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[alaturkanews]

Euroviews. View from Baku: We must wash away division at COP29

As predictably as sea levels rise when emissions climb, accusations of “greenwashing” — from some quarters, at least — have followed the announcement of Azerbaijan as host of the annual UN climate summit. As COP29 approaches later this month, those voices have grown louder. At the heart of the charge lies a caricature: that Azerbaijan thought that by simply hosting COP, it could somehow obscure…

[thisent1]

Unappreciated by Cherish [Retro Music Review] Remember the time when groups like SWV,...

[sh0tgunwedding]

I saw one of those "your body my choice" tweets too, and it genuinely broke me to see such a symbolic phrase be turned around and mocked 😔

^^^^

[84s]

My drink recipe

1 Baja blast Sugar free 12oz can

3Oz Svedka Citron🍋‍🟩 🍋🍸😏😏😏😏

3Oz Bacardi🍾🥶💪💪

A couple fucking shakes of Strawberry syrup

[inkyquince]

I'm going to make fun of so many peoole who don't like veilguard. Because....

Veilguard is the spiritual successor to Dragon Age 2

Inquisition is more like Origins, and I would call it the spiritual successor if it wasn't sufficiently lacking in other areas

Now there are dumb fucks out there who only like origins or only like inquisition. It's their entire personality when it comes to dissecting the dragon age games.

I like dragon age a lot because each game is a different genre. Origins is depression melodrama. 2 is a comedy that loves to stop and punch you in the gut every now and then, and shows the prime time when your friends are more your family than blood is. Inquisition is... A political thriller that happens to have magic (and the ugliest graphics. Bruh why is everyone but like three people so deep in the uncanny valley. Why is combat boring). Veilguard is getting to see what it feels like to inherit a situation outside of your control, it's more like an underdog story.

"it has cringy dialogue" and you don't remember origins? You think bioware doesn't dish out cringy dialogue for each game?

"the art style-" is STYLISED. Origins is good looking for graphics that feel outdated for 2009. But it's not realistic looking. 2 had it's budget slashed viciously so it does look wonky especially with their cameo characters. Inquisition, as I've said, feels deeply ugly because there is nothing stylised about it. They went for realistic and now everyones inquisitor is kinda ugly, sorry. People enter the uncanny valley, they always look better in concept art. The three prettiest people we have is Dorian, Cassandra and Josephine. Everyone else enters the uncanny valley of WEIRD looking. It's busted and I'm sorry. Veilguard? Fuckin stellar stylisation. The art, the environments, the magic, is so goddamn pretty.

"you cant control your compa-" yes you can. You can make them attack. Why are you sad about missing out on inquisitions boring combat where you press R. Wow. Amazing.

People have rose tinted glasses for these games. Play them from the first to the last game and I'd say veilguard is FULLY one of the best. I saw some loser on tiktok scream about the iron bull's signature being EXPLAINED in text and not shown?? Saying 10 years and for what?

10 years for a play through, start to finish, took me 55 hours doing ALL of the quests and exploring. From the amazing character creator and the hair physics that inquisition, 2 and origins could never make work. From the beauty of the backgrounds, how each location feels deeply lived in, compared to inquisition where new environments felt plastic and not real. For a finale that had me crying for 20 minutes at the choices I made and knew would make again. For the reveals, for the conversations, for the natural ending for Solas. I only cried in origins after my warden died. I teared up at Hawkes mother dying. Inquisition got no tears from me.

I'm sorry that you're hung up on small details. I have complaints too. Maybe a better fantasy term for trans and non-binary, but honestly the conversations that we're able to have about them? Deeply lovely. I personally wish that one day we can go back to the origins start, where we spend around 20 minutes IN our origin and then go frolicking. I'd kill to see that with the mourn watcher and crow origin so we can be excited when we see them again when we revisit the important NPCS. Personally do want the Lucanis romance to kick off earlier in the game, but he is one of the hardest ones to romance for good reason and it made sense for the character. I miss importing decisions but to be fair, the choices I made in origins wouldn't have shown up that much in veilguard, except maybe Kieran being in the background of some scenes at a stretch, but mostly for inquisition and Hawke. Varric obviously sees a lot of Hawke in Rook (just look at the dialogue wheel) and I wish we got to hear Isabella talk about them.

