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Post by beholderess on May 18, 2017 12:04:57 GMT
Good morning, thread!
I like how the first thing Evfra says once you are at the stage when you can walk up to him and randomly initiate a conversation is that you'd better take a good care of Jaal
hey, I'm trying, but it's not like he comes with an instruction manual
And the way Evfra is absolutely furious after Jaal's LM if you did not shoot Akksul. He does not appreciate Ryder letting Jaal be shot at. At all. Evfra clearly cares about him a lot.
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Post by beholderess on May 18, 2017 12:26:08 GMT
Eavesdropping at the Angara diplomat in Cultural Centre. Apparently he likes Addison. Says that her directness is refreshing, and constant swearing - entertaining.
Damn, Angara are the best
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Post by PenDev0us on May 18, 2017 12:54:41 GMT
This cracks me up, because I made a valiant effort for MEA to create Ryders that all looked different. I did end up using most of the presets at least once, but they all share one of 3 hairstyles. 2 of the presets I tried working with, I just couldn't create a Ryder I'd want to spend an entire game looking at. The one looks like she had foundation airbrushed on her face that wasn't a good match for her skin, no matter what you set her complexion at, so it always looks weird. #9 is my go-to, I have the most of her. I just came from the CC, trying to create yet another new Ryder for a NG+ run (deleted my first NG+ because of bugs), and I wanted to try using different makeup, at least. I just couldn't use any of the weird ones. I tried, I really did. Spotty eye shadow just shouldn't be a thing, now or in the future. Ended up giving up and loading the game I've been playing all week. I have enough Ryders anyways. It's funny you mention the spotty eye shadow! I wound up using the spotty eyeliner on one of my attempts as it was the only damn thing to hide 'ole tired eyes' preset 7... however it was very awkward looking so I paired it with a rather blehh looking forehead tattoo to tie in the spotty theme... I hate it. But at least she doesn't look sleepy anymore, so yay, progress? Skyhold has spires and he knows how to use 'em???? I.... will never get rid of that mental image now. Gunna need a shot of brain bleach for this one! This has vague echoes of the giant squid x Hogwarts fanfic. ...bartender... better make that a double Good morning, thread! I like how the first thing Evfra says once you are at the stage when you can walk up to him and randomly initiate a conversation is that you'd better take a good care of Jaal hey, I'm trying, but it's not like he comes with an instruction manualAnd the way Evfra is absolutely furious after Jaal's LM if you did not shoot Akksul. He does not appreciate Ryder letting Jaal be shot at. At all. Evfra clearly cares about him a lot. Eavesdropping at the Angara diplomat in Cultural Centre. Apparently he likes Addison. Says that her directness is refreshing, and constant swearing - entertaining. Damn, Angara are the best Ya see, its shit like this that makes my obsession with the Angara resemble that of a crazy cat lady :sure:
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Post by beholderess on May 18, 2017 12:57:04 GMT
And there is a mention of poetry again, in a random banter between Angara delegation. One of them is complaining about the dangers of space travel and how it could kill you horribly, and another is like "you have no poetry in your soul, young man!" - "hey, I have plenty of poetry - for things that keep me alive"
What's up with poetry, devs?
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Post by PenDev0us on May 18, 2017 13:07:32 GMT
And there is a mention of poetry again, in a random banter between Angara delegation. One of them is complaining about the dangers of space travel and how it could kill you horribly, and another is like "you have no poetry in your soul, young man!" - "hey, I have plenty of poetry - for things that keep me alive" What's up with poetry, devs? At this point, I'm half expecting Sara to stumble upon someones secret poetry stash... I'd like to say the Archons... but my stance on lightning + Kett = barbecue, kinda kills that hope!
