#sorry for being a nerd

[so-sona]

favorite word?

first one that comes to mind is erythropoietin. it's such a funny sounding word

[yanderefarm]

𝙸 𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚃𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝙴𝙽𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚂!!!

𝙴𝙽𝚂𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙻𝙴 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚂 𝙰𝙻𝙴𝚁𝚃 🚨🚨🚨

𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 ( ・∇・)

hides it u didn't see that---

[yuggothic]

TUMBLR USERS PLEASE TAKE NOTES YOU GUYS ARE KILLING ME

[gurlu]

When I was in my teens, I used to make an entire magic system with 360+ unique spells, ordered in magic schools and categories, and it boggles my mind that I basically reinvented DnD mechanics, even down to metamagic.

I wanted to make a wiki about it but I don't have time for it.

The point was to try to encompass every "superpower" I could think of into a magic system.

I even got lore related to it all, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna simply reuse it all for OC worldbuilding. Ngl the fun part was naming all the spells, symbols and coming up with the logic of it all.

[slowtraincumming]

I really like talking and learning about the civil war and the music ough

[doubtscomein]

minwoo would be freaking out over the orv la trailer btw he'd be on the floor shaking and sobbing while suhyeon and ivan just stare at him in confusion

[ryderdire]

my prof: so we will be analyzing arguments and pressuive work

my nerd ass already excited:

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[imyourrockbaby]

Terzo 🤝 Nizar Qabbani

Advocating for the female orgasm

[burnt-by-marigolds]

I hope OP doesn't mind if I expand on the topic, since I take it not all people who play BG3 have to be familiar with general TTRPG concepts (which is fine!). And let me emphasize that BG3 is, ultimately, a game, and it utilises an already established (even if tweaked) game system.

When explaining rules and how to make rolls, most TTRPG core books (D&D and other) say more or less the same. You don't roll dice to complete mundane or straightforward actions. You don't need weird, polysided objects to know your character is capable of everyday computer use or of having a chat with a neutrally or friendly disposed NPC. You roll dice when the outcome of your declared action is uncertain, and the consequences of a failure would be interesting or relevant. A lot of games even say to forgo rolling if your character is an expert in a given task, or has enough time/resources to conduct it.

Now let's break down the situation after the fight with Cazador. Is the outcome uncertain? Obviously! Astarion is coping with difficult, overwhelming emotions, with centuries of trauma and abuse, the game states (through another skill check) he has trouble seeing things clearly etc. etc. The situation is fraught with tension, we're at the very climax of the story arc. Would a failure here be interesting or relevant? By all means! The stakes are high on both a broader scale (it's the fate of seven thousand souls we're talking about) and a very personal one (because I assume the player cares about Astarion at that point). Is the player character an expert at handling the feelings of traumatized undead about to conduct a blasphemous ritual? No, not really. And the situation IS pressing.

Hence the dice roll.

And let me also say: if it was a classic tabletop session and I was the GM, I'd definitely call for a roll here. Every GM I know would do that.

Alright, we've got the system aspect. But does it mean that every time we roll dice, the player character is being a forceful bully coercing people to do their bidding? No. That's where narrative framing comes into action. The way I see it, the narrative framing here is that you're trying to figure out if your Tav/Durge is able to break through the fog of two centuries of conditioning, difficult emotions, and the “intoxication”, so Astarion would HEAR them and THEN make his choice. As OP said, it's about how well they can articulate their point in a stressful situation.

Not to mention that if you're trying to manipulate someone, you're most likely going to roll Deception, not Persuasion. Here's what 5e SRD (Standard Reference Document) says about Persuasion: “Typically, you use persuasion when acting in good faith, to foster friendships, make cordial requests, or exhibit proper etiquette”. This is not the skill used for manipulation.

And, as OP pointed out, 15 isn't difficult, it's moderate. 18 (I believe the original value if you don't pass the Insight check) is somewhere in-between. The game has tons of harder skill checks (20, 25, 30 etc.), including at least two of 99 difficulty (Larian, you trolls).

Sometimes I see people say that using persusion on Astarion to talk him out of ascension is a bad thing. Like it's mind control, but honestly, 15 is not a hard DC, that is a task of moderate difficulty. It is harder to get Wyll to smooch you at the party, or to get Shadowheart not to mercy kill her parents then to convince Astarion that mass slaughter is a bad idea and he doesn't need to do this.

Also, it's literally just talking. It's just being convincing, all the skill is is assigning a number value to how well Tav can articulate a point.

