spectreconfessions: “Kaiden’s wariness may have been justified in ME2, but it still doesn’t excuse him for breaking my heart on Horizon. That’s why I cheated on him with Garrus and killed him in ME3. Then I played through it a second time so I can kill him again with the nuke on Virmire.” sociopathconfessions
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spectreconfessions:

“Kaiden’s wariness may have been justified in ME2, but it still doesn’t excuse him for breaking my heart on Horizon. That’s why I cheated on him with Garrus and killed him in ME3. Then I played through it a second time so I can kill him again with the nuke on Virmire.”

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spectreconfessions: “I wish that Kasumi was an option for an LI.  She was my favorite female character. I like her sense of humor and I like her banters when you bring her on missions. ‘Haha’ and ‘Now you see me’. LOL Priceless.” Really if the writers wanted Jacob to move on from Shepard they should have had him hook up with Kasumi. Kasumi? STEALING your man?  It’s more likely than you think.
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spectreconfessions:

“I wish that Kasumi was an option for an LI.  She was my favorite female character. I like her sense of humor and I like her banters when you bring her on missions. ‘Haha’ and ‘Now you see me’. LOL Priceless.”

Really if the writers wanted Jacob to move on from Shepard they should have had him hook up with Kasumi.

Kasumi? STEALING your man?  It’s more likely than you think.

freeoftime: upsettingshorts: spectreconfessions: “It bothers me that in ME3, Kaidan became available for male Shepard like he was supposed to be in ME1 while Ashley remained straight. I can’t help but feel this was because she was Christian and Bioware was too scared to have a religious bisexual character.” Orrrrr maybe they just decided that Liara finally “counts” as F/F like she should have all along. But let’s go with “they were scared to.”  That makes sense.   While I don’t agree with the confession, does “Liara counts as F/F” really an argument? There’s no reason why there shouldn’t be another F/F romance. Especially considering that fem!Shep already only has very few romances in ME3 compared to m!Shep. It’s simply a more plausible internal rationale than one based on some vague fear.  It’s also more plausible for someone with authority to have decided, “Ashley is straight” and that was that.  Or maybe a writer simply didn’t meet a deadline and her F/F content was cut.  Ultimately, we can’t know their reasoning.   But really, I can’t picture anyone sitting in a room saying, “Guys we can’t make Ashley bisexual, she said she believed in God once!  Those concepts are totally incompatible both now and in the future.”
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freeoftime:

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spectreconfessions:

“It bothers me that in ME3, Kaidan became available for male Shepard like he was supposed to be in ME1 while Ashley remained straight. I can’t help but feel this was because she was Christian and Bioware was too scared to have a religious bisexual character.”

Orrrrr maybe they just decided that Liara finally “counts” as F/F like she should have all along.

But let’s go with “they were scared to.”  That makes sense.  

While I don’t agree with the confession, does “Liara counts as F/F” really an argument? There’s no reason why there shouldn’t be another F/F romance. Especially considering that fem!Shep already only has very few romances in ME3 compared to m!Shep.

It’s simply a more plausible internal rationale than one based on some vague fear.  It’s also more plausible for someone with authority to have decided, “Ashley is straight” and that was that.  Or maybe a writer simply didn’t meet a deadline and her F/F content was cut.  Ultimately, we can’t know their reasoning.  

But really, I can’t picture anyone sitting in a room saying, “Guys we can’t make Ashley bisexual, she said she believed in God once!  Those concepts are totally incompatible both now and in the future.”

Source: spectreconfessions

spectreconfessions: “It bothers me that in ME3, Kaidan became available for male Shepard like he was supposed to be in ME1 while Ashley remained straight. I can’t help but feel this was because she was Christian and Bioware was too scared to have a religious bisexual character.” Orrrrr maybe they just decided that Liara finally “counts” as F/F like she should have all along. But let’s go with “they were scared to.”  That makes sense.  
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spectreconfessions:

“It bothers me that in ME3, Kaidan became available for male Shepard like he was supposed to be in ME1 while Ashley remained straight. I can’t help but feel this was because she was Christian and Bioware was too scared to have a religious bisexual character.”

Orrrrr maybe they just decided that Liara finally “counts” as F/F like she should have all along.