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Post by Obliviousmiss on May 18, 2017 13:44:56 GMT
I barely post in BSN anymore, but I want to know about your little princess Obliviousmiss I hope she's doing well and being a grumpy baby like well every baby on this planet XD She is good but indeed grumpy! Keeping us up half the night per usual! Can you believe she's a month old? Our other daughter was sleeping through the night at three weeks... So my husband is having a hard time lol
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Post by beholderess on May 18, 2017 13:54:14 GMT
And there is a mention of poetry again, in a random banter between Angara delegation. One of them is complaining about the dangers of space travel and how it could kill you horribly, and another is like "you have no poetry in your soul, young man!" - "hey, I have plenty of poetry - for things that keep me alive" What's up with poetry, devs? At this point, I'm half expecting Sara to stumble upon someones secret poetry stash... I'd like to say the Archons... but my stance on lightning + Kett = barbecue, kinda kills that hope! At this point, I am sure that everyone in Andromeda has a secret poetry stash. Everyone. No exceptions
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Post by beholderess on May 18, 2017 13:56:28 GMT
This cracks me up, because I made a valiant effort for MEA to create Ryders that all looked different. I did end up using most of the presets at least once, but they all share one of 3 hairstyles. 2 of the presets I tried working with, I just couldn't create a Ryder I'd want to spend an entire game looking at. The one looks like she had foundation airbrushed on her face that wasn't a good match for her skin, no matter what you set her complexion at, so it always looks weird. #9 is my go-to, I have the most of her. I just came from the CC, trying to create yet another new Ryder for a NG+ run (deleted my first NG+ because of bugs), and I wanted to try using different makeup, at least. I just couldn't use any of the weird ones. I tried, I really did. Spotty eye shadow just shouldn't be a thing, now or in the future. Ended up giving up and loading the game I've been playing all week. I have enough Ryders anyways. It's funny you mention the spotty eye shadow! I wound up using the spotty eyeliner on one of my attempts as it was the only damn thing to hide 'ole tired eyes' preset 7... however it was very awkward looking so I paired it with a rather blehh looking forehead tattoo to tie in the spotty theme... I hate it. But at least she doesn't look sleepy anymore, so yay, progress? I.... will never get rid of that mental image now. Gunna need a shot of brain bleach for this one! This has vague echoes of the giant squid x Hogwarts fanfic. ...bartender... better make that a double Good morning, thread! I like how the first thing Evfra says once you are at the stage when you can walk up to him and randomly initiate a conversation is that you'd better take a good care of Jaal hey, I'm trying, but it's not like he comes with an instruction manualAnd the way Evfra is absolutely furious after Jaal's LM if you did not shoot Akksul. He does not appreciate Ryder letting Jaal be shot at. At all. Evfra clearly cares about him a lot. Eavesdropping at the Angara diplomat in Cultural Centre. Apparently he likes Addison. Says that her directness is refreshing, and constant swearing - entertaining. Damn, Angara are the best Ya see, its shit like this that makes my obsession with the Angara resemble that of a crazy cat lady :sure: Yes, we are crazy cat ladies. That explains so much
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Post by beholderess on May 18, 2017 14:14:45 GMT
Jaal, when visiting Eos: "I hope your colonists don't just work. This world needs normal life" And this is why he and Liam are bros. Now I am about to make jokes that Liam must be a reincarnated Angara
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Post by Davrin's boobs on May 18, 2017 15:55:45 GMT
I barely post in BSN anymore, but I want to know about your little princess Obliviousmiss I hope she's doing well and being a grumpy baby like well every baby on this planet XD She is good but indeed grumpy! Keeping us up half the night per usual! Can you believe she's a month old? Our other daughter was sleeping through the night at three weeks... So my husband is having a hard time lol Hahaha I'm super happy for that, not so happy for your husband tho xD
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Post by BloodOfShiagur on May 18, 2017 16:18:54 GMT
Hello, Jaal thread. Just dropping by to say that inspired by you all, I've just tried to summarize all my various shades of morally grey canon characters and got a rant of epic proportions, even if I "kept it short" and realized two descriptions had disappeared along the way. How do you all keep it so short?
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Post by lilyenachaos on May 18, 2017 16:47:21 GMT
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Post by Sable Rhapsody on May 18, 2017 17:28:02 GMT
Hello, Jaal thread. Just dropping by to say that inspired by you all, I've just tried to summarize all my various shades of morally grey canon characters and got a rant of epic proportions, even if I realized two descriptions had disappeared along the way. How do you all keep it so short? LOL, that's the same reason why I haven't tried to summarize my various characters. No one wants to drown under a giant tidal wave of text
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Post by kestrel on May 18, 2017 17:30:44 GMT
I don't think I could easily summarize Wren Ryder or my Shepard haha.
There's already far too many thousands of words of fanfic about her and I feel like I just scratched the surface.
