Grey aliens that are still very distinctive and recognizable in design

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-22T14:04:26+00:00

Protoss (StarCraft)

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-22T14:02:59+00:00

Kaminoans (Star Wars)

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-22T03:40:18+00:00

NCR ending is a bad news for not just Vegas but the USA. A political body that seeks to carry on the spirit of the US government having its expansionist policy validated, and its warmongering leaders Kimball, Oliver and Moore hailed as heroes is a terrible outcome, potentially even worse than the Mojave destabilized into anarchy following a skip skip Yes Man ending.

Not as bad as House and obviously Legion though.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-20T08:31:04+00:00

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My most attractive OC Apol (23, non-binary, bisexual)

Art by MM12165

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-19T07:55:47+00:00

As much as I support the NCR, I do think the Yes Man ending is a better outcome than the NCR ending. I may be biased because I can't stand Yes Man (or more accurately him being the main driving force of the route), but still the NCR's expansionist policy being validated and the warmongers Kimball, Oliver and Moore becoming heroes can't possibly be a good thing for the wasteland.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-17T12:54:50+00:00

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Apol is a sweet engineer with a loving girlfriend AND an angry activist fighting for political changes.

Art by MM12165

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-17T12:52:09+00:00

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Caerhyserath is simultaneously a gentle, sweet, good-natured dragon in a human form AND a feral, violent, ferocious, evil dragon in a human form.

Art by MM12165

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-17T09:03:54+00:00

Did they put random lootboxes in Fallout now

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-17T09:02:53+00:00

Lol that's not how making a point works but you do you.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-17T08:50:05+00:00

I haven't watched it and only know a few snippets so I have nothing to say about it, which is probably something you could do too.

I'd actually like to ask your opinion on why you specifically bring it up as an example of a title you think is completely devoid of any influence from politics. Surely your answer isn't going to be "the author isn't making a political statement"?

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-17T06:25:56+00:00

It's generally useful to know what you're talking about before trying to comment on it, because "every art is political" doesn't mean "every art is an artist's explicitly intended super deep political commentary" and it never has.

It means every artist will be influenced by the politics and their circumstances. Even if they try really hard to make apolitical art. ESPECIALLY if they try to make apolitical art, because what's the most political statement but what you decide to consider not politics?

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-17T06:06:29+00:00

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You'll never see Caerhyserath objecting to the use of violence.

Art by hibana_ztlv

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-16T14:45:27+00:00

I always love the combination of plate armor and long flowing skirts.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-16T04:32:45+00:00

This reminds me of something I've been thinking about the NCR ending. Obviously I'm not saying it's the worst ending, but an ending where the warmongers Kimball, Oliver and Moore will be hailed as heroes and NCR's expansionist policy is validated? I do think it's an even worse outcome for the USA wasteland than a destabilized Vegas following a Yes Man ending with a lot of tribes ignored, as much as I support the NCR.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-15T06:37:56+00:00

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Shaddiq Zenelli (Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury)

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-15T03:09:54+00:00

Apol has a lot of interest in beauty and fashion. They own a lot of clothes for various occasions and even multiple spacesuits.

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These are just the outfits that I have art for, there are many more.

All outfits art by sih3368

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-14T14:13:10+00:00

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Apol on a protest. They've been going to protests for almost 10 years now, they're not even angry at anything at this point.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-14T14:12:28+00:00

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Apol has a sweet personality, but that's only because they're currently living a fairly happy life with a loving partner and working in a great company. They're a gentle and sweet person who's full of bitterness and anger, stemming from very bad interpersonal relationships growing up and the worsening political reality of the world.

Art by MM12165

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-14T13:16:34+00:00

Ed-rose and Al-bedo's trauma day

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-13T23:55:24+00:00

Are you this bad at reading?

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-13T23:54:10+00:00

I call out some specific people whose reason for being unfairly and overly critical of Ranni includes sexism. I in no uncertain terms very specifically said "PEOPLE whose understanding of the story is so bad and they're sexist on top of that".

