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This is AI art 99% surely. The blog has other AI art too.

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Dorian was too good for us, lmao

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Ok I think I actually love Taash, like, as a person. They are funny, competent, proudly dual culture (don’t talk to me I had them go for the Qun while they still honor Rivain in idle dialogue THIS IS CANON TO ME. anyway), they do their damndest to understand even Emmrich when called out, they try to find their place and do better, while just being a good friend…

But Trick Weekes really shouldn’t have written them.

It just shows that Weekes still had so much Stuff going on in their life, and everything AROUND Taash feels so… condescending. I am being talked down to how gender works by someone who is figuring it out for the first time, and whose writing reflects the worst parts of that process.

Like… excuse me Trick Weekes, WHY would a Qunari SCHOLAR mother ask this stupid-ass “if you’re neither man nor woman then what are you” question when she knows VERY WELL that the Qun has a word and a concept for that already???? As a writer myself, this is like. The worst you could do to your characters: put yourselves in them.

Of course we all have our themes and topics that just surface and resurface through our writing over and over, but Taash’s surroundings suffer so much from all this baggage Weekes still must have carried with them while writing; all this desire to overexplain gender in the whitest way possible through the blurred lense of a 20 year old Qunari-Rivaini just doesn’t do that character any justice.

Taash deserved better. Damn.

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i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone

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I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

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remember, if your oc is in the thing you did, no one cares! but if it's just of a non-oc main character, then it may be popular (even then, people nowadays only like, don't comment and don't share).

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I hate the game shoehorning/drilling it to me that "REMEMBER DOING THESE QUESTS IS SO SO IMPORTANT (you need the companions' full loyality/mental health for stuff to come...)"

yes, hmm, what could this ever mean...

No but the 'team meeting' after the fall of Weisshaupt was so. unorganic or unnatural. 'What a crushing defeat, maybe we should focus on our mental health now to do better next time.' Like hello??? This is not your job of which you had to take a step back from because your boss is an asshole?? You are all at war against two gods who keep Resident Eviling the world?????? I mean it's not such an awful idea but it's executed rather poorly. Like the game was this close to display a message saying 'You have just finished one of the main quest. You should focus on the companion's quests next.'

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I still find it so immensely funny how bioware marketed Dragon Age Origins as a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate and then threw it aside and spent the next 15 years stripping the franchise of RPG elements and dark themes and trying to make it more "streamlined" and family friendly because this apparently sells better

Only to release Veilguard RIGHT AFTER the massive success of Baldur's Gate III

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wow datv mods are poppin off already. prayer circle a body hair mod comes out for lucanis and body/facial hair for elves soon🤞

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Happy birthday Mass Effect 1!

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the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

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POV: ur an enemy and it’s Astarion’s turn in combat

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#Do NOT turn off your critical thinking#find the things that you CAN enjoy and the things that COULD have been emphasized and encourage MORE OF THAT!#Complaining can be constructive actually

"I just need to turn off my critical thinking skills to enjoy this game" Please stand up for yourself. And if not for yourself, for everyone whose labor was cruelly exploited to undermine a piece of art that they were passionate about making. Your intelligence and personhood is being insulted if you feel you must turn off critical thinking to enjoy something.

The overt corporatization of a favorite franchise should not be something you turn your brain off to accept. If you truly loved this world, the story, the effort that went into making it? Then fucking stand up unless you want this to be the new standard.

You can still enjoy something while being aware of and critiquing its flaws. That's part of maturity. Indulge in some, maybe.

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Inquisition companion relationship evolutions <3

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you will never beat the biphobia allegations until you radically accept bisexuals who are stereotypical. you must accept the sluts, the polyamorous, the girls with straight boyfriends, the questioning, the confused, the ones who want to be another couple's unicorn, the ones who are in a phase and will eventually identify differently, and even the ones you suspect aren't truly bisexual but just want attention. take people at their word when they tell you who they are. let them live and express their identity as they see fit. happy bi visibility day