Iona

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[pinkvbay]

I feel like being nice!!!

So here's some resources for getting the right skin colors for the dragon age characters that people have whitewashed through the years:

Isabela from Dragon Age is Black by Dalishious

FULL skin palette for Alistair by Dalishious

High quality Alistair headshot for colorpicking by Dalishious from this

High quality Zevran headshot for colorpicking by Dalishious from this

Fenris' skin color by Dalishious

High quality Fenris Images for colorpicking by Dalishious

High quality Merrill headshot for colorpicking by Dalishious

And just so people don't have the excuse of laziness, here's palettes i have made by colorpicking textures and models, feel free to use them:

Edit: Crows and Emmrich

My own dirty laundry: I have been guilty of whitewashing Merrill before, as I didn't know she was in DA:O so I used the DA2 render for colorpicking, from this I need everyone to learn that sometimes the whitewashing isn't done by malice but from a place of lack of knowledge.

[devilcat3d]

there's just not enough time in the day for video games. even when I want to play them and dont have anything else going on I still don't end up playing them. this is because there's actually only four hours in the day and nobody is talking about this

[raylangivins]

(three decades into my life) sorry I wasn’t paying attention, can we start again?

[newvegascowboy]

"Tumblr is my bedroom" this "tumblr is a pinboard" that

Tumblr is an apartment complex with thin walls and every so often you just have to listen to your neighbors say the most deranged shit imaginable

[boingmann]

[oliviawhen]

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

[ominous-signs]

yeah.

[shadow-clone19]

I hate how accurate this game is becomming

[weerd1]

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

But training on "synthetic stories" that model good AI behavior can help.

If only someone, ANYONE, could have said, "hey, don't have your AI models steal art and literature from artists and writers." WHO could have predicted that the same people who have zero media literacy about the Torment Nexus would have created a machine brain with zero media literacy about the Torment Nexus?

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[capt-geek]

If I may:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The over-reliance on a machine that, to explain it as simply as possible, has learned to lie convincingly, terrifies me. People often speak of the death of truth and fact, we’re living it, right now, as people treat programs trained to put language in a blender and feed you a smoothie like they’re infallible search engines (search engines ALSO NOT INFALLIBLE BTW).

I have never seen a population as naive and trusting.

[saltypiratepunk]

This is how "King Alistair" quest went in my mind, I love these dorks, they're both so unserious

Adore this tiny quest and the mention of HoF at the end, "He has a name, you know" Alistair my beloved always HoF's number one defender

Also my precious king forgets he's a king even six years later, sends the most suspicious note to Hawke with zero context or details, at least he signed as king so it's a win but then almost forgets to introduce himself as a king in person😭

Bonus dorks in the background:

My babies!!!

Btw HC that lil drawing of cat Anders was actually made by Hawke and he carries it with him everywhere just cause

[neenarchive]

maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

[neenarchive]

starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost

[elektrashocktherapy]

At the checkout in Home Goods loading the belt with nothing but candelabras in all shapes & sizes while the cashier watches sympathetically and asks if it’s the maidens again

[virtualgirladvance]

youre not gonna fucjing believe this

[the-phant0m-cat]

[permianbased]

Microphallus - Wikipedia

Microphallus - Wikipedia

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normalsizedphallus

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[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[ilynpilled]

there r some characters that u really love that u do not want to see any opinion or discussion about online ever. u agree with like 2 ppl on earth total about. maybe 3. their haters lovers glazers fuckers shitters pissers whatever pissing u off to equal degrees. just a beautiful kind of torture chamber to find urself in

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[astriiformes]

Losing it a little over this rental I came across this morning that is for the most part a completely normal unit...

.....except for the Ancient Egypt nook

[tredlocity]

red dead and beyond

[tredlocity]

bed bath redemption

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

[what-even-is-thiss]

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

[prokopetz]

You are an unreliable narrator because your coping mechanisms for your deep-seated trauma forbid you from acknowledging the reality of the situation. I am an unreliable narrator because I sincerely have no idea what the fuck is going on.