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shijiujun · 3 years

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Hi! Thank you for tagging your shl spoilers. If you can, could you also do it for the asks you receive? Sometimes people seem ask you about future episodes/scenes and I'd like to avoid it as much as possible. That would be much appreciated!

heya! thanks for asking really nicely and i’ll try my best - but honestly i only put spoilers tags on ‘spoilery’ asks if it involves a major character death or details on the ending etc.

sometimes i answer a lot of asks at a go, answer asks on my way to work on half asleep when i get out of bed and it is inevitable that at some point it’ll more likely slip my mind than not, especially if i’m answering what i view as a simple detail

also because all the eps have come out subbed as well etc., it’s really hard for me to keep track of what actually is a spoiler or if it’s been watched by who, especially with the broadcast schedule all out of whack right now. i keep them for on for new gifsets from new eps for at least a week-ish or a few days maybe now that the eps are all gonna be subbed

when i answer details on certain asks i dont even remember which eps they’re from sometimes? and i think at the end of the day it’s a lot of effort to wonder about whether something would constitute as a spoiler or not for e.g. if someone asks me if wkx is a ghost again, or what someone is saying or doing in a particular ep, or if the show ends happy.

yes i could label them all as spoilers but i really have never had that habit or tagging system for asks - and if i do that i’ll have to think about doing that for my regular posts discussing whether tyk or shl has a happy ending or not etc. and.. yep i’ve never had this tagging system really! i only make exceptions for trigger warnings :D

so oops sorry what i meant is i dont have a habit of tagging each of my asks, they’re hard to keep track by now like who has seen what or who hasn’t seen what i think and unfortunately, my blog is not spoiler free as i’ve mentioned multiple times before! thanks for asking really nicely but all i can promise is i will put spoiler tags on bad ending details if any as i’ve always done, pretty good with warning for character death especially XD

if it truly bothers you, please feel free to unfollow entirely and come back if and whenever you feel like it! it’s probably going to be a mad house all the way until the week of the finale ends haha or even longer - it’ll definitely be easier for you to curate your dash and viewing experiences on your side! thanks for understanding <3

but but but, i’ll try - legit, i’ll try, but knowing myself and it’s been proven with all the typos and terrible out of sequence gifsets i post, that i will forget at least a few times, if not half the time

#asks #shl

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lassieposting · 4 years

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Do you have a HC on angel/demon bodies in the Lucifer universe? Like, it seems that the goddess never her own physical body based on what Maze said about when she was in hell. And we know that demons possess humans, but do you think they have their own bodies as well? If they have their own do they leave them behind when possessing? Do you think Maze’s form is her own or did Lucifer allow her to possess a recently deceased human so that she could accompany him to Earth? What about angels?

oh my god i have so many thoughts on this i dont even know how to structure this post, literally this is me rn

post under the cut because yet again this bitch be ramblin

ok so, starting with the celestials

GOD

I’m not gonna elaborate too much on God, because I’m in the middle of writing a fic which elaborates on how I see his body/physical shape working and it would spoil a twist. But a few non-spoilery thoughts:

- God and Goddess are completely different species, from different universes

- God is - as far as he knows - the last of his kind. The universe he was born in was destroyed by a massive war; his species are naturally peaceful and he had no part in it.

- His species are immensely powerful; he can cross between universes with ease as an adult, and the ability to create universes is a species talent, not an individual one. They can all do it. They live for billions upon billions of years in deep space, so that’s how they pass the time.

- He’s naturally telepathic. Goddess is not at all, and the angels inherit this from him but only to a very minor degree - they can sense when another angel is in the area, but can’t actually perceive one another’s thoughts.

- He doesn’t originally look like us. Not in the slightest. But changing his shape is very easy for him, and he is capable of “modifying” his own internal biology, so he can and does choose to take a human shape - having hands with which to manipulate objects is useful when you’re no longer living in deep space, and being able to communicate verbally is useful when you’re the only major telepath in your (very large) family.

