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Post by fadburger on May 17, 2017 18:05:36 GMT
I have no problem playing a male but I mostly stick to playing a woman if I'm given the option because so many games don't let you have that choice. I find that I end up creating a male character in Bioware games when there is someone I really want to romance and they're gated, or ESO online so I don't get any more creepy messages like I used to lol. Same. First playthrough of any game that allows me gender choice is always female, unless I have some good reason not to. In TOR, I played a male Sith Inquisitor first because his snarky drawl was the best thing ever. Then, if the game is good enough for a second playthrough, I usually switch it up. Male character, different romance, different RP style and choices, etc.I mean that's always my plan...but then I always end up just reliving all my favorite things, unless I did some mistake the first playthrough or missed something (or in the case of MEA and DA2 choosing all the sarcastic/casual choices the second time around)...In MEA I couldn't even bring myself to use a different face preset ffs
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Post by Sable Rhapsody on May 17, 2017 18:06:29 GMT
Same. First playthrough of any game that allows me gender choice is always female, unless I have some good reason not to. In TOR, I played a male Sith Inquisitor first because his snarky drawl was the best thing ever. Then, if the game is good enough for a second playthrough, I usually switch it up. Male character, different romance, different RP style and choices, etc.oh you bring up a good point for me. I usually play a male character on a second go round and one thing that is easier for me to do with a male character is actual roleplay. I find I can make different choices, have a different personality and even be an evil asshole at times. However when I am playing a female character I have a harder time trying not to insert myself.....if that makes sense. Oh, that's interesting. I think I'm the opposite Whenever I "play evil," it's almost always with a female PC. IMO it's nice to kind of balance the scales a bit, since there are so few good female villains in video games. So if the game won't provide one as an NPC, I'll play one as the PC, at least as far as the game allows. The reverse is true for male PCs. There are plenty of male PC antiheroes, gruff snarkers, bad boys, etc. out there as canon PCs, so mine tend to be perfect gentlemen Especially Adam Jensen. Kind, compassionate, pacifist Jensen is probably one of my favorite PCs in anything. Ever
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Post by PenDev0us on May 17, 2017 18:10:21 GMT
I literally will never choose a male protag if I can play a woman instead. I have to show my support for more female protagonists somehow. Maybe one day gaming companies will actually get the idea that making more women PCs is a thing they should do- and maybe they can actually incorporate romances into games with women PCs too. One day. One day. Gotta admit, I can't wait to play Horizon. Not just the fact that mechs vs tribal really really hits my market something fierce, but the chance to play a canon female protag has me giddy! also her hair is to die for
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Post by Gwyvian on May 17, 2017 18:10:55 GMT
Squee! Squee! He's so insufferable! You want to choke him lol. But I have a feeling eventually he will reach out to her. And scary bot time - sheesh. I'm intrigued by the ending of this chapter - what will happen!! Isn't he just! I have such plans for those too, and the bots... That's great! I only do some readings for myself occasionally, and still can't do it without reference. Also, for some reason my deck tends towards brutally honest and, dare I say, snarky? "What am I doing wrong with my life?" - Two of Swords, Moon, Chariot - "Stop whining and start working, that's what" Yeah, usually I notice there's a cut-off point after which the tarot just stops making sense and I can just imagine it giving me a flat stare and/or if I ask frivolous or way too general questions. There's an art to interpreting, but I definitely agree that a lot of decks have a personality that way. As to reference, personally I like reading them before drawing my own conclusions, each tarot has its own take on questions and I find it usually adds a great deal, even if I know the face-value interpretation of a given card. Most of what I do best in that sense is not that I know it by heart, but by how I draw the connections between the cards and get the overall picture. I also prefer using predefined layouts because it saves me the