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Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

#like yes there is another explanation. #its fun to interpret it as romance but it doesnt have to be

[the-boy-branithar]

it's wild to me that people act as if chani's primary reason for leaving paul was bitterness about being a concubine like girl..... i promise that did not even register in her brain compared to the realization that paul had chosen to become her people's oppressor, to become her oppressor, to destroy the equality that was very foundation of their relationship. i promise her agency and her loyalty to her people, things which existed before paul and will exist after him, were more important to her than how "official" her relationship would be considered within a system she did not care about.

#dune #stop reducing female characters to their romances challenge #<- this #its not girl jealousy #its love for her home and people

[the-boy-branithar]

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul/Cooper Howard in Fallout (2024—) 1.02 "The Target"

#fallout #get his ass

[the-boy-branithar]

everyone's talking about which fallout ghoul they'd fuck but i don't see you guys talking about HER

#fallout #maybe only kninky mfers are strong enough to not be killed by radiation #shout out to all the ghouls who are freaks <3

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My theory is he's full of botox and filler and that's why he's prettier than the other ghouls 💅

#fallout #art #omg sksksk

[the-boy-branithar]

Why is it necessary that a piece of art "condemns" or "normalizes" something. Is it not enough for art to say "here are some fucked up people in some fucked up situations for your enjoyment"? The art doesn't have to judge them and neither do you. It's for your enjoyment.

[the-boy-branithar]

MONKEY MAN 2024, dir. Dev Patel

#monkey man #dev patel #YEAH #friendship saves the day again :')

[the-boy-branithar]

stay cool, bobby.

#dev patel #monkey man #shout out to men in the kitchen #hot as FUCK

[the-boy-branithar]

dropout tv is like . what if there was an animal shelter but it was for 30 yr olds with BAs in Theater

#dropout #and we eat that shit up <3

[the-boy-branithar]

holy shit is this gorgeous.

#video #making many identical pieces? amazing #impressive and satisfying

[the-boy-branithar]

first it was girls' locker rooms vs boys' locker rooms then it was the feminine urge to vs the masculine urge to now it's girl dinner vs boy dinner when will it end when will we escape i feel like maybe some of you guys dont even want to escape doesnt anyone else want to escape

[the-boy-branithar]

I am asking once again for tv shows to stop showing stabbing victims pulling the weapon out themselves.

#PLEASE #the prevalence of this could kill real people who think youre supposed to do that #please show people leaving shit in until someone can care for the wound

[the-boy-branithar]

#poll #fallout #nope #multiplayer games arent for me #i wouldnt be opposed if it was single player. i have heard that its gotten better as things have been added #but i dont really have a good way of playing multiplayer games #its a whole thing yk?

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Bethesda assumed people would be happy with the generic quests in Starfield, but they don’t understand what makes Skyrim’s generic quests appealing.

I did a fetch quest in the Reach. The quest was “get an ore sample from Shor’s Stone”. The most generic fetch quest imaginable. Firstly, you learn some lore. You learn that alchemists are involved in mining operations. They don’t just make potions, they analyse ores for miners for whatever reason.

So I get the ore from Shor’s Stone and the guy complains that he’s been waiting. Then I find out why he’s in a bad mood anyway. The mine is overrun with spiders and the guards aren’t doing anything about it. So I kill the spiders and get paid. Not only that, but I’ve made a friend, and also a marriage candidate. Further, the world has physically changed. The miners have gone back to work instead of sitting around all day.

I take the ore back to Riften and the old woman thanks me and gives me some potions. But now she’s my friend and greets me differently. As she is my friend, she counts towards becoming thane, as well as being a potential sacrifice for the Ebony Blade.

That’s one boring fetch quest and I’ve made two friends, become closer to becoming thane, changed the world physically, got a potential husband, and got money and potions. Skyrim’s fetch quests lead you to other quests and other hand-crafted locations. Or at the very least they give you some lore - such as the Hag’s Cure quest in Markarth which is a simple delivery but confirms that viagra exists in Skyrim.

Compare that to a Starfield fetch quest. You come across a generic, unnamed settlement and talk to a generic, unnamed NPC. He also wants me to collect ore, so I do. He pays me, and that’s it. He doesn’t even have a name. There’s no reason to do the quest since i’d get more money from selling 3 guns looted from Spacers. Nothing has changed. No friends or connections made. No lore learnt. The whole quest was a waste of time. Bethesda assumed people would be happy with their generic quests but those quests provide nothing. They’re useless filler that nobody would gain any enjoyment from.

#the elder scrolls #starfield

[the-boy-branithar]

rotten tomatoes means nothing, imdb rating means nothing, sometimes even letterboxd reviews mean nothing. the most effective way to show your love for a movie is to mass reblog gifsets of one

[the-boy-branithar]

Are you being fucking real with me right now? Are you pulling on my fucking dick? Are you seriously yanking it? Are you jorking it in the stripped club? My fucking peanits?

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Man I know I'm bitching about this a lot but I think the complete degradation of the satire and edge of the fallout series over time makes me so mad. The first game literally has an occupying American soldier shooting a Canadian protester dead right there in the opening to let you know the game's stance towards the military and the US as a whole; it's a biting attack on the jingoistic, war-and-profit loving country the US was, rooted in reality. It immediately forces the player to recognize the US (especially in this setting) were not heroic, patriotic do-gooders, but violent, colonizing bastards who blew up the world over chasing a white-picket-fence dream. "War never changes" is about the futile nature of war, the repeating cycles of violence and corruption, the very principles of fighting your fellow man never changing over time. It is always abhorrent, it is always messy, it is always reprehensible, and it is always done for the self interest of the elite in some way. Men do not die for their country, they simply die. Contrasting that with the opening of Fallout 4, which seems to idolize the military and pre-war America, is fucking baffling. You have those white picket fences, those perfect nuclear families, and "war never changes" is stretched like an Animorph cover from a harsh condemnation of the violent cycles the world is put through to a patriotic, watered down idea that war is inevitable and so are heroes. There's no fucking edge to how Fallout 4 remembers the country that ended the world; it gleefully eats up the Americana iconography, sanding down every edge that could make the player even consider that the US in the world of Fallout is meant to be our US taken to a logical extreme, instead revelling in patriotic clothes and ideals and icons while the entire basis of the franchise was built on satirizing and critiquing that exact blind patriotism. It drives me insane that these two completely ideologically different games are under the same roof and that one of them fell for the exact propaganda the first game was satirizing in the first place.

#fallout #people are mad about that guy saying that the male sole survivor is one of the dudes killing protesters #like my guys. while he is full of shit and you could say the dudes in power armour are anyone #i do think some of you need the reminder that no soldier is a glorious hero protecting whats right #they are all (whether they wanted to or not) participating in a horrific violent machine that turns people into monsters #the male sole survivor is not a special good boy who only killed people who deserved it. he was a cog. just like everyone else. #war never changes