Okay, my actual unpopular opinion. Cw for abuse/amnesia/head injury. I'm feeling in a venty mood today.
I think Larian did a piss poor job with Durge. There are some incredibly heavy and dark themes in the Durge Storyline but they're used for fucking comedic relief or not really touched upon whatsoever. Their interpretation of it is 'oh lol edgy go piss yourself or smth' while completely disregarding most of the time how fucked up that story is.
In general, I severely dislike the way they handle Amnesia or head injury. The characters just accept that they know jack shit, and there's 0 way it influences them like the fuck? The fear of forgetting is a real one, and a lot of people dread that. Even more people who have lost some memories for whatever reason would like to have them back or feel grief and loss over it, but here it's literally just a cute lil character quirk despite multiple people having that? Also, a fucking Lobotomy that's touched upon maybe twice despite Durge having severe fucking brain damage, apparently still suffers dizzy spells and forgets near everything they learn again? Seriously?
Also, the whole Orin and Gortash bit. It's pretty plain obvious these people were severely abused as children and the game makes no effort to hide it, but it also lets you express 0 pity or empathy and, at best, enables you to encourage their fucking abusers? Are you shitting me? The sole fact that you gain an advantage over Orin if you straight-up torture her emotionally is so fucked up and not in a good way. You literally only have the option of disregarding her, taunting her or telling her 'yo gg you were never loved and only viewed as a tool by everyone around you'. I get they're villains, but making fun of abuse is in no way cool, to say the least, and the game in previous acts had a very clear stance that not everything is black and white, so why is it suddenly fine to portray people in that exact way? "Everyone deserves a chance except for these guys in particular."
I love all these characters and the game in general, in fact I pretty exclusively play Durge (just not how they intended), but I have very passionate feelings about how they and their stories are being (mis-)treated so blatantly. Yeah, sure, not everyone can have the same amount of content or care as Astarion, but giving you the option to learn about how fucked up their life was and then only say, 'oh lol u deserved far worse actually' is incredibly fucking poor taste. And forgetting massive parts of your life is not just a cute little quirk or plot device but a very real response to physical and psychological trauma. Which they imply it is in these cases too but we're just gonna brush that off.
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"Steer clear of the Wolf King."
"What's the Wolf King?"
".........it's the Wolf King."
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three things can be simultaneously true:
it absolutely sucks that that shitty, racist organization even had the chance to draft number one after everything it failed to do,
gary bettman is a shitty commissioner and should be removed from his position for a variety of reasons,
if i see anyone using antisemitic language to talk about bettman, such as calling him a goblin, i will block you so fucking fast that your head will spin.
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Album Tag Game!
Thanks for the tag, @sweetxvanixlla! I love you!
6 albums you've been listening to, plus one track from each that you're especially fond of
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As sommesone who doesn't quite listen to albuns, just the songs alone on a Big Playlist Of Everything, my approach tot his is: find out if I listen to more than one song from an album and pick stuff from there (half of these is musicals because. Yeah).
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SELF-ISH - Will Wood and the Tapeworms
-> Cotard's Solution (Annatta, Dukkha, Anicca)
Probably my fave song on this list and my playlist, so I had to include this! I cames to thes conclusion that I absolutely adore this album since I have so many of its songs and they are honestly so good??? :0
I have 6 songs of this album, so I guess I'm winning
The Normal Album - Will Wood and the Tapeworms
-> I / Me / Myself
This one is also too hard of a choice! I was so lost between all the 4 songs I listen constantly from this album!
And I can relate to it a bit, as someone who is constantly struggling to undertand my own gender and how I actually feel confy, but oh well. Too hard 👍
Duality - Set It Off
-> Why Worry
This is probably my favorites song from all of Set It Off and since I have 2 from this album, it counts. Don't you dare argue with me.
Heathers: The Musical (World Premiere Cast Recording)
-> Candy Store
I know all the song and coreograhies by heart. I now every line of dilogue. It was the first musical I ever saw and my favorite once and always.
Nerdy Prudes Must Die (Original Starkid Cast Recording)
- High School Is Killing Me
Pokooootho
Bliklotep...
T'noy K'raxis
Nibblelinephim
Wiggog Wighog Y'wrath
(I know its not from the right song but like. Who really cares)
Yeah I also know all the songs and lines i'm so very normal about the musical honestly I think its a masterpiece. I mean.
Score - The Jolly Rogers
-> The Day Of The Clipper
Its self explanatory if you hear the songs.
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> ladybugs.
Fuck yes an ask ab0ut bugs. There are ar0und 5000 species 0f ladybugs, m0st 0f them being red 0r 0range, a false display 0f ap0sematism.
^ Here is a fun picture 0f a ganderbulbed ladybug, 0r anatis 0cellata. Anatis c0uld actually be a cute grub name, I sh0uld save that f0r later. Anyway, they're 0mniv0r0us invertebrates, as m0st insects are, and they're m0st c0mm0nly f0und in damp grasslands.
^ Unidentified br0nze-ish ladybugs on a flower. If any0ne kn0ws what subspecies they are, I'd be happy t0 hear it. I d0n't really kn0w a l0t ab0ut the little guys, but they're s0 Cute and I l0ve them.
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