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#he's more into sci fi than fantasy anyway and I think he'd love the base management aspect
dare-to-dm · 4 months
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Still enjoying Baldur's Gate 3. My spouse is interested in the game too, though I think it's unlikely that he'll be able to get into it. He doesn't have much experience with turn based tactical games, and I think that ultimately the high level of complexity in BG3 is going to be a barrier to entry.
I can't even advise him to play an easy character like a fighter because you have to control every action taken by every member of your squad. Sometimes he watches me during combat and whenever I open up the action wheel and scroll through literally dozens of choices he's like "...this looks really complicated".
He loves Dragon Age, but honestly that series is far simpler to get into. It does have a lot of granularity in its tactical options, but you can also just choose to lower the difficulty and let the AI control your teammates and you can do just fine.
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eisforeidolon · 1 year
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It really bothers me that people feel like JA is floundering without Jared around to clean up or cover his messes for him. As if Jensen is unable to manage his own career or do things unless Jared is there to help him thorough it like a helpless child. I love Jared and think he is doing great post SPN but to think Jensen is only able to make good decisions if he has Jared involved is ridiculous to me. Jensen is his own person why do ppl feel the need to belittle him like he is not smart.
I mean, I'm guessing by people you mean Jared stans obsessed with the whole idea of competition between the Js. Like the hellers/AAs, neither group is happy with their fave being successful alone, the Other!J has to be actively failing to prove just how inadequate they always were compared to Fave!J. In their heads, Other!J was always just a lesser sidekick who is ridiculous for thinking they could succeed post-SPN without Fave!J to make their projects a success. Everything they've both done since SPN proves this is true!!11!!!
Jensen said a few different times there were various things he'd wanted to do while filming SPN that couldn't be fit around it and still maintain a decent work/home balance, and his approach since SPN ended seems to have largely been to take anything that crosses his radar that sounds cool. Make some albums, voice act Batman, do a western, work with Kripke/be a live action super hero, play a sheriff, do a live action version of a video game character, etc.
Of course, if Jensen is Other!J to you? Well, he can't possibly be doing a bunch of different projects because he wants to. Nope, he's broke and desperate and taking literally anything he's being offered because he has no judgement and is probably secretly having to beg for offers. Putting aside TW, which is a whole tempest in a teacup on its own, but ultimately just a CW-typical YA fantasy drama on a network that no longer wants to be the CW?
When there's really nothing controversial, they go with shit like: The Boys is a terrible show and Jensen was both awful in it and had a blink and you'll miss it role anyway! Actors doing albums is always a pathetic joke, enough said. He only did animated Batman because no one would hire him for the real thing and he's only pretending to like superheroes now after never mentioning it before (lol), and superheroes are a stupid tired trend that is so over.
When there are questionable aspects to something, they're more than happy to bolster any controversy they'd dismiss and/or mock if it were Fave!J: Didn't you hear how Big Sky is misogynist for its first season centering on women being abducted and racist for not making those misogynist abductions Indigenous women because it's filmed in an area where a disproportionate number of abductions have occurred within that population, so it should be about that instead of the novel the show was already being loosely based on?! Obviously there were problems on the set of Baldwin's western, anyone should have known when they were looking for a replacement actor that late something awful was going on and never taken that job (and that's about the least shitty thing said on that one). Why didn't Jensen do in depth research into a game company before agreeing to do a trailer to make sure a random FPS game in a bog standard sci fi setting wasn't controversial? He's just so dumb/careless/desperate and actually a terrible person that he would take such awful, awful projects!
See? See? He's incompetent and literally all of his choices are bad and/or pathetic. This is, of course, COMPELTELY DIFFERENT than hellers/AAs claiming the exact same thing over everything Jared does. Ours are all totes valid complaints, theirs are just bitter stans whining because they refuse to admit they know our fave is better than theirs! Nah, everybody in this bar is ridiculous.
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mzmezzler · 3 years
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{ Please note } Taboo - an implicit prohibition on something based on a cultural sense that it is excessively repulsive or, perhaps, too sacred for ordinary people.
