#or go to the website and make your own!

[snorlaxlovesme]

got my bingo card all ready

[ajastu]

god okay. sorry for yet another text post. but i'm just still thinking about the argument that veilguard is bad because the only option re: morality of your player character that it gives is kindness.

Now, to preface. I understand where this criticism comes from. Veilguard IS a departure from the general scheme of the previous games, in several aspects. And i understand how people would be upset at not having quite the same kind of options/ways to influence the world. It took me some getting used to, also.

What i do disagree with, however, is using that to claim that the game is bad, irredeemable, and also meaningless n soft or whatever.

Because it's really not. It's just different, with a different narrative focus. I've played the previous games several times, and as i said before, origins is in first place for me. Veilguard is a very close second. And i'm not more right or wrong in this opinion than someone who thinks datv is the worst game in the series.

You can still make choices that will influence the world in wildly different ways, they're just not... ''genocide or no genocide'' kinds of choices. Which i can see how some people would not consider the difference significant enough to be interesting for them personally. Which is whatever, im not their dad, i dont really care.

However. I think it's kind of weird to say that ''the game made me resent being a nice person'' or that "kindness you dont have the choice not to offer isnt worth a lot"

Like, game criticism aside. That is just an objectively weird thing to say.

There are ways to phrase that particular dissatisfaction in a way that will not make most people side-eye you. This is not one of those ways.

The thing is, it was a deliberate choice in characterization. Since game development at AAA scale is. an incredibly complex beast, i suspect there were many different reasons for it, and not all of them purely narrative. It is also not 2009 anymore. We are not getting another Origins, like, probably ever.

But. Rook is established in the very second cutscene to care about other people. It makes sense narratively, too, with Varric being the one to recruit them. Their backstory also shows that they gravitate towards the 'moral' choices. It's not bad writing. It's deliberate.

That does not mean that everyone has to like it. And i don't think the people who are upset about the change in this gameplay aspect are stupid or wrong.

We are all different people with different preferences, and i really am sorry if the game ended up being a disappointment for you. I know how it feels, and it does suck.

But i also do think it might be worth to examine the way people choose to phrase this complaining. The claim that kindness is somehow diminished in value if you aren't offered the choice to be cruel alongside it. I just think that, like. misses the point of what kindness is?

I know what those people mean when they say it, i just...fundamentally disagree with the sentiment. And i think phrasing it in this way is incredibly weird. sorry 🤷‍♂️

There is a better way to talk about this particular complaint. I just never actually SEE that being done. and i do think a lot of it comes from not actually engaging with the source material people are trying to criticize. Like, the person i sort of quoted earlier explicitly said they have not finished the game. If you never give something a chance in the first place, if all the information you have is second-hand, then i do not find your criticism valuable in any way. There is no substance to it, no backing. You are not proving a point, you're just chasing your own tail at that point. There isnt even a bone to chew. You've only heard of the bone. you havent actually experienced it.

Another part is people being too twisted up in the emotion of disappointment to actually see that they're not making compelling arguments, necessarily, and that they're actually being a tar pit.

I know not everyone thinks as much about the push towards dismissing the value of kindness for kindness' sake as i do. But like. It really is very weird to see this insistence that game bad bcs it didnt have the option to do a murder to an innocent person, or something. While also dismissing the horrible things we Are shown as 'not in your face enough'.

And honestly, personally? I dont love origins or any of the other ones specifically for the ability to choose the evil options. It's never even been a choice for me, because you can very well play the games without having to make the bad choices. theres always a workaround. And that workaround doesnt even harm u in any significant way. there isnt an actual like. terrible complexity here. I enjoy the dwarf politics quest a lot but ultimately, knowing the outcome? its EASY to choose Bhelen. Unless you're playing a dwarf noble origin, i guess. Rip Harrowmont 🙏 you would have made a terrible king.

And again, my personal opinion is not more right or wrong than that of someone who adored the prev dragon age games exactly because they allow you to make some terrible terrible moral choices.

At the end of the day. why are people still so pissed about a game that came out almost 6 months ago that many of them havent even played in the first place? Relax. take a walk if you can. Maybe move a snail out of the road if you find one. There tends to be a lot of them after it rains. Think about the ones that didn't make it. Try to find compassion for lives so easily dismissed. Maybe that will make you think about whether or not kindness on its own really is so lacking in value.

