#which is huge

[cahootings]

Ankles managed to make it to Dream Lake today. Thank you hiking poles, microspikes, ibuprofen, and [redacted] Physical Therapy

[oconist]

i just KNOW este was like 'wdym my teammate didnt pin the blame on me on live tv? isn't that the standard?'

[boltlightning]

i finished baldur's gate here's some dumb fucking shit that happened

accidentally reloaded an old save where i didn't recruit lae'zel. she escaped the trap herself and then got killed by the gith patrol by mountain pass. i used gale's stupid death pouch just to hear his dialogue, but it ended up giving me a scroll of true resurrection, which i used to get lae'zel in my party right before act 2

...and then she got kidnapped early in act 3 so i basically didn't see her the entire game. sorry girl

used knock on almost every door ever. i ignored so many doors where you needed to solve a puzzle with knock

multiclassed my sorcerer into cleric. picked mystra as my deity because i thought it was funny. immediately followed that decision with several very, very heavy gale cutscenes where i could heartlessly mansplain to him about his ex. i'm so fucking sorry my guy

stole every painting possible, especially from cazador

met oliver before thaniel. noped out because the shadow family was creepy as hell. turned out to work better for the plot so whatever

80000000 trips to dammon to offload all the shit i looted. constantly. in all three acts

redid an entire hour of act 3 TWICE to save the submarine guy, but he died in both attempts so i reloaded to sell him out and get the wave mommy robes. morality!

wyll got tossed into a chasm before his first turn in at least three major plot-relevant fights

gale tossed at least two major bosses into a chasm with thunderwave within the first two rounds

greater invisibility'd astarion and split him off from the party while they were talking to the main villain of a quest. killed her in the dialogue while she was distracted. walked away from an awful fight having spent a single level 4 spell slot. it was incredible

in multiplayer i got approval from gale while he wasn't in the party and said "oh we're gonna fuck nasty tonight" aloud for god and man to hear

i DID do the gale ending (iykyk) just to see what it was like and DID tear up :) but the OTHER INTENDED ending with the GALE SCENE AT THE END did also make me tear up in the exact opposite way :)

builds for the gang i really enjoyed:

sorlock wyll was a haste/fireball/eldritch blast bot and it was so effective i almost regret not making my sorcerer part warlock

astarion was rogue 6/champion fighter 6, one of my favorite combos in the ttrpg, and it still kicks ass. i got his ac up to 23 and he was tankier than the tanks

evocation gale + fireball + fire affinity. that's all

put a cloak of displacement on karlach. that's all!

i have Notes but it's a very good game over all. just a little bit. been a while since something grabbed me so thoroughly by the throat. i'm off to avoid the fandom and play it another three times. might fuck around and make a wizard for the ttrpg now

in parting: look at Them ❤️

[shortsighted-owl]

Not sure if anyone here’s seen the big ‘LK-99 potential room temperature and ambient pressure superconductor’ race to successful replication and confirmation going on on Twitter in the materials science space but holy shit it’s so interesting (I say as a materials chemist who doesn’t specialise in superconductivity but is in a lab group that has done some stuff on superconductors)

[kdramedies]

Hats off to the writers this week. Yesterday was a heavy episode with Young-woo being looked down on and second guessed constantly, then today’s episode was so light and fun and she was surrounded by people who believed in her and wanted the best for her and I just think the way they set that up was truly beautiful.

[intofree]

the best thing about dd2 is that it’s gotten people playing dd1 on switch so my pawn is actually getting rented every now and then

[altruistic-meme]

learning new skills is FUN. (<- actively banging head on table)

[slicksquid]

going to riptide was actually great so I wasn’t as invested in this apparent shitshow of a fest

[dogin8]

I think, if you ever find the motivation to celebrate yourself, you should do it loudly.

[smirk47]

...

[augustonly]

not to subject you all to more of my deranged thoughts tonight but can we consider sam/jess happening if sam/dean hooked up before sam went to stanford? like specifically sam teaching jess all the fucked up shit that dean taught him? going down on her and thinking "dean would be so proud" because HE WOULD.

[chloesimaginationthings]

RIP Michael Afton, you would of LOVED Foxy’s log ride

[pricklenettle]

inspired by this post, Danny’s lost in the ghost zone and comes across pariah dark’s keep. I had to draw it and had The most fun with the spooky green ghost zone

[inkskinned]

he says i hate everyone except you and that is addictive and that is kind of romantic and beautiful because you're young and you're kind of a sarcastic asshole too and you don't like bad boys, per say, but you don't really like good ones either. and you like that you were the exception, it felt like winning.

except life is not a romance book, and he was kind of being honest. he doesn't learn to be nice to your friends. he only tolerates your family. you have to beg him to come with you to birthday parties, he complains the whole time. you want to go on a date but - people are often there, wherever you're going. he's just so angry. about everything, is the thing. in the romance book, doesn't he eventually soften? can't you teach him, through your own sense of whimsy and comfort?

at first - you know introverts often need smaller friend groups, and honestly, you're fine staying at home too. you like the small, tidy life you occupy. you're not going to punish him for his personality type.

except: he really does hate everyone but you. which means he doesn't get along with his therapist. which means he has no one to talk to except for you. which means you take care of him constantly, since he otherwise has no one. which means you sometimes have to apologize for him. which means he keeps you home from seeing your friends because he hates them. you're the single exception.

about a decade from this experience, you'll type into google: how to know if a relationship is codependent.

he wraps an arm around you. i hate everyone except you. these days, you're learning what he's actually confessing is i have very little practice being kind.

[pdfbabe]

spotify will be like are you a HARDCORE PUNK do you HATE THE ESTABLISHMENT and want some songs to BEAT UP COPS TO? listen to our PUNK PLAYLIST! and the playlist is like. welcome to the black parade

[snowtamale]

...