I'm really nervous posting this, but I hope someone likes it ~
{ Chan - Objectification }
I can see Chan as the kind of person who would want all control taken from him since he's always the one in charge. Being completely used and controlled would make him melt in a way that simple domming may not work for him. Whether he's supposed to be a foot rest or a complete bitch without any relief given to him, the act of simple being controlled and used for someone else's pleasure would turn him on so much.
{ Minho - Large Insertions }
I can't be the only one who sees minho as a bitchy bottom (I am projecting myself onto him....yes) Anyway, I get size queen vibes but also Minho would love the sight of seeing the subtle bulge in the bottom of his stomach when he can finally fit whatever toy may have been chosen into him. And the gratification of the bottoming out wouldn't even be the start of it. He would also enjoy the sight of his gaping hole dripping with warm lube as it twitches and tries to clench around nothing after he cums.
{ Changbin - Watersports }
This may be where I lose some of you but hear me out. Watersports isn't just piss drinking and golden showers... Changbin would be the one who'd like to have his bladder control toyed with. Like maybe he drinks too much water and you refuse to let him go, just watching him squirm under your heavy gaze. And while fucking you could press down on his stomach while he whimpers, trying his hardest to hold it in since he would be punished for letting it go even a little bit. And towards the end of the little game Changbin would cum while seeing white and piss himself after.
{ Hyunjin - Age Differences }
There's something about Hyunjin that just makes me think he guns for people older than him. it would be something he wouldn't make a conscious effort towards anyone older than him till he realizes it probably through a crush on a senior or maybe even a mentor. I can imagine Hyunjin in a non idol setting really going for a milf/dilf type whether it has to do with the chase, the risk factor, or element of seducing someone older than him (not that he would need to do much) all to end up as a bit of a prize.
{ Jisung - Teratophilia aka Monster Fucker }
**disclaimer - this kink also has a meaning for a fetish regarding people with deformities, but I mean fantasy monsters**
My initial jumping off point was the idea that this has all been long time coming of evolving taste for Jisung. I feel he would watch hentai and find an odd attraction towards tentacle hentai scenes in some more vanilla works. Then venturing further he would stumble upon more niche genres like fantasy or sci-fi genres with heavy elements of cum inflation, aliens, and burly monsters he probably liked seeing defile whomever. This was all until he would find himself replaying the ideas of being manhandled into the rough embrace of any supernatural creature he may have watched completely ravage some helpless anime girl while he fingers himself.
{ Felix - Age Play }
** in my mind agere is sfw and age play is nsfw **
This one is a tad bit of a no brainer for me. Felix likes to be babied and coddled in general to where I think the element of having this headspace during and especially after sex would be almost natural for him. When he subs Felix would go into an almost non verbal state where needs to be gently held and dotted on like your baby. I can imagine him liking nursing ,titles like Mommy/Daddy, and just wanting to be cared for overall.
{ Seungmin - Filming }
We all know Seungmin is known to be around with his camera, but as the member I see wanting something neither too rough or soft; bringing in that trait of his is a no brainer. Whether he's filming you all having sex in your shared bedroom to upload onto an amateur site or for his own collection. The presence of that little red dot makes him feel almost urged on by the need to perform and show off the two of you.
{ Jeongin - Public Sex }
When I say public I really don't mean dressing rooms and bathrooms. I mean while you're on the phone, in a movie theater, and even on the metro. I don't Jeongin as someone too kinky, but I think the thrill he'd get from initially trying it in a bathroom would lead him to want to stride for more whether you have him eating you out while on a zoom call or you give him a rough hand job that only results in him cumming in his briefs on the metro. He would only crave more.
