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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Jun 10, 2018 1:26:34 GMT
So instead of companions and romances, I get to hang around with thirteen year old LeafyisHere fans? HMM.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 22, 2018 22:08:33 GMT
This is all a rather overwrought analysis of a character who is obviously written to be highly academically intelligent, but somewhat emotionally dense and arrogant. Solas ain’t wise. Just by confronting him about his constant ragging on the Dalish and asking him why he doesn’t just share his knowledge with them, his answer is as petty and shallow as ‘would you listen?’ And look at the emotionally tone deaf way he tells a romanced inquisitor her face is messed up. He acts lofty and aloof when he feels comfortable and superior but is prone to almost childlike emotional behaviours that he has no self awareness about. We’ve all met a Solas or two. He’s very well written in that regard.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 14, 2017 13:15:23 GMT
People love to hate Vivienne. She's fine. The problem with Liam and Jacob is that they're written by a certain person who has trouble writing dialogue that makes sense, especially when it comes to black men. I feel like my IQ drops every time I talk to Liam, he is that awful. The same guy who wrote Carver, Sera, and contributed to Grunt, yes? That is not a good track record.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 12, 2017 0:01:03 GMT
Did you know I'm straight? did you also assume I was lying cuz I am Me reading that post: Me reading the spoiler: This isn't remotely on topic but I'm sticking it here anyway.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 10, 2017 12:40:23 GMT
Ugh, it's even worse than I thought. I knew Reyes was gated behind a choice but didn't know it involved killing someone (which I avoid any time a game allows it). So there goes the only option I had even vague interest in if I played the game down the line. And Gil has apparently gotten the Cortez treatment where he's oblivious to the world while the rest of the ship are chatting about missions? As if the m/m content wasn't already poor enough. How did the dev team think this was gonna fly? Lol, wait, they knew it wouldn't, that's why m/m was all 'spoilers! Shhhhh ' pre-release.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 21:26:04 GMT
By the way, wasn't there some recent hints that the voice of femquisitor was back on a fantasy game? (#elf and all that). If we're playing the Inquisitor again and can FINALLY have multi-game spanning friendships and romances, well...bye, Mass Effect. Love the setting but you're just too much of a douche all the time. Honestly, if it's DA, the inquisitor doesn't have to be the PC. They could be there just as help/advisor/foreign contact. #Elf is Solas. Just saying, don't get your hopes up. They very clearly made it obvious Inky wasn't the PC anymore when they chopped off the left hand. The inquisitor also says explicitly their adventuring days are over. *Side-eyes Bioware*
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 21:19:57 GMT
By the way, wasn't there some recent hints that the voice of femquisitor was back on a fantasy game? (#elf and all that). If we're playing the Inquisitor again and can FINALLY have multi-game spanning friendships and romances, well...bye, Mass Effect. Love the setting but you're just too much of a douche all the time.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 20:38:58 GMT
Riiiiight. So if, as primarily a bottom, I went through a m/m romance, loved it, and then a line of dialogue inferred I'd topped that would invalidate the entire romance and not count as an option for me? What about as a vegetarian who wouldn't date a meat eater? Kaidan makes steaks, if I recall. Does that mean I only had Steve as a potential option? You're being pedantic. You were explicitly catered to. That's not an equivalent comparison and you know it. If I was being explicitly catered to, there would be a LI who is explicitly my sexual orientation. There is not. But I'm not trying to make this the Oppressed Olympics or whatever, so let's just drop it. Yes, it absolutely is. Unless you're arguing that you literally are only capable of feeling romantic attraction to other asexuals. If not, then it's just preference of how you specifically wish a romance to be. There are throwaway things that I mentioned that would be a big issue for me in real life, but it's a video game with limited options and simulated interactions so I ignore those things and enjoy the rest of the content.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 20:28:50 GMT
I mean at this point what you're saying is that you could potentially go through, say, Cora's entire nonsexual romance arc and enjoy it and then overhear a character infer that you had sex and that that would invalidate the whole arc and mean she was not really an option for you. Sure, Jan. I'm saying hers is up in question after I did Jaal's romance. I chose the no sex option in his, and yet after that there were several conversation that did not infer but blatantly talk about how you and he still have sex. If Cora's romance does that, yes that means she was not really an option. Riiiiight. So if, as primarily a bottom, I went through a m/m romance, loved it, and then a line of dialogue inferred I'd topped that would invalidate the entire romance and not count as an option for me? What about as a vegetarian who wouldn't date a meat eater? Kaidan makes steaks, if I recall. Does that mean I only had Steve as a potential option? You're being pedantic. You were explicitly catered to.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 20:17:54 GMT
I mean at this point what you're saying is that you could potentially go through, say, Cora's entire nonsexual romance arc and enjoy it and then overhear a character infer that you had sex and that that would invalidate the whole arc and mean she was not really an option for you.