GODDESS

- Goddess does have a solid, physical form, and she actually has our basic shape too. “Two arms, two legs, a head and a body to hang them on” is a popular evolutionary route in her native universe.

- Humans and demons, however, don’t have the right eye equipment to see her properly. Humans see in three dimensions, demons in one or two more, but neither species has enough perceivable dimensions or colours to actually make sense of Goddess’ true form. We see her as a blur of light, because that’s all of her that’s visible to us. We’re actually only able to see like, 30% of her and it makes our brains freak out some.

- Lucifer knows this, but neglected to mention it to Maze when she was torturing Goddess in Hell. He did nothing to defend her when God kicked her out, because he’s smarting over her abandoning him, but at the end of the day she’s his mom and he loves her. He’s the only one in Hell who can see her properly and interact with her physical form, and there’s no way he’s going to actively participate in his mother’s torture.

THE ANGELS

Now, I believe “canon” says that the angels were created as adults, but fuck that, because baby angels.

- The angels were created with wings, but they don’t get their first feathers until they’re toddling, so they’re like weird little naked birds for a bit.

- They moult every few hundred years while they’re still growing, and they don’t get sharp primaries until they have their adult feathers. Once they’re fully grown, they won’t moult again, but they’ll grow new feathers if the ones they have fall out or are damaged.

- No one actually knows how long their lifespans are. No angel has ever died of natural causes. But they’re long. The angels Chloe knows are archangels, the oldest, and even though they’re physically full-grown adults they’re barely out of celestial puberty. Tom Ellis plays Lucifer as having the emotional maturity and worldview of a teenager. Amenadiel is the overtired early-20-something having to live away from home for the first time.

- Their abilities are genetic - they were born with them and have a chance of passing them on to any nephilim they create - and they start manifesting around the toddler stage.

- The toddler stage is fun, actually. Way worse than the terrible twos for humans. Their first set of feathers come in which is itchy, they’re teething, they can talk enough to be defiant, they’re climbing up/falling off everything, their powers start developing, they’re clingy, and the tantrums are spectacular.

meanwhile, in hell

in my headcanon, hell is home to three classes of demons:

ELDRITCH DEMIGODS

- the oldest, most dangerous and rarest creatures in Hell. They did not create the dimension Hell is located in, but they did shape the landscape and were the original rulers of the dimension.

- the original users of what demons call magic. lucifer learned some of this during his time in hell - illusions, levitating his pentecostal coin, his desire ability, the fine art of binding someone with a deal and get yourself out of any situation with a loophole.

- the eldritches feature prominently in my fic but have absolutely nothing (as far as I know) to do with canon - the only reason I’m including them here is because my personal headcanon is that Lucifer’s angelic gift is his light. His “hypno eye thing” is something he learned while he was in Hell. he wasn’t lying with what he said to chloe - it’s a gift from a god, but not a gift from his father, god.

HELLBORN DEMONS

- these demons have no human DNA at all.

- they’re older than the lilim, and more physically powerful, but they’re less adept at magic (glamours, for example) and mind games.

- hellborn demons look nothing like humans. they might not be bipedal at all; leviathan is a giant sea serpent. spines, extra jaws, multiple sets of teeth, a ridiculous number of limbs, too many or too few joints, no eyes at all, exoskeletons etc are all perfectly normal demon traits.

- those that have eyes are red, yellow or black. my hc of hell is inspired by the very deep ocean though, so it’s just as common to have no eyes and a superior sense of smell, or electroreception, or sonar, instead.

- they can learn to glamour, but they still wouldn’t look right. there would be something subtly off about them, something in the mind of any human looking at them screaming at them to run. they’re the basis of those horror stories where someone looks just a little wrong; they don’t blink enough, or seem to have too many teeth, or they walk wrong.

