#the timing. so on and so forth
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bitegore · 10 months ago
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baru cormorant seems to me to be a series that suffers miserably for me having read machineries of empire first. unfortunately everything BC is doing strikes me as something MoE did better and more believably and with much a greater and more grounded eye for how systems, complex system interaction, and oppression like. work
#red rambles#also i don't like the writing very much so I'm not having as much fun with it as i did with MoE#but YHL straight up writes with the exact approach and methodology *i* write - the narrative frame is extremely close. the lines are punchy#the description is sparse the info we are delivered is typically in short wacky one-off chunks that tell us not only something about the#world but something about the narrator who is also the main character whose head we're in#the timing. so on and so forth#someone told me that seth dickinson is transfem but i cant find her (?) pronouns anywhere so if anyone knows where to see them i'd#appreciate a link if only to complain that i don't like her (?) writing that much in comparison because it is a lot less.... rewardingly#entertaining i suppose. when compared to the way yoon ha lee structures his. there are much fewer twists#and of course the major huge twist of Baru Cormorant was hidden from the reader which i just think is *bad form* when it comes to intrigue!#when yhl will lay all the moving pieces of the plot before you openly and say 'hey. isn't that a funny side tangent. anyway look to your#left; something is exploding' and then as it keeps unfolding he goes 'and here in small scale is how it is being used! isn't that#interesting to see how these pieces move? now look to your right; something is exploding' and then at the very end it all comes perfectly#together#the way i felt around the middle/end of Raven Strategem when i understood the spy network the first time is something that BC cannot do#you aren't trusted with the pieces and you don't get to play the game of understanding that you weren't *told* literally everything#i'm reading monster baru cormorant today as i go about my errands and I kinda don't think it's what i want because i want it to be the kind#of working awful poisoned bloodstained empire as the hexarchate and i want it to be a complex contradictory overlapping system like the#hexarchate's army and i want the banal cruelty of perfectly decent people condemning strangers to awful awful bloody deaths because they're#'not like us' instead of the petrified horror *everyone* has of the Social Contagion Agents because i just do not BUY the construction of#dickinson's Social Hygiene Offices and their place in the world#but i cant just read the MoE books any more. i'll get bored. i'm already kind of bored of reading them over and over
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reader-from-nowhere · 5 days ago
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Cyberworld Optimus is such a loser, I love him sm <3333
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casscainmainly · 2 months ago
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Guess who's still thinking about them
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eemolu · 7 days ago
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brennan when zac played a sweet sad barbarian: i can be his emo girlfriend
brennan when zac played himbo superman: perfect opportunity for me to become a punk rock wizard and grab his ass
brennan when zac played a slug in the body of a pilot: what if i made every npc exchange so sexually charged ally has to roll insight to check on skip's sexuality multiple times
brennan when zac rolled lapin during the quangle: FINALLY i can do old man yaoi with my close friend
brennan when zac decided to become an 80 year old hot cowboy divorcee: every npc i make is gonna want to fuck this guy so bad. and that can't possibly mean anything about me ...
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egophiliac · 10 months ago
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since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.
maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?
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(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)
(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)
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plutonicbees · 8 months ago
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"it's really me. is it really really really you?"
some yj19 konbart for @superfamilyweek day 2: across space or time/friends & teammates (kind of ended up fulfilling both??)
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yes-asil · 7 months ago
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Made Pomni eepy sleepy
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spitedemon · 10 months ago
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i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.
i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.
#dragon age#yes i’ve seen john epler’s explanation on only wanting to carry forward choices that they could ‘really do something with.’#and i understand what he’s saying and i’m curious to see how those 3 choices they brought forward will impact the story!!#but i’m still disappointed. and i think telling people why they shouldn’t be disappointed is just gonna make them More disappointed.#also don’t really appreciate dev comments like ‘careful what you wish for with cameos. it just gives us an excuse to find new and horrific#ways to kill your faves teehee 🤭🤭’ like okay???????? what???#alistair came back twice & could be fine both times. loghain’s inquisition cameo was so meaningful because who the hell expected to see him#again? leliana can straight up die in origins and yall brought her back anyways. like what are we doing out here.#also when i think of ‘typical’ nonsense for this fandom it’s people doxxing each other over fictional character opinions. or what#fictional side your fictional inquistor took in the fictional mage-templar war. or just plain old racism.#NOT ‘damn it’s fucking upsetting that this excited replay i’ve been doing of the previous games and all the recommending i’ve been doing#for new fans to play the other games before veilguard has turned out to be pretty fucking pointless.’#might as well tell someone to watch a let’s play of trespasser and that’s it.#11/26 in a hater mood so i’m turning rbs back on lol. go forth & be petty
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hellsitegenetics · 10 months ago
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HEY CONGRATS??? ON BEATING ONE-TIME-I-DREAMT??? YOU DID IT???
i was asleep when this went down so you cannot imagine my surprise when i looked and found that we won by a margin of less than 1%
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lemongogo · 3 days ago
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throwing this wip away ,.everyone say byee
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prokopetz · 2 months ago
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"So what decade-overdue crowdfunded metroidvania are you talking about this time" frankly, that's uncharitable. The oldest crowdfunded metroidvania I've backed that still hasn't delivered is only from 2018.
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s0up1ta · 11 months ago
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something about loving you like an alcohol addict
pspsps come get your billford
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this was supposed to be longer but dear god that's a lot of work... so here's the storyboard for it:
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maybe i'll finish it later,, for the tragic fiddauthor enjoyer in me
ok bye
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gatoiberico · 4 months ago
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Recently started playing Ocarina of Time and I love the official artwork for it, so I did a little art style replica for the YT thumbnail!! The lad is so fun to draw like this it's bonkers honestly
(btw you can catch the playthrough here!)
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violetsorengail · 6 months ago
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Xaden growing colder throughout the book when the one thing Sgaeyl hates is the cold
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inspisart · 2 years ago
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dick took the news that a strange thirteen year old broke into his apartment while he was away at the circus pretty well, I gotta say
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mothcpu · 1 year ago
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There's no point in trying if the end result will be the same anyway.
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