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Post by PenDev0us on May 18, 2017 17:39:36 GMT
Hello, Jaal thread. Just dropping by to say that inspired by you all, I've just tried to summarize all my various shades of morally grey canon characters and got a rant of epic proportions, even if I realized two descriptions had disappeared along the way. How do you all keep it so short? LOL, that's the same reason why I haven't tried to summarize my various characters. No one wants to drown under a giant tidal wave of text HAHAHA! Same, it's just soooo much to write/remember/condense That's why I 'cheat' and play to the archetypes... Playthrough 1: The Mary Sue Playthrough 2: The Prankster Playthrough 3: Commander C*ntbiscuit If I'm still getting mileage out of a game after playing those three, I'll usually blend them together for a 'real world' kind of character which is deffo more morally grey... but then I just reference the 3 above. That being said, Andromeda is the first ME game to have me skip straight to blending the archetypes... (for DA I skipped 1, and sat comfortably with 2) my current Ryder is 1 part Mary Sue, 2 parts prankster. I can't wait for playthrough 3
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Post by fadburger on May 18, 2017 17:41:02 GMT
Fair, fair. I'm now drawing conclusions about architecture that make me vaguely uncomfortable, but hey, I'm a curious person. Gives whole new meaning to load bearing wall. :sure:
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Post by PenDev0us on May 18, 2017 17:45:34 GMT
Gives whole new meaning to load bearing wall. :sure: ~bow chika wow wow~
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Post by fadburger on May 18, 2017 17:48:12 GMT
LOL, that's the same reason why I haven't tried to summarize my various characters. No one wants to drown under a giant tidal wave of text HAHAHA! Same, it's just soooo much to write/remember/condense That's why I 'cheat' and play to the archetypes... Playthrough 1: The Mary Sue Playthrough 2: The Prankster Playthrough 3: Commander C*ntbiscuit If I'm still getting mileage out of a game after playing those three, I'll usually blend them together for a 'real world' kind of character which is deffo more morally grey... but then I just reference the 3 above. That being said, Andromeda is the first ME game to have me skip straight to blending the archetypes... (for DA I skipped 1, and sat comfortably with 2) my current Ryder is 1 part Mary Sue, 2 parts prankster. I can't wait for playthrough 3Yeah I think because Ryder is just 4 different flavors of "nice" and there isn't a paragon/renegade system to worry about I've definitely made my character being blended...although she's not really been a jerk or anything just uses the casual dialogue a lot this time around lol. But generally I've been playing it like I played my first time with the MET before I found out that you needed to choose either paragon or renegade to get certain options, and just going with my gut.
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Post by yeah rip on May 18, 2017 17:54:05 GMT
Whenever I try to "summarize" any of my characters, I always end up with a " War and Peace". But guys, please post your "novels", I love it when people come up with detailed stories for their characters. And I don't want to be the only one showing off my OCs
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Post by fadburger on May 18, 2017 17:56:28 GMT
So I know we've shared a lot of like...anti-recommendations(??) for fanfics that squick us...but I come bearing a cute one about Jaal/Sara and adopting a little angaran boy (kidfic we can all enjoy lol): linky
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Post by fadburger on May 18, 2017 17:59:20 GMT
Whenever I try to "summarize" any of my characters, I always end up with a " War and Peace". But guys, please post your "novels", I love it when people come up with detailed stories for their characters. And I don't want to be the only one showing off my OCs Yeah I like to read these things because they give me some good things to think of about my own characters too...I'm really shit at working (with anything really) from scratch, but seeing what sorts of things people come up with makes me think about what my OC would do in the same situation or the same aspect or whatever.
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Post by kestrel on May 18, 2017 18:00:53 GMT
There's a new minipatch- you can access the new outfit from any point in the game.
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Post by BloodOfShiagur on May 18, 2017 18:03:04 GMT
Whenever I try to "summarize" any of my characters, I always end up with a " War and Peace". But guys, please post your "novels", I love it when people come up with detailed stories for their characters. And I don't want to be the only one showing off my OCs Hell, don't dare me. I have a long, frustrating evening ahead of me. I just might finish the novel and you will all regret it
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Post by Sable Rhapsody on May 18, 2017 18:08:45 GMT
LOL, that's the same reason why I haven't tried to summarize my various characters. No one wants to drown under a giant tidal wave of text HAHAHA! Same, it's just soooo much to write/remember/condense That's why I 'cheat' and play to the archetypes... Playthrough 1: The Mary Sue Playthrough 2: The Prankster Playthrough 3: Commander C*ntbiscuit LOL, I love the last one. IMO, most BioWare PCs have certain traits that are sort of inherent to the CRPG format. Every CRPG protagonist is a "Mary-Sue" to some degree. Otherwise, you wouldn't be the super special world-saving protagonist. I think the only BioWare PC that defied that trend was Hawke. Hawke is sort of the anti-Sue, the poor sod who gets dumped on by the universe The games also assume that the PC has a certain degree of courage/insanity. Otherwise, you'd go back home like a sensible person instead of charging headfirst into high dragons, Architects, and Reapers.
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Post by PenDev0us on May 18, 2017 19:26:07 GMT
Yeah I think because Ryder is just 4 different flavors of "nice" and there isn't a paragon/renegade system to worry about I've definitely made my character being blended...although she's not really been a jerk or anything just uses the casual dialogue a lot this time around lol. But generally I've been playing it like I played my first time with the MET before I found out that you needed to choose either paragon or renegade to get certain options, and just going with my gut. Gotta admit, I do miss having paragon/renegade options/interrupts. The first trailer I saw of the game where Ryder slapped the gun away from Sloane had me thinking interrupts would be back, sad it wasn't the case At the moment, the only kinda negative options to choose from are just dubious political choices... like forsaking the Elladen, or making Morda the ambassador, or favouring Sloane over Reyas... though I'm still conflicted on which of the two was better for Kadaara... keeping Sloane would be a "better the devil you know" situation in that regard... but Reyas is, or at least claims to be, for the people.
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