But let’s go with “they were scared to.”  That makes sense.  

dragonageconfessions: Confession: I get “pixel guilt” which means I can’t be mean to characters in games.  I always have to take the good route even if it means the same choices in multiple playthroughs.  I tried once to be the “bad warden”, but it sat so badly in my stomach I had to stop. This is why providing objective in-game rewards for “good” decisions is unnecessary. “Do I want to get the moneys/item/plot resolution I want, or do I want to feel good about myself?”  
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dragonageconfessions:

Confession: I get “pixel guilt” which means I can’t be mean to characters in games.  I always have to take the good route even if it means the same choices in multiple playthroughs.  I tried once to be the “bad warden”, but it sat so badly in my stomach I had to stop.

This is why providing objective in-game rewards for “good” decisions is unnecessary.

“Do I want to get the moneys/item/plot resolution I want, or do I want to feel good about myself?”  

badminbadger: upsettingshorts: spectreconfessions: “The only way I could ever sabatoge the cure is if Wreav were the clan leader and I honestly hate Wreav with a passion. so I will never sabotage the cure. Plus I feel like the Krogan deserve a second chance” Good luck dealing with “moderate” Wrex’s explicit designs for “breathing room.” ‘cause it’s impossible to teach the Krogan how to be responsible about things like contraception, family planning, and not just popping out kids to pop out kids, all things that the females are implied to know a thing or two about. Plus, if Eve’s alive, it’s implied to be an even better good ending for the Krogan. Or, you know, just wipe them the hell out for good if they screw up their second chance, if you’re feeling especially renegade… I wasn’t even talking about the Krogan’s uniquely-prolific reproduction.  Which is a whole other can of worms. In the shuttle upon returning to the homeworld, Wrex openly describes his plan to retake Krogan colonies and expand.  He references a need for space in doing so. This isn’t even a subtle reference to lebensraum.  If Wrex, the Krogan the game presents as being more reasonable than his peers, is advocating revanchist policies, that’s a huge problem. 
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badminbadger:

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spectreconfessions:

“The only way I could ever sabatoge the cure is if Wreav were the clan leader and I honestly hate Wreav with a passion. so I will never sabotage the cure. Plus I feel like the Krogan deserve a second chance”

Good luck dealing with “moderate” Wrex’s explicit designs for “breathing room.”

‘cause it’s impossible to teach the Krogan how to be responsible about things like contraception, family planning, and not just popping out kids to pop out kids, all things that the females are implied to know a thing or two about. Plus, if Eve’s alive, it’s implied to be an even better good ending for the Krogan.

Or, you know, just wipe them the hell out for good if they screw up their second chance, if you’re feeling especially renegade…

I wasn’t even talking about the Krogan’s uniquely-prolific reproduction.  Which is a whole other can of worms.

In the shuttle upon returning to the homeworld, Wrex openly describes his plan to retake Krogan colonies and expand.  He references a need for space in doing so.

This isn’t even a subtle reference to lebensraum.  If Wrex, the Krogan the game presents as being more reasonable than his peers, is advocating revanchist policies, that’s a huge problem. 

Source: spectreconfessions

I really don’t intend to go through his entire Twitter history, or scour the BSN, or invite people with bad stories from conventions to share them.  This isn’t a nascent Fire Chris Priestly movement I intend here. I have no practical experience interacting with him at cons, and have not personally been the target of anything offensive he might have said on Twitter or elsewhere.  So, in one sense, that kind of thing is really not my call to make.   I’m just someone for whom Priestly has negligible influence or authority that can call out his behavior at pretty much zero risk to my BioWare-related convention experience.   Hell if he decided to permaban me from the BSN I’d probably thank him. Overall I suspect that he’s been humored long enough that he’s making the assumption that his behavior is charming. On the Thane stuff, I don’t think it’s appropriate to make a comparison here.  
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I really don’t intend to go through his entire Twitter history, or scour the BSN, or invite people with bad stories from conventions to share them.  This isn’t a nascent Fire Chris Priestly movement I intend here. I have no practical experience interacting with him at cons, and have not personally been the target of anything offensive he might have said on Twitter or elsewhere.  So, in one sense, that kind of thing is really not my call to make.  

I’m just someone for whom Priestly has negligible influence or authority that can call out his behavior at pretty much zero risk to my BioWare-related convention experience.   Hell if he decided to permaban me from the BSN I’d probably thank him.

Overall I suspect that he’s been humored long enough that he’s making the assumption that his behavior is charming.

On the Thane stuff, I don’t think it’s appropriate to make a comparison here.  

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