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Post by Sifr on Dec 25, 2018 9:34:27 GMT
In an unexpected twist (especially if he's dead), Alistair will defeat the Darkspawn horde once and for all, by shimmying down their front lines wearing a pretty dress.
Duncan's skull will appear in the Black Emporium, still rocking that epic beard. Interacting with it will give the player his armour, as well as unlock his beard as an option in the character creator (even for female characters).
Finn's ugly hat can be found in the Fade, apparently having been tossed into a Rift at some point during Inquisition.
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
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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 Dec 25, 2018 9:20:05 GMT
It would be interesting to see another Petrice-like character in DA4. 🤔 A shady little instigator who uses the Chantry as a thin excuse to go after the Qunari. I love to hate Petrice, she's one of my favourite recurring villains in DA2.
I'd have had her always survive Act 2, only to switch her focus towards riling up the mages in Act 3, while plotting to usurp Elthina as Grand Cleric. This would again potentially bring her into conflict with Hawke, as well as put her at odds with Sebastian and (surprisingly) Meredith, who despite agreeing with her views on mages, nevertheless respected Elthina.
The grand result of her machinations is a pyrrhic victory, as she succeeds in helping to push tensions between Mages and Templars to breaking point, but also ensures her own death when Anders destroys the Chantry with her inside it.
There's a reason I keep pushing for a hardcore Tal-Vashoth to balance out all these Qunari! My pitch for a Tal-Vashoth character would be... imagine Isabela or Sera, but with horns and magic. Someone who may have been trained as a Ben-Hassrath agent, but ended up having to flee the Qun after she developed magic. Mechanically, she'd fight as a rogue, but she'd have some magical abilities available. Her unique specialisation could be described as Swashbuckler-meets-Tempest, letting her cast flaming/frozen/telekinetic weapons or buff her defenses by surrounding herself in elemental "armour". Or perhaps instead she'd have some type of "teleport" ability, that's a mix between Fade Step, Back to Back and Vendetta from DA2, with the focus ability being similar to Thousand Cuts or All Hands on Deck? Par Vollen I have my doubts about actually seeing by the next game, but Qunandar sounds incredible and I would love to visit it. "Beehive" architecture! Pyramids in the jungle! Qunari EVERYWHERE, so finally the humans feel small and out-of-place. (jk but really tho) As someone who adores archaeology and history, being able to explore the pyramids and discover more about the mysterious ancient civilisation that built them, would be something I'm totally down for.
Forget saving the world, lemme explore those ancient ruins and tombs already! Qunari are so rad. Well, raddest of the four races. I'm hoping at least the male qunari will look more like DA2/concept art qunari. I want to look like a monster. If I can't be a monster, let me at least look vaguely like one please please. That's part of what I most loved about being able to play as a Qunari in Inquisition, in how it subverts the original conception of Qunari as more of a bog-standard, fantasy, villain/barbarian race, by putting one of them in the position of being the big damn hero who saves the world.
(Okay, so Sten was technically one of the good guys in Origins, but he wasn't the hero of the story and recruiting him was entirely optional. Plus, he did kinda murder an entire farm of innocent people, including children. And his unwavering loyalty to the Qun put his alignment more at Lawful Neutral than straight up Good.)
Zevran does absolutely nothing, NOTHING for me. I don't think he is particularly attractive and I don't think his romance is particularly good. But I do enjoy getting to do some dwarf x elf homoeroticism. That's the only plus side none of the other games have. Non-human gay pairings are GREAT! It took until recently for me to finally finish my Zevmance and come to fully appreciate his character. But I do agree that I don't really see Zevran as a fit for any of my male Wardens, at least not my Dwarven guys. I kinda see my male Brosca as being more attracted to someone like Sten, Blackwall or Skywatcher (even though I'm pretty sure they're all incompatible orientation-wise for him anyway).
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
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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 Dec 24, 2018 19:29:08 GMT
I say good riddance to that arm and that magic hand. My Inquisitor will be telling people she got in a bar fight with an drunk dragon and lost. Mine lost hers after challenging another God to an arm wrestling contest.
