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unrelated to anything at all but i wish monica hughes of all characters was better utilized

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So if you don't keep up with Saints Row community drama some big stuff went down today.

Flippy released a video talking the state of SR2 patch, including mentioning minimaul's role in it, which pissed minimaul off so now saintsrowmods.com is offline.

For the record, saintsrowmods is the host of 90% of Saints Row mods (all of the games), and hosts all of the resources and tools for making mods.

#hm...

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going to freckle bitch’s later you want anything

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Scheherazade - Richard Siken // Saints Row 2006

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the thing about abba is that they never feel tonally inappropriate even when they should

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BTW I think we should focus more on Embracer deliberately picking the last day of the month to shut down Volition so they wouldn't have to pay for their health insurance for September

And not to mention announcing this exactly the moment Starfield embargo ended, hoping that the hype and news coverage of Starfield would bury the news that they shut down one of their more popular studios

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aisha would come back from the dead with a new single and be like also i’m bisexual btw

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[B] How do you feel about public office? [P] Horrible idea. I'm in.

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If you're scared to die

I could be scared by your side

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Do u have a Shaundi music playlist ? Ty ^_^

Yes! I do and I have actually posted it here's the link!

#stop talkin playa

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Y'all ever listen to the scooby doo theme song and decide yeah im gonna draw the saints + boss as the mystery gang

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dex’s motivations

we don’t know much about dex (so most of this is headcanon and speculation) but i think the context is absolutely the clue. he grew up, we have to assume, in the row, therefore he’s either poor or working class. he’s the most ambitious saint and clearly works hard to make his way up to the top. this drive that isn’t really found in the other characters leads me to believe that he either is or feels the pressure to be his family’s breadwinner (admittedly more of a biased, optimistic reading than him simply looking out only for himself, but it’s important to remember he does canonically have a sister—at least one person he possibly has to provide for). he’s ambitious AND smart, so why doesn’t he just get a job? well, he seems to be around college age, which if true means that he’s obviously not still in education. the main reason this could be the case is money. college is expensive, and, if we go with the breadwinner theory, time-wasting—a further strain on his family’s needs. without college education, how hard do you think it would be for a young Black man from an impoverished district (which would undoubtedly carry a city-wide reputation) to land a well-paying job befitting his intelligence? but, here’s something seemingly unrelated but absolutely vital in the context, this is the city of ben king and the vice kings. they’ve been around since the 70s, so without a doubt they must’ve had an influence on dex growing up. here’s another Black man who shares dex’s origins—from a poor, neglected district, a gang member who worked his way up as far as he could get. he started a legitimate business, has powerful connections, and is himself one of the most powerful people in the city, and certainly wealthy. it’s the kind of story dex could look at and imagine for himself—finally something plausible, something he’s capable of and has the means to achieve himself. it’s almost a cruel twist of fate that ben ended up with warren and not dex as his lieutenant.

dex in sr2

i’ve gone back and forth on this before but i think it’s absolutely possible for dex to succumb to paranoia, and have that affect his behaviour and relationships.

he was in a street gang. they killed people, powerful people, and he personally got them involved with the colombians. he could implicate a lot of people. he was canonised. blood in, blood out. you don’t just leave. this alone is enough to have anyone looking over their shoulder for the rest of their life.

johnny holds a grudge against him for leaving. johnny tried to kill troy. he went after a cop! what’s to stop him or any other saint from coming after dex?

he’s ultor’s chief of security, meaning he has constant exposure to threat, surveillance, armed guards, etc. and he has all of these things in his control, to be orchestrated as he sees fit. how long do you think it would take for someone in his position to grow paranoid, maybe trigger-happy? after all, it’s his job to instinctively snuff out threats before they can materialise.

he’s smart. he’s a tactical thinker. he’s going to have a plan for every outcome. but the saints are unpredictable. he’s had years to sit and stew in his thoughts and wonder how long it’s going to be before someone comes for him, and it’s possible he would overestimate johnny or the boss because they’re both capable of great carnage—it’s possible that no matter how he prepares himself, he believes they’re going to get him anyway.

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#boss w/ shaundi filming

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The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA (1980)

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old cute kinzie drawing