#just wishful thinking

[apples-stables]

Random Things I'd Love to be Added to SSO

(me and @aryamistwood were hanging and spit ballin ideas and I just want some of them so bad lol)

Give the Bobcats a lil clubhouse AND imagine!! You can't access it til you're at a certain rep with them! I love giving reputation more weight to it.

The ability to change the visual of our stable. Doesn't change layout at all but imagine being able to even just put a few decor items out, hang *your* tack in the tack room, assign a pet to be the 'stable pet', change the wood tone (I hope some of this comes with the stable update)

A pasture to actually HANG in! Invite your friends or riding club and your horses actually walk around, maybe even interact!

Just like, a couple more NPCs who are just silly guys. Not everyone needs to be apart of the main quest and like random side quests with like, Raptor for example, make the world feel full!

DAILY TASKS AT THE RESCUE RANCH!! Please!! Make it like the home stable chores! We could check on the herd, tend to an injured horse, pick herbs, clean the stables. It's SUCH a unique home stable that's woefully under utilized.

This one ain't unreasonable - DUNDULL FERRY WHEN??

What would y'all want added to the game?

[eponastory]

Am I the only one who was hoping Zuko would try to save Katara from the building collapsing on them?

Well, I can dream.

[mumms-the-word]

Yet another Veilguard update with the usual good, the bad, the ugly, and the me freaking out about minor references and callbacks haha

This one is very long sorry

So since the last update I have done as much side content as possible before heading to the Hossberg Wetlands and later Weisshaupt (which I just completed last night) which included, briefly, unlocking all of the solas regrets murals

And uh WOW was that whole deep dive a doozy. I definitely should have spaced out the murals over time rather than movie-marathoned them back to back. But the things I learned about Solas…it’s insanity

In a good way

In a really horrifying way

I loved that our theories about Solas being a spirit of Wisdom first were confirmed, and I lost my mind over the fact that the first elves were spirits who gained physical bodies by taking Titan blood (aka lyrium). And the fact that Solas CREATED THE BLIGHT by essentially making the Titans Tranquil?? And that’s why Dwarves don’t dream????

Losing my mind. Solas what have you DONE.

I still ahev to process it all haha but I do have a few thoughts

So far, I wish there was more engagement with these elements and the Chant of Light. The companions react and say that these reveals basically dismantle Andrastianism but the Chant has several allegorical parallels to what, apparently, really happened. The Maker’s first children were spirits, and all that…so I kind of wish the Chantry had a bigger presence in the game with more reactivity

But that’s a post for another day. For now, I reloaded back to only 3 murals unlocked so the team only knows the story up to Solas creating the Veil. I’ll rewatch the others later.

I got worried about being locked out of stuff so I went ahead and did as much side content as I could with a couple of exceptions. Turns out, I probably didn’t need to do that and it would have made more sense narratively if I hadn’t. More on that in a minute

The Siege of Weisshaupt mission was SO GOOD!! Like…the main missions are really where this game shines, I think. I have gripes with some of the companion conversations, but in the actual story missions, the action, the intensity, all of it is so good. And I thought Ghilan’nain turning her archdemon into a many-headed hydra creature was *chefs kiss* so cool. I love fighting big/unique stuff like that!

All that said the follow up scene with the team at the table leaves…a lot to be desired

Listen, DA games pride themselves on bringing together a team of companions that players adore and fall in love with. Naturally we enjoy helping out our companions because we like them. We don’t have to be told to help them because we just generally do that…and if we don’t then, rip, suffer the consequences

So I got a bit annoyed when the scene suddenly turned to a very overt “fix our problems” narrative

I don’t know, that feels so…forced to me. Varric literally tells me I have to solve everyone’s problems. Which is like…I was going to! Because they’re my friends! But being straight up told like “hey you have to solve everyone’s problems and stop their distractions or this team isn’t going to function” is like…I’m sorry are we adults or aren’t we? Why am I being told to babysit the team? Can you guys not pursue these distractions on your own rather than wait for me to give you permission? Did we all forget that two gods are out there rampaging? That they’re strong enough to destroy a fortress that stood against the blight and various conflicts for over 900 years? That they haven’t stopped and show no signs of stopping anytime soon?

