#This is one of my great pet peeves

[neshatriumphs]

You can say "I go up for" Leave my Black ass out of it, because WE not going up for whoever you talkin bout.

[utilitycaster]

Why hasn't anyone talked to them: a noncomprehensive list for actual play fans

Are you wondering why your favorite character seems sad or upset or just working through something, and no one else in the D&D party has talked to them at length about it? Here's a brief list of reasons that might give you an idea why!

it has literally been less than 12 hours in game and they spent 8 of them sleeping (or insert appropriate brief period of time without significant downtime)

they are deliberately hiding what's going on with them

they aren't actively hiding what's going on but neither have they reached out to anyone else

other characters have talked to them but it's not the character you want to talk to them so you're pretending no one did

other characters have attempted to talk to them and they have rebuffed them

they're actually doing pretty well but you've projected both your own problems and your desire for other people to psychically intuit them onto them and are really not even talking about canon anymore

they've previously pushed people away or simply haven't built up the connections for this to feel like a natural conversation

sometimes people work through issues at a rate that is different than what you would deem appropriate

sometimes people work through issues on their own by choice

you perceive their situation as a problem but they and/or those around them do not

[what-bot]

Redrew a gorgeous Uprising scene that came across my dash in a gorgeous colour palette that came across my dash

Sane

[two-entire-bits]

Baritone Darry you are always in my thoughts

[aro-aizawa]

i love when you're just vibing w a new game and you have loose ideas of the characters and suddenly you're hit w a "oh man i have a new favourite don't i" bc uhhhh yeah

[littleapocalypsekitten]

*Rolls eyes.* Just holy freakin' poo! I just came across on my Facebook-roll an advertisement, using an image from the Fallout TV series - the characters standing together - advertising a service to filter out from Netflix shows all of the "profanity, nudity and objectionable content" for people who do not want it / to make things family friendly... Well, putting aside that Fallout isn't on Netflix, it's an Amazon show... I looked in on the comments to see if it was a joke and I saw people saying "I'm a Pastor and this is a godsend!" and "what a great service!" - Probably bots. But anyway... WHY Fallout used as an example for censorship? WHY. JUST WHY??? It's like, excuse me. That show starts off with a nuclear explosion and an entire children's birthday party getting thrown through plate-glass windows and then cuts to a young woman living in a Vault putting in her qualifications to be a breeder and talking to a friend about not wanting to do "cousin stuff" anymore!!! And there's a (clothed) but very rauncy sex-scene right on (you do see man-butt, but he didn't wait for his bride to get out of her dress). And shortly afterward, the bloody violence starts... And there's people losing limbs and heads and a man having every player's reaction to their first meeting with a Yao Guai (mutant bear for those non-Fallout heads reading this): "FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!!!" "Family friendly Fallout" is NOT Fallout! They're games / a series designed for us to lore-dive into an objectively horrible world, to explore the limits of ethical-questions in such a world and for those of us who are sick of Humanity in the real world to harmlessly let off stress by blowing fictional NPCs apart with rocket launchers, k? And if there's anyone out there who's like "But my kid plays the games and wants to see the show!!!" Um... do you pay attention to what your kids play? Mature rated games are rated mature for a reason! Children and the easily-offended are NOT the audience for Fallout! This ad had to not be for real. Probably links to a damn virus or something. False advertising at the least. I mean. Nope. Just no.

[skitskatdacat63]

Its so crazy when you play a game in dub(or watch smth ig) and you listen to the other ones(in this case, the intended language) and its like HUHHHH!?!?! My boy does NOT sound like that !!!

[hellishfig]

i love the unsleeping city chapter 2 but i have a really stupid pet peeve about it

it's such a small thing, but when brennan talks about willy being frozen and says that there's one letter in the middle and one to the right, i get a little miffed

because the word that is supposed to be there is emet (אמת) meaning truth, and when willy is frozen it becomes met (מת) meaning death

and as you can see, that would be one letter in the middle and one to the LEFT, because hebrew is written right to left and not left to right

i know brennan does a lot of research and talks to a lot of consultants to try and be as accurate as possible, but i spent a lot of time when i was younger writing the beginning of a story about a girl awakening a golem and have a lot of knowledge on that subject, plus i'm jewish and know the word and how hebrew works

it's a really tiny dumb tidbit but it gets to me

[spineless-lobster]

Linear warfare except when they run at each other they meet in the middle and start passionately kissing each other on the mouth with tongue

[variousqueerthings]

wait, @afrogeekgoddess I need it on a post:

afrogeekgoddess: I want to know where Ruby got her stockings from, ‘cause I saw zero rips in them after she tore all around that splintery wooden ship!

variousqueerthings: actually... maybe pedantic of me but I hope she doesn't stay so Perfectly put together throughout the whole show, just off the back of what you're saying. it was something that really bothered me post-rtd first era (increasingly), it knocks out my suspension of disbelief. let those stockings get a bit fucked, she's climbing around in splinter central!

[porcupine-girl]

Ughhhhh ok here is one (of several) problems with epithets. And not just “the blonde” but also when a character canonically has several names/titles and you just cycle through them at random solely (as far as I can tell) for the purpose of not repeating their name.

