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every warframe player needs to learn the joy of the archwing slingshot before constelations drops.... go to the top layer of the back half of your ship with intrinsics level 3.. go in the thing and launch at enemy crew ship... blow it up without waiting ten million years for your pilot to stare at a crewship while you charge a dome charge....... its wonderful

janusfnc14

Holy fuck I used to just fly to those manually

valkyrneuroptics

now you know the #secret tech (because they never fucking tell you about it outside of the intrinsics screen). also remember at a certain level (cant be assed to look it up right now) you can just select your omni to tp back onto the railjack while the ship blows up. may your rj missions be swift and your squad smart

janusfnc14

Wgh. What the Fuck

Thank you so much I am projecting my Anguish onto whoever refused to explain that mechanic

sevastiel

ALSO ALSO ALSO YOU CAN JAUNT YOURSELF WITH IT!!! Actual drifter experience :tm: type shit.

Just uhh. Just hop riight on in there as your host goes back to a dojo. You’ll get to see so much void :)

iralaena

There's an spot for the Omni-tool in your keybinds. It's unused by default. Set it to whatever you want and then put it somewhere in your gearwheel and it'll use that bind.

Kinda like how Ciphers are defaulted to Y.

#tumblr snek

tumblr

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

pukicho

Hey so I feel like this is a bad idea and presents more incentive for spam and post-thieving. The biggest problem this presents is an even larger fracturing of information on what is already a rather difficult site to gather consensus information on. Are those who created the initial post now left in the dark if someone were to create a new reblog under their original post? Is the idea of any post reaching 1,000, 5,000, 10,000... notes now completely impossible? People do like virality to a degree, shrinking the sphere of interaction to individual posts risks individualizing the communities here on tumblr even further and risks hurting artists outreach on their original posts.

Roll it back.

iralaena

You know how you love all those social blogging features on this social blogging site? WE'RE REMOVING THEM TO BE MORE LIKE TWITTER! FUCK YOU!

Seriously Tumblr, don't.

pieklo

Reblog daily for health and prosperity

bacon-dragon

Some cleansing positive energy for your timeline

wilwheaton

cipheramnesia

Why are there pictures of two fictional people who are more charming, inventive, and better at their chosen professions than Elon Musk?

the-one-and-only-overlass

who Elon Musk actually actually is

teeldaa

so i was looking up datamined content from early access and wanted to rant and talk about some of the changes Ketheric and Shar His story was changed twice!in both ea version he was a moon elf chosen of shar(he had nothing to do with Myrkul),in the first version Halsin accidentally killed Isobel and that pushed ketheric to release the shadow curse, nightsong was an avatar of shar

this is the original nightsong,a necromancer called "sevryn"(beta version of balthazar?!) had quest for the player to kill her with a dagger that absorbed her power,but if you saved her she could become a camp follower,here's some of her lines

"Shar is the Nightsinger, and I am her Nightsong." "I am her instrument, transforming the faithful into Shadows." "I drink their sorrow, their loss, their grief,then I vomit it back into the world." "I was captured, by Ketheric Thorm - Shar's chosen.He turned me into this creature." "I want to sing my own song, not Shar's, not Ketheric's!"

you can listen to her datamined voice lines here and here's a video about that version in the second version Ketheric turned away from Selûne when Isobel was still alive in that version it was Balthazar who killed isobel then framed Aylin as her murderer there was this isobel's line "I was dead, Aylin. For so long. It was Balthazar - he trapped my soul, he-" and Aylin's line "It is why I couldn't leave your body, even when they came. Balthazar and that Sharran witch told your father that I was to blame." and one Ketheric's line @ Aylin"You killed my daughter, then you stand before me and lie? I'll see you suffer tenfold what my Isobel did."(source) i think being recruitable kinda make sense for this version of Ketheric because he was being manipulated by Balthazar and Shar btw here's ketheric and isobel's datamined models(source)

so act 2 was all about the conflict between Selune and Shar and they just slapped myrkul in there last minute?! so Ketheric being a sharran and a chosen of absolute means shar was somehow supposed to involved with the absolute plot(that why shadowheart and her fellow sharran went and stole the artifact)

