AC6 Pilot outside the mech [Comm for FlaskOfLethe, 1/2]

best thing a male character can do is be dog-coded. second best thing a male character can do is sob hysterically

third best thing a male character can do is be a little gay about his best friend

you get it❤️

mold pisses me off so much

oh you have to eat your produce the moment it leaves the store or the fuckin Hungering Dust will get it. and. poison your food

I ran into this post years ago and to be honest, it has completely reoriented the way I engage with food.

Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.

But now I’m just like.

Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.

Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?

Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.

That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.

Life-changing.

KOTOR 2 is one of the weirdest, most fascinating, most esoteric stories to ever exist in the Star Wars franchise. At its heart is a philosophical debate on the nature of freedom, and I think that on some level "The Force" and "Fate" can be interpreted as the forces of the narrative itself. Kreia--who despite being the antagonist is more a driver of the plot than The Exile (blown by the wind and inevitably playing the role of the Lightest Light Side Jedi or Darkest pettiest Sith Lord)--is ultimately rebelling against Being in a Star Wars Story.

A couple of points that I think illustrate this theme well:

One of the big mechanics in this game is Influence; you recruit a bunch of skilled but non-force using companions, and they are then drawn towards your alignment like a magnet, and eventually you can train them to become jedi or sith. It's really fun and exciting from a player's perspective but tragic from Kreia's.

Kreia admires the strength and freedom of those who make their way in the galaxy without relying on the force. She thinks it makes you stronger and cleverer, and most importantly more free. Using the force is always a deal with the devil, because whether you go light or dark, you are led by the forces of destiny and playing the role assigned to you; you don't use the force, it uses you. And here's you, convincing your party members to abandon their independence, become jedi, and now they are spiritually whatever you want them to be.

Let's talk about Droids. In Star Wars writ large, you're not supposed to think about droids too much, because a sentient slave race is pretty problematic, but these little dudes are designed to be silly comic relief guys. But Kotor 2 gives droids a surprising amount of focus. Goto, HK-47, T3-M4, and even Bao-Dur's non speaking remote sidekick go through dynamic, dramatic Arcs. One of the biggest climactic moments in the game is when you play as the remote on Malachor 5 and decide the fate of the galaxy alongside Goto. Kreia seems suspicious of Bao-Dur, finds his thoughts difficult to read, because he is "almost half droid" himself.

Both Kreia and Atton hate droids passionately. And in this hatred I see jealousy. Droids are, ironically, even more free than non force using humans. Despite being built as tools and slaves, they are more separate from the force, and thus can carve out their own destinies in a way that Kreia can only dream of.

Despite all the grayness of the game, its ambiguity and esoteric debates about fate, there is no gray jedi path that you can choose as a player. There are specific stat rewards for going all in on light or dark, and special, powerful prestige classes as well. As a child, I thought it was lame you couldn't be a gray jedi, but now I see it as a beautiful, ludonarrative synergy. The Force and the Narrative reward you for playing your role.

A lot of people hate the ending, but I think the fact that it doesn't feel like an ending, that it leaves you unsettled even if you go the Good Route, is by design. There's something deeply tragic about your inevitable rejection of Kreia, and killing her is not satisfying. You "win" but in a way that sort of proves her point.

And the incomplete, jankiness of this game--the fact it was shipped incomplete and fans have gone to massive lengths to restore its unfinished content--only adds to the dark, surreal feeling of the experience.

It's funny to me that there was such a backlash against The Last Jedi, which offered up a few interesting points about the franchise's legacy before ultimately affirming it wholeheartedly in the conclusion, whereas this game is kind of full throatedly a Star Wars game in opposition to Star Wars as a concept.

I think it's a moment worth preserving.

i saw something on twitter that made me so angry i had to make vent art about it

i think the most upsetting thing about american-flavor puritanism is how fucking patronizing it is. it's 2026 but the whole world still has to deal with a cultural hegemony grown from the gnarled vestiges of victorian-era paternalism. tax-paying adults with passports and the right to vote are treated like wayward children because of the antiquated idea that authorities must protect the weak minds of the unwashed masses from depravity and corruption. the average american can send a fellow citizen to the chair, but they can't piss in a ditch without being declared an outlaw. american entertainment media is saturated with sex, but you can't talk about it online without getting your account suspended. it's such blatant censorship at a universal scale, but because sexual content is framed as inherently dangerous, this restriction on basic adult autonomy, this blanket denial of moral and intellectual adulthood, can be reframed as protection, an expression of care, a moral duty. "won't someone think of the children!" I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN!

thank god that the video game that features slow motion animations of graphic gunshot wounds and is rated 18+ has a profanity filter in single player offline mode. thank you for protecting this 33 year old mind from the corrupting influence that is a horse named apple slut

if one of my friends told me they were in a time loop i owuld believe them. they wouldnt even have to repeat what imabout to say right back at me while i say it. im loyal

nobody in the tags understands, I don't Need a time loop code I Am Loyal. you are not like me

Harvesting my wheat

Hehehehehe

Can I fucking help you?

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

What

What

hot alt woman at the basement show: the vibe of this band is just so raw, you feel me?

me, so nervous from the weed smell i'm about to throw up: i'm a feminist so i wouldn't unless you asked,

the lead singer Tanner from the band "Middle School" strumming up the most pathetic 6/4 riff you've ever heard: Get Ready To Love Yourselves The Way My Parents Never Could

pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

Where’s the Hunter S Thompson we’re at war now quote Bring me the Hunter S Thompson we’re at war now quote

1 week post 9/11

and if I were to say that the egg prime directive is popular because people view queerness as a playground club that you can only get into by whispering the super secret password to each other between giggles in the back of the classroom, and not an organization of marginalized groups for political, social, and economic liberation...

and if i were to say that the egg prime directive is popular because of the hyper-individualized understanding of queerness as a 'personal journey' of 'self-understanding' that eventuates an aesthetic and socially acceptable hobby like pottery rather than a material relation to the hegemonic forces imposing cisheterosexuality on us all...

and if I were to say the egg prime directive is popular because cis people think being a trans woman is bad and not something you should ever consider as a good thing even if it's good for you, you're a tranny already, but this "cis" "man" is not so you should not corrupt "him"

and if i were to tell you that the egg prime directive is popular because even in the queer community trans women are treated with derision and exoticised as taboo sexual objects, so trying to let an egg know she might be trans is an act that, in the eyes of the transmisogynist, unpersons someone they currently see the humanity in.