Labels

Since Pride Month is starting tomorrow, I want to say something:

Labels are a lot like clothes. Sometimes we know early on what suits us best. Sometimes we try through different looks to find the one that feels right.

At one point, you find a piece of clothing that is perfect. It has the right cut, is your favorite color, and the design is simply perfect. It is soft to touch and keeps you warm. You just love this piece. Time passes and changes, and so do you. Maybe your favorite piece of clothing grows with you. Or maybe you outgrow it, and find something that fits you even better. You won't forget your old favorite, but you can't keep wearing it now that you have the new one. It just doesn't feel right.

Maybe you don't find the perfect piece of clothing. Then you just settle with what feels the most comfortable. Sure, it may be a bit too big, or the design is not quite what you wanted, but it feels like it could belong to you. Maybe you have the perfect piece, but can't show it openly, because others will judge you badly for it. Your family always wore this one brand of clothes, how dare you go for another one? They dressed you in this one brand all your life, why would you want to change it? They may not understand right away. Maybe they never will. But there are people who love the same brand that you do.

We can't force anyone to wear specific clothes just because we do. If they don't feel comfortable in the ones they wear, we can offer other pieces that we think could fit them. But in the end, everyone has to chose their outfit themself.

LAW IN SHORTS.

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fire-fist-donut-man

2 months ago

Funny things abt Arcade Gannon that I LOVE:

He gets angrier when activating Archimedes than when you literally sell him into slavery. The difference between his fake-nice "Hi! Did you always mean to sell me to Caesar or was that a spur-of-the-moment thing?" And him screaming "YOU ACTIVATED ARCHIMEDES!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!?" is SO FUNNY.

ALSO WHY CAN YOU DO THAT?? WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT THE FACT YOU CAN SELL HIM TO CAESAR???

How nice he is to a low-int Courier. He feels responsible for you and tags along to make sure you don't die. There's a low-int dialog option when he remarks on ED-E also, where the player can say they don't know what an EMP grenade is and he responds: "It's... a thing. A science thing. It hurts robots. Don't worry about it. Silly Arcade's just telling magnetic field jokes for his own amusement" (the only time he's rude to the low-int Courier is when they turn on Archimedes, and even then, he just calls them a moron.)

You can make him a follower by (as prev mentioned) being stupid, charismatic, a good friend of his organization, or gay as a daisy. Male couriers flirt with him ONCE and he abandons everything. Idiot couriers stumble over their words and he feels a horrible amount of sympathy for them, to the point he simply cannot let them walk off and die bc of something stupid.

He is, to his core, an idealist. This does not work in his favor in most of his endings.

Some of his only friends are war criminals.

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I forgot thats a thing you can do Why does no one in game talk about it?? They're so casual about hes just gone?? I dont think hes even brought up again

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fire-fist-donut-man

2 months ago

Deacon: Hancock's been acting really strange with Sole. He seems... kinda into them.

Curie: What do you mean, "into them?"

Deacon: I mean into them.

Curie: Your statement is confusing. Has Hancock entered Sole in some fashion?

Deacon: Not yet.

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fire-fist-donut-man

1 month ago

if you ship curly x jimmy, (dis)respectfully get the hell away from me