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mooseyspooky · 5 months ago
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essektheylyss · 8 months ago
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Matt really said, "Yeah, let's throw the wizard with ninth level force damage spells and a history of crippling guilt into the deeply insecure pvp party to go wandering into a forced pvp zone that preys off of your insecurities, I'm sure this will go well," and he was correct for it 😌
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kirby-the-gorb · 5 months ago
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tritoch · 6 months ago
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Something that bugs me a lot in Dawntrail discourse is watching people who think they are defending the expansion argue away its best aspect. Because here's the thing: Wuk Lamat isn't like prior FFXIV characters. She takes up way more space than them. That's good!
A common thread you see in defenses is that people are complaining about things they were fine with earlier in the story. "Oh well actually Lyse was also the main character of Stormblood and people didn't hate her as much!" or "Heavensward is the story of Aymeric and Estinien and Ysayle, and the Warrior of Light doesn't do that much!" or "No one complained when Gaia jumped into the Eden raids, or when Emet showed up during Seat of Sacrifice" with the implied conclusion of "Wuk Lamat's not different from any other previous major character, your complaints have more to do with [sexism/transphobia/your crippling insecurity about not being the main character] than the way she's written." First of all people did hate Lyse. I get what you are saying but they very much did hate Lyse.
But Wuk Lamat is different. She's different because Dawntrail is unapologetically, full-throatedly her story. She is there at the start, she is there at the end, she is there basically all the way through except for a brief interlude. She is the character you talk to the most, she is also the character that talks the most. She has more of a complete arc than anyone else in the expansion. The antagonists develop much stronger direct and personal relationships to her than they ever do with you. Several major characters have relationships to you through her more than they do with you directly. At multiple points in the story you explicitly step back and are like "Go right ahead, queen, do the main character stuff." She 100% takes your role in certain ways. She's literally a new WL to your WoL!
and that's awesome! Like, holy shit! If you had traveled back in time and told me after Endwalker, "Hey, the next expansion will be almost solely and entirely focused on the character journey of a young woman, and she'll be nuanced and complex and allowed to fail but also allowed to succeed wildly, and her characterization will be interesting and her ideals will be very directly challenged, and she'll get to do some real classic 'sorry my noble opponent but I must stop you, even though I sympathize' shit, and the way she is framed won't feel excessively male-gazey, and she won't get stuck in the FFXII Ashe Miniskirt, and she won't just be someone you watch and clap for while the real protagonist and narrator is some random guy in her entourage," I would've been like "haha, okay, I like FFXIV as much as the next guy but I don't think it's shaken its baseline sexism off enough to do an expansion entirely about a woman and her personal growth and what makes her a good leader, especially after Stormblood's mixed reception. And CBU3 definitely doesn't have the guts to make her even more of a main character than any other prior NPC, and you didn't mention this part future time traveler, but I also don't believe they'll be willing to cast a trans woman in the role." And I would have been fucking wrong!
Yes, Wuk Lamat is the main character. Yes, she does get more attention than other NPCs, or even your Warrior of Light. And yes, that's totally fine, and even something to praise!!! You don't have to run from it to accommodate people who are looking for something to complain about!
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dicktat · 12 days ago
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Hate that every time I’m on here I have shit to complain about but whoever approved that Lawan reskin idea needs to get they ass whooped
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emry-stars-art · 2 years ago
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Also. Finished them dancing (again) 👑⚔️
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t-u-i-t-c · 7 months ago
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make me choose
orange or purple → orange
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violant-apologia · 7 months ago
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we seem to be getting profile header options for each new location in firmament (apart from lost naples, actually, but that makes sense as it's not a repeatably-accessable location)
and that begs the question of when they're going to add the other upper river and evolution headers to the roster! right now we've only got the final locations, marigold and irem. i want a burrow header! or a tracklayer's city one at least
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danmeichael · 11 months ago
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"shen qingqiu is a liar who is lying about his feelings so we can't ACTUALLY tell how he feels about anything"
so you admit that you can tell he is lying and by extension you can actually discern what his true feelings on the matter are and that he's just unwilling to admit to them.
