I don't like marginalizing by color. I like to consider everyone has the potential to be a shithead, and usually are. Putting race into the mix just gives the idea that one has a leg up on the others.
But, it's all pretty moot in the end.
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I'm human, composed of millions of years of DNA evolving, adapting, and mutating along that timeline.
But if you want to get specific: Swiss, French, English.
Apparently, my dad tells me there's history of British aristocracy and horse thieves. Which may also be the same thing.
@Cobaltasaurus said:
@Silver, @Chime, @Wretched, @Monogram, @tragedyjones, @Miss-Demeanor -- Do we want to do this tonight? I have no idea what time it is for the majority of you. XD
I'm free tonight. I have decided that I'm not paying attention to studying for finals.
I love playing CAH on that site.
I'm completely down to play if you want. Lemme know.
@Crysta said:
The head admin of Eternal Crusade has banned about half the staff, so if you left because of them, you can give it another go. We're in a bit of a flux right now because they played most of the plot-driving characters.
Expect Eternal Crusade 2.0 to spawn soon.
I had heard about that recently. Didn't expect Mycol to grow up and take a stand on his own game. But I am perhaps a bit more shocked that Nermal, Hobbes, et all were allowed to get away with all the shit they did for so long. Either way, good to know that game isn't as cancerous anymore, because it was a real dumpster fire for awhile.
And yeah, they're making their own game. Called Creation's Edge or something equally as edgy.
I just noticed that resource multiplication exploit has been fixed. Which, well, that's just annoying and thus takes a lot of joy out of playing the game. IE, takes away the whole idiotic grinding aspect.
If there's one thing I hate it's the concept of grinding. I could just focus on doing missions, and not really worry about all that bullshit involved with searching for metals or leather or whatever.
I understand taking advantage of exploits 'cheapens the game' or whatever, but the only reason I even enjoyed the crafting was for the simple fact that I didn't have to put a whole lot of effort or thought into it and could focus on the story.
But I suppose it's fine. Having already beaten the game twice, there isn't much reason to go back to it until whatever DLC is put out.
I have this strange fascination with taking apart something and refinishing it. It began with an old table in my basement that I really liked, but it was horribly beaten up. Then my dad's wooden bench that had been sitting outside, refinished that.
So it's become an accidental hobby of sorts. I have a project for a small table I'm currently working on in the garage when it's not cold as balls outside.
And like so many others, I cook, but I wouldn't say I cook good, more like 'alright'. This mostly because I wanted to find a way to do something nice for the SO since she's an amazing cook. What I have found is that I enjoy cooking more when I'm doing it for my friends, especially my DnD group, who most of them stare blankly at a kitchen.
Goddamnit, I read the first word in the title and thought it was a Call of Cthulu related theme.
Ah well.
Good luck, padre.
Personally, the best for of weight loss that I've personally done, which was done for a research project in my clinical chemistry classes, is what's known as a sugar detox. Basically, it means that you cut just all sugar and carbs out of your diet for ten days. I'm not going to lie, it's pretty damn extreme, but it allows your system, especially your immune system, to basically do an overall reboot. And we're talking all sugars, even the ones in 'sugar-free' foods. So no sucralose or aspartame or stevia or other sweetener.
It's a lot of meat, seafood, and vegetables. Normally, i wouldn't promote something like, but after losing 15 pounds in ten days, I had to admit it actually worked(and getting a decent amount of extra credit for actually doing it). It's punishing, but it works. Granted, the first four days is a nightmare, because you literally go into a sugar withdraw, which feels like you're trying to go cold-turkey on heroin. Which, surprise surprise, sugar is actually 10 times more addicting than heroin.
I wouldn't normally suggest something like for an actual diet, because ingesting no carbs or sugars for a prolonged amount of time is pretty bad for you too. Which is why it's only meant for ten days.
People merging into your blindspot when you're about to merge lanes.
I almost died today because someone decided to be an asshole.
Granted, I thought it was great idea to use dual wield with a fighter while wearing massive armor. It worked...usually.
You do know that anyone could wear Legion of the Dead armor in DA;O and Awakenings, right? No, I know that's not an excuse because that doesn't make any canonical sense, but still.
I probably am being too hard on Sera but if she would just grow the fuck up a little, maybe I'd be nicer to her. Which is probably why I take her the Fade every chance I get. Because it's somewhat cathartic to have her standing here trying to disbelieve something when she's knee deep in it. Or maybe I just enjoy watching that character suffer, I dunno.
Battlestar Deimos is new BSG game. I would go into description of it, but if you've played one, you've likely played the majority of BSG games out there. If there are any left.
@Thenomain said:
@Monogram said:
My problem with Sara is that there is absolutely zero growth with her.
