#a lot of these people aren’t playing

[bagels-and-cream-cheese333]

Fanon Leo gives off a certain Vibe and I don’t like it.

[myapathyhaspeaked]

thinking about janus and remus’ friendships with virgil being doomed to fail because they were less “our personalities mesh well and we get along” relationships and more “we are stuck in this together and if i don’t have you i have nobody” thing, and also that things would have worked out better if their circle had been larger, like we don’t know exactly who orange is but as anxiety being only able to talk to someone who you can never tell is being completely honest or has an agenda and someone who likes to cause fear and discomfort for fun cannot be the best. like, yknow??????????

[shadowglens]

i do still think datv feels very … disconnected from the previous trilogy, and that parts of it don’t really Feel like dragon age to me. that being said, i’m still having a fun time

[the-meme-monarch]

i find it funny that kris independently of player interaction begins walking away while scc are bickering in that scene before their fight probably bc they found them Annoying and i find it interesting that kris Also independently of player interaction decides to bring scc to castle town post-snowgrave

[skyward-floored]

actually I really hate being considered a big blog. if I said I only have 10 followers would anyone believe me

[yourqueenb]

You are so right in your distaste for Blades book 2. No matter how great things get near the end, a majority of the book was horrible. They led us along like mouse to cheese. It’s inexcusable to play with their audience this way.

I only wish more people were less willing to excuse PB’s mediocrity. The signs were on the wall for me when DLS was flat out better than Blades 2, and it’s narratively quite simple. The story told was well paced, thought out, and above all kept us waiting for more each week. I cannot say the same for B2. That is sad.

I mean I do understand why people still enjoyed it and were willing to overlook the negative aspects or didn’t have much of a problem with them to begin with. Blades 1 was a fan favorite, we all missed these characters a lot, and many people (myself included at one point) didn’t believe we would actually get book 2 because of all the bait and switches PB had done in the past. But the first two things are why I personally couldn’t overlook the glaring issues.

I can’t remember who the OP was now, but I remember seeing a post from when book 2 only had a few chapters out where someone said something about it seeming like the writers learned all the wrong things about what made the book so good, and I couldn’t agree with that person more! Yeah, book 1 was good because it was different from anything we had ever gotten before. But I think the main reason it was so good was because of the characters as individuals and the relationships we got to form with those individuals to ultimately become a family. Yet they didn’t really acknowledge those individuals or relationships in ways that did them justice for the majority of book 2. And on top of that, MC’s own characterization was inconsistent at times because the writers picked and chose when they wanted us to be a competent leader and when they wanted us to be virtually clueless for plot convenience.

Book 1 was also relatively straightforward whereas it seemed like the writers wanted to turn the sequel into their own personal commentary on religion, which is an incredibly complex topic in itself. They had some social commentary in book 1, but it was done a lot better in my opinion because it didn’t take so much of a front seat. They managed to make it clear that that commentary was important and relevant to the writers, the characters, and the readers living in the real world while never robbing book 1 of that fun adventure game used for escapism feel. Meanwhile, book 2 almost felt like ‘Rising Tides but make it religion’ at times. And that’s on top of all of the other issues I’ve already mentioned in my previous posts.

I will say that I can see how there’s usually a lot of pressure to blow things out of the water for a sequel to something so beloved, and that most likely contributed to how things played out. So maybe I’m being a bit too harsh in my judgement of everything. But I still find it very disappointing to wait so long for something just for it to be so messy and miss the mark by a mile

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

I wish I could turn into a werecat and hiss and claw my way up the walls and bite people and bite people and bite people. In real life.

[flowering-darkness]

It’s occurring to me more and more that the way my friends and I have been messing about in FFXIV recently is the way Clio would also play the game/exist as an adventurer in Eorzea:

Leaping into random people’s party finders for the sake of it/to help them do what they’re trying to do (even if they really didn’t need to make a party finder for that sort of thing)

Tagging along with groups trying to get specific drops and sticking around despite already having the drop in question

Going into duties with far fewer people than you’re meant to have and seeing what happens. E8S with five people (not the normal 8)? Aglaia with six (when it normally needs 24)? Let’s see how terribly it goes!~ (we actually ended up clearing both!)

It’s a very refreshing way to play, and it’s really put into perspective how far we’ve all come as a group. Who needs specifically-scheduled statics when you have spontaneity and doing everything unsynced for laughs, huh? =P

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Silly Game Time: In honor of today, February 28th, being the last day of Black History Month, who are some of your favorite Black characters? And what do you like about them?

They can be from any media (movies, shows, books, comics, games, etc.) (OCs count, too). They can be explicitly of African descent, or they can be from a story where Earth and its continents and its history don't exist (like in many sci-fi and fantasy).

Myself, being a Star Wars fan, I quite like the two Jedi Cere Junda (a haunted survivor dedicated to rebuilding a source of light) and Mace Windu (a stern paladin of his order, fighting for civilization and democracy).

