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Post by midnight tea on Dec 8, 2018 3:17:38 GMT
I don't like Facebook, but I still have an account because there are people I want/have to keep in contact with who are only available on Facebook. But do you spend time on Facebook wallowing in all the annoying/mean/hateful/stupid things people say that piss you off? Probably not, unless I'm giving you too much credit? It's a tool; it doesn't need to be a lifestyle. There are way more important things in life than what dumbasses on the interwebs say. Dumbasses are easier to ignore when you're not, say, a relatively well-known writer of a popular RPG series that is being sent random unpleasantries or grievances maybe even on a daily basis. I am not popular so I don't have a need to wallow in all the annoying or stupid things people say to piss me off and some occasional dumb things here or there are not an issue. I do have a few friends and colleagues that gained some level of notoriety though - and they do get enough hate sometimes (for most trivial reasons) so I do know from firsthand sources that it IS mentally taxing and not as easy to avoid as you believe it is.
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Post by Iakus on Dec 8, 2018 3:34:45 GMT
Deekin (he is a bit snarky though) hmmm *does a search* OH. Before my time. Thank you for making me feel old...
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Post by vertigomez on Dec 8, 2018 3:40:09 GMT
Deekin (he is a bit snarky though) hmmm *does a search* OH. Before my time. Made me laugh. NWN was my first real RPG. I took Deekin all the way through Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark... got to see him again in NWN2.... good times. sry DA twitter thread, I'll put the nostalgia away now
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Post by Hrungr on Dec 8, 2018 5:20:44 GMT
From IGN...
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Post by Zemgus on Dec 8, 2018 5:52:50 GMT
David Gaider @davidgaiderIt’s nice to watch the Dragon Age fans burbling with joy and excitement. It’s like how babies are cute when you forget all the pooping and the crying. 😉 Thinking about bad times probably helps Gaider feel better about not being part of it all anymore.
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Dec 8, 2018 5:59:10 GMT
Thinking about bad times probably helps Gaider feel better about not being part of it all anymore. I think he's perfectly happy working on a game he's developing with Liam Esler from Australia.
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Post by Zemgus on Dec 8, 2018 6:06:38 GMT
Thinking about bad times probably helps Gaider feel better about not being part of it all anymore. I think he's perfectly happy working on a game he's developing with Liam Esler from Australia. Good to know he's not unemployed, at least.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Dec 8, 2018 6:30:56 GMT
Have honestly never thought of Red Lyrium as thinning the veil and therefore a "cure" of sorts against the current dvided state of the world. I'm not actually sure that's accurate, since I'm pretty sure the blight existed pre-veil. But still. Interesting.
I'm so used to the game journalists only being vaguely familiar with the source material in a lot of these, that was actually a refreshing little video.
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Post by Equilibristic on Dec 8, 2018 7:30:54 GMT
userIf I can ask- some fans are confused as to what, if anything is on the figures head. Is it bald, hair, or have a helmet/head piece of any sort? Nick Thornborrow @nthornborrowHa! Let me put that question to bed. Bald. So if the pale part is his (hers/theirs/...) head and not a helmet, which makes sense as it looks to be the same colour as his hands... That kinda makes the darker parts on his face a mask. Could be literal, could be metaphorical, as in, I used to wear the name Fen'Harel a s a badge of honour, now I've become The Dread Wolf, the monster, the trickster and betrayer. This is what I have to be to achieve my goal... (cue possession speculation, fate you wouldn't wish on your enemies, etc). Because simply being Solas he wouldn't be able to. Does that mean he can be "unmasked"? Eh, or I'm reading too much into it and maybe he just forgot to put on sunscreen...
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Post by The Elder King on Dec 8, 2018 7:57:48 GMT
I think the dark parts on his face are just shadows.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Dec 8, 2018 8:22:14 GMT
Knowing its baldness, though, does at least pretty much confirm that elf is Solas, though. So that's good.
