Falling to the Dark Side in Star Wars: You loved your mother and/or girlfriend too much, a problem according to airheaded Calvinobuddhism, and now you're space wizard Richard Nixon.
Falling to Chaos in Warhammer: You ate a spicy sandwich. Unfortunately, it was too spicy.
Larp everyone knows that the human fighter has some intricate game of thrones backstory and the half elf half angel is a powergamer who only cares about maximizing damage.
The hate for UB is quite obviously a reasonable reaction to feeling like the consumerism in your hobby has been foregrounded, but the way it has led massive swaths of players to gaslight themselves into believing they truly care about Magic's story is really funny.
i’m so confused by the water bottle discourse because i’m in the uk and EVERYONE i know carries a reusable water bottle with them … they’re just small and fit in a bag instead of some kind of end of days survival canister
my opinion about Universes Beyond and Magic’s story is similar to how I feel about Dark Souls actually. I play every Fromsoft game without paying much attention to the lore, but it would be *incredibly* jarring if Dark Souls IV came out and featured a Spider-Man villain as a boss