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Sony WM-F51, 1987

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part of me wants to get into making fucked up little minecraft mods

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It will get cold again eventually. The summer will not last forever. I’m not doomed to live in this unbearable heat for all eternity. <- said while gripping the countertop so hard that the tile is starting to crack

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"All monsters must die bloody, and by a hero's hands, and soon," he says over brunch.

He doesn't think it's a rude thing to say in front of a monster. There are no rude things to say to monsters, only rude things monsters say.

"Don't worry," she says between bites, "You're one of the good ones."

"But I am still a monster," I do not say. I do not say that I love my claws and teeth, my prehensile shadow and my glowing eyes. That I cannot imagine giving them up even for survival, that to hide my shadow and trim my claws for them makes me feel diminished. In public I cannot say that I do not wish to be human.

They're progressives, this bunch, even if he carries a hero's banner with its proud history and none of them ask him to put it away. They know there are good monsters, monsters who can speak eloquently and hold the fork right, monsters you can be seen with in public. Some of their best friends are monsters.

They do not know the monster who is invited to brunch knows solidarity with the monster who is not. Believes and understands the monster who is not invited more than the human who does the inviting.

"Isn't that a little harsh?" says a third human, and I have not forgotten I am outnumbered. "We have ways of killing monsters without blood now, painlessly. And, of course, a monster should be allowed to live if it never growls."

He has never seen me growl. Yet how loudly and endlessly I will, when I'm out of earshot. He's talking about killing monsters who cannot stoop to civility, about mother and brother and lover who were never able to mute themselves like me, and does he not know how small a child who can only growl is?

"To growl is not to kill," I say, and all heads turn toward me. It is one of those rude things monsters say.

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game reviewers are weird

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comic about driving i guess

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Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!

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Girls only want one thing and it’s to flip a series of overhead switches and to punch a few glowing buttons to start up the spaceship

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one of my favorite parts of starfield is its SOUND DESIGN

those cute little computer beeps and whirs and clicks are everything to me

and if you listen closely, i’m 99% sure the scanner sounds are taken from the same audio snippets they used for ambient server tape clicks and whirs in fallout 3 & new vegas!!

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i think it's ok that a girl sleeps for so long that she grows moss and mushrooms on her body

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tbh i understand why people follow trends in game design. trying to come up with an original idea for a game fucking sucks. you spend like days and then you finally think of something fun and original that could work well and that you could do so you eagerly share your new awesome game idea with your friends and then someone's like "oh you mean like minerotactics?." fucking every possible game has already been made it's no wonder game devs are like "ok what if i mix uhhh *spins wheel* sudoku with uhh *spins again* counter strike"

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what super expensive indulgence would u get for urself if u suddenly came into a bunch of money?? assume all bills/mortgages paid, all friends helped: what treat are u buying just for u?? for me it would be a quilted lambskin chanel bag in iridescent pink

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let's go on a dragongirl adventure

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hi! sorry if this is a weird question. do you ever get stuck in your own head when it comes to making tes ocs to take the place of the protagonists? like, i see everywhere that the hok HAS to be an imperial, and the ldb HAS to be a nord etc. because those are canon? this might just be a personal/skill issue but those things being considered canon makes it really hard for me to stray, but you do it so well! if it's something you've never struggled with then feel free to ignore this, but i'd love to know your process for making protagonists! thank you!

Not a weird question at all! Because here’s the thing, I totally understand why you’d feel the pressure to conform to what is seemingly the “canon” portrayal of the character. However TES is great in that even if you DO stray….it’s still canon. Let me hold your hand and walk with me nonny and maybe my logic will help you get over that hurdle, too. I’m against these three being “musts” for several reasons, and would argue it isn’t a requirement at all.

Firstly, I’d argue that the game giving you the option, consistently, to play any of the available ethnicities in TES inherently implies that any of those options ARE canonically valid. While it’s true that gameplay and lore/story is sometimes (often) at odds in the series, something as major as your PC’s core identity isn’t proven as impossible in any of the storylines of the three main games. For example, in Morrowind Argonians are highly resistant (or impervious. Don’t remember which because I haven’t played unmodded Morrowind in 80 million years) to disease. Theoretically this could imply that they can’t catch The Blight - but you catch it regardless of what race you play. You could reason this in a myriad of ways, but mine has always been that Corpus is not a normal disease - it’s , additionally, magical. After all, Argonians can also become vampires, which are considered diseases in canon. Buuut they give you magic powers. So.

Neloth refers to the Nerevarine as “he” in Dragonborn BUT 1) IIRC Kirkbride said it was an error and 2) Telvanni/The great houses in general aren’t exactly known for being pillars of feminism. I totally believe that he’d just lie if your Nerevarine happened to be a woman because it’s less bruising to the ego. “He” is also in the opening of Morrowind, and again I never thought this meant the Nerevarine HAD to be male. You can justify that one however you want: trying to go for a gender-neutral “he” (like saying “man” to refer to humanity), the prophecy assuming the Nerevarine will be the same gender as Nerevar himself, etc.

This goes hand in hand with my second point: TES is a series RIFE with revisionist history and unreliable narrators. The Thalmor and Black Marsh both insist that THEY defeated the Oblivion hoards during the crisis, for example. But we played Oblivion. We know that’s not how it went down.

Think on it: would the proud Dunmer not want to pretend the Nerevarine was another proud (male) dark elf? Would the weakening Empire NOT want to pretend that the HoK was one of their own - decked out in legion armor no less, despite the fact there’s no way to acquire it in-game (without murder? and you’re literally a prisoner in the beginning)? Same goes with the Nords. They tend to want to think Dragonborn-ness is exclusive to them and them only, but that’s literally not true in any capacity. Nearly all of the lore we don’t directly interact with in-game is historical texts from a vast array of biased sources.

And, finally, to make a point outside of the fourth wall: I think the default protagonists are just always the ethnicity that’s associated with the homeland the game is set in. This is why the Arena and Daggerfall protagonists are genuinely faceless and you don’t see the same argument: those games span all of Tamriel. I think for III - V it’s more a way for Bethesda to showcase a unique aspect of the region we’ll be playing in. And they’re always men because gamerbros piss their pants if they even ASSUME they must play a woman (think about reactions to the most recent Witcher game announcement).

I think people who insist the protagonists of this series “must” be X or Y are either misguided or unimaginative. TES is great because of how rocky and vauge it’s historical foundations are. You can decide whatever you want and you can PROBABLY find a way to bullshit the lore to your own means to make it “fit”. For example, Dondras is the Champion of Cyrodiil but by the 4th Era in Skyrim’s timeline, the HoK is confused in some texts as being an Ohmes Khajiit, due to the fact M’rasha was also documented as being Hok. The two stories of them ultimately got confused by the passage of time and incomplete record-keeping. So later historians saw mentions of a khajiit and/or mer and assumed it must’ve been the furstock that LOOKS like an elf.

I hope this helps/makes sense! It’s a mix of appealing to Gamers and there being no actual canonical reason why they have to be anything at all. Be free!

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Andreja: Knows the relationship is doomed because she knows the Great Serpent will come. (F) Spacefarer: Knows the relationship is doomed because she knows she will enter the Unity.

Help! I've fallen into a doomed yuri plot!