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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 20:54:03 GMT
Personally, I think they alter the veil either way, strengthening or weakening it depending on how they're used.
Tevinter Nights showed it strengthening the veil, apparently.
In-game, you get coordinates of a veil rift after you activate enough of them. So activating the artifacts either gave Solas some kind of data that he could use to guess where a tear would occur, or activating them actually caused a tear in a specific place that could be predicted b/c you knew which artifacts you activated and where they were. I think it might be the latter. Upon learning his plan in Trespasser was to tear down the Veil, it made me think that perhaps the real purpose for activating those artefacts was to allow Solas to measure the Veil in different areas of Thedas to allow him to tear down the Veil in a more "safe" and "controlled" manner.
Like a controlled demolition of a building, Solas may be attempting to work out where the Veil is strongest, where the structural weaknesses are and work out how much power is required (and where it needs to be placed) to take down the whole thing in one go.
From what we saw from his lab in Vir Dirthara, he worked long and hard on the calculations needed to put up the Veil, so he probably wants to be as methodical in taking it down. As he said, he's not Corypheus, so I can't see Solas using sheer brute force to tear down the Veil as anything but a last resort.
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 20:03:09 GMT
There's some banter in Origins between Leliana and Wynne where she comments that Leliana is perhaps 30 years younger than her, only for Leliana to reply that she thinks she looks younger than she actually is.
If Leliana was around 26 in Origins and Wynne about 50, that fits with those dates rather nicely, with Wynne mistaking Leliana was in her late teens, rather than mid-twenties. As most people do enter the Chantry at a young age or in their teens (Nathaniel, Cullen and Alistair etc), it's not an unreasonable conclusion to draw, to think that she was only around 16 when she entered the Chantry, rather than 23.
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 19:20:07 GMT
As a compromise, I wouldn't mind it if our PC in DA4 were Nevarran.
It would give us an easy out as we'd be a character that hails from that part of Thedas, but isn't aligned to Tevinter or necessarily all that familiar with it's society or culture.
As long as they don't do the same thing they did with the Dalish at times in DAI, having a Nevarran unaware of basic details about Nevarran culture, it should be workable. Otherwise you could have them handwave their ignorance by having them say, be aware of the Mortalitasi and the basics of what they do, but only things that would be common knowledge?
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 19:06:37 GMT
And? The protagonist of Origins is a citizen of Ferelden and should be familiar with Ferelden society and customs, but that wasn't a problem. Technically, not all of the Wardens were from Ferelden, so some had reason not to be familiar with their society/customs.
The Human and Elf Mages spent most of their life in the Circle Tower (and the Human was revealed as Marcher-born in DA2), the Dwarf Commoner and Noble were from Orzammar, the Dalish Elf is a nomad whose clan only sometimes ventures into Ferelden and avoids human society.
(Also the Warden in Awakening can be Orlesian)
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 18:36:38 GMT
I think those other two prequels were just ideas floated around, not something that made it to production. Yeah, based on reports, there were 5 pitches, but only two were ever seriously considered.
House of the Dragon was Martin's favourite pitch, but it was initially passed in favour for the failed Bloodmoon pilot that seemingly nobody (except maybe execs that greenlit it) was excited about or thought would work. When the Bloodmoon pilot tanked (as everyone knew it would), they went ahead with the safer, Martin-approved pitch about the Dance of the Dragons that had an entire tie-in book to draw upon.
Bloodmoon... what can we be said about this pitch. Rumours are it would have been set during the Age of Heroes, featured the origins of the White Walkers, the pilot would have included a Stark and Casterly wedding and the show would have retconned the Children of the Forest to be cursed black people (no, seriously... what the hell were they even thinking?). The only good thing about this pilot was the cast, who hopefully might get reused for HotD or any other future projects.
Empire of Ash was another considered pitch, a Valyrian prequel set a century before the Doom around the time of Dany the Dreamer. Admittedly, this would have been cool to see, since Martin loves to write about Targaryens and this would have given us them as never seen before, a minor house struggling to survive, rather than the major power player we're used to.
The other two pitches were unclear.
