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hi im leo and these are my guys.

the operator is nadir (they/it/he) and drifter is just drifter (he/they). drifter doesn't really have a name and they don't want to be nadir so everyone just calls them drifter. i sometimes refer to them as driftir for identifications sake though.

nadir mains volt and yareli and drifter mains loki and dante.

please ask me about them. i am insane

#frog.txt #warframe operator #warframe drifter #operator nadir #driftir #i dont have an updated driftir pic yet please stand by

analog-smiles

hello warframe community. i'm new here [ ran through all the main story in ~2 weeks ] and i have some opinions:

i miss teshin

i do not miss erra

i think they should keep bringing ballas back until pretty much everyone in the main cast has had their rightful opportunity to swing on him. kill that boy

i will never form a solid opinion on albrecht entrati and maybe that's okay

i fear i will also never form a solid opinion on the lotus but i do appreciate her. my morally dubious mom from space who i would probably die for

is loid the only grownass adult who hasn't actively tried to kill the operator at least once? i can't think of any other examples

if i had a nickel for every time teshin pulled the noble sacrifice card around the operator and drifter, i would have like 4 nickels. which isn't a lot but it sure is a concerning pattern of behavior. understandable though, given how the dax were honestly weirdly disposable to the orokin for elite supersoldiers. giving your life for them and their more valuable assets [ such as their superpowered child soldiers ] was probably ingrained as a normal thing that is right and honorable to do. this is why, regardless of all given lore reasons why he can't, teshin is also included in my list of "people who deserve to kill ballas with their own two hands"

i miss teshin

i also, unexpectedly, miss hunhow. good for him

stalker needs to stop jumping me in the middle of random missions and go raise his kids that i had to play midwife for

i have played both bg3 and ex33 so playing through 1999 content is like getting hit with a flashbang every few seconds because verso and astarion are being catty with each other and the omnipresent voice of the narrator is once again talking shit in my head. also mario is there? i think?

the drifter might unironically be one of the coolest characters in fiction. all things are possible through the power of friendship, and also my reality-warping timeloop superpowers

i miss adis

i miss teshin

priniablue

2023 vs 2026

redactedshapes

I'm working a bit more on my Radiant Natah design, I'd like to try make something that looks like it was intentionally constructed (rather than broken pieces glued back together) by integrating the symmetry of sentient design without completely losing the kintsugi look.

I loaded the Hunhullus model and noticed a lot of similarities between the patterns of both their faces, which is very interesting if you also look at the similarities in Adis's mask.

Now I'm wondering what a younger Natah would look like without the human mask heh

jollycryptid

I've been playing Warframe between working & The Horrors has kept me sane. Look at My Operator Fahd & Drifter Malik (Both he/they, not men).

jollycryptid

World's Most Exhausted Adult vs Nuclear Bomb Coughing Baby

doggojin

More on the "I'm obsessed with baby Lotus beetle form" brainrot. I kept thinking about how the color palette of her little baby beetle form is purple-ish/blue-ish, like the Lotus we've always known. Which contrasts a lot with the form of Natah we saw during the New War : all black. So I wondered if maybe she would've looked different without being altered/affected by the human mimicry form of Margulis. As in, her actual full on Sentient form, that would've directly evolved from the little beetle baby. So I offer to you Natah Prime! I guess. Or like, original Natah. Perhaps as she was before she looked at the Tenno and decided to take on the role of their mother.

As bonus, some baby Erra and baby Lotus because people were being silly in a server comparing him to baby birds, specifically baby Jacanas. Look it up. It's worth it.

leolithe

Someone please ship a POM-2 to Natah/Lotus/Margulis they need to know the wonders of Kinematic Instant Messaging

The Lotus System using the KIM only to find out through first-person recounts that the Drifter fumbled 6 Hex members in a row

agoddamn

ok. so.

it's very important to me that there's understanding here, ok? i want understanding. i don't want meaningless fandom wank. i don't have shit for ads or deals or whatever the fuck. i am literally just a guy. i have no ad partnership whatever the fuck. i gain nothing from "stirring up controversy"

when i say, "the new warframe chapter shows signs of hitting racist themes," i am not saying

stop enjoying warframe

you're bad if you enjoy warframe

actually you need to kill yourself if you enjoy warframe

please do some sort of ritual suicide in front of me right now to prove that you're divesting yourself from warframe

we're not doing that. we're not doing any of that. i still have friends that play warframe. fuck me in the ass, man, sometimes i still play warframe! sometimes it hits some psychological gameplay shit JUST right in a way that i need

there is literally nothing wrong with playing warframe or enjoying warframe.

all that is separate from talking about and critiquing warframe's story as a larger whole.

ok. are we grown-up enough to accept that the previous is true, and also that we can critique it? do not pass this line if you cannot balance those concepts.

the problem is not "warframe portrayed racism and that's a bad thing and it needs to be cancelled for it!!!" fuck me in the ass, girl, stop talking to fuckin redditors

the problem is "warframe is pulling on some seriously heavy real-life racial symbolism and I'm seeing signs that they're not treating that with the gravity it deserves, which is gonna result in their narrative shitting the bed and ultimately telling a completely different story than what they obviously want to tell"

i don't think that warframe is purposely trying to tell a story about indigenous americans and casinos. i DO think that they're pulling on symbolism associated almost exclusively with indigenous americans and casinos--rebb's own direct quote that they purposely strove for a "rust belt" feeling--without understanding of what that means for the greater narrative. their story is not going to land the way they want it if they keep pulling on symbolism like this, without any kinda building up original story or plot to buffer against Unfortunate Implications.

that unintentional symbolism can 100% absolutely sink your narrative. it can shred your story. it can deep-six otherwise decently-written text.

thaaaaat's the issue. not "DE needs to commit seppuku on livestream for Problematic Writing," but "pulling on these deeply racialized threads without proper respect for the weight they're dealing with will sink their story"

robomythos

Why did they put blackjack and hookers in Sentient society where am I

robomythos

They put human sexual dimorphism in Sentient society, which is the real crime here

rad-roche

i could do a writeup on my feelings towards the tau update and brysko and what we've seen and the direction of the story but i'm not going to do that because i'm too busy doing this

#video

zlideart

So excited that I can finally share the set of Glyphs I’ve had the honor of creating for Warframe! I can't wait to see them ingame - I already know I will scream like a little girl if I ever see one in the wild!