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i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

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crossfaded on a pastry + a little drinky drink

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Dracula..

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bethesda games is the same

merchant: take a look at my wares

me: let me take a look

merchant: take a look

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When she's like 17 Larry starts selling trucy weed and phoenix's stance on the matter is he won't comment on it as long as he has plausible deniability but then Larry has to ask him to intervene because trucys haggling him down so low thats hes taking a loss on it

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going through the hades 2 stuff and im sorry but i just have to ramble a second because look at Hephaestus

he's not just a wheelchair user but also an amputee. an above knee amputee. wheelchair users are already next to nonexistant in video games but amputees exist in this really...disheartening? spot where they're pretty much just reduced to "person with a cybernetic limb" - it's always just somewhere from "just a cool visual design" to flat out "superpower". I can't think of a video game amputee that is actually disabled by their limb differences - I'm all for futuristic worlds where prosthetics and other disability aids are far advanced from what they are now, but that's not really what's implied by these designs. They're just... Cool designs that in no way reflect on the real-world experience of being an amputee.

Look at Hephaestus, though. Look at that prosthetic. Whilst stylised it very much looks like it functions like common mechanical knees - knee bends when thigh is lifted, knee straightens when thigh is lowered. He's a wheelchair user as well as a prosthetic user - every prosthetic user I know is also a wheelchair user as a prosthetic is not usable in every occasion and also cause exhaustion and pain if used constantly.

Whilst we can't see much of his wheelchair the position he's sat in and the wheels very much evoke active wheelchair to me - this carries on to very specifically the thickness of his arms. Whilst a lot of Hades designs are muscular Hephaestus has very noticeably thick arms - which makes sense, as active wheelchairs require a lot of arm strength.

Just overall this design is making me want to cry - he's not just an actual wheelchair user in a video game, he's a realistic depiction of an amputee, a disability usually brushed over in order to give a character a fun design quirk and nothing else. He's fat and he's hot and he's a realistic depiction of an above knee amputee. Oh my god. Oh my god?

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hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

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I can’t believe “fake gamer girl” was an actual concept guys thought existed literally the most unfuckable guys who have ever lived were convinced girls were faking being interested in loser nerd hobbies to impress them

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being a fan of a friend's ocs is actually so humiliating....... like yes my favourite character rn is tragically doomed and a pillar of humanity who i think is relevant to the current world. you can find information about them on discord dot com and sometimes in late-night conversations with this guy i know. what the fuck

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You, a fool, when characters state different or contradictory things about backstory events or how the world works: This is a plot hole!

Me, wise, enlightened: Not so, neophyte. Have you considered all the exhaustive possibilities in which one of these characters simply has no idea what they are talking about, or better yet, is a fucking liar?

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Every time I remember that Pyrrha has never seen Palamedes’s face I suddenly want to jump into a trash compactor.

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lol okay I googled “bedazzled flip phone” with no other parameters and this was literally the third row of results

the only apparently legit source I could find was this Polish auction website that says (per Google Translate) “In connection with the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, you could bid for a unique Nokia 6101 phone, studded with Swarovski crystals, from the unique The Sims 2 series.”

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“so you find the usurpation of a ruler’s LEGAL RIGHT TO THE THRONE funny? you like reading about the ways that MEDIEVAL FANTASY FEUDALISM disenfranchises and abuses WOMEN? you write fanfiction about the psychological damages of ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN? you hope this ends with the INVALIDATION of WARS OF CONQUEST and ABSOLUTE MONARCHY? this is outrageous!!!!”

ive got the sneaking suspicion you and i are not reading this series the same way, bucko…