- they’re more durable than lilim demons. short of a celestial, an eldritch or a bomb, nothing stops these fuckers. they can come back from insane injuries that would absolutely kill most life forms. if you leave one critically injured but don’t finish it off and make sure, chances are it won’t die. it’ll crawl off and recuperate and come back for you later.

THE LILIM

- the lilim are the descendents of lilith and, as such, they have human DNA. the closer their link to lilith, the more human they appear - maze, for example, is almost entirely human in appearance except for one half of her face. the more distant the link to lilith, the less human DNA they have, and the less human they appear.

- really common lilim traits: claws, fangs, scales, horns

- almost all lilim have the human body shape and facial features arrangement, so they’re bipedal with two eyes, a nose and a single mouth. yellow, red and black are all pretty standard demon eye colours, but lilith’s eyes are white and her children tend to inherit them. the more diluted her blood gets, the less likely a child will have her white eyes.

- with practice, the lilim can glamour their demon features and pass undetected among humans, unless they choose to reveal their real face. their physical strength, speed and heightened senses remain the same even under a glamour.

- because of their human ancestry, lilim demons don’t need to possess a dead human body. but it’s a lot more convenient. to leave Hell in your own body, you need to a) leave through the front gate and b) have a way of generating enough energy to shunt you across the divide between dimensions. for maze, this was lucifer; he carried her out of Hell. but she can’t return (or get out) without him. God, Goddess or any of the eldritch abominations would also have that level of power.

- plus, like. with a dead human body, you can take as much damage as you like or commit as many atrocities as you fancy and just change your body when you’re done. you don’t need to be careful of injury or worry about sustenance. and you don’t have to compete with anyone else in the same head, which is a vast improvement over possessing someone living.

#lucifer on netflix #lucifer on fox #mazikeen smith #lilith #lilim #lucifer in hell #nonsense headcanon rambling #these are subject to change depending on where the fuck this monster fic takes me #i rewrote this four times anon im sorry it took so long #lucifer headcanons

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fialleril · 7 years

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Rather than reblogging my Anabasis snippet post multiple times with replies, I figured I’d do a single separate post, so here you go.

Since the snippet was spoilery, the replies are too, so here’s a cut just in case anyone is avoiding spoilers.

@w3-4r3-th3-f1r3 said in tags:

anything that you hesitate to destroy is a chain AAAAAH but i am Unfettered hoky shit i have chills this is everything i ever wanted oh ly god oh my god and it really is perfect for passover even with the touches of vengeance as a way to gain freedom i love this so much anakin darth vader i love him fialleril's vaderkin is so...just powerful and real i guess but i honestly love him i aspire to be just like him one day amazing fic is amazing cannot wait CANNNOT DI THE WAITING NOOOO anabasis is going to be so fucking cool aaaaaaaaa

Oh gosh, thank you! I’m delighted that it resonates with Passover. (Eventually there will be a full Bentu Depuraak celebration in Anabasis, but that’s still a ways down the line, both in terms of the story line and where I am in writing it.) Also I’m really glad Anakin feels real here. :)

@themoosejthm said:

#I LIVE AND BREATHE FOR THIS #ANAKIN DESTROYED THE SITH #BY DESTROYING EVERY LAST BIT OF KNOWLEDGE #KNOWLEDGE THAT HIS MASTER GATHERED AND HOARDED #I LOVE IT

:D I’m not even gonna pretend there’s not a bit of personal wish fulfillment for me in there, but I am glad you enjoyed this gleeful bit of destruction.

Also because I love irony: Anabasis is the one universe I have where Anakin straight up fulfills the prophecy of the Chosen One in exactly the way the Jedi interpret it, but they never notice because as far as they’re concerned he’s a Sith himself.

(Well, Dooku may have a borderline heretical personal theory, but everybody knows Dooku has been flirting with heresy for years and nobody really takes his theories seriously.)

