KitTheNameless

SFF Book and Game Blogger @ Metaphors and Moonlight // Disabled & chronically ill // Any pronouns // 30-something // Mostly posting about media I love (BG3, Palia, The Sims, Project Zomboid, Teenage Exocolonist, Sun Haven, indie stuff, queer SFF books) // Lurkers & spam likers welcome ❤ // Anti GenAI // Add alt text to your images & wear a mask! // Images I post contain alt text, and I try to only reblog images with alt text or add it in my reblog.

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Hey friends, reminder to add descriptions to your images! I want to reblog more art and screenshots, but without alt text / image descriptions, they're not accessible for anyone who uses a screen reader (used for visual impairment, migraines, and other disabilities). Please add descriptions so I can reblog your stuff 😭

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If you ever feel bad about getting downvoted or whatever, know that I just got a downvote on Reddit for *checks notes* complimenting someone's art. Not even sexual or controversial art. Just, like, general fanart for a game. I said it was cute. Someone disliked that.

So yeah! Daily reminder that some people are just miserable fucks who want to make everyone around them miserable too.

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I haven't updated to Zomboid B42 yet because I have a couple B41 characters I still like. So I spent my free time tonight making a copy of B41 and trying to figure out how to separate save directories and mods and ultimately deciding it's probably better to just leave the mods and keep backups I can use if anything gets taken down or breaks my old saves. Anyway, I think I can finally update to B42 and tame a raccoon or whatever the game is now.

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I just googled what to put on a fish sandwich because I don't eat fish, so I genuinely don't know, and I wanted to make sure I gave my Zomboid character a nice meal and not an abomination.

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Something that maybe a lot of people haven't seen (because why would anyone do this). My tav tried to kill Aylin himself (Shadowheart isn't here), and she threatened him so hard that even I'm scared. (He's not a Sharran, she just thinks he is.)

But then he freed her, so she forgave him, I guess?

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I just realized. I know some people headcanon or think Emps was romantically/sexually involved with Stelmane, which is fine, but I don't think that's canonically supported? And Ansur was horrified by his new form. And people generally aren't cool with mind flayers. And Emps isn't hanging out with other mind flayers. So the player is probably the first person he's intimate with like that since becoming a mind flayer. And assuming you choose his illithid form, that makes his sex scene so much more significant. The player might be the first being who's accepted him like this in this form.

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I love how Wyll is refusing to even look at Raphael lol

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Update for my Random Choices Run #2: My tav (Mardon) has made it through Act 1! That's further than my last tav got. And he even managed to bring along two companions (Wyll and Shadowheart).

He's made a few surprisingly smart decisions (he even chose the one correct option out of five to avoid fighting Bernard and then chose the option to access the secret room, that was impressive). He's made a lot of pragmatic decisions to just walk away from things. He's made a few decisions to help others. He's also made some bad decisions. So here's a rundown:

Gale and Astarion were left alive but not recruited.

Lae'zel is dead because she tried to kill Mardon and he let her, and then the remaining party killed her.

Karlach is dead because Mardon encouraged Wyll to kill her.

Halsin is dead because Mardon saw goblins throwing rocks at a bear and thought, "Not my problem," but then the bear busted out and started attacking and it became his problem.

Minthara is dead.

Scratch has joined camp, but the owlbear cub is dead.

The tieflings were saved. But Zevlor and Tilses are dead because Mardon threatened them, Arabella is dead because Mardon didn't speak up to save her, and Rolan was not convinced to stay.

Volo was left in a cage.

Oskar was left with the Zhent.

Mayrina and Ethel were left to their deal, not Mardon's problem.

Shovel was recruited as the fourth party member.

Mardon was smart enough to not get in the githyanki death machine or to sass Vlaakith.

The dream guardian was stabbed and is therefore not very happy with Mardon.

The myconid colony was slaughtered because apparently necromancy is fine (Mardon is a necromancer), but using fungus to do it is, in his words, "repulsive."

No one was sacrificed to BOOOAL.

Nere was left to die in the cave-in.

Thulla and Skickpit were saved, but the rest of the gnomes were left dead or enslaved to duergar, including Barcus.

Mardon has shown zero interest in eating tadpoles.

He did show interest in romancing Shadowheart but was rejected, so he will be bosom-companion-less.

If this were HM or single save, they would be dead multiple times by now. In fact, I think it would've been Zevlor who killed them. We've yet to see if that would've been a blessing or a curse for Faerun. Anyway, onto Act 2 to see what Mardon decides next!

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"The myconid colony was slaughtered because apparently necromancy is fine (Mardon is a necromancer), but using fungus to do it is, in his words, “repulsive.”" Amazing random choice there! It's so fun hearing about your playthrough.

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Random choices runs lead to some uniquely weird and terrible decisions 😅 I'm glad someone is enjoying it 😄

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Hey friends! Wanna know one great way you can distinguish your art and photography and other images from AI slop? Adding alt text! Do you think people who can't even be bothered to make their own art are bothering to add alt text? And if they do, it's probably AI-generated too and not very good. But you, an actual person who actually creates things, can describe your own art and images in a way that no computer can with all the nuance and humanity it deserves! And in doing so, you are making the world more accessible for people, something genAI peddlers love to pretend genAI is doing. (There is some AI that is actually doing that, but it's not the kind that's stealing from creatives.) I even have a whole post about it if you need more info on why or how to add alt text!