trouble of creating a whole context that addresses all the potential aspects, though I have been known to draw up completely unique ones that are tailored to a situation. It depends, each reading is different. Awww, thank you. I do, in fact! I've been doing tarot and other oracles since I was little and I had the advantage of a lot of being exposed to scholarly knowledge related to them - I mentioned my stepdad, he wrote what you could call a 'complete guide' to the I Ching in all its modern interpretations (the entire manuscript is online on his website here, but as I said we're just working on publishing it so people can have hardcopies if they want), it's a huge work and it's awesome to use. Plus my dad is a professional astrologer (he does Vedic/sidereal) so this oracle thing has always been a big part of my life as a result. I'm glad you liked it! I'm still sort of testing the waters with Akksul, as well as my new Ryder, but that's exactly what I was aiming for, so that's awesome! I'm going to enjoy the defrost process, though, I am so loving the chemistry I can work with between them. Here I was always trying to wack my brain into remembering all the information and it's all second nature to you since you grew up with it. You and your dad are awesome. I remember when I was growing up my mom was afraid of Tarot decks for some reason but I eventually brought her around though, enough that she even had a friend give her a reading recently. Well once it's published I'll give it a buy, this stuff always fascinated me. I'm curious what your sun sign is now. Well, my brain is kind of a chaotic mess of information that doesn't always connect, hahaha. I'm good with tarot since it relies heavily on intuition, but I'm nowhere near as proficient with astrology as my dad is, but then, he's been a student of it for decades and he's read a lot/seen a lot, he studied with masters and wrote a book, compared to that I'm just making these basic connections that sort of make sense, hahaha. I mean, I could take a look at your chart and probably draw some good conclusions, but I would protest the whole way through that my dad would probably see straight to the heart of the matter and analyze you inside-out in a way I can only dream of. I'm learning, though. We're actually working on an oracle together that's related to this, but still very much a WIP. (It will be amazing, though, I'm pretty sure.) As to my sign: my sun sign is Taurus and my ascendant is Cancer, I'm kind of a mix of both; looking deeper into charts there's a great deal of added layers which can sometimes totally put a spin on those interpretations, though I happen to fit some of my sign's more general stereotypes, hahaha.
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Post by beholderess on May 17, 2017 18:11:48 GMT
Totally know how you feel. I felt sort of obligated to try playing canonical male Revan back in KOTOR, but other than snarking at Bastila, I wasn't much a fan. I didn't try a male PC after that until DA2, almost seven years later. Really enjoyed it in that game, because snarky ManHawke is just...so amazing ManHawke does seem awesome, although I wonder if that's because Hawke probably has the most developed character out of the Bioware protags? Especially snarky Hawke. Maybe my lack of ability to role play the PC rather than self-insert while playing is why it's so hard for me to play as the male option... I might be a minority here, but I really don't like Hawke as a character. Shepard? I loved for sheer badassery. Ryder? Snark and youth all the way. But Hawke and Inquisitor? I regret that they were ever voiced, but at least with Inquisitor I could make my character, and with Hawke I am stuck with someone I do not like, whose jokes fall flat to me and who fails at everything.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 18:12:16 GMT
I literally will never choose a male protag if I can play a woman instead. I have to show my support for more female protagonists somehow. Maybe one day gaming companies will actually get the idea that making more women PCs is a thing they should do- and maybe they can actually incorporate romances into games with women PCs too. One day. One day. Thank goodness for games like Horizon showing how successful games can be when they have a female protagonist. I really didn't appreciate Bioware's treatment of Sara before launch tbh. Lady protagonists rock and a lot of guys think so too. I agree. I only do it if I really want to romance an LI unavailable to me. Usually my favorites... Like Cassandra and Morrigan. I don't really enjoy it while I am playing but for game lore it is kind of nice to have heros of different genders and orientations.