@cthulhu-with-a-fez said:

HOOOOOOOOOOO BOY WELCOME _BACK_ FIALLERIL I KNOW ON ONE HAND GOOD SENSE SAYS TO STEER CLEAR OF ANYTHING WITH A BIG OLD SPOILER LABEL ON IT BUT ON THE OTHER HAND FIALLERIL FIC IS TOO GOOD TO IGNORE oh man it's just [wipes away tear] it's so beautiful i don't even have the full context but i am wholeheartedly in support of anything that falls under the banner of '@PALPATINE GET REKT' that was _so satisfying to read_ i mean there's a very small voice in the back of my head that says 'destroying knowledge is Bad' and that even sithly knowledge could have some uses if only to better understand what they were up against but on the other hand GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE??? GOODBYE and oh man anakin vs jedi council content??? I LIVE FOR THAT TOO i'm finding i have a massive fucking soft spot for characters who take the skills forced onto them in an effort to control them and instead using them to break the chains i mean i only have like. two characters of those at the moment. maybe three. but STILL GOOD _SHIT_ sometimes i think to myself 'i'm about as hype for anabasis as i can get' and then i read whatever snippet you post and somehow i get EVEN MORE HYPE

Ha ha thank you friend. :) I figured after such a long absence I should at least try to make up for it.

Tbh your internal monologue is probably a lot like Jocasta’s. On the one hand GET REKT PALPS is an attitude she’s very sympathetic to, and she’s seen enough of Anakin to realize that there’s an importance here beyond simply the destruction of the Sith. And given that the Jedi known for a fact there are surviving Inquisitors who were looking for those holocrons, it probably is for the best that they will never get their hands on them now.

But even so, Jocasta is a librarian, and that was a lot of information that just went up in smoke. Irreplaceable information. Which, okay, might be a good thing, but...so much information!

@lightningandstarlight said:

scREAMING over how awesome this is!!!! you sure know how to come back with a bang dont you fia? Dinsa is there!!! Dorme is awesome!!!! the Jedi are clueless as usual!!!! Palps goes down in flames!!!! the sith holocrons are destroyed in a fitting fashion!!! (which that description anakin gives about how palps trained him to be a weapon but that was enough to destory them killed me!!!) the padme point of view that showed the trust and love between her and anakin!!! the anakin pov where he runs circles around the jedi and knows how to get under their skin the politics the unnerving smile the jokes the dorme badassness the unfettered the flashbacks the revenge on palps this short was so satisfying to read that i now want twenty more how do you know how to wreck me so good fia?!?!?

I’m glad you like it! :) And this gives me something to look forward to when you get to this point in beta reading.

Also I am so glad you like Dorme! She’s a fairly minor character in this (sadly), but she’s one of those minor characters I have reams of headcanon and background info for, so it’s nice to know some of that comes out in glimpses in the actual fic. In this universe she’s Padme’s security chief and it’s an immensely difficult and largely thankless job. She’s beyond Done at this point.

In other news writing Anakin engaging with politics is weirdly fun.

And on that note...

@grand-duc said:

EEEEEEH!

Fic!

Anabasis fic!

Anakin is so very proud of himself here, it’s a delight to read. And I love how his people all rally to protect him, even though he’s just proved he doesn’t need it.

“So,” said Windu. “You don’t know the location of the Sith library.”

Anakin smiled brightly at him. “I didn’t when you asked me so politely before.”

The Jedi exchanged brief, nervous glances, all but Dooku and Nu, who looked openly confused. Well. That was interesting.

Is someone (or a bunch of someones) about to get busted?

and almost completely unrelated, on the subject of Anakin and politics, you know when you think about it, it wasn’t really in the interests of the power factions in his life for him to have a good grasp of politics in canon.

The Jedi, beside being dangerously detached from the workings of the Republic they played “peacekeeper” for themselves, wanted him to go where they pointed him. If he thought too much about the hows or whys, there was the chance he could come to the “wrong” conclusion and do something “rash”.

And Palpatine, Palpatine enjoyed playing the role of mentor, but he needed Anakin dependent on him and malleable, if anything, he must have been careful about what he let Anakin pick up from him. He certainly wouldn’t have encourage an interest.

