joudama scribbling

RPG lover and AI hater. (And please don’t DM me with money asks; I am broke. Save both of us the time and energy.)

[victusinveritas]

I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.

[dreadwolfshenangians]

There is a sadness in that there are next to no new in depth lore discussions or content following DA4. It ended up extinguishing the fires that kept it going. Questions, speculations & fun theories gone. Change is wonderful, but it has to be coherent & respectful to the og creators & artistry.

Instead there are two camps one devoted to defending Veilguard and the other saddened & frustrated Dragon Age fans watching their favourite IP be so deliberately reduced to nothingness.

[joudama]

It’s like they wanted so badly to wrap up all the mysteries still left from Gaider’s original plans so they could go in a new direction that they forgot to leave anything for people to talk about. They were so busy trying to set up a clean slate that they left nothing behind for wonder and speculation.

[joudama]

Heads up if you use Linktree!

Starting JULY 5, 2026! Any images you use on your landing page will be fed into DALL-E!

[psyduckz]

[dreadwolfshenangians]

And that was achieved by erasing pivotal plot points, established cultures and characters from the narrative in this past games in a manner that legitimately did not make any sense.

But wait! They kindly let us design our past protagonist, even had an option for who they romanced but it doesn’t matter at all unless it’s that one guy. And they’re either a sad wifey or a sad comrade. Also no they don’t get closure, no they have no agency, and yes they were written last minute by a totally different team in an redemption ending for that guy and everything was his fault…but he was also a slave bound to his master but she did nothing wrong, they tried to tell him to chill but he didn’t listen…because everything is his fault…except that guy’s redemption ending is him being freed from his master’s service which makes him stop being …smug?

Bright side is your former protagonist gets to give up their entire life and go to jail with their beloved, because that’s the fate they deserve also they’re a mortal and can’t actually survive there…

Oh and that guy? Yeah, we (the writers) threw him in a cupboard and he’s basically powerless with zero followers because he upsets the creative director and protagonist self insert for a myriad of very mature and rational reasons, and he also thinks villains in medieval fantasy fiction are manosphere podcasters…

Source: Veilguard’s narrative design interview

[theconcealedweapon]

[kdhumecurios]

There was a massive shift in how our culture understood morality when, after World War II, the general public realized “just following orders” was not an excuse for crimes against humanity. Now we need another moral shift in which we decide, as a culture, that “for the benefit of the stockholders” is not an excuse for anything.

[speciesofleastconcern]

We kind of need to relearn the “just following orders” part again

[depsidase]

[liberalsarecool]

"White South Africans" is the work of Elon Musk. The white supremacy is what binds all these horrible, horrible men.

[joudama]

[liberalsarecool]

Capitalism kills ingenuity.

[byjove]

countries will be like “nooooo our birth rate is falling exponentially and it’s effecting our economy” and immigrants will be like “hey can you let us in so we can boost your economy and fill your empty jobs and raise our children here” and inevitably the country is like “the only thing worse than a large scale collapse of our population is letting foreigners live here”

[ellewantsrevenge]

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[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[joudama]

Back to reading Mess Effect, and oh, the catharsis of reading the words of someone who was also driven up a wall by that first meeting with the Council in ME3.

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[depsidase]