Been playing Dragon Age Veilguard basically nonstop since it released. I’m very pleasantly surprised that it’s as good as it is after the development hell that it had, definitely missing some of what made the older games special in terms of story and characters but actually playing it has been a blast.

To his credit he did improv stuff, I even ended getting the bugbears to team up with our party, he just admitted that he really hadn’t planned for any of us to do anything like that.

I remember playing DnD with my bf’s parents and family friend, all old school players, and they were all baffled that I wanted to play as a kindly full orc druid. The dm was so unprepared for me to try and talk to the bugbears we encountered that they genuinely didn’t have any story planned for them.

I still remember the first time I wore a dress. Me and my partner decided to dress as Morticia and Gomez Addams for halloween like 6 years ago, and when I tried on my costume I realised just how good it made me feel and I just started to cry from joy.

(Funny side note, my partner who dressed as Gomez, is now taking testerone)

I actually really appreciated the discussion from that post even if I didn’t fully agree. I just love media analysis and criticism.

There’s Xtra, it’s Canada based but it covers some American stuff too, and it doesn’t shy away from trans issues.

Hard to believe he was trying to follow the source material when he was sole writer for that awful witcher anime that pinned a bigoted pogrom on its victims.

Kiroshi cyberoptics. I feel like people really sleep on how useful super eyes would be.

You could give Respect The Dead a shot, it’s a similar idea to Behind The Bastards but I find it to be a lot funnier and less lib.

Borderlands, I’ve never wanted a skip dialogue button more than in Borderlands 3.

I grew up in an Italian household so like 90% of the recipes I know by heart are Italian, so Italy for me.

Runner up would be Vietnam, cause there was a pho place near the long term care home I used to work at and I’d eat there almost every day for an entire year.

Panam and Kerry should have been bi and I’ll die on that hill.

The straights can keep River though.

God Akihiko Yoshida’s art is soooo good.

For me it’s probably “Behind Closed Doors”, don’t really know why, just always liked it. Honourable mention is “State of the Union” for rewiring my 8 year old brain when I first heard it.

I honestly credit this band for turning me into a leftist.

I didn’t really know him personally, but while I was doing a social worker program in college this guy started going on an incel rant in class.

The class was about internalized oppression and we were in the unit on internalized misogyny, and he just started going off about how women don’t actually want nice guys and how they want the hot rich guys who are abusive.

He had a lot of other really problematic views, my friends and I still wonder why he joined the program to begin with.

Definitely socdem trash, but I know a lot of well meaning early commies who have stuff with it on it because they only know it as antifascism. Hell when I was younger I got it tattooed on myself for that reason (still debating covering it with something else, ideas welcome).

It’s one of those things where the meaning has shifted somewhat over time I think, but I still think it should be moved away from.

For a time as a high schooler, I wanted to seem more interesting than other people so I drank it black. Honestly I kinda hated it, and went back to drinking it with cream and sugar, but that was more because I was drinking Tim Hortons.

Once my dad started showing me how to make actual good coffee with good beans, I never went back. Even iced coffee I prefer black most of the time.

I’m definitely cautiously optimistic, so far I’ve liked what I’ve seen. I’m also not too torn up over the loss of the CRPG elements because we aren’t lacking for really good CRPGs anymore.