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Post by Sable Rhapsody on May 17, 2017 18:14:30 GMT
ManHawke does seem awesome, although I wonder if that's because Hawke probably has the most developed character out of the Bioware protags? Especially snarky Hawke. Maybe my lack of ability to role play the PC rather than self-insert while playing is why it's so hard for me to play as the male option... I might be a minority here, but I really don't like Hawke as a character. Shepard? I loved for sheer badassery. Ryder? Snark and youth all the way. But Hawke and Inquisitor? I regret that they were ever voiced, but at least with Inquisitor I could make my character, and with Hawke I am stuck with someone I do not like, whose jokes fall flat to me and who fails at everything. Hawke is IMO sort of like mustard. People either like mustard or hate mustard. Same with Hawke
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Post by PenDev0us on May 17, 2017 18:15:18 GMT
I would also like to see the sibling have a personality that would clash with at least a few other squaddies, a golden-boy would annoy me, (and only make me leave him in the Tempest) This is, like, reason #1 why Carver Hawke was the best little bro ever. Because he was also the WORST little bro ever, and I loved every minute of it. He wouldn't be Carver without the giant chip on his shoulder, and at least on the Grey Warden route, watching him grow out of Hawke's shadow and into a badass Grey Warden was so, so heartwarming Yeah, I always send him down the Grey Wardens route, despite his crappy (yet endearing attitude) I've always felt like he deserves a break. Coming from a mage father, and being the only non mage born must have sucked, at least he can cast his own shadow now and not sit inside someone elses! Also despite his clashes with Hawkes friends, at least he dislikes Gamlen! Sucks that he'd eventually get the calling though :sob:
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Post by kestrel on May 17, 2017 18:17:02 GMT
I literally will never choose a male protag if I can play a woman instead. I have to show my support for more female protagonists somehow. Maybe one day gaming companies will actually get the idea that making more women PCs is a thing they should do- and maybe they can actually incorporate romances into games with women PCs too. One day. One day. Thank goodness for games like Horizon showing how successful games can be when they have a female protagonist. I really didn't appreciate Bioware's treatment of Sara before launch tbh. Lady protagonists rock and a lot of guys think so too. I agree. I only do it if I really want to romance an LI unavailable to me. Usually my favorites... Like Cassandra and Morrigan. I don't really enjoy it while I am playing but for game lore it is kind of nice to have different heros of different genders and orientations. Kind of disappointing to see that even games like Horizon with a female protag won't include romance in them though, even when characters blatantly hit on yours, while games with a male protag can have them romancing women left and right. :/
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Post by zambixi on May 17, 2017 18:26:03 GMT
Back from my roadtrip with my potential future in-laws. I missed everyone~ There are so many pages ya'll I can't read them all.
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Post by kestrel on May 17, 2017 18:29:05 GMT
Back from my roadtrip with my potential future in-laws. I missed everyone~ There are so many pages ya'll I can't read them all. We lit everything on fire befitting of Valhalla. You missed a great party. Nah, just the usual. You missed a lot of fic, some arguments and reconciliations... Pretty much standard BSN.
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Post by beholderess on May 17, 2017 18:29:25 GMT
And now I've stumbled on something worse than Sara/Scott fics Alec/Scott fic Pass the brain bleach, please
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Post by Onecrazymonkey1 on May 17, 2017 18:29:47 GMT
oh you bring up a good point for me. I usually play a male character on a second go round and one thing that is easier for me to do with a male character is actual roleplay. I find I can make different choices, have a different personality and even be an evil asshole at times. However when I am playing a female character I have a harder time trying not to insert myself.....if that makes sense. Oh, that's interesting. I think I'm the opposite Whenever I "play evil," it's almost always with a female PC. IMO it's nice to kind of balance the scales a bit, since there are so few good female villains in video games. So if the game won't provide one as an NPC, I'll play one as the PC, at least as far as the game allows. The reverse is true for male PCs. There are plenty of male PC antiheroes, gruff snarkers, bad boys, etc. out there as canon PCs, so mine tend to be perfect gentlemen Especially Adam Jensen. Kind, compassionate, pacifist Jensen is probably one of my favorite PCs in anything. Ever Oh I agree wholeheartedly about the female villain thing or at least morally grey and frosty, I love characters like Morrigan etc. I just have a hard time playing them. Someday I might break my pattern.... hopefully. I think I'll try and start with a bethesda game since they're such blank slates and I might not feel as bad, wish me luck. Well, my brain is kind of a chaotic mess of information that doesn't always connect, hahaha. I'm good with tarot since it relies heavily on intuition, but I'm nowhere near as proficient with astrology as my dad is, but then, he's been a student of it for decades and he's read a lot/seen a lot, he studied with masters and wrote a book, compared to that I'm just making these basic connections that sort of make sense, hahaha. I mean, I could take a look at your chart and probably draw some good conclusions, but I would protest the whole way through that my dad would probably see straight to the heart of the matter and analyze you inside-out in a way I can only dream of. I'm learning, though. We're actually working on an oracle together that's related to this, but still very much a WIP. (It will be amazing, though, I'm pretty sure.) As to my sign: my sun sign is Taurus and my ascendant is Cancer, I'm kind of a mix of both; looking deeper into charts there's a great deal of added layers which can sometimes totally put a spin on those interpretations, though I happen to fit some of my sign's more general stereotypes, hahaha. My brother and my dad's sun sign is Taurus while my mom's is Cancer, no wonder why I get along so well with you. Scorpio sun sign here with my ascendant in Virgo I believe.
