You Know I Was Thinking Today And Likeif Your Warden Wasnt An Elf, Then Zevran Is Important In A Way

You know I was thinking today and like–if your Warden wasn’t an elf, then Zevran is important in a way that I hadn’t thought about at all before.  Think about it.  Think about that confident, unapologetic, dangerous elf fighting in the square for the people of Redcliffe, through the streets of Denerim, where everyone can see.  Think about being human, cowering behind a stack of crates while an elf faces off against hurlocks twice his size, and never flinches, and brings them down.  Think about being an alienage elf and seeing this elf who lives outside of anything you’ve ever experienced, who carries himself with flair and even a little brag, who treats his human friends as equals.  Sure, the truth is that Zevran is as much a victim as anyone, but he never shows it; he works hard to project suave fearlessness.  Think about the impressions that must have left behind, the deep-seated and largely unchallenged assumptions he must have wrecked.

“Shepard” “Wrex”

game companies should be fucking EMBARRASSED about being inaccessible. it should be mortifying to ship a game with shit captions or no UI scaling options or no option to disable flashing / strobing effects. games lauding their character customization should be laughingstocks for not including hearing aids or congenital disorders or prosthetic limbs. EA should be publicly fucking humiliated for the sims series being 23 goddamn years old and include cats and dogs and horses and werewolves and zombies and mermaids and star wars and not FUCKING WHEELCHAIRS.

my inquisitor (to Connor): what happened ten years ago in Redcliffe wasn’t your fault

cassandra: *disapproves*

sera: *disapproves*

vivienne: *disapproves*

my inquisitor:

i’ve been looking at the da:i concept art and this mess happened for solas ;;a;; 30 mins/2 hour sketches 

Sometimes I think about the future of self driving cars and how everyone I talk to about that future is like “okay but in an emergency we’ll be able to take back manual control, right?” and I usually placate them by saying, yeah, that’s totally how it’ll happen, but actually we’re already seeing the opposite. Cars with “self driving” features like steering and breaking that kick in and take control from the driver if the driver is about to rear end someone or is in a dangerous situation because the truth is computers can think faster and have better reflexes than us and I think about this going into the future and how if the self-driving cars are able to share their data with each other and learn from the driving experiences of every car on the road soon we’ll have cars that are so massively experienced at driving and avoiding accidents and making microsecond decisions and partial degree turns of the wheels and being so damn precise that automobile accidents will be almost unheard of and that’s when we’ll develop the most wasteful hilarious extreme sport in history where a single human driver will go up against an arena of ultra smart self driving cars and just by driving around recklessly try to coral them into crashing into each other and I tell you I would watch that sport all day.