where two workers died because they were sent down a conveyer belt to repair a bread making machine, that was meant to have cooled for 12 hrs but only had been left for 2hrs. They couldn’t reverse the conveyor belt and had walkie talkies to plead for help. Just horrific https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-60734/Workers-baked-alive-bread-factory-horror.html

In that game all of the survivors are randomly generated, but there’s a limited number of premade faces, and those are apparently based of the studio staff in real life. I got a survivor who is a woman and they’re kind of clocky, which I feel is a weird thing for me to think about a randomized fictional character, but there is a significant number of trans programmers etc so it’s quite likely they’re based on a real trans woman and it’s cool to have trans representation in a the game.

So I tried to work out online if that was the case and indirectly found a reddit thread where gamers were talking about how in State of Decay 2 the game will also randomly assign gender neutral names/nicknames and they/them pronouns to survivors, which is cool and I hadn’t realised that. And chuds were getting mad about it and saying people were misunderstanding the game just using plural they, despite other players showing evidence of singular they being used and the actual code that has gender m/f/x etc.

Then there was a comment saying “Trans people couldn’t survive the zombie apocalypse due to all the chemicals they take” and it’s a locked 3 year old thread and I don’t have a reddit account anymore so it’s not like I’m going to reply. But what an insane comment. Chemicals? You mean exogenous hormones +/- anti-androgens. And trans people who do not take HRT are still trans and valid, which might be a survivor in the zombie apocalypse. But also 18mths into a zombie apocalypse you might still find anti-androgens and HRT on the shelves of otherwise ransacked pharmacies, because people would take the painkillers and antibiotics leave all the rest. Finally you can get survivors with pharmaceutical training in game to craft painkillers and zombie cures, I think they could whip up some DIY hormones too.

Magic wands are worth the price, nothing really compares. My experience is I can firmly press the head of the wand against my glans while flaccid and as I get erect it pushes kind of inwards rather than out. Feels very different to orgasm with too.

I think that the wheel of time would make a good action RPG in the manner of bio ware mass effect/dragon age games. Where you create a man character and collect companions to your party. I think the magic system of having fire-water-earth-wind-spirit that you could cast in different combos to create attacks/effects etc would be cool.

I would set the game about 40 years before the main series. In Malkier the Kingdom in the borderlands that gets overran by the blight and Darkspawn. That gives a confined map area to work with and a dramatic event for the game to finish on. It’s recent enough that there would be some easter egg characters to the main series. Young Jaim Farstrider could be a companion. You could help protect Baby Lan in his escape. Long lived Aes Sedei like Verin or Cadsuane could be floating about.

Your character would be an Aes Sedei. That means a cis woman (or trans man more later). That’s going to really upset the Chuds, but I think that’s the only way to work with the setting of having a magical user who also has the authority to go around doing missions and being present for historic events. You’d have a tutorial prologue in the White Tower wear you pass tests and choose your Ajah. The Ajah would give some different dialogue, stats bonuses and affect endings. It might affect romancing and bonding warders, though I think it would be also still good to be able to do whatever you want, just it would be in contradiction to your Ajah and therefore somewhat of a renegade. There’d also be a nationality you could pick but it just adds some dialogue and unlocks some hairstyles and jewellery.

Your companions would be either fighters to protect you at close range and between weaves (who if you get their affinity up you can bond as warders), or other One Power users to link with to enhance your powers. Most of those would be Aes Sedei (with maybe a surprise Black Ajah betrayal mixed in there), but I think a trans masc Saidar user who is a wilder (a self taught one power user) would be also a really cool companion who can also unlock your character realising they’re trans if you want.

Then another main companion would be a trans woman who has used Saidin to transition themselves, channelling the opposite power they can give you an enormous power boost, but the taint on saidin means they are slowly dying and going mad. This character gets to basically look down the camera and call out the series for having “male” and “female” powers. Like “fuck you I’m a woman who channels Saidin deal with it”. This character might have some sad endings (basically the only option for a Saidin user pre-cleanse), but if you work with them you unlock a bittersweet ending where your character “Stills” them with their consent (I chose here to use the feminine term, not the masculine “gentle”) and bonds them as a warder so they survive the shock and subsequent depression. They live but also lose their magic (the only outcome that isn’t derailing the book events).