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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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thinking.

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i can 100% understand loving solas for the complex character he is but i just cannot understand i CANNOT understand people seeing him go "hmmmm... dwarves are just severed limbs imitating life without a purpose... hmmm... qunari are savage barbarians... hmmmm... the modern elf might as well be stupid uneducated tranquils... and that's why i justify genociding them!!"

and be like

"omg you guys what if solas is right??? food for thought teehee."

think about what you are sayiinnngggggg.

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I might have a new fav elden ring weapon (sound important :))

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lgbt ally…? lgbt horde….?

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i never thought someone could understand solas character so wrongly. amazing honestly

The first Inquisitor I ever played was a male Lavellan and every single word out of Solas' mouth made me want to stab him in the throat. He could not possibly be crueler and more disrespectful towards the people who need him the most. My second Inquisitor was Adaar and he treated me like a dog who learned how to talk, and that was me trying to be as friendly as possible to him! Did you remember that if you're close 'friends' with him, he gives you a talk at the end of the game where he asks if having the Anchor changed you in any way? Because he doesn't believe you were capable of being a real person before you touched an Ancient Elven Artifact and surely the only reason you're a Real Boy/Girl Now is because you came into contact with his power.

Solas is a terrible person. You can like him BECAUSE he's terrible, that's fine! My two favorite characters in World of Warcraft are Jaina Proudmoore and Sylvanas Windrunner and they're both war criminals with insane amounts of blood on their hands. But goddamn, don't pretend the villain you like is actually just misunderstood and is secretly a very nice guy. Own the fact that he sucks and is interesting because of how much he sucks. He's hands down the best villain in the entire DA series because of how much he sucks. Literally the only reason I'm going to buy Veilguard is for a chance to murder him. That's a great villain! Not a great dude to date IRL though!

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Cullen is boring and has done shitty things in the past but by DAI, he's at least trying. I'm not going to romance him but he's tolerable. He's also generically attractive so I don't think people are totally pants-on-head crazy for being into him even if he makes me wrinkle my nose.

Solas by contrast is a condescending shitheel who is racist towards his own fucking people, even more racist towards non-elves, named himself "Pride" but doesn't have enough self-reflection to realize when he's being an arrogant dick, is currently attempting a plan that he KNOWS will kill untold amounts of people, and doesn't even have the decency to be attractive.

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Spin the wheel for one of 270 characters in World of Warcraft to...

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As a Florida native with a lot of tangential contact with law enforcement (I work in government records) - this was already illegal. It was just enforced by local city/county ordinances and I assure you, people were absolutely already getting arrested for it.

Everybody knows that cops have quotas they have to hit but what you might not know is that it's not just for arrests. Cops also have to have a mandatory number of what our local agencies call "Field Information Reports" or FIRs. These are non arrest reports and are, on paper at least, just minor citizen contact stuff. Sort of "Hey I saw you stumbling on the side of the road at 2am, are you okay?" "Yes, I'm walking home because I'm drunk, I'm only a few blocks away from my house." "Oh okay, let me give you a lift."

That's the best case scenario of course.

In practice, FIRs are excuses to stop 'suspicious' people (read: minorities) for doing mundane shit that is technically breaking the law but in a way that nobody really cares about most of the time? For example, in Florida, the law states that if you're riding a bike when it's dark out, you must have lights on your bike. That's a perfectly sensible law, makes people less likely to get hit by cars, good for general safety. But you know what? Bike lights cost money. The batteries on them will need to be replaced eventually, the rechargable ones require that you have someone to charge them, and they're often loosely attached so they're easy to steal if you're not actively watching your bike. So anybody riding a bike after the sun goes down who doesn't have a light for any of a myriad number of reasons is a legally valid reason for a cop to stop them. And you can't just tell a cop to fuck off for this. You are technically breaking the law, so they're legally entitled to your identifying information. If you refuse to give it, you'll get slapped with an Obstruction charge.

