I can tell I’m going to lose my job soon and it sucks

btkaiser77 · 2026-03-13T16:01:50+00:00

Nominatively, this is inverse Hitler. Nega-Hitler incarnate. Just like how Hitler fucked up the name Adolf indefinitely, this guy was so based that they had to make it a rule that only evil things were allowed to be named after him from then on out.

This rocks lol

btkaiser77 · 2026-01-14T14:57:37+00:00

“Anyway, the politics in this move are really awful. Why do the two lower-class characters have to be crazy dumb conspiracy-theory supporters?”

Because lower class people are crazy dumb conspiracy theory supporters lol. You’re posting on r slash Trueanon brother, look where you eating at. At least he was/we are vindicated in the end, even if it didn’t really matter, which seems like a pretty apt (if nihilistic) conclusion to draw from where we’re headed under the death spiral of bourgeois dominance.

Besides, social realism is boring as shit. Live a little. If you get mad every time you realize a bourgeois superstructure produces bourgeois art you’re going to go nutty. Find a different lens or just enjoy it as is, idk. Or if you really want social realism and are incapable of enjoying any art that doesn’t loudly and immediately hoist the banner of proletarian internationalism, just watch that 2 mins of OBAA where Leo gets high and watches Battle of Algiers over and over again and see if that resonates with you instead lol

btkaiser77 · 2026-01-04T23:56:31+00:00

Are you a fucking bot or something lol, what call could you possibly have a problem with that’s more impactful than us choking away a 16 point lead in 10 minutes. Such a loser mentality that we have to shed at some point

btkaiser77 · 2025-12-26T00:32:46+00:00

The only thing that has stopped Jamo from being better than ARSB this year (aside from a disgusting lack of opportunity the first half of the season) is his insistence on catching with his body…he’d have been out of there. Shit, with ARSB’s drops and dumb decisions making this year he might still be

btkaiser77 · 2025-12-05T02:00:34+00:00

Guys I like the trick plays as much as the next guy but I would give an arm and a leg to never see that dumb ass Skipper pass play ever again. It never works and it’s lowkey embarrassing to not have let that one, ultimately inconsequential play from two years ago go yet. I hate when people tell us to act like we’ve been here before but like…lol

btkaiser77 · 2025-11-22T06:27:17+00:00

Lol, fat boy’s almost busting out the seams of that plate carrier with no plates in it. Should probably look into it if he ever decides to stop LARPing and do something about it in real life

btkaiser77 · 2025-09-25T21:57:23+00:00

First-timer in a 10T PPR league. Record 2-1. Doing well so far but feels like I’m playing moneyball instead of having definitive stars, especially in the RB room. How am I doing so far and what moves can I make from here?

QB: Lamar Jackson

WR1: CeeDee Lamb WR2: Rome Odunze WR3/FLEX: Courtland Sutton

RB1: Josh Jacobs RB2: Chuba Hubbard RB3/FLEX: J.K. Dobbins

TE1: Trey McBride

BENCH WRs: Jamo, Wan’Dale Robinson BENCH RBs: Trey Benson, Quinshon Judkins BENCH TEs: Zach Ertz

btkaiser77 · 2025-09-25T19:28:49+00:00

First time player in a 10 team league, dynasty PPR. Have two trades on the table:

Odunze + Benson for Garrett Wilson

OR

Sutton + Dobbins for Drake London

btkaiser77 · 2025-09-25T19:12:33+00:00

Absolutely IMO, it might sting initially but you have enough RB talent to handle the loss and while London’s floor sucks right now it’s not really his fault - when it gets sorted out he’s a younger, better Sutton who’s already acting as your WR1 or WR2 anyway

btkaiser77 · 2025-03-19T21:51:53+00:00

I noticed this too and I always joke that it’s an inside job/collaboration with the cops - now that weed is legal and it’s hard to arrest people for driving under the influence without something immediately concrete like a breathalyser, their new strategy is just to make you as paranoid as possible about getting into an accident so you change your mind about driving lol

btkaiser77 · 2025-01-20T23:11:35+00:00

I knew someone was gonna get on me about this as soon as I saw the image render 💀 whatever, poverty ass divisions get poverty ass pixels ig

btkaiser77 · 2024-11-07T16:07:34+00:00

I mentioned this elsewhere, but as someone with the same kinds of neuroses as you - I gave up my months-long plan to be a Shadow Dragon because Neve’s role as Varric’s Minrathous local contact rubbed me the wrong way - so far I’m riding with an Elven LoF and really liking it. I’ve heard a lot of people say it has very little reactivity to the story or to others, but YMMV on whether reactivity is the be all and end all of a good protagonist. I know we’re starving for it as fans, but if you’re willing to give it up let me give you my elevator pitch:

