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#keyboard #just keyboard #for many reasons #more space for hands #actual buttons #comfort #using a smartphone for extended amounts of time is bad for my hands and neck and eyes and posture #never learned to type quickly on that thing either #it's such a pain in the ass to type on a touchscreen

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I think I need to go to camp for a while. Be alone. Scream at the sky.

#🥺😭 #Baldur's Gate 3

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Number of Goblins, ranked

One Goblin - That's just a goblin. He's probably just getting his groceries or something. Leave him alone, you asshole.

Ten Goblins -- That's a fairly normal amount of goblins. There's generally around ten goblins in any given situations. They're just here for aesthetic, so you know it's a fantasy world. Remember to tip them when you leave.

One Hundred Goblins -- Ok this is too many goblins, but this is a reasonable amount of too many goblins. Like, this is maybe an army of goblins or something? My point is that they're probably here for a good reason. Best not to mess with them, they're likely load-bearing in some way.

One Thousand Goblins -- This is probably a goblin town, in which case this is really more a case of One Human, which is a completely different list only available on goblintube. If not, all these goblins are lost. Return them to the goblin town. The orcs are worried.

One Million Goblins -- A million goblins? I'm not sure I've even seen a million things in my life , and now there's a million goblins? That's, like, all the goblins. Why are you at a convention of all the goblins? Are you a goblin? Actually, no, that would make sense. Yeah, that's probably what's going on here. Sorry you had to find out this way.

One Billion Goblins -- Ok, look, at this point you have clearly been sent to a future time where humanity is extinct and goblins have inherited the earth. I can think of no other explanation for a billion goblins. This sadly means that you're the weirdo, and you have to go be a cryptid now. At least you can find a phone and read the goblin creepypastas about you.

One Trillion Goblins -- How? What is happening? This is more goblins then there are birds, and they'll all in your house? How is your house this big? Wait, forget the goblins, how is your house this big? Are the goblins here to guillotine you? Probably! Move out of your stupid mansion and let the goblins have it, you weird rich bird-hoarding freak.

One Quadrillion Goblins -- One quadrillion? I'm only like 80% sure that's even a real number! Luckily, you won't have to deal with a quadrillion goblins for long, because soon they'll collapse together under their gravity, forming a far more manageable single planet-sized goblin. Picard's not gonna be happy about this one!

More Goblins -- Fuck off, you do not have more then a quadrillion goblins. Why are you lying? Are you worried I won't like you if you don't claim to have an implausible number of goblins? Don't worry. Your worth is not dependent on your goblin numbers. Go back to the actual number of goblins secure in the fact I love you, no matter how few goblins you have <3

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hahaha got the girls done for C2E2

#I'm a sucker for this sort of Alfons Mucha-esque style #love to see the girls done that way ✨ #Baldur's Gate 3

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They're dating

#yeah 😂

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I'm so curious about Kagha, because she's so different from Halsin. She and Halsin are both wood elves, and I get the sense that Kagha is probably not ~young~ but she's not nearly as old as Halsin. When you deal with the Shadow Druids, she's very quick to defer to him and treat him like a teacher she's disappointed. He probably mentored her, if he's chosen her as his second in command - though, I would bet it's in more of a general thing in the way that the First Druid is everyone's mentor, rather than the clearly more direct and specific mentorship he has with Nettie as a healer.

Canonically, Halsin isn't an exceptionally good leader. He's not bad at it, and he has good instincts. He correctly surmises that after the dust-up with Kagha and the tieflings, the Emerald Grove needs an outsider to step in and lead without being tied to any particular grudges or politics. That's savvy enough that I think Halsin was a good First Druid, he just wasn't especially good or great at it and clearly didn't like the position. At worst, I think he let some situations fester because of his focus on the Shadow Curse.

