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its insane to see that post about neve vs calpernia flying around as if it's not unmasked racism lmaooooo.

like say it. say it out loud. say it for the crowd, make it obvious that your real problem here is that neve is a brown woman who YOU feel has no purpose to the story - nevermind that most of the veilguard characters feel this way, but i don't see paragraphs-long posts about the redundancy of ohhhh let's say harding as a character. even though dorian and morrigan and varric and the inquisitor themselves all show up, and could all act in the same 'narrates events of inquisition/connect to inquisition' that harding has.

im sorry but it's deranged to say there's no narrative difference between calpernia and neve's roles in the story based on superficial things (like calpernia having a leg prosthetic in the concept art which she never had when we met her in dai anyway????) and then go 'but anyway neve is boring' and not bother to examine... any of what you just said. in the SAME POST.

and i don't dislike calpernia, is the thing. i don't dislike her, i wish she HAD been in veilguard, but you know what, i don't wish she was the shadow dragons liaison. i wish she'd founded the shadow dragons, instead of maevaris and dorian. that feels more true to the calpernia i know in dai. neve as the shadow dragons liaison very clearly is not part of the shadow dragons - neve is well-connected, through her work, and connects you to multiple parties in dock town, like the threads. i actually do like that she's not directly part of the faction she's "representing" because it makes her priorities and desires feel different to the other companions who are all directly part of their factions, and i think it lends well to her questline which is neve trying to decide what she wants to be and who she wants to be and the kind of difference she wants to make. which is not a storyline you could have with calpernia, who already knows what she wants.

anora, celene, cauthrien, meredith, and leliana are all white women. cassandra is at the very least white passing. the inquistor and warden are the only potential people of colour or women of colour in this whole list of powerful women. "why aren't women of colour satisfied with the representation that white women already have!!! smdh,,,,"

man. just fuck off.

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Hark, a piece I finished 3 months ago and forgot to post.

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hot take: DAI should've been BioWare's parallel to ME2. imagine a suicide mission with your DAI party

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I’ve seen one too many polls questioning whether Hubert is trans lately so I had to quickly sketch post-timeskip dark flier trans Hubert (Helena). She wields the Arrow of Indra, has an unnecessary boob window, and if you make eye contact with her on the battlefield you should just start crying bc you’re fucking dead. Like come on y’all did we even play the same game

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Well I like it but it’s not very well written. Also it’s a visual mess. The plot doesnt make any sense and the creators suck and its politics oscillate from mildly problematic to frankly baffling. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. However. the character

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(i think another thing that needs pointing out is although the fantasy race of dwarves is a fantasy race, there are still real people who are that short and/or have those proportions due to various medical conditions, some of whom likely also share the same spaces as you do, so maybe keep that in mind when it comes to the way you talk about the dwarven race in dragon age and how their bodies look)

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Dragon Age Deep Lore (in the internal wiki): Connor Guerrin is actually the son of Bann Teagan [source, two]

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mods edits

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world of thedas also canonises post dao eamon becoming a permanent fixture in denerim never going home and being a pro-circle voice at court which is crazyyy because of how pro-mage king alistair acts in da2 and the fact that he and/or anora literally put the mages in redcliffeeeee

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i Love that anders’ clinic delivers babies and treats STDs. thank you for calling planned parenthood of Kirkwall. we are one guy in the sewer. they’ve been trying to catch him for Years . for birth control inquiries, press 1. for hormone therapy, press 2

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I FOUND IT. I FOUND THE FUCKING THING I WAS LOOKING FOR.

THIS. MAKES ME. SO. FUCKING. MAD.

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I FOUND IT. I FOUND THE FUCKING THING I WAS LOOKING FOR.

THIS. MAKES ME. SO. FUCKING. MAD.

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IGN: "Key Dragon Age developers have announced they are leaving BioWare after the developer restructured to focus on the next Mass Effect." Michael Douse, publishing director of Larian Studios: "*laid off I wrote more but then deleted it because I’m not about to ruin a long weekend. Something something $30 billion corporation operating for decades unable to provide the necessary economic foundation from which to support a big RPG. But again, I deleted it. It is possible not to layoff large parts of your development teams between or after projects. Critically, retaining that institutional knowledge is key for the next. It’s often used as an excuse to ‘trim fat’ and to an extent I understand that under financial pressure, but doesn’t that just highlight how needless the aggressive efficiency of giant corporations is? I’d understand it if they were pumping out hit after hit - perhaps you could argue it’s working - but clearly the aggressive streamlining (layoffs) aren’t. It’s *nothing but cost cutting* in the most brutal sense. It’s *always* people lower down the food chain that suffer, when it’s *clearly* strategy higher up the food chain that’s causing the problem. On a pirate ship, they’d toss the captain overboard. Video games companies should be run like pirate ships. The delta between VC and unemployed game developer is fascinating because where one falls upwards the other in parallel velocity tumbles downwards. You can tank an entire multi-billion dollar initiative and head upwards, while an incredibly talented artist, engineer, QA, etc can head into poverty. I don’t have LinkedIn btw 😬 Just in case any of this annoys you, just imagine I meant the exact opposite of it and you’re the best. Have a great weekend ✌️ "[source]

Michael Douse: "To make it absolutely clear, what I hate about the way layoffs are carried out is that they are done *before* decision makers know what do do with a studio, and not as a result of figuring out a direction. This is consistently true. It is a short term cost saving measure at a huge human expense that doesn’t solve a long term problem. (A lack of a viable strategic direction defined at an executive level). You can probably figure it out if you trust your developers instead of firing them. On a positive note, I’m seeing a slight shift in this direction. In the low-stakes arena of remasters and remakes, but they are the foundation of something bigger." [source]

User: "The problem was that they didn't trust and respect their successful devs years ago. So the talent left and was replaced with pliant replacements who would do what corporate wanted but couldn't perform to the same level or stand up for a vision." Michael Douse: "I think there is an element of truth to this" [source]

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no fucking way dude

it's over, we're done

idk how i'll recover from this

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this titan shit being treated like a minor side-note is so

i'm so tired dude

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i know it’s because they’re trying to communicate through slightly heavy-handed dialogue that you don’t actually have to pay to recruit the iron bull as a companion but it’s SO funny that you ask him what the chargers’ rates are and he’s like don’t worry about it kitten and you’re like okay 🩷 yay 🩷

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"davrin is who people think cullen is"

YOU GET IT