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Asking here before braving the hellpit of BG3 Reddit...

I've encountered a weird bug. When I equip too many pieces of equipment on Wyll that add spells or abilities to his hotbar, and I get him to Level 8, he can't cast Hex. He also can't cast Misty Step at all from his spell slots at Level 8, though he can cast it from the amulet. Everything works fine before Level 8. His other spells work fine after. My other characters seem fine.

Anyone experienced anything like this? It could be a mod, but I have no idea which one, I haven't added/removed/changed any since earlier in the run, and I'm in Act 2 now.

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Excuse me? 😅

(I get that what they mean is, this is not a fresh corpse and therefore isn't eligible for the spell. But the text implying that the skeleton isn't dead is funny to me.)

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I've turned Wyll into a master of fire. Fire Shield + Wall of Fire + Fireball 🔥🔥🔥

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It is weirdly serendipitous that my tav is a necromancer, because so many NPCs are dying in this random choices playthrough, and I'm getting to see a lot of Speak with Dead convos that I've never seen. (It's not actually a necromancer spell, but it feels like it should be, and the roleplay feels off to use it if I'm not playing a death-related class.)

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Trying to find info on something you can do in BG3 by looking at Reddit threads and Gamefaqs and it's literally insane to me how much people hate the Emperor and claim siding with him is "the bad end" or some such shit.

Like... literally fucking insane.

Legit don't know what's wrong with some people who play this game >_>

"BUT WITHERS SAID!!!"

Withers says a lot of things. A pity you don't know how to fucking listen.

Edit: If I see one more fucker add the sentence "without a soul" after they say "Mindflayer" I am going to blow them up with my mind.

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It’s also like… sometimes stories start out with giving you a set of negative preconceived notions about a specific kind of person in that story’s universe.

But throughout the story, there are multiple characters, events, and implications that seek to challenge those preconceived notions even while there is the usual reinforcement of those notions from other sources of the story.

Sometimes the deeper you look into the story, the more your initial assumptions will be challenged by the deliberate writing of the story itself.

Now comes the reading comprehension question: are these challenges to your initial assumptions meant to be ways of expanding your perspective on what constitutes a person through engaging with this story and perhaps deconstructing the tendency to dehumanize that which is not always appealingly different from us?

Or is it all just a purity test set forth by the story to see how well you can shut your eyes and cover your ears to any and all challenges to the initial judgement you and the game’s general setting made upon the group in question, where you win the morality test by being as ignorant and unwielding to change as possible?

I feel like way too many redditor paladin types of players of this game assumed that playing bg3 would be the latter. That actually, any and all hints and information the game gives that paints a more humanizing picture of mind flayers is actually all manipulation and propaganda from the evil fictional characters that they’re meant to resist in order to prove themselves as “smart” and “not gullible”, only to ironically shut themselves off from a lot of the deeper themes of the story.

But who knows? Maybe I’m completely wrong lol

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Update for my Random Choices Run #2: My tav (Mardon) has made it through Act 1! That's further than my last tav got. And he even managed to bring along two companions (Wyll and Shadowheart).

He's made a few surprisingly smart decisions (he even chose the one correct option out of five to avoid fighting Bernard and then chose the option to access the secret room, that was impressive). He's made a lot of pragmatic decisions to just walk away from things. He's made a few decisions to help others. He's also made some bad decisions. So here's a rundown:

Gale and Astarion were left alive but not recruited.

Lae'zel is dead because she tried to kill Mardon and he let her, and then the remaining party killed her.

Karlach is dead because Mardon encouraged Wyll to kill her.

Halsin is dead because Mardon saw goblins throwing rocks at a bear and thought, "Not my problem," but then the bear busted out and started attacking and it became his problem.

Minthara is dead.

Scratch has joined camp, but the owlbear cub is dead.

The tieflings were saved. But Zevlor and Tilses are dead because Mardon threatened them, Arabella is dead because Mardon didn't speak up to save her, and Rolan was not convinced to stay.

Volo was left in a cage.

Oskar was left with the Zhent.

Mayrina and Ethel were left to their deal, not Mardon's problem.

Shovel was recruited as the fourth party member.

Mardon was smart enough to not get in the githyanki death machine or to sass Vlaakith.

The dream guardian was stabbed and is therefore not very happy with Mardon.

The myconid colony was slaughtered because apparently necromancy is fine (Mardon is a necromancer), but using fungus to do it is, in his words, "repulsive."

No one was sacrificed to BOOOAL.

Nere was left to die in the cave-in.

Thulla and Skickpit were saved, but the rest of the gnomes were left dead or enslaved to duergar, including Barcus.

Mardon has shown zero interest in eating tadpoles.

He did show interest in romancing Shadowheart but was rejected, so he will be bosom-companion-less.

If this were HM or single save, they would be dead multiple times by now. In fact, I think it would've been Zevlor who killed them. We've yet to see if that would've been a blessing or a curse for Faerun. Anyway, onto Act 2 to see what Mardon decides next!

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small javik cafuné to ease into the weekend

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I don't normally get to play in the poison mushroom field, but my character decided to kill Spaw (apparently necromancy is cool, but using fungus to do it is a step too far), so he got a thing when he looted Spaw that makes the bibberbang not react to his presence.