But I'm not ready to say that he didn't realize Kagha was a proverbial snake in the grass ~the whole time~, because I don't think she was. I think she was genuinely and recently radicalized by the Shadow Druids. I think she probably had something of an edge before, maybe she was a hardass or had a mean streak or something. Regardless of how I feel about the quality of the Shadow Druid subplot (which is that I think its pacing is meh and Kagha's face-turn is way too fast and kind of shitty), I think it speaks to the fact that her care for the Grove is genuine. That perhaps Halsin's failure with her wasn't in not realizing she was A Bad Person Actually, but in not tending to her insecurities or noticing that she might be feeling isolated, if she was so effectively shaken by the Shadow Druids' fearmongering.

The recent wave of IRL cults should have taught us all by now that everyone is susceptible to cult tactics if they're sufficiently scared and alone, and BG3 is a game riddled with various cults. You don't have to already be a bad person, or a stupid or weak person, to fall for them. And I think Kagha's story is way less interesting if you just think she's an evil power hungry shrew too stupid to keep herself from being radicalized.

She clearly has a nasty streak, but her apologies and regrets also sound sincere, if you manage to hear them. Even when she isn't "redeemed", she accepts her punishments, even if she does so bitterly and not believing she was wrong. And I have to wonder just how much of that mean streak is self-defensive rather than inherent in her, how much of it is that she struggles to admit failure and learn from it. Or how much is her modeling Halsin's level of single-minded commitment, picking a methodology or an action and throwing all of her weight behind it, even when it may no longer be working.

I wish characters like Kagha got nearly as much love and fandom development and benefit of the doubt as someone like Ketheric. I think she has a ton of potential for that, and way fewer crimes to her name than other fandom favorites who just happen to also be, you know. Men.

#good post OP #Kagha is definitely a character I wouldn't mind seeing more of #Baldur's Gate 3

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Sometimes I look at other people's amazing OCs and wonder if I made my half-elven durge too ordinary looking. The thing is, I didn't know the whole story when I started playing (I avoided spoilers like plague), and now I'm used to her the way she is. But that wouldn't necessarily be a problem. Warpaint made of blood washes off. Piercings can be taken out. Clothes can be changed. And being covert is excellent. But what I would really, most of all, love her to have is scars all over her body - marks of her dangerous lifestyle, of her fuck-ups, of her fits of rage written into her skin. You can only achieve that with mods. That would normally be good enough for me. At the moment though, I'm worried to use mods because the game is still getting updates. Last time I had mods installed, it broke the dialogues that allowed Tav/Durge to ask some romanced companions for kisses, which I think we can all agree is an essential gameplay mechanic that must not be messed with.

#I'd also like her to be a bit bulkier #not like the body type 3 which is beautiful but not what I'm aiming for #I modded a lot of other games to hell and back so it's not like I don't know what I'm doing #but if I have to clear all the cache from BG3 one more time because a mod fucked it up for me #well I will be very tired #but I'm so tempted all the time #like being unable to scratch an itch #Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3

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A kitten at heart

#Baldur's Gate 3

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I'm sure this has been asked before but I haven't seen it and I'm curious:

#I've used all of them at this point and I like them all a lot #I use voice 4 for my main Tav/Durge so I feel the most attached to it

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Damn these ships going crazy

Part 2

#Star Trek

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

#well I'm glad I don't have trypophobia

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#played through the first game with her #bf played the bird guy #Borderlands #Borderlands 2 #Borderlands gifs

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hater of socks

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TOMB RAIDER IV: THE LAST REVELATION (1999) dev. Core Design

#shoutout to the game that made me absolutely obsessed with ancient Egypt as a kid and made me interested in studying history #Tomb Raider

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HAAANK! THAT'S NOT ART BY THE OP HANK! OP REPOSTED IT WITHOUT CREDIT! HANK!

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i have been diving back into dragon age 2 nonsense recently and. isabela really is the funniest gal around im cackling at these

#this woman pisses me off so much at certain points in the game but I've got to give it to her that these are all 👌 #Dragon Age