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[kultofathena]

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Some of our friends from Inviolate visited the KOA Warehouse yesterday!

[corseque]

my personal opinions right now, here they are:

best ending: Solas tears down the Veil, Lavellan and Solas stay together and kiss like barbies heeheehee

pretty good ending still: Solas or Lavellan dies but he suceeds in tearing down the Veil (this might actually be the best ending cause tragedy like this sticks in your mind and makes fictional couples immortal, so I really wouldn't mind seeing it)

ok ending but I probably won't play any more dragon age games if this is the best they can do after 10 years: Solas dies trying to tear down the Veil, fails to tear down the Veil

terrible, horrible, unacceptable wtf ending: Solas is ultimately convinced to abandon his duty and that everything about the Veil is hunky-dory and settles down with Lavellan :)

basically I need that Veil obliterated. My first priority. If they don't do it, my desire to continue playing DA5 flatlines. I'm lucky in that it seems to be prophecied by like 7 different characters in the setting, so hopefully that means something.

[yumezaii]

Impressive how many friends you get by paying for more comfortable chairs...

Lupine has a lot of money to spare so its an easy way to elevate her reputation (it was just cool before)

[orlaite]

So meshed in nerves and hesitation, it could not be a thing to be afraid of; yet it was a real beast, and this book its mangy skin, dried, stuffed and set up squarely for men to stare at.

T.E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom + David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia

[rinnysmuses]

Nothing made sense anymore...

Ugh.

[yurious-george]

It’s shrimple really. Either the sex and gender binaries are artificial constructs that need to be dismantled, and thus the afab transfem can exist (Albeit, understandably, with some scrutiny) or the aforementioned constructs are valid and deserve to be upheld. You don’t get both. This goes for transmasc and bi/pan lesbians as well

[woodchipp]

Another reason the "ghost Mari" idea bugs me so much (besides the problems I already have with it) is that it devalues Mari's death.

Like. The game makes a huge, huge deal out of the characters' grief over her and how hard it is for them to deal with the fact she's dead... only to turn around and say "nah, don't worry! she's still around! see, she even apologizes to her dear little brother for making him hit her him killing her <3"

It feels cheap. It feels like a cop-out. What's the point of making the kids' feelings of loss the focal point of your entire story if you're just going to imply the dead character they're angsting about isn't dead anyway? I'm not saying this trope sucks or can't be used well, ofc. I just don't think it works in a game like OMORI.

P.S. Before someone mentions Hinawa, I never said I didn't find her a bit lacking lol. I'm miffed that she's also a fridged woman who comes back as a ghost to help Lucas, but I'm more inclined to overlook that since IMO Lucas' grief is conveyed quite well even with her presence as a ghost (two words: Chapter Six) and she proves instrumental to defeating the Masked Man, so it's not like she's entirely useless. You could cut out Mari's final talk with Sunny in his childhood home and nothing of value would be lost. Oh, and there's another, very simple reason!

Lucas didn't kill his mother and profane her memory for the sake of covering his own ass.

[winterfurst]

"That Viera was blessed by the Wanderer, I am sure of it."

Choking on his drink before spitting it everywhere, Satoshi began to cough and beat on his chest. Oh God's. She didn't...

"Toshi?!"

"It's...It's fine. I just didn't think you'd say that."

Raising an eyebrow, Satsuki frowned. Then crossed her arms.

"What did the Warrior of Light drag you into?"

"Mother......."

[softlysilverfountainsfall]

There is an oft-repeated scene in the Silm when one of Our Heroes has died fighting a noble but hopeless battle that they chose, and someone, somehow buries them properly AND it is specifically mentioned in the text that the grave lay undisturbed until some far future date (usually the breaking of Beleriand).

This happens to Finrod, to Fingolfin (though his grave was only undisturbed until Gondolin fell), and Glorfindel. For other dead characters, this precise formula does not occur.

