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If I had a dollar every time the whitest woman in the game took the Identity of an asian character...

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The more I see of Nightreign the more I think of this image.

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The 2021 LTSC is available in the plain vanilla version, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021, with end of mainstream support scheduled January 12, 2027, and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021, with an extended end date of January 13, 2032. They are not quite the same as the ordinary consumer editions of Windows 10. They don't include the Windows Store or any "modern" apps. Apart from the Edge browser, they have almost nothing else: no OneDrive, no Weather or Contacts apps, and no Windows Mail or whatever it's called this week.

...no OneDrive, Copilot AI, or all of the other useless crapware cluttering up the Start menu? AND patches/support through 2032??

Don't threaten me with a good time, Microsoft.

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*Nintendo Direct guy voice*: Murder mystery...or fantasy? Embark on a journey on the island of Rokkenjima, where a mysterious witch is said to reside, and where a series of occult murders start to occur in an endless loop. Can you solve the mystery of the Golden Witch and escape the island? Remember, without love, it cannot be seen!

Umineko no Naku Koro Ni Questions Arc + Answers Arc HD Remasters, coming to Nintendo Switch 2!

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Love when girls laugh so hard they turn into tea kettles.

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After literal years I've finally finished the first Stormlight Archive book. I binged the entire last 1/5th of the book in one evening and my brain feels like it's about to melt. I need to talk about this book but nobody I know IRL has read it. Fuck.

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btw dating sucks as a concept.

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10/10/24

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i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you

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Sorry....No.

The game EXPLICITLY states that Mohg was under the inluence of Miquella BEFORE entering the Land of Shadows and being kidnapped, with him being active enough to have managed to charm Ansbach.

"Once, in an attempt to free Lord Mohg from his enchantment, I challenged Tender Miquella, only to have my own heart rather artfully stolen. I knew not how weak I was." - Ansbach

Miquella was in an unconcious state when he was kidnapped (the cocoon only breaks after we walk in, after all). This event had to happen BEFORE the kidnapping, which means that Miquella had already charmed Mohg andplanned this all out in advance. You can think about that what you want from a satisfaction or writing perspective, but it is text, there is no other way to explain this other than Ansbach is somehow unreliable - but you would have to present proof for that, of which there is none.

It also makes no sense to mention Thiollier here - of course he wouldn't be obsessed with Trina...Because Miquella's charm makes people dedicated to Miquella, not Trina - they have fundamentally different powers even if they were once in the same body. Again, the proof is in Ansbach, who rejects Miquella after the charm is broken - he was the only one of the followers who was forced into submission to Miquella, all the other ones held genuine loyalty towards him because of his charisma.

None of this is subtext - all of this is explained very clearly to the player, in a way Souls games almost rarely do.

Edit: I should add I'm not a 'Mohg was a good boy all along' truther. You are right in saying that Miquella's charm doesn't change people's personality, it shifts their loyalties, perspectives and attentions. Mohg was likely always a creepy, evil weirdo, it's just that Miquella's influence forced him to focus that entirely on him.

about miquella's kidnapping, you know the charm only works if miq gets really close in your face (see heart stolen + freyja's account of being healed) and it doesn't do a 180° in your personality (the npcs in the shadow realm are there to show us how it affects them and we can see it didn't change their personality) what the charm does is: make you non-violent (see heart stolen) makes you forget bad things (see leda and ansbach remembering "cascading sheets of blood" after the charm is broken)

if anything, I'd say the charm would've made him more sane, take thioller for example he's completely obsessed with trina after the charm is broken, to the point where he tries to kill you after she talks to you

compare thioller's dialogue:

"i am her chosen, not you. only I can doze off in the sea of st. trina"

and

"only i am allowed to know. of your velvety sleep. its sweetly gentle embrace. so please, smile—for me, and only me." (st. trina's smile)

to mohg's dialogue:

"miquella is mine and mine alone"

both are possessive and obsessed. miquella's charm nullified thioller's obsession, and I have no reason to believe miquella can just pick and choose the side effects his charm will have.

my points on why miquella did not want to be kidnapped

1 - he wouldn't have cocooned himself for a long ass time like he did otherwise. and you know he was there for a long time because he's all skinny and covered in cocoon liquid stuff. and mohg wouldn't need to break open his cocoon like he did, he would just take it back to his palace

2 - miquella couldn't have known mohg even existed. he lived in the sewers his whole life, and miquella never went to the sewers. also, even if he did, he couldn't have charmed him there bc otherwise ansbach would never know to differentiate a non-charmed mohg from a charmed mohg .