Still, two out of three ain't bad, you should have seen what happened to the other guys.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 19:20:18 GMT
"Baby when you finally, get to love somebody, guess what, it's gonna be Mae..."Try to get this out of your head now... trust me, you can't.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 19:01:16 GMT
If the Arishok didn't have any Gaatlok and no way to make it (which would explain his irritation at people constantly asking for it), maybe the test was only to see how far the thieves would go to in trying to steal it? Either the guards would dissuade the thieves, the guards would kill the thieves and end the problem, or they'd successfully steal the "Gaatlok", but die or be driven mad if they tried to make it. It only failed because the Arishok didn't realise until far too late that the thieves may try to mass produce it. His warning was no so much to save the people of Kirkwall, as it was to save face and prevent expulsion from the city with their mission incomplete. By warning everyone, he made it clear that the use of stolen Saar-qamek was not the Qunari's doing and that he was trying to help avert disaster by warning the Viscount. And the Qunari could use the theft to score points politically, by using the incident as "proof" of the hostility they've received from the people of Kirkwall, despite the Qunari having done nothing (overtly) hostile in the the four years they've been in the city. By the way, does Gaatlok requires live Dragons to make? I thought maybe the Viddasala had been experimenting with amplifying Gaatlok's explosive properties by adding ingredients harvested from the Dragon?
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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 Dec 24, 2018 18:21:55 GMT
They got a lot of criticism for that. What bugs me is that despite there being a lot of Lyrium around the Temple of Sacred Ashes (according to Oghren), there's a way better explanation they could have used instead.
Why not say she was a Fade Spirit impersonating the real Leliana, much like the Guardian and other Spirits encountered in the Gauntlet, "Justinia" in the Fade, "Telana" in JoH or Cole? Perhaps the slain Guardian or Wynne's spirit (since she can perish there too) hopped into her body and was able to revive her?
Even saying she was the Guardian from Origins would have made marginally more sense, as you have to fight him if you desecrate the Ashes. Having the slain Guardian reform himself as Leliana, would have explained where he disappeared to and the circumstances of her unexplained resurrection.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 18:06:30 GMT
As people have said above, DW Warriors are perfectly viable and survival, even on Nightmare difficulty.
If you want to min-max, then you don't need to touch any stats beyond Strength and Dex.
Human Warriors start with 11 points in Cunning, so they don't need to touch that stat. If you go to the Circle first, you will be able to use the Fade font bonuses to boost it up to 16, allowing you to max out your Coercion skill.
(If by the time you get to the Circle you already have extra skill points available, but can't allocate them in Coercion yet, just keep them saved for a bit until you get those bonus points)
For anyone curious and wanting to play instead as a Dwarf or Elf Warrior, they start with 10 Cunning. So you only need to put 1 additional point into that stat, with the Fade bonuses again boosting you up to 16 Cunning for max Coercion.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 17:33:28 GMT
IT's interesting to me how the Qun is supposedly blind to race, yet the two assassins sent to die as just a message to Iron Bull were human, and so it this dead human in Qunari war outfit. I suppose a Qunari presenting as Tal Vashoth wouldn't likely have infiltrated the guard at Skyhold. But it still seems completely...cold that they would send two people to die as a message- a formality. The Qun has always seemed more attached to their people than all that. In DA2, the Arishok was willing to sacrifice the three Qunari sent to guard the "Gaatlok" formula, as this was enough to impart a false sense of worth for any would-be thieves. The Qunari are perfectly willing to sacrifice individual lives if it means serving a greater goal or can be used to send a message.
Either the assassins would outright kill Bull, he'd be left fatally poisoned and die shortly afterwards, or he'd survive their blades and poison, but spend the rest of his life as a Tal-Vashoth. All eventualities leave him dead at the hands of his people, or alive, knowing he's dead to his people... meaning that the Qunari "win", whatever way you look at it.
As for the Qunari assassins, they'd either escape alive, or else be killed during the attempt or escape. All eventualities lead to them accomplishing their mission and even those that result in their deaths were acceptable, because they'd have given their lives in service to the Qun. They were willing to make these kinds of sacrifices, as any real Qunari would, unlike Bull when he refused to sacrifice the Chargers.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 16:20:01 GMT
I just want it to be done right. Originally slavery was automatically replaced by semi-feudal relations during a natural process and effectively turning slave-object into a slave-subject. Tevinter has not followed that pattern. So it deserves a unique solutions of its own. Not something common and predictable. Another consideration is that, if we're looking for parallels in our own history, slavery for us (largely) ended around the same time as the Industrial Revolution.
In addition to the increasing moral objections people had towards slavery at that time, there were practical considerations to factor in, because why continue to house/feed and large workforce of slaves when you can run a machine for half the cost? The same was just as true of free workers, who often found themselves put out of work because machinisation had rendered them obsolete.
(How much the Industrial Revolution factored into the end of slavery is admittedly still a hotly debated topic, but for simplicity's sake, let's say that did leave an impact on society and change how workforces operated to some degree, due to the new technology available)
As most of Thedas is still pre-Industrial, with only the Dwarves and Qunari having any degree of machinisation, then Tevinter doesn't have that as an option available to them. To end slavery Tevinter would need to massively overhaul their infrastructure and society... and as you suggested, ex-slaves would likely end up being left as serfs in a similar type of feudal system the rest of Thedas operates under.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 15:38:39 GMT
How does Qunari sexuality work? I want to know. My best guess is that the sexuality under the Qun is not an issue, as long as it does not interfere with their breeding program. Qunari may be free to engage in whatever relationships they wish, with members of the same sex, but the Qun may demand that they partake in heterosexual intercourse on occasion, solely for the purposes of reproduction.