When I am reading a fight scene, it is already hard to keep track of who is doing what, where. When you change what you call a character every time you mention them, it makes it so much more confusing. Yes, I know that Lan Wangji and “the Lan heir” and “the Second Jade” are all the same person, but there is no reason for Jin Zixuan (the POV character) to think of him in a different way each time he sees him doing something during this fight, so there is no reason to make my brain do that extra bit of work while it’s trying to keep track of what’s going on. Like, calling him the Second Jade in a moment where the POV character is noticing his stony expression makes sense. Randomly switching between that and other names does not.

Even worse is referring to him as “the Lan disciple” when there are multiple Lan disciples in the scene! I don’t even actually know how many there are but Lan Xichen is definitely there and it’s implied that they brought several people with them. I definitely assumed at first that a different Lan disciple did the thing and then had to go back and rethink that.

I promise you that nobody will notice you calling him Lan Wangji every time. Not like I noticed this because it actively interfered with my ability to read the scene.

[macdenlover]

i don’t have a ton of unpopular sunny opinions but my biggest one would be not liking episodes where there’s a bunch of different side characters interacting with each other in wildly unrealistic scenarios and they’re the ones being absurd and “heightened” in the episode and the gang is just kind of. there. like there’s a million people in philadelphia how in the hell does liam mcpoyle just coincidentally end up engaged to maureen ponderosa. why is the lawyer having a meltdown in the courtroom where jack kelly is wearing fake hands and maureen is a cat. like i loveee these characters on their own because it’s great seeing the gang getting to play the “straight man” role for a change but when theres too many unrelated side characters together and it feels like everybody they’re surrounded by is just as insane if not more insane than the gang it takes me out of it. idk. i think it worked in a few like the thanksgiving ep because there was a reason for all of them to end up in the same place together but i hateddd the mcpoyle vs ponderosa trial episode it crossed too far into cartoon land for me. not trying to start any serious discourse this pretty much just comes down to personal taste!

[idcallmyselfhuman]

genshin: *has a quest that relies solely on a speaker and narration*

also genshin: let's not voice any of this!

[helladventurers]

(long negative rant, be aware)

I think i'm starting to pinpoint one of the biggest reasons I can't really connect with the plot of botw and totk anymore 😫 and it's because I'm really tired of the "peaceful world whose entire source of conflict can all be pinned into a single, cartooningly evil individual/organization" trope

I'm rewatching some fire emblem playthroughs, another series who relies on that plot narrative too much, and it's exhausting to me 🫠 I thought that totk was a step down from botw plot wise, but it's really Nintendo's incapability and refusal to evolve and to make stories more complex than bog standard "evil always falls and light destroys darkness" kinda stories

[came-out-of-the-coffin-desisted]

writing dragon age fanfiction is so so so so hard for me because every time i spot another historical inaccuracy that’s like “i don’t care that it’s fantasy they have the same level of technology this is WRONG” i have to have a moment of like. “kaed NO ONE ELSE will EVER care about this. you watch ‘ranking period dramas on corset accuracy both in construction and writing’ videos on youtube for entertainment normal people simply do not give a FUCK about medieval castle layouts!”

and yet this cycle continues, because the dragon age devs so so so so clearly DID research but they did BAD research and it HAUNTS me. like WHYYYYY is there only one courtyard that isn’t even really a courtyard in castle cousland WHY is the “main hall” huge with no furniture while the great hall “dining room” is tiny as fuck and in a horrible to access spot WHY are there no ovens in the kitchens where the FUCK do they bake the breaaaad!! like ok fine cool servants get beds in thedas i’ll bite. that fucks hard, actually! but WHY are there more servant rooms than rooms for visiting nobles do you honestly think anybody in the middle ages fucking had servant rooms???? they slept on the FLOOR in the GREAT HALL! and WHY is there a fucking library and a ‘treasury’ (which what the fuck is THAT there should be a DON-JON in there you locked your valuables in the TOWER at the TOP, not in ONE room centrally located on the first floor with TWO guards!!) like i KNOW it was for level design i KNOW it was but oh my fucking g-d it’s gonna KILL ME to write out creeping through corridors when there WERE NO CORRIDORS! like look at this. look at this.

castle cousland: stupid, awful design, honestly they kinda asked to be coup’ed with their garbage unsurvivable castle that supposedly nobody sieges regularly even though it’s literally a death trap. there is ONE main exit, no way to trap your enemies, and only one official guard post that i can see. fuck awful.

harlech castle in wales: it took 115 years for someone to successfully take this castle, and it’s withstood COUNTLESS sieges, you can go visit it right the hell now if you go to wales (not at all getting into the evilness of the english building castles in wales, that’s not the point i’m trying to make.) see how the outside makes it so that even if your enemies breach the walls, to actually reach anyone important they have to survive the volleys of arrows from the ramparts? and then presumably kill everyone ON the ramparts, or the minute you go to open a door or try to drag someone out, you’re going to get shot full of arrows. that’s after breaching TWO heavy doors (which would require a battering ram both times) which would wake up the entire castle LONG before they got anywhere NEAR the heir to the castle’s wife and child.

