The Traveler(s)

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Not today Justin
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@videogameobsessions
The Traveler(s)
i dont know theseus its very bold of you to summon your ex’ husband tbh
"Companions reacting to Inquisitor jumping off the balcony at Skyhold"
(Also, Cabot is dipstick)
-Lord Alex
Cullen
-“MaKER NO, INQUISITOR!”
-He only noticed after the soldiers wouldn’t stop staring at something
-This is the same person who lead an attack against Corypheus, jumping off a balcony for shits and giggles
-You’ve never had anyone look at you with such parental disappointment
Josephine
-“What, in your right mind, told you that that was a good idea?! Jumping off the balcony! You could have killed yourself! Not only that, you nearly gave the people in the garden a heart attack!”
-Very long rant
-By the end of it, you should feel bad (Course, that doesn’t stop you from doing it, just not when Josephine is around)
-Word does get back to her and you decide that hiding is the best option
Leliana
-“Just a few questions. One, why? Two, how? I’ve seen you trip on boxes and get bruises, yet falling from that height, you’re barely even winded. I think you need to teach that trick to some of our spies.”
-One of the mysteries in life that Leliana can’t solve
-Was wondering why she would hear you speaking to Dorian at one point and then in a second hear a loud thump and “Hello Solas!”
-Does get a small chuckle out of her
Vivienne
-She looks from the balcony, to you, to the ground below your feet before saying “You’re squishing the petunias, dear.”
-Makes it seem that she doesn’t care
-Doesn’t want to admit that she has done the same thing before
-Refuses to say that she did have a heart attack when she had seen you up there
Varric
-*Wheezing* “For fucks sake”
-Brief flashbacks of a certain friend who would HAS done the exact same thing
-After finding out that you are not hurt from that, Sera, Bull, and Varric all start discussing how high you could actually fall from without getting hurt
-’What a horrible idea, definitely shouldn’t do this, you could get seriously injured’ he says with a smile on his face as they look up at the tallest tree you could find in the Frostback Basin
Cole
-”Wait, you shouldn’t-! Oh, you’re ok? How?”
-He doesn’t understand anything. Why did you do that? How did you survive? How are you not even injured?
-Tries it as well, to some people’s horror
-After a quick talking to from dad Varric, he stops doing it
Solas
-”...” Completely ignores it
-Who says he’s not already used to this shit from you jumping off the balcony in the library?
-Doesn’t stop him from listening to make sure that you are safe
-He might be the reason why you’re safe
Cassandra
-”Do you have a death wish?!”
-Safe to say, Cassandra was not prepared to find you next to her in the short span of time it took you to run up the stairs and landed with a thump
-Left a good lump on your head for being an idiot
-Doesn’t help that she also spotted you jumping from your balcony (“I’m the Inquisitor, damn it! Don’t lock my own windows!”)
The Iron Bull
-”Holy shit! Nice landing, boss!”
-Rather impressed with the fall
-Krem has to stop him before he tries it
-Eventually does it but now the Inquisitor’s choking on their laughter and they have to find someone to pry Bull’s horns out of the ground
Dorian
-”Vashanta Kaffas! When it’s a few feet off the ground I’m fine with it! This?! No!”
-He usually thinks it's pretty funny when you jump down from the balcony in the library, but this is a little too much
-It’s a little terrifying to him that no one outside batted an eye at you falling from there and landing next to Mother Giselle only to strike up conversation with her
-’Course, no one batted an eye when the magister started yelling at you, either, so there’s that
Sera
-”What the fucking hell was that?!”
-You’re surprised to see her berate you for doing that, but then you realize that she’s mad because you didn’t tell her and she wanted to try
-Is cackling the entire time and does the thing where someone approaches it but then backs away, only to come back to it
-When she finally does it, you find she landed in the bushes, laughing and saying “Let’s do that again!”
Blackwall
- "Maker’s balls"
-If you look closely enough, you can see all life has left his eyes and is replaced with pure terror
-Calmly approaches you, puts hand on your shoulder and says for you to never do that again
-Disappointed parent noises when he sees you do it again
Trying to get back into the flow of things, what with both of us working and college. Cabot should be dropping his own post next.
i love the fact that we’re getting a remaster but like. bioware deciding to not add in more queer romances, especially the ones they already had recorded content for, is very much A Choice.
