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junk-thunder

you can hit it raw, i’ve got an IED

sparrow-va

you have a wha

stuckinapril

kitten I’ll be honest the finality of everything in this world haunts daddy like a second shadow

yiddishfisting

i'll reblog resources and info on how trump's fucking us over of course but it really is so telling that a lot of these people weren't posting the same things when biden was president. instead we were getting all these long posts about how he was great and progressive and Doing His Best. like we all conveniently forgot he was the one who stopped hospitals from honestly reporting COVID death numbers and let dozens of transphobic bills pass and let roe v wade get shredded and pursued oil pipelines and endorsed cop city and deported more people than trump and let boeing get away with openly assassinating a guy and enthusiastically funded palestinian genocide and

yiddishfisting

started ignoring the bird flu resurgence to begin with and let food corporations lie to inflate prices and didn't push all that hard for student debt relief and endorsed the use of militarized police against students and endorsed mask bans and stood by as terrorism charges were brought against people passing out leaflets and

yiddishfisting

if this system supposedly still works then nothing happens overnight. you can't say one day that biden had no influence or power and then as soon as trump takes over a day later he's an unstoppable dictator. both of them work completely within the framework of the United States as a colonial imperialist empire, it's just one of them pretended he couldn't do anything about anything to make leftists think he was still on their side

idontevenlikedragonage

Thing I really enjoy about DA:TV - Rook

Full disclosure: I feel that the issues people have with Rook as a protagonist are very much a product of our time and culture, as well as the expectations created for the game in the past decade.

We live in a moment when all most heroes and protagonists are morally grey, unwilling, disillusioned, and detached. Being genuine, trying to do the right thing, and perhaps even being uncompromising about your values is seen as cringe.

So yeah, Veilguard came out at a point in my life when I felt like I was watching movies with the same main character and playing characters with the same sort of snarky attitude.

I’m genuinely so into a Rook who is just uncompromisingly a kind person—someone who asks how the characters are doing and helps people not just with fetch quests but with their personal lives. A lot of it is personal preference, but my favorite Veilguard moment was finding out Bellara is writing a book (and helping with it) and having drinks with Taash. Let me roleplay a hero that characters actually, genuinely like and want to spend time with. Show me the little things.

I guess the big payoff of Rook is the finale of the game. There are several lead-up conversations with Solas about leadership, and the contrast between the two is repeatedly emphasized. Solas thinks removing distractions from the team’s lives would help achieve a goal, but Rook genuinely cares. The companions willingly follow Rook out of respect and care, not out of necessity. The game wouldn’t work with a different protagonist but that’s a separate discussion.

Rook is my special little treat that I play in these tiring times.

#dragon age #hard agree!!!!#just let me be genuinely nice™ there is enough misery in games and irl to go around!!

macklesufficient

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

orpheuslament

now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

orpheuslament

"yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story" thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code

antivanwine14

I see the posts asking what Rook brings to the squad. What is Rook good at when the rest of the Squad are experts in their fields? Rook isn't necessary to the rest.

A) Rook is probably the most skilled out of all the protagonists we've had. You can head canon things, but the truth is the HOF and Inquisitor were not masters in their fields before they got supremely unlucky and landed with a skill they didn't really want. Hawke really was just a person who developed over time. Rook starts as a hero who is very skilled in their craft. I'm going to speak on this from Crow Rook because that is who I know best, but this does apply to the others as well. Crow Rook took down 20 Antaam alone. That is not something the average Crow can do. That is skill enough to impress Varric and get the role to work with him.

B) Rook knows how to get themselves into and out of trouble. Yes, Rook does know how to get into trouble, but Rook also sees opportunities others miss. In the opening, Harding's plan is to fire on Solas. She doesn't consider other options beside the one she is most comfortable with. Neve tells Harding no, but she also doesn't give a better solution either. Rook is the one who looks around to find other solutions.

Additionally, I wish this was commented on more but other characters acknowledge this skill of finding opportunities. Varric says to an unromanced Inquisitor that Rook is very good at Wicked Grace, a game all about cheating and opportunities. If Rook de Riva abandons Treviso, Viago also comments on this skill, that Rook would have found a way to help their city. Rook sees opportunities others miss. This is a very important skill at seeing opportunities that the other companions don't really see. There is a phrase, to a hammer, everything looks like a nail and our companions do that. Our companions are supremely skilled at what they do, but that means they don't usually look outside of the solution that fits their skills best, ie: Harding is always looking for the shot, Lucanis's solutions usually involve daggers, etc.

C) Rook has the soft skills to lead. Soft skills are completely underrated in life. Some people just assume that the person with the best skills at something should be the leader. This is how we get really awful leaders who have no people skills and treat their teams like crap. Leadership takes skills and none of the companions have those skills at the start. Davrin and Neve end the game as leaders, but both start having the same issue of being lone wolves who struggle to trust others. They need to learn how to trust others. Harding would probably be the best of the rest, but she is dealing with her own internal struggles with her new stone powers and the anger the titans are feeling. Rook might have some issues with confidence as being a leader, but Rook has great soft skills that allow the team to open up to them and trust them with the team's issues. Rook's confidence goes away with time as they get used to the role, but the soft skills are so valuable.

Rook built the team. Remove Rook and the team would never have functioned as well as they did because of the work Rook did. Yes, they were able to accomplish a lot while Rook was in the Fade Prison, but that was because Rook had done their job. Rook had built a great team that knew what they had to do, were able to work together, and were able to do it until they could get Rook back. They trusted what Rook had done because they trusted Rook. I don't see them getting nearly as far without Rook and so Rook is absolutely essential for the squad.

#dragon age

thedissonantverses

“Veilguard is bad cause it’s represented the commodification of art! What the game could have been! Disnefication!”

“The sales numbers!!!!! See if it sold less than what EA wanted it’s cause it’s bad!!!”

Do you uh. Do you see my frustration? Do you see how equating a piece of media’s sale’s numbers with its quality is a problem actually? Do you see how ignoring the rampant problems with that stat and game’s journalism at large is not helping? Do you see you those YouTubers you keep quoting at me have a vested interest in being as negative a possible because it gets them more money? Do you see how you just sound exactly like the bigots and that it’s alarming that you fell for it?

Let me put it this way. I could have been the only one who bought the game and I’d still say it’s my favorite Dragon Age game. Because I don’t judge art by how well it sold.

idontevenlikedragonage

Game journalists focusing on Veilguard sales when the EA Sports FC issues are far more interesting regarding games and the current economy. (I hate game journalists)

#dragon age