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Finally Unlocked Master Ranos as a Companion in Star Wars: The Old Republic

Finally, at long last, I have unlocked Master Dazh Ranos as a companion in Star Wars: The Old Republic!

When Master Ranos was introduced as a reward from the long-retired Dark vs. Light event in 2016, I was not active enough in playing SWTOR to be able to earn Master Ranos. However, her unique character concept as the only Chiss Jedi NPC in the game had intrigued me since I learned about her, and I had hoped to have the second chance to get her as a companion in my account. Therefore, years later I was thrilled when I learned that Master Ranos can be unlocked with Galactic Seasons Tokens.

As I returned to SWTOR as a subscriber on April 22 for the first time since 2020, farming Galactic Seasons Tokens to unlock Master Ranos has been a top goal of mine. After familiaring myself with how Galactic Seasons work, I eventually managed to farm 6 Galactic Seasons Tokens on July 3. However, the item for unlocking Master Ranos as a companion, Force-Imbued Object, was not in stock during the week. However, with guides I learned that the item will return on July 14. As soon as the game reset for July 14 took place, I immediately logged in to the game and purchased a Force-Imbued Object, and thus unlocked Master Ranos as a companion! Through the Collections feature, I unlocked Ranos for my entire SWTOR account as well.

I had waited for around 10 years to have Ranos in my game, and now my 10-year long dream has finally come true!

Happy 1st Anniversary to My ASUS TUF Gaming A15

July 10 marked the first anniversary of me starting to use ASUS TUF Gaming A15 as my current personal computer, and by extension, switching to use Arch Linux!

one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in…

one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

  • what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it
  • what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)
  • what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts

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