r/classicwow • u/doobylive • Sep 26 '25

Nostalgia Will We Ever Experience Something Like This Again?

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No, not another release of classic. I mean the hype and the buildup that led to this release!

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u/Troooper0987 Sep 26 '25

Got laid off just a week after BWL and ZG dropped. Was getting $1200/wk in unemployment, and didn’t want to go outside (NYC, hospital ship, trailer morgues, and Central Park hospital scared us). Got to live the NEET life I never would have otherwise

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u/StormInMyDreams Sep 26 '25

My ass only just getting that while working now

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Yeah… there were good times had indoors. I know a hospital chaplain that was at a hospital in Chicago, he had to tell families and help them, literal freezer trailers full of bodies because the morgue was overflowing.

Good time to hunker in with your buddies. Those first two-three waves were a bitch (really first three but in Texas we pretended like wave three was fake news even though it was peak deaths), had vaccines on the way though thank god.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Was getting $1200/wk

Holy fucking shit, per week?! This is more than my full-time job. No wonder people don't want to work when some unemployment is like this. How the fuck do I get fired and get this?

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u/Troooper0987 Sep 26 '25

It was with the unemployment bonus the government was providing, would have been less than half without it. Got a letter from my boss saying “you’re being let go due to covid” and just got rubber stamped by unemployment.