@lgbtqcreators creator meme: [5/8] lgbtq+ celebs "I had to free my own mind of what, at that time, what I felt like masculine adrogynous energy looks like. I was living in my own binary, and I was like there's no way that I can be androgynous with bigger boobs now. How I feel inside is the thing that I needed to work through." — JANELLE MONÁE
For the record I feel like saying "Dreadwolf is going to suck because they laid off Mary Kirby" is like... really dramatically missing the point of what's going on here.
The next game has been in alpha for nearly a year now. Kirby's work on the game as a writer was probably mostly finished. Which does not make this better. If anything, it makes it worse.
The layoffs aren't terrible news because a game we're looking forward to might be worse because of them. They're terrible news because people who have devoted years of blood, sweat, and tears to making the game good (including the person who wrote one of the two characters on which they've been hanging the entire marketing campaign for said game thus far) have been axed now that the company has decided it can probably get by without them.
The quality of the game when it finally comes out is irrelevant here. If it's amazing, it won't make this any better, and if it's awful, it won't make it any worse. What matters is the people whose labor made it exist at all are profoundly undervalued, the industry as a whole is broken and frankly abusive, and I wish everyone in it some good labor organizing.
So, I have a big advice post to write, but until I have the spoons, I want to warn everyone now who has legally changed their first name:
Your credit score may be fucked up and you need to:
- check *now* that all your financial institutions (credit cards, loans, etc) have your current legal name and update where necessary
- check that all 3 credit bureaus, on their respective sites, not via a feed like Credit Karma (so, Trans Union, Equifax, Experian) are collecting that info correctly and generating the right score - you might need to monitor them for a few months if you made any changes in #1
I am about to apply for a mortgage and learned that as of 2 weeks ago:
- Experian suddenly thinks I am 2 different people - Legal Name and Dead Name (none of whom have a score)
- Equifax has reported my active 25 year old mortgage as closed and deleted one of my older credit cards, hurting my score by 30+ points
Credit scores influence everything from big home/car loans to insurance rates to job and housing applications.
And for whatever reason, the 3 bureaus that have the power to destroy your life are shockingly fragile when it comes to legally changing one's first name.
So, yeah. Once I get this mess cleaned up for myself, I have a big guide in the works if you find yourself in the same predicament. But with the mass trans migration out of oppressive states, odds are there are a lot of newly renamed people who are about to have a nasty shock when applying for new housing.
Take care, folks.
Ok, Experian is the biggest problem for folks (including me), so a quick guide to what you can start doing:
the rituals are very intricate
REDDIT DUDES ARE MAD ABOUT KARLACH TOPPING THEM
Finally recruited Karlach and I’m absolutely losing it over how much she and Astarion particularly appear to have been designed in labs to bait the tumblr girlies
extremely called out. also i’m in a conundrum because i wanted to play as tiefling gideon nav (those exact words) and then i saw karlach. tgn4tgn i guess??????
@asimplecreature listen I'm generally all about difference and contrasts in my ships but half the time when I play an rpg I end up making a clone of my desired LI. I'm currently aiming for the nerdy obnoxious wizard while playing a nerdy obnoxious wizard. I think because of the way approval mechanics work it's just easier that way. embrace your tgn4tgn adventure
I love my murder wives
I feel… very normal about her… really… nothing totally crazy…. At all…
Finally recruited Karlach and I’m absolutely losing it over how much she and Astarion particularly appear to have been designed in labs to bait the tumblr girlies
just thinking about Seivarden again and how her motto is "I've never known what I'm doing in my life and I'm not going to start now". a queen an icon my beloved.
I hate save scumming in BG3, I want to keep the impact of critical failures, but I do reload in situations where I feel like a responsive DM would have given me more information/hints or other options
The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece
[Image ID: a screenshot of a twitter conversation, Pressure Cooker ki Rubber | Levi simp akont quote-tweets Richard Siken @richardsiken “A recap, for all those coming late to the party: [a cutoff polygon link]”, captioned with: “The reason I'd not cancel richard is that he is a destiel writer. But he is also a wincest writer so I WILL HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE HERE WHY DID YOU DO THIS RICHIE I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS”, everything after ‘wincest writer so’ is in all caps.
Richard Siken replies with: “I contain multitudes. You can experience life or you can be a fascist.”
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If you’re bad enough at DA2, you can imagine that Varric keeps saying “…And then they died” every five minutes, which pisses Cassandra off to no end because it’s a lie, she knows it’s a lie, but he keeps doing it and she gets so into the story that she falls for it every time and just screams in pure rage.
Isaac Asimov: it is physically impossible for robots to break the laws of robotics, it would destroy their minds.
Me: well first of all through the power of love all things are possible so jot that down