#should i make a sequel?

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Mini comic p1

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Are you?

[heph]

House MD - Season 1

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Hermits Whom I Think Should Be Allowed To Swear

Pearl - not letting her call ppl cunts is abuse to australians i think

Skizz - he's always got some dirty joke he could say and I would let him. I don't think impulse should swear tho and cuz his buddy doesn't get to swear skizz wouldn't want to either so it doesn't rlly matter if he's allowed to

Gem - she should be allowed to tell ppl to shut tf up she deserves it

Tango - I need to know if he would Thingificate swear words it keeps me up at night. Fuckificate. Do u see me vision.

XbCrafted - he says "son of a-" and "why you-" often enough that he deserves to say fuck at least once per video

Grian - with how often he was telling scar to put his clothes back on, he should've been allowed to swear during 3rd Life specifically just to call scar a slut and thats it

Scar - he accidentally swears often enough that him being allowed to swear is like keeping bandaids in your wallet cuz you keep getting papercuts

[paintsplash1712]

GOOD!

[ph-cutie]

people's magazine sexiest man alive (3d model study)

[lizzybeeee]

DATV is overly reliant on Supplemental Media - especially if you are a returning player

TL;DR: Supplemental material should not be required reading in order to understand what's going on in the main game -> it's additional material that enhances what we were given. If what we were given is lacking and unable to coherently tell us a story, then the writers and those in charge did not prioritize what was important.

Not a take that's unique to Dragon Age, but one that is very relevant when talking about DATV. I've made a few posts about plot/story points that either make no sense or have been dropped entirely in the lead up from DAI to DATV. Every now and then I get a few comments or messages about how certain points I made were addressed in supplemental material released in the lead up to this games release.

This isn't a call out post, by the way! But it's frustrating, to me, that this games writing is so lacking that my understanding is being inhibited because I can't remember details from a book I read two years ago - not to mention various podcasts, comics, and short stories. My understanding of a video game in a video game series should not be reliant on additional/optional content.

DATV is a weird game in that it is absolutely a 'soft/scorched earth' reboot while also marketing itself as a continuation to what was set up in Inquisition and Trespasser. Personally, I think that if you are up to number 4 in a game series, one with a continuous story-line, it should be expected that new players won't be able to catch up to everything -> it's the game developers job to make the world and story intriguing enough that the new players will go back to previous games in the series and fill in the blanks themselves.

Veilguard, as a sequel, is overly reliant on content that comes from outside the games themselves (including DLC's) if you want to make sense of the world and story. Trespasser left us with an epilogue that set up some plot points for the next game: Solas & the Veil, the Elven Rebellion, and War with the Qun - plot points that have been built up since the time of Origins. But when we get into DATV two of these points have been dropped and resolved, off-screen.

There are more questions, but these are the ones that bothered me the most while playing the game:

What happened to the Agents of Fen'harel/ Elven Rebellion? -> answered in a cursed reddit AMA.

What happened to the Qunari following Trespasser -> addressed in Tevinter Nights, and a codex entry you can pick up (optional).

Why is Skyhold infested with demons? -> mentioned in Tevinter Nights.

How did the Dalish go from worshiping their own pantheon to knowing they are false gods? (specifically those we meet in the Veil Jumpers) -> mentioned in the Missing comic series.

What's up with Nevarra's Royals? -> Tevinter Nights addresses that there is a power struggle in the Pentaghast family and the role of the Mortalitasi in making it worse - though it does not address the whole 'mage puppeting a corpse' issue and all the implications it has.

This is a video game series -> the bulk of the information required for me to understand the story and its relation to previous entries needs to be included in the final game version. I am playing a video game and not attending a uni class - I should not need to have a required reading list in order to understand what the fuck is going on. I should definitely not need to go onto a reddit AMA to understand what happened in-game, either.

What makes this stand out the most is that DAI was very successful in tying in previous games, DLC's, movies, and books! Inquisition did a great job in getting you up to speed on the events of the previous games early on, providing personalization if you played those games, and giving the player the opportunity to inquire into these events.

Hiding away the answers in additional material or a codex entry that may be missed is not good game design or good writing. DAI didn't assume that you had bought and played the Legacy DLC -> it made certain you experienced the conversation with Varric and Hawke if you wanted to proceed in the game. It didn't hide away imperative information in codex entries - it had characters talk about it in scripted scenes and encourage the player to ask more. You would actively need to avoid interacting with characters for you to not experience this information in DAI.

Leliana talks about her role during the Blight, her calling by the Maker, and her relationship with Dorothea/Justinia -> DAO and Leliana's Song DLC.

Cullen talks about his time as a templar at Kinloch & Kirkwall -> DAO and DA2.

