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THAT one's goin on the list too now!

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GUARDS!! console me

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its all jokes in good fun and everything but im a professional fun killer so can i just say the "lol! i'm a mage walking around the gallows and they dont even notice! i literally have a staff and they dont even care!" jokes are stupid. my brother in christ you're carrying a polearm

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I really like that the companions in Veilguard have useful things to say in combat. I mean, I absolutely love the shouts of praise, appreciation, and worry for Rook, and also the companions hyping each other up, of course. They're delightful and I enjoy them very much. But now, I'm specifically talking about the companions letting you know that their cooldown is over (e.g. Lucanis' "Just say the word!") or that they've primed an enemy for detonation (e.g. Taash's "Loosened the lid for you!"). I'm talking about how they shout "Behind you!" when an enemy is creeping up on you from behind. (Saved me from a close encounter with an explosive darkspawn last time I played.) This is about them letting you know that an enemy is set up for a finisher ("End it now!"). And about how they yell at you to get to safety when you're standing in an area soon to be affected by enemy AOE, and how they warn you about ranged enemies. How they express worry and shout at you to mind your health when it's getting low, in case you haven't noticed. ("Rook is hurt!" / "Rook needs us!" / "Hold on, Rook!" 💕) Of course, it's also nice that Rook thanks them and praises them for helping out with their abilities. Each of the characters has their own unique way to do this and they have multiple lines for each of these situations. Not only is it wonderful because the group truly feels like a bunch of people that care about and look out for one another, that cheer for one another in combat. Not only is it cool to see how the combat shouts change and expand depending on the relationships of the companions with each other and Rook. Not only is it all really fun and enjoyable and makes things feel lively. But it is also pretty useful for navigating combat situations. An excellent feature.

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working on the most special man in the whole world 💚

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honestly you all are so annoying because motherhood IS interesting but fandom people are simultaneously obsessed with deciding that every woman has motherly qualities and completely disinterested in actually exploring motherhood as a role that informs a character. I do think exploring a character being a mother can be wildly interesting if they are canonically one, but because of misogyny, people just view motherhood as a totally unremarkable naturalized state that all women must inhabit!

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citationless behavior

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People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

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the darkspawn in veilguard being puppets of the blight, born fully formed from blight pools, versus the darkspawn from other entries, who need broodmothers to spawn them and actually have an infancy period (albeit a short one.) and the question of how darkspawn changed after the magisters breached the veil and which type of darkspawn is closer to the "original" is an interesting one but unfortunately the only game in the entire series that's at all interested in looking at the darkspawn beyond mindless horde is dragon age awakening. and it's not even technically a separate game.

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I hate 2 say it but being a part of a “weird” subculture does not meaningfully inoculate you against a conservative moralizing impulse. You gotta unlearn that. Saying “cringe is dead” is not enough, you have to actually be okay with things that discomfort, perplex and/or disgust you.

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the language nerd in me is fucking screaming and crying about the fact that Cassandra Pentaghast has what i believe may be the most accurate impression of the extinct gothic germanic accent we have, and the fact that they didn't even try to give anyone else from Nevarra the same accent is fucking criminal

yes i know it is an entirely made up accent that miranda developed herself, she unintentionally hit the nail on the fucking head with the accent of a dead language that would even be lore accurate with the placement of Nevarra relative to orlais and the other neighboring countries

also im sorry using Gothic as the language inspiration for nevarran??? is that not like too fucking perfect??

like yeh i get it accent training people for a fake accent is ridiculously hard

i do not care

give me gothic nevarrans in the truest sense of the word

i might post the notes find the notes here i have on the actual linguistic comparisons if anyone cares because i studied her pronunciation to compare to historical texts when i made the connection

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Silence, hetero 🦀💥

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Provoke the blade and suffer its sting 🗡️

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Every time someone complain about how "this choice is not moral, if you chose it/did this in this videogame you are a terrible person!" my mind plays this on repeat

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I need to speak my truth

Also

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Well, I don't think I could come up with a better visual metaphor for antiblack racism in fandom 🤣

(and I actually like Astarion and Wyll's lil potential dynamic, so no, it's not about not liking the guy)

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new ending to here lies the abyss where when the wardens are like “all our senior officers are dead :(” hawke is like “well. i know a guy. who’s been a warden for nearly a decade. actually he’s my husband. what’s his name? don’t worry about it.”