It's likely that Robert's Rebellion was pitched, but passed on. Presumably this was because Game of Thrones had already revealed most of what happened, leaving us without any real twists and turns to expect. Also fans are still angry at how badly they bungled the ending of GOT, so it'd not be good to add more fuel to the fire by giving us the younger versions of characters they utterly ran into the ground before unceremoniously killing off (Jaime, Littlefinger, Stannis, Varys, etc).
Dunk and Egg was another one that was rumoured but never confirmed, although now seems to be in the works at HBO.
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 17:55:23 GMT
Could you show your work on that? Samson gets points for his DA2 appearance, yeah, but I think the interesting parts of him were gone by DAI. I don't neccesarily think it was gone, I just don't think it was really shown all that much. His premise, of being an ex-templar who was abandoned by the Chantry, seems interesting enough. He even showed a form of compassion to a tranquil. But somehow his cutscenes in DAI just fell flat. He just seemed like someone who wanted to watch the world burn, caring nothing of the men and people he was sacrificing along the way and even taking away thier humanity by administrating red lyrium. He blathers on about giving them purpose, but its hard to view that purpose as anything but standard evil diatribe when it seems to lead to nothing but red lyrium monstrosities. It's easy to dismiss and roll your eyes at. Samson in DA2 was a complicated man. He was an ex-Templar who is sympathetic to mages, but not willing to stick his neck out for them. An state-sponsored addict who's supplier cut him off and left him out to dry. He was crass and crude, but you got the sense he was not wholly without a conscience.
Samson in DAI was a mangy dog who wanted nothing more than to bite the people who once held his leash.
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 17:20:03 GMT
Captain Sir Tom Moore 1920-2021 ‘Let’s try not to get downhearted, we will get through this, whatever is thrown at us and together we can ensure that tomorrow will be a good day.’ A national hero, complete gentleman and an utter legend, he will be missed.
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 17:15:30 GMT
I'm liking it okay so far. The humor is kind of adorable and cringey and sweet, and for some reason Elizabeth Olsen just rocks as a pseudo-60's sitcom wife. Sometimes I'm a bit annoyed that they've basically shredded her characterization from Age of Ultron, I'm still wondering where the Sokovian accent and all that childhood trauma went, but she's so much fun to watch that I just turn a blind eye to it when she's on the screen. I'm operating under the assumption that like many people across the world who aren't native speakers, Wanda learned to speak English by watching a ton of old sitcoms as a kid. That's likely also the reason behind why she's trapped in TV-Land, because it's something she'd find familiar and makes her feel safe.
I agree that they should have at least handwaved her loss of accent post-Ultron by acknowledging Wanda has begun affecting an American accent to fit in, but occasionally lapses back into Sokovian when angered or stressed? They could even have had a scene of Wanda thanking Nat for helping her improve her English, showing the two of them had bonded offscreen as the only women and non-native English speakers in the Avengers (at that time).
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 16:59:05 GMT
So.....more questions created than answered in episode 4? One thing is clear, though; Wanda does not have “some measure” of control.
She IS in control. And aware. Now, I guess, the question becomes, was she tricked/manipulated into this state? Or just went mad with grief/PTSD and did it all herself? What's even better is rewatching the first episode, Wanda even says she has "everything under control" whilst on the phone.
It seems that the "glitches in the Matrix" only occur when Wanda feels like she's losing control, allowing the illusion to briefly be broken and reality to seep through. The hard questions at the dinner party, the other women shunning her at the meeting, the radio message, the "Beekeeper" SWORD agent, the SWORD drone, "Geraldine" mentioning her brother and Ultron, Vision's belief that something was wrong, etc...
Each "glitch" was then followed by either an rewind, NPC reset or something happening to reinforce the illusion (the boss choking at dinner, a sudden rapid pregnancy to distract her and Vision, etc). It seems that Wanda, either consciously or subconsciously, is using her power to protect herself from a reality she doesn't want to accept (one where Vision is dead).
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 16:26:57 GMT
Having finished S3, my previous comments on the writers constant backsliding when it comes to trying to de-Sue Michael, seem all the more fitting than before. Michael in no way deserved to be made Captain at the end of S3.
Even though the ship was taken under Tilly's watch, she acted far more like a Captain during her stint as First Officer than Michael ever has done.
Tilly kept cool and calm under a crisis, kept herself and the other hostages alive and made the hard decision to sacrifice Owo by sending her alone on the suicide mission when the rest of them couldn't make it (even if Owo ultimately survived).