Daisy,The Urges,Orpheus and The Emperor Daisy was the early access version of dream visitor and every companion used to have their own unique daisy(everyone had the same dream except Astarion)"Down by The River"and"The Power"used to be about daisy there were "urges" in early access that wanted you to kill Daisy Orpheus was in the artefact but he wasn't chained up,he was supposed to be the one who helped you and shielded you from the absolute instead of the emperor.He probably had a way bigger role there is a misconception that original tav was meant to be a bhaalspawn which is straight up false,the dreams and the urges from early access only accrued if you used your illithid power (using them originally meant to have severe consequences) i know some people say daisy was supposed to be a manifestation of the tadpole that was trying to turn you and your party into mindflayers but i don't think it was ever confirmed what daisy or those urges were,i could be wrong but i remember it was datamined that both the Absolute and Orpheus used the Daisy persona...idk i know some people are gonna be like"dream guardian is better,Daisy was creepy/obviously evil"but Daisy only appeared if you used your illithid power,plus you could just reject them...or even kill them

as for the emperor,at first i thought he was just a replacement for Daisy and Orpheus but apparently no!i was watching Harbs Narbs talking about bg3's magic the gathering cards,when he saw the elder brain's card he said"could this be the emperor?"

Cazador and The Butcher …they basically cut everything...(source of datamined lines) so there was this character called "the Butcher"(who was one of the chosen/leader of absolute)who asked you to find his apprentice "Ohler" in Baldur's Gate's graveyard and bring him back a flask(?!),he was the leader of a skeleton faction(their faction was called TadpoledSkeleton)their concept art is still in bg3 artbook

i'm guessing this butcher guy was supposed to be the original Armored male elf chosen of myrkul?!ohler was caught by an ancient and powerful vampire called"the alluring"

you could side with the butcher and bring him back his flask,then he proposed to turn you into an undead,but if he allowed him to performe the ritual to turn you undead he also would try to make you his puppet. if you managed to break free of his control and you had to fight him. To kill him permanently you had to destroy his phylactery,otherwise he would resurrects every time. or you could side with Cazador,he wanted the butcher guy dead

btw i was looking at bg3 art book pdf i found these on cazador's page

is that what he originally was supposed to look like?!the scythe...ugh it looks so cool the other interesting thing is apparently other spawns were somehow okay/happy with their situation

the other thing i wanted to mention is i think Cazador was originally supposed to be a half elf,the language Cazador uses is Kozakuran,The Kozakurans were a human ethnicity The Creche vs The Cult of the Absolute (source) there was supposed to be a fight between the absolute cultist(led by Orin and the butcher)vs the creche(and some sort of team up between lathander priests and githyanki)

you could side with the absolute,they wanted to stop Kith'rak Voss from returning to Vlaakith,here's some of the butcher's lines

and orin's

and this orin badass moment,i'm still salty they cut this for the full release...

or you could side with Voss and helped him escape(i suggest you watch the source video,there's so much more there)

some other stuff there was some datamined stuff bout the city here and here i don't get it...why did they change so many good stuff,Ethel's nephew and hag coven,Raphael's original deals,Zevlor plot twist and...are all gone at first i thought they"cut"those content due to time restriction or resource constraints but that's clearly not the case,There is a clear change in direction,i think what they were originally going for was"choosing the lesser of two evils"then they decided to go with more generic route of good vs evil! bg3 was released in August 2023,larian was looking for beta testers for Acts 2 & 3 in july 2022 idk maybe if they didn't rewrite the companions to be less mean/evil and didn't add halsin and dark urge they could have finish the game?!

autistichalsin

Minus the last line, I agree. Halsin being added generated maybe a few hundred lines at most. Takes like "if Halsin hadn't been added then (x) would have been better" VASTLY overestimate how much Halsin content we gained when Halsin was made a companion.