[adreamyouhadonetime]

Trans men are men, but we are still marginalized men. We are still targets of SA and hate-crimes, we struggle with healthcare discrimination, job discrimination, finding housing, etc. Some of you people seem to think 'man' is some all-powerful title that somebody can just put on one day and suddenly be king of everything with no problems ever, which tells me you've never spoken to *any* marginalized man and if you have you didn't fucking listen to him.

[altschmerzes]

why do people on my posts about gen fic and platonic relationships in fiction always feel the need to clarify that they Love Shipping and Do Specifically Focus On It Often To The Exclusion Of All Else while reblogging those posts. even when they're doing it apologetically like 'oh oops i don't read/write gen fic.... it's great though, it rules!!' it's still like. interesting choice youve made here with this post.

[hwangyeddeongie]

shaming people for donating THEIR ADULT MONEY to ao3 (an ad-free, censorship-free site with over 14 MILLION works) so you can feel better about yourself is not the flex you think it is. much less if the "charities" you want people to support instead are unverified Gaza gofundme scams

[mycorrhizastar]

LET IT BE KNOWN

That I have a personal website where I post my art and run a blog with a comment section, and a newsletter, and RSS feeds you can subscribe to, and that it even works on mobile. I have already added a lot of art there that I have not shared anywhere else (except for maybe my Patreon), and I have more to come.

Tumblr would have to completely shut down for me to finally leave it. I will continue to play until the ship sinks. I will keep hanging out at this abandoned mall until the wrecking ball caves in its roof.

But I have my own house that you can visit instead. I spend most of my time there anyways. It's nice. I like it.

[saturncoyote]

do you get your pngs from like. a special site? i would love to do little things like that with my own art but im not sure where to look for them!

I mainly cut them out myself out of free stock photos ! I think there's quite a bit of fun on that extra step, makes it feel like you're making a collage, i recommend Pexels and Unsplash

You can also have this quick little tutorial i made for making transparent pngs out of stock photos :-)

[jessiesjaded]

everyone woke up on tumblr this week and went Hey, im gonna be a rude cunt to jessie about her gifs, apparently.

[bumpscosity]

build a bear leaks are insane. someone who seems to usually do ebay reselling just listed a bunch of stock of a plush that hasn't been released yet and the most likely explanation is that they stole them. $150 bucks each btw

[scenecore-arcade]

Figured some of you might like this :3

I've started reworking my old website a while back, made a brand new design for it, and I love it a lot! I feel some of you might as well!!

Best viewed on Desktop, but it is responsive (adapted for mobile devices). If you spot any bugs PLSSS tell me!!! My page doll was stretched on iPad for a month and none of my friends told me x.x

ANYWAYZZ Hope you like it! Feel free to leave a message in the chat box, or in the guestbook!!!

[amplexadversary]

Fucking great. Thanks to assholes making entirely baseless fucking accusations over a nearly 20 year-old video game with a bog-standard fantasy plot, we don't get fandom-themed theme weeks on FR anymore

I don't get to hope for a Critical Role or Gundam themed one because you people are morons at fucking best.

Utter idiocy is the charitable interpretation here.

[xumoonhao]

things ive found thru old sites: most ppl who made web graphics were women (so TRUE besties let’s get it <3), a LOT of sites were religious in nature (the amount of background sets w/jesus……so many), midis were literally everywhere; like u cannot escape the midis, and ppl just. fucking loved wolves. like is that not what the internet was all about

[baekuras]

i also did more applying (and got 2 no's already which....hello autmated email after automated scan through website answers only looking at my school...certificate instead of current grades but whatever)

this means i am now awaiting 21 answers and gotta do at least 6 more letters and search for more

[pseudospectre]

Do you love this skull? And the old internet? And attribution? You might like this :)

[dullahandyke]

love love love making custom duckduckgo bangs its so awesome. whenever i use a keyboard shortcut to reach focloir.ie faster i feel like a wizard

[vaniliens]

Got a character hub made 4 oc pages in it not sure if ill continue hmmm