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A fair warning to my viewers: If you try publicly defending me, you WILL be incessantly and viciously harassed by Nazi filth, useful idiots and people with severe internalized bigotry.

If you don't have the skin for that, if you're the kind of person who nukes their social media when they get harassed, then don't do it. Please prioritize your own safety over defending me.

Do you have a favorite cooked fish?

I don't like fish

Wow ok, never mind pissy pants. Guess people were right when they said you defend trans women at all costs even when they're in the wrong. We're talking about xenophobia here.

You'll get over it, teaboo

Different anon but I think what they really are thinking is how could you make a character not come off as possessive to the fandom. A lot of fandoms make jokes that devoted characters are stalkers when that's not the case.

Fandom is going to fandom. At the end of the day if they want to view a devoted character as a stalker, they will.

At the start of May my former friend Niamh decided to text me mid conversation that she felt "uncomfortable" when meeting cis white British people. Context: she is Irish and trans and Im English and non binary. I don't know why she sprung this up on me at all since I don't qualify and I've known her for 2 years. But whatever, I shrugged it off because I thought she was tipsy. She then proudly boasted a few days later that she has never paid the BBC license fee since she moved here 3 years ago. She claimed her family explicitly forbade it because of how the BBC reported IRA terrorist attacks and how they've reported Gaza. Unfortunately I can't report her to TV licensing because there's no mechanism for that. She was was just being really performative because at the end of the day are both white. I told her that you can't claim to be part of a progressive future while actively being xenophobic and refusing to fund public broadcasters for the arts you are literally trying to audition for. She lives here in London but her family are from the part of Ireland that still want to remain in the UK. That made her and some other people really mad and we never talked again. She was being a hypocrite and I didn't want to reward that behaviour. Am I crazy?

my former friend Niamh decided to text me mid conversation that she felt "uncomfortable" when meeting cis white British people. Context: she is Irish and trans

Fair enough, the Irish have long been oppressed by the British.

But whatever, I shrugged it off because I thought she was tipsy.

I can see why she's a former friend. You sound like a douche.

She then proudly boasted a few days later that she has never paid the BBC license fee since she moved here 3 years ago. She claimed her family explicitly forbade it because of how the BBC reported IRA terrorist attacks and how they've reported Gaza.

This girl sounds fucking awesome!

Unfortunately I can't report her to TV licensing because there's no mechanism for that.

Clearly the British nobility doesn't want your peasant tongue mucking up their boots.

She was was just being really performative because at the end of the day are both white.

Irish isn't white

I told her that you can't claim to be part of a progressive future while actively being xenophobic and refusing to fund public broadcasters for the arts you are literally trying to audition for.

Aww, are you upset that the transphobic, fascist, pedophile factory is getting a little less funding? Go fuck yourself.

That made her and some other people really mad and we never talked again. She was being a hypocrite and I didn't want to reward that behaviour.

Good for her, I hope she makes better friends.

Am I crazy?

Completely and utterly.

hello. do you think it is morally wrong for someone to play dating sims or jrpgs with hawt babes with romance with said hawt babes. pls this is very important

Morally wrong? No. Pathetic? Absolutely.

Lay off the zoomers and gen alphas, grandma.

Quit being braindead and I won't have to keep hitting you.

Thank you, you wonderful woman, I got yt membership back in that video first came out to watch it, and I've been really wanting to watch it again, I absolutely adore these silly videos from you

I figured 2 years was long enough to be patron exclusive.

Where would you say is the line between devoted and obsessive characters? When does it become a negative, assuming of course the other character that's being obsessed over is not perceiving the other person's feelings as an issue? I want to write characters that are incredibly attached to someone else in the "they are my whole world" sort of way, both platonically and romantically. But I don't want another "date the sexy stalker" type of fetish story people keep posting on itchio and webtoon.

It's extremely easy to make a character who is completely devoted to someone without making them a creep or a stalker. You simply make their love genuine and non-possessive.

A stalker wants to possess someone. They covet a person like an object, and "owning" them is their main goal. They often know very little about the target of their obsessions in the first place.

A genuinely devoted person wants the other to excel and be as happy as possible and will do whatever they possibly can to facilitate that. Most importantly it's always at the other person's will. A stalker acts with disregard toward their target's consent, a devoted person acts entirely with it.

All you have to do is show that the devoted person is a welcome and desired presence in the other person's life.