If Larian wanted it to be a difficult they would have given it a Dc 20, and if Larian wanted it to be mind control it would have been illithid wisdom.

[courfee]

17 December 1975 / 15 May 1976

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[deanscutiepiesam]

It's so sick and twisted that I can't relay this information to Dean Winchester because I KNOW he would lose his mind over this. It would make his day — no — his year. Whole life even. He would never shut up about it.

At first, he'd make some dirty joke about "being inside" Sam and giggle about it, but the longer he thinks about it, he'd be obsessed with the fact that he's apart of Sam. Like literally apart of him. Biologically. And not just because they have the same parents, but like some of his cells are Sam's.

This is so unfair. Dean deserves to know this.

[lyss-sketchbox]

Iudex wrio from the swap au doodles

[apostaterevolutionary]

Okay can I be a bitter Anders fan for like. Just 2 minutes here lmao

Cause bioware released some game stats for veilguard and apparently 72% of players redeemed Solas which is like. Okay yeah the game kinda pushes you towards that. But when I think of all the shit I used to have to put up with just for enjoying Anders like at all and…

(This is not me being anti-Solas, I do not care if you love or hate him, but I am gonna say what he’s done is like. Objectively worse than literally every other companion so lmao. And that’s fine! You can still enjoy him! I’m not saying you can’t and it’s important to me that people understand that! I’m just saying he did in fact do objectively morally worse things in game than Anders did and I don’t think that’s really debatable. And I can’t really make my point here without saying that but I do want to make it clear this is not some moral condemnation of Solas enjoyers cause it’s not)

Getting anon hate on the regular, being told “oh you’re allowed to like Anders as long as you regularly talk about how much he sucks”, people gleefully describing how much fun they have killing him ON your posts about the fact that you like him, the devs making jokes about shitty fates for him when fans asked innocent questions about him, the absolute audacity of his writer to say half the shit she did in interviews (about bisexuality and mental illness, most critically), and then being beaten over the head again in inquisition about how Anders is the worst character to ever exist and there’s no redemption for terrorists who lie to you one time in the entire game and he deserves death or worse and that’s it

And now… 72% of people are down to redeem the guy who lies to you for 2 games straight and who did a lot of questionable things that includes creating the fucking blight and. Like. I guess I’m glad that Solas fans can live in a world where they aren’t constantly harassed and can give their ship like. A pretty damn good ending all things considered. And that the devs love Solas and actually give the option for that happy ending and have characters go to bat for Solas throughout the game and the most annoying thing they have to see are people making scrambled egg memes. I would not wish anyone to have to deal with the shit Anders fans had to put up with back then cause it sucked. It really sucked. And I’m glad it’s not being repeated with a different character, if nothing else

But like. Man there really is a difference when the writers actually like the character who does the thing, huh

[sky-scribbles]

OK, but I love that Essek might be appearing in the Mighty Nein series before he meets the Nein! It's not just me wanting More Essek (though I do) or wanting to see more of what was going on with his dealings with the Assembly (which I also do). I think this could be super fucking interesting from a narrative construction standpoint.

Because I cannot see how you can include Essek from early in the series and not make it clear to the audience that he's the Dynasty traitor loooong before the Nein find out. Essek having stolen the beacons will not be a surprise. It looks to me like the cast are swapping out surprise for a fuckton of suspense. (Suspense vs surprise was explained to me when I was studying narrative structure as 'surprise is when a bomb goes off that the audience didn't know was there. Suspense is when they see the bomb being placed and have to sit there begging the characters to realise it's there.' In this analogy, Essek is the bomb.)

When we watched C2, the question was is Essek the traitor? In the M9 show, the question for new watchers will be when will the Nein realise that Essek is the traitor? When Essek meets the Nein, the countdown starts ticking; people will know that he is a danger. He is manipulating them. He is going to hurt them. Will the Nein realise before it's too late? But then Essek starts really befriending them, showing more of his loneliness and vulnerability, and... I think the mood will shift. Oh, shit, he really cares about them, doesn't he? What will the Nein do if they find out? Do I even want them to find out? What if they reject him and it makes him worse? He can't keep this up much longer, this is unbearable, they're going to find out - OH FUCK THEY'RE FINDING OUT -

It's such a fascinating choice and I think it goes to show that adaptation is an art form in itself! The actual events in the world will be the same, or at least very similar, but a new format means you can show those events in a totally new way and create a completely different tone! Narrative structure is the fucking coolest! I'm so excited for this show!