#ag expert

[tiiracotta]

Perfect counter, super effective

[postcardsfromheapside]

Is that the most annoying thing? Is it?

Tell you what comrade - write that story. Write it. Write that game out.

What are its themes and metaphors?

I'm just curious.

What's more interesting?

I wanna know.

[mrs-gauche]

I just listened to the new episode of Split the Veil and Ghil Dirthalen (member of the community council) clarified a few things that had us a bit confused about the Game Informer article!

As many of us suspected, the Lighthouse is NOT in the Fade, but rather in its own sort of "reality bubble" in the Crossroads.

Solas is apparently trapped in the place that was intended to be the new prison for the gods (as the old one was failing).

The part about Rook's blood being connected to the Fade will be much better explained in the game.

[cactusnymph]

putting bellara, merrill and velanna in a room to study their interactions and discussions about dalish history under a microscope

[felassan]

D'you know who General Rathura is supposed to be? He's an adversary in the crossroads, and my Rook remarked that he was part of the Dread Wolf's army, I think? No idea how he got that idea/came to know that information. Did they appear previously?

hello! ◕‿◕ after defeating this enemy my Rook said "The armor on those undead looked familiar... Well, whoever they served, they're fighting for the gods now." On defeating this enemy Rook can also say "Those undead looked elven. And ancient." If your Rook said that, maybe Rook's comment (and level of knowledge) at that point changes/increases as their progression through another quest does? (my Rook encountered this enemy quite early on).

I don't think Rathera or at least their name has appeared previously in the series. we know at least from Felassan that General was a rank that existed in the Dread Wolf's forces in the past, and we can say that whoever they were, they were an ancient elf. in the area behind Rathera are a couple of the frozen tree people like you can see in Arlathan Forest. and the Memento you can pick up from the area, the Unspoken, is connected to Dirthamen.

there is also this info/lines from the datamines:

"I've seen their armor on old frescoes. They fought for General Rathera. One of Solas's allies."

"The insignia. Those were General Rathera's soldiers." "And the gods have raised them to stop us." "Right! I remember now. An old ally of the Dread Wolf. And now the gods are raising them to slow us down."

Edit: @dreadfutures mentioned in the notes that Bellara gave them the dialogue about recognizing them as an old ally of the Dread Wolf. I reloaded a save just now to kill Rathera again only with Bellara in my party this time and my Rook said "The armor on those undead looked familiar." Bellara replied "The insignia. Those were General Rathera's soldiers" and then my Rook said the "Right! I remember now. An old ally of the Dread Wolf. And now the gods are raising them to slow us down." line.

[everwalldigan]

Batman gets hit with something that makes him lose all his memories up until Dick’s second year of being Robin.

Dick is the one who finds him first. Bruce immediately recognises him because of course he does, that’s his son, he would know him just from the cadence of his walk, even though he’s grown into his limbs and lost the awkward pitter-patter of a growing boy. He would know him just from his voice, even if it’s now the voice of a 28 year old man instead of a 10 year old boy.

He knows next to nothing about the great things Nightwing has achieved and yet he’s maybe just slightly choked up when he throws one long look at him and says “you’ve turned out better than anything I could have ever expected” and Dick is maybe also slightly choked up because Bruce has no idea the impact those words have on him.

He has no idea this is the most open version of himself that Dick has spoken to ever since they lost Jason. He has no idea that despite Dick knowing that Bruce is proud of him and what he’s achieved, it still hits him hard when he actually hears the words out of his mouth. Bruce has no idea how much it hurt to be confronted with the version of his Batman that he misses so much and resigned to never seeing again.

And when Bruce regains his memory and they go back to the status quo, neither of them daring to mention that moment, every time Bruce does something that infuriates him, every time his words seem harsh without regard, he’s going to remember those words and sometimes that still doesn’t change a thing but sometimes, sometimes it does.

[moeblob]

What's an otome?

You read a picture book to romance fictional characters, anon.

(for reference: on page 2 the second panel characters are from Steam Prison. Vita touch mechanic mention is Bad Apple Wars and the sexism call outs is in Sweet Fuse.)

I struggle personally with the self-insert intended otome because I look at characters and go "that's my son now" and I can't romance my son! That's why I prefer games with a designated design and some bare-bones personality protags. THEY can romance my son.

[vintage-old-hollywood]

Betty Brosmer

[hejee]

a fool in love (somebody help them)

[riyo-soka]

Omega coming up with that absolutely terrible story for why they care about M-counts and then blowing her own cover less than a minute later… she’s everything and more to me actually

[cedyat]

C-c-ca-can y-y-y-yo-you p-p-p-pl-ple-please d-d-dra-draw f-f-f-fran-fr-franz ii?

🥹 👉👈

[catebees]

If Thedas had daytime talk shows they would title the segment about the fereldan succession crisis "Theirin Lies The Problem" send post

[honeyspotpie]

A little random but yk the “ever kissed another man before?” “Well, sure” [he then failed to elaborate] thing. That but with s1 Grant and Darrel (in reference to Darrel kissing Henry in like. E1 or 2)

Grant being a bit afraid to come out to his big ol Catholic dad and then said Catholic dad offhandedly mentions kissing a man and being chill about it LMAO

HI HAL!! I doodled this back when you sent this but just now colored it on hahA... Sorry of it's a bit messy! I also suck at drawing Darryl tbh... Anyways these two are so silly I miss them

I'll get to the other asks hopefully soon dw! Just been preoccupied with other stuff :')

[dsabian]

Australia is planning on banning under 16s from using social media.

So so many reasons this is a stupid idea but the main one is actually, counter-intuitively, ppl's online safety.

Grown ups know how to cross the road safely because they are taught as children. They get to practice with parental supervision when they're kids.

You keep kids off social media then give them unlimited access at 16 and they'll have no frame of reference, no supervision, no working knowledge of how to fact check etc. If you actually want ppl to be safe online, make it part of education.

When discussing Animal Farm in English, talk about how to analyse ideas that sound good but actually result in inequality in practice and then pull up some questionable tweets.

When teaching kids how to research for their next essay, give them a fb rant and show them how to verify the info.

And then whoever is teaching them about personal responsibility should introduce them to tag blocking on tumblr. Show them how to curate their own experience.

Chat gtp should be its own module titled "ai can and will lie to you please for the love of god learn to think for yourself"

[surreallyy]

Merrill is a veil jumper