251: back in my day wank meant something

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Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

skill issue

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

because they’re whiny and cowardly tittybabies who would rather die than acting like adults

[(Anonymous)]

is anyone else getting hit with those captcha checks a lot more than semi randomly

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

shut up ableist

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

she's got four arms

one for each tit and then one for the front and the back

[(Anonymous)]

hmm

[(Anonymous)]

hi gsai

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

wgar

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

i thought they were talking about multiplayer…

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

fucks that chicken

[(Anonymous)]

hi mom!

[(Anonymous)]

sounds like a skill issue

if they're going to have ai write their tags for them they can at least learn how to prompt right

[(Anonymous)]

according to the neckbeards who openly smut with ai when they can't get tags from anyone else, you have to train it on your previous logs

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, even in the most basic 'rushed straight to the final boss' ending you still get hitched with Marika.

And in the death route you're in a sort of throuple.

Ranni's the only one that gives you a sick marriage sword but still.

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

in the sense of "ayrt wants to be able to dismiss all responses"

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

"i'm not inspired by the tags i have"

cool. have one less tag, asshole.

[(Anonymous)]

definitely a skill issue

i use jailbroken claude opus and it works out of the box

[(Anonymous)]

if you have to do that much handholding for the robot to even spit out anything comprehensible, wouldn't you literally be saving more time just writing it yourself at that point

what is even the point

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

Since we're talking in the context of DWRP, I'm gonna assume you mean other fantasy games where you can play the NPCs without getting your dick wrung out the MP players.

- Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma, and other games riding their coattails usually have MPs that are easy to avoid by just saying that in your NPC's version of the game the Dragonborn/Arisen/whatever never followed the relevant quest line to meet them.

- Elden Ring, Soulsbornes, Hollow Knight, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Come, Shadow of Mordor, most Metroidvanias, lots of older JRPGs, and a ton of other games have 'malleable but not really' protagonists, where the malleable parts of the character are either totally irrelevant or exist only in the player's head. As a bonus a lot of these also fall into the first category.

- In most non-FFXIV MMOs the player characters are nobodies, or easily avoided like the first category. World of Warcraft, Black Desert, Runescape, Guild Wars, probably even the Monster Hunter games.

- Immersive sims tends to have semi-malleable protagonists where the only changes in story or personality are some dialogue options. Thief and Dishonored are probably closest to fantasy, but if you want to branch our into sci-fi/modern stuff there's also Deus Ex, Bioshock, STALKER, Deathloop, or even something like Red Dead Redemption 2.

- And finally there are some actual CRPGs with fixed protagonists. Planescape: Torment and Thaumaturge jump to mind, and Baldur's Gate III lets you excise Tav from the plot entirely if you play as either Durge or one of the main party members.

But you don't actually need to play any of these if you want to avoid malleable protagonists. Speaking as a reformed doormat, I can promise you that you'll be much, much happier when you learn how to set and enforce boundaries with Warden/Hawke/Inquisitor players.

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

op: i want recommendations for games without malleable protagonists
you: ok i assume you actually want some games with malleable protagonists

wankgate learn to read what you're replying to challenge

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

writer's block is not a personal slight against you

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

it's not writers block since they're also posting their top levels on bakerstreet. they've said before that they consider their game tags to be "homework" that they have to do before they can get "treats" (texting or meme tags)

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

They're literally blaming the tags, that's not writer's block

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

seeing as none of the other games listed are good enough for them they obviously don't actually want games without malleable protagonists either

what they want is for someone to reassure them that dragon age is such a unique gem of a game that they couldn't possibly get a similar or better experience elsewhere and thus they have to put up with malleable protagonists. anything else would mean admitting their own bad experiences are their own fault for not being clear about their preferences up front.

Re: DRAGON AGE

[(Anonymous)]

some really wild projecting going on in these comments