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GW2 Adventurer Challenge - Remastered

So, since I'll be playing this again on stream, I figured I should rewrite this with some improvements

Immersion, roleplay, slowing down and smelling the roses, redicsovering your love for the game, especially the very, very old core game - think of it like a GW2 nuzlocke challenge. You're encouraged to take screenshots and keep an In-character diary! Use the #gw2adventurerchallenge tag or just tag me directly if you do!

Setup: - Make a new character. - Once you exit your starting instance, turn around and go to your capital city. Buy or craft a few buff food items, then return to your starting map.

THE RULES

Permadeath. If you fully die, the challenge is over. If you get rezzed, let your character rest for the rest of the (ingame) day.

No tomes, no WvW/PvP, no crafting except for cooking (and that not for levels, but to make buff food).

No mounts, except to jump/fly up to annoying Vistas you struggle with.

You can only waypoint if you stand near another waypoint. Asura Gates are allowed.

You must always be under the effects of buff food as soon as you can (I think the level requirement is at least 10). You lose your challenge by virtue of starvation if your malnourished status effect runs out

During the ingame night cycle, you must find a place to shelter at (Lionguard haven, tavern, tent, little cave, whatever) and emote /sleep once

You must use outfits or spend transmutation charges to dress for the climate that you're in

WIN STATES

Map Completion

Level 80

Personal Story Completion

Getting from one point on the map to another on foot

The biggest changes here were the rules regarding level tomes (does it really make sense to play this if you can sit your ass down in a library and spam tomes?) and the nighttime rule (why on earth would I make you STOP playing during nighttime? Am I on crack?)

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spiderbitesandvampirevenom

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

allthingswhumpyandangsty

papercranesandpride

I remember years ago, long enough ago that I was still using either Tiktok or Instagram regularly, because that's where I saw this, long enough ago that unfortunately I do not remember the username, I saw an older trans woman responding to a comment asking "how come we see trans women from your generation, but never trans men?" And her response was simple. "Unfortunately, it's because most of them are dead." Between lack of safe and legal abortions (which, hey, look what's an issue again), the HIV/AIDs crisis (which still is lacking in approved treatments for trans men, and they're still likely to be denied PrEP/PEP even when they should be eligible as sexually active queer men), and how many of them chose to take their own lives after being forced into marriages and other women's roles, a lot of the trans men that should be elderly right now did not make it.

And now, when I find myself making the mistake of going on Instagram, I get to see trans men themselves talking about how historically, trans men didn't do anything for the community, and so we need to step up now. Which, first of all, that isn't true, but second of all, if trans men's contributions are lesser, that makes a lot of sense if we listen to that trans woman talking about the trans men she was in community with back in the day. It's very hard to advance the trans cause if you're not alive.

Anyway. It's a really chilling answer. "Where are all the elderly trans men?" "They're dead." And I just wish more people saw that tiktok and listened to it and really took it to heart, now that we're in the age of "well obviously trans men have it so much easier."

draconym

My tattoo artist told me his teenage son came out to him as trans by giving him a bunch of blue cupcakes and a greeting card that said "it's a boy!"

"That's cute," I said.

"It was NOT cute!" he snapped. "I thought he was pregnant."

inkskinned

y'okay can we stop pretending yet. like can we all acknowledge that eating disorders are chic again, and it's going to kill someone.

and like. do we have to keep gently phrasing things to protect naturally-thin people's feelings. in my life it has never been fashionable to be fat. "fat" is still a bad word. there has never been institutional power pushing people to gain weight; no trillion-dollar industry to "fix" skinny people. a larger body type has never been over-represented in models, influencers, celebrities. sure, people might say "i'm worried for your health," but they do it with respect and gentleness, like they're talking to a scared deer.

every single fucking time i talk about this, i have to be so careful with what i say, in case i offend even one skinny person. it is just true that skinny people have social capital across many cultures. there is a reason you almost never hear someone say "i wish i was fat," but you will constantly see people say "I wish i was thin." and yet inevitably some skinny person will tell me: i thought you wanted body positivity. it is the same fucking attitude as when a cis man says "when you say men have power, well, i've been bullied for being a man. i thought you believe in mental health awareness. don't you know men have a higher suicide rate?"

two things can be true at once: your experience being bullied for being thin was terrible. and people with larger bodies probably have it worse.

i have been big and small. i know many other people who have been big and small. trust what i'm about to tell you: being small is much easier. the world is kinder to you. people treat you better. honestly, this pattern occurs pretty much regardless of gender - my guy friends have confided that they'd rather be bullied for being thin than be bullied for being fat. if you're skinny, the pressure might be to gain weight, sure, but it's often to do so in a way that keeps you skinny - to gain muscle, specifically.

thinness is seen as innate and natural, genetic. whereas carrying any fat - that is a moral failing. it is assumed to be related to your character, your personality. i have seen people equate it to discipline, to hygiene. that bias is why we need to talk about this.

of course i want nobody to make a comment about anyone's bodies. and i think that hyper-thinness and an obsession with weight loss and a recession and a rise of conservative values... all of this is very fucking concerning. we are watching a return of "pro-ana" content, reframed as choice feminism, "health-conscious" behavior, "looksmaxxing". it's fucking terrifying.

cheaphalloweencostume

every day of my life i read someone being like “why doesn’t this story just solve the problem immediately and casually? they just drag it out and make it an issue” well. because that’s the Story

ceruleanheaven

how to become good at everything no practice no effort no motivation no passion no talent fast free

bloody-kissezz

Man eater

blackpyrefly

great pyrenees are so fucking awesome theyre just big. if i didnt think that owning one was a supremely bad idea for me in particular id get one. i just think itd become my boss or something. im too lazy for a working breed truly

blackpyrefly

go white boy

blackpyrefly

sarcastic dog. dog that has contempt for you

johann159

thethirdromana

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.