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recklessjediknight

I miss Ben Skywalker :((( he was such a loser. what a nerd. what a traumatized kid. and the auburn hair!!!!

goth-queen

sentientsky

repeating this to myself forever and ever

bebx

unfortunately, I will write this fic and I am writing this fic are two very different things

thedankmemes

joudama

Y’know what?

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 sold one million units in one day. ONE DAY. I don’t want to hear another person saying it was completely unreasonable for EA to expect 3 million in 3 months for DATV. A good RPG can and will sell that well. The only reason DATV didn’t was because it wasn’t actually very good.

adifferentkindofbird-deactivate

this may come off as nitpicky but please. even magic does not look like dragon age magic in veilguard. it's too sci-fi. where are all the dark mysterious ruins with runes and veilfire that make you wonder about what they once were. why am i suddenly removing force fields with lazers. (it came to me suddenly that you also can't tell at all by looking at the ruins in arlathan what these buildings used to be for. because surely it wasn't just to randomly store a chest or a sole bridge-summoning crystal). bellara is also a mechanic and not even a little bit mage now (see all the "tinkering"). and why does minrathous have a speaker system. surely there are ways to depict an oppressive magical state that do not require putting modern technology into your fantasy world. although i see how it may become a problem when you forget what even phylacteries are (you have to destroy lucanis's "blood" instead while breaking him out). and it does look flashy that all the companions have at least some kind of magical abilities and that magic is used creatively, however i'm sorry but thedas is also not that magical. in previous games even when warriors or rogues got special abilities, they were tied to them being unique to the character (eg fenris) and you still could have regular people in your party, most rogues/warriors that you would see fight have been regular people, and this makes the impression of the presence and use of magic in thedas drastically different from the previous games.

somehow the exaggerated design instead of realism has been less jarring for me than this storytelling emptiness of the design in the end. but buildings float now i guess

thedas-elf-lover

A slightly deranged review from a long time Dragon Age fan.

What this game promised to be in terms of a Dragon Age game: - Most romantic - Offer a few key world state choices that would have great plot impact, which emphasis on wanting to give players choices that have a visual impact, not just codex. - The most complex, deep companions yet. - Choices that matter.

What I got: [SPOILERS] - The shortest, chastest romances I've ever seen, where the end goal is quite literally sex. The final romance scene is the sex scene, after you've been locked in for some time. No sex before marriage, lol. Even the shortest romance in DAI is longer than the longest romance in this game. It's probably the least sex positive game out of them all. - The only choice that has visual impact is the Solas option, and even that doesn't really give anything major. Solas has maybe one unique line? Otherwise, there is no major change. The other two choices (Did you disband the Inquisition? Did you vow to save or stop Solas?) have no difference, either. It's a matter of do you want your Inquisitor to say "comrade" or "friend." The Inquisition doesn't matter. The South gets nuked off-screen anyway. In codex. So two of the three world state choices we get are mostly represented in codexes anyway. - I have nothing against the companions in Veilguard, but to call them the most complex is somewhat... false. Solas is a complex character. Thom Ranier is complex. Vivienne de Fer is complex. Fenris, Anders, Merrill, Isabela, Morrigan, and Sten are complex characters. They are characters who contain complexities that are not easily swept away. ALL the Veilguard companions are your next door neighbors. They're normal. There's nothing wrong about that, but they don't challenge you. There's nothing to think about. Lucanis isn't going to make you seriously consider your morality, despite being the "prince" of the Crows - hired killers. Neve's standing and possible privilege as a human mage in a magocracy is never commented on. These are just two examples, but the same applies for the rest of the companions. None of them are HIDING anything. I will reiterate that there's not anything necessarily WRONG with that, but it does mean they lack the flare of drama that previous companions had that made them brain-scratchers. - Choices don't matter. No matter what Rook does or says, you're railroaded into a scrappy, heroic person who is always right. The worst thing you can do in this game is just NOT do the companion quests. - Despite being a RPG, there is no roleplaying. It's more action/adventure. But it gets a little slow in places for an action/adventure. And it doesn't have enough roleplay value to be a satisfying RPG. - Pretty much the only reason I can see replaying this game is to see the opposite city routes. You don't have to finish the game to get the full romance, either. - No lore continuity. Elves, qunari, dwarves, and humans just living in peace in Tevinter. Some fantasy where poor communities aren't racist doesn't explain this away. - Orientalism in Rivain? - Reducing what was originally a story about slave liberation and rebellion to "love and murder" over Solas' ex situationship. - The game can understand gender that exists outside a binary but somehow can't understand multiculturalism. - Why does Bellara, a Dalish elf, have white guilt?