(Beren and Luthien die natural mortal deaths and no one knows where they are buried, Feanor spontaneously combusts and none of his sons' burials are ever mentioned, and Turgon dies & is presumably "buried" in the collapse of his tower. Hurin, Morwen, and Nienor aren't buried [edit: Morwen was buried]; Finduilas and Turin are buried but it is not specifically mentioned that their graves were undisturbed afterwards. Barahir is buried by Beren but it isn't specifically mentioned that his grave was inviolate. Aredhel's grave isn't mentioned, neither is Thingol's, Dior's, or Nimloth's. Aegnor, Angrod, Orodreth, and Gwindor die in battle against the enemy but in a battle that came to them (Bragollach and of Nargothrond respectively) and was one they had to fight, not a hopeless battle that they chose and their graves' aren't mentioned.)

You will notice that I have not mentioned Fingon, who was famously "beat[en] into the dust with their maces...they trod [his banner] into the mire of his blood," or any who died in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and were dumped in a pile by Morgoth's forces to create the Hill of the Slain/Haudh-en-Ndengin/Hill of Tears/Haudh-en-Nirnaeth.

The Nirnaeth is, of course, the ultimate noble but hopeless battle, and Fingon especially typifies that. (Relatedly, Azahgal's body is successfully borne away by his troops, presumably for a long-lasting burial place.) The Hill of the Slain is meant to be a symbol of Morgoth's power and a place of dreadful carnage and disrespect for those who fell and should break my argument--

But in one sentence Tolkien turns all that around:

"But grass came there and grew again long and green upon that hill, alone in all the desert Morgoth made; and no creature of Morgoth trod thereafter upon the earth beneath which the swords of the Eldar and the Edain crumbled into rust"

--and the symbol of Morgoth's total victory becomes a sacred, untouched grave of heroes.

[frevandrest]

not to be a d*ck, but is it true the king's trial was kind of illegal?

Yes - because the existing laws at the time gave the king more rights and protection than any other person. It was basically impossible to put him on trial for a crime legally.

If anyone else were accused of that crime (high treason), it would've been an easy trial with a clear sentence (not just during frev; we know how treason was addressed in Ancient Régime).

But Louis had special protections in the law. So that was a pickle. And that's why the Convention took so long to figure out what to do (if he could be tried legally at all). It was an example of "it can't really be done legally, but it's because the law is bad". Yet they (majority at least) didn't want to go "fuck the laws, it's unfair for him to have privileges over other people, especially for that type of crime". So they struggled to find a loophole that would make it non-illegal and in the process some important things were said about the nature of rulership, the divine right of kings, equality, democracy etc. But yeah, there was no way to do it legally because the law was bad. (Edit: And I think rulers generally still enjoy these protections around the world, so it wasn't unusual. Still bad.)

[windupaymeric]

"Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Othard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World..."

[satanic-faggotry]

Oh my fucking fuck I hate reddit so much. Very horrible posts under the cut

TW: Serious ableism, eugenics, abuse, denial of reproductive rights, forced sterilization

"Oh, we yelled at her all the time for being disabled and pressured get into an abortion and ignored her when she stood up for herself. I have no idea why they lost guardianship, lol"

And almost everyone in the comments is just. Fully on board with the forced sterilization.

"Primal sexual urges", like she's some wild rapebeast who can't be stopped without literal eugenics.

Or this genius: "I know it's wrong and an abuse of her rights and no same doctor will ever do it, BUT YOU NEED TO TRY HARDER"

"For lack of a better term, horny."

Because as we all know, everyone disabled is a perfect sexless child, they can't really want to have sex, they're too stupid to know what that even is, right?

Anyone who dates to object is downvoted to oblivion too.

[yumezaii]

Lupine hasn't had time to be visiting her children recently >n< over the weekend ill try to spend time with them. But it is annoying to go out into the moor.

[fauvester]

calhoun deployed robert hayne in 2 settings with 50% success rate by 1. being so charming it tripped up tom benton and 2. getting his ass beat by dan webster

[frecklef0x]

“Eternal. Infinite. Immortal.”

If you’re interested in the process video for Control Ending, it’s on my Patreon >.>