#we're neighbors really

[jesncin]

I cannot express to you how IN LOVE I am to your concept for Brainiac.

He's always been one of my favorite villains for the same reasons you mentioned (STAS characterization) and I am a big fan of AI characters and the whole concept of Artificial Intelligence (actual AI not the mess we're dealing with nowadays)

And the unnerving, gender coded way you portray him is right up my alley, it really is appealing to me and I can't wait to see more.

(I am also a robot fucker but shhhh that's unrelated 😌)

thank you!! I love that the reaction to Brainiac has been a mix of terrified and "oh 😳" haha! And yes!! I love stories that delve into Artificial Intelligence/Sentience- a new modern era of Brainiac seems so ripe for those kind of themes STAS set up.

[bitchy-peachy]

If you're gonna be a thief stop stealing from other poor people struggling. We already have wealth hoarding fucks taking from us damn.

But I'm sure some people ain't ready for this conversation.

[marta-bee]

Today I'm feeling proud of Americans (myself included). We really are having an extraordinary amount of shit thrown at us these days. Not accepting this as okay or normal, still finding those small moments of joy, expecting better, loving and supporting each other? That's honestly pretty incredible just now.

[spearxwind]

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[hyunjinz]

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[bunny--manders]

When I went off to college I gave my dad my passwords so he could have access to the databases that my university had access to that he didn't have through the university he worked at. And before I had even started classes, the IT department called me to ask if my account has been hacked because he had downloaded so many early 19th century newspaper articles about his hyperfixation they thought there had been some kind of massive data breach.

[drwafton]

Have you and your fiance ever considered having children? if so what would you name them?

Considering how busy I am and the fact that Mia already has to face 60 children a week at her job, we're not quite sure we'd have the time for children.

Nothing wrong with children, they're absolutely wonderful. Its just that we don't really see ourselves having them.

And after seeing the mess Mosses got himself into, we're all the more sure. Poor Anastacha, I hope she is alright.

[trans-rights-coastalmangoes]

i need white women to fucking stop

[naptimeclown]

Had a lovely little adventure this morning. Somehow woke up at 6:30, got to wear my favorite outfit. Went to drop off a package at the UPS store. Then took the car to the mechanic. While we waited for it to be worked on me and my partner walked 15 mins away to the library and read for a few hours. It was quiet and chilly but the sun was out and there were crispy leaves on the ground.

[dragonsongmakhali]

Wanted to do aethercon this weekend, but my neighborhood flooded rather badly and we won't have power until Sunday T_T Our house is elevated, so only our garage got flooded, but the lack of AC is a bummer.

[3amclothesmonster]

Not having a joy joy day

[tearlessrain]

the thing about karlach's ending that pisses me off is that it doesn't make sense if you do everything you can for her though. the gondians are master workers of infernal iron, and if you liberate the house of hope, and make sure dammon lives, you have all the ingredients needed to help karlach's condition improve. it simply doesn't make sense for her to say that she will NEVER EVER go back to avernus even when you have a safe place to set up an independent hellforge and work on a new non-explosive heart replacement. it frustrated me immensely that in my playthrough because i didn't choose to romance her and i had wyll become a baldur's gate bigwig, she chose actively to explode and die... when i had everything i needed to save her life. to go on the terminal illness theme, it felt to me like she had cancer and i had chemo and she was rejecting it and choosing to die horribly instead of get it treated... which totally does happen IRL, but isn't exactly FAIR to her as a character. it's good writing because it makes me engage emotionally with it to this level but it's frustrating because i felt like i should have been able to save her with the pieces available in the game.

this is all also leaving aside that gale has a scroll of true resurrection in his fuckening satchel. WHY can't i immediately use it on Karlach after she 'plodes lol is Gale really that selfish?

okay fuck it, I'll bite. yeah, it IS unfair and frustrating and she doesn't deserve any of it, and that was kinda the whole point and it's why I think they did such a good job with Karlach's arc. because, again, it was a pretty clear metaphor for terminal illness and the associated grief/helplessness/denial/scrambling for solutions that comes with dealing with it. your chemo metaphor is interesting because as you've mentioned people DO often choose not to go through chemo, because chemo itself is miserable and draining and wrecks your body and is not guaranteed to work, and some people would prefer to just remain as active and present as possible for as long as possible and then go out when it's time, especially if the cancer is aggressive and terminal and chemo may not do much. kind of like going to Avernus would be miserable and draining and dangerous, and Karlach stated many times how much she hates Avernus and would rather die than go back. how on earth does it not make sense that she wouldn't choose that, especially believing as she did that she would immediately be shanghaied back into Zariel's service indefinitely after so many years of being desperate for freedom.

though ironically, people in real life sometimes react to cancer patients choosing not to do chemo or other procedures that suck/are invasive and awful the same way you're reacting to Karlach not wanting to go to Avernus. sometimes, and for some people, it's not about just extending your life as far as possible at any cost. there's a point at which it isn't worth it, and that point is different for everyone. and BOY does that make some folks upset when a loved one's "it's not worth it" point is different from theirs. It's why DNR is a thing, and it's also why you should think very carefully about who you want making medical decisions for you if you're incapacitated and have a talk with that person/clear instructions written up.

I already mentioned in the post that they sort of dropped the ball on not explaining why all those potential avenues don't work so I don't know what you expect me to say about that, but I stand by my previous statement of "all I really need them to say is 'yeah the gondians agree, this thing is fucked' and I'll accept that." I would love for them to add that in. but I don't think it should be fixable.

finally, considering that the scroll of true resurrection was intended to be used on Gale during that quest, yes it's on Larian for letting you revive him in other ways and keep the thing, but it's still metagame-y and I don't think it qualifies as a plot hole so much as a game design flaw. it annoys me when people bring up "why didn't they account for my cheesing in the story" arguments as writing critiques.

[somelazyassartist]

!!!!! The first lilies of the year finally bloomed!!!!!! Feat. My kitty in the window :]

[mantisgodsdomain]

That said we have no morals or standards if we get paid enough for something so if you drop us something like $3 on Ko-fi then we are available to hash out details and we will have a go at just about Literally Anything.

[searchingforserendipity25]

not episode thirteen of monstrous agonies making me cry my eyes out on a thursday cmon.

[borgeslabyrinth]

It's really funny because when I'm at my own apartment building I'm like "wow, this is so nice" :) everything's really clean and well lit and there's never any trash outside the trash receptacles and there's never junk around. And then I go to a different building to drop off some mail that's been put in the wrong post box or to have a short cut through to avoid a barking dog and I'm like. Damn, y'all really live like this?