wow da4 looks great.

anyway something I hate about video games is when they make some assertion about the fictional society not being homophobic and yet the society is still heteronormative like. that’s not how things work

example: skyrim sexual orientation isn’t really talked about at all afaik and every person who can be married can be married with either character gender but like: everything is straight. I haven’t played skyrim in a while but like it’s all straight I feel like also there’s things people say in it that are heteronormative and are in there bc the people creating it didn’t see it as a problem or at odds with their apparent homophobia free society and like how can you create a fictional homophobia free society when you ain’t free of your real life assumptions. Anyway

I’ve noticed this with misogyny too, like when you go to pick your character’s gender in dragon age it says something about how men and women are considered equal and there are equal numbers of men and women in the army and in leadership positions etc.

and then you go to actually play the game and the overwhelming majority of the soldiers are male, soldiers are constantly referred to as “men,” there are characters who will say blatantly misogynistic or sexually aggressive things to you (like, blatant enough that it must be misogynistic on purpose)

and it makes me die

Some of this has to be because the people who made these games are almost exclusively straight white dudes - and while they may have had the intention of being inclusive, they literally cannot imagine what a world without heteronormativity and misogyny would look like. They give us the game mechanics to be a woman warrior or to marry a character of the same gender, but they didn’t extend this train of thought to imagine how a society where this was normal would be different from ours.

In Dragon Age, for example, the major world religion is centered on a woman, lead by women, with all-female priestesses. AND YET in everyday life characters still interact as though men are naturally in charge and express surprise at a woman issuing commands. This is directly contradictory and frankly lazy world building to suggest that people raised in a system lead exclusively by women would still somehow end up expecting male leadership, as though sexism was a sort of natural law that would happen in any society. It’s not. Also, the founding myth of their religion has the original sin as sexual jealousy rather than punishing female sexuality, which would suggest totally different social norms around monogamy, sexual orientation, and the whole idea of promiscuity. Instead they’re… More or less exactly the same as our society, slut-shaming included. This makes no sense!

It’s a complete failure of imagination, not to mention frustrating and sad.

Alistair Theirin - your Royal Highness

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DRAGON AGE Aesthetics » Mabari

While I’m on the subject of Morrigan, this was totally the worst part of Dragon Age: Origins.

this was one of the best plays of the night

rhodes and the all-girl death squad

she is beauty she is grace she is too obsessed with dragon age

A practical guide to Thedas 

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“you should stop playing dragon age so much”

if Ostagar was an MMORPG raid

[Duncan has joined the raid group]

[Alistair has joined the raid group]

[Surana has joined the raid group]

Cailan <Doges of Ferelden>: WARDENS IN DA HIZZLE DUDES SUP OMG I CANT BELIEVE IM RAIDING WITH U DUDES EPIC

Duncan <Grey Wardens>: …you’re the raid leader?

Cailan <Doges of Ferelden>: YA BRO I HEARD U GOT THE WORLD FIRST ARCHDEMON KILL OMFG DUDE

Duncan <Grey Wardens>: yeah, I wasn’t guild leader at the time

Loghain <Doges of Ferelden>: they can’t even field a 10 man now

Duncan <Grey Wardens>: hard to recruit when you’re banned from the server. so what’s the strat?

Cailan <Doges of Ferelden>: um lol idk heals in the back I’ll main tank you OT

Duncan <Grey Wardens>: shouldn’t you let Loghain MT? I mean he’s got way more achievements. didn’t he get Hero of River Dane title?

Loghain <Doges of Ferelden>: on hard mode.

Cailan <Doges of Ferelden>: yeah but i’m guild leader ok i know what i’m doing. press 1 for heals

Wynne <Circle of Magi>: *1* We are so screwed.

Loghain <Doges of Ferelden>: so what about these nubcake scrubs you brought, Duncan?

Alistair <Grey Wardens>: I HEARD THAT

Duncan <Grey Wardens>: well like I said, we’re rebuilding the guild. are you sure we don’t want to wait cause we’ve got some guys from Orlais-US that can log in. Riordan just got stuck at work

Loghain <Doges of Ferelden>: FOR THE LAST TIME I AM NOT PUGGING ORLESIANS JFC THEY’RE A BUNCH OF LOOT NINJAS

Cailan <Doges of Ferelden>: any1 have recount

Alistair <Grey Wardens>: dude we didn’t even start the raid yet why are you worrying about DPS meters

Wynne <Circle of Magi>: Totally screwed.

Loghain <Doges of Ferelden>: why isn’t Surana saying anything on vent?

Surana <Grey Wardens>: sorry I don’t have a mic

Warden: I have to save the world

Inquisitor: I have to save the world

Hawke: pls stop asking me things I am very tired and I just want to get drunk with my weird friends

{insp}

DAI Mod to trigger banter

…….via hotkey. For all of us on the PC suffering from the banter bug.

(Cheatengine required, PC only, not my Mod)

Details here: http://forum.bioware.com/topic/529048-dai-tools/page-171#entry18562081

God bless the Modders. Now go forth and enjoy all the witty banter!

AHAHAHA THERE IS NO GOING BACK FROM DRAGON HELL NOW I GUESS. 10 teas down, oh my god so many more characters to go. I am sorry I am just going in order of my faves right now because I’m trash. I’m jumping all over the place as far as game order goes, which is fitting since that’s how I’m playing them right now. I’m the worst.

but are sandal and bodahn okay

RIP Alistair Theirin