there is a line when daveth and jory are whining at eachother before mastering their taint where one of your dialog options is "i'm the bravest one here, and i'm a woman!"
i made a dwarf noble in dragon age origins and the very first dialogue line is your best friend npc sexually harasses you and you can choose between acting like that's a normal joke between you, inviting him to make out because the harassment worked, or saying you'd rather be friends.
Everyone should go watch Innocent Blood if you want something fun for Halloween, this is an absolutely incredible schlocky horror movie. What's it about? A vampire who only feeds on criminals accidentally turns a mafia boss who starts making a whole syndicate of vampire mobsters.
a detail i often forget is that "the mabari were bred by a wizard". i always think they were bred by regular guys, or created by a wizard with magic. but no, they were all bred by one wizard who was really good at dog breeding, a hobby which maybe wizards are known for?
god on one new vegas save i figured out there was a specific spot on the horizon where i'd crash if i looked at it and for a few tries i legit thought "maybe i can play and just be very careful about not looking in that direction and still do this..."
interrogating nostalgia is like interrogating a stranger who isn't there. we cross time like a river, and i can't ask that me what she's thinking. i can just look at the eddies behind me and try to imagine the shape of that moment.
i'm thinking about nostalgia and home repair projects a lot. i'm working on myself. interrogating nostalgia feels important because the whole world has been telling me to be nostalgic since before i was old enough to have something to be nostalgic for.
i am approaching this like i would a home repair problem, or learning a new cooking technique. i am being diligent and dutiful. solving this problem is learning a skill.
if it's not dragon age that i'm nostalgic for, what was so special about 2010? no one is nostalgic for 2010.
so tonight i am going to get it to run properly. i am learning how to make old programs run on 64 bit OSs. i am visiting file sharing sites. i am not a technical person.
i'm not nostalgic for dragon age itself. i liked it, still like it. it tickles a nostalgia, but an unrevealed one.
every few months i reinstall dragon age thinking maybe this time it won't crash, and each time it looks great at first then inevitably crashes.
i'd really like to play it, because I played it twice in the couple years since it came out, and never since. i have a lot of nostalgia for those years.
THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.
i literally stopped flying on planes after 9/11 because tsa sounded like a nightmare even before i came out and i know that doesn't sound like much given that i'm agoraphobic but i used to fly a lot before this country made me crazy.
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
there's something so funny about expecting people to get defensive about the tsa. yeah man i love having to show up four hours early for a flight and probably get groped by a stranger, and i support the tsa for making that possible.
a thing i like in fiction is when someone uses a recent historical context, one the reader might have lived through, to talk about a very modern anxiety.
concerned about the invasion of iraq and afghanistan? tell a vietnam story. worried about venture capital? write about 80s wall street.