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Post by Kabraxal on Dec 8, 2018 8:52:20 GMT
Have honestly never thought of Red Lyrium as thinning the veil and therefore a "cure" of sorts against the current dvided state of the world. I'm not actually sure that's accurate, since I'm pretty sure the blight existed pre-veil. But still. Interesting.
I'm so used to the game journalists only being vaguely familiar with the source material in a lot of these, that was actually a refreshing little video.
I think Dragon Age is a franchise that caters to a specific group that tends toward deep dives into lore... it is the main reason, I think, that it has such a rabid core base still despite the casual audience not getting its appeal. Unlike most games that journalists fawn over, DA seems to inspire a much deeper reaction and connection. So while you hear many more bursts of “this is the goat!” For a BotW or TW3, you rarely here any in depth and often philosophical discussion of minor elements just to see if they are actually a major turning point. With Dragon Age now, it always spirals into theories and obsessive lore investigation. To me, that marks a game that has achieved something far more meaningful. Hell, I can’t even think of many other franchises in other mediums that dissect everything into tiny little particles of theory. We are a strange fandom. Awesome, but veeerrry strange.
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Post by arcanistranger on Dec 8, 2018 10:13:22 GMT
They're part of the problem, and show that the toxicity goes both ways. Cute for someone who posts on a fan forum only to shit on what's being enjoyed and the people enjoying it to whine about "toxicity"...
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Post by SomberXIII on Dec 8, 2018 11:31:05 GMT
Have honestly never thought of Red Lyrium as thinning the veil and therefore a "cure" of sorts against the current dvided state of the world. I'm not actually sure that's accurate, since I'm pretty sure the blight existed pre-veil. But still. Interesting.
I'm so used to the game journalists only being vaguely familiar with the source material in a lot of these, that was actually a refreshing little video.
I think Dragon Age is a franchise that caters to a specific group that tends toward deep dives into lore... it is the main reason, I think, that it has such a rabid core base still despite the casual audience not getting its appeal. Unlike most games that journalists fawn over, DA seems to inspire a much deeper reaction and connection. So while you hear many more bursts of “this is the goat!” For a BotW or TW3, you rarely here any in depth and often philosophical discussion of minor elements just to see if they are actually a major turning point. With Dragon Age now, it always spirals into theories and obsessive lore investigation. To me, that marks a game that has achieved something far more meaningful. Hell, I can’t even think of many other franchises in other mediums that dissect everything into tiny little particles of theory. We are a strange fandom. Awesome, but veeerrry strange. Dragon Age has this spectacular world-building that got me totally immersed in it. Only the not so detailed in-game aspects like NPCs staying in their positions forever, not travelling around, the zones being empty mostly in DAI broke the immersion from time to time. I would love to see DA4 having NPCs travelling like those Kajiit merchants from Skyrim or even remotely having diverse daily activities in-game, it would become a 11/10 game in my book.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 8, 2018 12:12:56 GMT
John Epler @eplerjcA few folks telling me, after seeing my twitter profile, not to bring my politics into the game. Dragon Age has always been about belonging - about realizing that family is more than blood and about celebrating our diversity and differences. It will remain so. Dragon Age is about hope, about how love and friendship are forces for good and about how, in the end, what we have is each other. Ultimately, though - all art is politics. It's just a hell of a lot easier to ignore it when those politics match up with yours: I wear my heart, and beliefs, on my sleeve. And I always will. We have finite time on this world. I want to spend mine making it a better and more caring place. You can see it in the difference between the Dragon Age and Witcher fandoms. In Dragon Age, people come together despite their differences for the greater good, and thus the fans are passionate, bright, friendly people. Witcher is all about shitty people getting ahead in life by stomping on good people without consequence, and every Witcher fanboys acts according to that worldview. And I'm proud to be on the side that isn't full of intolerant assholes.The irony...
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Post by hopsalong on Dec 8, 2018 12:23:55 GMT
Just don't engage, they seem like they're spoilerin for a fight and that's rarely fun. Howww about an egg? Credit to @jakface_mcgee on twitter, shame to me because I still don't know how to embed tweets.
