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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 13:13:40 GMT
No tolerance of intolerance! We need more PC police and safe spaces Wait, but wouldn't having actual PC police mean... They Took Our Jobs?!
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Champion of Kirkwall
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August 2016
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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 13:03:50 GMT
Huh... did anyone else just wonder if a Reaperfied Vorcha would look like Venom?
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Champion of Kirkwall
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
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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 12:55:05 GMT
We could entertain this fallacious evidence of yours, but that would be a waste of time. Spotting fallacies helps save time arguing. Nip it in the bud, so they say. Which is an amusing choice of words, given your failure to spot the curve at all.
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Champion of Kirkwall
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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 Dec 21, 2018 12:51:13 GMT
Turns out that Solas is really the good guy who is trying to stop his twin brother Sofas from destroying this world. With his amazing furniture deals, the fiend!
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Champion of Kirkwall
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
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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 12:47:01 GMT
It's very simple, the world is obviously and observably flat. So until there is any logical argument to the contrary, there is no logical reason to assume otherwise. So... we're going to just ignore that Lunar eclipses demonstrate that the shadow of the Earth has a curvature to it, as well as other planets (like Mars) can be observed via telescope to be rotating spheres, which would lead one to question why Earth alone is the sole pancake surrounded by bowling balls in our solar system?
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Champion of Kirkwall
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
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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 12:41:36 GMT
While we're at it..... I love headgear but pls god no more of the weird bald cap thing that happens when you don a nice hat: As someone who cannot wear hats in real life (because they don't suit me at all), if I can only enjoy hats vicariously through videogames, Bioware could at least give us some decent options to wear! And yet somehow, the headwear (and hair for that matter) seem to get progressively weirder with each new installment?!
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Champion of Kirkwall
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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 Dec 21, 2018 12:24:36 GMT
Models are pseudoscience and an reification fallacy, why I don't subscribe to any model. Wait... so why exactly are you convinced that the Earth is flat, rather than a globe?
Wouldn't it fail to matter at that point, if you completely reject both side's models as mere pseudoscience? Why flat and not a triangle?
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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 Dec 21, 2018 12:18:16 GMT
I love Iron Bull, I would totally bang Iron Bull... but I don't know if I could romance Iron Bull.
Mostly because it irks me how he so confidently asserts that we want to play the submissive role, then refuses to hear of it when we suggest switching roles now and again. It feels kinda like he's forcing us into play the sub because being the dom is his kink and he refuses to share it with anyone else.
No offense, Bull, but if your only response to us asking if we can play a role, other than the one you want us to, ends up being a firm no, that's hardly giving us "what we need".
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Champion of Kirkwall
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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 Dec 21, 2018 11:52:17 GMT
Too many assumptions in that claim. Like the assumption that Venus is same size as Earth and assumption of Earth radius, both of which are required for distance to sun calculations. That's why we continuously have to retest our assumptions/hypothesises over and over again, to better determine whether they hold up to further scrutiny and ensure that we will always get the most accurate results we can. We didn't measure the distances of planets and the sun once and declare that was the number we found was the definitive answer, we continuously run these experiments to make certain that we're not mistaken, as well as come up with better tests that allow us to gather more accurate results.
Should a later testing method prove that our original assumption/hypothesis was incorrect, then we abandon it and develop a new hypothesis that better matches the results, which we test until that too may potentially be disproven down the line.
The problem with the Flat Earth model is that if you actually try to test it out, the data you gather will often fail to match the results one would expect from the proposed Flat-Earth, geocentric model that is often being advocated. Even if some experiments do seem to support the FE model, other experiments will outright contract the FE model/theory entirely. But rather than amend the theory and model to better reflect the data gathered, Flat-Earthers refuse to accept any results that contradict what they want to be the results. For example, the geocentric model cannot account for how Jupiter has observable moons clearly orbiting the planet, which would contract the notion that all objects in the universe revolve entirely around the Earth. Those claiming that the Earth does not rotate either, cannot however account for the rotation of Mars. Both of these have been readily observable for centuries, by countless amateur astronomers using telescopes with magnification far less than we have today.
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Champion of Kirkwall
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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 Dec 21, 2018 11:13:07 GMT
Proposal: BioWare could bring back the Charisma stat, and give Rogues an entire skill tree dedicated to seducing enemies. I wouldn't mind seeing skill points and speech checks brought back.