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chaseadrian · 2 years
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no no you're right and you didn't come off as attacking. i was thinking of the age range, the relative evenness between genders, and the lgbt rep (but that's actually only canon for 2 characters and the rest are fandom hcs)
i do think the show has handled a lot of these topics well but there could for sure be more diversity in s2 and i agree with the points you raised
(also yeah, economos being 55 seems high? like i love this trend of having middle ages characters in fantasy/sci-fi/comic shows, i think that's super important, but that just seems a lot older than how he comes across. john seems like he'd be more mid to late 40s or very early 50s based on the everything about him)
yeah! like factually it tracks that he's 55 (the wiki states that there was a Hanoi Rocks concert in Finland in 1981, the one that Economos said he went to when he was 14 which means he was born in 1967) but like, looking at him he looks mid 40s. but i guess Steve Agee is 53 so what do i know lmfaoo
but YES the lgbt rep is also smth i really admired! and the difference between Leota being an out and proud lesbian married to her wife and shucking off surprise/microaggressive ignorance from others with sarcasm and irritation, while Chris is just kinda hush hush about his bisexuality. we only get two references to it, and one of them is his dad listing it as a reason why he hated Chris. it sets them up as loose foils of each other because like here's this black lesbian who is a little awkward but still makes space for herself in a world that doesn't want her coming up in this team with an attractive white dude that the world was literally built for but who's struggling to find his place anyway. watching their dynamic was really interesting and im looking forward to where it goes in the next season!!!
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alittlefrenchtree · 3 years
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Helloooo! Guess who’s back? The Dune notes! yaayyyyy!
ok, chill.
SPOILERS BOOK 2 : MUAD’DIB (Chapters 1-4)
Chapter 1:
I’m still struggling to get all the politic aspects and understand who’s on which side but that’s not what I’m focusing on right now. Once I’ve read the whole thing and had the whole picture, I’ll study all the details of this part of the story.
I loved this quote:
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in the French translation, and thought it was beautiful to see Arrakis through Paul’s mind and eyes only to find out that the original quote said stuff like Cheddar-colored. Damn you, American people.
Chapter 2:
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Bless you, Muad’Dib, your father and Princess Irulan. Might your words be heard loud and clear on every planet of every universe.
I love, love, love this chapter. This whole conversation between Hawat and the Fremen, the world building made through it and through the Fremen is really good. I don’t think the Fremen has a name because he’s exactly what he describing of his people. He’s only one to serve the whole clan.
Many interesting stuff about the conversation and the scene.
First, I wonder if the Mentat’s abilities can work on Fremens? This part seems to say that they can’t : "But still he did not know what this Fremen wanted and this rankled. Mentat training was supposed to give a man the power to see motives." Then here again : "He said worm. He was going to say something else. What? And what does he want of us?" It’s funny to see how Hawat’s powers seem to be limited after we saw part of what Jessica and Paul were able to do.
"You must make a water decision, friend."
is my favorite quote of the chapter. The whole chapter is built to make Hawat and the reader really understand how primordial the water is. Blood doesn’t exist in the Fremen’s mouth, life is all boiled down to water. They doesn’t seem to care about the Spice either. When he’s thinking in terms of currency, it’s not about the Spice or money, it’s still about water:
"You think we have the Byzantine corruption. You don’t know us. The Harkonnen have not water enough to buy the smallest child among us."
It’s one thing I find fascinating about sci-fi/fantasy writers who are creating whole new worlds in different universes. It’s not only about thinking about crazy new technologies or super powers or anything like this. It’s when they shift the whole logic because context is different and you see it in the smallest details, in ways of speaking, in turns of phrases. It’s where you find so much richness for a fandom. And get so easily immersed in the said new universe. Every time I'll get really thirsty in the future, I'll think about this chapter. And the water decision.
I’m guessing water is one of Dune’s real plot? Every stranger coming to Arrakis comes for the Spice, thinking it’s the goldmine of the planet, the way to conquer it and truly owns it. But it’s not and the Fremen are still the one owning the desert powers because they’re the only one seeing that Arrakis needs to be ruled by water and not by the Spice? I don’t know. But that’s where my guesses are heading at the moment.
About this,
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I’m really curious about how they’re going to handle on screen the deep religious roots of a large part of the story. We all know how tricky it can be. Is it going to be tone down? Are we going to see people living in the desert worship a young white male? We’ll see.
