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Honestly I think it doesn’t matter too much. I prefer that they write characters rather than ticking a box for their sexuality inclusions. Them making Kaiden bi was very strange to me because, though I may be wrong and missed it, that Kaiden’s story never really introduced any hints that he was bi until ME3. I could also kinda complain that Tali wasn’t a female romance option, I think it just comes down to creative control and whether the sexuality plays a role in the story. They could have made them all bi for equality sake but I find that not representative to real life. Finally I doubt that we can make assumptions that Ashley was more traditional hence isn’t bi, I don’t think that it’s really a choice either way, I doubt being bisexual or gay is a thing that many humans care about in that timeline and gender politics are no longer brought up, after all to integrate into galactic society with beings like Asari would probably have significant changes to human culture. Afterall, even nowadays it can be argued that western society is on the whole more accepting of it. Even at that, I don’t see why her being right leaning or even religious would make her not open to homosexuality, there are plenty of gay right wingers and religious people, I simply think Bioware didn’t wanna just make a person bi for the sake of pandering and I kinda respect that decision. But eh, I didn’t really like the Ashley romance anyway xD so whatever.

One thing I do agree with is that Femshep needed better romances lol. This is like Kotor 2 all over again where the male romance options were bad and the female ones were good and also gave you advantages! xD

I still don't get why they made Kaidan bi in ME3 but not Ash. Probably because they realized they needed another man for MShep.. I guess it's because the male players wouldn't like to romance a bi girl -_-

I never thought about it this way, that it could be about Ashley not being bi to satisfy male players. Well damn. 

But to be fair, I think they always wanted Kaidan to be a romance option and MShep did need more male LIs.

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To Amber Scott from a trans woman: Thank you so much from a trans gamer for painting a target on our backs once again so you can virtue signal how progressive you are. It wouldn't be enough to just, I don't know, put a trans person in a game and have them there as a character. No, it has to be a political statement and you have to just let everyone know it. Otherwise how would people know how great you are as a person, and isn't that what social justice is really about? ... No, seriously, I'm actually starting to wonder that. This is the bloody Samus Aran thing all over again. It can't just be; "here's a fun fan theory make of it what you will," it's we're redefining samus' gender, and all of you can deal with it. Then the trans community gets painted as assholes for trying to change a venorited IP while you guys get to dance off to the warm glow of praise from your ideological peers. Everytime you paint us as this 'other' you are putting in a game so people can be 'enlightened', and every time attitudes towards trans people are made just that much worse for the effort. YAY! Someone please save us from our so called saviors.

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This is a message I found about the Baldur’s Gate DLC: Siege of Dragonspear.

I feel this is the current state of mind many in the lgbt community share when it comes to the Social Justice movements going on right now and reflects similiarly to many women when it comes to feminism and many people of color when it comes to blacklivesmatter. The current wave of “progressiveness” is often done by people who have nothing to do with the issue and wash their own colors with the laundry of real issues that go on. They want to be a part of a club or are guilt tripped into believing the progressive cherry picking and false statistics and get sucked in, trying to prove that they are great people who have amazing morals and are revolutionary people like back in the suffrage era’s...... sigh..... I wish we would all just stop looking for things that make us different and instead focus on what makes us the same.... but I guess we have to draw lines in the sand even if you claim you wanna bring people together.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myu3zwfGGwc)

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Ultraviolet footage of the sun.

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Camerxn - Seyfert deep space ambience

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i am a universe, a living breathing example of everything and all things. i am made of stardust.

[this took so long oh my lord space child why do you torment me so]

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Interstellar

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Plasma Universe

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A University of Alberta professor has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that produce an explosion so powerful its luminosity ranks close to that of a supernova, an exploding star.

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Binary Star

via reddit

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Binary star

A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. The brighter star is called the primary and the other is its companion star or secondary.

Binary stars are often detected optically, in which case they are called visual binaries. Many visual binaries have long orbital periods of several centuries or millennia and therefore have orbits which are uncertain or poorly known. They may also be detected by indirect techniques, such as spectroscopy (spectroscopic binaries) or astrometry (astrometric binaries). If a binary star happens to orbit in a plane along our line of sight, its components will eclipse and transit each other; these pairs are called eclipsing binaries, or, as they are detected by their changes in brightness during eclipses and transits, photometric binaries.

The first GIF shows an artist’s impression of an eclipsing binary star system. As the two stars orbit each other they pass in front of one another and their combined brightness, seen from a distance, decreases. 

Algol, known colloquially as the Demon Star, is a bright star in the constellation Perseus. It is one of the best known eclipsing binaries, (2nd GIF) although Algol is actually a three-star system (Beta Persei A, B, and C) in which the large and bright primary Beta Persei A is regularly eclipsed by the dimmer Beta Persei B.

The second animation was assembled from 55 images of the CHARA interferometer in the near-infrared H-band, sorted according to orbital phase.

Image credit: ESO/CHARA

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