Ham Hams Unite did Untitled Goose Game before it was cool.

Its a beautiful day and you are a horrible Hamster! 😈

YES!

Companion Anon again. What about in Inquisition? Blackwall, Iron Bull, Cole, and Dorian weren't talked about.

I never took them in the party. I took Cassandra, Sera and Solas on most missions.

Blackwall I straight up forgot to recruit. I saved his quest for later and then never went to do it. I did recruit Iron Bull, Cole and Dorian (kinda have to recruit Dorion IIRC) but I talked to each of them like once and they didn't interest me.

Sorry, that's just how it happens sometimes. If I were to do a KOTOR 2 video, you wouldn't hear me talking about Disciple.

I only did all the companions in Veilguard because the game strongly encouraged me to resolve their quests ME2 style. Otherwise I did it Baldur's Gate style: I have my party, and everyone else can fuck off.

I did do everyone's quests in DA2, but I didn't have anything to say about them so I didn't put them in the script.

I guess Fenris makes sense, but what about Zevran? He didn't even get a mention in the Origins video. Or Sten.

I left Sten in the cage and I killed Zevran when he ambushed me.

unc too busy sister gooning on bethany to even think abt fenris or the other chars

Yeah yeah yeah, all you fascist jizzrags only have one response to anything. You're projecting so hard you could point yourself at a wall and show off powerpoint presentations.

Also:

unc

Still talking like a neanderthal I see.

Anyway, it's funny that you'd think I'd willingly pass up the chance to hear Gideon Emery's magnificent voice in anything.

The things I would let Lor'themar do to me...

Is there any precedent for why people want nuanced Sith or is it just because of the aesthetic?

When Star Wars has written nuanced an interesting Sith like Kreia, the Empire's Wrath or Darth Imperious, the writers always sit down and put their whole pussy into the writing.

It always ends up standing out leaps and bounds above anything else Star Wars has ever written, largely because the people who write it are extremely passionate about it.

Much of the rest of Star Wars rigidly adheres to certain formulas, but every nuanced or complicated Sith story has been unique, personal, and always the creme de la creme of Star Wars writing.

You mentioned before that Disney changed the way lightsaber crystals worked. How did they work before and why is the new one bad?

Lightsaber crystals used to work in a very simple way: The color of the crystal sets the color of the lightsaber.

In the Old Republic, Jedi used lightsabers of every hue, but by the time of the Prequel, most Jedi got most of their crystals from Ilum, where Blue and Green were the most plentiful. The reason the Sith used predominately red is because the Jedi controlled the places where lightsaber crystals were found, so they used synthetic crystals which almost always came out red.

After a while, it just became the aesthetic.

The new canon Kyber crystals are clear until it seeks a Jedi out and forms a bond with it, where it will then turn to whatever color it wants, and like a living being forms a “bond” with its owner, and the color is set based on the owner's personality.

This introduces so many problems, like when Jedi use another person's lightsaber, or in Attack of the Clones when Anakin and Obi Wan are thrown spare lightsabers. It also means that standard-issue lightsabers like the ones the Inquisitors get make even less sense than before. They work when you can manufacture red crystals, not so much when you have to "Bleed" them like the edgy emo bitch you are.

But the reason Disney made it this way is because the fandom had spent the last decade turning a simple aesthetic choice into something "meaningful." The idea of your lightsaber color saying something about your personality is something backported from the Harry Potter series because if you leave a fandom long enough they'll eventually remake the Hogwarts Houses in everything.

So Disney, because they wanted to sell you a lightsaber building experience, made them work the same way wands do in Harry Potter so when you go to Galaxy's Edge you get to build your unique lightsaber that's completely special to you and only to you.

Which is really fucking stupid given that the hilt designs were already unique in the first place.

Apparently this wasn't adequate.

It's the opposite problem of midi-chlorians. They have over-mystified the lightsaber as a concept, and it's telling that in no way does this concept actually work in-universe.

This is another one of those things that falls under the category of "This is Lucas' vision, yet it's never shown in any of the things he actually made and not reinforced at all."

In your DA2 video, why didn't you talk about Fenris? Given how much you gassed up the elves and their story, it seemed weird you acted like he didn't exist

Couldn't find him

What are some games or cartoons that have sub-par stories but good art styles?

Can't think of any. I'm a writing gal, art style doesn't matter.

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