Borderlands 4 - Rafa, The Exo-Soldier
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Borderlands 4 - Rafa, The Exo-Soldier
The Cracks echo logs
These echo logs are absolutely amazing! Great characterisation for the VHs!
Vex’s soliloquy about the “curse” of being a Siren really made me think about what it means to be one…
Amon’s love for Malcom is so sweet! Even if he’s dead, he carries his memories so that he’s never truly gone…
Rafa’s message to his parents has to be my favourite out of these new ECHOs, the Spanish and how much he care for his mom and dad really shines for me. My favourite Vault Hunter never ceases to amaze me…
Harlowe’s excitement about the unknown really warms my heart. She truly is an amazing scientist, Maliwan never deserved her…
This adventure into the vault of the damned really made them think, and I’m glad they shared their thoughts with us in these echo logs.
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We’re gonna take down Forge. I’m gonna show Marlamin and the Elk tribe they were fools to let me go.
I love that they love each other. I love that Ed knows it’s gonna be painful for her to go see her ex and face another round of rejection and loss of family. I love that he waits for her outside, patiently, and has a song ready to cheer her up. I love that I actually believe they care about one another deeply and that the move takes the time to show their friendship.
I really, really love that Holga joins in and has fun; she doesn’t toss his lute away or roll her eyes and rides off, or insults him, or anything like that. Ed also isn’t annoying her or putting his lute where it shouldn’t be (so to speak).
I really just love that this is a moment of one character trying to cheer up another character and it’s allowed to actually work and be a sweet moment for the film and it’s not undercut for a specific kind of humor.
Because this movie is very comedic and they easily could’ve made this it into a joke, but showing actual friendship instead of characters trading witty, one-liner barbs 24/7, does a lot to deliver sentiment and heart.
I love that it shows he knows her well enough to know it will make her feel better. How often do male characters get to show emotional intelligence, instead of just being the butt of a joke?
Oh are the entitled little babies doing their "the game would have been literally perfect if Halsin hadn't been given the ~4 hours more of voice lines extra than he would have had if he was just a camp follower" tantrum again?
Must be Tuesday.
For the record, Halsin being given four hours extra of voice lines did not cause:
Wyll to have less content; if you think Wyll deserved more, you should be mad at Lae'zel, not him, as they're the ones who shared a writer (and it's clear his writer favors Lae'zel)
Minthara to have less content; if you think she deserved more, you should be mad at Karlach, not her, as they're the ones who shared a writer (In fact, quite the opposite of "stealing content" from poor baby Minthara, Halsin being added is part of the reason Minthara was added at all, because they would never have added a romanceable companion of one gender without also adding one of the other gender; if it wasn't for fan demand for Halsin, Minthara too would have stayed in act 1. Further, Minthara actually has three minutes more of voice lines than him)
Astarion to have nearly twice as many voice lines as Wyll
Wyll facing numerous bugs, including to his romantic greetings
Some characters, especially Karlach and Wyll, having unsatisfying story arcs
And before you say "but if they hadn't been busy adding Halsin's kisses they could have been free to fix Wyll's glitches sooner!" Those are different teams. Programmers are not artists are not writers. Once the kisses were drawn, it would have taken minutes to program them into the game, compared to the weeks-long endeavor identifying and fixing bugs is.
"But why couldn't Halsin's writer have written for Wyll and Minthara instead?! Halsin still ruined the game!" I hear you crying. One, that's not how the process for Larian to allocate writers for each character works, but even if it was, why are you complaining that Halsin was given a writer to share with another character and not that Astarion was given MULTIPLE writers? Astarion is literally the only character who actually could be accused of being shown favoritism by Larian.
Halsin's spellcasting lines were literally broken for over a year, and his point-and-click lines were broken for half a year, and there was a bug for nearly that long where traveling from act 2 to act 1 would cause him to die, and you still think that Halsin getting a handful of kiss animations, and those animations being used to tease patch 6 (with Halstarion and Shadowzel kisses both being used) is a sign of "favoritism"? Why then do you not say this about every character who was given new kiss animations?
