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Pre apostasy Lotus: no, tenno. I do not have " identity issues " . I am the lotus. Yes I look like margulis with a helmet but that doesn't mean anything. Yes I'm sure. I'm not natah either . please just get to extraction

Post new war Lotus: hey tenno. i think you have three moms now.

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Ha! That's it, isn't it? The poison to your plan. And what is that? Love.

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i cannot put into words how these two make me feel so i made this instead

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Warframe is wild for not only outright confirming that the primary, most personal antagonist for the player, the closest thing we know in this universe to an actual literal god, can be defeated by the actual literal power of love

but also that the example they use to confirm this is the toxic old man yaoi workplace situationship between unethical science georg who prepared for his time travel to 1999 by dressing up as a pokemon trainer and his pathetic failtwink Ygor

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Right, so this might be something you'll find me odd for making a post about:

Do you know how many queer people my age I've met IRL AND online who are allergic to even just saying the word 'misogyny'? I FELT LIKE GOING CRAZY. I felt like *I* was in the wrong. I felt like "oh. Maybe it's true Warframe is a general story about abuse. Maybe gender doesn't really matter. Maybe times *are* changing and people don't have as much need to look to misogynist trends anymore."

"Maybe it really is just a coincidence that almost all of our enemy faction leaders are men. Maybe it's a coincidence that the most painful and dangerous figures in Natah, Lotus' and Margulis' lives are men. MAYBE BALLAS WAS JUST A GENERAL COMMENTARY ABOUT POWER."

NO. NO NO NO NO NO!!! Warframe writers saw the sentence: "Men go to war to protect the women and children." and said: WE HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT. A LOT of things to say about that, actually.

Oh I am so vindicated. My doubt has been washed away. Warframe is thematically coherent and fully realized and The Lotus is specifically canonically a victim of misogynistic abuse spanning over generations and Eleanor loves me for knowing that.

Haaaaaaaaaaah........

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Warframe probably has one of the most realistic depictions of how it is to have more than one simultaneous conversation online

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"exciting news for all of you citizens: despite all that has happened in this city, i have agreed to let on-lyne play their... much anticipated new year's eve concert. that's right. bop your cares away to the modern sounds of - must i read this? very well... (clears throat) - zeke, packet, drillbit, dj rom - wh. that's his name? really? - and har - REALLY? (deep sigh) - and hard drive. for one night only, the curfew is lifted, please enjoy it as if it were theee... party of your lifetime."

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Drifter calling up the Operator up and going "AYO THEY GOT FOOD IN TRIANGLES OVER HERE"

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a 1999 dinner

arthur's "square spaghetti" experiment and amir's concoction.

quick review: dont do this

long review and "recipe" under cut

please don't do this. please just eat spaghetti normally

to start with, the taste. its bland. yes that is my own fault, the only seasoning i added was that i used the pasta water to make the gelatin. but i wanted the authentic square spaghetti experience, and dammit if arthur didnt say he added sauce then sauce i will not add. it tastes like cold, unseasoned pasta.

the texture. dear god. this is actually the first time i've properly made gelatin without messing up the texture. it is still. so bad. you can imagine what this feels like in your mouth, and i still promise its worse.

do not do this.

now the DRINK on the other hand. the drink is really fucking good. i'm a coffee drinker, but i don't actually like coffee. its purely a habit at this point. this made me like coffee. the bitterness of the coffee perfectly offsets and enhances the overbearing sweetness of the cola, making for a wonderfully refreshing combination. 10/10, amir you have GREAT taste.

to make your own hell meal. which. dont. you will need: spaghetti (the amount is not an exact science. however much you want here) water (the amount depends on how much spaghetti. you want at least a cup here though) gelatin packet salt pour 1/4 cup water into a pot, then pour in gelatin powder, let this sit make pasta pour 3/4 cup still-boiling pasta water into gelatin stir gelatin mixture until it dissolves strain pasta, then fill square molds with pasta pour gelatin over pasta molds refrigerate

in a few hours, you will be able to "enjoy" your tasty snack.

as for the drink, amir completely hit it on the head with his instructions:

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I really want the Hex to meet the Operator, because yeah they've heard stories from the Drifter but also how do you prepare yourself for something like that

Your friend shows up to the function with a child. Like, twelve, thirteen years old tops, and the resemblance is so uncanny you have to remember that these are not mother and daughter, but the same person from two different realities (which you've only just recently been notified is A Thing).

And that would all be enough to swallow even if this was just a regular kid, but from the second she opens her mouth it's readily apparent that she isn't. She talks like a hardened veteran, like a kung-fu master from the movies, she holds herself upright and proper in a way that's so incredibly un-childlike, and what's even weirder is you can kinda see echoes of your friend in her, like a funhouse reflection. She thanks you for being her other self's friend, as though she's the grown-up in this relationship, and you're not entirely sure she's wrong about that.

And maybe the Drifter's more than your friend, maybe you two have grown close, and now you have this other person who, thanks to the magic of quantum entanglement, knows every intimate detail of that relationship, who is *way* too young for you to be dating, and how do you deal with that? How do you deal with the knowledge that a child untold thousands of years in the future is privvy to everything that happens there? Do you even bring it up at all?

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three horsemen of the apocalypse

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So, there's a set of hacked emails on a PC behind Aoi explaining the Technocyte Coda's backstory. And it's hilarious.

It turns out, no, the Tech rot did not brilliantly realise a concert would make a fantastic super spreader event. Instead, a music CEO looked at the murderous computers and decided to AI generate music using Onlyne's DNA so he wouldn't have to pay them anymore.

And Onlyne is still alive and trying to get out of their contract concurrent with the Technocyte Coda running around using their voices and names. Fucking A+ writing from DE, no notes.

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what potential millennia alone in a pocket of the void does to a mfer

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your life is not an optimization problem