Thank you!

Maybe eventually Anakin will get used to the fact that people feel protective of him (because they...genuinely care about him? what a concept), but right now he’s still continually surprised by it, and especially when it’s people who don’t have anything to gain by protecting him. (So to some degree he expects it from his agents, because they work for him. But even now, after everything, Padme is still a surprise.)

We shall see if anyone does get busted. Right now, the Jedi are in the clear mainly because Anakin is actually keeping their secret, which honestly only makes them more nervous. (The secret in question is that they mind-trick-tortured him to learn the location of the holocrons, and little do they know that Anakin hasn’t told anyone mostly because, for him, there’s nothing unusual about “enhanced interrogation” so why would he bring it up?)

As far as Anakin and politics is concerned, I definitely agree with you when it comes to canon. And even in Anabasis, I don’t think Palpatine actually intended Anakin to have much grasp on politics. But Anakin was a smart kid and he picked up more than his Master gave him credit for, largely by osmosis. He saw the way Palpatine handled situations, the way he manipulated people and events, and more importantly he saw the behaviors, ideas, and weaknesses in others that Palpatine was able to manipulate. And he put a lot of things together on his own.

But Palpatine certainly never encouraged Vader to take an interest in politics: that might have made him an actual threat. And Palpatine had no interest in being succeeded as Emperor, by Vader or anyone else.

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bookofmirth · 7 years

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Some more spoilery thoughts on Mor in ACOWAR below from some anon asks - this gets long:

referencing your post about mors sexuality, shes actual gay not bi apparently she only sleeps with men because she tries to cover her tracks or something (so maybe dont do the threesomes since it is pushing her into that box of having to hide which is wrong in my eyes but maybe thats just me) and ive seen multiple posts about mor maybe being gay? and the hints to this in acomaf, i think the user propshophannah has written a few theories to if you want to check those out!! xx

So just for a bit more background, I was spoiled for this info on Saturday. And I was told these circumstances - the “compulsory heterosexuality” (which, come on, did sjm actually write that phrase???), the preferring women but still sleeping with men, etc. I am reserving judgement about her actual sexuality until I have read the books and have more evidence. All I’ve seen so far are general statements via other people’s interpretation, and I’m not interested in seeing any more spoilers without context at this point, which is why I’m out of tumblr (or at least this blog) after today.

I have seen multiple posts about Mor being gay in the last few days. Sounds like pretty convenient timing for people to have headcanons, if you ask me.

I have seen offhand comments about her sexuality over the last few months, but I’ve also seen those comments made in the same breath as support for theories that moriel are in a secret relationship. Which.... doesn’t speak to me about the strength of the evidence for her sexuality. And honestly, the fact that such a huge number of people read their relationship as romantic DOES speak volumes to me. This is why I brought up the POC analogy - you can’t just.... half ass a thing and expect that to be rep.

If you have a huge portion of the people reading a thing in a certain way, that’s the meaning they have derived. Death of the author and all that friends, Roland Barthes was right, sjm can create as much meaning as she wants but we are the ones who interpret the text and interact with it. And the way she wrote ACOMAF and the way that many, many people read this relationship, was romantic, if not sexual. Which means that she did not do an adequate job of establishing Mor’s sexuality. Which makes it feel like she is going back retroactively and making this statement. And I’m leaving all of my Mor/moriel meta up because... I’m not going to delete evidence that shows in how many ways we were NOT meant to read moriel as a platonic friendship.

Agree with you all the way. I think that SJM wanted to have this big WTF "plot twist" but hasn't thought it through. No clue in ACOMAF, nada, zip. It's stated she's had lovers in the past, so what is she, bi? Or was she lying about it her entire life? And couldn't she at least tell my poor baby Azriel? It's not like she doesn't know he has feelings for her. Anyway, my problem with this is that it makes one of my fave characters look really, really bad and for what?