Sure, Jan.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 20:05:41 GMT
It's really easy to say that others are being unreasonable when you did get what you want. You have about 4 romances that by your own words can be either headcanoned to be nonsexual or are explicitly nonsexual. People who play M/M have 2 and only one of them is on the Tempest and is written in a way that inspires discomfort in a lot of the LGBT users. Jaal while having the option still acts like you had sex. For all In know it is the same with the others where it is an "option" Even the mere mention of Suvi not having sex in her romance summons a lynch mob of people demanding what is being demanded here now. That leaves Keri, a person who has even less content than Gil, who is heavily implied to have sex and Avela, a person who has the least content by far. Oh, and people here argueing for better m/m content also are arguing these romances shouldn't have been in the game and dropped to give them more content. Oh yeah, I'm totally on the upside of this arrangement. Oh, come on. I'm not super into sex with the LI's myself but it's a small part of (most) romances and easily headcanoned away if so desired. You have options. GOOD options. Gay men can't headcanon that Cora is a dude to have someone on the squad.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 20:01:37 GMT
Mathematically, those two situations aren't comparable. Doesn't even make sense either because a poor person losing 25% gives them far greater hardship than a wealthy person. Yaaaaasss come through Marxist shade
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 19:56:50 GMT
And one more time: Claiming to support equality but then supporting equity to benefit yourself is hypocrisy. If one person makes $20,000 a year and another makes $1,000,000 a year, should they both be charged $5,000 a year in taxes because "that's equality"? No. The $1,000,000 should be given so many tax breaks that they pay next to nothing because lol poor people. Obviously.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 16:10:33 GMT
Any news on the m/m patching front? Sadly no. Hopefully once they finalize whatever course of action they plan to take, they let us know. Right now i'm not sure they know for sure what they'll be doing. A few days ago the voice actor for Scott told his gaming stream that he hadn't been called back to record more lines yet. So in the short term it's likely to be just animation improvements. Ah, right. So the bare minimum, basically. Honestly, after the backlash I'll be surprised if they're so unaware as to think that would be acceptable yet also somehow not surprised at all.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Apr 9, 2017 15:45:47 GMT
Any news on the m/m patching front?
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 31, 2017 13:44:52 GMT
I mean, they do hang out naked together and it seemed like they were always in the bunk room together in my game, so I guess that actually isn't as low a bar as you might think. lol Meh that scene was clearly designed as window display for Sara's romance options. Literally 2 naked dudes to judge and pick.Kinda ironic this effort is spoiled by botched anatomy of Liam's chest (and consequently Scott & Gil's too). I almost cannot believe no one at the dev team picked up on it. It's literally deformed :/ Then again, the same team approved all Asari having the same face, those horrendous neon hair colors on many NPCs, bald vendors with deformed eyebrows and Addison's face so I guess they really didn't see anything wrong with Liam's chest lol... Yep, the super hawt twinky pubescent and the freaky skeletal creature. Bioware wtf.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 27, 2017 22:11:54 GMT
Any new statements from Bioware in the last few days? Also, I'm debating trying Witcher 2 and 3 but was put off initially because Geralt is so pre-defined. How much of his character and story can you craft to your liking and do you HAVE to romance/are automatically involved with one of the women in it? Nope. Nothing new about romance content. Geralt is completly pre-defined but you can still choose the outcome of quests. And yes, you will always romance either Triss or Yennefer, though you can end up with neither if you try to have both at the same time. They will dump you then. The story is really good though, it definetly set my bar for rpgs higher and it's the only game where I actually started top care for the m/f romance lmao. I usually hate forced m/f content but they pulled it off. Yeah, I just watched the start of the third game and you begin by hanging out in the bath with some naked chick. K, bye. Shadowrun: Hong Kong it is!
