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:marseybrainlet: IGN and :marseydragon: Dragon :marseyboomer: Age :marseytrans2: Veilguard :marseynostalgiacritic: Review - for the second :marseyposteditagain: time?

New review: - https://archive.ph/fLWxN

Old review: - https://archive.ph/CWrVr

The overall result is that Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn't the golden era BioWare game that I had hoped it would be. Torn between continuing its traditional role-playing legacy and starting afresh as a modern action RPG, the end result is an awkward sequel trapped in a cage made of reboot ideas.

:marseyreportercnngenocide: even IGN has given up defending it


Tangental :marseynoooticer: :

The old reviewer (https://archive.ph/hk3aF):

  • :marseyfoidretard: + :marseypaperbag: + a "freelance writer" aka worthless

The new one (https://archive.ph/kmjNm):

  • :marseymoidmoment: + :marseybong: + "UK News and Features Editor" aka someone with actual relevancy

Now I have :marseyautism: but my gut is that they fricked up so bad they needed to have the :marseychonker2: big guy come out and save IGN's reputation by not just sucking ea's peepee

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:marseyfoidretard: + :marseypaperbag: + a "freelance writer" aka worthless

Len Hafer (or TJ Hafer before they :marseytrain: ) is genuinely one of the best strategy game reviewers out there (the :marseyautism: to :marseypass: pipeline is real). She's co-hosted the 3MA podcast for years and I would be surprised to see them frick up a review like th-

And while we've been asked by the devs not to spoil specifically who I'm talking about here, as a non-binary person myself, Veilguard includes some of the most authentic representation of coming to terms with gender stuff – and having to navigate your family's reaction to it – I've seen yet in a game. It doesn't feel like an after school special or like I'm being pandered to. It's quite well-handled, and finding out that the writer for this character is non-binary themselves did not surprise me at all.

Oh nevermind, the hormones fried her brain. The worst part about seeing someone you're a fan of transition is that 90% of their content becomes culture war bullshit. :marseysigh: I will still listen to the podcast though.

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Wait that's Len from 3MA? I've never had any idea they were trans it's clearly a moid voice lmao. This is legitimately shocking to me.

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Voice training is a lot of hard work, and all neurodivergent terminally-online :!marseytrain:s are lazy, so they just don't bother.

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>This is legitimately shocking to me.

Not to me, the HRT epidemic on the geek/anime/vidya/neurodivergent community has been staggeringly devastating, years ago I stumbled upon a pretty neat niche youtube channel which compared different anime dubs, in an neurodivergentally special manner - the :marseyautismpat: actually used the original VHS tapes of the releases and an old TV set to show their differences like how people watched them 30 years ago! :gigachadautist:

But then..... the VHS tranime dub videos suddenly stopped..... and then.... "Yuri comic dubs" started popping in, the original point of the channel was no more, the very unique and interesting appeal of the channel was replaced by low-effort manga of cute UwU lesbians doing cute UwU lesbian things being dubbed by a masculine neurodivergent voice, you see where this is going? :marseysadge:, you guessed it - the guy eventually :marseytrain:ed out, and did a video on zxis HRT progress, he even uploaded an unironic "egg hatched" comic :marseymanysuchcases: !transphobes !commenters

Allah, please, help us, I cannot tolerate spergkind suffer from this anymore! :marseyinshallah:

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You're preaching to the choir here.

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the worst part of :marseytrain:s is that most of them don't actually even try to pass :marseypass:

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Len Hafer (or TJ Hafer before they :marseytrain: ) is genuinely one of the best strategy game reviewers out there (the :marseyautism: to :marseypass: pipeline is real).

ALLAH, PLEASE HAVE MERCY UPON THE NEURODIVERGENT RACE, GEEK/WEEB/VIDYA/PROGRAMMING/CARTOON COMMUNITIES ARE BEING DEVASTATED BY HRT LIKE HOW THE BLACK COMMUNITY WAS DEVASTATED BY CRACK IN THE 1980S

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/af/d8/60/afd860d7d3f66f0ee8f8c7fe1d428166.gif !transphobes !neurodivergents

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some of the most authentic representation of coming to terms with gender stuff

>the character is an insufferable attention-seeker

accurate

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It doesn't feel like an after school special or like I'm being pandered to

:marseysurejan:

Even progressives on leddit will admit the writing was preachy and one-dimensional.

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Oh nevermind, the hormones fried her brain.

I actually know a late bloomer :marseytrain: and the spiral is real, the first couple years she had totally normal views and then as she got surrounded by more and more other :marseytrain: folkx the opinions went downhill to the point where I haven't talked to her in a few years.

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The thing is, they're a non-passing :marseytrain:, so anything you just said doesn't matter because they're cringe.

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:donkeykongsaystransrights: is a powerful force

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:quote: She :quote:

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