefoot is a good choice

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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 3d

Making Quorra act like a human in her first appearance is a good choice, as it shows that all she knows she learned from K. Flynn

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