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 27, 2017 22:05:20 GMT
Any new statements from Bioware in the last few days?
Also, I'm debating trying Witcher 2 and 3 but was put off initially because Geralt is so pre-defined. How much of his character and story can you craft to your liking and do you HAVE to romance/are automatically involved with one of the women in it?
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 26, 2017 16:42:02 GMT
I went and picked up the strategy guide while running errands, and seeing Gil's romance breakdown at the back of the book compared to everyone else's (besides Suvi who is similarly limited in content) is kind of sad. "Conversation Rounds" are listed below each character pertaining specifically to their romances. Cora has 15Peebee has 10Vetra has 10Liam has 9Jaal has 8Suvi has 6And my poor baby Gil has 5*Weeps* Lol, even Suvi as the other crew romance has more despite there already being two lesbian options on the squad. I'm so unimpressed I can't even be arsed to dig up that tweet where they say they're very happy with the specifics of m/m content.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 26, 2017 9:21:03 GMT
I know. Is it working yet at all? Last time I checked, it wasn't. This is super late and has already been responded to most likely but yeah it is. I even see the faces I uploaded up there. But if I don't talk to Sky, could I miss some dialogues of him? I'm a dialogue-trash! Nope. Basically you can speak to him all you like until the Imperial City. Then just stop. You have to reject the girls before you go to Death Hand's fortress. After they're rejected talk to Sky and it'll be real obvious what you have to do to romance him. God, that was ridiculous. He has such a small window to trigger his m/m content that you HAVE to know about it beforehand in SPECIFICS or you'd miss it entirely. Hell, its years later and I still thought you had to be a dick to Dawn Star and Silk Fox to get it.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 26, 2017 0:31:26 GMT
Watch DA4 have a default human with a defined backstory, a terrible CC for no reason and about two dialogue options per interaction when we're allowed the rare treat of actually choosing what we get to say.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 26, 2017 0:06:14 GMT
To be fair to that statement, if they don't put it gay romances of a good quality gay people will be upset and there will be a controversy and if there's any gay content at all there will be a controversy on the other side, so they really can't avoid a controversy. It's just about deciding what kind of a company you want to be and taking a stance. A cynical mind might think they tried to appease both groups in Andromeda by keeping the m/m romances out of the way but that's just speculation (but speculation by me so it's obviously the case).
Edit: And of course the '*insert female character here* is ugly!' controversies are basically unavoidable, too.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 25, 2017 22:57:47 GMT
If Jaal was originally planned to be bi, they should fix this issue, no matter what some homophobes or people who don't want to share him say...if bisexuality was never planned, then he should remain straight...I would like to hear what the developers have to say. That would require them to be honest.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 25, 2017 22:38:04 GMT
Hey in the #MakeJaalBi someone already say that we need to kill ourselves! Yas! Homophobes showing their colors, that's a good pitching for us tbh *sigh* This whole experience over these past two months or so has made me so depressed, and now this is starting to crawl out again. That and all the Jaalmancers not wanting to share ffs Please do NOT think I'm being hostile because I'm really not, but if the situation is damaging to your mental health it might be a good idea to just ditch the whole thing for a while and go enjoy some other things you feel passionate about that don't make you feel like crap. Have a whisky and go binge watch Studio Ghibli movies and Rupaul's Drag Race.
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Post by thesnarkyshaman on Mar 25, 2017 22:29:47 GMT
Tekehu's booty To be fair, it's the internet. You're gonna find a dickhead lurking around basically any topic. I mean look at me.
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