And by the way, you really give the game away when you say "Larian should just go in the code and remove Halsin entirely". Because that would take months of story, animation, AND programming work- it would be an all-hands-on-deck effort. Even if we ignored that Larian is discontinuing story updates after patch 7, this would literally guarantee no companion ever gets another update again. Even if you amend it to "Halsin shouldn't be able to leave act 2" we are still talking about the same thing. If you say this, you make it blatantly obvious that you literally don't think too much work was put into Halsin, you just plain don't like his character and are using him as a scapegoat over things that actually did go wrong at Larian. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face, and your goal of your precious baby getting more content is secondary at best to hating Halsin.
And for the record, Minthara has three MORE minutes of voice lines than Halsin, so you can't even say she was in any way mistreated compared to Halsin. Further, if you look at who has received how many new lines in post-launch patches, Halsin is near the bottom and Minthara is near the top. There's more of a case for Larian showing favoritism to Minthara than there is for them showing favoritism to Halsin, seeing as Larian keeps adding dialogue for her good path recruitment, and backed out of adding the ultimatum to the game because Minthara fans whined that it was too mean to her. But I don't go around crying that Minthara being added to the game literally is the reason I can't kiss Halsin in act 2, because that would be insane.
The ONLY companion who has a case for being mistreated compared to others is Wyll compared to the OTHER ORIGINS, not to Halsin.
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heya anon, I'm doing alright ty ^^
actually had my first surgery yesterday (bye bye galbladder) and went home again the same day, bit tired but feeling alright so far :D
hope you're also doing well <3
im curious-
which has the best voice actor?
charr male
charr female
sylvari male
sylvari female
asura male
asura female
norn male
norn female
human male
human female
no opinion/ see results
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"craving a food means your body needs something that food can offer" now what the fuck does my body need with an ice cream
it makes your brain happy! your body could use some joy too
no everyone shut up and listen. truths were said
in all seriousness, if you're craving ice cream, it's likely that your body needs fat and carbs. If ice cream isn't an option for whatever reason, you can try to feed yourself something else with a significant amount of fat and/or carbs. You may also be dehydrated if you're craving sweets.
That said, sometimes your body and brain do genuinely just need a pick me up.
The more frequently you practice intuitive eating like this, the better you'll get at figuring out what it is that your body is asking for.
Also, a great trick is to take a look at what you're craving, note the nutritional contents (fat, carbs, protein, plant matter/fiber) and try and figure out what else sounds tasty for your particular craving. This can give you more data points to go off of. For instance, if you're craving ice cream, but a sweet roll sounds just as good, it's probably carbs your body is asking you for. That said, if you're craving ice cream and a sweet roll doesn't sound good at all BUT a bagel with strawberry cream cheese or avocado toast DOES sound good, you know it's fat you're needing.
If all you're craving is ice cream and nothing else sounds worth the effort, you may just need a low effort mood boost, which is also totally valid! This can also help you even if you can't have ice cream, because now that you know what your body actually wants, you know there are more ways to fulfill that order than the way it asked you to!
what's your "if I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs" thing? mine is getting a fully green kitchen
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have you interacted/seen a cow in person?