Thanks, nonnie. I have been pretty steamed about this for so many reasons, so it’s nice to know I’m not alone. I really don’t like the idea that this is being used as a plot twist. I really hope that’s not what is going on here. Because that would be a shit way to integrate diversity.

I think my biggest problem with the idea that Mor has been hiding her sexuality is if this is supposed to be some kind of statement on “oh look at this shitty patriarchy I hath created, watch as I show you the multiple Problematic Things and make Shitty Situations for with which mine characters may then be Tokens!” In other words, don’t use this shit as a tool to show that you “understand” misogyny and homophobia, thanks.

I was having a conversation with someone else who also thought that this will be more reason for people to hate on Mor, and I soooo despise that fact. If that’s where The Discourse goes, imma be pissed. I may not be moriel defense squad anymore (because I am surprisingly ok with whatever happens there, I don’t want to disappoint Sierra or Kate or Lucia but I’m not going down with this ship, I just want Mor and Az to be happy, together, apart, whatever), but I will always be #Mor defense squad. I am just curious how much Az may know or not know about this. I’m not going to speculate. I’m going to reserve comments on that until I’ve read ACOWAR. I have ideas though, and they would actually support him knowing all along. Which makes her not a bitch. Although I know plenty of people would love to paint her that way.

#acowar #acowar spoilers #spoilers #Leslie reads acowar #ask #anon #morrigan #acomaf #acotar #mor defense squad #reassemble????#my meta #my thoughts are everywhere right now #I have all the thoughts

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muckkles · 7 years

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furnacelayer replied to your post

“this is the week of me barfing up andromeda critiques at anyone who...”

please tell me why to not buy this game

here’s something wild: im not actually gonna tell u not to buy it? i think if u wanna play and make ur own opinion thats good. its also still a mass effect game so even if u just wanna play to see some of ur favorite aliens or get to know the new characters thats good. i also have friends who are enjoying the game more than i am so its rly a matter of personal preference/taste.

that being said, heres a long long LONG list of my Andromeda Opinions, under a cut for major spoilers. some are big things and others might seem nitpicky to u. keep in mind that i havent finished the game yet! but i have completed a good bit of it and i think im close to finishing the main storyline. i may add more to this list as i play more or as i remember more so maybe check back in a couple days for edits?

im gonna start with a list of things i actually like about the game cuz thats shorter and less spoilery. its mostly aesthetic/minor things tbh:

its a pretty game even if some of the textures dont always load properly. nice landscapes and whatnot to look at

driving the nomad is an upgrade from the mako and very fun. ive never gotten stuck somewhere in my vehicle. jumping around is also fun and the height u jump makes sure its hard to get stuck as well

u can give the nomad a paint job!

i like learning about the angara’s history and culture (angara are the new aliens. jaal is an angara) and i like that half of them have australian accents

theres little things that help u get to kno ur crew better. they send u emails and theres a crew message board in the common room that they talk to each other on. theres also plenty of convos to overhear on ur ship and in ambient dialogue as ur out n about. also ur crew has a specified spot that u can find them at for cutscenes with them but other times youll find their hangout spot changes around the ship which is cool it makes them seem more like real ppl

drack is good and my grandpa

theres a good amount of female turians, salarians, and krogans hanging around. also a larger variety of skintones (cute purple salarians!!)

explicit confirmation in an overheard conversation that some asari use he/him and/or gender neutral pronouns. angara also apparently have a range of pronouns they use to identify themselves (although u dont hear them of course :/)

when u look out the windows of ur ship u actually see the planet ur orbiting which is a neat addition. also the layout of ur ship is one map so no more elevators!

if youve never played the first three mass effect games (And thus have no basis for comparison) i can see how it could be a decent and fun game on its own

ok now on to things i dislike. i guess i’ll divide it by category? less spoilery stuff first but youve been warned:

general glitches - im sure youve heard of some or probably most of these. im only going to list the ones ive personally experienced. some of them have been almost game breaking and not in a good/funny way. im mostly mad about them cuz im playing on ps4 and console games are supposed to be, in general, much less glitchy than pc versions. And Yet..

