Beware the Tentacle LSAT

Also like. Astarion would not be getting two books and all the merch and whatever the fuck if fandom had not blown up around him. If fandom had reacted the same way to Wyll, do you think Larian would have kept neglecting him? Again, don’t want to absolve creators—especially corporate ones—of responsibility here. But a lot of fandom rhetoric calls them out in ways that passively shirk our own role in erasure.

Like, it truly is that easy to not go do atrocities

Note from someone who knows: Neither of these things will even happen, you’ll be administratively separated, which is essentially a faultless parting of ways. Sure, they’ll try to intimidate you with the worst case scenario but at the end of the day pissing hot isn’t actually a crime so without getting you for possession or something the worst they can reasonably do is just make you leave.

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

having thought about it this is a generationally anti-consumer announcement that will have a profoundly detrimental impact on consumers and retail markets. this will price out new consumers even more than a $600 PS5 and $80 games will. this will make games less accessible and more nickel-and-dimed. this will make games impossible to share irl without giving your console up, and will stop institutions like libraries from being able to loan copies of modern games. and most importantly, it will be for a minimal profit, as most of the sales in video games are already digital.

truly few things instantly put me in a bad mood more than humidity