Cassandra speaks about her history, investigation into Hawke, and the Seekers -> Dawn of the Seeker movie, DA2, & Asunder novel.

Varric talks about Hawke, Kirkwall, and Corypheous -> DA2 and Legacy DLC.

Cole talks about how he discovered he was a 'demon' - it leads to further conversations about Rhys, Evangeline, and Lord-Seeker Lambert -> Asunder novel.

Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts -> the game literally continues what the Masked Empire novel sets up, the Orlesian Civil War. The game does a decent job of telling us about the players (Celene, Gaspard, Briala etc...) and the reasoning behind the conflict through dialogue, the ability to explore the battlefields, quests, ambient dialogue, etc... The book is not required reading - though it greatly adds to the complexity of the characters, motivations, and political intrigue!

I never once, playing DA2 or DAI, felt penalized or like my experience was lacking because I had not engaged with supplemental material or DLC's. I got into Dragon Age when I was in high school, it wasn't until I graduated and began working after that I had the disposable income available for experiencing the extra material. I cannot say that for DATV - If you have played Inquisition and go into DATV straight from that you will, absolutely, be confused about how we got from A to B.

Which is especially strange to me!? Why is it that new players will be less confused than those that are returning players? It's like the game is actively punishing you for playing and caring about previous games in the series.

Supplemental media is bought because the main product has earned your investment, love, or interest. Not everyone has the income available to buy it with their own money - especially if you live outside the US and have to pay additional shipping costs. Not everyone has the ability to buy or 'obtain' the digital versions either. My understanding of the main story of a video game in a video game series should not require additional monetary investment into other mediums.

The game itself should be enough and DATV is not enough.

[goddesspharo]

Production value!

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bareback mount him

[moldy-flowers]

Boruto would be 1000% better if Sasuke left Konoha for months at a time but visited in-between them.

If we want ss to actually be a proper relationship Sakura and Sarada can travel with him once a year so they actually like. Have a real relationship. Probably should happen during March so he's there for some important dates. Sakura could spread medical ninjutsu and heal poor villages, Sarada could learn about other cultures and actually have a whole family. Sasuke doesn't have to be in a village that activelly assisted in the ethnic cleansing of his clan for long at a time and can replace the memory's of empty houses and ghosts with spending time with family and hanging out with his friends. Then he can leave after a week or so when it gets a bit stressful.

Also i think they should get a cat.

There we go! I fixed Boruto. Everybody clap for me now!!!

[cinnbar-bun]

New commissions of my girlies courtesy of @phidont AAAAAAA MARY AND FLOOR NATION WE ARE EATING!!!!

[heartisbrave]

bottoms doesn’t need a sequel but I need another movie with the exact same cast and crew. time for gay people to have their own brat pack

[leofrith]

obviously the quality of all these shows is suffering from the fact that their primary function is to provide the setup for future star wars projects (mcuification, baby!!! who's ready for the infinity war style team-up movie where the gang takes down thanos—i mean thrawn?). but i also think a big part of why the book of boba fett, mando s3 (and to a slightly lesser extent, s2 as well), and ahsoka all suffer from the same issue of having their main protagonists cast aside in favour of side characters—which in itself might not be as annoying as it is if those stories were even remotely interesting or well-written—is because filoni & co. want to be making an ensemble piece. but instead, they're stuck having to make a bunch of solo projects that are ostensibly about individuals or smaller casts of characters, which they then stumble their way through in the most half-assed, half-hearted way possible because it's all just setup for the "mandoverse movie," a phrase which makes me want to projectile vomit.

[mmj-of-the-day]

I like to imagine that this is how the cover of Shoujorei happened [MMJ of the DAY #5]

Don't worry!!!! She a hologram !

Today's MMJ of the DAY is Shoujorei!

[Fun fact: at some point I was considering to do this as the first MMJotDAY. Why did I think it would be a good idea????? "Hey everyone! This is my silly blog where I post wacky little comics! Anyway here's Shoujorei"]

[sirenspells]

[Omori PMD AU]

Those new Faraway Town residents seem kinda familiar...

Uhh in case anyone missed my one post about it, I've decided Mari and Sunny had actual pokemon world counterparts that just don't happen to meet the other characters until after Mari and Sunny have already left the pokemon world. lol

I drew them as an Espeon and Umbreon at first (and they'll still evolve into them) but I've decided they instead start the story as Eevees still

[eff-plays]

"Uugh why are people comparing BG3 to Veilguard?" Because they're both big budget character-focused western RPGs and BG3 is the result of BioWare's direct influence on the genre while BioWare itself is floundering as competitors shove them out of the scene next question.