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The difference between Leliana and Dorian’s conversations on slavery

When I say that the difference between Leliana’s conversation in Origins about her ignorance on elves is presented as her being ignorant and wrong, whereas parallel conversations in Inquisition are presented as centrist “gotchas,” I’m really not joking or exaggerating. That’s why they feel so different.

Seriously, let’s compare Leliana’s conversation about slavery in Orlais to Dorian’s conversation about slavery in Tevinter. They are identical topics coming from identical positions, (“well I just never questioned about it,”) but they are handled entirely differently.

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my wife...

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our franchise is so progressive and class-aware and culturally conscious. we focus on the Real struggles of the common people. and we make sure our dilemmas are always rooted in complex socioeconomics and never in anything so petty as Good and Evil. we only ask the hard hitting questions. such as Do The Mentally Ill Deserve to Live? or Does The State Have a Point About Enforced Eugenics? or Is Genocide Acceptable If The Victims Are Unpleasant To Be Around? or my personal favorite: What If This Society That Has Been Caricaturized By The Dominant Colonialist Religion As Being Bloodthirsty Savages And Conquering Invaders Is Actually Inherently Warlike, Violent, and Xenophobic In The Exact Ways The Dominant Colonialist Religion Has Claimed?

with special guest star Every Woman On The Planet Only Fit Into Four Categories (Madonna, Whore, Child, or Madonna But With A Sword) and recurring character Black Woman You Should Never Listen To Because Trust Me Bro

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slay

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HIGHLY recommend having a Shepard with a face scar in ME1 because it disappears in ME2 with the whole Lazarus thing and that comes with an extra layer of subtle horror. You’ve been dead for two years. Cerberus took possession of your body, resurrected you, and implanted you with metal enhancements, and on top of it all you’re now missing a major facial feature. A part of who you were. Makes me want to eat rocks

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dont get me started on mordin solus's speech patterns and his refusal to use personal pronouns, most notably when discussing genophage modification, until right before he dies and for the first time starts a sentence with i. dont get me started. full accountability right at the end. no sugarcoating, no deflecting, no rambling. i made a mistake. and then he repeats it. i made a mistake. as if even he cant believe he admitted it out loud, as if it feels so foreign on his tongue. dont even start to gas me up, brenda. dont even think about mentioning that the only time he gets close to a personal pronoun in reference to the genophage is when he talks about his team, calls them "we" as a unit, never to do it again as soon as he realizes the maelon defected. shut your fucking mouth. don't do it. don't say a goddamn word about it. if you even think about discussing how mordin has depersonalized himself so much from the trauma that came with his work that it even bled into the way he talks for the rest of his life, ill fucking lose my mind.

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CAN WE PLEASE HAVE WYLL MERCH WITHOUT MIZORA?

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE WYLL MERCH WITHOUT MIZORA?

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE WYLL MERCH WITHOUT MIZORA?

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giving karlach a milf for pride month

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the em dash calls to me like the green goblin mask whenever I’m writing a fic

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Sera was never an agreeable girl 🧡

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the horizon braincell reactivated so have some sketches 💖✨🎉

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Mama K save me

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“I’ll hold on to you, Hawke. Till the very end”

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your fave is problematic: sigrun

has only appeared once and that is not nearly enough

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Did You Know: Tiber Septim developed a fondness for guar during one of his tours of Morrowind? However, he struggled with the correct pronunciation of "Guar", and instead took to calling them "tigers"—another animal he was fond of from the storybooks of his youth.

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on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

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Nexus Mods was acquired by Chosen, a company focused on growth and monetization of gaming startups.

Reddit thread

Dark0ne, creator and ex-owner of Nexus Mods, stepped down today in an update post:

NexusMods post

Users on Resetera were able to found out more about this sudden change of ownership:

Resetera thread

Victor Folmann, CEO of Chosen, published this "Gaming Startup Monetization Cheat Sheet" on his LinkedIn

Link to the post

Users are already sharing their fear of NexusMods allowing more bigoted mods in the future, and taking down inclusive ones to follow the current "anti-woke" trend in the gaming industry

Reseta threada bout their change in moderation concerning bigoted mods following Oblivion Remastered launch

Another User, this time on NexusMods forum, noticed queer and inclusive mods being removed following Dark0ne's post

Link to the forum post

It is also worth mentioning that Chosen and its CEO are seen using AI generated images on their website (including generated images depicting Tracer from Overwatch) hyping up ChatGPT on his Linkedin account, and are including "rewarding gamers with crypto money"

Users speculate that Chosen buying out NexusMods is to potentially train an AI model that generates mods

More about Nvidia's AI "RTX Remix" and future projects