But no, by all means, tell me in very obvious terms that my job is now to reconcile all your differences before I face the gods again. That doesn’t feel very handed at all.

Let me be clear. I love to help my companion. I love the idea that you build a team that works well because you have shaped them via your leadership skills. I love the idea that your team works well because you have invested in them. That’s really the heart of any DA game—gather your team, earn their loyalty, and see how well the friends you’ve made along the way assist you in the big battles to come.

But…that scene around the kitchen table could have been so much better, so much more nuanced, and far less “Solve their problems.”

To me, that scene should have been everyone fighting, calling out everyone’s distractions and mistakes, and essentially devolving into outright arguments over the table until Rook yells at everyone to shut up. Everyone is mad, everyone is upset. And then maybe the companions are like “sorry Rook, listen, I have a lot on my mind. I’m still going to help with the Big Problem but I’m also going to pursue this Other Thing whether you like it or not.” No suggestion that it’s now your problem to solve, but a heavy hint that it might get done more quickly if you help (which also gives you room to be an ass and not help). In this scenario, everyone ends up being very disgruntled with you, but you still have your hint that you need to pursue companion questlines if you want to see their cool abilities or special items or get them to be a Hero of the Veilguard or whatever…but that’s just my opinion

Basically I wanted subtly and tension. So much more tension.

What we got instead was a couple of annoyed comments and then Emmrich being like “oh dear we’re all distracted by the things that bother us” and everyone offering up distractions that, yes, need to be resolved…but it’s very easy to be like “hey bud the Hand of Glory and the Nadas Dirthalen can wait until the gods aren’t threatening to destroy the world I think.”

It’s not the worst scene in the world, but it could have been reframed better. Either frame it as “Sorry Rook but none of these factions trust you enough to aid you in the fight, you have to prove yourself to them” (and loop in the companion questlines that way) or show your team literally unraveling because they can’t get along or agree with you—now you see the evidence of what you need to fix, and nobody has to outright tell you to “solve everyone’s distractions.” It’s just implied. Because you saw them fighting. A lot.

Like duh I knew I’d have to resolve everyone’s problems if I want them to like me or stick around! That’s just what I’ve come to expect from RPG games like this. It’s an expectation of the genre. But I don’t want to be told that’s my job now. If anything it triggers my contrarian nature and now I want to see what bad ending I get when I don’t listen to the game’s extremely heavy push for me to deal with everyone’s issues

I won’t, but I’m tempted

I just…wanted it to be better. I want see everyone bitching at each other until everyone leaves in a huff and Rook just sits at the table, head in their hands like “oh my god everyone hates me and they hate each other and we’re going to die if everyone can’t get their shit together”

Then maybe Varric sits down next to them and goes, “Hey kid, did I ever tell you about the time Hawke tried to convince a Rivaini pirate, a weird abomination, a Dalish blood mage, a stiff-necked captain of the guard, a broody elf who glowed in the dark, and a few other friends besides to all agree to fight as a team to stop a qunari invasion in Kirkwall? It worked, more or less. By the end of the night, everyone had worked together enough to end up with one dead Arishok and an entire city’s gratitude.”

Maybe Rook looks up and says, “And how’d they manage that little miracle? Without everyone trying to kill each other in the process.”

And maybe Varric smiles and shrugs. “They had their differences, trust me. Half the time you couldn’t put two of them in a room together without a fight breaking out. But they all believed in one thing. They believed in Hawke.”

Then maybe there’s a pause, as he lets Rook consider that for a moment, before he stands up and says, “It’s a good bedtime story, in any case. I’ll let you sleep on it.”

Sigh. It just would have been cool…

Now in all fairness the scene felt even clunkier because I had actively been doing side quests and helping out my friends so it was like…it felt weird to have this implication that I’m not already helping them. It makes me think I shouldn’t do any of their side quests until after the Siege of Weisshaupt but who knows

I keep pendulum swinging back and forth between moments of brilliance and moments that leave me baffled and wondering who made some of these narrative/writing calls. I don’t hate the game by any stretch of the imagination. Like I said the Siege of Weisshaupt was amazing! And I loved the callbacks to precious games! You should have seen me live reacting and screaming about codexes in the Weisshaupt library haha But it’s like whiplash when something that good is followed up by a scene that feels excessively more hamfisted in comparison.