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Post by Onecrazymonkey1 on May 17, 2017 18:31:21 GMT
And now I've stumbled on something worse than Sara/Scott fics Alec/Scott fic Pass the brain bleach, please
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Post by PenDev0us on May 17, 2017 18:34:45 GMT
And now I've stumbled on something worse than Sara/Scott fics Alec/Scott fic Pass the brain bleach, please NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
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Post by Gwyvian on May 17, 2017 18:40:45 GMT
Totally know how you feel. I felt sort of obligated to try playing canonical male Revan back in KOTOR, but other than snarking at Bastila, I wasn't much a fan. I didn't try a male PC after that until DA2, almost seven years later. Really enjoyed it in that game, because snarky ManHawke is just...so amazing ManHawke does seem awesome, although I wonder if that's because Hawke probably has the most developed character out of the Bioware protags? Especially snarky Hawke. Maybe my lack of ability to role play the PC rather than self-insert while playing is why it's so hard for me to play as the male option... I have no problem playing a male but I mostly stick to playing a woman if I'm given the option because so many games don't let you have that choice. I find that I end up creating a male character in Bioware games when there is someone I really want to romance and they're gated, or ESO online so I don't get any more creepy messages like I used to lol. Yeah there is also the novelty of actually being able to choose to be a woman for sure...I always say I'll create a male character to romance my favorite female characters who are gated but I just never do it...or even for mlm characters, like with DAI...I created a few male Inquisitors for that purpose but I never really got farther than that, and that's leagues farther than I got with anything else lol Aww, yeah, that's really too bad. Tali is so worth it, she's one of my absolute favorite romances, not just as a romance but how incredibly involved you get into her people's plight and all of that, it's just... an eternal favorite. I've always been pretty fluid with male/female characters in Bioware games so far, but what usually stumps me is usually the romance, I have an instant favorite and I'm loathe to switch genders for fear of cutting that avenue off, but I get over it and then I make a million PT's some of which I never actually finish but I thoroughly enjoy reliving the story to a certain point with different LI's and choices, I usually pick favorites for both genders after a while. Yeah Tali is one of my very favorite characters, pretty much as soon as I got her it'd just be her and Garrus as my squadmates forever lol, my Dextro sandwich I love snarky Hawke. I literally fail at playing Hawke any other way. I agree about the Dextro sandwich, hahaha, ME 1 they ended up being my permanent squadmates, though I did make an effort to take Wrex and Liara with me here and there. ME2 and ME3 since I kept romancing both one of them was always with me, but there's just no way I can do any quest in ME3 and not take Javik, so I had to cycle between them. Sable Rhapsody I adore making perfect gentlemen male protags. Back from my roadtrip with my potential future in-laws. I missed everyone~ There are so many pages ya'll I can't read them all. Akksul. My brother and my dad's sun sign is a Taurus while my moms is a cancer, no wonder why I get along so well with you. Scorpio sun sign here with my ascendant in Virgo I believe. It all makes sense, hahaha! My grandmother is a Scorpio, I get along with her famously.
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Post by Sable Rhapsody on May 17, 2017 18:45:51 GMT
And now I've stumbled on something worse than Sara/Scott fics Alec/Scott fic Pass the brain bleach, please NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE Ah, Internet. A strange and savage beast
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Post by Gwyvian on May 17, 2017 18:50:14 GMT
Same. First playthrough of any game that allows me gender choice is always female, unless I have some good reason not to. In TOR, I played a male Sith Inquisitor first because his snarky drawl was the best thing ever. Then, if the game is good enough for a second playthrough, I usually switch it up. Male character, different romance, different RP style and choices, etc.I mean that's always my plan...but then I always end up just reliving all my favorite things, unless I did some mistake the first playthrough or missed something (or in the case of MEA and DA2 choosing all the sarcastic/casual choices the second time around)...In MEA I couldn't even bring myself to use a different face preset ffs I uh, actually do the same thing. I have at least 6 complete playthroughs of my fem!Shep who looks exactly the same, except for hair color maybe. I only changed it because I thought I was getting a little static, hahaha. My m!Shep actually went through a lot more transformations, though once I finally found one configuration I really liked I replayed that a handful of times with identical configurations/choices. Not so with DA, I mixed and matched all over the place there.