But these are so little. I have way more complaints about inquisition but I will still play it. I can acknowledge the flaws but if you hold it, or origins on a pedestal, that's just embarrassing for you, that you're stuck on a game, instead of being stuck on the series, in an excellent fantasy setting that keeps being expanded on.

Veilguard let's us say goodbye to Solas in the best way. There was NEVER going to be a happy end for him. Stop deluding yourself that the inquisitor and Solas would have rode off into the sunset. It's frankly embarrassing that themes from inquisition and veilguard flew over your head if you beloved that.

I've seen this same anguish over a sequel and it was for 2, after origins. Now 2 isn't the perfect game. It doesn't even have a proper title. But 2, a decade later, is well loved. It's full of jank, it's got strange coding, but the story has a lot of love. But it wasn't origins, so fans wailed and pissed. But it's a fan favourite these days and Hawke is deeply beloved and remembered fondly to the point that the possibility of their death in inquisition made an impact.

So, basically, get over yourself. None of these games are perfect and yes it took 10 years but I love it. I get to play as a crow for the first time, a faction I've loved since Zevran was able to rizz himself out of being killed. You can play as a Warden again, for the first time since Origins. Griffins are back and they're adorable. Their quest is heart breaking and anxiety inducing. You can play as new factions, ones we didn't fuck around with before, the shadow dragons, the mourn watchers, the veil jumpers. We get several amazing romances, that feel in character. Everyone is bisexual again but have clear preferences. Bellara has a preference for women, Emmerich has a preference for men, Lucanis has Never being in relationship. Taash and Harding might get together, Lucanis and Neve might get together. We get a companion that's trans, we GET to be trans for the first time. In inquisition we have krem but the developers never thought we would want to be trans, so I will happily take what we can get. Could it be better? Always. But I'm not stuck in 2014.

Take off your rose tinted glasses and go fuck that old man and maybe you'll lighten up.

[bigbruthag]

The strategy of persuading poor white people to vote for policies that primarily benefit the rich has deep historical roots. Since colonial America, wealthy landowners have often sought to turn poor white communities against Black and brown people to maintain control. In the 17th century, for example, powerful landowners promoted laws and social systems that created divisions between Black enslaved people and poor white indentured servants, even though they shared similar economic struggles. By fostering racial divisions, wealthy elites could prevent lower-class groups from uniting against them, ensuring that they stayed in power.

So, when I see the modern echoes of this..when leaders champion policies that favor the wealthy while rallying poorer white communities around racial or cultural grievances..it feels like history repeating itself. In the face of another election outcome, I thought I would be angry, but instead, I feel sadness. 😔

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[theconjurervfx]

THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "GIRLFRIEND VS WIFE!!"

[thestrangerinthewoods]

[gracklinging-electricboogalo]

i need to write poetry

[bea-lele-carmen]

[iffdwrandomizer]

Not for Trump, it isn't.

Also, just because someone hasn't done something that you want, it doesn't mean they haven't been doing any work at all. :P

What has your beloved Trump-kun done that has earned him your trust and support?

[agra-miv]

Itachi, can you hear me?

[theconjurervfx]

Cooking with Ana🤣#shorts

[alaturkanews]

How much power does the US president actually have?

When the founding fathers established the US Constitution, they sought to limit the president’s power — breaking away from the tradition of monarchy. On election day, more than 200 years later, these structures still stand, with the US government divided into three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. The legislative branch encompasses Congress, which consists of the House of…

[tanasha-not-yet]

Do you think you were seriously shadowbanned because of that Greylock drawing or why the warning at the beginning? Lol

don't laugh at me im an adulttt already 😠😠😠 /j

welp no obv its not what happened! they thought i was a bot, going against tumblr policy has a different punishment and the least suggestive looking halfnaked man in the world is totally not what they ban for

i added the caption just to ehh feel more free doing shit in the 0+ cartoon fandom i suppose. i see some of the content makers in stf fandom keeping the posts like these off their blogs and i assume it's to be safe for watching by minors. im not safe for watching by anyone