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Nova | She/they | Adult™ | Gaming blog

Decided to make a pinned post instead of the description being ten miles long.

Hi I'm Nova (she/they). I made this blog dedicated to gaming because sometimes I enjoy feeling organized (you can find me over @toitaliclygo for other stuff if you wish).

So far this blog has mostly been DATV with a side of Mass Effect and a sprinkling of other things, so here's an incomplete list of games I love:

Mass Effect (including Andromeda)

Dragon Age (Veilguard and Inquisition)

Solar Ash

Horizon (ZD and HFW)

Control

Alan Wake (I and II)

Hollow Knight

Silksong

Ori games

Subnautica

Chorus

Hades ( I and II)

Currently Playing: South of Midnight

the inner circle as buzzfeed unsolved quotes

inquisitor: what the fuck are…? what is going on?

cullen: I’m not trying to do that whole dismissing thing but I’m dismissing it

josephine: oh, you murdered someone? … you got forty bucks?

leliana: I think if you’re going to kill a bunch of people, you might as well have some fun with it

blackwall: at some point I just turned off all my lights and let the darkness wash over me

bull: anytime I get even remotely spooked, I just look to the monkey with the sunglasses

cassandra: don’t jump to conclusions? I’m jumping. I’ve jumped. I’ve landed.

cole: nice of you to come in, I’m dying

dorian: we’re here for the cult stuff!

sera: hey look, steal from the rich. do it.

solas: I won’t argue that your logic is flawed. I just hate it because it’s detrimental to my argument 

vivienne: I’ve run the permutations through my computer and they all say “you’re fucked.”

varric: I did meet some of the most insufferable people. but, they also met me

There's just something very insane to me about this quest that has no markers, that's so easy to miss because the little caves aren't identified and are only found if you're being extremely thorough with your exploring.

All I could hear was Solas condescending to Rook, "Many would have died, I know. But afterward, flowers would grow again." and how Rook is such an inverted mirror to Solas' despair and "burn it down" mentality.

Rook spends all their *own* effort (rather than treating other people as necessary sacrifices for good things to appear once more), risking their own life (because these spots are frequented by darkspawn and spirits) finding flowers to soothe Despair Undying, and bring back Hope.

It's such a bookend to the quest in Dock Town, where you give names to people who brought joy, and art, and knowledge to the world.

I'm always thinking of Lord of the Rings, and often of The Council of Elrond and I hear Tolkien's echoes in this game, over and over.

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”

To take the hard road, not the expedient one, to resist becoming the very thing you fight against.

Ugh.

I love this game so much.

Things that are normal in Mass Effect that should be normalized now:

  1. After you make 999,999,999 credits you are banned from making any more money. People have to pay you in omni gel or nothing. All the work you do from then on is pro-bono, baby.
  2. AI is illegal.

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