Ahhh crud, that’s gonna live in my brain for a hot minute. I didn’t want to write anything but now I might have to 😅

Putting that up against the way he yells for Rook when the crew pulls them out and that’s a whole meal.

It was 😅

I spent hours looking like the “this is fine” dog. I love Alistair, but some people REALLY love Alistair and they did not appreciate that comparison, not one bit.

VG discourse has been a real rollercoaster.

Gotta mash :D and D: into something like :D: to really capture the yesyeswaitno vibe of reading a defense of a character that has you cheering, until it pivots into something that someone else needs to make a defense post about.

anyway, shoutout to the one person that reminded me that I’d actually have three nickels, because I forgot Gil from Andromeda.

(But also maybe we can stop doing that to the love interests, maybe?) 💀

The first time I ever got Blackwall’s “You alright, love?” party banter was after I rogue backflipped off a cliff lol

…I need to do another run of Inquisition. 😭

On day whatever of Veilguard being both a blessing and a curse. I haven’t been this internally confused over a game, ever. I like it, I enjoy it, but it’s got me side eyeing so many decisions made in this and other games.

This is far from the only time this imbalance happens. 🤷‍♀️

But I’ve been out of DA fandom since Trespasser and I need to catch up on the yapping. more of it, plz and thx 🥺

(Sorry about the list, I didn’t know there was such a thing, oof)

Idk. I don’t have a conclusion. It’s frustrating discussing past the impenetrable “it makes sense b/c—” wall.

I agree that it makes sense that, of the 2, Lucanis is the one that gets locked out, just for a diff. reason, and it feels bad.

I like Veilguard, just disappointed in this bit.
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Cyberpunk does it even “better”. 2 women/2 men. 2 romance options met in the main story and 2 met in side quests. 2 locked out of the “hopeful” ending. Only one can die. Wonder how the realistic consequences and “understandable” reactions are divvied—oh.

Well…
4/

Was it cool that ME3 Jacob was like that? It was “real”, people move on sometimes.

But was it satisfying for the players that romanced him? Presumably, those players weren’t straight men, so who cares, right? So realistic that some romances end miserably! Theres 2, even! Jacob and…Thane. Hm… 3/

It could have made just as much sense for Neve to get locked out and Lucanis to still have a romance. Lucanis has bad memories in Treviso + living w/ Spite. Neve lives and breathes Dock Town. Alternate reality, a diff group of people would be saying “why lock out just one?” b/c it’s strange. 2/

Yeah, joined here to have some “that bit didn’t hit right, did it?” moments with like-minded people and was weirded out at how defensive people seemed at pretty minor criticism.

Now I kinda get it. Fandom/creator division is basically gone, in the worst way. I feel old and out of touch.

Hated seeing accounts have been deleted in the wake of the Thing. Hope they’re doing okay.

I had a lot of feelings about some of the reveals, but chose to just sigh loudly and rant lore at my husband. I wanted to discuss the normal amount of disappointment w/ others, but now it feels icky.

I wasn’t a big fan of that answer either. :(

it makes it seem like Neve is the one he organically falls in love with, no matter what, and Rook is easy to forget/cast aside. The fact the rejection doesn’t come up during the “I made a pie for Neve” scene is very blah for me.

A little p.s., also made with love: this is all in good fun. Can it please just be fun? 😅

Assan got some pie, so it’s a happy story being told here, really.

peak romance is actually just skipping anything of emotional substance and making the NPCs discuss the situationship of the MC through banter. 😇

I’m mostly playing around. I love the first/last scenes. Nearly my favorite in the series, it’s just really, really strange how empty the middle bit is.

fellow Illario enjoyer, nice! I see you, hear you, feeling it with you :(

As the player, I felt out of the loop. Inky said “tell me about this thing you have w/ Lucanis” and I hollered. Tell ME about what Rook has with Lucanis!

NPCs banter about it, what are they seeing that the player doesn’t?