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Changing the url to sh.reddit.com lets you get around it. Been using that when I've needed to look up a reddit thread at work.

"A bald vibe" is an extremely funny combination of words

That greentext has singlehandedly stopped me from fully hating AI, it still makes me crack a smile to this day.

Even weirder, Stuart isn't a mouse. He just looks like one.

I am nonbinary, I haven't played a Dragon Age game before Veilguard, I haven't yet gotten to this one scene that's apparently damned the entire franchise, nor have I even met Taash(?) yet. Here's my off the cuff rambling thoughts:

I've just now watched the scene devoid of context, and if that's where the misgendering conversation started and stopped, I think everyone is wildly overreacting. The first minute is fine, a weird older lady apologizes for screwing up in her own way, I've had people react in much stranger ways than that, and in it's own way "Whoops I fucked up, lemme do some push ups to show I feel bad" is kinda sweet. I'll concede that the explanation after was heavy handed, but you could definitely include the gist of it somewhere else easily. "Don't be weird, just say sorry and move on" is the correct advice to give to someone who doesn't know how to interact with trans people but wants to be supportive. If that last minute of the conversation happened somewhere else in the game, it'd have been fine.

The game overall has been mediocre so far, a solid 6 out of 10, nothing to write home about, but certainly not deserving of the flak it's been getting. This is one of the first games I've played where I feel like I'm represented, I think it might be the first major game where you can make a custom character who's explicitly transgender, and that counts for something in my book.

From where I'm standing, it really feels like a lot of the outrage DA:V is drawing comes from some discomfort(conscious or no) with having the queer experience very out in the open for everyone to see, which is what I would expect from a series that (as far as I can tell) has always had tons of explicitly queer characters. I'm sure that's not universally the case, but I simply don't buy this narrative of "I'm fine with trans people, but the way it's written is so clunky." because I've had almost the polar opposite experience. I can think of few other games that talk about transness in the way that actual trans people talk about it.

No that's the Rubicon. Rubric is the guy who directed The Shining

God Thi4f is an obscure pull but with my username I obviously feel the pain on that one.

Here's a few slightly lesser known creators that I'm a big fan of:

• Aliensrock, let's player who mainly focuses on puzzle games. He gives good commentary on his though process and there's just something comfy and satisfying about watching a smart person solve puzzles.

• Atrocity Guide, makes long form documentaries on unusual people and groups, etc. She always dives down some absolutely bizarre and fascinating rabbit holes. Personal favorites are her videos on Ullillillia and Nasubi.

• Bloodrunsclear, stitches together clips of movies and TV shows to create fake movie trailers.

• Britanick, legendary sketch comedy duo, every one of their videos has had me in tears laughing. They stopped uploading as much after becoming professional movie and TV writers, but have come back with a patreon in light of the writers strike.

• Monstergarden, this guy who's been designing a strange and fascinating twist on the traditional fantasy setting via artwork, in universe writing, and even a short animation or two.

• The Exploring Series, an SCP youtuber who goes into very in depth explanations of various SCP articles, as well as occasionally talking about other franchises like 40k or reading Lovecraft stories. Pretty much my only connection to SCP stuff anymore, I mainly like his voice and use his videos to go to sleep.

• Venjent, a drum n bass artist that started blowing up on tiktok after he made a dnb track out of a creaky door. Extremely cheesy, but he's so sincere and friendly that the cheesiness is charming, it helps that the songs are all bangers too.

• Night Mind, explores and discusses various pieces of internet horror and "unfiction". As someone that grew up on ARGs and creepypasta, Night Mind is singlehandedly keeping my love of internet horror content alive.

The term you're looking for is cisgender. Trans = "on the other side of", cis = "on this side of"

Is that what happened? I occasionally check reddit at work since it's unfortunately still one of the better places for actual answers to things, and in the last few days I've needed to use old.reddit.com to get around getting blocked. VPN block explains a lot.

Ah, my only context was what little I've picked up about Krem and Dorian(as well as an explanation about how the Qun is sexist to the point of wrapping around to be progressive), and assurances from people that the games have always been like that.

Even still, from a 15 year old series, that still manages to be a lot gayer than most.

I was in the same situation but with Ross and Barry playing through it on Game Grumps. Even without playing it myself though, the game is truly something special.

Bummed out to not get any more news on Death Stranding 2, I'd been looking forward to it for weeks. But this teaser is really intriguing, gave a lot of things for me and my friends to speculate on.

Huh, somehow completely blew past my radar. Thanks for the info!

I've replayed the VR sketch so many times already, it's so great to see these guys again. It's also been cool to see either of them show up in other places, Nick was a guest on an episode of Game Changer a while ago (also he's apparently married to Karen Gillan now??)

Oh wow I remember loving their work when I was on Twitter. The atmosphere with all of their pieces are so cool and unique. Shame all of their work seems basically impossible to look at without making a Twitter account 😕

I've never seen someone else in the wild that watches Cracking the Cryptic. Such a nice and cozy channel.

misgnedering

For the last few weeks it was Sons Of The Forest. But now that my wife and I finished the story and are waiting to lose ourselves for months in Baldurs Gate 3, we've been filling the time with Green Hell, another survival game in a similar vein to SotF. So far the constant struggle to stay on top of food, water, and injuries has been kinda frustrating, but hopefully that headache will go away once the systems start to make more sense.