#for example.

[stromuprisahat]

They deserve each other. (derogatory)

[rivilu]

You know. Now that I've finished it I can say with some confidence that about 90% of the criticism this game faces that I have seen (not counting the anti-woke crybabies- those will die out in time. as they have with every installment of this series.) is sort of. Not missing the point, but missing the reasoning as to why some choices were made?

Heavy spoilers ahead for everything pretty much.

[And also I mean I'm going to speak as an inquisition hater here so in case this breeches my tiny bubble on this site you can stop reading if you enjoy any tiny aspect of that game at all. I am not kind.]

Yes. This game is not Origins or 2. This Thedas is very wishy washy about the core topics they tackled. Some things are straight up not mentioned at all when they REALLY SHOULD BE. Being an elf has you facing 0 negative interactions in TEVINTER for example. But. A lot of these choices were clearly made as a patchwork. Because of how much inquisition shat the bed. Yeah you can't easily bring back the chantry in a critical way when the last game spent 100+ hours bootlicking it against your will. There is a tiny nod to the mage- templar conflict being one sided and cruel in a side quest? But you can't elaborate and examine mages and how they're treated when the last game had a very clear bias and set them up as unreasonable/ pathetic/ willing to shell out to slavers etc. Similarly with elves how the fuck are you meant to move on from. Anything at all inq set up. Without wiping the board on a few to many places.

I'm looking at you, "the Dalish abandon mage kids above a specific count" NPC.

And the gods themselves. Solas himself. I still consider the most absolute dogshit, stupid, horrible, downright deplorable on a coding aspect writing decision in the series. One that I thought was impossible to create ANYTHING of value around before I got to this game. And. Let me tell you. For once the retconning is the glue that holds this thing together instead of being the thing tearing it apart. - Because it leads the game to feel like an au- in a decently good way. It's not recognizable as the Thedas we know - but it's close enough if you squint, and LEAGUES above the inquisition, which also felt like au fanfiction but in the "religious imperialist 100k essay on why minorities are suckers and the status quo rules actually" sense

Yes. We sort of elaborate on the nature of the blight here and the arch demons being?? Essentially lich phylacteries for these blighted gods. Which directly contradicts established information from awakening of the archdemons not being blighted by default. But I played through that and didn't blink because frankly none of this world feels anything like the one awakening takes place in. And the plot point works for the purpose it serves so really? It's fine. Or something like Bellara being able to do what Merrill spent 7 years attempting in a day or so. It works in a self contained way, but if you're trying to view this as a whole- it creates a dissonance.

An that's the thing. It's not a whole. Trying to view it as such is setting yourself up for failure. The devs said that this would be sort of a blank slate- a reset installment. But it isn't.. quite? Inq was. Inq was the one that decided to change the entire genre from dark to high fantasy, botched the transition, and watered everything down until it was an unrecognizable centrist pile of slop (at best). This is working with the horrible decisions made there- and trying to make something good out of them. It is a VALIANT effort. And I do think they mostly succeed. For what it is- it's good. I don't think it's fair to this game that's been in development hell for 10 years to blame it for not keeping things that its predecessor ruined just because they were handled better in origins or two or whatever. Trust me. Origins is still my favorite and always will be. But if you want origins, give bioware- which is currently half laid off- a break, and start barraging EA with interest for a faithful remaster/remake (i'll gladly join). Or do literally anything other than complaining about this not being that. It helps no one.

[wingsmadeforflying]

I love the idea with soulmarks and them appearing on your 16th birthday (or something similar). But also that someone can have multiple. Multiple platonic and romantic.

[kentopedia]

i find the most random connections between me & kento and i'm like wow invisible string we're so soulmates

[rustchild]

currently jonesing hard for gritty but not gratuitously depressing queer media set in the immigrant working class milieu of 1930s new york. like if james cagney had kissed that priest in angels with dirty faces. or if paul newmann kissed that twink in the sting. for example.

[jonny-b-meowborn]

I go to this support group thingy every tuesday, I love it, the therapist there and most of the people are super sweet, but last week I had. idk. and unpleasant one, I guess. I brought up my concerns about my skin picking disorder, and while I'm not diagnosed with anything I used the word dermatillomania, because I just know the name for that disorder and I'm pretty sure that's it. and the therapist mostly just dismissed it saying that everyone sometimes feels anxious and picks their skin or nails about it. I tried explaining that it's not just that, it happens all the time and on multiple occasions I gave myself an infection from picking skin, but her main giveaway was that I need to think about what makes me stressed and try to do something about it. and then she kinda went on this small, mostly lighthearted rant about youth these days self diagnosing with everything because they hear it on tik tok or whatever. and idk, the therapist is a genuinely lovely lady, so that was weird to hear her be so dismissive about this. I definitely am going to bring my skin picking with my psychologist or psychiatrist if I don't forget tho. it's getting real bad recently and I think I need some professional help with it lmao

[reigningmax]

Why do people in this fandom think someone’s holding a gun to their head making them read fic about things they don’t like lmao. Writers tag their work. Learn how filtering tags work. Now you won’t see shit not of interest to you. Easy. Grow up.

[catty-words]

talking deep cuts i am first and foremost a "jealousy, jealousy" and "ballad of a homeschooled girl" bitch

[sapphic-sasuke]

Hey guys you should check out this cool game called disco elysium it’s my current obsession :))) idk how to sell it just know that you should trust my taste bc i only give recs for media I think is 1000000000/10

[gingerteaonthetardis]

i want to just let loose a string of unintelligible txf gibberish so bad like i want to just say a bunch of bullshit. fox mulder has a pussy

[yvtro]

if you ever wonder why i post/reblog meta that contradicts each other, this is because i enjoy the variety <3 while there are some common threads in my readings, i’m not dogmatic in my interpretation. it’s what it is – interpretation, and i think many fans would benefit from similar attitude.

[mccleans]

be mindful of why you were invited to the cock mansion

[ethanhuntfemmefatale]

Claire Phelps is so “wife of an abusive father” core

[milfmisspiggy]

actually there might be a silver lining that bearified superman isn't getting officially published in 70 thousand issues a week at my local comic book store because. i do not have enough money for that. and also drooling in public in a lustful manner is "inappropriate"

[hollow-port]

Owl house is almost perfection! 

I just wish we got some more potion-making lore! I know I keep going back to this, but potion making is just my favorite form of magic in fantasy universes, and so many fantasy universes just Downplay it! Even Dungeons and Dragons, it takes a huge back seat in terms of the magic system! (I could rant on and fucking on about the alchemist artificer. The fact it’s so fucking lack luster makes me so fucking sad.)

Eda and Lilith were right there in terms of what I want in terms of brewing witches, but... They fall just short. However, I don’t really blame Dana, because she was fucking kneecapped but the corporate fucks at Disney. I just we got more than the little we got in the show. Maybe in another life. Who knows?