This would be like hating Tony Stark because there's no growth with him. Not all characters have to change to be interesting. Her depth is largely displayed as someone who's unafraid to show all their cards, and half the characters are there to try and change the world into what they think it should be. (Solas, Cole, Vivianne, Sera, Dorian, Leliana come to mind.)
Sera is certainly pushy about it, but I had a lot of fun with her. The Sera/Viv banter is especially fun.
Maybe not change so much as grow. Or evolve, or whathaveyou. Again, I have no problems with characters wanting the world into how they see, I just they did a better job at portraying it.
When it comes down to it, I just dislike her writing. She could've been a great character, but seems more like she was entirely catered towards the tumblr crowd.
And she looks like Gollum.
@Thenomain said:
Second play through kind of bored me. Perhaps this is because this game was designed for people who look for "drop rates" as a primary gameplay element.
I'm glad someone out there really hates Sara, since I can no longer make fun of HR for liking DA2. Sara is the only one to call Varrik out on his bullshit. My problem with the DA:I characters is they seem to be missing dramatic conviction. It's a rather minor quibble.
My problem with Sara is that there is absolutely zero growth with her. She's childish, hypocritical, short-sighted...I could really go on and on. Her calling out Varric on his stuff is fine, someone does, but everything else, she is a horribly written character with zero depth and zero growth as a character. Everyone else, that actually do some amount of evolving from where they were when you first met them, but Sara is nothing but static. She wants everything to fit into her little world where everything caters to what she thinks it should be. If it wasn't so obscenely immature, I could maybe go with it. But it's not.
Ugh, I hate her so fucking much.
We need to rap sometime. Message when you're not obscenely busy like you usually are.
I don't really watch anime all that much anymore, but if I had recommend any it would be Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Persona 4: The Animation.
I'm going to give some comparisons in my venture into the 360 version and the Xbone one that I got to play for a week or so.
Firstly, the graphics is like night and day. On the 360 there's a lot of drop in textures and stuttering that you don't see in the next gen version. That's what was most glaring to me. Also, I for awhile I thought there wasn't any option to give your Inquisitor scars. Turns out that's only on the 360 version, which I found mildly annoying.
Secondly, I had dumped probably 150 hours into DA:I across three different playthroughs so I had the maps down in my head pretty decently. When I started playing on the Xbone, the biggest thing I noticed is the amount of, well, trees. For example, after playing so long in the Hinterlands on the 360, I had a good idea where most relevant things were and how to get to them. When I started playing on the Xbone, I was lost for a good couple minutes just because the landscape had changed so radically. It was pretty jarring, but certainly a more welcome change.
The biggest complaint out of everything is the drop rate for tier three upgrades. Granted, there is a particular way to farm for them in certain locations, but that can become very time draining, never mind losing the number of chances you have for drops depending upon how many items are in said container. While some chests are static, a good many are not.
Don't play a dwarf if you like your romance options to be very few.
I hate Sara. Like, I REALLY hate her and I could go into a full-length about just how much I hate that character and often wished there was some way to kill her off. Sadly there was not, only the option to tell her to screw off when you first meet her.
Archer Rogue + Assassin = Overpowered as Hell Build.
Mage + Knight Enchanter = also Overpowered as Hell Build. Both of these builds need to be nerfed big time. Otherwise the game lacks any real challenge. The Archer/Assassin especially so since you can simply snipe enemies from a distance and because the AI only reacts within a certain distance, and you can shoot farther than that distance, most enemies will just stand there until dead. I killed a dragon that way. While fun the first time, it started to feel a bit cheap after awhile. The Knight Enchanter is OP simply because by taking the right passive skills you never really lose any barrier strength. Couple that with an armor mastercrafted with Enchanted Obsidian(which gives you 3 armor per hit)and you're nigh-unkillable.
The item duplication(much like the money trick in DA:O and DA2)makes farming for materials stupidly easy. So long as you have one of an item, you can replicate that to infinity and beyond. I may of crafted myself 30 Essences of Perfection simply because I could.
Killing Samson is a guilty pleasure. Because that guy is a total tool in DA2 and DA:I.
Legion of the Dead armor is pretty awesome. If you're a dwarf warrior. I believe it's the best overall armor in the game. Why that would be reserved for just a dwarven warrior is beyond me, but most tier three armors fall just slightly short of it.
Just some thoughts. It's a great game I find and I don't think I've completely done everything there is to do in it. I'm curious how the DLC for it will be. It's a BioWare game by EA, OF COURSE there's going to be DLC. Maybe they'll make Harding actually romancable, because she's such a damn tease.
Been trying to get in touch with Apu from old WORA, but I haven't the foggiest where she vanished off to. I don't even know if she knows about this place, considering I just found out about it today.
But if she is floating around here, I'd like to see how she's doing. Haven't talked to her in awhile.