Actually I’m not done. It’s not just the romances I’m :/ about.
Listen. I love Mass Effect, it’s been a special interest of mine since I discovered it & the game + story + characters were instrumental in getting me through one of the lowest points in recent years.
That said. The whole “we don’t plan on changing any parts of the story” thing bothers me, and it’s not just the ‘Shepard’s Dead’ ending which is only vaguely implied to be avoided if you maxed out galactic readiness. Honestly, some parts of the story should be revised! And that’s not an insult, it’s just a fact--some things could have been better, and these are things that have been generally picked up on by fans in the last decade.
The casual sexism thrown at femshep serves what purpose, exactly? I’m thinking ME1 specifically (it’s been a hot minute since I did a full replay) but I know it’s peppered throughout for no real reason other than she has tits, I guess? Does this mean we can also look forward to 4K shots of Miranda’s ass while she lays out her trauma to us? Trauma which ironically involves not being seen as her own person & only as an object for her Father? Literally everything that happened to Jacob Taylor in ME3 needed to be retconned. Never mind the fact that it makes zero sense for a character with his personality, to say the racist implications there are uncomfortable would be an understatement. (While we’re on the topic, I’m also going to say this applies to his ME2 loyalty mission. I know they were trying to give everyone on board some sort of tragic backstory, but seriously? That’s where they went for him? Okay. Sure.) & I know I’m biased since Thane was my Shepard’s “canon” romance, but (& I wish I had that interview or article on hand) I’m very very certain I remember at some point someone on the team essentially said they forgot about him and a handful of other ME2 squadmates and had to figure out a way to shoehorn him into ME3. As annoyed as I was before I was aware of that, I was actually angry after seeing that was allegedly what happened. Jack essentially directly tells Shepard that not only is she into women and has been with them before, but it was in a polyamorous setting. Was it healthy? No, but none of her problems with that relationship ever circled back to her only being into men. Tali and Miranda--two FF romances that had three games worth of content recorded and then unused, which would make their ‘addition’ essentially just a model swap. The lack of MM content in general is just insulting. Would it honestly be that big of a deal to open Kaidan to that in ME2 or hell, even ME1? I genuinely don’t think that’s asking too much, especially when we saw them fix that for Jaal in MEA after receiving criticisms. You know, the same ones they’d also been hearing about the original trilogy and had an chance to fix with the remaster.
The interviews coming out now where devs admit that they knew/were made aware of the mistakes they made don’t do anything to put me at ease. I’d honestly rather they kept those thoughts to themselves at this point. I’m sure for a number of these, they were given before the remaster was even on the table as an idea, but it’s still hard to ignore them now & just forget the knowledge of what could have been.
That’s all just off the top of my head and I’m sure if I replayed it, I would find more decisions made with the storyline and characters that just... didn’t need to happen and wouldn’t take too much to fix. Like, I have to believe that completely overhauling the Mako to something functional would take far longer than just restoring cut content.
I’m still most likely going to purchase and play this, gripes aside, because it is something I very much love, but man. Man. The worst part is that changing these things? Wouldn’t actually impact the overall plot of the games, if at all. I’m not going to be robbed of the emotional experience if I don’t encounter Miranda’s dialogue from behind her vacuum-sealed ass.
At the end, I am excited to return to the world of Mass Effect in some capacity (though I’m definitely more in the group that wants MEA2 more than anything) but I’m disappointed all the same. Because I really, truly, hoped for something just a bit more self-aware than what was produced over a decade ago.
The longer you look at his neck, the worse it gets.
THIS IS WHY HE WEARS THE MANTLE. WE'VE CONNECTED THE DOTS.
A more cursed accurate representation:
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is this why you all keep going on about cullenlingus? the reach?
YOU'RE NOT WRONG
I’m not even sorry
This is the best reply @lapointyysims
Still not sorry - Have an actual giraffe Cullen
what is your most controversial video game hot take? 🎮🎮🎮
Games over 10 years old should be free
if you have an in game store, micro transactions, or loot boxes, ur game should be free.
