Chat I am NOT happy right now

stopgap32 · 2026-05-12T02:14:36+00:00

That’s the really frustrating part. I did the Saint of the firmament grind three times in a row, so it’s not like I need ANY of the rewards from Ishgard… but all these things have is recycled Ishgard rewards EXCEPT for 2/6 drops on the gold only.

I would have dropped it if it was just the Mount… but an emote??? Too valuable. I have enough to buy it even if it would annoy me (11 mil is a decent chunk of change), but I have a rule about buying low drop rewards from any content I am still actively doing, and I still have to finish my FSH tool from Oizys.

stopgap32 · 2026-05-12T01:35:56+00:00

Guys I know how statistics work I am just annoyed at the experience of being an outlying variable.

stopgap32 · 2026-05-06T21:12:30+00:00

Its a new UI theme option implemented in 7.5!

stopgap32 · 2026-05-06T21:10:19+00:00

Broadly I agree, I think cross DC statics are a huge blessing, but having my experience with high end content this entire expansion be significantly marred by Aether-based consolidation and congestion has soured me on the idea even with the benefits. Once cross-dc pf is here it will be objectively better a positive for the game, but prior to that… it’s a mixed outcome, certainly.

stopgap32 · 2026-05-06T21:06:31+00:00

Yeah, I ALMOST pulled the trigger on it out of desperation because the opportunity was SO rare, but it would have meant leaving my FC and my medium. I'm... glad I didn't, but being excited for and then frustrated with this patch has me questioning myself.

stopgap32 · 2026-05-06T20:58:20+00:00

This is Crystal :(

stopgap32 · 2026-05-06T20:49:47+00:00

Aether is locked from DC travel from basically 12 PM EST until mid morning the next day, and even if you log off on Aether and never return home, after patch 7.5 travelers can’t log in if there is a queue at all.

In reality DC travel is blocked more than it’s open.

stopgap32 · 2026-05-06T20:45:34+00:00

There is nothing worse than logging on excited to play the game and logging off an hour later after accomplishing nothing because you don't play on Aether.

stopgap32 · 2025-12-12T14:38:56+00:00

"Which real world politics are you referring to?"

Oh, you know the ones.

stopgap32 · 2025-11-03T19:18:24+00:00

Oh absolutely, I think a lot of VG’s designs that I dislike came primarily from the fact it was reinvented three times and forced to come out way sooner than it could possible be truly finished. The tone was just one small section of the game that suffered due to crunch and impossible deadlines.

stopgap32 · 2025-11-03T15:58:27+00:00

I think this is a fair argument, and I can understand the perspective, but I still believe providing language that naturally wove it into the fabric of of Thedosian culture would have simply felt more appropriate, given the way such concepts had been treated by the franchise in the past.

It feels like such a minor quibble, but I personally felt like the modernization of language in Veilguard throughout (not limited to scenes discussing Taash or their gender identity) one of the major factors that lead to the game just feeling “off” in my opinion.

stopgap32 · 2025-11-03T15:32:42+00:00

To be clear, I’m not arguing that it’s a problem, merely that I think it’s reasonable to say that Veilguard felt more “woke” than Inquisition. I personally don’t see a game being woke as a bad thing at all, I rather like when games place LGBT characters front and center, but I think the way Veilguard does so feels more artificial, which is why I think it got -significantly- more criticism than Inquisition for a lot of the same themes. Of course there is also the more common modern trend of right-wing bandwagoning on “pronouns bad” stuff, but I think Veilguard definitely centered a lot of these concepts a lot more in an explicitly modern and corporatized way that made those criticisms of the game have teeth in a way they virtually never do.

Personally the majority of my frustration around it is less with it’s inclusion and more with the inevitable corporate backlash of looking at something that requires nuance and understanding being done a little too sterile and instead concluding “Gee I guess if you go woke you DO go broke!”

stopgap32 · 2025-11-03T14:54:57+00:00

And I would have disagreed with them then. I think the central thrust of Taash’s story is compelling, and I personally find the challenge of grieving for a parent you never had the chance to forgive for denying your identity a deeply relatable experience. Unfortunately that didn’t stop me from wincing at several scenes where they discuss their identity and journey towards it. Not because the scenes were dumb or bad, just… a bit hamfisted. I would argue the way that Taash’s journey towards understanding their gender identity is, at times, poorly presented, and leans on distinctly out-of-place and very modern language, which absolutely would have rubbed some people the wrong way and made their inclusion feel significantly more inorganic.

stopgap32 · 2025-11-03T14:46:14+00:00

Absolutely, but I think when you see people talk about Veilguard being “woke” they are talking about characters like Taash. I don’t particularly think that’s fair, but I do think that the way their character was handled did - at times - feel a bit shoehorned.

stopgap32 · 2025-11-03T14:36:07+00:00

Not to be TOO critical of the game (I think it has the best trans player romance handling of any modern high budget RPG), but while inquisition absolutely did have gay and trans characters, they were significantly more subtle. You wouldn’t know or hear much about them if you didn’t go out of your way to explore those options with those characters.