yes - i live in a rural area have seen and/or interacted with cows
yes - i do not live in a rural area but have interreacted with or seen cows
no - i live in a rural area and have only seen cows on television / docs
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i'm using seen as you have been in the general vicinity of a cow outside of a vehicle (driving down a highway thing). cows are a very big part of my life but i live in the usamerican south so i want to know. HAVE YOU SEEN/INTERACTED WITH COWS
Inhales. You know what gets me when I think about Heart of Thorns. The anti-sylvari sentiment in-universe was SO real for a while there. During the period of time where the whole world of Tyria learned the secret that Wynne had died to protect, that sylvari came from the jungle dragon, that they were made to serve it. Everyone turned on them. Friends, lovers, commanding officers, it didn't matter anymore. They COULD turn mordrem at any time, so you had to assume that they would. You couldn't trust something that belonged to a dragon. Even Laranthir (of the Wild) right after the crash, being held captive by his own people, waiting for him to go feral and tear their throats out. The sylvari Commander was granted a little wiggle room, a little space to walk around freely, but it's all very conditional. Prove you're a good one, that you won't fall to the dragon. There's the event in Verdant Brink where they round up all the sylvari in a camp and ask you to interrogate them, to break them down until they confess to being mordrem. And inevitably a few of them are hiding among the camp, but an equal number of sylvari run from you in fear, more afraid of you and the Pact than the certain death of the jungle beyond. The other innocents that stay don't have a choice. It's keep your head down and don't say anything or be killed, one way or another, while the Commander that you've worked under for the past couple of years interrogates a crying novice, asking if they've heard a voice. And who hasn't heard the voice at that point? The Commander admits to hearing it too. Canach likens it to a buzzing fly. Irritating. Nothing more. Strong willed sylvari don't stumble when Mordremoth speaks. But even that's not true; maybe not everyone's played Heart of Thorns on a sylvari Commander, but the closer you get to the dragon, you start to falter, to black out and lose time. In its domain you actually do fall to it. Briefly. Just for a while, you forget who you are and what you're doing there, and mordrem start giving you killing orders. And you snap out of it and never tell anyone, never. They can't know how close you got.
But what GETS ME is that after the dragon is dead, no one talks about it. It all returns to normal. Like the tension was never there in the first place. I'm sure there might be some loaded quips about sylvari in Living World Season 3 right after, but the next time I actually can recall it coming up is in Path of Fire. Right as you get into Desert Highlands; Canach says something about "I always knew this whole human/gods arrangement wouldn't work out" and Kasmeer shoots back "This coming from someone with a DRAGON in their family tree." And that's that. No one actually really discusses it in-game. They all moved on and don't care if you're a dragon minion or not.
Which. Augh. WHAT!!!!! NO ONE CARES? I'm sure it's a better end-user experience than if everyone you encountered as a sylvari player was like "OOOOOH I DON'T TRUST YOUR TYPE... YOU WRETCHED DRAGON PLANT FOLK" but narratively it's a little boring. At least in the sense that it doesn't feel finished. There should still be tons of anti-sylvari sentiment in Tyria and propaganda spread to force them out of parts of society and stupid hoops to jump through to be considered safe. Just as I think that sylvari should still hold anti-asura sentiment--you're telling me their small second generation had a huge group taken away and tortured to death and there's no ingrained fear of it happening again? I want my sylvari commander to have met Gorrik in LWS4 and been like haha. uh. 😥 (do I really have to work with this guy. An inquest...) (and EVENTUALLY come to like and trust him!) instead of the game plowing over it like oh yeah don't worry about it n_n the facility exploded and all so he doesn't work there now don't worry n_n NO I'M WORRIED!-- again I'm sure that the smoothing over of Everything is a better end-user experience. rather than everyone you meet being rude to you or vice versa. However----💥 (I am killed by a sniper from a long distance so that I stop talking before I begin delving into the prejudices that are already baked into the narrative)
If anyone's lost about the drama going on in the UK right now...
Transphobic politician: I don't like trans people existing.
DT, after winning celebrity LGBTQ ally award: I want transphobic politician to shut up.
Transphobic politician: Gasp, how dare you tell every single woman in the world to shut up? It's misogynistic and racist to tell me to stop being transphobic because I'm a black woman!
That's it, that's the drama.
Listen, it's great that David Tennant has been called "the problem" in the "trans debate." You want transphobes to see you as the problem. Because then you know for sure you're on the right side.
This is your friendly reminder that minorities can be bigots too. I mean weaponising racism to excuse being transphobic, how dare you? I have no doubt this person has experienced racism as a black politician, but that doesn't mean you get to be immune to people having a go at you when you act like a total dickhead.
I was talking about this bit from the Extra Life stream last year with my partner again and thought that some people may not have seen it and may be interested in the two minutes of unmodulated Cerus laughter. Sadly was not my donation that got this shown off though (that was something else).