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So, this is a bit late, I celebrated Thanksgiving a week early so didn't have time to play, so let's pick up where we left off.
So it's well known that, at some point, this game was planned to be a live service title. You can see a bit of that in the faction areas.
You earn rep, there are rep grinds, and unlock rep tiers, to get new items from rep merchants. Kinda like Destiny.
The Veil Jumpers want us to find their missing remembers a check in on a town that's gone dark. All your current party members (4) come with, which makes me wonder why they reduced the party size to 3 . On the way to the village the game takes the opportunity to show case 1 of the only 2 thing your party members are good for. Puzzles, kinda, will get to that later.
I'll say this about the art direction of it really does take the bite out of the mysticism and grandeur of a lot of thrse places we've only heard about in the previous games [emphasis on games]. I guess that's an inevitability when it comes to AAA soulless slop
The blighted village segment is another talkie hallway, I guess they were trying to build atmosphere here m, but the lighting is too bright and the cringe writing prevents anything from seeming eerie like blighted infestation used to be.
It ends with what a lot of people are calling a moral quandary, it's not really as rook is hard coded as good in their background, but yeah you get to choose to either free the mayor or leave him to die.
We return to the Veil Jumpers to report that the mystery neighbors have control of and are spreading the blight. Nostalgia then makes a cameo
I saw a crow flying around throughout arlathan and suspected it was her. As one would imagine, since near not a darn thing carries over from the previous games her appearance boils down to "Remember me tis I Morrigan, witch of the wilds, I'm important!"
We're nudged to return to the ritual site to find a mcguffin. At this point the skill tree is made available to me.
It creates the illusion of depth, lots of increase by 5% and all that crap, not much in the way if actual abilities and what little there are pretty underwhelming, and doesn't nothing more than scratch the enemy. I suspect this is largely due to me playing rogue. I felt all the promotional materials leading up to the game and the stylistic choices when it comes to abilities were encouraging to player to play a mage. The mage, from what I've seen, seems to have the most thought put into it as well. You get 3 mage party members in this game though so frick that.
We encounter more new darkspawn, look how they massacred my hurlock boi. At this point enemies become more spongey, particularly the Hurlocks that engage in spear chucking. The bow is this game low key kinda shit. It's like a shitty version of the Kingdoms of Amalur bow, particularly because Veilguard combat is largely dueling, like stellar blade, where as Kingdoms of Amalur is more action packed and the bow is meant to integrated into combos with other attacks, same can't be said for the Veilguard which results in one-sided sniper battles. The ranged units aren't any softer upclose either, and the game's parry system shits itselfif a ranged enemy is compelled to shoot you point blank.
After traversing the rest of the ruins we finally corner the ghoul who to Solas' mcguffin. This boss fight was kinda tedious, not a fan of bosses dipping out for a bit and summoning henchmen to distract you especially in multiple phases. After the first phase Harding pick up the mcguffin and turn into bullshit. I DID like how she girl bosses you out the way though.
This is when the game introduces the only other feature that companions are good for, combos.
This pretty much the extent of the combat usefulness of your party members, which is what I suspected would be the case when I saw the companions didn't have health bars in the gameplay reveal. I really hated this aspect about thw mass effect games, squadmates by and large just felt like dead weight compared to party members in other RPGs and you have even less control over your party in the Veilguard, and not only that their abilities are a on a global cooldown as well, so you're resigned to watching the spectacle of your party member leaping around launching impotent attacks dramatically while doing something actually worthwhile once every 60 seconds or so. Rook's abilities are fortunately not constrained in this manner, at least on the rogue.
So we beat the boss, retrieve the mcguffin get a scene with tge mystery neighbors, which I got to say, Ghilan'nain looks pretty cool. With the mcguffin in hand you now can use it to emulate any unlocked companions unique puzzle power, making them even more useless We return to the lighthouse and I decide to change my Rook's hair.
Have another conversation with Solas and then set off following leads on the mystery neighbors around Thedas this leads us to the crossroads
which is a sort of hub area between the various zones in the game. It has side content of its own, which are mostly flashbacks of Solas' rebellion against the gods
He had hair back then. These are kinda shit, narratively, so far, they do really portray the world Solas described at the end of trespasser and as of now are only focusing on the two currently free mystery neighbors and not the rest pantheon. From the crossroads we can unlock Treviso and Dock Town for now.
Treviso is
Seems they didn't completely nerf the cake in this game The Qunari military has invaded Treviso for some reason. Antiva has now standing army, just the reputation of it's infamous assassin's guild,
a reputation that's changed for the altruistic. This once pragmatic league of assassins have now take on responsibility of protecting the citizens from the qunari and disturbing le heckin' wholesome shelter and welfare.