Anyway I am very busy this weekend and dunno when I’ll get to write another update soooo if you’re following for more, hope to give you more updates in the near-ish future!

[bigboobyhalo]

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[putschki1969]

Hi to you 💕 black butler just dropped a teaser for the new season. I was so happy but then I remembered there will be no more Kalafina. I'm hoping that at least one of the girls will become involved in the production 😭😭

Hi there!

I'm so sorry, this reply wasn't meant to take so long.

Yeah, I read about the return of Black Butler. Just like you I was immediately reminded of Kalafina. While I have never watched the anime (and don't intend to do so in the future), I really adore Kalafina's songs for the show. "Kagayaku Sora no Shijima ni wa" in particular is super precious to me since it was the song that made me fall head over heels in love with Kalafina 💕 I'm forever in love with the aesthetics and sound of this🙌

The new season is slated to premiere in 2024 so who knows what happens till then. If anything, I'd love for all three of them to become involved in the project but at this point, I wouldn't get my hopes up. What a great comeback it would be though, to return with a new song for one of their earliest and arguably most badass anime tie-ins...

Just imagine the girls back in their goth era with corsets and all for an MV😍 I'm salivating just thinking about it XD I guess a girl can dream~

[talk3tiv3]

Yknow I realise there's a rise in Video Games turning into movies/series. So...

IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A LIVE ACTION CYBERPUNK 2077? AHHHHH

I maaayyyy have an idea for a fan castttt?

Female V- Ruby Rose

Kerry Eurodyne- (I don't know if Adam Lambert acts but) Adam Lambert or Taylor Lautner

Johnny Silverhand- KEANU REEVES (naturally) or if its tough on him maybe Adam Driver is fine too.

I would LOVE to see Cyberpunk 2077 come to live pls pls pls

ACTUALLY, if it was high def animation(like the game cinematics) would be much more awesome to see in theatres instead of live action. I would appreciate both.

[mossbear-minese]

Sitting outside, which means lots of bugs, which is fine! Outside is for bugs!!

I just wish they wouldn't be ON me please and thank you

[echo-nt]

Man, it would be cool if there was a fallen banner and it was just Robin's other potential children to go with the Morgans.

[simonshepherd]

The ideal path for Scarlet Witch forward in MCU is a quick and definitive arc.

Let’s just acknowledge the fact that Wanda as a character is kinda cursed, and I don’t say that lightly. In the comics she got nuked out of the orbit by House of M and suffered 7 years of straight up absence from comics and spend even more time doing half-assed redemption arcs to get back on her feet.

Ironically it’s probably the popularity boost from MCU that fished her out of the sewer(she barely got comic appearance when WandaVision is actually running, that’s how little Marvel cared about her.) And when her fans saw the new dawn and seemingly bright future, sike, she got nuked again by Multiverse of Madness.

The way I see it, there aren’t many paths that won’t further waste her time or condemn her character even further.(AKA being Kang/Doom’s living plot device for Secret War, at least that’s what the fandom wants for her, before that they want her as the brooding mare for MCU mutants, did I mention this character is cursed?)

 There is one storyline that could maybe both redeem her and develop her character further and maybe lead to a satisfying end though, that is a Darkhold Redeemer project based on the 90s Darhold: Pages from the Book of Sins comic series. She will be perfectly for Modred the Mystic’s role, a former victim of Darkhold who holds tremendous power, and wanting to help others who are affected by the remnants of Chthon’s power, the exact plot of course needs to be changed but Wanda helping Victoria Montesi avoiding her own prophecy and fate would be a very sympathetic premise, and of course it would naturally explore more Elder Gods lore and lead Wanda on the path of finding a way to defeat/contain Chthon, it could probably be finished in a show and a movie, then she can hopefully just peace out and never come back. A somewhat complete legacy not to be disturbed.