Tilly made all the right decisions and it doesn't seem fair that her contributions to saving the day were overlooked because Burnham went all John McClane on Osyraa.
Furthermore, Burnham proved herself (once again) to be a complete hypocrite in that she wasn't going to let an emotionally compromised Stamet's risk everything to save his loved ones... but when it comes to her loved ones, when have we ever seen her not risk everything despite being emotionally compromised?
Stamets was right to call her out that the crew lost everything they knew coming to the future just for her... and this is how she repays that loyalty?
Burnham has long-since proven herself unworthy of being placed in any form of command, let alone the big chair. Once again, they seem to think she should be rewarded for her failures, rather than punished for them.
I do have a feeling that some of these problems were the result of the reshoots we know took place, which might be why the ending feels rather tacked on. I suppose that's what you get when your opening credits consist of a half-dozen castmembers and two-dozen producers.
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Post by Sifr on Feb 3, 2021 15:55:16 GMT
I am a direct descendant of the Earl of Sandwich; yes, the guy who invented that miraculous food-item. The Montagu?! Half of the time I don't even know what day it is. It takes me a while to remember what day it is, month, year, how old I am and even my name sometimes...
But for some reason, my brain has no problem with retaining any television/film/game role I've seen an actor in (no matter how obscure the actor or role), along with who they appeared in other things with... so yeah, a huge chunk of my brainpower is completely wasted on playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
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Post by Sifr on Jan 22, 2021 3:21:28 GMT
I like carrots. I eat raw peeled carrots every day, usually after weight lifting. A great food, fibre, filling, loaded with vitamins, easy to prepare and eat a variety of ways. I can't stand carrots, regardless of how much (or little) they're prepared.
Also they're orange... a colour that, for some inexplicable reason, often leaves me feeling strangely angry after seeing it?
So y'know, we've got some serious beef.
(Speaking of which, the only way I can eat carrots is to drown them in a stew so the meat overpowers the taste)
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Post by Sifr on Jan 22, 2021 3:10:21 GMT
Shepard and Hawke are way better RPG protagonists than V who at times is trying ultra hard to sound edgy and if he's not edgy he tends to overreact. Female V seems to be much better. I'd put them above Shepard or Hawke (though I consider these two among Bioware's weaker protagonists). Part of that might be down to Cherami Leigh being a great voice actress in general though.
She definitely made Female V feel more fun to play as, at least for me.
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Post by Sifr on Jan 22, 2021 3:02:40 GMT
Clearly the only solution is to patch in a new ending to Trespasser where Solas kills the Inquisitor. Why not have Solas simply incapacitate the Inquisitor by trapping their mind in the Fade, leaving their body in a coma and having our new protagonist attempt to get them out of it? Granted the writers have slightly overused this plot across multiple games, comics and novels, but it's definitely something Solas could (and would) do if he wanted.
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Post by Sifr on Jan 22, 2021 2:49:09 GMT
For example, I personally quite like sand...
#triggered
Everyone knows Endor > Tatooine.
Aren't you guys forgetting something though?
Some Like It Hoth.
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Post by Sifr on Jan 22, 2021 2:39:09 GMT
For what it's worth, if DAI had Hawke know Corypheus was still alive and doing his things since the beginning I would agree with you. But neither of those are what happen y the end of DA2, while both do at the end of DAI. Though with how much they bastardized Hawke in DAI, maybe it's a blessing that they weren't involved more like an adviser or agent. It is relatively early in the game enough to seem like a obvious missed opportunity though.
Corypheus' involvement was revealed at the very end of Act 1, with the first thing in Act 2 being Varric summoning Hawke upon reaching Skyhold. The game makes it very clear that Varric feels immense guilt for his part in Corypheus and the Red Lyrium being unleashed upon the world, so it'd have been easy to have Hawke express something similar, or at the very least, the desire to join the Inquisition to set things right.
Considering that Cole or Dorian only joined as companions immediately prior to this and we'd only just become Inquisitor, Hawke actually showed up right around the time the real plot finally got going, so why not have them stick around for the whole shebang? Especially weird considering that we've had 11th hour companions before in DA/ME like Ohgren, Loghain and Legion, who've showed up only a mission or two before the end of the game.
