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Halsin in Golden Hour

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Glanced at the image first without reading and my brain went ‘is this a new Spiderverse character?’

strahd von zarovich from curse of strahd is a little guy

Strahd Von Zarovich from Curse Of Strahd is just a little guy!

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He eats like a bear too 😌

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It will be an Japan exclusive

Halsin foreskin flavored lollipop when

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I've been working on my game bujos and I just remembered freaking out when they announced the ACNH Version 2.0 update, which added tons of new items, but I had several pages of the other sets already set up. The KK Slider page was the one that I was concerned about the most.

There wasn’t really room on the page to add the new 12 songs and I didn't want start over in new journal(because of a few pages), since I still have plenty of room for the other stuff that they added. And I liked the stickers that I applied to page and didn't want to try pulling them up. Only thing I could come up with is a set list and paperclip it the page.

Overall, I like the outcome and am glad that I didn't have to scrap anything to start a new one.

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Slut-shaming and stigmatizing PrEP, condoms, and safe-sex measures as exclusively for "degenerates" who want to "avoid the consequences of their actions" (ironically, the same line that gets used on people with uteruses who want birth control and abortion access) doesn't lower the rates of HIV and other STIs. It just leads to higher rates of infection, as well as people who refuse medical care out of fear they'll be shamed for having an STI.

Granted, the cruelty is the point to most sex-negative people; most enjoy the idea of 'sinners' and 'degenerates' being 'punished' for their promiscuity. But if there's any of you who actually DO think this will reduce rates of infection, if there are any of you who are just misguided: Please know that you are wrong.

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People who overpriced the chest page of any crafting motif are the worst

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Found out that people think that bands like Lemon Demon are only popular because of TikTok…

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He’s doing the Ubisoft ragdoll

IM GONNA THROW UP LAUGHING WHY DID HE CHOOSE TO DIE LIKE THAT

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This panel from yesterday’s Dumbing of Age comic has the same energy

when ovulation hits

ref

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therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.

cunt dracula:

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I painted a custom figure Halsin >:)

I want to make him some fully joint-covering clothes, but I scrambled something together for the purpose of taking some body photos before all the paint scrapes off his joints!

More info + process

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With the amount people upset about historical accuracy with Yasuke in Assassin's Creed Shadows, it's kind of why? Yeah, AC is known for it's historical accuracy but it's never completely accurate either. At it's heart AC is science fiction with a historical fictional slant to it. The developers are engaging the era from a storytelling and gameplay sense to draw peoples interest. Yes, he was a koshō (page),but though think about it, how many of you would actually play the game then(if he was a page). Be honest. It would be a interesting historical drama for sure(Maybe Visual Novel?).

If you want to be upset with historical accuracy in an AC game let me point you to Syndicate with it's completely white population(exception of Duleep Singh & Jayadeep Mir(Henry Green)) of London, which massively failed to represent the number of different people from several of the british colonies.

And anyone who wants to say that the Japanese would be upset, no they wouldn't, because he appeared in several pieces of Japanese media that aren't completely historical accurate. He never played baseball. It would be saying americans would be upset with a commercial depicting George Washington driving a car(they weren't). It's like watching a episode of Dr Who and getting mad that they said Queen Victoria and her descendants are werewolves(Maybe the Royal Family was upset).

Historical figures are often reworked in pop culture to in order tell stories you probably haven't thought or weren't aware of yet. If that bothers you, then maybe don't interact with historical fiction then?

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is digital only

This is going to hurt the game sales massively as people are now wanting physical copies of their media, because of the ways that companies making impossible to own digital media that has been paid for already. Watching the trailer, I was thinking how is Ubi's executive and marketing depts going to fuck this game over.

And here it is.

Another thought is if this doesn't sell well, this game will propped up as 'See we told you that women/others than white european doesn't sell'. Even though Serge Hascoët is no longer with the company, his decisions and actions has long lasting consequences(I'm under the impression through interviews that him and Ubisoft's CEO are still best buds).

Frustrating part of this is, I know that people want to and are willingly to play games with protagonists that don't match their race/gender. I see it in the comment sections trailers for Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla(There are a fair amount of jackasses in the comments as well). People are disappointed with Aya diminished role in Origins, seeing the irony of naming your canon protagonist Kassandra while it's going completely over others heads and choosing Let the Animus Decide choice to show that Eivor(female), Havi(male) was the intended story to be told. No one is bashing the male actors performances as some guys(usually loud and white) would have you believe. A lot of people felt misled by the marketing for Odyssey and Valhalla because they weren't shown the canon character.

Also, with Odyssey and Valhalla trying to match two characters (that weren't intended to be the same) inhibits both actor's performances and doesn't let them play to their strengths they were hired for and weakens the game overall.

Dual protagonists are fine as long you have a some of balance there. AC3 was a bit clunky with Haytham's sequences in the beginning, and Connor's afterwards(the creative director said something to the effect, if he had to do it again, he would implement it better). Syndicate was better but Evie clearly had less content than Jacob and while reading interviews/twitter confirmed that Evie's role was made to be smaller than what the studio wanted to it to be(executive meddling). I know the Shadows team will do their best to their abilities, but with the executive and marketing heads up their own asses, I'm afraid that digital only is going to hinder the games reach and 'prove the executives were right ' because they're greedy misogynistic racists.

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Part of me is excited and the other part is meh(for reasons)

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he ate him up im afraid