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Post by PenDev0us on May 17, 2017 18:51:08 GMT
Ah, Internet. A strange and savage beast Hhaha! One day, it's your best friend, the next, it's trying to break you!
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Post by zambixi on May 17, 2017 18:51:16 GMT
Back from my roadtrip with my potential future in-laws. I missed everyone~ There are so many pages ya'll I can't read them all. We lit everything on fire befitting of Valhalla. You missed a great party. Nah, just the usual. You missed a lot of fic, some arguments and reconciliations... Pretty much standard BSN. Arguments and reconciliations in addition to the one where the mods got involved or....? Scratch that, I don't want to know. But the fics TT-TT I will have to dig through my tags to find them later tonight. I don't know why I didn't download the fics so I could peruse them while I was cooped up in a sedan for seven hours TT-TT (probably because explaining what I was reading would have been...difficult). On the topic of PC genders: I pretty much always play a woman. I have one male character for Dorian and that's it. I know Bioware tracks that sort of stuff and I want to add as many ladies to their statistics as possible. I find it more fun anyway. I also like - in literature more so than video games - that stories with women-characters often address that character's experiences as a woman, specifically. Or they take more time to examine the relationships between that character and others, etc. Not everyone likes that, but I do. There is media that examines the unique experiences of men but it's sort of few and far between, a lot of stuff that has a male protag just leaves the poor dudebro as like, a placeholder.... On the topic of astrology & tarot: I know... basically nothing about this but it's so fascinating! Teach me your ways! I bought the Dragon Age tarot cards and have never used them because I have no idea what I'm doing xD. I just know my various signs (Aquarius/Horse), and that the Tower is a card you don't want to get in tarot readings (because Solas). Also, my potential-future-mother-in-law told me she'd take me to her fortune-teller when we visit in Taiwan and I've never been more excited for anything in my life (only a slighy exaggeration).
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Post by 0nakita on May 17, 2017 18:54:22 GMT
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Post by Sable Rhapsody on May 17, 2017 18:54:49 GMT
I uh, actually do the same thing. I have at least 6 complete playthroughs of my fem!Shep who looks exactly the same, except for hair color maybe. I only changed it because I thought I was getting a little static, hahaha. My m!Shep actually went through a lot more transformations, though once I finally found one configuration I really liked I replayed that a handful of times with identical configurations/choices. Not so with DA, I mixed and matched all over the place there. In a game where I really care about how my worldstate turns out, I'll go back and replay with the same character to tweak my "canon." So far, that's only mattered for DA and ME, so they're the only franchises where I've replayed the same character over again. But I'll probably go back and replay Tyranny at some point. I've decided I much prefer the Neutral Evil path to the Lawful Evil one
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Post by Gwyvian on May 17, 2017 18:59:34 GMT
We lit everything on fire befitting of Valhalla. You missed a great party. Nah, just the usual. You missed a lot of fic, some arguments and reconciliations... Pretty much standard BSN. Arguments and reconciliations in addition to the one where the mods got involved or....? Scratch that, I don't want to know. But the fics TT-TT I will have to dig through my tags to find them later tonight. I don't know why I didn't download the fics so I could peruse them while I was cooped up in a sedan for seven hours TT-TT (probably because explaining what I was reading would have been...difficult). On the topic of PC genders: I pretty much always play a woman. I have one male character for Dorian and that's it. I know Bioware tracks that sort of stuff and I want to add as many ladies to their statistics as possible. I find it more fun anyway. I also like - in literature more so than video games - that stories with women-characters often address that character's experiences as a woman, specifically. Or they take more time to examine the relationships between that character and others, etc. Not everyone likes that, but I do. There is media that examines the unique experiences of men but it's sort of few and far between, a lot of stuff that has a male protag just leaves the poor dudebro as like, a placeholder.... On the topic of astrology & tarot: I know... basically nothing about this but it's so fascinating! Teach me your ways! I bought the Dragon Age tarot cards and have never used them because I have no idea what I'm doing xD. I just know my various signs (Aquarius/Horse), and that the Tower is a card you don't want to get in tarot readings (because Solas). Also, my potential-future-mother-in-law told me she'd take me to her fortune-teller when we visit in Taiwan and I've never been more excited for anything in my life (only a slighy exaggeration). Oh, I could talk your ear off about that subject. I suppose the best way to share is to offer interpretations? I mean, each card can be interpreted differently depending on the reading, so there are many ways to approach getting a card like e.g. the Tower; it's generally a card of great conflict, but it also signifies great transformation, which can be a good thing of course, if turbulent. As for astrology I know a lot about the theory, some about the practice and otherwise I pester my dad for answers about everything because I'm not that good.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 19:01:41 GMT
