#damn im so bad at speaking

[argeiarenga]

I love how Eteocles & Creon's relationship and Polynices & Adrastus's relationship are similar

it feels like a mad dog & its middle-aged owner

And like Eteocles and Polynices are opposite of each other...? Creon and Adrastus could be opposite of each other as well

idk like uncool winner and cool loser??

And they also have some crazy prophet who hates the dog so much

[coolnonsenseworld]

Samurai and Ninja in crappy pics because December here is under a constant cloud and I just want y'all to see them all golden and cute without learning how to take aesthetic pictures 🥴 💙❤️😆🥰

linktr.ee/Mezzy

[mythtiide]

*madwoman voice* guys what if an adlr unit and a fklr unit cuddled sweetly 🍎

[citrusai]

weekes saying all that mythal shit is up to interpretation is so weird to me because instead of worrying about leaving all of solas' past up to vague interpretation to (new) players because you're too chickenshit to stand by your established lore you could've focused on ghilan'nain and elgar'nan and who they were and what they became. elgar'nan literally let the other evanuris slay his wife and he watched on, and then he rotted in a prison made by what he referred to as his wife's "lapdog" and second in command general. and what of ghilan'nain? what is their relationship? why is it just the two of them in that prison when there were more evanuris trapped in there? why are they simultaneously this omnipotent threat capable of spawning blight at will but also two dimensional villains chasing their own tails half the game while solas just poses and speaks in his riddles in the fade. also a fragment of mythal is inside of morrigan, does no part of her gaf that her husband is literally terrorizing the world she loves? hello??

[generalsmemories]

every time i see someone shit on the xianzhou story quest on twitter i die a little bit inside.

[a-grayscale-galaxy]

It’s 2am in my grandmas closet but I just finished my first sweater ever and I want to cry

[romanceddawn]

trapshipping that starts with fragile and bound, but when they reveal their relationships to their friends all of them are confused and saying, "huh i thought yugi and atem would be together?" and "nah, i thought yugi and bakura" and "guys i fully thought bakhure and atem were already fucking"

all of this has the four of them really re-evaluating their relationships and having to have a group discussion about it because it's affecting their love lives, so there's just a big weird kind-of argument where no one wants to openly admit that yeah they all had crushes on each other. the first one to break is bakhure who's beyond annoyed and just goes "this would be a lot fucking easier if we could just all be lovers" and the rest of them are like 'wait a minute..."

[woodsborostabathon]

will never understand how anyone could seriously hate vince. like if u do not find him fine as hell even tho he is. how can u not at least find it a lil bit Funny that this man fumbled his bitch so bad that he was resorting to pulling up outside her school in the middle of the afternoon in his purple 1971 dodge charger. parking within her line of sight. then just leaning on the whip and serving face for a few mins before dipping. nary a word spoken just there for the love of the game and to remind liv that he exists n still wants her sooooo bad 😭

[wizardsix]

so I'm wondering what the general consensus is on the companion relationships bc from what ive seen so far they're so lackluster compared to the previous games.

(putting the rest under the cut bc this got unintentionally long...)

and you know what? yeah, I will compare it to bg3, bc I vividly remember so many developers, including bioware ones, being against bg3 being the standard. maybe they meant graphically or scale wise, but it's obvious that we meant the diversity of choices and quality/depth of the companions. larian made it a point that they wanted the relationships to be complex, it wasn't about pressing all the right dialogue for approval, and that sometime you have to challenge your friend's beliefs, sometimes you have to argue w loved ones. and when it came to romance, it was especially stressed that sex wasn't the end goal like so many other games have treated romance.

so yeah, the veilguard companions are disappointing, because it is a massive step backwards from their previous complex companions. you can't be friends, you can't be rivals, and you certainly can't have any kind of deep or complex romance. you don't even have a say in recruiting these people. there's no options for any kind of player, because bioware clearly only had a very specific player in mind. no matter what you do, it forces the illusion of friendship with characters you might not even like, it forces you to be nice and supportive no matter what, stripping the player of the agency and roleplay we were promised.

and there's the part I'm the most sore about. if bioware wanted a more linear game with a more fixed protagonist, fine, but 1) da2 exists and there was still more choice there, and 2) don't fucking lie about it. bioware lied up and down about this game for ten years straight and everyone just accepted it right up to release day. we shouldn't have to accept the bare minimum, especially from a $90cad game. that's money most people don't have to spare anymore, the least you could do is be honest about what people are paying for, especially when those who will buy it are faithful dragon age fans who thought this game was going to be faithful back and finally give them answers about the world they cared so much about.

