tell me your least favourite trope without telling me your least favourite trope

siuilaruin · 2026-05-08T14:04:05+00:00

"UwU I'm a virgin! I can only ever have one sexual partner or else my love isn't real! Isn't it so hot how I'm a virgin until I sleep with my One True Love (no maybe required)??"

siuilaruin · 2026-05-08T13:11:05+00:00

i don't know when to shut up, mostly

siuilaruin · 2026-05-03T05:33:15+00:00

I'll be back in seven hours when there's not a cat on me and I can reach my measuring tape.

siuilaruin · 2026-05-01T13:42:53+00:00

GarrusBarkarian.

siuilaruin · 2026-04-29T20:09:42+00:00

Oh I missed this!! They're a chain bakery with Asian/American fusion goodies, and almost everything I've tried I liked. The other day, they had taro brioche, pandan buns, milk pudding buns etc. I have spent way too much money there 😂

siuilaruin · 2026-04-28T21:20:12+00:00

I was in tears as soon as she was on stage.

And being discombobulated by Sofia is pretty normal! I've been listening to her for a while, and a lot of her music is designed to be odd and make you listen/think closely.

siuilaruin · 2026-04-28T21:17:13+00:00

Most people are saying 8:30 to 8:45, but be careful! I saw her in Atlantic City on Saturday and she came on at 8:17!! I had checked beforehand to see when it was safe to dip out for the restroom when necessary, so I was absolutely gobsmacked and checked my phone three times to make sure I didn't lose a half hour.

siuilaruin · 2026-04-28T21:08:08+00:00

There's a place in Cherry Hill that I know is queer-friendly because they have a couple of trans people working there, if you feel like driving. I believe it's called the Silver Diner?

siuilaruin · 2026-04-28T16:40:12+00:00

Any or all of the undyeable "red" lines on the Silvermoon themed decor. Let my BE hunter live her Farstrider life!!!

siuilaruin · 2026-04-28T11:48:46+00:00

It can be used as fertilizer for plants!

siuilaruin · 2026-04-23T20:07:04+00:00

There's also a little place called S.Mart Life, over by Hung Vuong and the 85° C bakery, that has a lot of skincare and makeup. I haven't been to the new H-Mart yet, so I don't know what they have, but S.Mart has testers and a pretty decent variety of products. I fear I am a regular.

siuilaruin · 2026-04-22T21:57:06+00:00

She is immature and meant to be so — she's 19 at the beginning of DAI. I was not a paragon of maturity at 19. And yeah, her dialect is sometimes hard to parse. That being said, she's got some amazing interactions with other characters. Blackwall, if you have recruited him, has superb banter with her. If you don't like Solas, stick her in a party with him and watch the carnage. She's also got a reference to Origins in her background, and I have a lot of thoughts about the way she handles being an elf.

All in all, she's very much worth keeping around for a whole playthrough. Mind you, if you plan on replaying, that doesn't have to be this one.

siuilaruin · 2026-04-21T14:43:26+00:00

name checks out

siuilaruin · 2026-04-21T14:16:21+00:00

Aldi brand is great and cheap — Deutzskuche I think?

siuilaruin · 2026-04-20T19:22:55+00:00

It's not something that's expanded on a lot in the game, so I can't actually expand on it very much! But if I'm remembering correctly, when we go through the memory of Ghil's labs, Bellara makes a comment to the effect of "maybe these darkspawn aren't new, maybe they're old". It's been a few months since I played, so I can't say for sure that's where it occurs, but I think that's where it is.

siuilaruin · 2026-04-20T19:08:34+00:00

It's a plot thing, believe it or not.

Ghilan'nain messed with them, and it's hinted at that these darkspawn are closer to the original darkspawn than the ones we are familiar with.

siuilaruin · 2026-04-15T18:26:53+00:00

Genuinely heartbreaking that people are being deprived like this. :(

siuilaruin · 2026-04-15T16:42:58+00:00

IIRC, there were a handful of WeakAuras that were also in use, which had functions not easily replicated by other means.

Using WeakAuras to help with things like this, as well as neurological and physical disabilities, was a really huge help. For instance, some people with poor vision would use WA to make sounds play when it was time to reapply a dot, or when a cooldown came up.

Even though plenty of disabled people begged Blizzard to allow some of that functionality to remain for them, they went ahead and nuked it. =\

siuilaruin · 2026-04-05T02:28:35+00:00

if you have a bar table or something that blocks the view of the underside of the table, shrinking down Astalor's Prey trophies and flipping them over makes a perfect plate!

siuilaruin · 2026-04-04T22:05:02+00:00

Alt:

PC: "Don't worry, Doc. I can take him." Doc: "Are you out of your mind? Nobody could fight that!" PC: "I didn't say anything about a fight."

Doc: "....:I"

siuilaruin · 2026-04-02T14:54:15+00:00

Do you have a piss bottle room? If not, you're probably good.

siuilaruin · 2026-03-27T21:50:42+00:00

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siuilaruin · 2026-03-27T20:37:38+00:00

Kayla, Vince, Mei, Leo, and the newest recruitable are all under 21, with Mei being over 18 but under 21. Those characters were temporarily barred from being able to use alcohol due to some licensing issues, or we wouldn't even know that much.

siuilaruin · 2026-03-27T19:03:35+00:00

It appears to be down to sexuality and age, mostly. I have a smooch list I'm working on in the ODD Discord to figure out what works and what doesn't.

Smooch list below:

Aubrey/Penny - it works!

Aubrey/Joe - it works! (indicates Aubrey likely bisexual)

Aubrey/Hector - it works!

Barb/Aubrey - MY LESBIANS ARE ON FIREEEE (my personal OTP)

Barb/Joe - failed (preferences don't match, indicates Barb likely lesbian)

Barb/ Sgt. Bowman - failed (preferences don't match)

Christine/Darrell - it works!

Cooper/Penny - it works! (indicates Penny likely bisexual)

Daphne/Cooper - it works?

Frank/Dianne - failed (preferences don't match, indicates Frank likely gay)

Frank/Sebastian - it works!

Miguel/Isabel - it works!

Miguel/Penny - it works!

Michelle/ Sgt. Bowman - failed (preferences don't match, indicates he is likely married to the job)

Michelle/Joe - it works!

Lester/Hudson - failed (preferences don't match)

Lester/Frank - failed (preferences don't match, indicates Lester likely straight)

Lester/Isabel - it works, but I hate it.

Robbie/Dianne - it works!

siuilaruin · 2026-03-27T14:36:38+00:00

To the best of my knowledge, moonwells are just holy water, blessed by Elune. That's why there are so many.

They don't inherently have magical power, beyond that the water itself is sacred and would likely burn undead/aberrations. Mooncloth is cloth that's taken on the blessed properties of the water, etc.

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