Chapter 3:
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It’s cute to see how, even if Paul sees himself as a some kind of monster or as something else and undefined, he’s still sensitive to what he sees with his powers of prescience. But it's difficult to get a grip on what he is exactly, and how he feels.
Ok-- wait a minute. Last time I’ve heard about Liet, it was supposed to be a local divinity and now… Liet is Kynes. Ok. If you say so. — does it mean there going to be some kind of competition between Liet and the Muad’Dib? About who has the biggest divine aura? About who’s supposed to lead?
Anyway, what Kynes says, it goes with what I mention earlier. About how all the different people who came on Arrakis have failed to make it a Paradise because they were all focused on the Spice instead of the water.
I love how convenient Paul and Jessica are as characters to introduce the descriptions of every room they step in. You can go wild on details and just be like that’s not me, the bene gesserit/mentat/whatever Paul is things are calling for all. the. details. I should do that. Only write characters who allow me to naturally waste 7 lines of words on the pattern of a wallpaper. Frank Herbert doesn’t do that, but I definitely would.
Again, it’ll be interesting to see how Tim is going to handle the Paul and Kynes’ confrontation/conversation. We’ve seen him touch on these kind of feelings and behavior with The King but Paul seems to require a lot more of everything. So I’m impatient to see.
And I’ve already leaked the quote but let's look at it once more time. Quickest way to prove Timmy is the right cast for Paul.
"In this moment he'd give his life for Paul, she thought. How do the Atreides accomplish this thing so quickly, so easily?"
Because that’s what Timmy does, right? Makes people ready to give their life for him.
Ok about Duncan… We’re back at it, right? He’s not dead until I’ve seen the body. And I didn’t see the body so, he’s not dead. I think? Paul’s abilities don’t seem to be 100% reliable (at least not yet) so even if he believes Duncan’s dead, he might not be. I certainly hope so. My boy Jason deserves more.
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I still wonder how the power of prescience is working. Are the blind spots blind because Paul is living through them at the moment and can’t have knowledge of the immediate future OR would they have been blind even if he had looked in their direction long before?
I was also wondering if Paul was going to rely too much on the new dimension of his abilities and how long it was going to take until he realized he made that mistake. It was… quick but I guess it’s Paul, so it shouldn't be surprising.
And that fear litany ❤️ I could kill to write something as iconic and powerful. I could read it every day and still got the chills each time.
Chapter 4:
The Baron is like me, he needs to see bodies to believe in death. I’m delighted to have common ground with that creepy, disgusting asshole. Delighted. To be honest, I’m not that interested with the Baron himself. So far, he’s been nothing but clichés over clichés and really not the best ones. He’s the evil character so he's all the kinds of evil. Shocker. I usually like evil characters (very often more than I love "good" ones) but not him. Really not him. I hope it'll change but I’m afraid he’s too far gone and beyond redemption.
I’m very interested by what’s Hawat is going to become though. Will he turn his allegiance to the Baron? It kind of remind me of Teal’c in Stargate SG-1, but the other way around. The Baron opposes two things : Hawat’s loyalty and his admiration towards those who calculate without emotions. Based on what we know about Mentats and how the human part carried by the human body overpower the Mentat’s education and training, I’d say loyalty should win? And the part of me who is part Mentat agrees on the loyalty so, we’re all good. But it can be an interesting storyline, so I’m waiting for it.
What’s funny about this quote
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is that he could very much be talking about Paul and still be right. Or the baby sister. Or Lady Jessica. All Harkonnens are waiting.
And what’s also funny is how The Baron thinks of Feyd-Rautha. In addition of being absolutely disgusting there are some similarities between what the Baron wants for Feyd and what Paul is meant to be/already is.
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I wonder if Feyd is meant to become some kind of opposite alter-ego to Paul. A better, more subtle opposant than the Baron. Could be fun.
You know what? Every time I start this kind of post, I said to myself: I'm pretty sure I haven't that many notes this time, it should be quick. And then here we are again 🤷🏻‍♀️ See you next time! 🌖💛
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