But rather than continuing to penalise Warriors/Mages by not allowing them to access the cunning dialogue available to Rogues, instead by taking the speech skill, players will automatically get a bonus to their cunning stat, in addition to unlocking more dialogue options.
Keeping Rogues as the sole class that is capable of disarming traps (which should be brought back), unlocking chests/doors (aside from warriors who can break them down) is fine, but I'd rather all classes have the same amount of dialogue options available to them, rather than feel forced as a player to pick a rogue if I want to get the most out of the game.
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Champion of Kirkwall
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
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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 10:54:25 GMT
So you're asserting that the axial tilt bringing us 1/4 of Earth's diameter further away from sun is enough to negate the sun being 391 Earth diameters closer to Earth? Sounds like an extraordinary claim to me that would require extraordinary evidence, like maybe evidence that proves distance to sun. By observing the motion of planets, we can determine what their parallax is, allowing us to calculate their distance from Earth. Combining this principle with observations made during transits of Venus across the Sun, we can then accurately determine the solar parallax, thereby giving us the distance between Earth and the Sun.
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
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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 10:24:44 GMT
If you complain about too many LGBT characters, Patrick Weekes comes to your house and slaps you. Under his superhero alias, "Slaptrick Weekes". Morrigan comes clean about the Dark Ritual. She needed you to sleep with her that night because she was already pregnant by another man but he'd already ghosted her and she needed a daddy figure for her future kid. Plot twist, Kieran is actually Sten's baby. Davidus Gaiderion, the Keeper of Lore? Much like his former BSN avatar, he will appear as a bearded Elven mage and lampshade how lorebreaking that is.
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Champion of Kirkwall
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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 Dec 21, 2018 10:11:35 GMT
So the Earth gets colder as the as the sun approaches 391 Earth Diameters closer and the winter anelemma gets wider the closer the sun gets? Seems a little backwards to me, but let the audience decide for themselves. Also sun gets closer by 3.3% and that's enough to more then double anelemma size? You're forgetting that this only applies to the Northern hemisphere.
Even though the Earth is closer to the sun in January, the axial tilt means those living in the Northern Hemisphere experience shorter days, due to less sunlight falling on the Earth and thus temperatures end up getting much colder. Whereas those living in the southern hemisphere experience longer days, receive far more sunlight, which leads to temperatures getting warmer.
That's why Australia is currently experiencing Summer, not Winter.
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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 0:34:28 GMT
Don’t act like you ain’t got one either Venom I know you’re a premium subscriber. ‘BigTittyBatarian’ does that username ring a bell? Really, you didn't go with the more obvious "Buttarian" or "Butturian"? Or were those usernames already taken?
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Champion of Kirkwall
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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 0:15:07 GMT
But science isn't just logic. Science uses logic, but there needs to be a non-logical component to create the hypotheses, which can then be tested. This testing, and the interpretation of results, occurs in a logical framework, but the hypothesis itself cannot be reached logically because we don't know that it's true. That's why we're testing it. Exactly this!
Observation can tell that the sun will always rise every day to the east and set every day to the west.
However, further observation will reveal that the length of those days becomes increasingly shorter over the course of half a year, before increasing again over another half year. These observations allowed us to logically deduce roughly when the longest and shortest days would occur, which then allowed us to test whether or not our predicted dates matched during the next solstice.
Further testing eventually revealed that the solstices do not always fall on the same day every year, but will always occur within the same span of 2-3 days. Meaning that even though our initial predictive models may have been slightly wrong, the basic principle behind it was relatively sound and we only needed to refine the model to gain more accurate results for next time.
Science is basically one long sequence of trial and error to figure out how not to be wrong the next time.
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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 20, 2018 23:19:00 GMT
Anyone remember the concept art for a medieval suit of N7 Armour? That!
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Champion of Kirkwall
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
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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 20, 2018 23:09:33 GMT
Maybe some of the people allied with Corypheus didn't actually know he was a Darkspawn until he outed himself at Haven, believing until then that the "Elder One" they'd hitch their wagon to was merely an ambitious Tevinter magister making a power-play? By the time they learned what he really was, it was far too late for them to back out, so they had no choice but to stay the course.