It may permissible to have recreational sex with members of another race, but it seems unlikely that interspecies reproduction is allowed. Bull suggests that the Tamassrans are trying to use eugenics to try to create the "perfect" Qunari, but it seems to be more about improving each race individually, rather than trying to create hybrids. Their reason for not creating hybrid species may be linked to their potential origin as one, if comments made by Bull, OG!Kieran and Corypheus' are to be believed, that their "blood is not their own"?
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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 Dec 24, 2018 15:03:04 GMT
We can snort red lyrium dust from our lovers belly button in one romance scene. Meredith statue confirmed as LI!
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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 Dec 24, 2018 2:27:00 GMT
Hmm...Leliana has a mental disorder. Merrill would support genocide. Just waiting for Josephine’s turn to complete trifecta for this current besmirching round. Well, I did clarify that there'd be nothing wrong with Leliana having some type of personality disorder, only that it might potentially explain some things about the way her characterisation and some of her relationships has been depicted across the series?
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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 Dec 24, 2018 2:18:51 GMT
I'd certainly like to know more about the qun so I can undermine it more efficiently. I may have read that far dirtier than it was intended.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 2:15:35 GMT
The Veil is revealed to be the only thing keeping Sandal from evolving into his final form... Boots.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 2:08:08 GMT
Ok, question time! What mundane ability and/or skill would you really love to have? As several other people have said, being able to draw would be nice. I can sleep almost anywhere in almost any position, though, I'm pretty sure it's the result of how I'm wired as well as necessity. It is helpful for times like now where I don't have a proper bed to sleep on (I sleep on a memory foam mat on the floor in my room while everyone else either sleeps in a bed or on a couch). It sucks, yeah, but I can't do anything about it atm. Honestly, I'm just glad I finally have my own room again. I can pretty much crash anywhere. It doesn't matter how uncomfortable it is, I'll sleep anywhere if I'm knackered enough. It’s like in Mass Effect 2 when Tali starts coming onto you. Are you serious? You’re an alien, you wear a suit all day so you probably smell, how many fingers have you got again? That's why Shepard's quarters have a shower, duh!
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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 Dec 24, 2018 1:53:59 GMT
In a secret ending, Solas can be convinced to give up his plans and will instead open a theme park named "Fun'Harel".
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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 Dec 24, 2018 1:37:41 GMT
I think you may be on to something - not sure if it's a degree of DPD specifically, but Leliana has always been fairly open about having issues with own identity, or how to reconcile different facets of her personality that pull her in different directions (or how to deal with blows to her faith). The path to gaining a firm stance on who she is seems to open only when we help her gain a sense of balance and her figuring that she may be many things so long as she isn't compromising her principles. Yeah, I may have been reading more into things than the writers intended and that her evolving characterisation in each installment could have been more about showing the complexity and layers to her character, rather than hinting at anything clinical we could armchair shrink her as having? Still, it's something to be said that Leliana's character is written as being three dimensional enough that there can be multiple interpretations of her across the fandom.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 1:12:07 GMT
Or maybe only rogues have charisma, but it’s transferable. Your non-rogue PC can say the charisma-gated line, but only because the party rogue is standing behind you and nodding in agreement. Like the videogame equivalent of rolling to assist a diplomacy check without really specifying how you’re “assisting”. Yeah, sorta similar to how having Varric in the party in DA2 meant you could occasionally bluff your way out of fights.
Or having a mage in the party allows for rogue player-character to pretend to be a mage as well, in an attempt to scare off enemies or bluff their way passed some magical enemies. For bonus points, they could even flip the joke about "Dalish" from the Bull's Chargers on it's head, by having us say "I'm telling you, it's not a bow, it's a curved staff!".
My Daenerys character would very much like a dragon romance. Taarsidath-an halsaam!
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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 Dec 24, 2018 0:40:39 GMT
And I should be sympathetic to Chantry folk for what reason? They're entrenched in their benefits, of course they don't want to be shook up. It doesn't help that the epi slides imply ineffectiveness and that she vocally dislikes the job. To be clear, I think Leliana is a psychopath. I hate her (where I only feel dislike for Cass) but at least she does something. I wasn't suggesting that you should be sympathetic to the Chantry, the very start of Inquisition proves how some clerics will refuse to act and instead sit around twiddling their thumbs up their butt, even when the sky is literally falling down around them. They need to change and someone to put a boot up their backsides, which is why I think Leliana is a better pick than Cassandra for Divine. Not is Leliana more willing to push for reformation, she's better at playing the Game and she seems to enjoy the task far more than Cassandra does (who only seems to accept out of a sense of duty).
