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"I've died before; It's overrated. Where do I find this cave?"
~ The Commander (Before doing something stupid)
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machianery · 1 day
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When a character is assured enough in their own power that they are completely relaxed in dangerous situations??? When that same character becomes tense and uncomfortable in the mundane because they don't have a framework for peace?????? When they help navigate violence for another character and in return that character helps them navigate softness??????????? That's all, your honour
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machianery · 14 days
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okay they seriously outdid themselves with the new SAB weapon set this year. just LOOK at these things!! my hands are going to die a noble death collecting them... but it will be worth it.
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machianery · 14 days
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"And here we have a group of friends on their way on Route 30. Thel and his trusty companions are on an adventure to collect all coffee bean badges."
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Yeah, it is indeed another crossover commission. This time a GuildWars2 x Pokemon commission. Thought I add my top three favorite pokemon to Thel's team. And here they are.
Another good vibes filled commission from @artsyaxolotl
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machianery · 21 days
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Writing a character with multiple pronoun sets be like:
broke: pronouns change based on wanting to cycle through the ones the characters uses
bespoke: pronouns change based on what makes it easier to understand which character is being talked about
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machianery · 25 days
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new rat!! they/them rat! this rat is soooo devoted to their cause in a way that is absolutely, 100% healthy :)
anyway tfw demonic beings killed your mists researcher parents + their entire krewe in a terrible lab accident, so you grew up to become a paladin with an oath to protect tyria from mists-born threats. also, ironically, your best friend is a non-malevolent mists being who showed up during said accident, and has been with you ever since, hanging out in your head. and you might be a little in love with them but it's fiiine.
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machianery · 25 days
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listen. to me. the powerscaling of gw2 vs ffxiv are completely different.
uh spoilers for both of these games below
but at the end of the day gw2's final boss battle (End of Dragons) was won by getting all of your thousands of allies of the past 10 years to fight together on all fronts (with a magic power up mixed in there for you halfway thru the fight), and ffxiv's final boss battle (Endwalker) was won by you taking on the big bad functionally alone but with seven friends (with a Different magic power up mixed in there for you halfway thru That fight)
and these bosses are both, like, entropy given form so im going to say theyre functionally the same in strength.
but. ok. the gw2 fight needs multiple armies of people to win. and the ffxiv fight is won with a handful of adventurers.
not to belittle either game. in gw2 you fight for the world so the world can fight for itself. you are not the sole hero or the Most Important Person, just a fulcrum. in ffxiv you love the world and the world loves you back, granting you its hopes and thus its power. you become its symbol. its beloved. And both games are very good at portraying their ideas. i thoroughly enjoy both perspectives.
that said. it should be obvious. in a one on one fight the wol would absolutely trounce the commander. no amount of eating corpse meat made the commander as strong as 1/8th of their world's combined armies. which, using this metric, is how strong the wol is.
like. im lying in bed after a long day and i may not be making any sense but thosere my thoughts. anyway i guess this doesnt actually matter because they would kiss instead.
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machianery · 25 days
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...Not the expected reaction, but alright!
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machianery · 25 days
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machianery · 26 days
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the awakened portal incursion event/storyline is actually an intensely fascinating bit of lore and it both ties together a bunch of mists lore and adds kind of new angles on it and i think everyone should appreciate it with me
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machianery · 29 days
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full time spellbreaking part time teaching losers how to swordfight
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machianery · 30 days
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machianery · 1 month
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I started playing GW2 around 4 years ago. Every year, on the birthday of my first character, guardian Erris, I post a Trammander art piece on Reddit.
This piece is from about 2 years ago and remains one of my favorites. Depicting a moment shortly after the cleansing of Orr.
However, truth be told, I'm running out of ideas. It's not as if Trahearne lived long enough to create many memories...
Note that Erris isn't wearing dragonhunter's gauntlet and racing scarf in it like she does in most other pieces.
The gauntlet, of course, was obtained later during HoT. As for the racing scarf, it's a gift from Trahearne during LWS2. There is actually a little story about it, maybe I will write it down some day.
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machianery · 1 month
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i’m leaving a good first impression on the new generation of gw2 players
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machianery · 2 months
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okay so with the commander’s established love for cats as they literally pick cats up off the street from all over the continent and take them home, it made me start thinking, like… all of the home instances are public areas. For Asura, it’s a lab, Sylvari have a garden, humans just have a fucking part of town, charr have their barracks, and the norn have a public living space.
the commander doesnt have a house or anything.
They are just finding cats and setting them loose in a public space.
they bring lots of shit actually but the cats are the funniest part to me. theyre bringing home stray cats left and right and nobody can question them because theyre the fucking commander
edit: 34 btw. 34 cats
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machianery · 2 months
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I feel like I found @drchucktingle in Tyria...
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