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The dichotomy of Cyberpunk 2077 fandom depending of what platform you use:

Me: I want to romance my brain tumour.

Reddit: WTF is wrong with you? How would that even work? Never mind, you're missing a lot of red flags if you want that.

Tumblr: Saaame! And it's the canon romance whether the game will acknowledge it or not.

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romance is a type of friendship and im sick of people pretending like they're two seperate categories. your romantic partner is Supposed to also be your friend like at the very least why are we pitting romance AGAINST friendship when they r intertwined???? romantic partners are also friends and u can have romance with ur friends stop acting like these bitches are seperate forces

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the nonbinary character requirement guide

if you're nonbinary and have all of these traits you are still cool imo. i just wish there was more nonbinary variety out there in the public consciousness

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So I can tell him to go away but I still can't smooch him? Cowards!

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I'm doing the Very Veggie challenge, eggplant sim is currently a teen, and it's just hilarious. As part of his aspirations, he has to break up 10 couples, and his first victim was the high school principle.

I'm just imagining her going home at the end of the day and telling her husband: "Honey, we need to get a divorce asap because this kid at my school who's been approaching me to tell jokes and talk about random stuff a suspicious amount said we aren't right for eachother."

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I think I disagree with the idea that Wyll’s happiest ending (breaking his pact and rescuing his father) is too “contrived.” I want to push back on this take I've been seeing that it’s “unrealistic” to succeed in rescuing Ulder even if resisting Mizora’s goals in the matter.

if the world were a better place we'd have had an actual quest tied to figuring out Ulder's whereabouts apart from Mizora's tip-off, but since we don't have that, I still want to defend the rescue as entirely plausible even if we're not told immediately where to go. none of this "but the consequence should have been Ulder's death because Mizora tried to kill him/said he would die" - please do remember that Mizora is a devil! devils will do (demonstrably, and consistently), whatever they can in order to make their deals either seem like the "only way out" of some kind of existing crisis, and/or have the fulfillment of those deals be so entirely empty (or horrific) upon deliverance that you were likely better off never taking them at all.

I think the point that Mizora is manipulative and vague and scheming and as a devil will always try to twist things up to position “her way” as the “only way” is a big deal in Wyll’s arc. Wyll repeatedly cautions you against devil deals throughout the entire game because he is intimately familiar with the ways that Mizora sets things up to her advantage and manipulates her outcomes. so to be there for him in that moment with Mizora, proving to Wyll that he does not have to face everything alone, that he can choose his freedom and still pursue hope for rescuing his father, is extremely important.

Mizora has historically isolated Wyll and preyed on his deeply self-sacrificial nature time and time again, so this is the moment! this is the moment the player can be a champion for Wyll when he has never had someone to step up and do that for him before. and it would suck, it would be awful, if the only option to be a champion for Wyll meant giving in to Mizora's manipulations in one way or another. Wyll has only ever believed he could choose between "either they get hurt, or I get hurt," and he has always chosen the latter. this is the moment someone can finally stand at Wyll's side and say "no, you do not have to choose one pain over the other. you deserve your freedom and we will save your father."

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Aww, I remember the "straight male gamer"™ i.e. the self-appointed spokesperson for all straight male gamers. He was there to tell us how bad Dragon Age 2 is, because the men are gay and the women are exotic. How resources should have been used to create a whole new (straight) romance from scratch instead of making the existing ones bi, and all in all, how the Witcher, where you can only be a straight dude is a much better game.

Dragon Age has always been queer. Dragon Age has also always been "controversial" for it. The homophobes and transphobes now throwing a fit over The Veilguard's queer cast are no different than than the assholes who came before them.

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Only after tapping the "had sex" option did I remember that I actually smoked a cigarette a few hours ago, and that is a recreational drug. It's wild that smoking is so normalised that it did not even occur to me that it is, in fact, a drug

Which of these have you done most recently:

Had sex with another person

Used recreational drugs

Watched the cartoon Bluey

I’ve never done any of these

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It should have been such an obvious egg moment for me, when the Sims 3 introduced boob sliders, and I immediately pulled those down to minimum when creating a new sim and felt so disappointed it wasn't completely flat.

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I think I'm the opposite extreme. I'm completely baby crazy and obsessed with how cute they are. Cue my dysphoria getting so much worse because I absolutely needed to have one of my own.

Every once in a while, I have to convince myself that having a second one would be an absolutely terrible idea. I can only hope I'll keep listening.

every time im shown a baby (usually a coworker's) I've learned to coo because it's the expected response but seeing a baby does nothing to my brain. that's a worm who might start screaming. but apparently everyone finds babies cute? is everyone else also pretending or am I the problem ?

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Being queer is so funny, every day you can just randomly hear that you don't exist lol

Come, take a seat in the queer abyss

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me: hungarian gets a bad rap for being hard to learn but because most of what we use today was artificially constructed in the early 19th century once you understand the (very logical) grammar it actually isnt that hard

hungarian:

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the problem with a lot of the conversations around monogamy i see is so much of it is about whether or not your partner should fuck other people and i think that's ultimately a super personal decision but the real problem with the monogamic ideal of relationships that so many of us internalize is that one person is supposed to fill every gap in your life and be able to do everything with you and be everything you need and like. that's bad for everyone involved

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I interacted with a few Hungarian posts, which are relevant to me because I'm a Hungarian who speaks Hungarian.

Then a week or so later, some posts in German show up on my for you. A little random and I don't really interract with them, but I know some German and there were good ones. So far so good.

Well, today a Polish post shows up on my for you, and that's completely random. I don't speak a word of Polish.

So does whatever Tumblr have instead of an algorithm just think: oh, funny language that isn't English? I can pull out more of those!

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You can always tell that people who call Wyll boring never take him out of camp because yes, Wyll’s camp dialogue tends to be more formal (fitting a young noble man who has spent years playing the role of a community hero), but when you take him out and about he actually seems (in my game at least) to be one of the more reactive companions and is always quick with the funny quips and commentary. And he is really funny!

He calls Dror Ragzlin the “gobbo in charge”

He asks you not to open THAT barn door because he doesn’t want to be invited to that wedding….

Referring to Auntie Ethel as an old biddy and warning you to run if she pulls out a pot of oil

These are just some instances I noticed pretty early into Act One, but yeah I really do think he’s an underrated character

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That one scene be like

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Make it 10 and I'll quit smoking tomorrow.