(Ever seen somebody get arrested for "Resisting Arrest" but no other charges and wondered how the fuck that's fair? How could they be resisting arrest if you didn't arrest them for anything else! It's this. The Resisting Arrest charge is also called Obstruction and it basically just means "the cop decided you were being difficult and didn't want to deal with it anymore so they just arrested you." Sometimes the state will drop the charge later if it was really unreasonable, but don't hold your breath.)

Same with sleeping in your car (or not in a car) in a public place. And there's really no way around it. Did you know it's illegal to sleep on the beach after dark? Did you know it's illegal to be in public parks for any reason after dark (beaches are considered public parks by the way), even just the parking lot?

Hell, do you have a job and permission from your boss to sleep in your car in the parking lot until you can get back on your feet? Fuck you, you're going to have cops knocking in your window at all hours of the night. "You can't sleep here." "I work here, I have permission from my boss." "Do you have proof of that?" "Yeah, here's a note from them." "I don't believe you, do you have their phone number?" "It's 1 am, they're not gonna pick up the phone." "Then I guess you better leave." And even if one cop believes you, guess what? The other cops in the area might not and you're gonna get another knock on the window later in the night.

And remember what I said about FIRs - cops have to do this. They will get fired if they don't keep their stats up. A lot of them will let you off with a warning, but warnings get documented and if you accumulate enough of them, you'll start getting citations you probably can't pay, and then you end up with a warrant and now the next time a cop stops you for any minor thing, you're going to jail. I have read reports where cops arrested 70+ year olds in wheelchairs for FTA warrants. Failure to Appear. They got a citation and couldn't get to the court on the given date (and couldn't have paid the fine even if they did) so a warrant was issued. And when they eventually get out of jail, the cycle will repeat because they're still homeless and the laws haven't changed and they're still in a wheelchair, unable to get to court and unable to pay the fines.

There are no good cops because the system is not designed to allow there to be good cops. A cop's job is to enforce the law, not to interpret it. You could say that a cop who quietly disposes of a black teenager's gram of weed rather than taking him to jail or ignores homeless people sleeping on the beach is a good cop, but he's going to get fired sooner or later for not keeping his stats up and now we're back to there being no good cops.

All cops ARE bastards because non-bastards don't get to stay cops.

And who enforces this? Is it just a few bad apples, or is it all cops?

How hard is it for them to find cops willing to enforce this? Do they have to sift through hundreds of heroic cops who refuse until they find the one cop who's monstrous enough to enforce this, or do they easily find cops willing to enforce this because monstrous cops are everywhere and being a monster is part of the job?

"All cops are bad" is not a stereotype. It's literally a requirement for the job that every single one knew about.

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I haven’t seen this one yet so SPIN THE WHEEL for a random critical role character!

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acephobia is so stupid to the point it's comical

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Back when Siege of Orgrimmar was dragging on for a year and change and we had it on farm (we were really just doing it for heirlooms off Gary), our raid leader showed up one day with a severe cold, which he had decided to solve by A. drinking a bunch of cough medicine, B. smoking weed, and C. dropping acid. That's just the kind of guy he was. Despite this, the raid was going fine, right up until we got up to Iron Juggernaut and he very suddenly says in voice chat, "Uhhhhhhhh is the giant scorpion freaking out anybody else? I think I'm starting to have a bad trip."

Problem - he's the main tank. it's so late in the expansion that player count has dropped off and we don't have a backup. he can't leave or the raid's over.

Solution - he did Iron Juggernaut with his eyes closed. we were overgeared enough that he even lived through it. still managed to finish the raid that night.

hey what is happening in warcraft anymore

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As a Florida native, the idea that there are places in the world where rain is common but thunderstorms are rare is mindblowing to me. I've gone my entire fucking life thinking of 'rain' and 'thunderstorm' as synonymous. Rain without thunder and lightning isn't really rain to me, just a light shower.

I am in my mid 30s and I am legitimately learning for the first time here that places renowned for frequent rainfall like the UK or the PNW are largely experiencing thunder-less rain. Like... what the fuck? You might as well have told me that in other parts of the world, the sky is green and the grass is purple.

Because I've recently had one of those "your experiences are not universal" moments, please humor me

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Out of pure curiosity and fun!