who's there

deez

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deez who ?

deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise

Zooming in to make sure this is seen because what this person is saying is very important

There’s someone on another of these posts who was arguing with me about how reading Kite Runner in highschool “traumatized [her] and [her] brother for life” and i was like. Shocked. Because Kite Runner’s depictions of class and ethnic discrimination and how that is a contributing force to the child sexual assaults*, not to mention the depictions of war, are all echos of reality, they are happening to people in the age group of that high school class. Bad things happen to young people everywhere everyday, and to act like stories that grapple with those topics are some uniquely adult form of evil is just proving that the ignorance those assigned books were supposed to cure people of is very much persistent into adulthood.

*decade old memory, but im sure ive got the broad strokes still right

If it’s really so important to keep traumatizing stories away from children, what do we do with the kids who’ve been abused? How do we keep them from talking to their friends and classmates about what happened to them? Do we lock them up? Threaten them into silence? Ostracize them? Spread rumors that they’re liars and should not be believed? Oh right we do do exactly that lol.

The logic really reminds me of the people who think white children are “too young” to learn about racism because it’s upsetting. Like, dang, if only their peers were “too young” to be experiencing it.

Need the CLANG of the enemy's attacks against armor, need clear sound and UI design that communicates "here's how much damage you DIDN'T take, you absolute badass", need a little gaggle of frail party members trembling in fear behind me as the extreme aura farming of walking up to a dragon and putting my entire shield in its mouth inspires them to fight on.

Also the player character should be a huge woman who's into women.

#last edition important too#between battles should be a lesbian dating sim

Bonding more strongly with your polycule of cute DPS and healers makes your brave words of encouragement in battle act as a stronger performance multiplier, increasing attack and spellcasting speeds. Blocking a really big attack makes them go "I have to do my best too, she's counting on me!!" and unleash extra strong spells so you'll be proud of them.

Its very important that your character laughs when She blocks that big hit, not only is she willing to defend her polycule with her life, but she relishes the thrill of being the bastion that she is.

Also, she does carry a sword or something but not because she realy needs it, it's solely for the purpose of taunting her enemies by tapping it against the rim of her shield to draw aggro.

Hear me out: skill tree where you use a huge sword to block instead, like death knights in WoW or similar two-hander tank classes. Still none of that dodging nonsense of course, dodging is just letting the attack hit something else than you.

Like there are a lot of ways to tank here:

• Extreme Stamina Tanking: You take the damage unblocked and then survive it anyway because you've just got THAT much willpower. You can go to negative HP and still be standing.
• The vampire tank: You're not dying because you're draining the enemy's life force
• The Classic Knight
• The Low HP High Parry tank: There is no fucking way you should be surviving and yet. AND YET.

Like if you're doing a Tanking Game you've gotta include a variety of ways to tank

for context, this is a Q400