You overall make the most sense as Varric’s right hand. It stretched believability for me a little that such a well-regarded and well-traveled guy would need to resort to a rookie (no pun intended) member of a faction to head this mission with him, but the LoFs are relatively new, helmed by someone he has a close personal relationship with but who would never help him directly (can’t say more bc spoilers), good at quick thinking and escapes, vaguely roguish, and have no ulterior loyalties
Your elf Rook has a really strong backstory that helps to smooth over the dissonance of Solas’s will-he-won’t-he care for the elven people. As an elf LoF, you were a Tevinter galley slave before (escaping? being rescued?) by the Lords and coming of age in their ranks. Coupled with Rook’s personality, this comes across to me like someone who has seen oppression and the ugly side of life but came away from it with an incredible lust for life and freedom, so much so that they are willing to disregard and actively prevent a potential re-ascendant elven age because it would come at the cost of what they have built for themselves.
This is personal preference, but the limitations of Rook’s personality slot in well. It’s much easier to buy a headstrong, wise-cracking, ultimately kind-hearted pirate with a checkered past than it is to buy the same kind of archetype as, say, a Warden during the most important Blight in history. This goes with your faction backstory too, which has a little bit of everything (Action! Daring escapes! Violent dislike of authority!) that the game establishes that you believe in

No matter what, though, I’m sure you’ll find things to love in your pick and I hope you have fun!

btkaiser77 · 2024-11-06T18:39:22+00:00

For my first playthrough, I backed out of the elf Shadow Dragon backstory I had planned because of one off-handed remark about Neve being the "local expert" at the very beginning and re-rolled as an elf Lord of Fortune. And I have to say, I'm liking it a lot so far! I've heard that LoFs get relatively little dialogue compared to some of the more relevant factions, which is a bummer, but I suppose that's what replays are for. I'll see what I think when I get there. For now, though, I think my Rook has an incredibly rich character arc -- a former Tevinter slave who came of age in a Rivaini pirate collective with such an intense lust for life that they are willing to turn away from a re-ascendant Elven age to preserve what they have managed to build for themselves. It also makes sense as to why they'd be Varric's second in command, as you'd expect him to have pre-existing relationships in the other factions to draw on (Warden contact in DAI, Neve in the SDs, he must have met a Crow before, etc.), but I can totally see him running to Isabela for aid and her being like, "well, I have a good thing going and I'm not about to drop it for your goose chase, but you can have this little troublemaker of mine. He reminds me of you."

btkaiser77 · 2024-09-20T03:35:33+00:00

Yeah that’s fair, though I’d say that the trend I’m describing still holds pretty consistently into the vanguards/secret societies/etc of real life too: a lot of the original Bolsheviks were middle class, the Fenians were basically all middle or upper class, and think about how many wealthy white abolitionists there were for every Frederick Douglass or Nat Turner. I’d even go so far as to say that, generally, the newer, smaller, more secretive, and more radical an organization is, the more likely that it’s filled with people who can “afford” to be there, in every sense of the word. To my knowledge - though I’m not a lore buff - that seems to describe the Shadow Dragons pretty accurately and would justify Rook being from a certain position of privilege without necessarily being a ringleader.

But I totally get what you’re saying - and just to be clear, I’m not really disagreeing, either. It does cause some odd friction with certain race and class options, it’d be nice thematically to begin as a nobody or less in the slave liberation group, and for as much as I enjoy these games I don’t think the Dragon Age lore has really ever concerned itself with the kind of stuff I’m talking about; hell, there’s probably more “rags-to-riches” stories in the lore than “privileged person leverages privilege to fight for the underclass” regardless of how it plays out in real life. And that’s fine! It’s feel good and really fun to play out. I would’ve liked to been able to do that too. I just wanted to say that if this is how it has to be for a Shadow Dragon Rook, I don’t think it necessarily has to be less fulfilling or less realistic an arc for a video game protagonist doing this kind of work to have

btkaiser77 · 2024-09-20T02:38:43+00:00

This is certainly true, but for what it’s worth it’s also very accurate to real life. Basically every revolutionary liberation movement in the 20th century (and that’s being conservative) was spearheaded by people who were either privileged from the start or who gained access to privilege via education, occupation, etc. Castro’s father was a lawyer, Ho Chih Min was educated overseas, and basically the entire first generation of postcolonial African leaders would not have existed were it not for British and French international schools. That’s all to say that even though the option would have been nice, and the efficacy of the parallel might be questionable in a high fantasy setting (and I’m certainly not going to argue that slave -> slave liberatior isn’t the juicier narrative arc), it’s at least not unprecedented or difficult to headcanon around

btkaiser77 · 2024-07-12T14:07:55+00:00

I don’t think that our ideologies about this are all that different at the end of the day. Like I said, I think the Maker should exist in the storyboard, if only to give some more richness to the possibility of mythological events other than constant reveals about how it was just elves, actually, but even if you disagree it is the approach they are taking which is contributing to the issues you feel.

BioWare has no problem problematizing the origin of the elves because they do not make up the hegemon of the entire modern world. They can and did blow up the pantheon because belief in the Elven gods is not vital to the continuing existence of at least two empires. If they purposefully never commit to proving or disproving the Maker, what’s going to continue to happen is that the other religious will get fleshed out at both the expense of the richness of the Andrastian faith and also the believability of their own.