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Post by Serza on Dec 8, 2018 13:41:46 GMT
So that's a much more extreme me that never really said fuck it.
Happy to meet ya mister. Happy to not be like you, anymore.
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Post by eternalgoddess on Dec 8, 2018 15:01:44 GMT
You can see it in the difference between the Dragon Age and Witcher fandoms. In Dragon Age, people come together despite their differences for the greater good, and thus the fans are passionate, bright, friendly people. Witcher is all about shitty people getting ahead in life by stomping on good people without consequence, and every Witcher fanboys acts according to that worldview. And I'm proud to be on the side that isn't full of intolerant assholes. I love both series and you are kind of being a virtue signaling jackass with this generalization but you do you, I suppose? Guess were both intolerant asshole since I love both series as well.
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Post by Solas on Dec 8, 2018 15:09:47 GMT
how bout that Dread Wolf rising shit huh?
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Dec 8, 2018 15:11:13 GMT
So if the pale part is his (hers/theirs/...) head and not a helmet, which makes sense as it looks to be the same colour as his hands... That kinda makes the darker parts on his face a mask. Could be literal, could be metaphorical, as in, I used to wear the name Fen'Harel a s a badge of honour, now I've become The Dread Wolf, the monster, the trickster and betrayer. This is what I have to be to achieve my goal... (cue possession speculation, fate you wouldn't wish on your enemies, etc). Because simply being Solas he wouldn't be able to. Does that mean he can be "unmasked"? Eh, or I'm reading too much into it and maybe he just forgot to put on sunscreen... I think the dark parts on his face are just shadows. The art style is high-contrast, as in these early 20th C propaganda and travel posters: So I agree with The Elder King 's assessment. A lot of Nick Thornborrow's art seems to take inspiration from this style; you can see it in the other murals attributed to Solas in Trespasser that are Nick's creations. So just keep that in mind as you look at more of Nick's art which I'm sure we'll see in future.
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Post by Walter Black on Dec 8, 2018 15:37:35 GMT
I'm saying he writes characters with sharp tongues, so it doesn't surprise me when he lets his snark flag fly. He does, but he has also written less snarky characters: Aerie, Valgyar, Aribeth, Deekin, Carth, Justice, Meredith, Orsino... Valgyar less snarky? Seriously?
Though I will admit that the effect is often diminished by his voice actor sounding not like a stern and driven warrior, and more like my high school drama teacher .
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Post by midnight tea on Dec 8, 2018 15:56:27 GMT
Does that mean he can be "unmasked"? Eh, or I'm reading too much into it and maybe he just forgot to put on sunscreen... I think the dark parts on his face are just shadows. The art style is high-contrast, as in these early 20th C propaganda and travel posters: So I agree with The Elder King 's assessment. A lot of Nick Thornborrow's art seems to take inspiration from this style; you can see it in the other murals attributed to Solas in Trespasser that are Nick's creations. So just keep that in mind as you look at more of Nick's art which I'm sure we'll see in future. I think the confusion stems mostly from the fact that nothing else (on the figure at least) displays such a stark contrast (though theories can be made about shadow placement too, given that the idol seems to be lit from the same side). Plus... well - you know - all that fire underneath his feet and around him that theoretically gives off enough light to nullify this much shadow. So, there's only really one explanation that comes to mind ATM - the shadow is a.) symbolic a b.) magical And more than likely related to Solas doing something... well, dark. Red eyes and angled eyebrows complete the picture.
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Post by Fen'Harel Faceman on Dec 8, 2018 17:14:19 GMT
Knowing its baldness, though, does at least pretty much confirm that elf is Solas, though. So that's good. I lean strongly in this direction as well. Though it may be pointed out that in many (or all?) of the murals of the Evanuris they're bald as well.
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Post by Fen'Harel Faceman on Dec 8, 2018 17:30:11 GMT
how bout that Dread Wolf rising shit huh?
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Dec 8, 2018 17:34:18 GMT
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