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one hyperfixated tumblr mutual has the power of six hundred thousand ad campaigns

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#Emet Selch and Azem

well have you considered that maybe the unstoppable force is in love with the immovable object

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I really do enjoy antagonists whose motivations I can understand rather than, you know… cartoon villain cackle for the Evulz.

Will be part of the Patreon rewards sent out on July 4th!

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being ascians is hard work

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full fathom five.

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there's a third option apart from either engaging with fandom or only discussing it with a small circle of friends and it's talking to yourself alone in a dark closet for 2 years with the door ajar 1 inch so random passerby of all sorts of different backgrounds and familiarities with what you are talking about can sometimes hear you

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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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much less pressing criticism than prev post but it's irritating to me that someone using how many times veilguard uses the word "okay" compared to the other games as an example to show why the writing feels so different tonally has been twisted into "people are REALLY mad about the word okay". i can't tell if people are genuinely just not able to read between the lines to understand this or if they're being obtuse on purpose because they know it's true lol. it's not that the word okay is used too much specifically it's that the first three games changed so much visually and still managed to maintain a cohesive vibe because of the writing, and veilguard dropping that is why so many people were inexplicably going "idk how to define a dragon age game but this doesn't feel like one" on release.

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Did you know the fantasy MMORPG Final Fantasy Fourteen only uses the word "okay" 9 times in dialogue throughout the entire hundreds of hours long story? And each use of "okay" that got through seems like an actual mistake that simply didn't get edited out?

There is no use of "okay" in A Song of Ice and Fire. There is no use of "okay" in the entire The Witcher series. It's something that's like... just really largely accepted for fantasy. I would argue that vocabulary choice and word choice does a huge amount of heavy lifting to make something "feel" like a fantasy!!!!! It's a part of the genre expectation that I think is largely agreed on.

If you're writing a medievalish fantasy in a fantasy land, and you chose to establish a unique vocabulary and to minimize modern anachronisms to facilitate the feeling of being in a different fantasy world than our own modern mundane world, in a way that is commonly accepted for fantasy, and you've done it in all 3 previous of your games except for deliberate exceptions for artistic reasons, then you expect that to continue into the next part of the story so you feel like there's continuity.

the FFXIV English localization team made a point never to use "okay" commonly because it DOES make it feel too modern. It's actually a really easy thing to keep an eye on, editing wise.

and FFXIV is a game that has ACTUAL MODERN CARS and PARKING LOTS!!! and the English writing team STILL cared about eliminating "okay". Because they cared in a basic way about how word choice affects fantasy experience. Anyway, so that's how it feels when fantasy writing cares about the little details :)

Anyway, I'll continue to look at it as the most easy softball lob toward the writers' and editors' bats that they just fucking whiffed for no reason. Or whiffed on purpose, which is even fucking worse.

And after this week's revelations that BioWare always HATED and devalued the medieval fantasy Dragon Age and LOVED and valued the futuristic sci-fi Mass Effect, this style change is even more important to me. When a company looks down on fantasy PERIOD and suddenly in the latest game even the very language is changed to not feel as much as a fantasy game.... HMMM Hmmmm hmmmm I'm sure it's nothing!!!!!! but yeah it's childish to have basic expectations for a fantasy setting

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Wait, so Tumblr is going away now too? And twitter is the worst garbage site I've ever been subjected to. Are we going back to fucking Livejournal or what is even happening

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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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@witheyeslikestars

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they should invent an existence where the sweetest, most thoughtful people you've ever met don't suffer an endless series of indignities and injuries at the hands of gormless, self-obsessed monsters

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evil wizard voice: i too have a "doom scroll"

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Whoa. It's fish doorbell season

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Everyone should look up their local SCA group and go to it... they usually meet to whack each other with swords every week and they will probably teach you how to broadsword sword fight and rapier sword fight for free. They're just huge nerds with passion about history and a passion about whacking each other with swords.

(source, my brother and I showed up to the local whack-each-other-with-swords meeting and were instantly handed borrowed swords and given a sword fighting class for free)

They also give classes on other things too, like any craft that was done pre-1600, they'll probably do a class on how to do that craft in a historically accurate way. Like wool spinning, and mead brewing and hand sewing and calligraphy and basically any craft you can think of, as long as it was done in medieval times. And you can do research about how to do a craft in a historically accurate way and offer to teach what you learned to everyone. It's genuinely one of the most interesting clubs you can join.

tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies