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"how to prevent smile lines" there are a thousand more important things to do with your time than postpone evidence of life's joy on your face

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like the first rule of cooking is to have fun and be yourself and the first rule of baking is to stay calm because the dough can sense fear

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our spiritually elevated rejection of canon vs their intellectually dishonest refusal to engage with the text

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English spelling isn't that hard to understand as long as you also understand French orthography, Dutch orthography, the Great Vowel Shift, the Latin language, the history of the printing press, and the etymology of every word introduced to English in the last 600 years

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I think it's fun that the titular dragons of Dragon Age ARE mysteriously coming back from extinction, but that is (1) never explained and (2) never plot relevant. It's like if during a major apocalyptic event, you just randomly started seeing dodos again. like hey that's neat. anyways

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So uhm. Veilguard.

I don't play video games as much anymore. I don't have a lot of time to carve out as my own, and what little I do is often when I'm pretty exhausted, so the idea of further drying out my eyeballs in front of a screen late into the night isn't particularly appealing. But I am a sucker for a good story, regardless of the format and I will binge it like all hell...But I kind of felt like I had to push myself to finish this one. Like it was a task list. Or chores. I didn't really connect with the characters the way I thought I would. I didn't get swept off my feet by a romance. I liked my Rook, but I didn't feel as connected to her or her background. And even though I got the "good" ending, it didn't feel satisfying or thematically right.

:/

It's unfortunate. Maybe fandom, and all you fine folks will make it better.

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*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard

*remembers some ppl use ai* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating.

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i think the real reason Lucanis has a coffee addiction is so the animators had an excuse to show just how good they are at making characters hold cups now.

like look at that. its not floating 6 inches away from his palms. it goes up and down with his hands. he's even got one hand on the handle itself! we've come so far since the hilarious joining chalice animation in Origins and Solas's cup of misery tea that floats 4 seconds behind his arm movements

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but sir that’s my emotional support mutual who’s way cooler than me that i can’t believe actually follows me 

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

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Also the game made it pretty easy to rationalize saving Treviso over Minrathous? It’s a canal city, the blight would spread more easily. I didn’t know that the decision closed off a romance path, and so I had my Rook thinking “Okay, the Shadow Dragons can handle this, I trust them, but I don’t think the Crows can handle this one.” It’s an RPG, roleplay.

(Hilariously I ended up not romancing Lucanis in this play-through. I was pretty bummed about basically never getting to actually use the Shadow Dragon hideout since I had prioritized other missions first.)

"As a Shadow Dragon it's deeply unfair to force you to save Treviso just to romance Lucanis when my Rook is SO devoted to Minrathous" then pick your home city instead of the man you have met three days ago??

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we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

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the whole point of life is being deeply moved by art. and bread