(and don't get me wrong, larian isn't perfect either and I've made a lot of posts criticising them too, but bg3s success shows that people Do appreciate depth of choice and complex companions (see astarion's success))

to me, it feels like they only included romance bc the previous games had it and they knew people wanted it, but they didn't really care for it or just ultimately had no idea Why these romances worked. I don't get any feeling of care or effort went into these relationships (minus emmrich, but especially with lucanis') and it continues to puzzle me as to why writers even bother writing stuff they don't like or care for. and I don't want to assume it's just for money, bc I want to hope people actually do care about the work they do, so im not saying that, but it definitely doesn't feel good. I've said this before and I'll say it again, I would rather have a few characters with depth in friendship/rivalry with no romance, rather than ones that clearly have depth but is never explored. it's so frustrating to see wasted potential and it's even more frustrating to have my time and money wasted.

[ace-with--a-mace]

i hate ai so bad not just because it's morally evil or that its going to take over the human race, but i truly think people are so stupid for using and engaging with generative ai. i have classmates who cant write emails without having chatgpt write and proofread it for them. i know people who only use gauth ai to do their math work and then wonder why they dont understand the material and are failing the class. i have friends who will bash ai generated slop to hell and then in the same breath claim that ai songs and ai generated deepfakes of vines are the funniest thing on the internet.

i hate how every app, every website, every store and every ad pushes ai in my face. i hate how its the main selling point of products, every company racing to add their shitty ai generated virtual assistants onto every device that i own. i hate the excessive imposure of ai in every crevice of my life. i hate how i have to look at every miniscule detail of artwork on pinterest to see if the pin was made with purpose and soul or if it was a prompt churned out by a machine. i hate how people are publishing ai generated books, making ai generated songs, writing ai generated movies, and talking to ai generated people. i hate how this parasite can weasel its way into every aspect of content creation and that there is no way to escape it.

i hate character ai, meta ai, snapchat ai, whatever the name of elon musk's ai assistant is called, spotify ai, google ai, and any other ai agent meant to replicate real people.

i believe that the growing reliance on generative content is going to create generations of incompetent people who are unable to discern real from fake, who wont be able to think critically, engage with media intellectually, or learn to learn from their mistakes. i fear that this is going to leave people more susceptable to scams, political propaganda and misinformation, while also influencing them to be dismissive of real talent and real heart and real effort and real connections and everything that makes humanity good.

i pray that people will wake up soon and see how amazing it is to think for themselves and create for themselves and learn by themselves and realize that shedding their dependency of ai will make them better in the long run

[yakny]

Knight Bobo, wearing some of the patterns I drew :D!

[good-beans]

Who was gonna tell me that Yonah FUCKS !!!!!!!!!

I finally sat down to watch it and sudddenly realized why it made people so upset with Kotoko -- it's "get the audience's ass" pt 2 (part one being Baptism of Fire)

What an Incredible, Precise, Scathing commentary on the public's view of punishment. On how we treat "justice" in the news when it's two parties we don't know. On how hypocritical we want justice but don't want our actions to have any consequences -- we want it to be done but we don't want it to be our fault. She makes a HUGE point about people ignoring mental stress and only feeling bad when people are physically suffering. Before getting attached, people did want the prisoners to get hurt and feel remorse. In real life people are constantly wishing pain onto wrongdoers so they change their ways.

She's making excellent points, as well as the voice drama overall emphasizing the fact that it's the right thing to do to get attached. She's 100% correct, but by framing her as a villain, Yamanaka encourages the audience that we should care about people. We should find out about everyone's lives and get attached before making judgements about them. This project remains about human understanding and love and I am amazed.

And from a character perspective, I just loved her view of the situation! I was worried from the bits of the vd people were posting that she was just going to be painted as a flat, villainous character, but she's so so deep. I love a character who will get their hands dirty to make a better world for the innocent characters they care about. And her speech when hugging Es really revealed how much that burden weighs on her. She isn't violent for fun. She doesn't enjoy it. But her heart is so broken by a world of injustice, she will take on this painful responsibility since she has the power to and others don't.

[elibeeline]

oh so it could still be bipolar and i just keep. forgetting i could have that and that my 'okay' months dont mean i was just being silly

[handsomegentlebutch]

Woke up in the mood to get a femme pregnant accidentally on purpose. As revenge the femme can do the same thing to me.

[bugwolfsstuff]

So who was going to tell me Branch from trolls got arrested or was tiktok just meant to tell me that through memes

I guess he couldnt stop the feeling

[penciltopbear]

I have turned the jli into marketable plushies