a-really-hot-caterpillar

One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

shadowerrata

I don't remember where I heard this now, but I absorbed the advice, "if you're stuck, count ten sentences back and start again from there". It's not always ten sentences back, for me, but it does force me to look at the last handful of lines I've actually written on a sentence instead of a story level, and that is eminently helpful in unsticking myself most of the time.

theothin

I recently resolved a point where I'd been stuck for months not by changing anything in the scene I was currently writing, but by realizing I needed to add another scene before that one to establish key information I couldn't work into the current one

mackthecheese

HEY WRITER MUTUALS COME GET YOUR WRITER JUICE

darlingxdragon

So, some time ago, someone posted that Astarion prepared a picnic in the woods for meeting with Tav. We all have seen where they eventually ended up entangled in each other and let me say this: if they had moved a few feet, they would've enjoyed their tumble on a soft blanket instead of dirt and leaves.

Blue arrow: the blanket

Orange arrow: our pale elf

I used the free camera tool from Otis_Inf to check where exactly it is and it's actually pretty sweet that Astarion even prepared candles.

Oh well, wherever passion (or manipulation) leads you, right?

I posted this on reddit as well.

vixstarria

Tis canon. The D is indeed so good Tav didn't even consider suggesting to pause to move 4 meters.

iralaena

This level space pulled double duty in EA. The cozy blanket spot being where Gale's romance scene happened. Eventually Gale's romance got rearranged so more of the content happened in act 2 while Astarion's stayed much the same. Which left the blanket space unused.

Behold a video of it:

#the picnic spot #gale's old romance #astarion #sorry about EA gale's face

deer-watcher

#stop halsin she's already dead

teruterusky

btw the thing she couldn’t ignore was someone calling her out for saying anti-depressants/hormone therapy are only perscribed by lazy doctors

teruterusky

Update:

J.K. Rowling is apparently now filing a defamation lawsuit against someone who made fun of her for saying this, which means its time to spread this like wildfire!

walmart-the-official

sure would be a shame if- oops, that's the reblog button!

realsafari

oops! hand slipped :/

ladybracknellssherry

oh dear, how do i use this site? bit of a learning curve, i'm afraid. i wonder what this button does?

angstyastro

Commission for my good friend @bluerose5 of what if Zevran and Fenris landed in bg3 Faerun and learned they all casted magic. Fenris would be going THROUGH it.

Bonus:

Fave Fenris I’ve ever drawn in my life

bgthree

Shadowheart, unblinking, staring at Tav across the campfire because everyone knows they snuck off with Astarion after the tiefling party last night: does fucking a vampire count as necrophilia?

Everyone: *freezes*

Gale: *drops his big spoon into the breakfast pot, spattering some on Lae’zel*

Wyll: *startled coughing fit*

Halsin: *genuinely considering the question*

Karlach: *whispering to Wyll* what is necrophilia? does that mean, like, a thing about necks, or, what…?

Tav: I…I think I need to go lie down.

Astarion, returning from his morning hunt a few moments later, emerging from the woods and taking in the strained camp-mosphere: why is everyone being weird? who died?

Lae’zel, still angrily cleaning herself off: you

Gale: *drops his spoon again, seconds after successfully fishing it out the first time*

iralaena

basuralindo

it absolutely kills me when fandom depicts bloodweave with Gale as the anxious rule abiding one that gets flustered over any crime worse than jaywalking, while Astarion is all crime and malice and not having fun unless he's breaking rules

have you guys heard of facades?

one of them spent his childhood obsessively hunting for ever more new and exciting ways to defy the laws of nature and his parents, became part of an exclusive circle of people who notoriously hold themselves above the rules for the sake of fucking around and finding out. proceeded to find that environment too stifling, decided to ignore their rules too, and fucked around so hard he ended up doomed for defying his own chosen god. and still didn't learn.

The other one was studying hard to make a prestigious career of upholding the law, and only turned to crime after centuries of desperation and no alternative. he's not even good at mugging.

if those two were trying to do something illegal and dangerous, Astarion would talk a big game until they actually got down to business, then watch in horror as Gale runs headlong into some life threatening bullshit with all the energy of a kid at disneyland