Some disorganized additions:

- Tonal whiplash. You go from losing a supposedly beloved companion to the final romance scene (the sex scene) in the space of 5 second. - You can't speak to your companions outside cutscenes. However, you can go around the Lighthouse snooping on your companions having nice conversations amongst themselves. - Not a SINGLE companion bothers to check in on the PC even once. You played as a Grey Warden who lost Weisshaupt? No one cares. Emmrich will check in on Davrin but not you. The only point in the game where they show even a smidgeon of care for you is after the Regret Prison, but they don't actually show it. You're pulled out and it immediately cuts to a war table scene. No emotional reunions. - This is Found Family - but only for the companions. Bellara has the opportunity to see Neve as a sister figure, but not you. This could roll into the lack of roleplay value in this game, but it really adds to the lonely element of this game. - "Okay guys, we lost the big game. Let's all take a step back and do some self-care exercises." But the game is Weisshaupt and the South is getting nuked. - Characters often feel like caricatures of themselves. Oftentimes this game feels like a fanfiction of the story and characters it's representing. Some of the things the characters say are not things that normal people would say. Because Rook never builds more than an entirely superficial relationship with their coworkers, it's entirely believable that the most moving thing Rook can think to say, whenever the obligatory Sad Moment happens to a companion, is "[Insert Name Here], I'm so sorry." - You could replace the Inquisitior with a cardboard cut out and it would have more life. - We already had a story about a disapproving parent who is hurtful to their queer child with Dorian. There was a missed opportunity with Shathann to explore the Qunari's view on gender, but only the Tevinter characters are allowed to talk to Taash about different gender identities. When Shathann talks about qunari gender identity, it's oppression. This game's handle on cultural identity is awful. And then they fridged Shathann. - Did you know Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain, the ancient elven gods (we won't say Evanuris even though that's shorter and more believable to Andrastians who might balk at the idea of ELVEN gods), have escaped from their prison and are blighting the world? The elven gods escaped and they're blighting the world, because they're blighted and escaped prison and are elven gods and are blighting the world, Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain, those gods, who are elven, and escaped and are blighting the world. - This game is Young Adult. This game is YA with all the darker, grittier elements from the previous game filed away, presented as "politically correct" with "ethical piracy" with no continuity in characterization because Isabela Dragon Age 2 would NOT say any of that. It's if Genshin Impact was a Dragon Age game, complete with the canned body language (cross arms). - The villains are one-dimensional. Aelia's "Minrathous dark truth" AKA Batman villain, Butcher dies after 1 moment of glory, the Dragon King is nothing sauce, if Elgar'nan was just a little bit more intelligent he'd have just smashed that moon into Thedas and called it a day, Illario's speech is ripped right from the Lion King. Gone are the days where antagonists had complex reasons for their actions. Gone are the days where characters were put into situations were there was NO good choice for them to make and we could judge them with the nuance they deserved. - Also did you know: Whatever it takes?

On the bright side, the CC is great.

sharknadoslutt

My controversial Star Wars opinion is that I think Palps is a funny guy. That man is always laughing at something. Is he evil? Yes. Is he a disgusting, genocidal dirt bag? Most definitely.