and before somebody says “oh well kaed maybe you just don’t know your castle building periods very well” think again. i know my castle building periods. that style above is concentric (harlech castle’s initial construction was finished in 1289 and was one of the first finished castles in england in this style,) which came after the keep and bailey style, which came after the motte-and-bailey style, which came after the burh (which arguably WASN’T a castle but whatever,) etc. there are no fortified castles in english history that look like castle cousland, because it’s fucking indefensible. now, this does lead to the question of “oh, well, what is the timeline for the game, maybe there’s something you missed!” so let’s examine the time period of origins:

at the very, very latest, origins could be based off of the BEGINNING of the british “wars of the roses” (the civil wars between the various members of the house plantagenet) which began in the 1450s— this is personally what /i/ think origins is based off of, for a couple reasons. 1) trevelyan was a real person— g.m. trevelyan was a british historian who wrote about the wars of the roses, and in one instance there’s a quote of his the devs almost verbatim used for the design of the free marches: “the Wars of the Roses were to a large extent a quarrel between Welsh Marcher Lords, who were also great English nobles, closely related to the English throne…” they ixnayed the part about the marcher lords being ferelden nobles, i imagine because it was too complicated, but trevelyan? marcher lords? a close relationship with this country? (i.e. like somewhere that might take in their refugees after a catastrophe?) cmon. 2) because ferelden is fucking huge and the histories are kinda weird, because they aren’t 1 for 1, i’m gonna say that we have to use the norman conquest of england as our unification date. in other contexts i wouldn’t try to argue this, but in this one, i’m saying 1066 is the unification date of the anglo-saxon kingdoms into england. calenhad gives us a hard unification date for ferelden— the first landsmeet was in 5:42 exalted, ergo origins is 388 years later. the wars of the roses started in 1455, 389 years after the norman conquest ended. 3) the wars of the roses happened because of a succession crisis— admittedly, these two succession crises are very, very different, but there are definitely parallels between loghain and henry vi and alistair and edward iv. henry vi was crowned at a young age (loghain largely ruled for maric at various points in his life, starting when he was very young,) and was very ineffectual— he suffered from an unknown mental illness which made him extremely unstable and unable to rule for large periods of time. loghain, on the other hand, ruled when the /theirins/ weren’t stable, so you argue he had the opposite— meanwhile, his policies WEREN’T sustainable, whatever you might think of him. loghain is too shaped by his own experiences to be a truly good leader, and by the time his rule/anora’s rule is threatened by cailan, he’s sacrificed enough of his principles that he’s willing to commit atrocities (notably, margaret of anjou ruled during the worst parts of her husband’s mental instability, which again could apply to loghain OR anora, as they ruled fairly jointly after a certain point.) edward iv was the son of richard of york, who was eligible for the throne at a very young age (18 to alistair’s 19) because his father was dead. he was coaxed and led into battle by his cousin, the earl of warwick (also known as the kingmaker— sound like a protagonist you might know?) that’s about where the similarities end, but that’s largely because alistair is a grey warden— if he weren’t, he’d probably be able to have kids and end the question of succession. but he can’t, which, assuming the devs eventually remember, WILL lead to another civil war. hence why i say this is at the BEGINNING of the wars of the roses.

another option that could be argued but makes much less sense and i have no evidence for is that alistair has similarities to edward ii (second son who only became king because his brother died, married a more powerful woman to consolidate power, not very good at ruling, no offense to alistair,) but that still puts origins at like 1307-1327. in either case, they would have been using concentric castles— and given what time period castle cousland was originally built in, it would have been built as a motte-and-bailey, which would NOT have lasted four hundred years. so the castle had to have been rebuilt, and bryce cousland would have had to update that rebuilt castle, because no one lived in it during the orlesian occupation. so where the hell does this winding, weird multi-level design come from?

i GUESS— and this is SO charitable— they could have designed castle cousland based off of a country house design from the mid 1500s, but none of them look like that, either. they’re exclusively rectangular, for one thing, and one of the huge bragging rights of owning one was that they weren’t fortified— they came into fashion during a period of relative stability under the tudor rule, when it was considered guache and maybe even treasonous to build a fortified castle. ferelden is NOWHERE NEAR a period of stability, if anything at the end of origins they’re entering their greatest period of INstability, given what happens in inquisition, and that no matter who ends up on the throne, there’s no way for them to have children. so there’s NO way this castle is a country house, or inspired by one.

leaving us with the final conclusion that a) the game devs definitely did do research into the time period because i can fairly directly trace a line between the event i think inspired origins and the plot, but they didn’t do enough research to figure out what the everloving fuck the BUILDINGS looked like. so these castles make no fucking sense and can’t possibly be called historically accurate even with the fantasy defense, and b) i care WAAAY too much about this for somebody who isn’t even a medieval historian. my area of expertise is the paleolithic, i have no clue why this bugs me so bad i spent four fucking hours writing this post.

[politefroggo]

just tried to send a cool photo of a band that I like (Ghost) performing and my brick of a phone decided that this majestic peice of art did not need and pixels and my brother couldn’t even tell what is was.