3 - mohg is already a established kidnapper. from the "war surgeon gown":

"Bloodstained white gown of the war surgeons who were effectively mercy killers. Of the surgeons that were abducted by the Lord of Blood, none were able to tame the accursed blood. None but Varré, that is; though he was an exception."

4 - mohg had his own reasons to kidnap miquella. he wanted to build his blood dynasty and to become a lord, as ansbach says he was seeking lordship, and the consort of an empyrean is a lord by right (see dark moon ring description). miquella is the only empyrean available, as ranni is presumed dead and malenia already has a god inside of her (and he could never kidnap her), leaving only miquella who apparently doesn't have an outer god meddling inside of him, so perfect vessel for the formless mother

now, you're probably wondering "well if the mohg thing wasn't planned, who would be used as a vessel for his consort??" to answer that, miquella probably didn't know he needed a vessel in the first place, as the ">>>secret<<< rite scroll" is only found in the shadow realm, he couldn't have known about that thing while living in the lands between.

verdict: miquella was forced to switch plans after the kidnapping (can't complete anything he starts curse yadda yadda), mohg did not beat the allegations, and miquella got his revenge for being used (mohg was living/sleeping inside his corpse how do yall forget this???) by using mohg's corpse to house his promised consort's soul somehow (which is awful too, but that goes without saying)

remember, the story in the dlc is there to parallel his ascension to marika's ascension. in this case, the hornsent killed and tortured marika's people, and she responds by genociding and terrorizing the hornsent people. mohg used and abused miquella's corpse, and he responded by using mohg's corpse.

marika = miquella

hornsent = omen

I just think it's weird that so many people are running off with the assumption that miquella, who the dlc all but confirm has the body AND mentality of a child, was charming mohg out of malicious intent rather than self-defense. remember he was probably never trained to fight nor does he have the strength to do it, the charm is basically his self-defense mechanism.

I think the main issue is that if you disagree on even the littlest thing here, the whole narrative shifts, and that's why there's so many different interpretations and confused people.

this is all subjective and there's no reason to claim my interpretation is the correct one ofc but I do think I make a good argument.

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The Thing

"skeleton" is a really cool monster concept. creature without the meat. is there a monster that's a creature with just the meat

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There once was a worker at the construction site of yet another stupid, pointless pyramid, who'd always tell dirty jokes about the Pharaoh's wife over beer and baked onions, and his friends would laugh and half-seriously hush him down, because the overseer might hear it, and we all know that guy's a fucking snitch. There was a quaestor assistant who'd be dying of boredom every day, slouched over his desk, and he'd pray to all the gods for the evening to come faster, so he can go to his buddy's place and play some dice. There was a samurai who'd wake up every night, hearing the clanging of steel and the screams of the dying, and there was his wife, who'd calm him down, and repeat over and over that he's home now, he's safe, and he can go back to sleep. There was a woman in the ghetto who'd help her sons with their writing every other day, because the melamed's a drunk and he doesn't even show up to half the lessons, and her little boys are not going to be illiterate because of that man's weakness. At some remote monastery in the Tuscan countryside, there was a young nun who really loved to sing, and she wasn't very good at it, if we're being honest, but she'd still get assigned to the antiphon every lauds, because her sheer enthusiasm never failed to make her sisters' morning brighter. There was a weird old man who lived outside the walls of Marrakesh, in a hut he'd built himself back when he was younger, who'd live off of food baskets from his neighbours, and he'd feed most of it to his mean, blind, grey-haired camel, because she's the only one of his old friends who's still alive, so he's gonna take good care of her until, inshallah, they both die calm deaths in their sleep. And there once was a couple, God only knows where, who'd tuck their children in to sleep every night, not too close to the fire, and then they'd spend hours quietly carving mammoth ivory together, in order to surprise them with a new toy.

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shoutouts to the guy on 4chan that is filing a suit against fromsoftware because he was driven to madness by bloodborne and believes there's a second half of every souls game that no one has ever seen before

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I've started to watch Jujutsu Kaisen and am currently on Episode 9. I just cannot understand the mind of straight women, bro. I guess people go horny for Gojo because he's basically Sans but as an asian guy with blue eyes

but I just don't understand the horny for Sukuna. So far he's just been an irredeemable bastard murderer. He wouldn't 'love you roughly', Jennifer, he'd slice your head off and sodomize your corpse.

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Flavor Text Highlights Honorable Mentions

Dragons: *exist*

The M20 flavor texts: Anyways let's hear from someone who died