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    “This machine sounds very powerful,” Kratos said. He was looking her right in the eyes; he had to see her tears, but he did not respond to them. “If it can exist, why cannot gods exist?”

    Aloy felt her face fold into a grimace. “This again?” she hissed hotly.

    “I am trying to understand,” Kratos said. His voice sounded subtly kinder, and his face had softened more than she’d ever seen it. It, too, caught her off guard.

    “That machine is very powerful,” she said, though she couldn’t keep the frustration out of her voice. “The Nora think it is so powerful they worship it as a goddess. They call it All-Mother.” She practically spat the last words. “But it’s not a goddess. It was made by humans; it just does what it was told to do. The Nora just don’t understand it, so they call it a goddess.” She shut her eyes tight, the tears no longer flowing, the lump that had grown in her throat having melted into something angrier, less vulnerable. “Gods exist when humans turn something inexplicable into something magical, just to make the world simpler.”

    SPOILERS possible for both games; the story takes place after the events of both of them

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    26 May 2019

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    I’m crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table.

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    16 Jun 2018

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    Former Top Chef contestant Steve Rogers opens a restaurant with his best friend, Sam Wilson.

    And everything is great, except for Steve's giant crush on their new bartender.

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    15 Jan 2017

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    "Look, if they catch me," Bucky muttered, "they're either going to kill me or they're going to put me in a box with a little window and—Steve, I can't."

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    25 Apr 2016

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    I am totally on board with this and very ready to reject civil war if it doesn't measure up

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    Hey friend of Sam’s can I get an opinion on this outfit? Bucky texted, attaching the selfie taken in Sam’s bathroom mirror.

    He received an answer almost immediately. Bucky was almost expecting a lecture, or at least a concerned question about who had stolen Sam’s phone.

    He got neither.

    New text from Steve:
    What do you want it to say?

    Or: Bucky strikes up a flirtation with a stranger over text message in the month leading up to Valentine's Day.

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    29 Dec 2015