BROODMOTHER.: This may be a little rude, but I really feel the need to say it.

championofpitfalls:

moononwaters:

princewawaiv:

I hate when I’m told that saying the “N” word is not appropriate for a white person to say. I am white and I don’t see a problem with it, unless it’s used in a verbally threatening way.

I am also gay. I do not find it a problem…

As a white person, I find the fact that there are white people who see nothing wrong about saying the n-word disturbing. I am also almost willing to bet this person does not live in the Southern US.

Words have power. Intent does not magically make the word inoffensive to anyone who might hear it used. If you are not a member of a certain group who has certain members who may embrace casual, non-derogatory usage of originally derogatory words such as the n-word as used by some, not all, African Americans, or various words for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, or queer, or any other words used historically to label, other, or harm any other minority, nothing on earth gives you the right to “appropriate” or “reclaim” those words, because they are not your words.

BROODMOTHER.: This may be a little rude, but I really feel the need to say it.

…seriously?

Apparently turning twenty-five means my health insurance provider (technically my mom’s health insurance, which I’d be screwed without) thinks I should talk to my doctor about whether he thinks I should start taking an ACE inhibitor or ARB medication in order to ward off potential heart or kidney issues related to my diabetes.
I’m just glad it was a letter and not a phone call (I hate talking to the health insurance nurses who call every so often to ask the same questions, like “Do you have regular mammograms?” No, I don’t, because I have no family history of breast cancer and I’m under the age at which you would cover it, and I’m not paying out of pocket to have my boobs squished just for shits and giggles, thanks. I know they mean well, but it’s annoying).

I guess I’ll take the letter to my next appointment, if only to see what my doctor’s reaction to it is.

rhaegarfrey:

one time i was reading manga in church

and my preacher took it from me and never gave it back that i recall

because he said it was from satan because the words were written right to left like satan writes

it was translated from fucking japanese

Gonna go out on a limb and say that preacher probably likes to ignore the fact that the Old Testament was originally in Hebrew, which is also written right to left. Because otherwise that means Satan wrote it, just like the manga.

b-mommy:

downwithempires:

b-mommy:

downwithempires:

b-mommy:

Well, uh. Guess our time together is probably going to be short-lived.

I, for one, look forward to meeting whoever the heck I will be playing as in the next installment. I would be reluctant to play “my” Warden again, because they’d probably stick to the fully voiced model, and the voice would probably not be anywhere near what I think my Warden would sound like.

Not to mention that you’d have to remake them, which would be difficult for the production team to do because they probably aren’t going to drop the elf model redesign and pretend it never happened for DA3. And after Origins and all those extra campaign DLC’s and Awakening in which to level, the Warden would be pretty OP. There would have to be a reason for starting back at square with their abilities.

And there’s just so much variation in how the Warden’s story turns out. They can die, for one thing. Though that hasn’t stopped Bioware before. 

Totally agreed on all points.

Zombie!Warden could be interesting. If they were, you know, an actual zombie/darkspawn.

Well, they wouldn’t become a darkspawn. They would become a ghoul. Only the very first darkspawn were ever people. The rest come from broodmothers, who are specialized ghouls.

Being a (very special) ghoul, we feel the hoity-toity need to tell you this.

I stand corrected, and am glad for the knowledge!

b-mommy:

downwithempires:

b-mommy:

Well, uh. Guess our time together is probably going to be short-lived.

I, for one, look forward to meeting whoever the heck I will be playing as in the next installment. I would be reluctant to play “my” Warden again, because they’d probably stick to the fully voiced model, and the voice would probably not be anywhere near what I think my Warden would sound like.

Not to mention that you’d have to remake them, which would be difficult for the production team to do because they probably aren’t going to drop the elf model redesign and pretend it never happened for DA3. And after Origins and all those extra campaign DLC’s and Awakening in which to level, the Warden would be pretty OP. There would have to be a reason for starting back at square with their abilities.

And there’s just so much variation in how the Warden’s story turns out. They can die, for one thing. Though that hasn’t stopped Bioware before. 

Totally agreed on all points.

Zombie!Warden could be interesting. If they were, you know, an actual zombie/darkspawn.

b-mommy:

Well, uh. Guess our time together is probably going to be short-lived.

I, for one, look forward to meeting whoever the heck I will be playing as in the next installment. I would be reluctant to play “my” Warden again, because they’d probably stick to the fully voiced model, and the voice would probably not be anywhere near what I think my Warden would sound like.