#maybe a bit of annoyance?

[succulent-mud]

Imagine bringing a cup of coffee to Reaperneki but the mug is that kind of mugs with a little animal in the bottom.

Yes, the chicken is special there.

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

do you reckon Crystal was ever a bit miffed at how instantly niceys Edwin was to Niko, in stark contrast to how he behaved towards her... or was she too busy being completely enamoured with Niko herself, so she understood and thought it was valid of him, lmao

[trappedinchemicalplantzone]

long time no see (it’s been a week but work has been kicking my butt)

here’s a scourge design i did for an au that I don’t even remember most of the details of

[kirkwall-age]

i am playing very slowly but I have finally reached the conversation with Harding about her times in the Inquisition

and -- i am enjoying the game very much -- but this one thing i am NEVER going to be NOT salty about

they did everything cleverly. there is no reason for me to butt into personal business of anybody at all. i'm a stranger, and the stakes are world-ending, so i don't get to sit around with Dorian and reminisce about his personal life

and it's neat that they are referencing things that are just by default there. i.e. Lucanis saying that the source of the experiments on him came from what the Promisers did to the Seekers, force-feeding them lyrium and creating monsters, even though Seekers cannot be possessed

you can, by and large, get by on shit like that, and it's neat

but what is not neat is having a conversation with Harding that will have zero changes in all playthroughs. she talks about Leliana, and Rook's follow-up is "i heard she's terrifying". really? is your follow up NOT gonna be, "yeah i hear the new Divine is famous for her nugs?" (if she IS divine)

their rebuttal was that they didn't want to invest in cameos and ask voice actors to come back for just 3-4 gimmicky lines. well i don't want that either. Dorian's presence is logical and seamless. Morrigan, presumably, has more role than what I've seen so far. i don't want characters to just BE there for 3 seconds of fanservice.

but Inquisition was alive with resonance. and I'm not even saying the major things like HTLA and Warden Contact. just ambient conversation. just 20 to 30 extra lines of ambient conversation throughout the whole massive game. "oh I heard Lady Morrigan is married to the Hero of Ferelden. i heard she has a six pack".

but more than that: codex entries? the first example that came to mind when the 3 choices were unveiled was the codex entries that take no voice acting to write. they just need to be adjusted for world state input. little stuff, like the Bottles of Thedas collection, where i can find 3 different bottles depending on my world state: for Bethany / for Carver / for unknown Warden.

because I'm running around Treviso, and everyone is very in love with being a Crow, and a "Crow never abandons a contract", and... how is there not just a funny haha codex entry lying around that says "A Crow never abandons their contract -- except, you know, for that ONE famous time" -- a codex that would be absent if Zevran died, but a codex that would acknowledge Zevran's existence and history if he became the constant thorn in their side

so far, i think, (and i'm only like 30%? 40%? in it), this is a very good game, to me. there is so much i am enjoying about it. and it is very replayable, because the choices within it and the consequences are fun

(also the way they did open-world is catnip to me personally.)

but it could have been elevated to truly like UNPARALLELED heights by having ACTUAL continuity instead of this default continuity of only mentioning things that are gonna be factual for every world state ever.

[psylunari]

No but--

That scene when Dazai tells Kunikida about being a former Port Mafia executive. Kunikida was “the only one who didn't know it”. His usual working duo, and perhaps the closest people in the ADA. Kunikida should know, but doesn't, up to that point. I was thinking, why is that, exactly? I don't think Kunikida is just oblivious.

What if Dazai thought “such a morally upright guy couldn't ever see me in another light if I introduced myself from my past, not my present”? What if Dazai didn't want Kunikida to think poorly of him, and hid it on purpose?

Dazai was once “a person with a reputation”, and a frightening one. Odasaku dared to approach him despite that, also despite the hierarchy imbalance. Ignoring/reconsidering first impressions isn't something many people are willing to do.

What if he started fresh without any reputation this time?

Everyone knew that already. Dazai didn't care much about “what they'll think of me”. It “doesn't matter”.

Except for one specific person.

[lokh]

LISTEN listen shuro wants to be more genuine and open and needs to learn to not be a pushover. literally Who better to practice with than laios like Literally

[horsemage]

I think we should bring back basic etiquette lessons such as shutting the fuck up when you’re watching a movie in a group that is not exclusively your friend group 🙂

[leyyvi]

i love making levi jealous in fics JHFJKLGHDFKJGHDFKLGDF

[wayfinderships]

Good evening gamers!! Hope you're all doing well! As for me, I'm not doing so hot but playing some games will definitely help!

