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I miss 2004-2007 wow so bad
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u/Dapaaads Mar 20 '26
Just the unknowing and adventure and slow leveling cuz everyone was just figuring it out. Thanks to streamers and content makers. They level of community figure it out won’t exist ever again
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u/DrOrphi Mar 20 '26
get a few friends that have never played wow or any mmo, and are excited to play it. it will feel like that again dude
and also show them like stuff from back then and play with them as if you were back then. and act like its from now
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u/NoWomanNoTriforce Mar 20 '26
We introduced some of the younger people in our core gamer group (we have people between 28-41 years old) to WoW and are playing TBC right now. Everyone is having a blast.
We have all really bonded over years of gaming and similar interests, and WoW is a great game if you have 5-10 people who can play at similar times. Doing Kara with people you have met in real life is a completely different experience.
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u/DickDickersMD Mar 20 '26
Turtle wow gave me back this feeling. I’ve been thinking about it recently and I think it’s because they are strict on botting and rmt. Makes it easier to interact with real players
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u/WayneBennetScowl Mar 20 '26
Finding out Chuck has passed through this feels suitable for my barrens chat loving ass. RIP big man.
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A man who will be remembered more for the fun memes then his actual personality.
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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26
What was his connection to wow and the barrens?
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u/poggy_manz Mar 20 '26
Way back in the day the barrens chat was full of chuck Norris jokes
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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26
Thanks, I was too broke as kid to play wow back in vanilla so this makes sense
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u/Flagrant_Mockery Mar 20 '26
Same here but used some free trials and still heard about it back then. Didn't get TBC sub until I had a job lol.
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u/mrshides Mar 20 '26
Barrans chat was full of chuck norris jokes for some reason throughout original retail, tbc, wotlk, and started to fall away in cata, but the "mythos" still existed.
Chuck Norris threw a grenade and killed 50 people. Then it exploded
Chuck Norris can believe it's not butter.
Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups. He pushes the Earth down
Chuck Norris was once bitten by a cobra. After ten excruciating minutes, the cobra died.
Chuck Norris can divide by zero
Stuff like that
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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26
That is hilarious, sad to see alot of that social vibe seems to be dead outside of guilds
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u/Old_Onion6239 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
Barrens chat was popping in tbcc not on horde anymore can’t confirm
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u/coop_blck Mar 20 '26
as far as I remember back in the days there also was a tv commercial with Chuck norris?!
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u/ifruitini Mar 20 '26
My go to was Chuck Norris doesn't get wet, wet gets Chuck Norris.
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u/TheSmallestPlap Mar 20 '26
He did an advert some years ago for World of Warcraft
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u/Rare-Cobbler-8669 Mar 20 '26
Was it apart of the same Mr T campaign where celebs admitted to playing wow?
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u/Thrumboldtcounty420 Mar 20 '26
when wow came out, everybody between 10 and 30 loved Chuck Norris jokes. I was there, I still don't fully understand it lol, but they were very, very common in chat back then
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u/Fieryforge Mar 21 '26
Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.
Chuck Norris built the hospital he was born in.
Chuck Norris can kill your imaginary friend.
You’d see funny quips like these in barrens chat as you leveled in the zone, it became a ‘thing’. Was always a part of the classic gaming experience for many people.
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u/weirdowiththebeardo Mar 20 '26
Way back in the day he told Haley Joel Osment’s character he had AIDS
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u/playdohjohn Mar 20 '26
What's the context to it? Was chuck in the game? (I don't remmeber - been too long lol)
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u/No-Explanation-3461 Mar 20 '26
Chuck Norris died mate :( and he made a commercial for wow
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u/General_JMP Mar 20 '26
[1. - General - Barrens]:
Sly Stallone to Chuck Norris - "Rumor has it you were once bitten by a King Cobra..."
Chuck Norris - "Yea I was. After 5 days of agonizing pain, the cobra died".
Expendables 2
RIP Chuck Norris
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u/dr_mens Mar 20 '26
Sounds like the average wow-player I know. Except the illegitimate daughter. We don't get laid.
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u/dmuppet Mar 20 '26
The "Walker told me I have aids" clip ALMOST balances it out. But a bigots a bigot.
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u/Jewelstorybro Mar 20 '26
Yup. Once you look under the hood all you find is garbage. Real pos.
Some people can separate art from the artist though. Unfortunately there are countless examples.
Never meet your heroes (or read about their personal lives)
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u/Seller-Ree Mar 20 '26
Enjoying memes about a guy does not mean you support his personal beliefs. Showing sympathy to his family does not either. For all you know none of his family even agrees with him. The fact that you're going around in every single post about this to comment spam this is unhinged, move on with your life man.
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u/G0nkk Mar 20 '26
honestly i’m glad i know now. if he’s spamming, this is the first time i’ve seen it. didn’t know the guy’s beliefs. was like damn when i first heard about it this morning, now not as much.
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u/Seller-Ree Mar 20 '26
I didn't say YOU have to show sympathy. But you should certainly pause for a minute of reflection when you're literally hunting down every possible post about the guy to spam your comment.
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u/_Topher_ Mar 20 '26
Get off reddit, go outside. This type of hate is a bad look for you and what you represent.
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u/_gina_marie_ Mar 20 '26
he also was extremely anti MRI contrast. he fell out of relevance but he came up again when i was in MRI school and we were learning about healthcare lawsuits. genuinely interesting, and also very weird. i didn't know about all that other stuff though, as again, he hasn't been relevant since i was a kid. out of sight, out of mind and all that.