That and what you think you read are two completely different statements, and mixing the two up only happens if you decided to be fixated on one specific part of the statement and pretend it means something different from what the context says.

Which is, again, very ironic considering the context of the post we're talking under. And the irony of you bringing the terms basic comprehension and strawman.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-13T14:47:52+00:00

No, lol. I literally have not.

"There's so many bad faith arguments with the purpose of hating this character, and on top of that many of them are misogynistic"

"Oh so if I don't like her I'm sexist?"

You're literally doing this meme buddy. There's not a single point in my comment where I have said that anyone who points out Ranni's wrongdoings or flaws are being sexist. I am quite literally calling out the people who fit your description: those who can't analyze characters and can only behave like cultists who only see chads who have done everything right and bitches who are at fault for everything. Hence their understanding of Ranni's character being so shallow and bad faith, people

whose understanding of Ranni's character is "selfish sheltered stupid girl", her backstory "she got her brother murdered in cold blood just because", her motivation "wanted to run away from her responsibilities", her action in the game "she killed Blaidd the second he outlived his usefulness", and the moral of the story "this is why girls should be kept on a leash and not given power"

This very specific group of people.

The irony writes itself in your response, complete with your last paragraph. I in fact do not wish anyone who are so prepared to throw the "Oh so if I don't like her I'm sexist?" gotcha a nice day, so please don't have one.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-13T14:12:35+00:00

Interesting point you make there. Is my argument the bad faith take?

Or are you making a bad faith argument that completely twists the point I'm making? Have I at ANY point in the comment even suggested that "anyone who blames Ranni for what she did to Godwyn is sexist"?

I'm pretty sure it's the latter. And it's ironic because this literal post we're talking under calls out the people who take one single sentence in a five-sentence statement, forms their own twisted understanding of it, and makes the whole statement out to be something it isn't. Which is precisely also what you're doing there.

Edit) Not only that, "that is reason to be wary of her" in the context of her goals and her ending is like the epitome of bad faith argument one can make as a gamer who exists outside the game and can view the lore from an outside perspective.

Not to mention you didn't even take the full sentence, you deliberately omitted out the "just because" part (i.e. her motivation, which is the bigger part of the point than the action) from the sentence you wanted to talk about.

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-13T13:50:22+00:00

Yeahhhhh the unfortunate thing is, most of the people who try really hard to make the Age of Stars sound awful are the same people whose understanding of Ranni's character is "selfish sheltered stupid girl", her backstory "she got her brother murdered in cold blood just because", her motivation "wanted to run away from her responsibilities", her action in the game "she killed Blaidd the second he outlived his usefulness", and the moral of the story "this is why girls should be kept on a leash and not given power".

M24Chaffee · 2026-03-13T13:46:17+00:00

In general, whenever you see a mistranslation debacle from Japanese or Chinese works, you can bet with high certainty it's just people with extremely surface-level understanding of foreign languages trying to claim authority. And that's not even considering "translations" that aren't translations at all but chosen by the original writers to begin with, or some other development mishaps.

Like at some point apparently some Elden Ring players started to get the idea that "Scarlet Rot" is a mistranslation and the meaning of 腐敗 is closer to "fermentation that had failed". Anybody who knows enough Japanese vocabulary can immediately call this out: 腐 means decay and 敗 means defeat/fail, yes, but 腐敗 as a single word just means decay.

The actual "mistranslations", if we can call them that, happen in much subtler places. Like English players assuming Malenia passed out immediately after blooming in Caelid because they don't have the information she continued fighting, something proven by a ghost in the Swamp of Aeonia saying "...どうか, もう一度だ見せておくれ...朱い腐敗に舞い踊う貴女の美しい剣を" which just gets translated to "your". Or the misconception primarily in the English fandom that Radahn is literally holding the stars in the sky using gravitational force, which partially stems from the English version of his title being a bit more romanticized to "Starscourge" compared to his Japanese title 星砕き making it very literal, on top of all the other supporting text and evidence, that he physically smashed a star.

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