[cuntvonkrolock]

hate when i'm reading a fantasy book and get hit with an "oh my gods". motherfucker you have a whole pantheon of gods that you could be invoking BE MORE SPECIFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gentle-hero-blog]

youtuber/journalist talk about a cool female character without using the word "badass" IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE

[sysig]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAX <3 <3 (Patreon)

[impmansloot]

saw a bad anders take as you do on the internet, time to cleanse my palette

[south-sea]

i talk about the softer side of second chance au a lot so it’s time to talk about how absolutely feral the boys still are. just because they’re living in kinder circumstances now doesn’t mean they’ve been declawed.

metal, even with his hostility coding removed, is still a vicious little beast. normally he doesn’t want to fight if he doesn’t have to (maybe it's more accurate to say he lets it be someone else's problem until it has to be his), but it takes very little to provoke him. is he brooding, and you’ve just forced him to move two inches to the left? he's turning you into a bowling pin. did you just playfully hit him in the back of the head with a paint gun? you’re getting ragdolled over his shoulder. did you hurt who was precious to him? … hope you got life insurance, dude.

removing the hostility coding has not made him kind; it’s only distilled that hostility and allowed him to focus it on those who deserve it (or don’t. metal is not exactly a good judge of character).

he doesn't necessarily like causing pain, but some part of him delights in seeing the aftermath of his fights. after all is said and done, and he looks back to see he's carved trenches into the ground or set fires or knocked over trees, then all the better. maybe he doesn't go out of his way to cause destruction, but he certainly takes any excuse to, and when it's given to him for good reason, he leans into total overkill territory.

he is tired of being someone else's weapon, but he will still chose to be a weapon, especially if it means defending those he cares about.

even on the lighter side of things, one of the first things he learned is he does not know how (and does not like to) play with other children. games like tag or keep-away aren’t challenging, and he doesn’t understand the point of letting younger kids win to keep them from being discouraged. he cannot empathize with them, and if he can’t make use of even a fraction of his everyday abilities, then what’s the point? how is it fun, if he’s not allowed to hover to keep himself from being made “it”, or speeding away to avoid being tagged? how is it fun, if he has to handicap himself? (what even IS “fun”?)

for the most part, shadow’s content to live an easier life of exploration. he does not fight unless in self-defense, and isn’t that reactive or easy to provoke. but there are some days he misses the thrill of just, existing at a faster pace. he doesn’t have much reason to run or hone his abilities—even if he doesn’t have a reason to fight, it’s still an aspect of himself that needs nurturing and entertaining. he has a lot of energy built up, and doing nothing but wandering around and learning isn’t going to help him expend it. there’ll be days he takes off running at full speed from nothing and just Goes.

i’d like to think there’s a day where one or both of them are frustrated about the lack of excitement or feel they’ve stagnated, and just end up racing each other. metal can have races again that don’t end in a shower of sparks and broken parts, and with nothing to prove to “himself” (maybe this is “fun”?). shadow has a way to expend excess energy—he makes it a best two out of three. they run until sundown and don’t even notice until metal catches the fact that shadow’s winded.

maybe they even start to spar with each other, but that one might take some time. metal, as brutal and merciless as he is against anyone else, is fiercely in the “shadow is my responsibility” camp and would have a hard time allowing himself to do anything but block. i’d like to think shadow eventually proves he can handle it, and then it’s a no-holds-barred scrap that ends with a few broken quills and some chipped paint, but instead of sharp words and petty verbal jabs, it’s a calm trade of pointers to help cover each other’s weak spots while they're sat together in the grass afterward.

[hetchdrive]

Madison was like “you should go to bed it’ll take you at least half an hour to wind down between Farscape and sleeping” and I was like >:c but actually she was right I do need to lay in the dark and think about Die Me, Dichotomy. Not to be sentimental about Scorpius but it’s incredibly telling that he killed the Diagnosian in cold blood for no longer serving a purpose and then did not kill John even though he got the chip and had him completely at his mercy in favor of “condemning him to live so that the desire for revenge will consume him”. Gay as hell to want another man to share your own singleminded goal. What are you hoping to gain here? That there will finally be someone else in the wide universe who can understand you?

[doctorwhoisadhd]

cruel that i have to like get out of bed and put clothes on