#like. im sorry guys but minrathous vs treviso will never be ostagar lmfao. you can whine and whinge and cry but that's just facts.

[v-arbellanaris]

genuinely i dont even hate veilguard - im literally in the middle of my third pt - but at this point i feel like the veilguard positive posters have literally just made shit up in their head and are now trying to convince everyone else that it happened in game. youre allowed to enjoy the game, i really dont care & i dont think anyone else cares if you like the game?? like if this is your fav da game, that's great. happy for you, glad that happened, etc etc, but pulling your "analysis" from things that simply did not happen in game or was not in any codex entries is a thing we call "headcanon" in fandom, because you literally made it up, inside your head. you can extrapolate people felt this way or that way or whatever else, but if there's no indication - behaviourally, through codex entries or additional dialogue - im sorry to break it to you but it's just not canonical. and i'm happy for you to have your headcanons - god knows we didn't get all that much meat in the game, and i can absolutely understand the happiness you have from being able to fill up what's missing yourself. but like... keep it away from my textual analysis and stop acting like your interpretation of how someone felt or what was going on that we didn't see or whatever else is strictly canonical. because it's not. we are not talking about the same things. im not "media illiterate" (lmfao white people always default to this argument, can you guys get fresh material) for not being able to read into something that is literally NOT THERE in text. you can argue that just because it's not there doesn't mean it didn't happen, but that's basically the same argument john epler made about not porting in our previous worldstate decisions and i wasnt impressed by him either. why did i spend my hard-earned fucking money on this game for it & you to tell me i should just ~imagine~ that it happened

and i'm really getting tired of seeing everyone who has, frankly, valid veilguard criticisms get brushed with the same paint of being like... racist/transphobic/etc etc, especially since whenever i check whoever's blog it is, the people accusing someone else of "cosplaying" racism are white themselves. idk whose argument you guys are coopting but it's exhausting to have to defend my existence as a brown person whenever i discuss anything veilguard critical, while you all excuse real actual racism - in the way the narratives of allegories for real life minority groups - in this game.

and then on top of everything, i get blamed for EA deciding to scrap dragon age, like that hasn't been in the works for fucking years. like the entire games industry isn't one big toilet flush noise. veilguard made a ton of fucking money. an insane amount of money in a short amount of time before it was just written off as a failure. that has nothing to do with the fans, and everything to do with corporate greed, but i suppose it's easier to blame other fans than it is to get bioware's dick out of your throat.

at this point im clearing my spaces of veilguard positivity - unfollowing & blocking where necessary - because there's such a toxic sense of moral superiority stinking from it that exhausts me. i am exhausted.