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utilitycaster · 1 year ago
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everyone keeps harping on "well Matt only said it may destroy them" and like yeah, that's the truth - it was survivable, demonstrably - but also? I don't eat food that's labeled "may contain traces of peanuts."
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amedetoiles · 4 months ago
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the untamed leaving netflix in my region oct 24 is an utter travesty. how dare you take away easy access to my unhealthy obsession to my (one half) finely dressed emotionally stunted dumbass brothers??????
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solasfenheral · 2 days ago
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vg is a game where there a lot of parts I enjoy on paper and then you have to reckon w execution that keeps like. keeps immediately killing narrative tension before it can build
#I love rook as someone defined gy radical hope and bullheaded belief#but so much of what they run up against is just. poorly written obvious shitty government figures#or people who you’re supposed to dislike because they oppose u rudely#instead of being able to take a myriad of approaches to them and try appeal or at least understand their mindset#and then there’s the entirely seperate problem of the game lingering in issues that rook isn’t responsible for (team drama) which! FINE! I#enjoy a bad bitch shouldering responsibility as a way to keep control of the situation#but at the same time the game WONT???? let you linger in the guilt and shame and grief of calls rook literally makes?#I want guilt over weisshupt man! I want people tearing ur throat out over ur idealism ensuring u went in without a plan#how are you here empty chair therapy sessioning yourself over a friend’s death FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO when ur previous shouldering#responsibility for shit u can’t control did not come CLOSE the the magnitude of it costing someone’s life#and then there’s shit like Zara just. up and dying before really doing anything and Lucanis’s arc getting prematurely killed if you made a#critical choice which renders that writing decision even more baffling?#the entire time I was playing the confrontation with Aelia I was like wow this feels MADE for calpernia man this is relevant to her!!!!#tunes talks critical#the Gods’ main instance of vulnerability is expressed in a codex found in like#the second to last mission!!!!#veilguard critical
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topnotchquark · 7 months ago
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In the spirit of this quaint men-on-motorcycles-enthusiast blog I went to watch The Bikeriders and had my heart quietly broken by a slow but softly luminous movie. Something about men's expansive lives and how movement is ultimately the seed from which all freedom grows. When you see Tom Hardy's Johnny slowly strain and crack under the realization that something he created out of simpler desires is now turning into a hydra headed problem he can't seem to solve, you understand something about existing in a world where your need for belonging is a vulnerability that eventually gets you.
When he asks Austin Butler's Benny about taking over the gang from him he's submitting himself to someone he trusts. Their faces slowly coming together, closer and closer, in the dark with just the incandescent glow of the streetlamps on the edge of their faces, like burning paper. How Benny is too stubborn to understand that its not a favor being asked of him, but a declaration of something deeper from Johnny. What a beautiful narrative choice it was to have a woman recollect this entire story of this rag-tag group of men, who herself was affected by the atmosphere she found herself unable to get out of. I love that it works like a non-judgemental narration of how quickly boyhood bluster breaks down when real life circumstances get rough. How difficult it was for Johnny to keep the community together because he didn't expect it to be anything more than a quaint cosplay when he started it to escape boredom. At the end where Benny finally gets the news of Johnny's murder, something done to usurp his frayed authority, and he returns to Chicago and breaks down on Kathy's stoop, I found myself crying alongside him.
The movie was clearly a labour of love from someone who had deep fascination with the lives of these men and with motorcycles. Wild that a two wheeled liquid fuel powered machine has been the site of so many meditations on masculinity and rebellion and anger and power and authority. I don't know if I want to revisit it but I am glad I got to watch it in the time period of my life that my deep fascination with bikes and men's lives makes it so much more valuable to me.
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mercurialimage · 2 months ago
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my personal town of salem opinion is that bmg fucked up releasing the disguiser skin when they did, like they would NOT have gone bankrupt if it was dropped anywhere around 2015-2017
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thedupshadove · 3 months ago
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A question for those among my followers who were alive and passably politically-aware in the 1980s; was there at all a sense that Reagan might try to stop the 1984 or 1988 elections from taking place?
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aefensteorrra · 16 days ago
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I miss studying and doing research and literally nothing is stopping me from doing that outside formal education soo. time to find some books I fancy
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