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Call me Em. They/She, 28 DA/BG3/ME/ any other good rpg I play blog. Right now that's mostly Dragon Age follows from @weedforcats 18+ RPG blog is @housecuntori

[lakemojave]

People will see an underwritten woman or black character and act like it's the character's fault

[scorpio-system]

AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

[vanshira]

#‘that goose keeps laying golden eggs. that’s stagnation. I’m going to kill it and go look for a goose that lays diamond eggs’#‘that goose normally lays golden eggs but this time it laid a silver egg. I’m going to kill it because even though I can still make good#money with that it’s not as good as a golden egg’#‘that golden egg laying goose only lays an egg once a day instead of constantly shitting them out. I don’t care that golden eggs take time#if they’re not constant the goose is worthless to me’

@thebaldursmouthgazette y u leave all the good stuff in the tags

[championsandheroes]

So, I still haven't finished Veilguard and it's in no small part because of the writing. I can feel the meddling from higher ups all over it and it feels like a completely different IP with some DA paint slapped on top of it. It's clear that the writers weren't allowed to do what they do best and in that light perhaps it wasn't all that surprising that the last of the veterans on the writing team were let go shortly after its release. I'm just saying that if I was running a game studio that was cherished for its single player story driven games, I'd lean in to it and make it our niche rather than running after every fad like a headless chicken. And, you know, treasure the talent that helped build the company. But maybe that's just me ¯\(ツ)/¯ Either way, I wish the writers (no matter when they left) nothing but the best and I'm thankful for what they gave us. I'm also interested in seeing what they'll work on in the future.

Over at Patreon and redbubble, we don't throw our main artist out because we want something new. Mainly because this is a solo project, but still.

[fellamorte]

twitter meme i did in a rush

[bunniope]

yup. i laced your weed joint with straight up powdered wyvern scale

[kashlat2]

Stop liking my old ugly horizon fanarts guys. Here’s a fresh one

[tubermylord]

[vamptits]

a lot of men that people online are obsessed with calling daddy are one 'good boy' away from shattering their knees on the ground forgetting their names and panting like dogs. it has to be said.

[vamptits]

your daddy dom barks on command.

[glamfellens]

our age of dragon is collapsing

[reaper-dog-deactivated20230729]

yes actually that is a knife in my pocket i am not happy to see you at all.

[molabuddy]

when u play a game long enough u start to play it mentally ill style

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[inquisitivewolves]

The fact of the matter is this: if I do not like the writing in a piece of media (Veilguard), and could, if I had the time, patience and energy to construct a several hundred page essay critiquing the writing, the character development, the plot points, the places the writing contradicts itself and the narrative of the very story the piece of media is trying to tell. Does it not make sense to blame the writers and leave such criticisms at their door. And I do not mean go hound them for it.

I critique this piece of media because it was abysmally written and while I do blame the company/HQ for it, I believe the writers are to be criticised for it because they wrote it. And it was terrible. A video game like Dragon Age needs good writing, not great, but the bare minimum it has to be good otherwise you will end up with a financial and commercial failure like DATV was.

[zaevran]

me at 5am, in tears: i love zevran so much

[housecantori]

Wow yeah really cool art of Zevran. One question though, why is he white?

[refrainee]

What if Elgar'nan wins, Rook defeated, and Inquisitor captured....

[rhibbet]

top tier character trait will always be “I care about you deeply, even though I betrayed you. even though I would do it again” I don’t make the rules