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Thinking of making a big video game historiography post because I was thinking about the odd localization history of Dynasty Warriors, and then how the more I think about it the more I realize that video game history most commonly being divided up into console generations (or at least when you try to discuss it on a more academic level in environments I've most commonly discussed it) instead of something broader like decades is kinda unhelpful when you think about how consoles just haven't been widely available in many parts of the world. Like it certainly has its uses but I don't think it should be the go-to, and console generations last an average of 7-9 years nowadays anyway, but they tend to overlap two separate decades so it's just easier to go by decades.

Yeah video game historiography is a thing.

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pet peeve is when a fellow hater conducts their haterism such that they leave the hater community vulnerable to attack. “i think characterizing Character A in x way is boring and annoying” = beautiful, flawless, unimpeachable haterism. no one can tell u that u aren’t allowed to find a certain characterization boring. “it is morally/objectively wrong to characterize Character A in x way” = sloppy, reactionary, overcommitting. you have left our eastern flank open to attack girl what the hell….now my dedicated hater troops are taking fire from YOUR enemies fuckkkkk

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Cons: It feels like virtually none of my choices in this game matter for anything other than companion approval, even the one big one I've encountered so far that does matter feels deeply contrived because they tried SO HARD to make it feel like it's the player's fault but lol no, it's not. I did my job right, the people who didn't go with me were the ones who fucked up. Also not fond of how seemingly all of the 'mages are oppressed' lore is gone like yeah I get they have it a lot better in northern Thedas but when you get a bunch of new players who don't even know about how awful it is for them in southern Thedas I just... You're leaving out some extremely important lore, pals.

Pros: I like most of the companions a lot. I like most is the companions in the whole series but after Inquisition where I only ever really got invested in half of them and their character writing was overall pretty meh, it's nice to have a bunch of characters I actually find myself getting invested in as a whole instead of just a few. The Origins companions are still my favorite overall though, I don't think that's ever going to change.

Dynasty Warriors Origins comes out in just a bit over two weeks but I'm not sure I'm going to be ready for it on launch day because I'm still tangled with the new Dragon Age and since they're both pretty expensive I'd feel bad just leaving one unfinished to start the other, and also I don't have much space on my laptop left. But who knows, maybe I'll be in a 'fuck it' mood and/or I'll finally get around to installing a reserve hdd for storage. Either way I honestly don't remember the last time I felt this ambivalent about a game. It's odd, and from what I've gleaned from the demo I feel like Dynasty Warriors Origins is going to be an immediate follow up to that in terms of ambivalence.

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HAHA IT'S DRAGON AGE LORE I KNEW THEY WERE BASICALLY EUNUCHS

Ok I need an opinion check for, reasons. There is a fun little poll at the end. Imagine, if you will, a world where magic can bring the dead back to life in an undead state. Not like zombies, they're basically ghosts possessing their own bodies. Imagine a kingdom with a king who is very old and infirm, he has no children nor spouse and his only close family is his younger brother, who also has no children nor spouse and refuses to be the king's heir, and the king refuses to name someone else as heir.

As everyone was expecting, the king dies. This kingdom is currently a powder keg of political strife and this could be the spark for both civil war and foreign invasion all at once. There is a group of people who can bring the dead back to life, and so they keep the king's undead status a secret until they can sort this whole mess out and let him return to the dead. This all seems to be voluntary on the king's part. So they're not Weekend At Bernie's-ing him, but it's basically a step up from that.

Now take into mind that eunuchs were a varied group of people throughout both history and historical fiction with a wide range of goals, M.O.s, and personalities, BUT there are also certain ways they're often stereotyped to behave as and we love a good, well-meaning eunuch joke on this blog. So my question to you after this long-winded anecdote,

I'm trying to word this as best as I can so hopefully that's clear enough.

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i love unhinged women but i also love women who try so fucking hard to be hinged. clinging to those hinges by her fingernails.