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Post by Sifr on Jan 22, 2021 2:01:55 GMT
I wouldn’t assume N7 = Shepard. I remember many thought that with the first Andromeda trailer, and it turned out to be Alec Ryder. N7 is just an icon of the series, like the blood dragon for Dragon Age. And if you want to look at the trailer from a lore perspective, you'd expect that the Reaper war would have cost the lives of some other N7s, who's bodies and armour might still be littering some forgotten alien battlefield.
Same for any dead members of the volunteer militia (from ME3 multiplayer) that Hackett let slide using "N7 Forces" as their unofficial designation (since it was good for morale). That would even explain why the logo appears to be on the wrong side, because it might be an replica like Conrad wore in in ME2.
(Or the trailer is employing artistic license and brand recognition... the obvious, but boring, answer)
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Post by Sifr on Jan 22, 2021 1:29:03 GMT
That would rob the new protagonist of their finale with him though. Especially for new players, since it would be like “Why is this random person dealing with him after all that?” It’s almost like going with a new protagonist halfway through a story is a terrible idea or something. Exactly, one of the best things about Inquisition was when they had Hawke take down Corypheus once and for all and end their confrontation that started in Legacy.
Imagine how unsatisfying it'd have been if after all the set up in DA2 about Cassandra wanting to find Hawke to help with the Inquisition, they'd have put someone else in charge and only brought Hawke back to die or be put on a bus?
Oh wait...
I mean, I don't disagree that we should have a completely new protagonist for DA4, but it'd be daft not to have the Inquisitor playing an important role in the story, even if it's primarily only as the man behind the curtain we're unknowingly working for (or against). If the Inquisitor does have to appear in the flesh, it would be important though to have them present for any confrontation with Solas, as that's far more their story than ours.
That's always been my main gripe with Inquisition. Not that I hated playing as a new protagonist instead of being Hawke again, but that after all that set up in DA2 to have Cassandra recruit them for something important (the Inquisition) and being responsible for setting Corypheus loose, they were completely sidelined in DAI and not even allowed to stick around to help defeat Corypheus permanently. After Adamant, having them stick around Skyhold to serve as an advisor (like Morrigan) or agent (like the Chargers or Sutherland's company) would have been enough to show they were doing important work behind the scenes.
(I know I'm biased as a fan of DA2, but I'd feel the same way about the Inquisitor being given the "I must go now, my planet needs me" treatment in DA4 as well)
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Post by Sifr on Jan 21, 2021 18:05:35 GMT
In what way were we the "Herald"? What were we announcing or a precursor to? Remember I am saying this with regard to how people saw us in world. We were given the title Herald specifically because it was thought we were fulfilling a religious prophesy about the return of Andraste. Even when it was categorically shown we did not receive the mark from Andraste or the Maker and she was not the woman behind us in the Fade, the people were still encouraged to call us the Herald but we did not merit that title. I repeat, what were we meant to be heralding? The establishment of Thedas' first baseball team?
It was a sad day for the sport when their star catcher suffered a career-ending injury, I tell ya.
(A friendly reminder that all made the Herald "special" was the ability to catch a stray ball)
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Post by Sifr on Jan 21, 2021 17:55:23 GMT
Proof Grogu didn't die when Luke's Jedi temple was razed, because Mando would not have let Kylo leave that planet alive.
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Post by Sifr on Jan 21, 2021 17:48:24 GMT
The demonisation of wolves might have also been linked to their association with Fen'Harel. We know that Fen'Harel became more reviled over time, as the word "Harel" these days denotes a traitor or dread, but in the past it simply denoted someone who rebelled. I do find it odd how human scholars managed to come up with a different meaning to the accepted Dalish one when even Flemeth calls Solas the "Dread Wolf". I think the term was also meant to denote a traitor or fell being at the time of the Evanuris as well. Why would simply calling him a rebel be considered an insult and term of derision by his enemies? Why would Solas have adopted the insult as a means of putting fear into his enemies if it merely meant "rebel". Clearly it was intended initially to indicate someone who was dangerous and should be avoided. The alternative meaning given to "Harel" was just the writers heavy handed way of introducing the idea that Fen'Harel may not be as bad as the Dalish portrayed him before all the revelations in Trespasser. After all, in Masked Empire, Felassan calls a "demon mage" an "era'harel". If we assume "era" is a mage then "harel" is a demon. No one could say Felassan got that wrong considering it was the corpse of a mage possessed by a demon, plus he was an ancient elf, so harel definitely means something fearful, not simply a rebel. Language does shift over time and Flemeth been a living witness to many centuries, so her using the modern transliteration of his name wouldn't be all that surprising. And you have to admit that calling him "Dread" in that situation was somewhat appropriate, since he had come there to effectively "kill" her, take her power for himself and intend to use it to tear down the Veil.