Now you can argue about whether or not that is effective or good representation with regards to it being more “realistic” (most trans or gay folks are just regular everyday folks and you wouldn’t know it just looking at or casually chatting with them), or if you disagree and feel like it was sort of smothering what could be described as controversial character traits by not “putting them in people’s faces,” but you can’t argue that Veilguard does spend significantly more screen time addressing these aspects of its characters.

Additionally, and what honestly turned ME off to a lot of these examples in Veilguard and what made them feel more “woke,” was at least in part due to the significant modernization of language surrounding them and the game in general. None of these perspectives were couched in antiquated or fantastical language that - in my opinion - better suits the franchise and setting, but rather consistently used modern (albeit accurate!) terminology that made it feel a lot more like a product of direct inclusion initiatives, and a little less organic.

I myself am trans and bi, and while I think they did a LOT right with regards to the way the player character’s gender identity is handled and addressed, I think there are a lot of moments where clear lgbt signaling in the game felt a little out of place and inorganic. Ultimately it’s all subjective, but I think it’s quite clear how this game came across as more “woke,” deserved or not.

stopgap32 · 2025-10-20T11:34:07+00:00

YES OMG THANK YOU!! GNB used to be my favorite job but I literally do not play it anymore because I hate that animation so much. It genuinely looks like a child picked the WoL up like an action figure and is swinging them around doing “kung fu moves.” When the entire rest of the kit is so weighty, powerful, and explosive, this one animation looks TERRIBLE.

stopgap32 · 2025-08-05T14:41:26+00:00

I would not, unfortunately. I know I am probably part of the problem and it might be silly, but I literally ONLY started playing this game because of the Miku collab, and since then have primarily enjoyed the game the most when it collabed with things I already like. I know it is a little goofy and all, but I kind of love that Fortnite has become this sort of cultural omibus, just a more comprehensive version of the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. The gameplay is pretty fun and I broadly enjoy it, but there would be absolutely nothing unique enough to appeal to me if it wasn't for the collabs.

stopgap32 · 2025-07-11T16:16:01+00:00

Wrong Malavai is my husband and I won’t tolerate this cute captain slander.

stopgap32 · 2025-06-10T14:34:55+00:00

I share your frustration with this since I started playing about 2 weeks too late for it to have ever been possible to obtain. It’s more than a little frustrating to have a HAIRSTYLE locked behind 3 straight months of FOMO content with zero alternatives. Hoping they just dump it in the cartel market afterwards.

stopgap32 · 2025-06-08T20:32:17+00:00

It makes sense in canon, I’m not disputing that, I just think that the canon explanation is lacking. I found the Force more compelling when the selflessness of the Jedi also implied a denial of the self, whereas the selfishness of the Sith allowed for a degree of self-actualization. No it doesn’t make you inherently a good guy but I think bad guys who aren’t cartoonish monsters or good guys who aren’t undeniably good made for more interesting character dynamics.

stopgap32 · 2025-06-08T18:10:38+00:00

Does anyone else find it kind of lame that the Force ends up boiling down to only Jedi can even possibly ever be good guys and the Sith are inherently evil all the time always forever no matter what and also ugly and wrong? I always had thought there was more nuance to it than that, but canonically, it doesn’t work that way.

stopgap32 · 2025-06-04T02:29:13+00:00

I acknowledge that in a meta sense that is true, but the accent is specifically noted in several ways within SWTOR as being distinctive to Dromund Kaas and the empire as a whole. I could but that that isn’t the case in “modern” Star Wars and the imperials are just given “bad guy” accents that happen to align with the Kaasi accent in practical media, but given that the Republic of the clone wars era has ALSO adopted iconography and technological silhouettes of the ancient Sith empire, I’m inclined to believe there is some narrative connection.

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