This is a tricky question- cause most people depict Jonathan Sims, head archivist of the Magnus institute, London as black but it’s never stated in canon.

Same with all the characters in high noon over Camelot. Tho I think at some point they were said to be poc??? But idk for suresies.

I’ve been really into podcasts and other non-visual media lately. So any of these characters could be black, it’s never stated.

Oh actually no- ANABELLE CANE! I might’ve spelled her name wrong.

Annabelle Cane, played by Chioma Nwalioba, is explicitly stated to be black in multiple statements (she is described as being a young black woman with bleach blonde hair and looking like, quote “a vintage clothing store exploded on her”) AND SHE IS FUCKING AMAZING-

I love the web so much. I love her voice so much. I love every episode she is in- she is one of my favorite avatars (right under Micheal and Jane Prentiss) I REALLY hope she shows up in Protocol cause she actually everything to me EVER

[kodirox]

so funny streaming ace attorney to my friends and having them realize that there’s a reason why the genre is called ‘visual novel’ and that’s because there will be 20-30 minutes of just dialogue with no gameplay and you have to sit there. reading. clicking. SUFFERING

[thirsty-4-ghouls]

“You haven’t done that one quest? In all your time playing?” <- a friend or internet stranger

“That quest makes me feel bad” <- person who’s character has probably committed atrocities in one way or another (me)

[ranger-danger]

Dnd people who hate rangers are so funny. Oh you love bards, but think rangers are useless in combat? That’s rich. Next you’ll tell me you love monks, but think rangers are too weak. What do you love sorcerers and think rangers suck?

[yourqueenb]

Saw someone say that Nia keeping secret was validated by Tyrils whole dilemma and shit behavior about it and yeah soooo true but also I think that. It shouldn't have been part of MCs plot. Like what if it wasn't MC who was told to keep her shadow secret but MAL.... like they have spent most of the year together they worked closely on the ophranage so plenty of time to build more trust between each other and Mal acting weird and closed off would be at least somewhat justified... as well as his sort of immunity to shadow attack like what if Nia had the ability to shield him bc he knew about her powers and didn't need explanation. Like I'm actually so pissed off that they created unnecessary drama for MC when the set up was already there that would have had deepened two LIs arcs and test their bonds with the group and MC.. but no its always annoying variation of liar reveal

I read this ask yesterday I think and have really been contemplating how I want to respond to it because I have so many thoughts and don’t want this to turn into a lengthy, disorganized mess 🤦🏽‍♀️ But anyway, from an objective standpoint this does make sense. And I do hate that MC was held responsible instead of Nia. (Although it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. I thought everyone would be angry with us, which would’ve put me off Mal specifically even more considering his behavior so far — more on that later though. But it was really just Tyril if you picked one option and Nia herself if you picked the other based on some screenshots I saw. Which bitch, how is MC betraying your confidence when you’re literally standing in front of everyone looking like lit charcoal on a damn grill??? The secret’s already out! But I digress…). However, I know that Nia being coddled is a part of her arc and is contributing to her current shadow state and overall growth regardless of how annoying it is.

Back to your main point though, on a personal level I don’t think I would want Mal to be the one hiding Nia’s secret because I feel that would create a lot of potential for romantic undertones and he’s already been showing less genuine concern for MCs who are romancing him than he should anyway imo. He keeps saying he thought we were dead/going to die, he’s happy we’re back, things were so hard without us, etc., yet his actions don’t actually align with that. He wants to protect everyone so much to the point he’s willing to “sacrifice himself”, but he barely reacts to MC continuously being placed in near death situations? Idk it just feel like we’re priority #974127 on his list.

And then there’s the whole “you slept through it” situation, which I know I keep bringing up but is so serious in my eyes! He gets to diminish and dismiss what MC went through — something we don’t get to do when he’s crying about how hard it was throughout that year and us being ripped from the group was what caused the hardship in the first place! Like imagine if we were like “You didn’t have it that hard, Mal. You got to move on, continue to rob the rich, and open an orphanage while I was strapped down getting my blood drained and no one came to save me” 😐 And the sad thing is that I know it will never be addressed because it was something they used as a throwaway line to punish people who didn’t have the Inspire skill. (Which why you would make a character say something that damn cruel to the MC who is his friend or love interest as a throwaway line is beyond me, but whatever). Either way, my point is that it’s already bad enough that MC still feels like an outsider in the group (to me at least). So Mal being so closed off because he and Nia were keeping secrets on top of everything I just mentioned would be even worse imo

[kavehayati]

I cannot fathom the level of self importance some people must have to behave this way

[sadgirlautumn]

One thing about me is that I LOVE video games but I’m so bad at them

[snippedstems]

Hey guys, I turned a new leaf (I was abused).