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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 20, 2018 23:02:24 GMT
Yo Flat-Earthers, if gravity doesn't exist, how come your momma weighs so damn much. You guys love to start with the outcome, not very logical. Isn't that a common approach when you're investigating anything?
When a detective investigates a murder, they already know the outcome, but they need to work backwards to figure out how and why?
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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 20, 2018 22:24:57 GMT
Considering the guy has been doing nothing but playing League of Legends and other video games, I think he has been cheating on with one of the League of Legends girls.lol Guys is going to get a body pillow of one of them and marry it.
I love video games as much as the next guy, but that's a pretty naff reason to break up with someone.
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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 20, 2018 22:17:41 GMT
"Lady Florianne! There's a sentient, walking pile of cancer outside!" To be fair, "a sentient, walking pile of cancer" could accurately describe just about anyone in Orlais? We don't know actually at what point he shed his disguise and revealed his true form. Bianca tells us she was fooled because she thought she was dealing with a normal Grey Warden, as he was still occupying the form he used to escape Hawke. So it is entirely possible that other people were recruited initially before he transformed himself into his real appearance. For all we know, Florianne may not even have been aware he had changed. If Corypheus shared the same ability as the Architect to accelerate/reverse the spread of the corruption (which seems possible, given that he promised Aleixus that he could "cure" Felix), then maybe he was able to briefly reverse the corruption in Larius (if he was possessing him), so he'd appear normal in that form?
Perhaps their corruption is far too strong to completely undo (unlike with Fiona), so that's the reason neither the Architect or Corypheus can make themselves appear fully human. They may be able to briefly undo the damage, but their darkspawn nature will always reasserts itself after a while?
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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 20, 2018 20:44:02 GMT
Sifr That was always my explanation. Glaives and staves and spears are a thing, apostates just pretend they have one of those. Or a walking stick. And it'd explain why (aside from being evil gits) that those Hinterlands Templars killed that farmer in DAI, because they've become uber-paranoid that anyone carrying anything even remotely stave-ish could be a mage, because so many were waking around in plain sight previously. The one time we see Templar showing any kind of diligence and they accidentally killed the wrong man!
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August 2016
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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 20, 2018 20:36:16 GMT
I never saw the kink thread. I feel like I missed out. Oh and in the battle of the Northeners, I win all reet pet? With all these Northerners, as a Southerner, should I be worried? Wait... Ms Grey is a Geordie? Why aye man.
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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 20, 2018 20:22:28 GMT
Speaking of zombies... if we ever end up in Neverra, maybe we'd have to deal with a horde of undead from the Necropolis escaping en-masse? Bonus points if they can get the legendary Ken Foree to voice one of the high priests in the Necropolis.
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Champion of Kirkwall
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
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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 20, 2018 20:14:32 GMT
If the Inquisitor returns with a prosthetic arm, they need to have this as an inbuilt weapon. Dagna, get to work! It confirmed Isabela as a love interest, but I don't think it makes her "the" love interest. And I feel like Hawke was the most melee mage-ish of all? Besides Arcane Warrior and KE, which are like... ancient-elf-based specializations, mage Hawke still whacks people with their staff and slices them with their staff blade when they get close.Maybe the canon explanation for how mage Hawke and the other party mages were able to remain undetected, as well as fight in situations where Templars were present, was that they pretended to be a melee fighters using quarterstaff/glaives? Perhaps when Templars were around, they had to fight conventionally without using magic, so as to not tip them off?
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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 Dec 20, 2018 19:44:24 GMT
My Hawke showed no such thing. They agreed with Merrill that like with all magic it isn’t what it is that makes it good or evil but how it is used. Hawke disliking blood magic shows up several times in automatic dialogue, such as the investigative options from Enemies Among Us.
Hawke: What foul magic was that? Idunna: Blood and desire in equal measure, an art I learned from... elsewhere. Hawke: *Seething* Blood magic then. Idunna: Yes mesere. Please don't kill me. Hawke: You're going to answer all of my questions and if there's even a hint of magic.
Even if you played Hawke as a blood mage, there are still tons of dialogue options littered across the game that allow Hawke to make fun of blood mages, show disdain for blood magic in general and treat anyone who makes deals with demons as being dangerously irresponsible, if not downright insane. All those options seems to suggest that Hawke's character was often written as being someone who opposes blood magic, which fits the contempt they show for it in Inquisition.
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