npcs will randomly appear out of nowhere or slide into place from off screen

often characters skin textures lag or dont fully load

suvi has been sitting in midair instead of standing in a couple cutscenes for me

twice when kallo has stood up theres just been a giant dent where his right ass cheek should be???

the classic bioware “ur character is drinking but the cup is missing or in a weird position” glitch. im actually sort of fond of this one

i dont think they developed animations specifically for the angaras’ skeletons cuz when they cross their arms it just.. doesnt work right. they cant reach. their hands just sort of phase through each other in the middle of their chest.

one time i entered the escape pod room on my ship and the door closed behind me and wouldnt reopen so i had to load a save

a couple times ive had to talk to ppl for quests but the person isnt there when i get there. its just a floating quest marker. so i have to reload the area/my save

theres a side mission i cant complete cuz im supposed to kill all the kett in this one area but one of them just disappeared out of existence before i killed it so. the quest is just still there unfinished and its driving me crazy.

on a planet named havarl which is a jungle world theres a layer of darkness at the forest floor indicated by how when somewhere is rly dark ur flashlight will automatically go on. one time i emerged from an area and my frame rate fell dramatically and i started moving rly slowly. at the divide where the darkness starts there was just a textureless black sheet across the whole world that looked like solid ground but i could fall thru it to the real ground. i tried reloading the area and my save multiple times and it didnt fix. i thought my save was permanently broken but then i restarted my ps4 and that did the trick

i rly dont think these can be explained away as andromeda being an open world game cuz like dragon age inquisition was open world and made by the same company and has similar sized areas with very minimal glitching (on console). the only major one i can even think of that ive experienced with inq on console is the one where if u start dialogue with someone in the middle of a jump u start hovering in the falling animation after but that is resolved quickly by just jumping again (i believe. i do remember its not permanent)

combat - its pretty typical of an open world over the shoulder shooter tbh. theres plenty of cover and enemies can flank you. theres more options for melee which is cool. nothing else of note on that front except ways they messed it up which include:

for some reasons bullets move rly slowly?? might be a glitch but i have a friend whos complained about this too and i rly noticed after she mentioned it to me

you can only “equip” three different powers at a time?? u can save ur fave combinations and switch between them but honestly it sucks

u cant order ur squadmates to perform certain powers or if u can i sure as fuck havent figured out how

ryder is always on the left side of the screen which means ur always facing right in cover and cant peer around corners on the left of boxes and things?? its rly annoying

this one is just personal preference. i happen to dislike it overall but i understand why other ppl ive talked to like it: you no longer are set in one class. you have the ability to change at will any time. you can also spec in every single biotic, tech, and combat power. pros: u can respec and experiment without starting a new game. if u care more about taking ur fave characters along than strategy, u dont have to worry as much. which brings me to cons: if u enjoy the aspect of picking ur squad to make up for ur characters weaknesses and use strategy in that sense, this kind of renders that unnecessary (unless u just choose to purposefully limit urself). this also means that every single ryder is technically a biotic which sucks storywise imo cuz some ppl will choose not to ever use their biotic powers and that? doesnt make sense to me from a story perspective. i like the idea of choosing whether or not ur character is born a biotic so that its integral to ur individual roleplay/story/etc

dialogue/writing/general story stuff - hoo boy. suffice to say this game does not live up to the original trilogy and fails in some areas where they Tried to make it better. more details:

a lot of the dialogue just Does Not Flow in the way im used to from having convos as shepard. ryder is bad at transitioning topics

speaking of the way ryder talks, how awkward they are is like painful. major secondhand embarrassment and not in an endearing way. like in a wincing at the dialogue way.

