Odds & Ends

Finding inspiration in the mundane /// video games, comics, art, birds /// sometimes I make mods

[cerberry]

[jusjuiceboxbox]

Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

- knees

[cour5t]

[buckpussy]

the mutuals you have nothing in common with anymore fandom-wise are so important to the dash ecosystem...... #biodiversity

[potatofantiger]

For scientific purposes, who was your FIRST romance in each DA game.

[vancilart]

dad is this the time for speeches my friends are being KILLED

[galateas-revenge]

Dad MY BOYFRIEND is in THERE.

[atomeja]

[mysticfirethorn]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

[cerberry]

Niles Abara

So I finished The Outer Worlds 2 and… is that really it? No epilogue, no proper farewells, just a handful of slides? Niles only gets a brief mention in VAL's and has none of his own. Neither does the Commander. Where is my family visit, Obsidian? I even tried the bad ending hoping for something emotional, but there's barely any difference. Anyway, I went to dig around in the loca files and got my crumbs:

!! HEAVY SPOILERS for the endings and Niles's story below The family slide does exist: "He invited his former Commander on a visit to Triangulum. The duo enjoyed some R&R, their weapons holstered for the most part, before meeting Niles' extended family. The Commander gave Niles the confidence to reconnect, until duty once again called."

Now, if you were close to Niles and decided to sacrifice yourself, he'd offer to stay with you (posting some variations here, I couldn't get any of this in the game)

N: "Reckon I'll join you." Commander: "No point in both of us dying. I'll go alone." N: "I've had your back since Horizon Point. Ain't about to stop now." (if Zeb is dead) N: "I've already lost Zeb, Commander. If I had to mourn you too, ain't sure my ticker could take it. So… it's settled then. If you're going, then I'm coming with you." C: "Are you sure? This isn't the kind of decision you can take back." N: "You asking me if I want to die? Answer's no. But I'm not about to watch you go to your death all by your lonesome neither." // "I'm not just gonna stand idle while you go to your death!" C: "That's exactly what you're going to do. I won't have your death on my conscience." // "No buts, Agent Abara. This is something I have to do - alone." (you can talk him out of it or accept it) C: "If you really care about me, then live for me, Niles. Make my sacrifice count."

N: "When I found you, I was just coming out of the dark. What'll I do when you're gone?" C: "You'll find your way. I know you will." or C: "All right, Niles. You and me, then." C: "I won't lie - it'd be a comfort to have you with me at the end, Niles."

The end slide:

"Niles, unwilling to let his beloved commander go alone after everything they had been through together, volunteered to accompany them. He was at peace at the end, side-by-side with the agent who had renewed his belief in himself."

[correctopinionhaver]

[famouspainterwombat]

[stuckinapril]

[ampervadasz]

[bumblebeerror]

THE CASUALNESS OF THAT COLLIE SLIPPING RIGHT OUT OF THEIR COLLAR. That dude is a Willing Participant of this walk and by god everyone else is going to follow the RULES.

[roach-works]

im a fan of the moment where the husky is like 'wait you're not authorized to do that' and the collie is like 'THE FUCK IM NOT'

[kiisuuumii]

anyone wanna sit together in silence while you do your thing and i do my thing and we do our things. together. in silence

[cerberry]

I figured out how to get rid of the new kissing sounds, so DM me if you want the fix

[valilihapiirakka]

the classic Finnish mix of extreme dutifulness and “we will make actual conversation after a silent interaction trial period of 6 weeks, thank you” can be really funny sometimes. told my coworker that I’d like to save the coffee grounds the workplace generated and take them home “for my mushrooms and worms” and she was just like “okei” and dutifully saved every single grounds-filled filter for weeks and weeks. about five weeks into this whole thing, after I thank her for the coffee grounds and tell her my worms must love them because they’re breeding very enthusiastically, she finally asks “so your worms… do they have a purpose or are they just… worms”. like sure I’ll save you all these coffee grounds every single time I drink coffee, 3+ times a day, but god forbid I inquire about your specific worm habits before propriety allows it. you could be eating them for breakfast for all I know but that’s your business

[valilihapiirakka]

this post has been up for so long I’m at a new workplace now, and here’s a new one: someone finally getting a close enough look at the jar of homemade nut butter I’d been using to make snacks for days (in a reused jar, still with the pesto label on it), realising the contents were not as advertised, and saying with poorly concealed relief “ai!!! you weren’t spreading pesto on bananas!” like she’d been quietly dying inside the whole time but had grimly committed herself to never ever presuming to ask wtf was going on

[valilihapiirakka]

#I mentioned to a coworker how my friend had mailed me some goldfish and I was so excited to eat them#and she labored under the misapprehension for days that I was consuming actual real fish mailed all the way from America#before one day I brought some for lunch and she was like ohhh these are crackers!!

congrats, this is so cursed and the best addition someone has made to this post

[niuniente]

#i’m not gonna lie i feel like a lot of people online could do with a dose of this type of finnishness #y'know. the ‘i have no idea what you’re doing and it seems really weird but it’s not my business to pry and also you do you’ attitude

[cerberry]

Play dice with Hans - out now on Nexus