cd-call.bsky.social
She/Her | Canadian
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Decommodification Advocate
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-and trying to coat it on terminally online doomerism.
Some random AO3 user managed to make a bunch of edgelords crash out all because of a single tag. AO3 needs more of that and less child porn.
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Yeah I know some people thought Taash was annoying, but some people are really fucking stupid. Should we just adopt all their standards?
Personally, I want more characters like Taash and Chromie, and games that won't do it don't deserve recognition for representation.
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Taash is another one. Their story is entirely about asserting their identity, not just in their gender, but their culture and their independence. They have complicated relationships with all of these things, and their story is interesting. More interesting than most trans characters we get.
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I've seen enough instances of "Quest NPC reveals they're trans, then disappears from the plot" that I've started filing it under "Doesn't Count." You don't really have trans rep if you're shuffling the trans characters off stage as quickly as possible.
Go big, or go home.
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Chromie doesn't talk about being trans a lot (truth be told I don't think she's thought about it much since her Visage Day) but that doesn't matter. Chromie's an ever-present presence in the story that can't be avoided or ignored, and her very name is a constant reminder that "Yup, she trans."
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Other RPGs, you'll have trans characters who appear for one quest, or one scene, no different from Mizhena. But we WILL see Chromie again. We are always going on adventures with Chromie, and her involvement in the story is a foregone conclusion.
There will never be a point where Chromie is benched.
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Also if you're following me, you would know I've already talked at length about why BG3 is a skeleton of a real game, so rudely asserting "you just didn't play it" is inherently dishonest.
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I get this conclusion because I value different things.
Side characters and Quest NPCs are nothing compared to something like a companion or major NPC that's part of the entire game.
So 'playing an important part' in one quest, or one alternate character is worth jack, fucking and shit.
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Three characters tucked away in little corners like easter eggs the devs are embarrassed about. How impressive /s
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Three or four? You don't know? Is one of them Schrodinger's Catgirl?
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"Oh don't you feel bad for your first impression of this character?"
No, I'm laughing at their misfortune, actually. I'm going to deliberately make things end badly for them.
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Because these guys are all cut from the same cloth of losers.
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So after checking, turns out I already had them on Blocktube because it was another "Reading D&D drama posts" content mills. Good to know my intuition is always correct.
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The average D&D player has only 3 brain cells, which is why they need to try really hard to do shitty improv as opposed to just writing a book
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Me: Uses block feature
Nazis: "HACKS!"
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Oh wow, I mildly criticized BG3 and they went full terf conspiracy theory over it? Lmao, what a fucking loser.
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D&D Chud, got it. Thanks
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It was legit "Lily's such a monster because the website she uses works like a website!"
Never moved beyond that, the freakouts are just more hysterical and more dramatic. It's not "harvesting IPs" but "subliminally parasocially grooming ten million teenagers at once with transgender devil magic"
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What I mean is I need to build her a new habitat.
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Ma'am, please don't hallucinate in my replies.
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Because bright blue lights on cars will blind other drivers
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Karma will give her a good role eventually
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Thinking about this since seeing the Turning Red 9/11 guy try to do the same thing to another YouTuber, and knowing full well that video essays about cartoons are aimed squarely at the 18-24 demographic.
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Actual audience metrics aren't reliable, but just pulling a claim straight out of your ass is?
Nah, sit on a cactus.