I literally will never choose a male protag if I can play a woman instead. I have to show my support for more female protagonists somehow. Maybe one day gaming companies will actually get the idea that making more women PCs is a thing they should do- and maybe they can actually incorporate romances into games with women PCs too. One day. One day. Thank goodness for games like Horizon showing how successful games can be when they have a female protagonist. I really didn't appreciate Bioware's treatment of Sara before launch tbh. Lady protagonists rock and a lot of guys think so too.Indeed. I for one am glad they redid Lara Croft and gave her a proper character arc and new iconic look. Haven't played HZD yet, but it looks phenomenal, and Aloy seems like an Interesting protag. I think they discussed romance for HZD, but they thought it would get in the way of her journey, which i am okay with. Things like that can be expanded upon in a sequel. Something Bioware should experiment with, in my opinion. I like Bethesda and Arkane's approach in their recent titles. Letting you chose Emily or Corvo in Dishonored, and now male/female Morgan Yu in Prey is a nice touch. It doesn't change much in Prey's story i believe, but it is the choice that matters. Implementing this in more games should be a priority. The medium is growing and becoming more diverse, but its stuck in a lot of its old ways, time to break free and do better going forward.
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Post by yeah rip on May 17, 2017 19:02:31 GMT
(I know I'm late with all this shit, been too busy doing clinical rotations then being blown off by my thesis supervisor again, then working, then babysitting) I guess I'll confess too - I visit Scott every time I'm on the Nexus and I always ask Harry how he's doing, even though I know his answer never changes. Wait, am I doing it right? I love my smartass bro, but I usually love all of the player character's family, unless they're complete assholes. I'm considering doing a playthrough as Scott, but for some reason I love his VA's acting more when he's an NPC. I don't think I could write a longer Jaal/Ryder fic where they didn't troll each other/give each other shit. It's my favorite part of the relationship. Yeah, as much as I love the sweet swoony stuff in their relationship, I wouldn't enjoy it without some trolling inbetween. I love it when he teased her about her "loud affections", and how she got him lost in idioms. And I love that while they obviously adore each other, it's not to the point when they just want to hold hands and gaze into each other's eyes all the time. Only sometimes Good morning Jaal fans! It's another gorgeous day here and I'll be working in my gardens again later. Woo! Post-game, where do Jaal and your Ryder make their home? (Or do they stick to the Tempest?) Obviously not a place they'd be a lot with Pathfinder duties, but I still like to picture my Ryder and Jaal 'settling down' on Havarl. It's a beautiful planet and close to his family. Plus, I have massive amounts of distrust for Meridian. I actually really like the Idea of them spending most of their time traveling, but still having an actual home on the solid ground somewhere! In my headcanon, they would probably settle on Havarl or *dun dun dun* Voeld. I couldn't imagine how it would work before, but I love the idea of them being all cozy and warm inside their house while it's like -30C outside. Probably Havarl though, because family. Somewhere not too far and not too close from the rest of the Ama Darav clan. Spoiler tags in case anyone else wants to play this game unspoiled: I told her to go to Kaer Morhen. But I took Alexander's notes from her. I wasn't upset at her or anything, but her plan to go to Radovid was terrible, so I figured she wasn't the best person to walk around with a bioweapon formula Ok, that's exactly what I did and you just dodged a bullet, you should get the best possible outcome now. Having her go to Radovid ends up awful, as I found out from youtube but I didn't want to spoil anything. kestrel Yeah, Sara's new "makeover" wasn't to my liking but I just signed into my Scott playthrough and didn't realize they did it to him as well. He looked more natural to me before. Seriously, why does Bioware have a problem with light lips? Even if their lips were a little pale at first, people with pale lips exist too?? My own lips are probably paler than Sara's old ones, though they don't have the fullness to make up for it. And yeah, they need to do something about their eyes ASAP (and that lipstick, but that's a no-brainer). My poor stoner sibs...
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