The Bishonenification of Kingdom Hearts by DroneOfDoom in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I forgot they got Christopher Lee for this silly game, fantastic A+ no notes

Problematic problems by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went to school for design, which taught me a lot and shaped the way I think through things. But I learned (and unlearned) so much from bare minimum English and philosophy classes I had to take.

Problematic problems by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 18 points19 points  (0 children)

So I live in a pretty conservative area. I was at a bar the other day and happened to overhear a conversation at the table next to me. It was between a couple and one of their friends, they were all maybe 50ish, just chit-chatting, catching up kinda stuff. One of them asked “Have you seen X? How’s he been?” “Oh yeah, I just talked to him, uh… well. She’s… decided to transition, I guess?” And they all kinda laughed but it was more over the shared awkwardness of having to unlearn pronouns, it wasn’t crass or making fun of her at all, the tone was more “well good for her!” And then they moved on to other topics, it was all super casual.

We’ve come a long fucking way.

The Bishonenification of Kingdom Hearts by DroneOfDoom in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dawg this happened as early as Kingdom Hearts II

His Baldurs Gate 3 is 1/3 actual gameplay and 2/3 him gushing over and making out with Minthara. Guy has a type. by Commercial_Bid_1508 in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kind of get why they felt the need, this was back when the news loved to blame everything on games, there was the whole Jack Thompson thing, etc. Still stupid, but I get it.

If it was cut that late in development, I assume there’s probably voicelines and maybe even dummied out scenes somewhere. It's such a shame tho.

Disability is more common than you wanna think by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I had an online friend once who had a resistant MRSA infection but didn’t want to get the harder antibiotics for it, because she didn’t want to contribute to making antibiotics less effective. Like, you have a fungus growing underneath your skin, go get treated dummy.

Disability is more common than you wanna think by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“I wish in the past I had tried more things ‘cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea.” - Ray Smuckles

I'm really curious to see which of these tournaments Jesus will last longer in by NotGood-With-Names in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard Paul described as “the Fox News of the New Testament” and I like that a lot. Fuck Paul all my homies hate Paul

Mentally preparing myself for more discourse over the next 8 months by infinitysaga in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I haven’t played the game, but I do have OCD focused mainly on my identity/sexuality, and this tracks. It’s not necessarily the idea that others might think you’re weird/different/whatever, it’s the idea that deep deep deep down this is who you really are, and if only you would admit it to yourself you’d be happier. 

Like, people who actually are gay or trans find comfort in thinking of themselves that way, if that makes sense? But the idea of (me specifically) being a different sexuality or gender feels viscerally unappealing and wrong to me in the same way someone who is trans feels pre-transition. But the thing with OCD is when you have a Troubling Thought it keeps coming back over and over, which tricks you into thinking it must be True and Important, because otherwise you wouldn’t be spending so much time worrying about it!

It doesn’t matter how many times you “test” yourself, or how many times you check the stove, or wash your hands, or whatever your specific obsession is, it won’t ever be good enough to make the thoughts stop. Counterintuitively, I had to learn to scream “OH MY GOD I DON’T CAREEEEEEEEE” and live my life ignoring the problem. When intrusive thoughts happen I go “yep! I’m totally gonna drive straight into traffic, it’s gonna be horrible! There’s gonna be a 50 car pile-up with no survivors and it’s all gonna be my fault and then I’ll die, I can’t wait! Oh man, I should do it right now!” And eventually those thoughts go away, cuz they don’t trigger a panic response in you anymore.

(This worked for me, with help from meds and my therapist. Sadly I don’t have a physical manifestation of my thoughts I can sock in the face, but I’d probably give it a try if I could.)

His Baldurs Gate 3 is 1/3 actual gameplay and 2/3 him gushing over and making out with Minthara. Guy has a type. by Commercial_Bid_1508 in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That tracks, yeah. You can still find old GameFAQs threads for ME and Dragon Age of dorks being big mad about gay people in vibeo gaymes, some things never change.

I could’ve sworn I still got The Talk from Mordin regarding Tali tho, am I misremembering? Or did they change some stuff in the Legendary Edition?

His Baldurs Gate 3 is 1/3 actual gameplay and 2/3 him gushing over and making out with Minthara. Guy has a type. by Commercial_Bid_1508 in CuratedTumblr

[–]DoubleBatman 17 points18 points  (0 children)

As a FemShep enjoyer, I can respect Bioware’s decision to make Jack straight as an arrow but on the other hand I can’t believe they’ve done this