But you're right that Felassan's usage implies that "Harel" did have similar connotations during the time of the Evanuris. That would track with what we're told about how the Elven language operating more as a "game of intents" than literal translation and since even the Elves don't remember their language anymore, you could understand why Chantry scholars attempting to translate the Elven language into Common might have completely gotten the wrong end of the stick about why some words had vastly different meanings?
(I mean, just take the idiom used above, "the wrong end of the stick". Unless you understood the meaning and context that phrase was meant to convey, it would come across as complete gibberish, even to other native speakers of the language. That's pretty much the entire Elven language in a nutshell).
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Post by Sifr on Jan 18, 2021 19:19:03 GMT
Maybe? If so, I'm really interested in The One Who Defies Dragons. In their tongue, he is Dovahkiin... They really need to take better care of Sorting Hat To be fair, it's looking pretty good for something that's over a thousand years old.
It used to belong to Godric Gryffindor, iirc?
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Post by Sifr on Jan 18, 2021 18:53:39 GMT
I am still 99% certain Morrigan will receive Mythall. I think she will still be voiced by Claudia Black and maybe the way she speaks may occasionally change. (imagines Morrigan doing the Flemeth Cackle) I can't decide whether I find the idea of Claudia Black cackling to be hot or terrifying... maybe both?
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Post by Sifr on Jan 18, 2021 18:32:15 GMT
Vader saying “Obi-Wan has taught you well.” the moment Luke jumps up there, this has the high ground, makes that scene retroactively hilarious. I recently started watching the Clone Wars series and I loved seeing them play with stuff like this.
Such as in S1 when they had General Grievous drop down behind Obi-Wan and quip "Hello there".
Not only is it a funny call-forward for the audience to RotS, but it subverts our expectations because we'd assume that Obi-Wan would have had the same response to Grevious trying to get the jump on him, only for him not to say his iconic line.
But the funniest layer to the joke by far is the realisation that in-universe, Obi-Wan pulling the same stunt against Grevious in RotS means that when given the chance to end the war by taking down the enemy general in a stealth strike, Obi-Wan threw it away because he couldn't resist the opportunity to deliver a funny callback.
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Sifr
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
sifr
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire
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Post by Sifr on Jan 18, 2021 18:01:56 GMT
One issue I have with S3 is that even though they're seemingly trying to de-Sueify Micheal by pointing out her numerous shortcomings, massive messiah complex and having her suffer consequences for her constant insubordination, they kinda undermine it by still mostly writing her the same old way as before. For example; Even when she's punished by being demoted from being the First Officer, she still gets to have the last word in that conversation and forgives Saru for having (rightfully) relieved her of command due to her constant breaking of the rules.
When Tilly becomes the new first officer and the crew celebrates, Michael shows up at the last minute to make it seem like she's the one allowing her to take the job, undercutting that Tilly deserved the job because she proved she could be trusted to follow orders.
Even when she ignores orders, undermines the authority of others or goes rogue to carry out a task she was explicitly told not to do, the situation always ends up working out or proving her right to have done so. Michael is never allowed to be wrong, ever.
I like they're addressing the complaints about her character, but the writers don't seem to realise that acknowledgement doesn't really mean much if they then gloss over why those things are bad or have her continue to engage in the same old stunts as before. Michael Burnham is a character who engages in constant insubordination, even though the first time she ever did in the show it massively blew up in her face, got her captain killed and nearly sent her to prison for the rest of her life. She should be a character who understands that breaking the rules can have dire consequences and try to follow the rules as best she can, not break them simply because she can or because someone dared to say "NO!" to her.
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