Ganondorf should and will have sex with every gay man ever
Emulation of any game or game system that is out of production should be fully legal
The Various Ways Bioware dropped the ball with Mage!Trevelyan origin:
1. You can’t talk about the templar abuses. Almost period. You can say vague shit like “I know something of the conflict” [word for word what Mage!Trevelyan says, I kid you the fuck not], or “mages were being oppressed” but you can’t say anything about the Harrowing (they actually joke about it as if there’s anything funny about it), or how the Chantry led a massive kidnapping and incarceration campaign or tell anyone about how before the rebellion the Chantry could take somebody’s six year old and there was fuck-all you could do about it.
2. You can’t start shit with Cassandra or Cullen or anyone. You can’t say to Cassandra that you don’t trust her and you never will because for all she talks about the mages causing the war, it’s her and her order’s damn fault. You can’t say in her personal quest that there’s zero reason you should help her because the Seekers literally let innocent mages die! Cullen? You should’ve been able to literally threaten him, ‘you so much as lay a finger or look at a mage the wrong way, and I will kill you on the spot.’ You! Of all origins! Should’ve been able to hold him accountable for Kirkwall!!! Especially when he talks about the damage the “mage uprising” caused as if the templars had fucking nothing to do with it.
3. You can’t defend the rebel mages! Cullen calls going after them nonsense, and you can’t threaten that you won’t close the Breach without rescuing them! You can’t point out that if he and Cassandra had just done their jobs, maybe the rebellion wouldn’t have happened! You can’t snap at Cassandra that you will be looking after the mages and that if a templar comes anywhere near one, you will be the one to handle it, and you don’t want that.
4. You can’t discuss the rebellion with Hawke; you can’t thank them or Anders for defending your fellow mages or starting the rebellion, or start shit with a Hawke that sided with the templars. You can’t talk to Fiona about it! You can’t say “we didn’t have a choice but to rebel.” You can’t support her in any way like you can with Barris!
5. You can’t talk about being in the war! You can’t say that you had to teach yourself a bunch of things because the Circle didn’t want you to be independent! You had to learn how to barter, cook, sew, and work! You can’t talk about all the good things that happened for mages! Some got married and cried because they were finally free and could have their own lives. Some had children and cried because they knew that they could keep them. Now you could sleep in peace without the fear of being beaten on!
I’m sure there are more; feel fucking free to add.
And this is why I’ve ignored like 80% of the established lore/dialogue on mage!Trevelyan and just come up with my own shit
I’ve actually never played a mage!Trevelyan but I agree with all of these observations. It’s always bothered me that the first objective when you get to the Hinterlands is “kill 4 rebel mages! Kill 4 templars!” Like…what? I don’t get a say in this? I don’t get to choose sides? I just have to decide all “sides” are bad regardless of the history between them or the actual fucking consequences of their actions? Miss me with that unity bs bioware
Dragon Age vines pt. 5
Dante was wrong. There’s another layer of hell and it’s called waiting for the next installment of a video game series.
This isn’t my screenshot, but I had to make this edit
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You're really pushing the limits here, fadeboy.
Dragon Age Origins: Turns out you’re basically an accessory to Morrigan’s agenda.
Dragon Age 2: Turns out you’re basically an accessory to Anders’ agenda.
Dragon Age Inquisition: Turns out you’re basically an accessory to Solas’ agenda.
Me, Playing Dragon Age 4, probably: *squints like a suspicious templar at all of the mage party members* alright which one of you assholes is it
Dragon Age 2: You can’t be as much of an accessory to Anders’ agenda as you want.
Dragon Age Origins: Evil apostate witch develops dastardly plan to offer to save your life.
DAO: apostate escapes abuser and offers to save the life of you and your best friend/lover
DA2: apostate dismantles abusive corruption in city and tries to keep you safe from it
DAI: egg literally causes everything wrong to happen and acts like it’s out of his hands
I like the fan-theory that Thedas’s moon, which indeed is way too large for a moon, actually is the planet Klendagon from Mass Effect with it’s “scar” and the distinctive craters above it. This would follow that Thedas is on Klendagon’s moon, Presrop, at a time when it was habitable.
This is an absolute embarrassment CDPR
literally unplayable
same energy
*offers u some unrelated da2 doodles*