Will he make a well-timed, clever joke at the dinner party that will have you choking on your drink? Unfortunately, yes. Sheev is a comedian, I just know it 🤷‍♀️

henriettadreaming

I swear the amount of bullshit "Aemond stole Vhagar" comments I see on here.

He didn't steal a dragon, you can't steal a fucking dragon. A dragon egg? Absolutely, as we saw in episode two with Daemon. But a dragon, a sentient living creature? No. And Vhagar isn't some little hatchling dragon at that, she's the largest dragon alive, over 170 years old and at the time Aemond claimed her she'd only allowed three other people to claim her.

She had a choice when Aemond approached her, she could have immediately barbequed this little blonde twig. But she tests him, on land and in flight, to see if he's worthy of being her rider. And by some stroke of luck he doesn't fall to his death or get flambéed, he succeeds. There's no stealing about it. People saying it was disrespectful, maybe it was maybe it wasn't. But Rhaena wasn't entitled to Vhagar just because her mother was her rider, she's a living creature not a necklace or a sword to inherit.

And I find it pretty funny with all this talk of stealing, people get up in arms about Aemond riding Laena's dragon on the day of her funeral but nothing gets said about Rhaenyra riding Laena's husband on the day of her funeral?

bonnibei

sfw & nsfw headcanons of saitama and thanks in advance!

here we goooooooooo!

SFW

Okay I live for boyfriend!saitama because I think him being in a romantic relationship is so damn cute.

number one the fact that he’s found someone who’s actually awaken and excited him and made him feel in a way he would have never thought possible for him.

at first he’d be very awkward with being someone’s boyfriend

not really good at showing affection… at all

you really thought you were doing something wrong or that he just wasn’t that into you

you were almost about to call it quits until he called you over one night to talk

you thought he was going to end it but he actually… opened up to you

he let you know how he’s very new to relationships

“I like you and I think you’re really pretty and cool but I’m really having a hard time… adjusting to being in a relationship. I can see you’ve been having second thoughts about… us and I’m sorry I’m just a shitty boyfriend.”

After that things got so much better, you both understood each other and what pages you both were on in the relationship

with time everything fell into place

He let’s you wear his oppai hoodie because he knows it comforts you when you two aren’t together for whatever reason. it just feels like he’s giving you a hug at all times

BUT he is that type of boyfriend that wants his shit back lmao, and he will get a little annoyed when he’s looking for a particular shirt and he can’t find it because you have it

even though he gets annoyed he can’t stay irritated at you for long because you look so good wearing it.

NSFW

More often than not sex happens at your apartment because there’s more privacy.

Once you and Sai decided to take a risk and have sex at his apartment when Genos walked in the middle of you riding Saitama.

Saitama is fairly vanilla, he doesn’t have many kinks or into toys.

But he does really love fucking very rough and relentless. like pounding the fuck out of you until you’re sore.

That’s usually when he’s just really in the mood or you guys haven’t been able to have sex because of him being a hero and you having a full time job.

I’d imagine he’d really have a thing for blow jobs and hand jobs. he just really enjoys them and they’re so “convenient”

He’s kind of a pillow princess but you’d never tell him that to his face, it’d hurt his pride and you’re a good s/o.

He likes finishing in your mouth or on your face it really doesn’t matter to him.

I think his cum would be on the sweeter side too which is weird because his eating habits aren’t the best.

Sex with Saitama isn’t always too serious. He’d totally have a full conversation with you during the middle of it all.

“Hey, did Genos tell you we’re going to the grocery store for that 75% off sale? Oh- did you just cum?” headass

memeuplift

patchofvoid

part 1

patchofvoid

Part 2

Some thoughts on aromanticism

ryurrumi

FINAL FANTASY XV - Omen Trailer (2016)

darkinnovator

I have always felt this was one interesting storyline that we were cheated out of.

weavemama

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY

jackharknessday

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

gayfeatherfiend

Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army

rab-it-deactivated20231030

My turn.

I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.

I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.

I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.

They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.

Then I found out.

Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.

Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.

knight-of-vengeance-deactivated

The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.