#sucks – @silver-horse on Tumblr

Reading reviews for veilguard and it does sound like there will be some enjoyable stuff but gleaning that information is so difficult because half the reviews are very enthusiastic but written by people who also greatly enjoyed inquisition and the other half is gamer men complaining about wokeness gone mad or whatever. Where is a review written by a DA2 girlie or origins head

jewishzevran

There are some minor character arc spoilers in this article, but I think it's the most measured review I've seen.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard review – a good RPG, but an underwhelming Dragon Age game

There is lots to do in this huge and beautiful fantasy world, but inconsistent writing and muted combat dull its blade

the Guardian

arcann

adding this video, warning that it does contain a lot of footage not seen in trailers or the ea event.

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bardnuts

I’m gonna complain about something.

bardnuts

bg3 and especially astarion has been instrumental in me recovering a sense of personal creative joy.

I don’t like being ridiculed or made fun of (who does?) but it’s especially hard for me to allow myself to love something loudly and earnestly. It’s just a personal challenge for me. I’ve been made fun of a lot in my life and yeah, it makes me sensitive to that kind of thing.

You know who also gets ridiculed a lot? Women in fandom. Especially young women, especially passionate women, especially young passionate women who love romance and have romantic fantasies. Where it comes to Astarion I see a lot of ridicule leveled at fans who gravitate toward his “softer side” because they’re, I guess, interpreting him incorrectly.

But like … why is their interpretation less valid than yours? This character is written and designed to be romanced by anyone who wants to romance him. The whole point of the game is that the player is part-author of their own version of the story. Those of y’all who want to be ironic purists about characterization are not more “correct” about astarion (or any other character) because the character as he exists is a template with intentional gaps for interpretation.

“Weapons grade copium in the notes” “someone take x character away from these people” “lol @ anyone who thinks astarion actually loves them when clearly voice actor #537 said something vaguely contradictory in a livestream 2 years ago” all you’re doing is shaming people for the way they’re engaging with a piece of art that was meaningful for them.

And yeah, it hurts my fucking feelings. I’m sick of couching my enthusiasm for something in 8 layers of irony so I can maybe avoid being made fun of by strangers on the internet. I know this is partly a me problem—curate your own online experience, et cetera, whatever—but this is my house and I can complain if I want 🤷

#maybe that durge writer who was allowed to alter astarion's storyline to shame fans who liked him during EA should have been emailed this #too late now #I switch constantly between “he has given me smth good and special once” and “he has been forever ruined for me”#yeah sorry about those tags #negativity saturday all around... mood has been doomsday #oh well #bg3 #fandom #tumblr bullshit #astarion #also remember what it was like when we were little and everything was shameful? people asked “what book you are reading?”#or “what music are you listening to?” and you were like... “oh you know nothing really” to go from that and openly say “I like this”#in your adulthood and still get mocked and told you shouldn't like it( and even the creators add a commentary on it to the story...)#sucks #baldur's gate 3 #text post #textposts #posts I commented on

silver-horse

#hmm... you don't say... like the notification system and a bunch of other tumblr updates #tumblr #tumblr bullshit #tumblr update #funny #my post #my posts #my shitposts #sucks #screenshots of despair #(kind of)

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letsbuzz

Wyll: Astarion, I was wrong about you. Truly wrong about you. Astarion: Let me guess! You thought I'd suck blood but actually I just suck. Was that your witty jab? Wyll: No! I mean it. There's little between us we share, but you've fallen in love and stood by your lover. That is something this dreamer's heart can appreciate.

#Yep #This is a good convo #XD #Funny #Bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #Astarion #Wyll #wyll ravengard #astarion ancunin #astarion ancunín #audio #sucks #Blood

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szollibisz

everytime the eurovision comes around i remember that hungary withdrew from it in 2020, because "its values have become too queer" as if it wasn't the campiest fucking thing from the beginning

silver-horse

the song contest didn't change but our laws have changed. ofc this would happen after they banned everything lgbt related from tv. eurovision is now illegal to broadcast. obviously they won't send a hungarian participant if the contest cannot be broadcasted on hungarian tv

#sucks #what it represents why we cannot be part of it anymore #every year it's a reminder why it's not on tv #this is what it came to #and it will only get worse #text post #textposts #lgbtq #hungary #shithole #posts I commented on #eurovision #2020 #2020s