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Wait is the tortoise... I dunno, I guess I'm wondering how often he comes up. Does he feel like an important part of Sima Yi's life at least as far as pets go or does he just show up once every blue moon so that the audience doesn't totally forget about him as a time framing device?

I've been staring at this for 6 hours and I've had enough so please read it and be amused and/or persuaded 🥺😭

 

tl;dr please watch 😭😭

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get you a guy who can do all 4

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Being non-binary is like instead of having an angel and a demon on ur shoulder u have a faggot and a dyke

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Ok I FINALLY fixed it, it only took a few months for me to get around to it! For some reason it was less annoying to do on my phone app than on the website on my laptop, but whatever. Let's just hope I don't accidentally hit shuffle again.

I noticed that at least on steam, Dynasty Warriors Origins is offering the soundtracks for dw1-dw5 as an 'early purchase bonus' to try and reel in pre-orders, so reminder that the soundtracks are all available for free on youtube. Here, I even made a neat little playlist of what I consider to be the best tracks in the whole series:

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I did have the entire playlist sorted chronologically but then I accidentally hit shuffle while I was looking over the list and yeah that shuffled the first few dozen or so songs. I'll get around to fixing it sooner or later... When the mood strikes me.

I noticed that at least on steam, Dynasty Warriors Origins is offering the soundtracks for dw1-dw5 as an 'early purchase bonus' to try and reel in pre-orders, so reminder that the soundtracks are all available for free on youtube. Here, I even made a neat little playlist of what I consider to be the best tracks in the whole series:

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I noticed that at least on steam, Dynasty Warriors Origins is offering the soundtracks for dw1-dw5 as an 'early purchase bonus' to try and reel in pre-orders, so reminder that the soundtracks are all available for free on youtube. Here, I even made a neat little playlist of what I consider to be the best tracks in the whole series:

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anyone can be a girlboss but it takes a real woman to be a deadbeat dad

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They saw that I was annoyed about how there's a necromancer party member in Inquisition but he does not in any way or form feel like a necromancer, like it doesn't play into his lore or story at all, he just knows some necromancy spells as a specialization, he felt like a totally generic mage otherwise, and remedied that marvellously, I'll give them that.

Dynasty Warriors Origins comes out in just a bit over two weeks but I'm not sure I'm going to be ready for it on launch day because I'm still tangled with the new Dragon Age and since they're both pretty expensive I'd feel bad just leaving one unfinished to start the other, and also I don't have much space on my laptop left. But who knows, maybe I'll be in a 'fuck it' mood and/or I'll finally get around to installing a reserve hdd for storage. Either way I honestly don't remember the last time I felt this ambivalent about a game. It's odd, and from what I've gleaned from the demo I feel like Dynasty Warriors Origins is going to be an immediate follow up to that in terms of ambivalence.

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Dynasty Warriors Origins comes out in just a bit over two weeks but I'm not sure I'm going to be ready for it on launch day because I'm still tangled with the new Dragon Age and since they're both pretty expensive I'd feel bad just leaving one unfinished to start the other, and also I don't have much space on my laptop left. But who knows, maybe I'll be in a 'fuck it' mood and/or I'll finally get around to installing a reserve hdd for storage. Either way I honestly don't remember the last time I felt this ambivalent about a game. It's odd, and from what I've gleaned from the demo I feel like Dynasty Warriors Origins is going to be an immediate follow up to that in terms of ambivalence.

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I got Total War: Three Kingdoms from @liobi for Christmas, so I've started playing as Gongsun Zan, just to be contrary, and so I can start off with Zhao Yun from the get-go lol

I'm gonna kick EVERYBODY'S ass

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So uh @zhoudadudugongjin I’m sorry but uhh I drew over one of the screencaps from your Rot3k2010 screencap collection I couldn’t help myself Lü Bu looked so babygirl while brooding

Here’s version 2

Yee