you cant choose to not be an awkward buffoon?? there are very very rarely dialogue options that make u seem competent or confident which sucks if thats the kind of character u wanted to go for. ryder is also kind of a weenie. they dont have the complete respect of their crew (good example, the argument cutscene on the tempest after u recruit jaal)

90% of ur decisions are boiled down to two dialogue options the “logical” one and the “emotional” one altho sometimes they seem to be flip flopped?? even in the paragon/renegade system u often got a third more neutral/sarcastic dialogue option and in dragon age inquisition (i kno i kno different series but same company and dialogue wheel mechanic) there was always multiple ways to respond to things with different personalities/characteristics

ur decisions straight up dont seem to have any consequences. like worse than usual for a bioware game. theres one cutscene where two of ur crew are arguing and u have to pick a side. i expected to have to cajole the one i didnt pick into being my friend again after but nope they just went on talking to me like nothing had happened.

theres a couple times where the game doesnt allow u to disapprove of something that seems like a rly bad idea/thing depending on how u want to roleplay?? spoiler example: peebee reanimates a remnant observer to fight for u and ur only two dialogue options are in support of it and ur not given the option to say ummm what the fuck were u thinking??

ur introduction to the angara ppl rly rly lacked the significance it should have had. like u discover a new species, land on their planet, are there for all of 5 mins, and then suddenly youve recruited one to ur crew and ur on ur way again. then if u go back the nexus literally no one says anything or makes any sort of big deal about the fact that u made first contact with a new species!! like wtf!! i think theres like one line of brief congrats from tann and thats it

speaking of that. theres a real lack of diversity among sentient/sapient life in this game. theres a handwavey reason for the quarians/volus/batarians/elcor/etc not being there (their ark was delayed) and then the game only gives u two new species and only one of them is peaceful. so overall its just humans, salarians, turians, asari, krogan, and angara. plus the violent enemy, the kett.

god the cutscenes leave so much to be desired. the other mass effect games were so cinematic and engaging in comparison. im sure youve seen ppl complain about the lack of facial expressions and body language in literally any character (most noticeable in humans tho) but like. i just started a new me3 playthrough a few days ago and the first 30 mins of that game are so much cooler than any cutscene ive seen in andromeda so far even with the worse graphics

the trans npc that just. deadnames herself out of nowhere. to u, a stranger

the fact that gil is the only fucking gay man in the game and a major part of his personal story involves his best friend who is a straight female fertility expert/doctor/whatever who apparently constantly guilt trips him about not having biological kids and i guess bioware didnt see how this could possibly be homophobic or just generally offensive

miscellaneous - just general pet peeves i guess:

why the fuck do all the asari in this game have the exact same face

the sexual dimorphism in the angara just. kills me. at least the women dont have boobs.

u can choose music for ur room on the tempest but it wont fucking keep ur music on so u have to turn it back on every time u enter

god the game just dumps so much shit at u at once at the beginning of the game. its very overwhelming and honestly i still barely kno what the fuck im doing

i liked the cc at first cuz i think my ryder is good looking but after listening to one of my friends i actually agree its very restricting for a roleplaying game in 2017. u can rly only adjust preexisting features rather than completely switch them out. this is somewhat fogiveable tho since theres the issue of ur twin and parents having to look like u

personally i feel like peebee is very annoying which is a major disappointment cuz im rly gay for her whole aesthetic

the game is supposed to be all about exploration but two of the main worlds u explore are just a desert world and an ice world so. not much to see tbh. i will say that i had a lot of fun exploring and traversing habitat 7 (as brief as that is), havarl, and kandara so far tho. theyre the ones that actually feel alien but habitat 7 and havarl have relatively small maps

bioware decided to only create like 6? maybe? i havent counted but around that many different alien animal species to populate the worlds and be predators and theyre the Same on every fuckign planet even tho theyre all in different solar systems. i would have preferred it if there were even just like 2-3 animals that were unique to each planet cuz at least that makes sense.

have i said ryder is a weenie and a buffoon already

why can i still not kiss any salarians or krogans. bioware im comin for u

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