#they’ll be fucking fine

[00-oh-yanno-00]

i have to work today and i’ll be honest, homies, if i get one more “aw you have to work on chriwtmas :(“ from a customer or another “ik its chriwrmss but we still have a call flow :(“ from management i’m going to throw the whole company into the ocean and then myself off a bridge

[glitchedcosmos]

We were RIGHT BUT AT WHAT FUCKING COST!?!?!

[stxrry-dxys]

everyone saying “oh it’s just pocket change for the company this is literally not going to effect their profit” in regards to the tree law situation and the potential upcoming fines, you do not understand these companies. they won’t even spare a few extra pennies for their writers and actors. yes, they are absolutely going to care about having to shill out thousands of dollars in fines PLUS whatever other stuff comes out of this. rich people love their money, even when the loss is minimal to them.

[spitedemon]

we all have very fond memories of bioware games, and i like to think most of us here are better people than the average r/gaming user who thinks bioware deserves to be shut down and all the devs deserve to lose their jobs, so i understand freaking out about the future of bioware and staring at red-string theories as to where such and such went wrong during veilguard’s development and who is at fault and why we wound up with the game we did. but really, at the end of the day, we are not going to know the full story of this game’s development and i think it’s unnecessary to lose sleep over it. odds are this is just a “typical” industry story of corporate greed and awful mismanagement. bioware has been hampered by bad decision-making and crunch culture for years, and EA is a corporate cesspool that moves where the money goes. when thinking on veilguard’s end result i’m choosing to go with the simplest explanation with an easy logic to follow: EA wanted DA4 to be a live service game because live service games were big. then anthem flopped hard and star wars jedi: fallen order was a surprise single-player success and bioware used these facts as leverage to finally pivot DA4 back to a single-player title. and what we wound up with in the end was a lot of scrapped ideas and cobbled-together leftovers from the game’s previous iterations. it is a game that many fans find messy and lackluster because the development cycle itself was messy and stressful and desperate.

and while i’m thinking about it: i do not like the veilguard, but i do think it is a very impressive feat for bioware as a studio. i think it is a fucking miracle that this game exists at all, and that it works. i think that while the writing wasn’t to my tastes, the developers wanted it to be to my tastes. they wanted to make a dragon age game that people would enjoy. the average dev at bioware, not weirdo higher-ups, knows where the studio’s strengths lie and they want to lean into them. i’m tempering my expectations for mass effect 5 but if the dev cycle for that game is smooth sailing compared to veilguard, i think we could wind up with something pretty damn good. knock on wood

[laniidae-passerine]

I simply do not trust anyone who hates one of the main four vampires. not “I prefer these two over these two” but hitting you with “actually the others secretly hate him and don’t want to make out with him and wish he’d go away” sorry but no. they’re a package deal. “they can’t do polyamory” man they can’t do monogamy! not expecting them to negotiate or have reasonable boundaries but listen they are all drinking each other’s blood. they are all fucking in all possible variations at some point. cherish them all or don’t even bother.

[thencomethecherryblossoms]

Still thinking about obx, still in shock.

[mars-ipan]

Tomorrow Is Election Day And I Am So Fucking Stressed

[alphacrone]

this is your reminder that 99.9% of employers care more about money than you and even if they are kind and fair now they WILL at the end of the day put profits over your well being so absolutely do not sacrifice your life for them.

[j-esbian]

i lost the post but i saw someone talking about how some of y’all act like being weird is a choice and like. YEAHHHHHHH.

that’s fine, it might be for you. but i just live like this and don’t know any other way. like yeah i’ve worked customer service, i can do innocuous small talk, but anything beyond that, i don’t understand what i’m missing. and it’s frustrating to see the tonal disconnect especially from people who are like “uwu embrace weirdness!!” where they’re like. dressing quirky and talking about bugs and listening to obscure music and eschewing small talk to ask Deep Questions on the first date and unlearning their tendency to not infodump. and generally have an idea of what Weirdness is supposed to look like. idk man some of us wake up and get out of bed and can’t figure out why the rest of their coworkers chitchat with each other but when they join the conversation it dies.

weirdness is value neutral. let’s stop trying to turn it into a badge because quite frankly, it’s not a choice for everyone. it’s fucking exhausting to never be on the same wavelength as other people and they’re going to react the way they do and label you the way they will without any conscious actions on your end. it’s difficult to talk about this without feeling like you’ll be dismissed as immature, a teenager whining “no one understands me” but the thing is. sometimes you don’t grow out of feeling alone and different, and there’s no good way to talk about it without feeling like people will think you’re just fishing for pity.

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

the skincare industry should explode and die tomorrow i think. not in a pussy way either i’m not one of those “ohhhh you only need 1 product to keep your face clean of your godawful ugly acne, not 5 products like advertisements tell you!” people i genuinely think nobody should be obliged to ‘treat’ benign facial differences that are heavily dependent on genetics, weather and place of residence. and that are often untreatable in many people. and that many old people have. solely because strangers think it makes someone else look ‘ugly’ or ‘unpresentable’ or ‘uncared for’. even like the slightest comment about it makes you a ghoul and i don’t like you if you judge people for it. 👍

[honeyvenommusic]

❗️NEWGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSAN-

[weisscreamcake]

fe3h/asoiaf crossover au where the mittlefrank opera does a production of the dance of the dragons. dorothea is alicent ofc and she manages to get edelgard on board as rhaenyra. they lean fully into the toxic yuri tragedy and there’s not a dry eye in the house at the end of the night

[elzurxa]

TFW ur disabilities disable you /:

[devilsskettle]

people will say that you’re shy but when you try to talk they look at you like you grew a third eye in the middle of your forehead. i’m literally just trying to chat i’m not shy i love to chat but i’m not talking to people who make it clear that they don’t want to interact with me

[starryluminary]

You’ll find the real thing instead, she’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred

And hold your hand while dancing

Never leave you standing

Crest fallen on the landing

With Champagne Problems

[tomatoluvr69]

Sitting down to floss and brush my teeth has been lifechanging. On a completely unrelated note how the fuck am I supposed to have this skeleton for several more decades. It’s all over for me lads 😔