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Entrance, Living room, Office, Kitchen, Dining room, Master bedroom, Ensuite bathroom, Bedroom, Bathroom, and Gym.
Khalid - Coaster
As time passes, I feel so low
Searchin' for pieces, covering up the holes
I'll fight for your love, I'll fight for your soul
I'll throw all of my cares away for you
I'll be there to wait for you
Maybe you weren't the one for me
But deep down I wanted you to be
I'll still see you in my dreams
All the things that I did for you, just wasn't it for you
So I'll be coasting, roller-coasting
Through my emotion
I will be coasting, roller-coasting
I'm hoping that you'll come back to me
Moving on seems harder to do
When the one that you love moves faster than you
I gave you my all, I showed the proof of your lies
And you weren't worth it, you don't deserve me
As time passes I'm feeling high
You're not the one I'm thinking of tonight
I may not be over you, but I'll try inside
I'm feeling better now, finally feeling special now, oh
Coasting, roller-coasting
In my emotions, oh
I will be coasting, roller-coasting
I noticed you weren't the one for me
You weren't the one for me
You weren't the one for me
You weren't the one for me
You weren't the one for me
Weren't the one for me
You weren't the one
You weren't the one for me
So don't come back to me, no
No, don't come back to me, no
No, don't come back to me
No, don't come back to me, no
No, don't come back to me
You weren't the one for me
You weren't the one for me
You weren't the one for me
You weren't the one for me
HES SO BEAUTIFUL WHAT THE HELL
i could watch this for hours and not get tired of it
Silence-Marshmello ft. Khalid
bitching about narrative design in bioware games part 1
feel free to keep scrolling if you dont want to see me bitching about baldurs gate and dragon age (and even a tiny bit of mass effect). i was talking to one of my best friends (https://sunwinni.tumblr.com/) about bioware’s narrative design and how they enjoy shitting the bed. im gonna be really messy and probably hit a lot of different points in an unorganized fashion, so i apologize if this is confusing, its not meant to be a professional analysis.
while i deeply love the baldurs gate series, forgotten realms, and dragon age, i think faerun sucks in general and im sure that surprises no one here.
you cannot convince me that a world where most bipoc features and cultures are represented as “savage” and/or “evil” is designed well. so many things about faerun are so stereotypical and so poorly designed it’s difficult to want to create new stories in it for me. characters that in lore design SHOULD be bipoc are often not represented that way in the actual stories and games. biggest example is minsc, who is painted white in both of his portraits in bg1 and 2, and will likely be white in bg3 when (i dont think its an “if”) he shows up. a smaller example is khalid, jaheira’s husband, who (imo) should have been painted to look middle eastern/south asian considering his name and backstory.
minsc is easily one of the most beloved baldurs gate characters, if not one of the most beloved rpg characters in gaming. i dearly love him too. yet theres a lot about the framing of his character and story that just bothers me so much, especially irt how his mental disability/traumatic brain injury is played off to comedic effect and never actually comes into play in a way that discusses or looks at the issue effectively.
his witch dynaheir is the only black woman companion in the entirety of the original two bladurs gate games, and she’s killed off (along with khalid) at the beginning of baldurs gate 2 to supply minsc with some sads. not only was she easily THE most powerful female mage in the game, her enemy edwin is now effectively the most powerful mage in the game. he literally wanted to murder her in bg1.
you know who they replaced dynaheir with in bg2? a white girl lol
yeah, of course, if you dont recruit aerie and dont have minsc, you never get this storyline. but its in there. he asks aerie to be his new witch. aerie, btw, is a multiclassed cleric/mage, and thus will never be as effective a mage as dynaheir could have been strategically or mechanically. but thats not the worst part imo. the worst part is we all lost out on dynaheir for the entirety of bg2 and ToB and never got to see what her story could have been.
tldr: they killed the only black woman in the og bg games for a (supposedly) white man’s pain and then offered a replacement in the form of a white woman.
im not done yet tho, bcoz i bring this all up to talk about how bioware frames and designs their more modern games like mass effect, but especially dragon age, which is supposed to be “dark fantasy” ala game of thrones. ill post part 2 soon. edit: here is part 2