The crows tell you of Lucanis one of their mage killers that's locked in a underwater prison. Like most underwater sections in my experience, this place kinda sucks, it's boring and tedious to navigate through (yes I'm aware it is a circle, but it's a lumpy disjointed circle. Lucanis doesn't preform any better as a melee character than the, thus far range party members I've been working with so far. The final boss of the area is the most bullet spongy enemy I fought so far and he's protected by a barrier which I'm apparently supposed to use my rubber band arrows against. After about 25 minutes of peppering this dude I finally beat him and get lucanis as a companion.
Next stopDock Town
I get Dock Town is a slum but it really doesn't live up to the hype of tevinter that the 2018 showed off with all the magical neon signs and such.
Here you help the shadow Dragons fighting off venatori and learn they can control the darkspawn courtesy of the mystery neighbors.
This mission ends in another mage boss fight, though thankfully not as bullet spongy, just henchman spamming. With these two missions complete the game opens up and let's you engage in side missions.
I decided to help out neve in Dock Town. This turned out to be another talkie hallway mission, and there's a pattern here, as all companion's first missions are like this.
Decide on ripping the bandaid off of the black character immediately, and went on the mission to recruit Davrin.
So far he's okay on his own, and I really like his interaction with shrimp fried rice, a good depiction of elves from the sane culture, but different clans and circumstances in life, for this game at least. I didn't realize however that recruiting Davrin would immediately railroad me into a major choice involving the fate of two major cities and the side quest with in them .
I spring for Neve's city and was confronted by the spongiest most bullshit boss fight thus far.
After finally chipping away at enough of this b-word's hp to trigger her retreat the gang heads back to Treviso to find it fricked up. Lucanis is surprisingly level headed about things, but leaves the party for a bit and is hardened. I'll pause her for now and hopefully pick up sometime later next week. So far the game suffers from the same slow start inquisition did, but doesn't have the mechanical depth or the filler to experience it in of that game. There are few plot hooks however the motivate me to keep on trudging along.
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PlsNope
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THE !CHUDS QUEEN IS BACK!
you may ask cyberdick why make this post?
BECAUSE Never before in the history of YOUTOOB...
has a Youtube channel gained 600,000 subscribers without uploading a single video!!
YES YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT!
This is the first Video in the channel and its already at 645K!!
GO CLICK THE NOTIFICATION BUTTON!
TLDR
Ben Shapiro got jealous and dropped Brett from her channel "The Comments Section with Brett Cooper" as she became more and more successful
Her !besties and her Producer backstabbed her and took over the channel!!
Now the channel is in shambles and Subscriber count dropping daily from 4.5Mil highest to 4Mil now
Even with 4 MILLION Subscribers the new BACKSTABBER'S videos don't even cross 100K! They at best cross 50K if lucky 
Her Stantup was also SOLD OUT and was a SUPER DUPER HIT
!trump2024 !trump2028 !project2025
TLDR VIDEO watch @ 1.5x
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- HailVictory1776 : Why does this fantasy game have millenial whedon dialog. God you g*mers are cute twinks
- ahorseshoecrab : Don't put the Lord's name in vain
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JESUS CHRIST. A FANTASY GAME WHERE THE THIEVES GUILD DOESNT ACTUALLY STEAL BECAUSE ITS TOO PROBLEMATIC pic.twitter.com/CLvDOYerX5
— ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER (@ZODIAC_MF) November 8, 2024
I'm not fact checking this because it's really funny.
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An old underground backup generator for Sweden's biggest airport. It's right outside the airport so while trying to find it I felt a bit suspicious.
This is actually inside and underground, not outdoors.
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I love her
my special lil gal. She has begun giving more nose-kisses daily than Socks ever has the whole time I've rehabilitated that brown piece of flabby tabby
they are going to fight so stupidly over sleeping with me once Sheila's fixed. We are close to the savings mark for her spay
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Trump frees another neighbor from the tyrannical Dems
The letter notes "independent reasons" as to why Adams' case was being tossed β including that the case was retribution for him speaking out against the Biden administration for its handling of the migrant crisis.
"It cannot be ignored that Mayor Adams criticized the prior Administration's immigration policies before the charges were filed, and the former US Attorney's public actions created appearances of improprietyβ¦"
https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1imksh1/justice_dept_to_seek_dismissal_of_federal/
https://old.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1iml2n0/justice_department_to_drop_federal_corruption/
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I know celebrities are hesitant to weigh in on hot button issues, so I appreciate Sheryl Crow making an argument hereβnot through words alone, but through her actionsβ that Congress should not force taxpayers to subsidize NPR.
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) February 15, 2025
Bravo π https://t.co/ZbOLPKvSHk
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!sex_havers good for him but she's going to raise tard baby
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""Oh don't worry these people always out themselves" - Mario1599" -Dramamine
Full comments. Some sweatys can't behave, so of course the thread is locked. The top comments are funny though
Finally some foreshadowing of /u/LiamJazeefa:
Prologue
**One humble redditor suggests an offsite where evil reddit admins can't get the wholesome libertarianrinos. Another tells them to get on their uwu Groomercord. This is all it takes for (unarchived) TRANSPHOBIA to rear its head**
Part 1
**As predicted, we get an entire backstory about how Lilam is actually the real victim in all this. Some relevant points made** https://archive.is/vBAGT1. No stalker child, keeping tabs on male feminists and child predators is a bad thing because it only makes them want to r*pe more(?)