I don't think that Leliana is a psychopath, but as I've said before elsewhere, I think she fits more criteria for having some degree of dependent personality disorder.
Over the course of the games we've repeatedly seen her mold her personality, goals and morals to suit whatever authority figure she has currently attached herself to (Lady Cecile, Marjolaine, Justinia, the Warden and Inquisitor).
Her need to seek validation and approval from others may be why she tends to throw herself so completely into whatever role is currently required of her, whether it be Bard, Sister, Companion, Agent or Spymaster? The death of her mother when she was very young, may be subconsciously leading her to try to fill that gap in her life with other people, as well as explain why she's so drawn to strong women to serve as role models for her, such as Marjolaine and Justinia?
(To be clear, I'm not saying that Leliana potentially having DPD is in any way a bad thing, only that this would explain much about why her characterisation and career path seem to vary so much?)
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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 Dec 24, 2018 0:10:58 GMT
It’s especially nice with rum or whiskey in it. Are you sure that's not part of the reason people think they like it?
You put enough rum or whiskey in a drink and anything will taste good.
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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 Dec 24, 2018 0:00:36 GMT
Her changes aren't gradual, they are non existent and ambiguous. I gave video and a transcript of what she literally said. That's because while Cassandra understands that the Chantry needs to change, she hasn't figured out exactly what those changes are, let alone how she plans to implement them and get everyone to play ball when she does. She says the same exact thing when discussing about how to reform the Seekers, that she understands that they need to change, but she doesn't have a concrete plan for how to change them yet.
So Cassandra does intend to make changes, but she knows that any reformation will take time, if she hopes to accomplish them with a peaceful transition. Unlike Leliana, who's radical, sudden reformations that upend centuries of dogma and values can lead to some of the Chantry to turn against her, because she's moving things too quickly and rocking the boat too much.
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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 Dec 23, 2018 23:29:42 GMT
The issue of abominations was largely dropped in DAI which was rather disappointing... I always thought it was because the Breach made hopping a ride inside people unnecessary for spirits to enter Thedas, but I don't know if the game ever states this specifically.
I was kind of hoping that something like this would be commented on in Inquisition somewhere, that a consequence of closing the Breach and rifts would mean placing mages back in the firing line once more. Or seeing similar situations like Karl's, where the Rifts causing the Fade to spill over into the real world might restore Tranquil to their former selves, leaving us with the moral dilemma of what the "right" thing to do would be.
The song used in this video is very fitting for Anders. Every lyric and every word is perfect. I've always thought this song was very fitting for Anders/Hawke.
(As Hawke's perspective on the Anders/Justice dichotomy and how that duality can negatively impact their relationship at times)
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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 Dec 21, 2018 14:07:47 GMT
And how do you know you've eliminated all other possible causes? Because if you and a team of mechanics have stripped down the car to it's constituent parts to determine there's no mechanical faults at work, then the only available explanation left to you is that you needed to put fuel in the tank for it to work.
You can even work out from these experiments if you've been using the wrong type of fuel, as you may have accidentally borked your engine by trying to run a diesel engine off of regular old petrol, thereby accounting for the mechanical failure you've been experiencing.
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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 Dec 21, 2018 13:47:07 GMT
Then you run other tests to determine whether or not there is anything wrong with the car.
If there isn't anything wrong with the car and you've already determined there's no gas in it, then that's likely the reason why it's not starting. If repeated tests determine each time that the car will not start without the presence of gas in the tank, then the only conclusion one can draw from the evidence is that gas is required for the car to work.
The point is there are or could be other explanations. Which can be whittled down and removed via the process of elimination, as you conduct various tests and experiments to determine whether anything else might be causing the results that seem to be in front of you.
If at the end of the day, you've tried everything and the car still won't start without putting gas in the tank, then no amount of belief or assertion "it could be something else" will make that car start. Buy some gas and stop holding everyone up at the pump!
(Seriously, there's a line behind you backed up so far that it's gone over the horizon)
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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 Dec 21, 2018 13:32:31 GMT
If car is out of gas, car won't start, if car won't start, no gas in the car. .... But what if something else is wrong with the car? Then you run other tests to determine whether or not there is anything wrong with the car.
If there isn't anything wrong with the car and you've already determined there's no gas in it, then that's likely the reason why it's not starting. If repeated tests determine each time that the car will not start without the presence of gas in the tank, then the only conclusion one can draw from the evidence is that gas is required for the car to work.
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