#lush.talk

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i love everyone seeing “mage killer” and immediately cooking up a mage to romance lucanis

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sorry im actually cackling over anti-slavery necromancers enchanting skeletons to do manual labor and culturally-sensitive pirates who never take important stuff

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man it hasn’t been fun to see these writers who made some games i dearly love be so dense and defensive ab meaningful criticism, and ive never rly wanted to comment bc i get that if nothing else it takes a lot of time and humility to admit you simply made some kind of bad art.

but these latest comments are taking me over the edge. stop fucking making excuses. it's embarrassing. stop constantly trying to shift the blame. we're at a point where we understand development was a mess and the writers were writing in less-than-ideal circumstances-- that doesn't mean we can never criticize the writing.

every new bullshit comment does absolutely nothing but show that all they want is to be Absolved by the fandom for writing a bad fucking installment in a beloved franchise. all the comments actually do are reveal their absolute ignorance, absolute unwillingness to reflect on any sort of non-sycophantic feedback, and absolute inability to meaningfully engage.

i genuinely can't find the words to condemn utterly misunderstanding and mischaracterizing a society built on slave labor in complete defiance of any historical precedent, totally not grounded in reality, a nonsensical invented INCORRECT comment on fucking slavery, for no discernible benefit other than getting some Validation from discord users.

it's been almost a year; if these writers are genuinely going to stand by these stupid ass excuses and sob stories they won't stop tweeting and refusing to acknowledge any good-faith criticism, i'm done giving the benefit of the doubt. you can be a victim of corporate meddling, of a harmful work environment, whatever tf and also WRITE BAD at the same time.

my thought: they threw in slavery for edgy 2000s fantasy worldbuilding, and by 2024 were too afraid to execute on the concept.

DA has always had worldbuilding problems. fandom willingness to examine, analyze, point out the biases, speaks to the fact that they still built an interesting world worth scrutinizing. imo, the earnest attempts-- even if they ended with misses-- to actually engage with the ugliest parts of the worldbuilding were far preferable to veilguard's whitewashing.

if they thought depicting slavery in a game in 2024 was too icky, here's the bad news: erasing the worst parts of established history, even in a fantasy world, is ickier. avoiding slavery in veilguard isn't morally superior, it's intellectually dishonest. just like that stupid ass comment.

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it’s amusing to me how alarming the inquisition is as an institution and the only reason it’s remotely ok is because i the player am in charge of it and i know i won’t do anything weird and have the people of thedas’ best interests at heart but literally no one else in the game should be trusting me nearly as much as they do 😭

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guys ive had an epiphany. i started a board of wyll ravengard outfit inspo and i realized i want his tops and doublets to be inspired by male ballet costumes. think how pretty and handsome he would look w the embroidery and the snatched waist and the fluffy sleeves and the lowcut neckline AHHHH

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everyone’s talking about how bg3 will set standards but really the most revolutionary thing about the game is the sheer adequacy of the vanilla hairstyles. absolutely unprecedented for the genre

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"mutuals let's become friends" how. i am so serious i need a step-by-step guide.

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holy fucking shit. i got confused. my stats final exam was due at 9am. holy fucking shit