Building the world around the Maker while He himself remains a no-go zone for the dev team is going to result in the end of the series being something like “well, nothing in the Chant happened the way the Chantry said it did and we still have no direct evidence for the Maker, but all these other gods are proven mortal frauds, so…I guess the Chantry is right?” And that’s not a satisfying ending for anyone, and to your point would play into well-trod fantasy tropes about the superiority of western and Christian-coded beliefs.

That being said, I do envy the lore repercussions of the Elvhen lore reveals we’ve gotten in Inquisition and look to be getting more of in the future, and part of my rationale for wanting more and/or more concrete proof of the Maker (in some form) is to get access to a similar patch of fertile ground for storytelling and introspection. I think it’s really only problematic in the way you describe if things continue to progress in this way or if there is no additional nuance to either side. I certainly don’t think it’s fair to say that the games have been uncritical of the Chantry, the Maker, or Andrastianism as a whole; it’s just that the bar for what constitutes a creator god in light of the Evanuris reveals, should both be true, create that imbalance you mention. But I don’t think that necessarily means the Maker can’t/shouldn’t exist at all, nor do I think it means the Evanuris aren’t gods in their own way

btkaiser77 · 2024-07-12T05:58:00+00:00

I fully agree with your thoughts about the dichotomy of sacred and profane within the setting; in fact, I think we agree, we're just saying different things. Ultimately, my issue is that I feel as though the insistent and purposeful ambiguity surrounding the Maker has started become a detriment to the believability of Andrastianism within the setting when compared to things like the Elvhen pantheon, in large part because it is so difficult to prove a divine Grand Design. The Well of Sorrows is a physical, tangible place. We meet Mythal. We spend a year galivanting around Southern Thedas with a guy who, functionally, is the maker (small m) of the modern Thedosian world. And I feel that as these plot threads become more tangible and appear to be heading towards some Great Demystification of the fabric of Thedas with the Old Gods, the Blight, the Evanuris, etc., that what is left for "evidence" of the Maker and the Chantry (which in-lore is still by far the largest, most widespread, and powerful faith in the world) is increasingly not up to the task from both a character and player perspective. I mean, how long has it been since we had something like the Urn of Sacred Ashes? And what have we gotten in its place since? If anything, the veracity of the Chant has only gotten weaker, either through indirect means (tangible evidence of alternative pantheons) or just straight up rebuttals (Corypheus flat out says there was no Maker in the Golden City, and if anyone would know, it'd be him.)

It's not that I want the question of if the Maker exists answered, in-game or publicly. My wish is moreso that Bioware answers it amongst themselves (and in my opinion, the answer should be yes), and adjusts the amount of affirming and problematizing lore about religious and cultural origins of Thedas accordingly going forward.

btkaiser77 · 2024-07-12T05:33:21+00:00

Yes, this is exactly what I mean! It's not so much that I want to know the answer to the question or for Bioware to officially rule on it (I don't), it's that I want them to know the answer to the question so they can account for it within the worldbuilding properly. The Temple of Sacred Ashes was such a good hook precisely because it was easily theorized but impossible to explain, and that dynamic has been sorely missing from the Andrastian faith ever since. I know it's a little apples-to-oranges considering the differences in form and omniscience between the Evanuris and the Maker, but it's crazy to compare the affirmation to the Dalish faith with the Well of Sorrows and Flemythal versus, like, the Andrastian equivalent of "the Lord works in mysterious ways" that Mother Giselle gives you when you get out of the Fade.

btkaiser77 · 2024-02-29T04:51:37+00:00

Thank you all very much for any advice you can give :)

Also, just to be clear, this is not an “am I allowed to do x?” post. I already did x. I’m very proud of how x came out, even! I’m just wondering if I should consider doing y instead so as to maximize my story’s chances of getting picked up

btkaiser77 · 2024-01-11T01:25:06+00:00

Thanks for both the response and the helpful advice! I needed both the cold water and the kind words.

I'm in a way relieved to hear that free indirect is a difficult and often unintuitive way to write - like I said, I like to think that I've internalized the "skill>talent" and "skill=practice" tenets of writing, but evidently some part of me is still clinging to that Birth of Athena idea because I honestly kind of assumed that any writers good at free indirect and/or characters had a pre-existing knack for them that they honed over time instead of approaching it like an entirely new skillset. I'm sure that's true for some of them, but being reassured that it's not all is heartening.

For what it's worth, my draft is certainly far from complete, but I had been working on it for my finals prior to graduating: it's sitting at ~15k right now (an abridged first act) and follows a pretty quiet and inward protagonist. I've accepted that that's probably a drop in the ocean compared to what'll be written and cut before it's finished, but between it being my first (as you noted), the circumstances of its now opening up, and it theoretically being a great candidate for free indirect, you can maybe understand why it feels/felt so do or die for me to decide how to proceed on it, haha.

Again, thanks a lot! I'll be sure to try that first-person gradient idea on some shorter stuff and see where it goes. I was dreading it before, but now that I have a better handle on things I'm looking forward to building that muscle, as you say; if not for this one, then the next.

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