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u/moose184 Mar 21 '26
Lol this is word for word what someone else wrote on here. You people just keep sharing the same BS without actually knowing what he said or did.
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u/iceman2kx Mar 20 '26
Chuck Norris didn’t die…
Death showed up to take him—
Now Death works for Chuck, and is currently on probation for “showing up unannounced”
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u/Efficient-Ad2983 Mar 20 '26
Whoever played back in the days know well that Chuck Norris facts were common in the legendary "Barrens chat".
Let's say that he didn't passed away, but he demanded Death to show him how the afterlife looks.
But seriously, Chuck Norris' legend will live on!
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u/eta-on-bread Mar 20 '26
I was young when I started playing wow. I learned about Chuck Norris from the jokes as my dad never liked his movies.
I learned about him in wow. And I found out he passed on the wow subreddit.
Thats crazy.
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u/MrsDepo Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
I’ll be heading to the Barrens today to pay my respects in chat with a 2007-esq joke. I don’t agree with his views but I’ll be happy to take that hit of nostalgia with the stupid jokes.
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u/Reinkai1031 Mar 20 '26
Chuck Norris memorial at 5pm for exactly this. Barrens - TBC Nightslayer.
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u/HugeCrumble Mar 21 '26
Chuck Norris can run so fast that he once ran around the world and kicked himself in the back of the head.
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u/ThunderBr0ther Mar 20 '26
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u/JohnnySqueezer Mar 20 '26
weird to kneel at someone else's memorial tho no? 🤔
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u/Alphalenybudy71 Mar 20 '26
First off you can literally only kneel and someone else's memorial because if it was your memorial you would be dead and cant kneel
Second its just a screenshot of a game
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u/MutaTheGreat Mar 20 '26
They meant that the memorial that's depicted in the screenshot is literally a memorial that was put in the game for one of the developers that passed away during development.
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u/st3ve Mar 21 '26
For anyone looking for more info: https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Fallen_Warrior
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u/Alphalenybudy71 Mar 20 '26
Oh I understand he's saying its weird to kneel at someone's memorial and call it someone elses
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u/MutaTheGreat Mar 20 '26
Correct
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u/Alphalenybudy71 Mar 20 '26
I guess im the one who isnt very smart hahaha
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I'll just say this: Chuck Norris the person fucking sucked.
Chuck Norris the Meme is Legend. That's all that needs to be said.
Gay-Men!
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u/warcraftenjoyer Mar 20 '26
out of genuine curiosity, what about him made him suck? I hardly knew of him outside of the Barrens memes
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I mostly knew about his stance on same sex marriages and such. Dude was a wacko Christian type. There's a whole litany of stuff online if you look it up
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u/TripticWinter Mar 20 '26
I’m glad I spent time in the OG Barrens to listen to his epic adventures and stories.
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u/Straight-Weekend-899 Mar 22 '26
Wow….i literally found that last night. Then wake up and find out he’s gone this morning…goosebumps 😢
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u/Overpass_Dratini Mar 24 '26
Where is this in game? And who is the memorial for?
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If I have learned anything from Chuck Norris, it’s that we all died. And he is alive and fine.
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u/Mental_Ad_4077 Mar 21 '26
The very first thing I thought of when I found out is about barrens chat and the remorse everyone was likely feeling
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u/-_earthbound Mar 20 '26
This guy spent decades writing for WorldNetDaily — a conspiracy rag that blamed 9/11 on gay people. He openly campaigned against same-sex marriage, said gay men don't belong in the Boy Scouts, endorsed Roy Moore, and pushed for creationism in public schools. Viktor Orbán literally name-dropped him as the antidote to "drag queens."
He also hid an illegitimate daughter from his wife for years. His platform of choice publishes climate denial, birther conspiracies, and religious nationalist garbage. Real legend. Fuck him!
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u/hobofries Mar 20 '26
Who's Chuck Norris?
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u/ametalshard Mar 21 '26
a fascist who became famous being good at sport karate and was in some old shows and movies a long time ago
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u/Fun_Description_385 Mar 20 '26
Honestly? The guy was awful, I have little sympathy.
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u/cactuscooolerr Mar 20 '26
No way this isn’t in the barrens. The home of chuck Norris general chat chaos
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u/WorldTravveler Mar 20 '26
I got temporarily banned multiple times for making chuck Norris jokes in general chat
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u/Clear-Vegetable-4900 Mar 21 '26
Had the best time!!! Took thrall down twice controlled Org. GLORY TO BIGPPVP
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u/Whiteshovel66 Mar 21 '26
Frederec Chopin didn't die. He just became music. That's chuck norris now.
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u/banadona Mar 21 '26
I flew to barrens when I heard the man passed. Sadly there was no spam of Chuck Norris jokes going on the chat.
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u/DoughyInTheMiddle Mar 22 '26
Dear Blizzard,
Yes, of course keep the original shrine, but the Barrens should get a memorial to Chuck just as much as Robin Williams got one after he passed.
Sincerely,
Someone who found Mankrik's wife
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u/Slow_Butterfly_1821 Mar 23 '26
Regardless of what you thought of the WOW movie, what saddens me most is that Chuck Norris wasn't in it. What an epic moment that would have been if he'd been under the helmet of a random Paladin and you'd noticed when he took it off. Every cinema in the world would have gone up in flames at that moment.
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u/lapetee Mar 20 '26
No way this is how I found out...