2. When Chris Chan got stressed, he did his neurodivergent stress sigh. When this person get's stressed, they just need a little CP, as a treat
3. Age bracket is 3+, but don't worry, Xe sometimes has to settle for 18+
4. Not aware of recidivism stats, even though this contradicts the previous message (my 1)
5. Unironically does the "aktually it's ephebophilia" when they're x-age or older" Relevance is unclear when they're still saying they're attracted to literal toddlers too.
6. Despite not knowing any criminology stats (see 4) they just know in their heart of hearts that most MAPs are non-offending because ???
Just for the record they're admitting to acquiring and jerking it to CP
7. Want a source? Um sweaty, you're talking to an intellectual. Be prepared to get peer reviewed articles and 90 minute lectures from The Scienceβ’. It might be too much for your feeble mind.
8. Lists some of the dangeous apps libertarians might be using to target children. Groomercord mysteriously not present
Part 2
**Now to the horrible stuff. TW: People are explaining why someone might not be sympathetic to someone who self-describes as a person who enjoys jerking off to children being r*ped.** https://archive.is/NBNtW#selection-1643.0-1650.0Vivid_Wrongdoer_1662 (more like Bigot_Queerkiller_1488 am I right) makes this horrible point, but our intellectual has a strong rebuff to this nonsense.
- I don't have a time machine, BIPOC.
For some reason "I can't unfap to the r*pe of those kids" doesn't soften this heart of stone. Here comes the truth nuke. Total CP enjoyer absolution. Get ready to feel like a fricking fool all you woodchipper posters
I'm absolved of my sins because
THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS EXPIRED
something something therapy (that fixes everything according to reddit)
People are being mean to me, did you ever think about that?
Yes, I wasn't punished, and I continue to be an unrepentant menace to children who is still attracted to them, but at least I'm not rude. Also you can't get me nah nah nah
Part 3
**Of course it wouldn't be reddit if we didn't try to use nu-terminology to try toall my critiques are ^^^ It's extreme copium and deflection
I also like the random redditor trying to redefine porn on the fly because child porn was giving it a bad name or something: "You should use the better term, child sexual abuse material. Porn is consensual."
Here's a few more redditors accidently telling on themselves.
-- They're just using harsh terminology to checks notes make child r*pe and CP sound bad:
-- Libertarian activists are so brave for sticking up for the stigmatized paraphilia community:
Certified yikes sweaty moments
Part 4
**One last over the top cope for the road- you're literally sending death squads after me.** https://archive.is/IiXqC- The true victims in all of this are those that see mean words on their screen. Do you have any idea what it's like to be told to keep yourself safe by a stranger over the Internet (the answer is yes, it happens all the time, grow the frick up). This is what avoiding signs of victimization is, btw- minimize all your horrific crimes against children and then cry about mean words from pseudo-anon accounts you'll never interact with again.
-- "Go sit in a corner for three hours and imagine people saying these things to you every single day for 10 years."
counterpoint: Xe doesn't even need to do this, just stop telling people how much you enjoyed child porn. Stop telling people you find toddlers attractive.
Fear of Doxing. I will once again remind you that NOBODY ASKED and you just volunteered about your attraction to 3+ year olds. If you did this on an account that can be connected to your real name, you should also be in jail for being fricking r-slurred.
The famous Internet death squads are coming for the wholesome libertarians (God I wish that were true
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Epilogue
. There is a twitter account with this same username- https://x.com/lilamjazeefa. The most recent tweets are from 2016 directly \@GovGaryJohnson and \@GovBillWeld... the Libertarian candidates for the 2016 election...
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This is the person who was being very evil pic.twitter.com/KQLg7aEXz6
— MaryShelleyStepOnMe (@_MSSOM_) February 17, 2025
on the one hand dasha weighed in and i want to frick dasha so im inclined to agree
She must be very unhappy, I'm sorry she is lashing out at you
β dasha (@dash_eats) February 17, 2025
but on the other hand the person who made the reddit post is called lana and lana is a hot name too
what is the correct take here
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Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:
— President Biden (@POTUS) January 17, 2025
The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex. pic.twitter.com/oZtS6Q89zG
The Constitution does not specify a time limit for states to ratify the ERA and 38 states have ratified it. The dramatic call is to assert that it is in fact the law of the land. Women will now be drafted.
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I was talking to @PegMeMommy about Valentine's Day. I was telling him about how me and my siblings got our mom flowers and stuff for Valentine's Day. During the conversation he said he had never heard of kids getting their mom something for Valentine's Day, and he doesn't know anyone who does this. For me, this is the opposite: Where I'm from, everyone gets their mother something. Now both of us are wondering which is normal.
Decided to make a poll!
Do you buy your mother something Valentine's Day?