Also please just avoid the Billy/Tommy(and Children’s Crusade) in any actual capacity, I don’t hate those characters(and I am a YA fan), but I am going to amputate parts of her if it means I don’t have to be reminded how braindead she is during MoM yelling “muh kids” and that godawful icecream song. (Yes, that includes the none-existent Dadneto) But of course she will more likely be a spectacle generator down the line, have we learned nothing from being a fan of hers since 2005?

[hugsandnoregrets]

who do I have to bribe to get Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ made into the weirdest quartet cover of all time and put into a season of Bridgerton

[nicolacoughlanbigheartfanpage]

I just think that Gladiator 2 needs a woman…

Too many man is not good thing, give the BI people something look at!!!!

[janks-world]

Tell me, with all those speckles on your skin did anyone tell you that you are a constellation waiting to be loved and explored?

[tayloralison]

wait, i hadn't heard anything about them breaking up at all. when did those rumors start?

they didn't! no rumors about that

[potatoknitsmysteriouscoinkidink]

Not giving us the run time is significant right? So 69 is significant right? So people will be doing it right?

Unless they just forgot about us

[allthestories]

Listen the ending of Great Expectations is sad for Pip that’s the whole point and we know the ending of Thorns was originally much sadder.

All I’m saying is if in that original draft we got a true retelling with a Fairstairs ending?

A win is a win.

[chaos-deimos-et-eris]

i want to be a real life mayor build a city game player. i want to buy old apartments and houses fix them up and give priority to low and no income people and set up some bullshit system where rent is set to 10-15% of your legal income (if ur getting payed under the table thats none of my business). i want to restructure buildings to allow for first floor businesses. i want to prioritize small local businesses over big stores. i want to one by one to rip open concrete in between trees fill it with soil so the roots can spread before filling the concrete back on top. i want to fill the visible soil with native plants instead of grass. i want to make sure that there is at least one restaurant every thirty minutes on foot with dirt cheap prices. i want them to have community fridges where they put any leftover food anyone can take for free. i want to litter the streets with payphones and machines that convert cash into coins and coins into cash without taking chunks of it as payment. i want to community gardens that sell the extra seeds, produce, worms, compost and the nursery pots cheap back to the community to discount the renting prices the following year. i want community potteries glazeries forgeries and bakeries all passive aggressively vying for more space in a building with community ovens, kiln, forges and furnace but still coming together to sell u that knife would be prefect with that bread, and this bowl would go perfect with soup, that bread is soup bread and didnt u say your nephew was getting into calligraphy, dip pens are all the rage rn. i would declare friendship with one more bench constructed in someones honor. drug rehabilitation centers would dot the city blending in to the background of other surroundings buildings. that one theater would be restored and reopened, ready once more for musicians and dancers and plays. there would be a trampoline park. a roller stake ring. cheap childrens arcades. and when everything settled down i would restore one last building and make. a thrift store filled with fantasy clothing, themed clothing, historical clothing comfortable cosplay pieces and a mix of everything intween. rat bowls and adult pokemon decor and art quilts and patchwork jean jackets embroidered with the train lines. just cheap (because i made it and i dont want the money) well constructed clothing so that one day when i die in the city where i was born, i see people sitting on benches while bees and butterflies futter around while children scream laugh in the background. an old lady sighs and leans into the shade of a tree while listening to her husband excitedly explain for the eighth time about the good price he got on a knife and her eyes light up when its her turn to talk. i know this is impossible, even if i got all the money and knowledge needed tomorrow. ill accidentally gentrify the city. in my aim to make the city more disabled friendly, ill accidentally make it less. in my aim to save the bees ill smother the moths. Mcdonalds will send a hitman to reclaim the city in the name of capitalism. greed will win. everything will be perfect but ill forget to set a steady base and the city will go to hell when i die. i know money can not buy happiness. i know it cannot buy community. but what if it could? what if i could?

I have a question, if you could do anything you wanted with your life, and money, time, and other circumstances wouldn't be an issue, what would you like to do?